24—THE JEWISH' NEWS

Few Jewish Delinquents

Friday, December 17, 1948

Problem in Detroit Handled
By the Social Service Bureau

Cerf, Jewish News
Columnist, Honored

United Fund-Raising Assured
As UPA Settles Controversy

Full settlement of the differ- termined by the UPA in consult-
ences between the Unites: Pales- ation with the Council. A small
Juvenile delinquency • in the Brother." He is in constant touch
tine Appeal and the Committee sub-committee of the Committee
Jewish community continues ' to with these officials and is avail-
of Contributors and Workers as- will be available to the Council
.
be of minimal proportionS, ac-
sures national united fund raising regarding these procedures.
able
for
consultation
with
them
cording to a report sUbrnitted by
in 1949 for Jewish needs in Eu-
Subject to the above provisions,
George Kirshner, case worker of and for contact with the boys
rope, Israel, and immigration to the
the UPA will elect its own offi-
America.
the Jewish Social Service Bu- and their parents. In addition he
cers, will determine the organiza-
reau, in charge of the liaison accepts such cases of Jewish
The announcement was • made tion's administrative budget and
work with the Juvenile Court offenders as the Court or police
by Ecl-Win Rosenberg, New York, all matters of staff _personnel, and
and the Crime Prevention Bu-
chairman of the conciliation corn- will establish all rules of proce-
wish
to
refer
to
the
JSSB
case-
reau, for incorporation in the
mittee of the Council of Jewish dure required for the functions
work
help
and
social
adjustnient.
Bureau's . annual report for 1948.
Federations and Welfare Funds, of the UPA.
The Jewish Social Service
which conducted negotiations be-
The latest figures made avail-
The income of the UPA will
tween the two groups on behalf be made available with the great-
able by the Crime Prevention Bureau is a member of the Jew-
of its 800 organized Jewish mem- est promptitude to the principal
Bureau (a division of the Police ish Welfare Federation and a
ber communities of the United beneficiaries, namely the Treas-
Department charged with respon- beneficiary of the Detroit Com-
States.
sibility for dealing with offenses
ury -of the Jewish Agency for
of . juveniles) shows that for the munity Chest. Recently it re-
Coming at a time when Jewis h Palestine and the head offices of
first nine months of 1948, 40 ceived recognition when it was
communities throughout the na the Palestine Foundation Fund
JeWish boys were known to accepted for membership by two
tion are beginning to plan fo r and Jewish National Fund- in
standard
setting
organizations—
them, including 5 repeaters. This
1949 campaign organization, th e Israel. The UPA will disburse..
constitutes 1% of the total .num- the Family Service Association.
division had, until its settleinen t, such funds through agencies and
of America and the Child' Wel-
ber of cases. _
delayed normal fund raising plan procedures authorized by these
to assist in the transportation an d beneficiaries.
This figure' represents a max- fare League of America.
adjustment of thousands of immi Dectsions on Special Grants
imum of juvenile offenders. Most
grants to Israel. The resolution o f
of them are dismissed and only a
The UPA :will also be em-
differences will now hasten th e powered to make its own recorn
fraction find their way to the
reconstitution of the United Jew mendations regarding special al
Juvenile Court.
ish Appeal, which had a goal o f locations or grants for agencies 2
Few Jewish Inmates
$250,000,000 in 1948.
other than the principal benefici-
The 1948 statistics for the
The 'United Palestine Appeal aries. Recominendations made by
Juvenile Court have not yet been
together with the Joint Distribu the American Palestine FoU.nda-
compiled. According to John Kur.
The 17th annual general as-
tion Committee and the Unite d tion Fund and the Jewish Na-
land, in charge of research and sembly of the Council of Jewish
Service for New Americans, a r tional Fund will go to the UPA
statistics at the Court, 13 Jew- Federations and Welfare Funds,
BENNEW CERF
the principal beneficiaries of th e for consideration and action by
ish boys were at the Juvenile designed to 'be "the national op-
it before they are transmitted to
Detention Home in 1947 and the erating assembly of the Jewish stay here. Book reviewers on D_e- united fund raising effort.
Israel. (Minority as well as ma-
troit newspapers were present at Procedure Clarified •
same number in 1946. This rep-
community organizations,"' will
jority reports may be trans-
resents a ratio to the total popula-
the luncheon in his honor. It was
The accord covered the powers
be held Jan. 14 to 17, at Philadel-
tion of the Detention -Home of
an informal event at which some and functions of the UPA, clari- mitted). Final decision on all
less than one-half of one per- phia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, good stories were exchanged and fied procedures, for disbursement grants and allocations rests with
the head offices of the Palestine
cent. It is only in very rare situa- it was announced by Stanley it.
Cerf's readers-reviewers-admirers and allocation of funds, composi- Foundation Fund-and the Jewish
tions that a Jewish girl is found Myers of Miami; CJFWF presi-
dies, proce- National Fund in Israel, and the
had an opportunity .of justifying tion of bodies,
Home. dent.
_ in the Juvenile Detention
.
their admiration for the very dures, for reconstitution of UJA, Executive of the Jewish Agency.
Jewish
communal
leaders
from
A fraction of juveniles in the
pleasant personality of the en4- voting by mail and provided for The UPA will negotiate an agree-
Detention Home are brought be- all parts of the United' States and
cancellation of the Dec. 11-12 ment with the*JDC for setting
up
fore the Court on formal charges. Canada will convene at the four- nent -humorist. George G. Whit- conference 'called by the Com-
ney
of
the
J.
L.
Hudson
Co.
pub-
the UJA and for the 'Conduct of
No figures are available, but Mr. day gathering to discuss all ma-
mittee
of
Contributors.
•
the
joint
campaign.
-
Kurland estimates that only about jor aspects of Jewish affairs and lic relations department welcomed
Negotiators for the two groups
Members of the CJFWF Con-
six Jewish delinquents have take joint action to meet 1949 the guests at the luncheon.
issued a joint statement comment- ciliation Cominittee which nego-
formal charges preferred against local, overseas and Israel 'needs
ing on the agreement. It followed tiated the accord were Rosenberg,
them in the Juvenile Court in the with maximum effectiveness.
numerous meetings, including one Stanley' C. Myers, Miami, CJFWF
course of a year.
which went completely around piesident; Daniel Shiman, New-
Bernard Pepinsky of Cincin-
the clock. The joint statement ark, chairman of- the CJFWF na-
The Boys Vocational School in nati, program chairman, declared
declared:
Lansing (juvenile reformatory) that 'the general assembly will
•
tional-local relationships commit=
very seldom has a Jewish inmate. be a "working and action" meet-
Specifications of the Israeli na- - "The transportation of thous- tee; H. L. Lurie, CJFWF execu-
"This is a very encouraging ing where delegates would not tional flag are contained in the ands of immigrants to Israel and tive director, and Philip Bern-
record," said Mrs. Charles Lakoff, only "listen and learn," but take Official Gazette No. 32, publish- their prompt absorption into the stein,
associate
director of
president of the Jewish Social an "active part in formulation ed Nov. 12, and just received in lifestream of the newnation is CJFWE.
the
paramount
responsibility
of
Service Bureau. "The chief cause programs of action" for the corn- New York.
Amer icah _Jewry for the coming
for this very low incidence of ing year.
According to the declaration year. We shall now proceed with Romanian Jew Sentenced
delinquency among Jewish youth
An Oneg Shabbat on
made by. the Provisional State
lies in the positive influences ex- Will -Build the American Jewish Council Oct. 28, the flag, origin- the utmost urgency to establish For Misuse of Authority
ercised by Jewish homes, strong Culture of the Future?" will find ally the banner of the Zionist the United Jewish Appeal for
family bonds, and Jewish ,com- a panel of experts with differ- movement, is 220 cms. long and 1949 as the means of raising the
BUCHAREST (JTA) — Leon
overwheln'inig sums needed to
munal institutions."
ing backgrounds and points of 160 cms. wide. on a white field, carry out this task and other re- Warsinger, former member of the
Moghilev• Judenrat—Jewish liai-
Since its organization in 1925 view exploring evolving patterns two deep blue stripes of 25 ems.
sponsibilities in relation to Eu- son body set up by the Nazis
the Jewish, Social Service Bureau of Jewish culture in AmeriCa.
width each run along the whole rope and resettlement of refugees during the war between them-
has given special attention to the
A basic perspective for Jew- length of the flag from one rib coming to this country. The 1949 selves and the , Jewish communi-
problems of Jewish adolescents.
to another. The stripes • are 15
For many years a special Big ish communal work will be set cms. from the' upper and lower UJA campaign must be the most ties they occupied — was sen-
successful in history."
tenced' to a six-year prison term
Sister program was conducted in in a session on "Building the length ribs.
Disbursement of Income
Model
Jewish
Community."
Dis-
by a Bucharest court on charges
cooperation with the Detroit sec-
In the center of the white
Concerning representation on of having misused his authority
tion of the National Council of cussion groups classified accord-
Jewish Women. This program ing to population will follow background and equidistant from the governing bodies of the UPA, while acting as liaison between
was discontinued some three years this topic in sectional meetings both blue stripes is a Shield of it has been agreed that 60 per the Romanian Jews in the Moghi-
ago when th _ e need for it dis- and try to define clearly the David composed of six blue cent would be designgted by the lev ghetto - -and occupation. author- •
appeared.
objectives of Jewish community stripes of 5.5 cms. width each, Palestine Foundation Fund ities in -Romania.
forming two superimposed equi- (Keren Hayeshod), and the Jew-.
Testimony proved that the de-
organization.
Recognition for JSSB
lateral triangles, ' the bases of ish National Fund (Keren Kaye- fendant accepted money and
A comparable program of work
A testimonial dinner, sched-
with boys still continues in the uled for Saturday, Jan. 15, will which are parallel to the dark meth), beneficiaries of the UPA, jewelry ostensibly to arrange,
form of a liaison service estab- honor William 'Shroder, found- blue stripes running along the and 40 per cent representation through bribery, for the transfer
would be from the Atherican of his fellow-Jews - to an' area
lished with the Boys' Probation er and first president of the flag.
Since one centimeter is 2.54 Jewish communities. The proce- where conditions were more fa-
Department of the Juvenile Court CJFWF, .now chairman of the
inches, the standard flag is ap- dure for designation of commu- vorable for Jews, but pocketed
and with the Crime Prevention Council board of directors.
proximately five by seven feet. nity representatives will be de- the money instead,
Bureau of the Police Department,
particularly with the unit at' the
LIVES OF OUR TIMES
Petoskey Police Station. George
PRODuCEO BY NORMAN & SOL NOBEL..
REHOR S. SHITREET
TEXT BY LAURA a:BHARON.
Kirshner who is in _charge of
this service at the Bureau ig
-A NATIVE Of THE HISTORIC CITY OF
DURING THE PERIOD OF THE BRITISH MANDATE ,NE WAS
known to Court and police
TIBERIAS AND ISRAEL'S FIRST MINIS -
APPOINTED A SUPERINTENDENT INSPECTOR OF THE
officers as the "Jewish Big
TR OF POLICE AND NATIONAL
DEPARTMENT OF POLICE,AND LATER ROSE TO THE

Behnett Cerf, author of "Shake
Well Before Using," whose_ col-
umn, "Try and Stop Me," appears
regularly in The Jewish News,
was guest of 'honor at a luncheon
given him by J. L. Hudson Co.
on Dec. 9. Mr. Cerf autographed
his book at Hudson's during his

CJFWF . General
Assembly to Meet
JAnuaiy 14 to 17

.

Specifications Set
For Israeli Flag

'World Zionists Meet
In Jerusalem in 1949

JERUSALEM (JTA)
T h e
Jewish Agency executive tenta-
tively - fixed the date and place
of the next World Zionist • Con-
gress. It .is to be held in Jerusalem
in August; 1949. A special corn-
mittee to prepare plans for the
Congress has been .named.
th.e Jewish Agency executive
named its chairman, Berl Locker,
and S. Z. Shragai and Moshe
Koloday to negotiate with the
Israeli government -on the trans-
fer from Austria and reburial of
the remains of Theodor Herzl.
The Agency has already rejected
a government suggestion to ar-
range the reburial on the day that
the new parliament is opened in
Tel Aviv. The Agency proposes
that the remains be reburied in
the courtyard of the future Par-
liament building which it expects
to see constructed. in Jerusalem.

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BORN IN I895 AND EDUCATED AT AN ALLIANCE
ISRAELITE UN1VERSELLE SCH00L,514ITREET
GAVE UP HIS RABBINICAL STUDIES AND
TURNED TO LAW & LATER TO LAN! ENFORCEMENT.

AFTER SERVING AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL OFFICER
IN THE POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL IN JERUSALEM,
NE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE CRIMINAL INVESTI-
GATION DEPARTMENT AND WAS ASSIGNED TO
IMPORTANT CASES.

-

HAVING LIVED ALL 1115 LIFE IN PALESTINE,.

SOON AFTER THE FIGHTING IN NAZARETH ENDED,
14E APPOINTED AN ARAB POLICE OFFICIAL IN
THIS COMMUNITY AND 11115 HELPED TO SET UP
SCHOOLS FOR ARAB CHILDRE/4 THERE C IN JAFFA.

sulTREET KNOWS AND UNDERSTANDS THE ARABS

AND RAS WON THEIR RESPECT MD
FRIENDSHIP.

NE IS ALSO THE-AUTHOR OF A TEXTBOOK
FOR PALESTINE POLICE TRA/NEES,WHICH
HE TRANSLATED FROM ENGLISH INTO
HEBREW AND ARABIC.,......

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ECT
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AS MINORITIES MINISTER 11. 15 UP TO HIM TO
ASCERTAIN THAT MOSLEMS,CHRISTIANS AND
OTHER NON-JEWS IN ISRAEL RECEIVE FAIR 410
JUST TREATMENT.

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