;CC, Better Housing Group, Brand City
Plan Inadequate---`Slum Spreading'
In opposition to what the
newish Community Council and
other Detroit organizations af-
filiated with the Detroit Council
fora Better Housing have termed
"an adequate a n d realistic
housing program," the Detroit
Common Council, on March 14,
accepted by a 7 to 1 vote the
housing program recommended
by the city administration.
The program, as presented by
the Mayor and his Housing
Commission, calls only for slum
clearance of sites presently ex-
isting within the Boulevard area
and eliminates completely . out-
lying vacant land - sites. which
the previous city administration
and housing commissioner had
recommended for development.
Councilman Edward Connor
was the only member to vote in
opposition to the administra-
tion's plan, which has been la-
belled by the Detroit Council for
Better Housing as "slum' spread-
ing rather than slum clearance."
It is pointed out that, as con-
trasted with the plan advocated
by the Detroit Council . for Bet-
ter Housing, the administration
plan makes no realistic provi-
sions for the housing of families
who are forced to move to make
way for the slum clearance.• -
Abrams' Opinion
The plan now adopted pro-.
poses block-by-block clearance
ni .slum sites. During his De-
7roit visit, Charles Abrams, not-
ed housing authority, predicted
that the construction of a sin-
gle . project under this kind of
planning would involve about
eight years. Opposition to the
development of vacant land
sites as a first requisite to ade- .
quate housing developed from
neighborhood groups and, to a
large extent, was on a racial
basis, since it is likely that seg-
regation cannot be legally main-
tained in public housing.
Spokesmen for the Detroit
Council for Better Housing point
out that the housing plan now
adopted will actually create
more community tension. It will
create new and sudden . pressure
on those evicted from slum
areas to find homes in other
parts of the city. This pressure,
it is explained, will be inevitable
as long as present housing plans
do not include the development,
first, of outlying sites to accom-
modate the thousands of fami-
lies who will be evicted from
slum clearance areas.
Schoolcraft Co-op Ok'd
Following a public hearing, at
which spokesmen for the Jew-
ish - Community Council and
other . civic organizations had
upheld the right of the School-
craft Gardens Cooperative to
commence construction, the De-
troit Common Council, on March
14, in a tense session, refused
to change the zoning and voted
to accept dedication of the
streets in order to permit con-
struction to proceed. Awaiting
:idfayor Cobo's final approval,
• this action of the Common
,
Jewish Center
Activities
(The Jewish Community Center is
Affiliated With the Jewish Welfare
Federation, and Is a Red Feather
Agency.)
Saturday, March 25, 2 p.m. —
Davison Mothers' Club Oneg
Shabbat party, Labor Zionist
Hall, Linwood at Pasadena.
Council of Mothers' C 1-u b s
square dance party, 8 p.m.,
Woodward Center.
Sunday, March 26, 8:30 p.m.—
Young Women's Study Club
dance, Davison Center.
Monday, March 27, 8:30 p.m.
Adult Education Dept. pre-
sents "Ballet Ruse and the
Dance," in new film series,
Woodward Center.
Wednesday, March 29, Wednes-
day Evening Discussion Group
hears Dr. Edward H. Kerner
of Wayne U. speak on the
"Scientific Side of Atomic En-
ergy.'''
Wednesday, April 12, 2 and 7
p.m. -a Novice AAU meet for
boys and girls, Woodward
branch pool. Entries still open.
Sunday, April 16—Center Social-
Lites anniversary dance Wood-
ward branch.
Council clears the way for con-
struction of this non-discrimin-
atory project.
The final vote on March 14
found Councilmen Mary V.
Beck, Edward D. Connor and
Louis C. Miriani voting against
the re-zoning and in favor of
the construction of the project.
The motion to re-zone, because
it needed a three-quarter ma-
jority or six votes, thereby
failed by one vote. Councilman
Oakman has since voted for re-
consideration of the Council's
action.
20—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 24, 1950
Jewish Youth, Centers
Raising Funds For
Jerusalem YM-YWHA
NEW YORK—Jewish Commun-
ity Centers and YM-YWMAs
across the nation are responding
to the urgent call for assistance
of the Jerusalm YM-YWHA,
Israel's Jewish Community
Center.
Youth and young adult coun-
cils, clubs and other Center
Detroit Group Plans
Industrial Hachshara
Project for Youths
A group of Detroiters led by
Louis Mosher are promoting a
plan for industrial hachshara
for Detroit youth. Aimed at pro-
spective chalutzim, it is planned
to aid new Americans and
youths interested in vocational
training in the metal trades.
Industrial Ha chshar a will
train interested youths in night
classes and later employ selected
trainees at jobs they have
learned. No tuition will be
charged..
The program will handle 10
to 12 boys a year, all costs being
born by subsidies and work per-
formed by the trainees. Train-
ing will consist of practical op-
eration of tool-making ma-
.
chines.
-
Mosher has offered the group
25 per cent of the value of his
Mosher-Wayne Products Co., a
fully equipped machine shop.
Under his terms the project di-
rectors may purchase the re-
maining value of the company
when they see fit to do so.
Officers of the group are: Sol
B. Edelman, chairman; Jerry
Bielfield, treasurer; M. Manuel
Merzon, secretary.
Smith Professor Lauds
UAHC Pamphlet Series
Entrance to The
Jerusalem YM-YWHA
groups have either conducted or
scheduled events, proceeds of
which will go toward the 'devel-
opment of an effective Center
program for Jerusalem's Jewish
community.
The Jerusalem YM - YWHA,
which is sponsored by the World
Federation of YMHAs and Jew-
ish COmmunity Centers, will
function from rentedquarters.
Pending enlargement of its fa-
cilities, it has launched an in-
terim program to meet the
pressing needs of Jerusalem's
Jewish youth for recreational
services and activities. Exten-
sion programs will be set up in
various neigliborhoods through
which Jews of all age groups
will be served.
A minimum budget of $35,000
for 1950 has been adopted, and
the National Jewish Welfare
Board as the United States
member of the World Federa-
tion, which includes national
Jewish youth-serving bodies in
Europe, North and South Ameri-
ca and Australia, has called on
its affiliated Jewish Community
Centers and YM-YWHAs to raise
funds among their own mem-
bers and groups through special
proj ects.
Among groups which have in-
diCated they will sponsor proj-
ects to benefit the Jerusalem in-
stitution are several affiliated
with the Detroit Jewish Corn-
munity Center.
One of the important features
of the Commission on Informa-
tion about Judaism of the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions is pointed up in a letter
from Prof. Ralph Harlow of
Sinith College to Rabbi Louis
Egelson, the commission's sec-
retary.
Prof. Harlow praised the' in-
formational pamphlets on Ju-
daism published by the commis-
sion which he uses extensively
in the department of religion
and Biblical literature at Smith.
His course is entitled "The Con-
tribution of Judaism to Dem-
ocracy and Christianity."
Leonard Simons of Detroit is
Some $15 billion in United
a member of the Commission.
He took the place of the late Dr. States currency is destroyed an-
Leo M. Franklin several years nually at the Federal. Reserve
ago.
bank in New York.
Relatives Sought
The Detroit Section of Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women
is seeking information about the
following persons for whom it
has urgent messages from relaa
tives overseas. Further infor-
mation may be obtained at the
Council's office at 8905 Wood-
ward Ave., or by calling TR.
1-3700.
Yurek Werthaiser of Poland seeks an
aunt, Bejla Pejsak of Janow, Poland.
Adolpf Stockel of Scotland seeks Moinio
Linczyc of Royal Oak.
Sara Mizaysky of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
seeks an aunt, .Malke Pruzan of Wilno.
Lithuania.
Noech Mandel of Brupiisels. Belgium.
seeks his aunt, Miss Anna Rotman.
Semen Zelinsky of Buckinghamshire
seeks an uncle, Semen Trojan, born in
Kiev.
Rosalie Fuchs of Haifa, Israel. seeks
Roza Kohane, an aunt, born in Zakliczyn.
Josef Klein seeks a cousin, Jack Stern
of Senta, Yugoslavia.
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Himelhoch's Study at N.Y. University
Shows Little Bias in Jewish Students
Jewish students at New York
University show little racial or
religious prejudice, it was dis-
covered t h r o ugh personality
tests and a questionnaire of
eight sociology classes at Wash-
ington Square College.
Jerome Himelhoch of the so-
ciology and anthropology de-
partment, son of Israel Himel-
hoch of Detroit, who conducted
the tests as the first in a series
to determine the social attitudes
of different racial; religious and
national groups, stated that the
person who understands himself
shows less racial prejudice than
the person who cannot face his
own motives.
Much of the healthier self-
evaluation of New York Uni-
v e r s i t y students, Himelhoch
pointed out may be attributed
to the training and courses they
pursue.
' "While parental f e e l i n g s
strongly dominate a person's at-
titudes, a liberal college atmos-
phere tends to make self-ac-
cepting personalities more tol-
erant," Himelhoch said.
The test also disclosed that
persons who showed prejudice
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