;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. IT S FUN ! ! It's The NIGHT OF GAMES At the NEW NV Memorial Home 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 NMI STORM SASH , ALUMINUM or WOOD Kaufmann Dealer Distributed by WRIGHT'S HOME EQUIPMENT NATIONAL WHOLESALE GROCERS 13226 W. McNICHOLS UN. 4-9034 8938 - 12th Street Detroit, Mich. Be Wise SAVE MONEY! 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