Here Is Your Application:
Council Aids Absentee Voters:
Fill in and Mail Coupan TODAY
The Chairman of the Jewish Community Council Committee
on Absentee Voting, Rabbi Morris Adler, announced that through
the cooperation of the Detroit Election Commission absentee bal-
lot applications may be secured from and returned to the Jewish
Community Council, 803 Washington Boulevard Building. Empha-
sizing the non-partisan nature of the recently-passed amendment
to the voting laws, Rabbi Adler urged all Jews to request absentee
ballots.
To aid in applying for your ballot, a sample blank is printed
here and may be used to secure your absentee ballot. In order to
apply, you must be a registered voter. If you have voted in the
last election, you are registered. If you have not voted in two
years, or if your address has changed since you last voted, you
must register. Registration may be accomplished in Room 110 of
City Hall any weekday and before noon on Saturdays.
Community Council Diagram
Shows Added Program Service
1947-48
0
This illustra-
tion shows how
the Jewish
C o mmunity
Coun cil's pro-
gram service
-reached almost
14 times as
many people in
If you are registered, you fill out the application, giving the 1949-50 as it did
date of the election s as Sept. 12, 1950. You then give your name as in 1947-48.
shown on your voting registration, your address. and your ward
and district number. All this is found on your voting registration
card. You must indicate that you live at the address you gave.
In the space marked "Reason for Absence" put "Jewish Holiday."
Next give your occupation, and finally the address to which the
ballot is to be sent.
Then fill in the date. Applications must be dated after Aug.
In 1949-50, the
13, 1950, and before Sept, 9. Then sign your name and mail the
Council
ar-
application to
ranged
almost
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL
7 0 0 programs,
803 Washington Boulevard Building
as contrasted
Detroit 26, Michigan
with less than
or to
100 in 1947-48.
Thomas D. Leadbetter, City Clerk
1948-49
,000 People
1949-50
1947-48
Room 110, City Hall
Detroit 26, Michigan
Remember to exercise your right to vote, as an Ameri-
can citizen and a Jew. Apply for your absentee ballot
TODAY. For copies of applications, call the Jewish Com-
munity Council, WO. 3-1657,
AIWA C of D-5•AP
APPLICATION FOR ABSENT VOTER'S BALLOTS
Oo Not Return This Application More Than 30 Days Prior to the
Primary or Election in Which You Desire to Vote
19
FOR THE PRIMARY OR ELECTION TO BE HELD
CAUTION—Be sure to give the Detroit address from which you are registered.
YOU CANNOT VOTE UNLESS YOU ARE REGISTERED IN DETROIT.
illus-
These
trations are
featured in the
pamphlet "Pro-
file, 1950," pub-
lished by the
Council and now
available to its
constituent or-
ganizations and
their members.
1948-49
= 100 Programs.
1949-50
(Give Nam.)
duly qualified elector of Detroit, registered front
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City of Detroit, County of Wayne, State of Michigan, expecting to be absent from said city,
or being unable to attend the polls on account of physical disability, on the day for holding
such primary or election, hereby make application for an official ballot, or ballots to be
voted by me at such election.
Are you maintaining an actual residence a above address'
fa property at above address rented or leased to others during your absence?
• Reason for absence
JEWISH HOU AY
Gov't official or employee
Occupation
Address vthere "Absent Voter's" ballot xs o be sent:
Date
Return this application to
THOMAS D. LEADBETTER
CITY CLERK
Room 110, City Hall
Detroit 26, Michigan
Sign here
Must be signature of Absent Voter
tequesting ballots
THIS APPLICATION NOT VALID LATE*
THAN 2 P.M OF THE SATURDAY PRE-
CEDING PRIMARY OR ELECTION DAY .
ABSENT VOTERS LIST
(TO BE FILLED IN BY ELECTION COMMISSION)
Serial No,.
Ballot No.
Date App. Rec'd.
Ballot No
Date Ballots Mailed
Ballot No.
Date Ballots Ret'd.
Ballot No.
Ballots
Called for
Mailed
Remarks
Statement By Rabbi Adler
In
his statement to the community, Rabbi Adler said: "The
action of the Michigan Legislature in passing and of the governor
of our State in approving a bill which makes it possible for those
who for religious reasons cannot vote in primary elections which
take place during a religious festival, to cast an absentee ballot, is
in the finest traditions of democracy. The religious scruples of a
minority are thus respected and no one need be disenfranchised
because of the coincidence of an election day with his holiday.
It has often been said that the touchstone of a democratic society
is to be found in its attitude to its minorities. As long as the
rights of a minority are recognized and its opportunities to par-
ticipate in the civic, political, and economic life of the country
are not restricted, democracy will remain strong and stable, The
No Absentee Ballot
Privilege for 20,000
Jews in Colorado
DENVER (JTA) — Observance
of Rosh Hashanah may keep
between 20,000 and 25,000 Jews
from voting in the Colorado pri-
maries on Sept. 12, Jewish lead-
ers and election officials dis-
closed.
Jewish leaders have conferred
with the Denver Election Com-
mission and the State Attorney
General's office seeking a way
to allow voting by absentee bal-
lots. "The Colorado Constitu-
tion and legislative laws per-
taining to voting are very clear
and we have been unable to
find anything to solve the prob-
lem," said Arthur Cassidy. a
member of the Denver Election
Commission.
Arabs to Open 'Farouk
Institute' in Madrid
MADRID—(W.J.A.) The news-
paper "Madrid" carries a state-
ment by the new Egyptian Am-
bassador to Spain to the effect
that he has been instructed by
his government to organize in
Madrid a "Farouk Institute for
Arab Studies."
Council of Jewish Women Initiates
Extensive Membership Drive Plans
Also announced by Mrs. Dan-
An innovation in the annual
membership drive of the Na- iels are other committee chair-.
tional Council of Jewish Wom- men, as follows:
en, Detroit Section, will be made
Administration Division: Mrs. I. I,
Bittker, vice president in charge: Budget,
this year, when the city will Mrs.
Harry Krohn; finance, Mrs. Frances
be divided into areas and team S. Rosenblatt; policy, Mrs. Regene
Freund
Cohane; clerical, Mrs. Leon.
captains, and workers will be Schembeck;
social activities, Mrs. Leon
organized under chairmen, vice Landsberg; telephone, Mrs.• Herman Ho-
membership conservation, Mrs.
chairmen and secrtaries, Mrs. linstat;
Louis Marks; dues, Mrs. Oscar Zemon.
Fund raising and membership division:
Lewis B. Daniels, section presi-
Mrs. Dan Krouse, vice president in
dent, announced.
charge; temporary advisors, Mrs. Sidney
Mrs. Joseph Gaylord; resale
Officers for the membership Solomon,
shop, Mrs. Stanley Akers; membership,
Mrs. Abraham Becker: bulletin, Mrs.
drive are:
Joseph Gilbert; publicity, Mrs. Gabriel
•
Membership chairman, Mrs. Abraham
Becker ; vice chairman, Mrs. Harry Sing-
er ; general secretaries, Mrs. Lillian
Lewis, Mrs. William Zack; prospect
chairman,Mrs. Samuel Willis: area chair-
men, vice chairmen, secretaries: Area 1,
Mesdames Saul Rose, Morris Marx, Ger-
hard Bergman; area 2, Mesdames Samuel
Albert, Lester Kovar; area 3, Mesdames
Malcolm Lowenstein, Milford T. Stein,
Benjamin Kasle; area 4, Mesdames
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Morton Farrel,
Herbert Holman; area 5, Mesdames Je-
rome Frank, Martin Oppenheim: area 6,
Mesdames Murray Schreiber, E. N. Oster-
man; area 7, Mesdames Melvin B. Rosen-
haus, Herbert Jacob, Robert Moers; area
Win.
8, Mesdames Henry J. Modell,
Deutsch, George Kayes; area 9, Mrs. Mor-
ton Barak.
Alexander.
welfare and special groups
Social
Mrs. Joseph Geschelin, vice
division:
president in charge; Twelfth St. Council
Center, Mrs. Maxwell Katzen: Service to
Foreign Born, Mrs. David Pollack; Serv-
ice for New Americans, Mrs. Harold
Schakne; scholarship, Mrs. Stanley Flei-
schaker; community cooperation, Mrs.
Samuel Danto: volunteer registration and
placements, Mrs. Sidney Karbel; tribute
Council
funds, Mrs. Melvin Kopple:
Mrs. Sidney Jacobs;
Service Leoague,
career group, Mrs. Phillip Nuschc>ltz; ad-
visors to Career Group. Mrs. Lawrence
Freedman, Mrs. J. Shurly Horowitz.
Education and representatives division,
Mrs. Emil Rothman, vice president in
charge; Mrs. Edward Kahn, coordinator;
program, Mrs. Wm. B. Isenberg; interna-
tional relations, Mrs. A. Joseph Seltzer;
social legislation, Mrs. Oscar D.
Schwartz; contemporary Jewish affairs,
Mrs. Samuel Aaron; mental hygiene, Mrs,
Major Siegel.
Another innovation announced
by Mrs. Daniels is the creation
of the office of assistant to the
president. Mrs. H. V. Kreger, a
former Council president, will
be the first to hold that posi- Prof. Jandy's Tel Aviv
Assignment Reconfirmed
tion.
Jewish Community Council merits the gratitude of all freedom-
loving people for initiating the action that led to this law.
"While the law applies to all whose religious observances con-
flict with their right to vote, it is the Jewish community of Michi-
gan which is solely affected this year. The sovereign rights and
power of a free people are most eloquently symbolized by the
ballot-box. My father of blessed memory regarded voting as so
sacred a privilege that he felt a blessing should be devised to be
recited when one casts a ballot.
"How seriously we, the Jews of Michigan regard this right
will be indicated by our response to the opportunity to vote by
absentee ballots. To refrain through indifference, neglect or
throughtlessness from voting this year is to commit a compound
sin, a sin against democracy, and another that will reflect upon
our entire Jewish Community.
"I earnestly appeal to all Jewish voters to fill out application
blanks for ballots. These blanks may be obtained at the office of
the City Clerk or at the Jewish Community Council. Let no Jew
fail in his duty as a citizen. I trust that the number of votes
cast by Jews will reveal a high degree of civic responsibility and
interest as well as loyalty to the Jewish traditions as represented
by our observance of Rosh Hashanah."
The appointment of Prof. Ed-
ward Jandy of Wayne Univer-
sity as cultural and public af-
fairs officer in Tel Aviv, repre-
senting the U. S. State Depart-
ment, has been reconfirmed.
However, Prof. Jandy is not ex-
pected to assume his post until
after Jan. 1.
Due to the housing shortage
in Israel and overcrowding at
the Tel Aviv U. S. Embassy,
Prof. Jandy in the meantime
has been assigned to the U. S.
Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethi-
opia, as Officer of Public Af-
fairs. He leaves for Ethiopia
with his family this week-end.
1 6—TH E JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 4, 1950