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North End Clinic Honors Pioneers,
Medical Staff at Dinner, Nov. 28

In appreciation of loyal and
faithful service to the commun-
ity during the past quarter of a
century:. the officers and trus-
tees of North End Clinic will
give special awards to members
of the medical staff, board of
trustees and clinic personnel,
when the agency celebrates its
silver anniversary next Wednes-
day, 7 p.m. at a dinner at the
Hotel Statler.
Dr. Donald A. Covalt, clinical
director, New York University-
Institute of Rehabilitation and
Physical Medicine, will be prin-
cipal speaker. Dr. Hyman S.
Mellen, co-chairman with Syl-
van S. Grosner of the dinner
committee, will be toastmaster.
Physicians who have given
distinguished service to the
clinic will receive awards, as will
those who have been on the
medical staff for 25 years or at
least two decades. The special
award group includes:

Drs. Hugo A. Freund, Arthur A. Gil-
bert, William Henry Gordon, Sylvester
E. Gould, Louis Hirschman, Breyton D.
Jones, Herbert I. Kallet, Reuben L. Kohn,
Willard D. Mayer, Harry C. Saltzstein
and George Waldbott:

In the 25-year group are:

Drs. Harry -August,
Louis Barnett,
Arthur' Bloom, Martin Feldstein, Laslo
Galdonyi, Albert C. Hamburger, Eli
Harelik, Harry Kirschbaum, Ezra Lipkin,
Sol G. Meyers, Saul Rosenzwieg, David
J. Sandweiss, I. S. Schembeck, Benjamin
Shlain and Harry Topcik, DDS, while

those with at least 20 years of staff
service are Drs. Walter T. Anderson,
Aaron A. Farbman, Shmarya lOeinman,
Harold Robinson, Laurence F. Segar and
Gerald Spero.

Trustees who have worked
with the clinic since its found-
ing are:

Edith S. Heavenrich and Julian H. Kro-
lik, while clinic personnel in this group
are Lucy Y. Topcik, pharmacist, Beulah
Woods, nurse's aid, and Elsie M. Wunder-
lich, supervisor of physical therapy. Dora
Taylor, of the clinic personnel, also will
be honored for distinguished service.

Dr. Covalt, who will give the
major address, will discuss "Re-
habilitation in Chronic Disease."
The medical staff, members of
whom give their time without
compensation, is headed by Dr.
Sol G. Meyers, thief of staff, and
Dr. Saul Rosenzweig, assistant
chief.
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Physicians and dentists who
have served on the clinic staff
for more than 15 years are:

Drs. Davis A. Benson, Robert Berman,
Henry A. Chapnick, Meryl Fenton, Alex
Kaplan, Israel Kunin, • Hyman Mellen,
Maurice P. Meyers, Max K. Newman,
James R. Rogin, Milton Steinhardt, Mar-
cus H. Sugarman and Israel Wiener. .
In the 10-year group are: Drs. Abra-
ham Becker, Herman Carson, Herman
Chesluk, Louis Heideman, Morton Lazar,
Jerome Mark, Max Pierson, Irving Pos-
ner, L. Hudson Rosenthal, Hyman Ross,
Peter Shifrin, Emil • Simon, Milton So-
rock and Myer Teitelbaum.
Staff members with more than five
years' service are Drs. Frank B. Bicknell,
Herbert Bloom, Sidney Charnas, H. Her-
bert Cohen, Davis Feld, Alex Fried-
lander, John Grekin, Benjamin R. Gutow,
Maurice Hauser, Alexander Hirschfield,
Morton Hochman, Joseph Kerman,
Maurice J. Kimelman, V. L. Koran, Syd-

Purely Commenta

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Psychological Barriers to Jewish Education
Aspiring to "put some flesh on bare bones," Israel. Schen,
writing in the Zionist Newsletter of the Jewish Agency and the
World Zionist Organization, published in Jerusalem, makes an
issue of the perplexing problem of the Bar Mitzvah. He states
that "the 'agonized cry" of Jewish educators in the Diaspora—
meaning, we take it, especially the large American Jewish com-
munity—is that the Bar Mitzvah ceremony "is proving a stumbling
block to Jewish educational work."
Mr. Schen refers to the Bar Mitzvah as "a psychological bar-
rier to Jewish education," and speaks with regret to the fact that
"no serious attempt on any scale has been made to surmount it,
although much has been said and written about the problem."
He makes another interesting point—that While the Bar Mitz-
vah's Jewish education is cut short at 13, "if not sooner," the
young Jew is permitted to vote in Zionist elections at the age of
18, his proposal being that Zionists should utilize the period in
the life of young Jews between the ages of 13 and 18 to help them
achieve "Jewish and Zionist maturity."
Assuming the wider premise that the entire area of. Jewish
education must include also a deep interest in Zionism—our own
view being that the Zionist idea now either is being accepted or
should be accepted by all Jews who are deeply interested in the
advancement of Jewish values—we would like to urge that the
idea of a more extensive Jewish education for our youth should
be made a major objective in all Jewish planning.
In reality, there are some improvements in Jewish planning
vis-a-vis the Bar Mitzvah. Some synagogues, including Detroit's
Shaarey Zedek, are demanding more extensive preparations for
Bar Mitzvah than were accepted previously.
What we are uncertain about is the guilt of the educators
themselves. Why "the agonized cry" when the boys must go
through the classrooms of the complaining educators? Could not
the problem be solved in some measure by the educators them-
selves if they were to refuse to become Bar Mitzvah instructors
and were, instead, to insist that the children under their care
must go through a well-organized course of study before being
advanced from class to class—without emphasis on Bar Mitzvah?
We have created Bar Mitzvah factories, and now we are suffering
the consequences.
Of course, there always is the danger of the creation of a
Bar Mitzvah black market. Private teachers may undertake to
break discipline in educational routines. Therefore the problem is
a moral one involving the entire community which condones the
emphasis on Bar Mitzvahs.
In this instance, too, perhaps time will be the best healer. But
it never hurts to revive the warning contained in Mr. Schen's
article of the existence of stumbling blocks to Jewish education.

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The Sham of Yiddish Spoken by Goyim '

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Speaking of education, it won't hurt if we encourage greater
concern among Jewish leaders for dignity in Jewish communal
activities. We have had too many banal flatteries from non-Jews
who believe that they are gentle with us when they use Yiddish
terms in addressing us. Our Governor would do well if he would
stop deluding himself with self-glorification when using the phrase
"zoll zein mit glick." (If he must use Yiddishisms, high
time he learned some new words). Non-Jews should at least be
told that the term "Goy" is not approprious but means nation,
those referred to being spoken of as from another 'nationality
background. Jewish presiding officers should not go out of their
way to encourage the shams of false flattery through Yiddishisms
in stage character fashion, and our audiences should learn that
there is nothing funny in a non-Jew's using Yiddish terms and
that such use is not an event to inspire hilarity and applause.
After all, a Jewish audience should exercise a certain amount of
self-respect,—and restraint.

The New Israel Cabinet

Two interesting terms have been applied to the combined
Labor-Religious coalition which forms the present Israel Cabinet
—Ma-pious and Ma-peyes. No offense is meant by these puns.
After all, the Cabinet's formation is a triumph for the religious
group.

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ney Levine, Jack Mandiberg, Morris
Mintz, Selma Moss, John IVIossman, Har-
old Rosen, Norman Schkloven, Reuben
Shapiro, Robert Sobel, H. Saul Sugar,
Irving Warren and Martha Wells.
Completing the medical staff are
physicians and dentists Drs. Sidney Adel-
son, Seymour Bas, hiring Burton, John
Burton, Lawrence Cantow, Louis Cohen,
Mark Dale, Arthur Eckhous, Fred Fei-
genson, M. B. Finkelstein, Ernest GayneS,
Arnold Gordon, A. A. Goldman, Abraham
Grant, David Gudes, Meyer Gutterman,
Gerald Hill, M. Hoffman, Jack Kaufman,
Myron Kaufman, George Kingsley, Leon-
ard Kurtz, Herbert Levin, Manuel Levin,
S. Leib, Leonard Linkner, Sidney Meyers,
Colman Mopper, John Paul, Jac Pearl-
man, Harold Podolsky, G. S. O'Sullivan,
Chester Phillipson, Samuel Reisman,
James - Robinson, Warren E. Shelden,
Herschel Shulman, Eugene Steinburger,
Homer C. Stephens, Karl Stillwater, Law-
rence Stocker, Arthur Thompson, Harold
Thornell and Alex Weinberg.

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The History of
North End Clinic

1926-1951

"the first wealth is health"—
Emerson.

By DR. ROBERT BERMAN
and JULIAN H. HROLIK

This year marks the 21st
birthday of North End Clinic.
When, however, we consider the
origin of the Clinic, it is evi-
dent that we might in a sense
be observing almost the 50th an-
niversary; for the present Clinic
had its roots in one established
in 1902 at Brush and Montcalm
Streets. It was opened in that
year with the help of Dr. Louis
J. Hirschman by "The Hebrew
Ladies Aid for Widows and Or-
phans." In a few years this ini-
tial Clinic moved into the new
Hannah Schloss Building on
East High Street, which housed
the United Jewish Charities. Un-
der the supervision of Drs. Hugo
Freund, Max Bailin and R. S.
Rowland various departments
were organized for the Clinic
there.

When the shift of the Jew-
ish population northward de-
veloped, it was decided to
move from the Hann a h
Schloss Building to two small
store buildings at the corner
of Westminister and Delmqr
Streets. Strange as it may
seem today, this area of the
city was considered a part of
the northern end of the city
and so the new location gave
the basis for a new name,
"North End Community Clin-
ic." The Clinic was now under
the direction of the Fresh Air
Society.

Success of the North End. Clinic program has been due largely
to happy cooperation among members of the medical staff, board
of trustees--now headed by David Wilkus, president—and Clinie
personnel, such as Nurse GLADYS SMITH, giving an injection to
a young man in this picture.

today owes its birth in 1926 to
numerous benefactors and es-
pecially to Mrs. Leopold Wine-.
man, who contributed $75,000
towards the building cost in
memory of her husband. The
United Jewish Charities do-
nated the land. In 1940, when
the annual volume of visits
by patients to the Clinic rose
to 80,000, the original build-
ing was enlarged by an addi-
tion paid for by a United Jew-
ish Charities appropriation
from the Joshua Cohen Fund.

Much credit is due to organi-
zations that have augmented
the activities and the financial
needs of the Clinic. Among
these groups are Neugarten
Medical Aid Society, Temple
Beth El Sisterhood, Needle Work
Guild of America and Aescula-
plan Ladies Auxiliary.
The first Staff Executive Com-
mittee in 1926 consisted of Drs.
Harry Saltzstein, William H.
Gordon, Leo L. Newfield and
Louis D. Stern. Mrs. Eleanor
Jones Ford, R. N., was the first
director and served until 1938.
Since then Miss Selma J. Samp-
liner has been the able director
of the Clinic.
Seventy-six members of the
North End Clinic Staff served
in the armed forces during
World War II. The present ac-
tive and consultant Medical and
Dental staff numbers 140, and
the adminigtrative staff 31. Al-
most every specialty in medi-
cine, surgery and dentistry, as
well as many adjunct services,
are represented in the Clinic.
Practically all the laboratory
and diagnostic aids necessary
today for medical diagnosis and
treatment are an integral part

of the Clinic. The X-Ray, Phar-
macy, Physical Therapy, Dietetic
and Social Service divisions, all
vital to an outpatient clinic,
have been part of the North
End Clinic almost since its in-
ception.
The Clinic has served not
only in furnishing essential and
excellent medical care to a large
segment of the needy of all
races and creeds in Detroit, but
has served an equally valuable
purpose in developing the tal-
ents and proficiency of many of
Detroit's finest physicians. The
supervision by the Chiefi of
Staff and the various division
heads, as well as the regular
clinical work and departmental
medical meetings, have served
as continuous post graduate
training.
On this anniversary the insti-
tution celebrates proudly its
record of a quarter of a cen-
tury. Its trustees and staff hope
its endeavors in future years
will make for further progress
and for greater service to the
community.

Beth El. Religious School Plant
Parent-Teachers Meeting

The religious school of Temple
Beth El will hold the second in a.
series of departmental Parent-
Teacher's meetings Tuesday, at
8:15 p.m. at the Temple. ,
The meeting is for parents of
children in the intermediate de-
partment and grades three, four
and five. Dr. B. Benedict Glazer
and Rabbi Sidney Akselrad will
answer questions during a dis-
cussion period. A social hour, un-
der the auspices of the Sister-
hood, will follow.

In 1923 the Clinic began to
receive the major part of its
support from the United Jewish
Charitieg. From the date of the
occupancy of. the Leopold Wine-
man Building, North End Clinic
deficits have been met each
year by the Community Chest—
United Foundation—of Metro-
politan Detroit. For a number
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1951, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) ,
of years the Jewish Welfare
Federation has furnished a spe- Washington Developments
cial fund for hospitalization.
The Israel embassy in Washington is engaged in consultations
The North End Clinic of regarding the filing of a formal application with the U. S. Gov-
ernment for a new grant-in-aid . . during negotiationS with the
U. S. for the $65,000,000 grant-in-aid voted by Congress. . No pro-
posals were made that Israel restricts its immigration . . . Israel's
Ambassador Abba Eban has submitted full proposals for imple-
menting the grant-in-aid and he confidently expects agreement
in principle. Specific allocations have not yet been made . .. This
means that it is not exactly certain as yet how much Israel will
get and how soon. However, the appointment by President - Tru-
man of a co-ordinator of economic and technical aid in the Near
East indicates that the United States intends to extend substan-
tial aid to Israel not only this year, but also in the future. Im-
portant officials in Washington were taken by surprise when frruao
man announced in Key West the appointment of Edwin A. Locke,
Jr.,—a vice-president of Chase National Bank—as •co-ordinator.
The fact that the President, and not the State Department, an-
nounced the appointment and also the fact that Truman gave the
co-ordinator the personal rank of Ambassador, is indicative of the
importance attached to Mr. Locke's mission . . . Chase National
Bank is the official Bank of the Israel bond drive in the United
States.
Jewish Affairs
The fate of the basic recommendations of the Maclver Report
on the organizations engaged in combatting anti-Semitism will be
decided this weekend in Atlantic City at the three-day parley of
New Americans in Detroit the National Community Relations Advisory Council, the co-ordin-
receive a free physical exam- ating body of all Jewish groups fighting bigotry in this country
ination at North End Clinic and the organization which sponsored the Maclver study. The
from the 100 doctors and den- majority of the delegates at the Atlantic City meeting will en-
tists who make up the Clinic's
dorse the major decisions adopted by the NCRAC executive which
medical staff, headed by Dr. favor gradual implementation of the Maclver recommendations.
Sol G. Meyers, chief of staff, One of these decisions accepts Maclver's principle of division of
and Dr. Saul Rosenzweig, as- labor between the groups engaged in fighting anti-Semitism. The
sistant chief. Dr. Meyer Gut-
only field in which each di the groups will have a free hand to
terman is shown testing the act is in issuing public statements . . There will, of course, be
blood pressure of a former DP. opposition in Atlantic City to the Executive's decisions. However,
there will be no walk out on the part of the Anti-Defamation
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Teague or any other group that may be dis-satisfied with these
Friday, November n, 1951
decisions,

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