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Federation Victory: Amendment
Beaten, All 9 Nominees Elected

Henry Willman Receives
2nd
Annual Butzel Award
Henry Wineman, founding president of the Jewish

Welfare Federation, was named as the second recipient of
the annual Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award for distin-
guished communal service.
Abraham Srere, chairman of
the Fred M. Butzel Memorial
Association, announced t h e
selection at the Federation's
annual meeting Tuesday.
The recipient was named
by a committee of presidents
of local Jewish agencies, De-
troit Service Group, Women's
Division and the chairman of
t h e executive committee of
Federation.
In presenting the citation
to James Wineman, who ac-
cepted it in his father's ab-
sence from the city, Srere an-
nounced that Henry Wine-
man's name will be added to
the permanent plaque which
hangs in the Fred M. Butzel
Henry Wineman
Memorial Building, 163 Madi-
son at John R. The 1951 recipient was Julian H. Krolik.
The citation reads as_lollows

"The Fred M. Butzel Memorial Association and the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit confer the seconct annual Fred
M Butzel Memorial Award for distinguished service upon . • .

HENRY WINEMAN

"The founding president of Federation, Henry Wineman
came to that position with a record of service datinc , from group
leadership in his early youth at the Hannah Schloss
b Building,
through board membership and then the presidency of the
United Jewish Charities from 1924 to 1926.
"In the Allied Jewish Campaign, Henry Wineman has con-
sistently been a generotis contributor and a tireless worker,
assuming the Campaign chairmanship on several occasions.
His many years of participation have earned him the title of
honorary chairman, and he continues to give distinguished
leadership.
"All agencies of Federation—whose treasurer he has been
For many years—have benefited from Henry Wineman's wis-
iona and intelligence. He is now a member of the Jewish Com-
munity Center, Jewish Hospital Association, United Hebrew
Schools and United Jewish Charities and over the years has
served on the Board of nearly every important local agency,
both within the Jewish family and the general community.
"The leadership qualities that brought Henry Wineman to
the fore in Jewish affairs have also brought him honors in the
general community— as co-chairman of the Detroit Round
Table of Catholic, ProteStants and Jews, as a member of the
executive committee of the former Community Chest and as
a founder of the Greater Detroit War Chest.
"Nationally, too, Henry Wineman has brought honor to
our local community, having served on the boards and as an
officer of such major agencies as Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, American Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, American Jewish Committee and United Jewish Appeal.
"In conferring upon Henry Wineman the Fred M. Butzel
Memorial Award, the Jewish community of Detroit expresses
its gratitude for the enrichment it has derived for nearly half a
century from Henry Wineman's fairness, maturity and zeal in
the promotion of its general welfare. Because he has worked
among us, we are a. better community."

The Jewish Community Council suffered a decisive defeat Tuesday night
when it failed to .secure a telling vote in support of its proposed amendment to the
by-laws of the Jewish -Welfare Federation which would have given it the right to
administer its own funds without examination by the fund-disbursing Federation
and was unable to elect even one of the candidates-by-petition for the Federation
board of governors. •
Council's failure to achieve its goal marked a crowning triumph for Federation at
the latter's 26th annual meeting, which drew an overflow attendance to the Brown
Memorial Chapel of Temple Beth El, necessitating the seating of more
than 200 additional participants in the social hall of the Temple where 1,012 Vote
they were reached by loud speakers. A total of 1,012 votes were cast— In Record
the largest on record in the history of annual Federation meetings—and
of this number only 397 votes favored the Council amendment. For its Balloting
adoption, the Federation by-laws required a two-thirds vote.

The temper of the gathering, whose pent-up emotions were accumulated during
the past weeks of feverish debates in print, in the mails, wherever Jews gathered to
air communal differences, also was reflected in the vote for nine vacancies on the
Federation's board of governors. All of the candidates who were proposed by the
nominating committee, of which Judge William Friedman was chairman, were elected.
The largest vote-getter among the candidates by petition was at least 200 votes be-
hind the man lowest on the list of the nominating committee's selectees.
The nine men elected are : Louis Berry, David J. Cohen, Morris Garvett, Harvey
H. Goldman, Mrs. Harry L. Jackson, Judge Theodore Levin, Max Osnos, Hyman Safran
and Abraham Srere.

While there was evidence of irritableness and tartness in the frame of mind of
the audience and the participants in the debate on the merits of the Council-framed
amendment, the discussion was in the main conducted in a good spirit.
It was unquestionably one of the finest demonstrations of democracy in action
recorded in this community's history. Both sides received an equal voice in the discussion.
Although it was agreed at the outset that Sidney Shevitz • and Abraham Srere would
the debate With 10 minute speeches, and that the other speakers
Democratic open
were • to be restricted to three minutes each, no one was ordered to
Action
quit after he or she had spoken five minutes—and several of the other
speakers
also took as much as 10 minutes. None was restricted in ex-
Prevails
pressing an opinion—no matter'how bitter the attitude.
Enforcement of absolute fairness, while it followed a tradition in evidence at all
previous Federation meetings, was especially due at last Tuesday night's discussions
to the masterful control of the situation by Samuel H. Rubiner, Federation president,
• who presided. He won the hearts of the gathering with his annual report, and his elo-
quent address against the amendment, which closed the debate, seemed to have
doomed the Council proposal. The emphatic declarations by. Morris Garvett, chair-
man of the Federation by-laws committee, who incisively pointed at the outset to the
amendment's dangers; Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, George Stutz and a group of other
leaders undoubtedly swayed those who did not come to the meeting with settled
opinions on the subject.
Mr. Garvett warned, in his presentation of the amendment, that if adopted it
would drastically affect the status of community organizations; that it sought special
privilege for the Council; that it would tear down a 26-year-old tradition for orderly
budgeting by Federation and would give the Council—whose amendment referred to
two central communal bodies—the right to make final decisions; that the community
then would have no right to make critical examinations of Council's expenditures and
would be subjected to the Council's whims. As chairman of the Federation by-laws com-
mittee, he warned that the amendment easily would lead to the disintegration of Fed-
eration and would - give the Council a mortgage on Federation funds without account-
ing. "The very name Federation then would become a mockery," Mr. Garvett warned.
"We face chaos under such a condition and the contempt of Jewish communities
throughout the land."
The keynote address in support of the amendment, delivered by Mr. Shevitz,
asserted that "a community can not perpetuate itself as a philanthropic body" and
that the Council therefore was formed to fill the needs required to accomplish the
major. and vital Jewish tasks. Claiming fo r Council the strength of affiliation of 300
organizations, Mr. Shevitz declared: "Council
can not limit itself to anything less than the
Peace With Arabs?
aim of total survival to Jewish life." He pleaded
A
sensational report from an
for the right of the widely-represented Council
Arab
source points to the pos-
to do what it pleases with funds allocated to it
sibility
of an early peace between
and protested against the "arbitrary" studies
Israel and the Arab states. De-
tailed story on Page 2.
(Continued on Page 24)

1,500 Volunte rs E rolled to Sell
Israel Bonds on IG ay, Sind f y

Marking the official opening in Detroit of the 1952 driVe for the sale

of Israel Bonds, this community will participate Sunday in the nationwide

o bservance of BIG (Bonds of the Israel Government) Day. All Jewish

homes will be visited by the nearly 1,500 workers who have volunteered
their services to alert the Detroit Jewish community on the importance
of investments in Israel through the purchase of bonds.
• The 1952 objective is the sale of $200,000,000 in Israel Bonds. 'In the
first eight months after the inception of the drive on May 1, 1951, more
than $101,000,000 in Israel Bonds were sold.
The day's activities 'On March 9 will begin here with a - volunteer's
.0.11.y• at the United Dairy- Workers Building on Second. Blvd. near Sears,-

at 9:30 a.m., when assignments and last minute instructions will be given.
From there the ,volunteer bond salesmen will cover the city, calling
on prospective bond purchasers in their' homes.
All volunteers will have kits containing materials relating to the
state of Israel $500,000,000 Independence Bond Issue and• will be prepared
to explain the Israel Bond story, together with the background of Israel's
economic situation, to those upon whom they will call.
As soon as the volunteers have completed their assignments, they
will return to BIG Day headquarters for a bond sales•report meeting, .
Jewish families here have been urged to stay at home on BIG DO •
so that the efforts of the volunteers should produce maximum -results., • ,• •&•

