HE JEWIS NEWS Partnership of Home, School and Community Annual Education A Weekly Review Month Appeal Editorial, Page 4 of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle IOLUME 22—No. 1, 708 D avid Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, September 12, 1952 -VD,U• 'The Melting Pot': Inter-Group Amity and Genuine Freedom Read Commentator's Column on Page 2 $4.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c NCRAC Accepts Mather Report; Committee, AM- Withdraw from Central Community Movement Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News which they described as their maximum concession were submitted by the two agencies but found little or no support outside their ranks. In a move to end the impasse and provide a basis for action which would permit the two dissenting agencies to remain within the NCRAC, the Jewish War Veterans introduced a resolution which, while main- taining the principles of the evaluative committee's report. nevertheless was considered to provide a basis on which the two organizations could remain within NCRAC. The proposal introduced by Joseph F. Barr of Washington, member of the JWV executive board, was accepted by the other four national or- ganizations and by the Community Councils in caucuses Monday night, but was flatly rejected by the two dissenting agencies. It was adopted Tuesday morning by the plenary session with several amendments. By a vote of 54 to 17, with six abstentions, 10 of the opposition votes were cast by the American Jewish Committee and the ADL and seven came from four communities. The Barr resolution as amended provided for • complete sharing of program plans among all NCRAC member agencies. NCRAC committees in which the communities would be represented along_with the National agencies would continue to formulate policy and program. In regard to division of labor, the resolution scrapped the assignment proposed by the NCRAC special evaluative committee and set up a new procedure under which all agencies in the field would submit their rec- ommendations to the appropriate NCRAC committee which would deter- mine • the division of labor within its field by a majority vote. Decisions would be subject to review by the NCRAC executive committee. For the concept of "Exclusive responsibility" contained in the evaluative committee report, the Barr resolution substituted "primary ATLANTIC CITY—In one of the most dramatic moments in the last x.•ade of American Jewish history, the 10th plenary conference of the 7 ational Community Relations Advisory Council early on Tuesday voted I accept a compromise plan of reorganization of community relations 'ork previously rejected by two of its member agencies. Immediately after the Voting on this reorganization proposal, spokes- len for the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith and the American , :wish Committee formally announced that the Council's decision had Lade continued membership by the two agencies impossible and that Bey were recommending withdrawal from the advispry body. At separate meetings Monday night, the delegations of the two or- ..anizations voted to retire immediately from further participation in the )reference delegations. An ADL spokesman said Tuesday that the dere- : ition did not consider it proper to participate in the election and budget i.iscussions of an organization from which it was withdrawing. The dele- ).tes of the two agencies did not participate in Tuesday's sessions . fficers of both organizations acted to secure speedy ratification by their - .xecutive bodies of the decision on withdrawal. The American Jewish committee's formal decision is expected in advance of the semi-annual eeting of its executive committee next month. Irving Kane, chairman of NCRAC, who presided at the session, de- •ibed the occasion as "the saddest moment of my life." He received trm applause, however, when he declared firmly that the NCRAC would atinue. He appealed to the delegates of the two dissenting agencies to consider before taking any irrevocable measures. ' Opposition of the . two organizations to the plan of reorganization -opbsed by the special evaluative committee of NCRAC had been firm id uncompromising throughout a day of debate. Alternative proposals Continued on Page iX • -1 Grim Rosh Hashanah: Life in a temporary work village in Is- al's Negev is pretty grim this Rosh Hashanah, as the faces of these newcomers so dra- rtically reveal. Getting water for the simple necessities of life creates a problem for ese 'immigrants, who had to haul water in buckets from this water supply point. Through nds raised in America by the United Jewish Appeal, the United Israel Appeal will be able build hundreds of vital water wells throughout Israel to relieve the sufferings of the ref- •ees, and to help in vital agricultural expansion. Ile in LUXEMBURG--Israci and Germany on Well- nesday signed the historic pact which will gram $822,000,000 to Israel and Jewish - victims of Nazism. (Detailed story on Page 3). Unethical Advenising Scheme Shocks Merchants of Detroit In spite of efforts made by national Jewish organizations through the National C.00mmunity Relations Advisory Council to prevent racketeering in Jewish ranks, evidence has multiplied in the past few days that irrespOnsible individuals again are pursuing tactics to mislead advertisers in behalf of periodicals . that have no circulations here into being billed for advertise- ments they have not ordered. The outrageous practice began two years ago when a dis- reputable group of solicitors clipped the • advertising pages of all English-Jewish weeklies throughout the country and billed the advertisers for items they did not order, thereby doing immeas- urable harm to the existing newspapers which serve their com- munities unselfishly. It was at that time that NCRAC and its affiliated national organizations—including- Bnai Brith, American Jewish Comnlittee, American Jewish Congress, Jewish Labor Com.' mittee, Jewish War Veterans and all the Jewish Community Councils throughout the country—stepped in to urge that the practice be ended. At the same time, the National and various local Better Business Bureaus issued warnings against this practice and the United to Post Office similarly entered the picture in an effort to prevent racketeering. But in the course of this process of trying to 'eliminate unfair and unethical practices in the Jewish community, the sponsors of such tactics have found loop- holes whereby they continue to send unauthorized bills to ad- vertisers from local addresses while remaining within the law. The outrage of this practice is that its sponsors make their.. appeal for .financial support on the false grounds that they are either fighting anti-Semitism, or are building Israel, or are ce- menting good will between Christians and Jews. It is a slur on . existing agencies and is an insult to the intelligence of the Jewish community whom these periodicals are now serving, since the circulations of the offenders at best run into a few dozen free • copies to a handful of people through whom they attempt to invade the communities affected. The added misfortune in this frightful scheme is that many non-Jews; who have received the bills, now are blaming the entire Jewish community and are shocked that responsible lead- ers are not stepping in to prevent the spread of unethical meth- ods of fund-raising for private purposes. This is exactly the manner in which protesting Detroit non-Jewish merchants have described the situation in calls to The Jewish News. The im- pression is left that the billings are for private funds for news- papers without circulations but with appeals aimed at giving the impression that they are rendering a service not performed oy• anyone else. The self-evident unethical approach has brought forth the "plague on all your houses" comment and the com- munity at • large has been placed in a bad light, especially in view of the resort by the irresponsible solicitors to local addresses in their solicitations. The Jewish News warns against these unethical methods. It urges advertisers to ignore the 'appeals, to refuse to pay bias fpr items they did not authorize and to help end the racket by exposing it wind x•efiutsiing to condone it.