Gus D. Newman Elected to Head
Jewish Home for Aged Program
Elected at last Sunday's meeting of the Jewish Home for
Aged are the following community leaders who will plan activities
at the Home: seated, from the left, ARTHUR A. FLEISCHMAN,
secretary; GUS D. NEWMAN, president; SIDNEY J. ALLEN, first
vice-president and executive committee chairman; and FRANK A.
WETSMAN, second vice-president; standing are MAX J. KOGAN,
treasurer; and IRA I. SONNENBLICK, assistant secretary.
JWV to Sponsor Blood Bank Sunday
The Department of Michigan, children, are urged to bring them
Jewish War Veterans, is spon- along. Qualified baby sitters
soring a blood drive from 10 a.m. will take care of children of all
to 4 p.m., Sunday, at the JWV donors while their parents are
Memorial Home, 4095 W. Davi- giving blood. Movies will be
son. shown the youngsters.
Persons wishing to donate In addition, prizes, entertain-
blood, who have no transporta- ment and refreshments will be
tion, should call WE. 3-0846 or provided for donors throughout
WE. 3-0847 and a car will be dis- the day. Any person donating a
patched to any part of the city pint of blood may designate
to pick him up and return him where the blood should go —
whether to the Red Cross, a par-
home.
ticular
to the armed
Parents wishing to donate forces
or hospital,
any
organization.
blood, but unable to leave their ,
Ribicoff, Neuberger Elected; Rep. Javits Defeats
FDR, Jr; Judge Kaufman Wins in Wayne County
All the important posts won in
the Nov. 2 elections by Jewish
candidates, save one, are in the
Democratic column.
Abraham A. Ribicoff was
elected Governor of Connecticut.
Richard Neuberger nosed out ;
his Republican opponent for the
United States Senatorship in
Oregon.
In Detroit, Nathan J. Kauf-
man won the race for Probate
Judgeship and Charles Blondy
was re-elected State Senator.
Eleven Jews were elected to
the U. S. House of Representa-
tives in the 84th Congress. They
are:
Emanuel Celler, New York,
who will become chairman of
the House Judiciary Committee;
Lester Holtzman, Abraham J.
Multer, Arthur G. Klein, Irwin
D. Davidson, Herbert Zelenko,
Sidney A. Fine and Isidore Dol-
linger, all of New York; Sidney
R. Yates, Chicago Samuel Frie-
del, Baltimore; Earl Chudoff,
Philadelphia.
Former Congressman Jacob
K. Javits, who was the only
Republican among the Jewish
members of Congress, defeated
Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Jr., for the Attorney General-
ship of New- York. He was the
only Republican to survive the
race for state offices in New
York.
With Senator Herbert H. Leh-
man of New York, there will now
be two Jews in the United States
Senate.
Mr. Neuberger, a 41-year-old
writer and authority on water-
At the recent East Central States regional conference of the
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, in Detroit,
Philip Bernstein, the CJFWF's associate director, told of the
awareness in the ranks of social workers of the need for in-
creased child care work and of aid to the mentally retarded.
In many quarters throughout the land, there is this aware-
ness of the need for emphasis on aid to- the unfortunate millions
of children who, mainly as a result of birth injuries, have created
a responsibility for the country at large to come to their aid.
President Eisenhower, by proclaiming the period of Nov. 14-23
as National Retarded Children's Week, calls attention to the
importance of the work of the association formed to help these
children. In his proclamation, the President attaches importance to
''the needs of our more than 4,800,000 mentally retarded children"
for whom it is necessary to "provide the fullest measure of com-
passion and constructive help to the end that retarded children
everywhere may have fullest opportunity to achieve the maximum
development within their limitations." The President paid this
tribute to the association formed to work out a constructive and
beneficial prom in behalf of the retarded children:
"The National Association for Retarded Children, a voluntary
nation-wide organization of parents, friends, and professional
counselors of these children, is doing splendid, fruitful and vitally
important work to better the care, treatment, and training of the
retarded, and to help widen the horizons of preventive research
in this field."
Thus, a long-neglected problem has been brought to the front
as a major community need.
In a statement quoted from the August 1954 Kiwanis Maga-
zine, for insertion in the Congressional Record, Senator Alexander
Wiley of Wisconsin pointed out that three out of every 100 babies
born in this country are affected by the tragic affliction of re-
tardation. The Kiwanis article described the public's lack of
understanding of the problem. This article contains a statement
by Dr. Leo Kanner who contends that "too often the retarded
child is badly treated by normal people. The unfair humiliation
may tend to make him antisocial and a potential delinquent."
By focusing attention on the responsibility the community
owes to the mentally retarded, a great service is being rendered
not only to the mentally retarded but to the country at large
whose unfortunates must be treated with kindness and under-
standing.
We are fortunate in our own county that a measure of help
is being given to hundreds of our children at the Wayne County
Training School, the country's most important center for aid to
birth-injured and other mentally retarded children.
- The accomplishments of the Wayne County Training School
are the result of the brilliant direction of Dr. Robert H. Haskell
and the devotion of his staff of dedicated men and women who
are devoting themselves selflessly to the solution of this vexing
problem. The country at large would do well to emulate the
examples set in this field by Dr. Haskell and his associates.
Observance of National Retarded Children's Week should
increase interest in the need for aid to the unfortunate millions
of our children whose afflictions are not of their choosing. May
the concern shown in their welfare assist in bringing a cure to
a grave illness.
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The (Senator-Elect) Richard L. Neuberger Story
The triumph of Richard L. Neuberger in the U. S. Senatorial
contest in Oregon assures control of the United States Senate by
the Democrats. It means that Senator McCarthy will thus be
deprived of chairmanship of a committee that has been The cause
of so much witch-hunting in the past two years.
There was an anti Semitic campaign in Oregon in an effort
to defeat Neuberger. A well-known writer, Neuberger is a member
of the Oregon State Legislature. His wife, Maureen, also is a
Member - ok the•Oregon -Legislature.
-
Democrat, he was elected. Con-
troller.
In Connecticut, Mrs. Mildred
Jacob Javits Judge Kaufman
Pomerantz Allen, a Republican,
was elected Secretary of State.
Mrs. Allen, wife of the retiring
Lieutenant Governor, is the
mother of two children and is
known as a civic worker and mu-
sician.
A feature of the Neuberger
campaign in Oregon was the fact
that Mrs. Neuberger, a member
of the State House of Represen-
tatives, campaigned alongside
her husband, seeking election to
the State Senate. She won with
pluralities exceeding those given
her- husband in his campaign.
In a pre-election survey,
Frederick Kah, Washington cor-
respondent of the Chicago Sun-
Times, expressed belief that the
election could make a difference
in Middle East policy.
It now is generally believed
that Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles may give greater
heed to objections to the ship-
ment of arms to the Arabs, be-
cause of the overwhelming
commitments by Congressional
ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF
candidates against the former
Dulles policy.
In a pre-election analysis in
A Tribute to the Wayne County
By Philip
the New York Times, C. L. Sulz-
Training School and Its Able
Slomovitz berger said that "Zionist in-
Director, Dr. • Robert H. Haskell
fluence has been applied against
the Republicans," and he added
One of the darts hurled at Neuberger, by the Sherman County that "Israel diplomacy has clear-
Journal, which is published by a Republican, called his nomina-
tion, to oppose tifr incumbent, SiEnator Guy Cordon, "a bad deci- ly calculated that it has a bet-
ter chance of attaining its ob-
sion," and the paper added editorially:
U. . . Neuberger had been wise enough to remain primarily, jectives in the United States
a writer and to dabble in politics as a recreation or to provide with a Democratic party rule
grist for his writing mill. The well-known wisdom of his race in than with a Republican party
rule."
financial matters has • been uppermost in this policy."
A Washington dispatch to the
Our able Washington JTA correspondent, Milton Friedman, New York Times, published af-
compiled the facts surrounding the campaign against Neuberger' ter the elections, noted that
and reported as • follows :
"both Zionists in the United
"An Anti-Defamation League report told how 'the Cordon States and Israeli diplomats were
for-Senator Committee circulated this item throughout the state
distressed by widespread allega-
with the intention that it be reprinted in other papers.' David ticas that Israel's attempts to
Robinson, assistant national ADL director, said 'There is no frustrate deliveries of arms to
question but what the printing of the item was intended to use
the Arabs had been improperly
Mr. Neuberger's -Jewish origin as a smear and it was sent with intruded into the election cam-
the intention that it be reprinted in other papers.'
paign.
"Sen. Cordon disavowed responsibility for this personal at-
"The point was made that the
tack on Neuberger. But the attacks continued. A new smear
timing of these efforts on be-
stressed Neuberger's Jewishness and charged that he sought to half of Israel was determined
not by the election but by the
avoid military service during World War Two. The truth is that
he served as an Army officer.
British decision to leave the
Suez Canal Zone and the Unit-
"In a number of cases the attempt to use anti-Semitism
-against Neuberger backfired. The Bend Bulletin said: 'We don't ed States decision to arm the
feel the Cordon-for-Senator Committee made many friends for Arabs."
The dispateh added that,
the Senator by distributing. this material, and hope they don't
"furthermore, it was said, the
feel it necessary to bring their campaign down to such a level
in the future.' In Baker, Ore., the Record-Courier said 'Senator Zionist cause already had strong
Cordon's headquarters . . . stooped to the mire of the racial bipartisan support, so that there
was no question of partisan in-
issue in its weekly material distributed throughout Oregon.'
"The Register-Guard, of Eugene, Ore., deplored the anti- tervention."
Editorials in the New York
Neuberger slur. In Oregon, said the Register-Guard, 'such things
don't usually inject themselves into a campaign.' The news- Herald Tribune, on two succes-
paper said: 'There are many reasons for voting against Dick sive days, dealt with two of the
outstanding Jewish personalities
Neuberger, if you want to find them. But his religion is not one
of the election Governor-elect
of these issues.'
"A lengthy editorial appeared in the Coos Bay Daily Times. Ribicoff and Attorney General:-
'We had been informed,' it said, 'that Giles French, who edits elect Javits.
The Republican newspaper
the Journal, was a conservative but a man of good repute. He
described
the Connecticut Dem-
has, however, brought into the campaign a note of bigotry and
ocrat's
victory
as "a remarkable
the Cordon Committee has seen fit to broadcast that bigotry.
tribute to his personal populari-
Both of them deserve the severest condemnation.'
ty among his fellow citizens." It
"The Daily Times said: 'The inference—one that is based
on the falsest logic—is that Neuberger is a Jew and thus has noted that the Connecticut
campaign, "while hard-fought,
'wisdom in financial matters.' French indicates his ignorance,
was
among the cleanest in the
if not his stupidity, first by confusing an ethnic group with
religion. There are Spanish Jews, Indian Jews, French Jews, nation."
Of Mr. Javits, the New York
English Jews, German Jews, and American Jews. Their religion
has nothing whatsoever to do with their race. Secondly, to daily said: "Here is a Republi-
infer that there are certain peculiarities to any race has been can who convincingly snatched
victory from defeat, one who
proved time and again to be false. During the past 50 years
has
demonstrated the
rare
or so—at least before the restrictive immigration laws were
knack of winning votes in large
instituted—the bulk of the new people to this land were those
who fled from ghettos of Eastern Europe. Because they were numbers even in Democratic
Jews they were prohibited from learning a trade. They were territory. Obviously, he has lift-
forced to depend for their existence on commerce. It was ed himself into a new and en-
hanced position in the party. He
natural, then, that when they arrived in this country they
becomes a major figure in New
entered - the commercial fields. But the second generation shows York Republicanism. The voters
no such disposition. The children of the migrants have become
have elected an Attorney Gen-
doctors, lawyers, dentists, mechanics and factory workers.'
"The newspaper concluded its editorial by expressing 'hope eral of superior quality and they
have given a good man a chance
that voters will realize that race and religion have nothing to
to win even larger triumphs in
do with political ability.' "
This is how history is being written in this country. The over- the future."
whelming vote given Neuberger by more than half the electorate
of his state is a tribute to the voter who rejects , racial bias when 2—DETROIT. JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 12, 1954
he goes to the polls. Hatsoff to the American voter!
Purely Commentary:
Aid for the Retarded: A Major U.S. Responsibility
power development, won elec-
tion after a bitter campaign
marked by anti-Semitic appeals.
He is the first Jew to represent
Oregon in the Senate since Jo-
seph Simon's term ended in
1943 and the first Democrat to
be sent to the Upper House from
Oregon in 40 years. Hr has been
a member of the Oregon State
Senate since 1948.
The last time two Jews served
simultaneously in the U. S. Sen-
ate was in 1912 when Simon
Guggenheim, of Colorado, and
Isador Rayner, of Maryland, oc-
cupied seats in the Upper House.
In New York, in addition to
Rep. Javits, Col. Arthur Levitt
was elected to state office. A