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THE JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

of Jewish Events

Michigan's Only English Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

VOLUME 28—No. 7

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17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, October 21, 1955

$4.00 Per Year; Single Copy 1 5c

ANNUAL EDUCATION ISSUE

A Hearty Salute to Our Community Schools

NOW AND
10 YEARS AHEAD

—Drawing used through the courtesy of the National Citizens Commission
the Public Schools and the Better Schools Campaign. See explanatory note on
Page 2, editorial on Page 4 and special Education Month articles on Page 24,

Our Community's educational needs demand an under-

standing of future as well as present requirements. It is always

easy to see big things close at hand, but the real test of good

vision is to be able to see what looks small and far away.

This is applicable to our public schools, and to our corn-

munal school system—the United Hebrew Schools—and our

religious schools. It is applicable to the problem of two short-

ages—of teachers and school rooms.

Already in evidence is a keener realization of the need

to encourage more young people to enter the teaching profes-

sion, and to assure them a living wage that will encourage

them to remain in that important profession.

communities must, therefore, provide for a future when school

enrollments will be even larger.

All of us, therefore, are charged with serious obligations:

not only to assure high enrollments of our children and our

grandchildren in our schools, but also to provide for them the

ablest and best paid teachers and adequate school rooms.

These are obligations to our public schools; they are

obligations to our Hebrew and community religious schools.

On the occasion of Annual Education Month, we call our

community to action, in the spirit of the Psalmist's declaration,

"Thou host taught me from my youth" (Ps. 1 xxvi. 17)'. May

the ideal of training our children from youth continue un-

Also—many communities now see more clearly the im-

interruptedly, and may the means for such teaching be ac-

mediate problems created by overcrowded schools. These

cording to the highest standards of Judaism and Americanism.