and physicists joined the Yeshiva Council of Detroit, this week
the JNF Council wishes to make
The Michigan Council of the groups, particularly N e g r o e s, University faculty last week as
announced the appointment of it possible for members of the
have
suffered
from
discrimination
American Jewish Congress de-
the University initiated a series
fended the state's rule barring in housing.
of moves to expand its graduate William Hordes as chairman of community to participate in
a special corn- honoring Kasle.
discrimination by real estate
"But Jews, and even white program in science.
"When Abe Kasle announced
mittee to for -
brokers as a wholly "proper and Christians have been targets of
Dr. Samuel Belkin, president,
malizp the gifts of $65,000 on his 65th
reasonable way to help secure c:as in Michigan, as recent events also announced the change in
:project for the birthday, including the $5,000
equal housing oppo -Aunity 'in in Grosse Pointe showed," the. name of the University's Gradu-
planting of a gift to the JNF, and the corn-
ichigan."
statement added. Although the ate School of Mathematical Sci-
Kasle Forest munity became aware of his
In a "friend-of-the-court" brief "Point System" of discrimination ences to Graduate School of
on Jewish Na- important natal day, our office
filed in Ingham . County Circuit hay been abandoned in that com- Science, underscoring plans to
t i o nal Fund received scores of inquiries as
Court, in Lansing, the Michigan munity, the brief quoted from broaden the school's program to
land in Israel. to how Kasle's fellow-citizens
AJCongress g r o p urged the varied sources, including real include experimental physics and,
Brandwine can join in honoring him,"
court to allow Rule 9 to go into estate and appraisal groups, to later, biology and chemistry.
announced the Brandwine said. "We know that
efiect. The controversial rule, substantiate its point that brokers
Announced, too, was the for-
selection of the Jewish National Fund is
which was issued by Lawrence "continue to use various tech- mation of a six-man advisory
t h e following close to Mr. Kasle's heart, and
Gubow, Corporation and Securi- niques to perpetuate and incite council of eminent scientists to
to serve with we therefore suggest that the
ties Comminsioner, foilowing discriminatory policies."
assist in the development of the
o r d s: Al best way of honoring him and
hearings in. Grosse Pointe, has
Hitting at the argument that school.
Borman, Tom of giving recognition to his
been held up in a challenge by the state lacks the power to regu-
Borman, Judge many communal undertakings
The faculty additions were in-
real estate firms.
Ira Kaufman, would be by planting trees in
te brokers in the matter of troduced by Dr. Abe Gelbart,
Max O s n o s , his honor in Israel. What better
The brief, prepared by Er- discrimination, the court was told dean of the Graduate School of
qorris Scha- way than to plant it in the
win B. Elhnann, Detroit attor- that the police powers, under the Science, at an open house held
ver, Leonard Kasle Forest?"
ney, for the commission on constitution give ample authority at the school's new quarters, 601
Abe Kasle
Brandwine said that the im-
N. Simons, Rabbi Joshua S. Sper-
law and social aciion of the for this restriction.
W. 183rd St., Manhattan.
pending visit in Israel by Mr.
ka,
Max
Stollman,
Phillip
Stoll-
Michigan AJCongress, was sub-
The
new
men
are
Dr.
Leon
there is no question, according
and Mrs. Kasle makes it ap-
mitted to the Court here on to the brief, but that the com- Landovitz, a physicist at Brook man and Harry Cohen.
Explaining that the fund for propriate for the Kasle Forest
behalf of that grout as well as mission was within its rights and haven National Laboratories; Dr.
the Michigan NAACP and the powers to set additional stand- Bernard Epstein, chairman - of the the planting o; the Kasle Forest project to be concluded before
Detroit Chapter of the Amer- ards of "fair dealing" by licensed department of mathematics at the was inaugurated by the $5,000 September, in order that the
Kasles may be present at the
ican Civil Liberties Union.
real estate brokers. Referring to University of Pennsylvania; Dr. gift made to the JNF by Abe initial planting of the Forest,
Kasle,
on
his
65th
birthday,
Citing legal precedent, AJCon- Ranks vs. Corp. and Securities David Finkelstein, physicist at
during their stay in the Holy
gress claimed that the new rule Commission, 1947, the groups Stevens Institute of Technology; Brandwine said that a number Land.
would give real meaning to "the noted that the court ruled that Dr. Donald J. Newman, assistant of generous gifts from members
Trees in honor of Mr. Kasle
of the Kasle family, in addition
declared public policy of Mich-1 it was "a vital ft nction of Ad- professor of mathematics at
May be ' planted by mailing
to
gifts
from
Phillip
and
Max
and
Dr.
Martin
1.Jiliversity;
igan and the United States to ' ministrative agencies" to "define Brown
Stollman, William Hordes, Al checks to the Jewish National
eradicate invidious racial and it own standards for conduct Davis, visiting associate profes-
and Torn Borman and Leonard Fund, 18414 Wyoming.
sor at New York University.
religious discrimination in hous- licensees."
I
ing.!'
In the 39-page document, the
civil rights groups mounted a
fi -- e-point arguinent ti sustain . its
claim that Rule 9 is a sound
procedure for "using the instru-
mentalities of law" to accomplish
the objectives of non discrimi-
nation in housing.
Answering the charg,, that the
state's order infringed rights of
property owners, the brief noted
that Rule 9 does not affect the
rights of property owners and
is "invulnerable to constitutional
attack." Further, the commission
nct • only "acted well within its
statutory authority in issuing the
ru'e," but might have been sub-
ject to legislative inquiry if it
had not risen to its "inescapable
obligation." The brief noted, in
this connection, that the commis-
sion had discoverea "overwhelm-
ing evidence that racial and re-
ligious discrimination (in hous-
ing) was a comm..mplace of the
business of real estate firms."
The commission, it was point-
ed out, had an "abundant
basis" for recognizing that the
present practices of brokers
..na.k it difficult for minorities
to find housing on "equal terms
and (with) fair value for its
housing dollars."
Evidence from recent studies
by social scientists ana reports
by government and private agen-
cies was adduced to show wide-
spread recognition that housing
barriers are the major civil
rights problein in Michigan and
elsewhere:
The finding and conclusions
of the Michigan Advisory Com-
mittee to the U.S. Civil Rights
Commission were noted as proof
of the ways in which minority
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11 -- THE D ETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday , Se ptember 16, 1960
Abe Kasle's Friends Join in
Brief Prepared by Erwin B. Elimam, Yeshiva University
Expands Graduate
Completing Forest in Israel
Defends State Commission's Ruling School of Science
Morris Brandwine, president N. Simons made the Kasle
a certainty.
Barring Real Estate Discrimination Five leading mathematicians of the Jewish National Fund Forest
Nevertheless, Brandwine said,