Prof. Seltzer Retires; Honored at WSU'
Dr. Lawrence H. Seltzer, profes-
sor of economics at Wayne State
University, has retired after 45
years of service.
The university's department of
economics sponsored a dinner in
his honor at McGregor Memorial
Center May 31.
He will become Distinguished
Visiting Professor of Economics at
Swarthmore College this fall.
Thousands of Detroiters, many
of whom are now prominent in
the business and political life of
the city and state, have passed
through his classes. In addition to
his teaching, Prof. Seltzer has long
been active as an economist and
consultant for various govern-_
mental agencies and business cor-
porations. He has served at various
DR. LAWRENCE H. SELTZER
Race Relations Act
Criticized in Commons
as Having Loopholes-
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON—The recently enacted
Race Relations Act is a law "with
teeth but without guts," Paul Rose,
a Labor member of Parliament,
complained in the House of Com-
mons last weekend.
He told Commons that "There is
now a substantial body of evid-
ence showing deliberate attempt to
sew hatred." The inadequacy of
the new law, he said, had been
pointed out during the debate
before the new act was passed,
"and now this assessment has prov-
ed correct with cases of arson in
places of worship and the circula-
tion of racist literature."
Rose referred to the fact that
four young men, tried in the
Centra Criminal Court here for
setting fire to synagogues, were
freed.
Maurice Foley, undersecretary
of the home office, conceded that,
during the trial of the four men,
it had been suggested that they
were influenced toward commit-
ting the depredations by propa-
ganda and incitements from Colin
Jordan and the latter's wife, as
leaders of the National Socialist
Movement.
However, he said, there was not
sufficient evidence to warrant put-
ting Jordan on trial. Mrs. Jordan,
he said, is now in France, but
there is not enough evidence
against her to justify a request
for extradition. "When she returns
to Britain," he said, "she may be
interviewed by the police."
U.S. Hebrew Educators
to Learn New Method
PHILADELPHIA—Hebrew edu-
cators from throughout the United
States and Canada will attend a
month-long institute on teaching
Hebrew by the Saint Cloud Method
(Habet Ushma), a new audio-visual
system of language instruction, at
Camp Ramah in the Poconos June
24-July 22.
The educators will attend the
month-long training program to
familiarize themselves with the
new method of instruction which
is designed to give students na-
tive-like fluency in speaking, read-
ing and writing the Hebrew langu-
age.
Mrs. Judith Cais, co-author of
"Hebrew by the Saint Cloud Meth-
od," will direct the institute.
times as adviser to the Labor Ad-
visory Board of the NRA, head
economist in the United States
Treasury, and consultant with the
Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, the United Nations, and
the Treasury Department. He was
the first faculty member to re-
ceive the Alumni Faculty Service
Award at Wayne, and he served in
1562 as the Franklin Memorial
Professor of Human Relations.
He has also been a visiting
professor at the University of
Michigan and the University of
California (Berkeley), chairman
of the committee on fiscal re-
search of the National Bureau
of Economic Research, chair-
man of the executive board of
the Institute of Labor and In-
dustrial Relations — University
of Michigan-Wayne State Uni-
versity, vice-president for public
finance of the American Finance
Association, and a member of
the editorial board of the Am-
erican Economic Review.
History of the American Automo-
bile Industry," and "The Nature
and Tax Treatment of Capital
Gains and Losses," and of many
articles in economic journals. He
has testified at various times be-
fore congressional canunittees on
questions of taxation and the
management of the public debt.
Prof. Seltzer, who is 69, resides
with his wife Sarah at 19475 Strat-
ford. Their son, Dr. Donald A.
Seltzer, a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Michigan and the Wayne
State University College of Medi-
cine, recently received appoint-
ment as assistant professor of
radiology at Stanford University
Medical School.
Professor Seltzer has been active
for many years in the affairs of
the Jewish Family and Children's
Service and its predecessor
agency, the Jewish Social Serv-
ice Bureau, which he served as
president for four years. Mrs.
Seltzer has just completed six years
on the board of the JFCS and is
He is the author of a number now on the board of the Fresh Air
of books, including "A Financial Society.
Catholic Scholarships Given to Brandeis Students
WALTHAM, Mass. — Henry F.
DuBois of Keyport, N. J., presi-
dent of the Student Council of
Saint Anslem's College of Man-
chester, N. H., announced
that in an unprecedented ecu-
menical gesture the Student Senate
of St. Anselm's Catholic College in
Manchester, voted to offer two
scholarships for three-week Citizen
Exchange Corps study-exchange
visits to the USSR to students of
Brandeis University in Waltham,
Mass.
This gesture, made at the sug-
gestion of Prof. John Windhausen
of St. Anselm's was a response to
scholarships offered St. Anselm's
students last week by Boston in.
dustrialist Melvin Gordon of Wel-
lesley Hills, Mass., and Melvin
Dubin, a New York manufacturer.
Professor Windhausen, who ac-
companied Citizen Exchange Corps
Pittsburgh Raises $1,807,225
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — T h e
United Jewish Federation of Pitts-
burgh brought its 1966 fund-raising
campaign to a successful conclu-
sion with a total of $1,807,225
raised for its 36 local, national
and overseas beneficiary agencies
on its pioneering exchange visit to
Moscow and Leningrad last sum-
mer and will be on the faculty of
CEC's "flying seminar," newly
organized for this summer's CEC
exchanges, proposed earlier this
year that St. Anselm's offer the
CEC program accreditation for
student participants.
Dean Leonard Zion announced
that Brandeis students are making
scholarship funds available to stu-
dents of Hampton Institute of
Virginia.
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