Beth El to Honor Irving I. Katz, Its Noted Executive Secretary Temple Beth El Executive Sec- retary Irving I. Katz, nationally known as a pioneer in the develop- ment of the field of synagogue ad- ministration, will be honored at Beth El Sabbath services March 7. The occasion will mark the con- clusion of his 30th and beginning of his 31st year as Beth El's chief administrator. Prior to assuming his present post at Beth El in 1939, he served as executive director and educa- tional director of the Oheb Zedek Congregation in Cleveland and the Anshe Emeth Temple in Youngs- town, 0. He received his education at the Hebrew Gymnasium, Hebrew Teachers' Normal School, and Rab- binical College in Riga, Latvia, and Spencerian Business College and Westein Reserve University in Cleveland. He is a certified Fellow in Temple Administration. Since coming to Detroit, Katz has made many notable contributions to the life, vitality and growth of TRYING I. KATZ Beth El and has taken a prominent role in the general community. He is the founder and past-president of the Council of Synagogue Ex- ecUtive Directors of Metropolitan Detroit, a founder and past presi- dent of the Jewish Historical So- ciety of Michigan and presently editor of its journal Michigan Jewish History, board member of the Detroit Service Group of the Jewish Welfare Federation and the Professional Division of the Allied Jewish Campaign, past-chairman and presently adviser of the Syna- gogue and Schools Division of the Campaign, member of the Jewish Community Council Culture Com- mission, charter member of the board of trustees of Wayne State University Press, member of the Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission and De- troit Civil War Centennial Com- mittee, member of the Economic Club of Detroit and a member of numerous other public committees and local and national organiza- tions. During the American Jewish Tercentenary he served as sec- retary of the "Detroit Committee of 300" and as chairman of ex- hibits and publications. He was also a member of the Detroit Citizen's Committee for the ob- servance of the 250th anniver- sary of Detroit. He received a citation from the U.S. Treasury Department for his home front activities during World War II. On the national scene, Katz was the founder of the National Asso- ciation of Temple Administrators (NATA), an affiliate of the Union of American Hebrew Congrega- tions (UAHC), served as its first president and was elected honor- ary president for life. He is a char- ter member of the executive board of the UAHC Great Lakes Region, a member of the executive board of NATA, a member of the Com- mission on Synagogue Administra- tion of the Union of American He- brew Congregations and the Cen- tral Conference of American Rab- bis (CCAR), a member of the board of certification for temple administrators of the UAHC-CCAR- NATA, and a member of a number of UAHC national committees. Katz was the first temple ad- ministrator in the country to lec- ture on synagogue administration to the rabbinical students at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish In- stitute of Religion, and to speak at the national conventions of the UAHC, CCAR and NFTB and at the regional conventions and Institu- tes for board members of the UAHC. He has been in demand as a consultant in synagogue adminis- tration surveys of individual con- gregations from coast to coast. He received a citation from the UAHC for outstanding religious leadership. Katz received a citation of high merit from the Hebrew Union Col- lege—Jewish Institute of Religion "for his important and distinguish- ed contributions to Jewish his- torical research, and for his pio- neering work in Michigan Jewish History," in 1964. He was honored by Temple Beth El with life membership in the Jewish Chautauqua Society on his 60th birthday in 1967 and was awarded a citation for dis- tinguished leadership by the Re- form Jewish Appeal last year, when he also was appointed to the national cabinet of the ap- peal as a vice-chairman. Former president of the Metro- citation from the Department of Michigan Jewish War Veterans "in grateful recognition of devotion and effort in formally chronicling Jewish patriotic and military con- tributions in the Civil War." Urban Culture at Wayne State University. A prolific writer on the subjects of synagogue management and Michigan Jewish history, Mr. Katz's articles have been publish- ed in The Jewish News and na- tional synagogue and church periodicals. He is the author of a series of pamphlets on various aspects of synagogue administra- tion, published by the UAHC, and co-author of the book, "Successful Synagogue Administration," now in its second printing, published in 1963 by the UAHC. Katz is the author of "The Beth El Story— With a History of Jews in Michigan Before 1850" (Wayne State Univ- • ersity Press, 1955), "History of Jewish Community Services in De- troit" (Jewish Welfare Federa- tion of Detroit, 1960), and "The Jewish Soldier From Michigan in the Civil War" (Wayne State Univ- 1 ersity Press, 1962). He has also written the histories of a number of Jewish congrega- tions and organizations in Mich- igan. Katz was honored by the American Jewish Archives of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish In- / stitute of Religion by the estab- lishment of "The Irving I. Katz Collection on Michigan Jewish His- tory." He was the recipient of a Katz is married to the former Gail Peres. They- have two daugh- ters, Nina Claire (Mrs. Lawrence A. Isaac) and Myrna (Mrs. Mel- vyn K. Adelman). Katz was presented with an honorary life membership in the Hannah Schloss Old Timers As- sociation for his comprehensive history of the Hannah Schloss politan Detroit Cemetery Associa- Memorial Building, Detroit's first tion, he also is a member of the' Jewish community building and advisory committee for the Pro- predecesor of the Jewish Com- gram of Studies in Religion and munity Center. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, February 14, 1969-21 Latin Immigrants Land HAIFA (JTA)—The Israeli pas- senger liner Theodor Herzl arrived here from South America with 550 immigrants, mostly young peo- ple. 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Murray Teigh Bloom Puts Lawyers in Place With Eye-Opening Book "We properly honor the found- ers of our great "industries, the Edisons and Fords whose daring, ingenuity and hard work helped create a useful industry providing employment for thousands where only a vacuum existed before. But the founder of the still-growing American injury industry has been overlooked. The man who almost single-handedly set the industry on its modern path and invented most of its illicit angles, the man who showed generations of Amer- ican lawyers the road to its surest dollar, has never been honored." Thus, Murray Teigh Bloom ir- reverently introduces Abraham Gatner, the first "ambulance chas- er," in his book "The Trouble With Lawyers," a book that tells what is wrong with some members of the legal profession, who take the middle-class client for a ride. Published by Simon and Schu- ster (630 Fifth Ave., NYC), "The Trouble With Lawyers" docu- ments the ways in which such lawyers are able to take ad- vantage of their clients through excessive fees, ddays, legal in- competency and often fraud. He also outlines possible methods of reform. Bloom writes of Gather: °In 1907 he was a fresh-faced hustling lad of IS who had two years of high schooL But he looked fl the future and sensed it could work well for him. He became our first ambulance chaser. The place was Manhattan, which then had only a few hundred automobiles— more than enough for a hustling chaser . . "Gatner persuaded a law firm to take him on to give his idea a chance. His self-made job was to hang around police headquarters at 9 a.m. and get a list of the previous day's accidents from a newspaper reporter, who was given one dollar. With the list, Gather would run out to get the accident victims signed up on retainer agree- ments for the law firm . . . "He prospered, as did his law firm; he got a commission on each case as well as his salary. In 1912, when he was 23, Gatner took a bold step. He quit his pioneering job as chaser and joined the ' enemy as an insurance company ad- juster." Gatner's checkered career, as well as those of other lawyers, are related in Bloom's book, which contends that the relationship be- tween certain lawyers and their clients grows more lopsided every year as lawyers make themselves bigger and greedier partners of their middle-class clients. They do this through minimum-fee price- fixing agreements that are support- ed by our courts—the same courts that denounce price fixing when it's tried by business or industry. Observe the unspoiled innocence of chil- dren. Everything in their world is a thing of wonder. There is no hate or fear; only a driving curiosity and a desire to understand. Difficult? Maybe—but it would make the world a much better place for all of us. It isn't too late change your ways. Not if you're a real grown-up. But it is something you Why don't we, the older and wiser, act have to do yourself. Even these children could like children? Why don't we do some deep not teach you how to act. Because, they're not acting. soul-searching and discard some old habits? Why don't we act their age? Are you big enough to take your first step? lit NW MOURN