AJCongress Backs Ban
on School Race Hate

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

16—Friday, November 21, 1969

Jews Among the Run-Aways l

NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Amer-
ican Jewish Congress testified in
BY BEN GALLOB
support of a New York Board of
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Education resolution banning the
dissemination of racist propaganda Jews comprise at least a third
in public s•heols. Herman Brown, of the thousands of middle-class
director of the AJCongress' Metro- American husbands who each year
politan Council, said that while his find the pressures of their respon-
organization holds that such ma- sibilities unbearable and run away
terial, "however detestable" i s to seek a different way of life —
generally protected by constitu- though usually not for good.
According to a firm which spe
ional guarantees of free speech.
"special considerations apply with- 'cializes in finding the runaways,
the underlying cause is always
in school buildings."
financial. Edward Goldfader, vice-
president of the Tracers Company
of America, has described the
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typical middle class runaway hus-
' band as 35 to 40 years of age, who
has attended college at least two
years, has been married 16 years,
earns between $12,500 and $17,500
a year and has two children. He
reported that "in the thousands of
cases we have processed over the
years," nearly 35 per cent of the
runaway husbands were Jewish.
Jews make up about three per cent
of the American population.
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Within a few weeks after their
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disappearance, he reported, the
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runaways—Jews and non-Jews —
I act quite predictably. They send
up "signal flags" by which they
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ask unconsciously, and sometimes
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. consciously, to be found. The run-
l away may mail a birthday card to
his child, which may not have a
return address, but does have a
postmark. Such a lead is often
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enough for the tracing firm be-
i cause the runaways rarely change
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their life styles when they settle
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in a different city.
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Goldfader said they seldom
change their names and they

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usually take a job similar to the
one they left behind. They often
can be traced by a check of the
records of firms which clear
new applications for company
group insurance and pension
tracing company
plans. The

turns over the new addresses of
some 800 such fugitive husbands

to their wives each year, for a
fee. Most of the fleeing hus-
bands return home, after a little
prodding.
Goldfader told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency that the dispor-
tionate number of Jewish run-
aways stem from pressures which
are more self-imposed than is
true for non-Jewish husbands. He
, explained that the Jewish man
more readily takes • on heavy
financial responsibilities for the
sake of his wife and children and
thus "subjects himself to a
breaking point - more quickly than
do non-Jews.
Total and permanent disappear-
' ance. which Goldfader calls "social
suicide," is rare in the company's
experience. So are "repeaters,"
Goldfader recalling only one such
case in the past 15 years, in which
the runaway was not Jewish. If a
! Jewish fugitive dropped out of
sight permanently. this would mean
he would never again see or be in
touch with his wife or children or
members of his f a mily, which
would be "almost too much for a
Jewish man to consider."
Jewish wives also run off and
for the same reasons, he report-
ed, but on a far smaller fre-
qeney—about one runway Jew-
ish wife to 250 runaway Jewish
husbands. Among non-Jews, the
official reported, the ratio is
closer to 100 to one.
Teen-agers also run away, and
finding them is another phase of
the company's work. Goldfader
reported that, as of five years ago,
the number of Jewish teen-age run-
awayg was very small, propor-
tionately. In recent years, he add-
ed, the problem of the teen-age
runaway has been growing stead
ily and "so has the percentage of
Jewish children among - them." He
indicated he felt that the teen-age
runaway problem reflected such
developments as the emphasis on
education for the young. the con-
cept of equal rights within the
family community, and concern
for the downtrodden among young
idealists. He said "many of the
teen-agers who run away, particu-
larly the girls," make the state-
ment that "they feel as though
they are parasites" and that they
would rather go out into the world
and contribute something."
He asserted that parents can-
not or will not understand why
their child has run away. A com-
mon remark of the parents, he de-
clared is "How could she do this
to us? We gave her everything she
ever asked for.Y Goldf a der
said that if the parents asked
themselves, "How could she do
this to herself?" they might have
more understanding of the prob-
lem. He added that, if such a con-
cern had been in existence in the
family, it would have suggested a
different set of family relation-
ships in which the present-day
communications gap between the
parent-child generations did not
exist in that family, or at least
was much smaller than that ac-
companying the child's decision to
flee.

NPD Kept From Holding

Congress in Saarbruecken

BONN (JTA) — The right-wing
National Democratic Party (NPD)
has been barred from holding its
fourth party congress in Saar-
bruecken. The congress was sup-
posed to have opened last Satur-
day.
NPD chairman Adolf von Thad-
den said he would take the matter
to the highest administrative court.
The ban was enforced by the lord
mayor of Saarbuecken, acting on
orders from Saar Interior Minister
Ludwig Shnur.

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