Jewish communities must give added support for local welfare requirements despite increasing Government participation in social welfare and despite growing overseas needs, Jacob Blaustein, president of the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, declared tonight in a symposium on “Voluntary Welfare Agencies in the Face of Government Security Programs,” which featured the closing dinner of the sixth annual general assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.
Mr. Blaustein, newly-elected member of the council’s board of directors, told the 500 assembled fund leaders that no matter how great Federal expenditures might be, there would always be “specific needs from a Jewish point of view which cannot and will not be met by Government.” Regarding overseas aid, he declared: “I am not saying we should give less for overseas needs; what I am saying is that we should give more for both — for overseas needs and for local federations.”
In discussing the situation abroad, he said that the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was “doing a most important job of gathering dependable facts upon which to base intelligent action.” Blaustein yesterday gave a reception at his home for about 100 delegates at which the history and work of the J.T.A. were the chief subject of discussion.
Other speakers at the concluding dinner were William J. Shroder, who presided, George E. Bigge, member of the Social Security Board; Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, U.S. Agriculture Department economic adviser; Benjamin J. Buttenwieser and Samuel A. Goldsmith.
James Marshall, president of the New York City Board of Education, declared at a luncheon session on “Organizing Community Leadership” that a united drive by the nation to solve the problems of youth was necessary for the survival of American democracy, on which the hope of the Jews hung. He also asserted that Jews had been too much “excited by the golden tongues of leaders of Jewish ‘isms,” who, he said, were “leaders in Jewry” rather than “leaders of Jewry.”
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