Coordination of Welfare Services for Jewish Veterans Discussed at Conference

The three major ways by which a local community can help meet the needs of returning servicemen and women are coordination of existing voluntary services for veterans, the leadership of private social agencies in demonstrating how veterans’ benefits can best be administered and “follow-through” by both government and voluntary agencies on services to veterans over a period of several years, speakers declared yesterday at the first city-wide conference of the Committee for Coordinating Jewish Community Services for Veterans. More than 1,500 social workers, interested lay welfare and community leaders and representatives of war veterans organizations, women’s clubs and fraternal orders attended.

Ralph K. Guinzburg, chairman of the committee, presided at the main evening session, at which addresses were made by Louis L. Bennett, director of the Veterans Service Center in New York City; Dr. Willard Waller, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, and Frank L. Weil, president of the National Jewish Welfare Board. George Z. Medalie, president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, in a message opening the evening conference, praised the committee as “one of New York’s first coordinated efforts among voluntary institutions aiding veterans.”