Jacob Blaustein, chairman of the Budget Research Committee of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, today declared that the statement issued yesterday by the executive committee of the American Jewish Conference opposing national budgeting is based on misinformation.
The General Assembly of the Council in January 1944, Mr. Blaustein stated, asked that the subject of national budgeting be restudied during the year for a report to the next Assembly. In the process the Budget Research Committee has sounded out the views of the national and overseas agencies, and of the leaders of the larger welfare fund cities. It is now in the process of reviewing its findings and reporting them to the Board of Directors of the Council. Neither the Budget Research Committee nor the officers of the Council have as yet reached any decision or taken any position on the question.
“Premature action by outside bodies is unfortunate,” said Mr. Blaustein, “since pending the above study and decision, neither the Council, its Board of Directors, nor the Budget Research Committee is recommending national budgeting, although there is considerable sentiment on the part of welfare fund leaders for a better organized and more systematic method of advising local funds on legitimate agencies and the extent of their needs.”
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