National Council of Jewish Women Adopts Resolution Against Military Training

Will Urge Judicial Settlement of International Dispute(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Compulsory miiltary training in the schools was declared to be running counter to the movement to substitute law for war in a resolution adopted by the National Council of Jewish Women in its eleventh triennial convention here. The resolution urged compulsory military training be eliminated at all land grant colleges, because “it stresses war psychology in the minds of the youth.”

That the Council be dedicated to the promotion of arbitration and the judicial settlement of international disputes as an essential step in the outlawing of war, was approved by the delegates.

Mrs. Thomas G. Winter. President of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, with which the council is affiliated, addressed delegates on World Peace.

The 1,400 delegates went to Mount Vernon and Arlington Cemetery, where Mrs. William D. Sporberg, National President of the Council, placed wreaths before the tombs of Washington and the Unknown Soldier.

Reports on the various activities of the Council were presented at yesterday’s session.

Mrs. Sydney M. Cone of Baltimore, chairman of the Committee on Legislation. reported on legislative activity in cooperation with the Women’s Joint Congressional Committee at Washington, D. C., of which the National Council of Jewish Women is a member organization. Public interest in various legislative proposals was fostered through the local Council Committees on legislation.

Forty institutions are conducted by Council Sections, including community centers, vacation camps, girls’ homes, clinics, girls’ protective bureaus and family welfare bureaus. An increasing number of sections are cooperating with and participating in Community Chests and Federations of Philanthropy, according to the report of Mrs. Samuel Alschuler of Chicago, chairman of the Committee on Social Welfare.

Mrs. Max Bloomstein of Chicago, National Chairman of the Committee on Work for the Blind and Sight Conservation, stated that the Council Sections in many cities have established a complete program of service to the blind. She also reported that scholarships are being provided for blind musicians, stenographers and readers. The program of the Sections extends to preventive work among the children in the schools and the men and women in industry.

Mrs. Simon E. Osserman of New York City, National Chairman of the Committee on Deaf, declared that eat gains had been made among the Council Sections in securing their interest in work for the deaf. Activity in this field included religious services, religious education, educational classes and scholarships. Accousticons were installed in synagogues.

Councils of Jewish Women have been established in Australia, Jugo-Slavia and France, Mrs. Nathaniel E. Harris reported.

The delegates were the guests of the local Hadassah at a luncheon, at the Jewish Community Center.

Benjamin Glassberg. of the Jewish Welfare Society of Philadelphia, has been appointed Executive Director of the Federated Jewish Charities of Milwaukee, Wis.