The problem of the prevention and correction of delinquency Brooklyn is now being dealt w### on a city-wide basis in coordination with similar work in other boroughs, according to an announcement made public last night by Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May, president of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities. Accompanying the announcement was an appeal to the contributing public of Manhattan and other parts of the city to recognize the obligation to support the Federation’s $500,000 campaign without regard to borough divisions.
Justice May declared that the Brooklyn Jewish Social Service Bureau has been merged with the Jewish Board of Guardians of New York and that it will function here after as the Brooklyn District of the Jewish Board of Guardians with headquarters at 285 Schermerhorn street.
"The success of this experiment,’ declared Justice May, "may blaze the trial to other functional coordination of the Jewish social services on both sides of the East River. The Brooklyn Federation and the New York Foundation are jointly financing this venture in social engineering. It is a matter of mutual congratulation that the government boards of the three participating agencies were able to negotiate the merger with genuin disinterestedness in behalf of better service to the community."
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