NAWSA General correspondence Kenyon, Dorothy [*O K*] DOROTHY KENYON COUNSELLOR AT LAW FIFTY BROADWAY NEW YORK TELEPHONE WHITEHALL 3-1991 August 17, 1945 [*<--A little outmoded*] Carrie Chapman Catt 120 Paine Avenue New Rochelle New York Mrs. Catt my dear: I am enclosing a copy of a letter I am sending off to Mrs. Ashby. I am off on a holiday until August 27th and after that will be wanting to come out to see you. My love to you. Yours, Dorothy K. [*DK:LG*] P. S. Thank you for your note about Bertha Lutz. I'll get hold of her right away. DOROTHY KENYON COUNSELLOR AT LAW FIFTY BROADWAY NEW YORK 4 TELEPHONE WHITEHALL 3-1991 August 25, 1959 Mrs. Edna Stantial 21 Ashmont Street Melrose 76, Massachusetts My dear Mrs. Stantial: Thanks for your nice letter about archives and such. I am coming down to Chilmark in a few days and may drop in on you to have a chat about it. Sincerely yours, Dorothy Kenyon [*DK:fed*] [*Ans sent Dec 9 — 10 on appeal*] DOROTHY KENYON COUNSELLOR AT LAW FIFTY BROADWAY NEW YORK 4 TELEPHONE WHITEHALL 3-1991 October 26, 1959 Mrs. Edna Stantial Chilmark Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Dear Edna Stantial: I'm awfully sorry to have missed you down at Chilmark. But my small vacation became very circumscribed and it seemed as though I had to squeeze an atrocious number of things into it. As a result I hardly had time to relax even at Chilmark. Do let us try to get together another summer and to do it a little bit earlier. I'm always hoping to spend a good long vacation in that lovely spot and it might still come true someday. My best to you. Cordially yours, Dorothy Kenyon [*DK:fed*] THE COUNCIL WOMAN Bulletin of The National Council of Jewish Women and of The National Council of Jewish Juniors VOLUME 5 MAY-JUNE, 1944 NUMBER 3 Women As Citizens by Judge Dorothy Kenyon WHILE our men are fighting overseas, we not only must back up the Nation's war effort but also preserve our gains on the home front. The America to which our boys return must be able to provide them with jobs, while at the same time, securing the health and welfare of their families and assuring to them the democratic rights for which the war is being fought. The responsibility of women is going to be particularly heavy in the coming election, because, for the first time in our history, the majority of the electorate will be women. And the first rule I would lay down is this: Don't vote according to party labels. Find out where the candidates stand on all important issues and then vote for the best man with the best principles. This is sound policy all along the line, from alderman to President. The next thing I suggest is that, in the excitement of national and international issues, you don't forget your local government. Take as much interest in it as in the broader question of world policy. For, after all, the world begins at home. First find out the important issues facing your city. It may be a new sewer system, a rise in bus fares, or even a new charter. Investigate all sides of the issue and determine where you stand. Next, find out the position on these crucial issues of all candidates for office, and then vote only for men whose stand seems right to you. When it comes to state questions, the procedure remains the same. If there are questions of how much financial support to give to education, of child labor or the proper care of children of working mothers, or of equal pay as between men and women- first find out where the candidates for governor and for the legislature stand, then throw your strength behind those men and women who support legislation in the interest of the welfare of all the people of the state. SOME half-dozen national issues stand out as fundamental to democracy and progress: Perhaps the most important is the OPA, a vital factor in keeping down the cost of living and maintaining a decent standard for everybody. The OPA is badly in need of friends and of intelligent, vigorous support. It must be continued and greatly strengthened if inflation is to be avoided. Next in importance comes the abolition of that national disgrace, the poll tax as a prerequisite to voting. This transcends state lines. The right (Continued on Page Three) MRS. JOSEPH M. WELT Detroit, Michigan OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT JUNE 9, 1944 Dear Member: In normal times, a letter written to you at the close of a club year would contain good wishes for a restful and pleasant summer. But today we are a nation at war, and there is no time to pause. Our men on every front fight their grim battles in spite of heat, cold and rain -- tired or hungry. Can we do less on the home front? No hardship is too great, and no personal sacrifice too much for us to make to do our share toward winning the peace, because that is the real test of winning the war. Any lasting peace is based on proper thinking, and we of the Council believe in Education for Action. The time for action is at hand, and we must dedicate ourselves now to the task of study, so as to equip ourselves properly for action. To quote William Agar, "There can be no compromise...until we have a society more just than any we have known before." A part of this issue describes the work of the Social Welfare Committees of some of our Sections. These projects fill immediate needs and the work is vital and constructive, but we must go further and treat the causes, in addition to taking care of the needs. We are not working for the present only, for we recognize the fact that the welfare of future generations is at stake. Good luck to you, over the summer. Keep the Council banner waving high. We have a big job to do -- let's do it well! Cordially yours, Mildred Welt (Continued from Front Page) to vote is a basic democratic right which should be assured to all Americans, regardless of their race, creed or color. Another basic right, freedom from discrimination in hunting a job, is represented by the work of the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices. This Committee should be continued and its establishment written into law on a permanent basis, in order that in the postwar world prejudice and discrimination will not be allowed to hinder capable workers in finding jobs. Our immigration policies also should be liberalized, so that this country may once more become a haven of refuge for oppressed people, and so that we may continue to be enriched, socially, politically and economically, by immigration from other countries. We should ask increased Federal aid to education in order that our young people may become better equipped for responsible citizenship. We should also seek Federal aid in the care of children of working mothers and in combatting illegal child labor. The Equal Rights Amendment is still with us and must still be opposed. The legislation that women need to protect them as mothers at work and in the home must not be jeopardized by this clumsy device for mere mathematical equality. If we can keep democratic principles alive on the home front by getting these measures enacted into law, then there will be more chance that these same principles will survive on the international front as well. In fact, the great lesson of this MAY-JUNE 1944 Allied News Photo DOROTHY KENYON Counsellor-at-Law, former Municipal Court Judge, N.Y.C.; director and former president, Consumers League of New York; member, Commission of Women, N. Y., to advise on problems arising from wartime employment of women; director, International Alliance for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship. war and of this country is that we cannot enjoy freedom, fair play, and security unless our neghbors enjoy them too. So it would be well to make sure that our Congressmen are pledged to full American participation in international organization to accomplish these ends. Congress is the mirror of public opinion. If the greater part of the public is apathetic to such matters, then organized special blocs that oppose them will be able to write their own ticket. If the Congress that is elected in November does not express the will of the people, the voters have only themselves to blame. But we are the voters. The decision is in our hands. Three HOME FRONT PLEDGE FOR WARTIME ELECTION I will help get a ballot to a service man or woman. I will register and vote in November elections. EVERY FIGHTING MAN A VOTER! 1. Know your state law and help translate its provisions into ballots for service men. 2. Save your solider or sailor one step in voting procedure. Since most states require direct application for ballot, get application form and send it to service man. Give him address of proper state official and urge him to send it in immediately. 3. Federal Government will produce ballots to be used after October 1 by service men who have not received ballots. Not all states will count these Federal ballots. If your state makes no provision for Federal ballots, work to get the law changed. Give the men who are fighting today a chance to vote for the kind of world they will want to live in tomorrow. National Committee on Social Legislation Mrs. Edmond M. Lazard, Chairman Mrs. I. Lee Levy, Vice-Chairman Consumers' Action Chart Mrs. Julius Wolff, Vice-Chairman of the National Committee on Social Welfare and War Activities, believes that the heaviest responsibility for keeping down prices rests on the consumer. She has charted a necessary line of action: 1. Check selling prices with ceiling prices when you buy. What, you have no booklet? You can get one from your OPA office. 2. Don’t buy if prices are above the official OPA list. Four 3. Report overcharging to War Price and Rationing Board. Your name will not be used. 4. Know your War Price and Rationing Board. They are volunteer residents of your own community. 5. Don’t be a partner to black market. Remember it takes TWO to make a bargain! 6. Save fuel and gasoline. 7. Support legislation for OPA. Your section just received a National bulletin on OPA. THE COUNCIL WOMAN Our Social Responsibilities The Jews of the world have just celebrated a great historic birthday, Shevuouth, May 28-29, the birthday of their religion, commemorating the proclamation of the Ten Commandments. The Bible tells how the Children of Israel, after forty years in the wilderness, were gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai to hear and to accept the Commandments. Shevuouth commemorates also the beginning of the wheat harvest, at which time the Israelites offered in the Temple the first fruits of the field, as a reminder that the products of the earth belong to God and that people are only the custodians. On this holiday, the Israelites were enjoined to share their harvest with the poor and the stranger. Thus, the earliest religious experience of the Jews is associated with law and with the social obligation of mankind. The whole course of Rabinic lore and of Jewish life is directed to the realization of these religious principles on earth. For Jewish women, Shevuouth has special significance. According to legend, the women of Israel were first to voice acceptance of the Ten Commandments and the men, hearing, followed after them. One may question the authenticity of the legend, but the Fifth Commandment, beyond doubt, places upon Jewish women equal responsibility with their husbands towards the family and the community. Today, if civilization is to survive, this sense of social responsibility must be aroused all over the world. Whether or not a sound social order emerges from the present chaos rests almost completely on each one’s accepting his obligation to all mankind. And education for this responsibility is preeminently necessary. All must share in making vital decisions in the immediate future: on domestic economic affairs, cartels, employment, social security; on problems of minorities—the Negroes, the Japanese, the Mexicans, the Jews; on San Luis Obispo, a Central Coast Section, makes service men at home at beautiful Seder service. MAY-JUNE 1944 Five international trade, peace agreements, the disposition of natural resources. If such decisions are directed by selfish interest and not by broad social purposes, humanity will fall into its deepest abyss of self-torture and self-destruction. In times past, religion provided the basic morality by which civilization was guided—respect for the dignity of the human being, moral law and order, decency and justice among men. Education for tomorrow’s world must stress the religious and social aspect as strongly as the technical and scientific, and children must be taught the moral standards by which human life should be governed. It is a strange commentary on our times that we seek to regenerate youth, particularly delinquent youth, through recreation centers and technical training (admirable in themselves) but neglect the spiritual training which is basic to the moral life. As an organization of Jewish women, we are pledged to fulfill the meaning of Shevuouth, and our most vital contribution to society will be the education of our own membership. Generally speaking, education today suffers from an overabundance of literature and overreliance on radio. Stimulating as these are, neither can take the place of concerted group study and discussion. This type of education is the ideal towards which the Committee on Contemporary Jewish Affairs has set itself. For the past eight years, the Committee has issued annually a course on some outstanding issue, a course specially prepared for group study in Council sections and not needing professional leadership. Outside of council membership also, Six the Committee has exerted a real influence. It was at the Committee’s suggestion that the American Jewish Committee prepared the superb educational material in Common Sense for the American Jew and its pamphlets on Jewish Postwar Problems. As political and social issues emerge, Council membership is eager for precise information that will show the way to creative social action. Every section should capture and direct this interest towards intelligent group study. For people turned pessimist and fatalistic, whose minds and hearts have been regimented like war machines, education with stress on social, moral, and religious values is the only emotional stabilizer, the guide to peaceful and useful life. The Bible says that “as long as a remnant shall remain intelligently informed, humanity will be saved.” —Mrs. Albert J. May, Chairman, National Committee on Contemporary Jewish Affairs After War — Reconstruction Millions of men over many thousands of acres are engaged in fighting each other, killing and dying. This manifold destruction is too ghastly to contemplate, nor can we grasp the whole tragic, yet sublime sweep of the war. But we know that men undergo horror because they have faith. Let us make sure that their sacrifice and faith are not in vain. If our fighting forces return to find that we have failed them, we shall be enemies as deadly as those on the battlefields. THE COUNCIL WOMAN United Nations Information Office In naval hospitals, sailors find health and happiness through hobbies like this. We can and must see that the democratic way of life is preserved. We can and must prepare ourselves immediately to save the veterans from the fate that met so many after World War I. After that war, many, because of injury and shock, never again fitted into normal life. How the community meets its returning service men will affect their lives and also our whole national well-being. Rehabilitation must begin at the community level, and community organizations like the Council can be a vital force in the program. The value of the trained volunteer has been recognized in the war services. Surely the rehabilitation program is one in which we should serve as eagerly as we did in wartime projects. Under the guidance of the professionally MAY-JUNE, 1944 trained, volunteer training bureaus should be established and educational programs arranged. Nervous disorders caused by war, as well as physical disabilities, need specialized therapeutic treatment, and the volunteer must be prepared so that she may work intelligently. It is not too soon to organize community planning councils. The “United States Plans for Veterans” is available at the national office. Call upon the office for whatever assistance you need. Those who fought the war will be spent, exhausted. It is our turn now to bring energy and fresh, vigorous thought to rebuilding and upbuilding life. —Mrs. Gerson B. Levi, Chairman National Committee on Social Welfare and War Activities Seven COUNCIL HOUSES AND DORMITORIES Council House, Providence, R.I. a guest house for service women and women relatives of service men, was one of the first dormitories of this kind in the country. The nursery is one of its remarkable features. The house, donated by owners for the duration and furnished by Council members, will accommodate twenty-four guests. More than 40,000 fighting men of the United Nations made New York Section's Council Club their home during its first year-for a week's furlough or an overnight stop on their way to duty. Comfortable sleeping quarters, well-equipped rooms and friendly service make this house at 2 East 76 Street a real haven for the stranger in Manhattan. Other Council Houses are engaged in activities such as are shown in these Pictures, and COUNCIL WOMAN hopes to feature them in a future issue. Since last fall, the San Antonio Council House has been given over to a Nursery School Wartime Project. Washington, D.C., Section is just opening its new building in a neighborhood of underprivileged families of various religious faiths and national origins- a "good neighbor" project. Beaver Valley, Pa., also has its nonsectarian community center, available for defense meetings, etc. Eight A.W.V.S. In 1897, Cleveland Section created the first of its two Council Educational alliances, now taken over by the community. Council projects at the Alliance include Play School, After School Program, and Golden Age Program for elderly men and women. Portland, Ore.; Richmond, Va.; San Francisco; and Seattle, Wash.; have their Council houses or community centers. Other sections are working on community center-Council house plans, or cooperating in similar programs with other local groups. THE COUNCIL WOMAN St. Louis Council House had an attendance of 81,689 during past year. Child care center, recreation program, adult forums are important activities in its fine new building, opened in 1942. Council House, a United Charities-War Chest Agency, has assumed community responsibilities, and its new board will include both men and women widely representative of the whole community. Greater St. Louis War Chest Rhoda Schaap Council House House, Brooklyn, N.Y., is on the main street of the crowded Brighton Beach area. Opened a year ago as a community center, it has been overcrowded from the start. Brooklyn Section has just leased space for the Lillian S. Filler Nursery School and the Rose Brenner Council House Library. An all-day Home Camp for children of working mothers will open this summer. Irving Kaufman New York Section's Council House in the Bronx, opened in 1929, is now serving an almost wholly Negro clientele in nursery, kindergarten, gymnasium, etc. An inspiring example of real neighborhood service. Children of working mothers are given special attention in nursery school, after school care, summer play school and summer camp placements. A.W.V.S. MAY-JUNE,1944 Nine Council Workers Overseas Miss Belle Mazur Miss Gertrude D. Pinsky While their loss to Council is a very great one, we are proud and happy to record that Council has contributed three highly trained professional workers to emergency overseas work. On May 12, Miss Belle Mazur, Program Secretary of Contemporary Jewish Affairs and Social Welfare and War Activities for more than four years, received an appointment to overseas service for the Joint Distribution Committee under the direction of UNRRA. In January, Miss Gertrude Pinsky left for Montevideo, Uruguay, to carry on work for the J.D.C., and Mrs. Bertha Jovis took a position in the administrative offices of J.D.C. in New York City. Miss Pinsky served Council nearly five years in Service to Foreign Born and as Field Worker; while Mrs. Jovis served four years as case worker in Service to Foreign Born. In Memoriam MISS SADIE AMERICAN of New York City, one of the founders and first Executive Secretary of Council (1893-1914) and President of New York Section, who died May 3, 1944. Born in Chicago in 1862, Miss American spent her life in welfare work. MRS. VICTOR W. FILLER of Brooklyn, New York, who died April 10, 1944. Mrs. Filler, formerly President of the Brooklyn Section, was Vice-Chairman of the National Committee on Section Service at the time of her sudden and untimely death. Ten THE COUNCIL WOMAN Juniors' Silver Anniversary We salute the members of the National Council of Jewish Juniors. While they prepare to celebrate their Silver Anniversary, they are making ready at the same time to help rebuild a war-wrecked society. This is to advance wisely, keeping a balance between the lessons of experience and a courageous venturing into the uncertain future. -Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, President National Council of Jewish Women "And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing." Kahlil Gibran, the Persian poet, thus expressed the optimistic way of life. The National Council of Jewish Juniors, formally organized in Brooklyn in 1919, will observe its Silver Anniversary, this fall, but we have a longer past to commemorate. One of the striking instances of the foresight of Hannah Greenebaum Solomon was her provision of the training of young women. In 1894, when the great youth organizations of today has scarcely been thought of, Mrs. Solomon appointed a Junior Section Committee. Through the years, we have enlarged our program, seeking always to combine social services with educational development. We have tried to recognize and comprehend, so far as we could, the forces that were affecting life in our own communities, in our country, and in the world. It seemed one could not begin too soon to learn, and so in 1939 we created the Councilettes, the Juniors and Seniors of tomorrow. We desired complete autonomy and independence, only to find that both Junior and Senior Councils would gain through interdependence. Since our simultaneous conventions last MAY-JUNE, 1944 November, we have been assured of the aid and advice of our parent organization, and the Seniors have had the hope of a prepared and matured membership in future years. We owe the Seniors a great debt. In return, we offer their program enthusiastic cooperation and support--and the untested value of our hopes and dreams. Tentative plans for our Silver Anniversary call for a three-day celebration, November 17-19, to include Council Sabbath, a Service Men's Dance, and a special open meeting and tea. This celebration will come at the end of our recently launched drive for membership. We are aiming at two definite goals: twenty-five new members per section, and twenty-five new sections. Knowing the helpful guidance our Seniors are ready to give, we hope our new sections will grow up in communities where there are Senior sections. We are proud of what has gone before. We shall not forget. But American Jewish youth "embrace the future with longing"--longing for a just peace and a chance to enjoy that peace in a world freed from prejudice, racial discrimination, hatred and greed. --Frances Lawrence, President National Council of Jewish Juniors Eleven Out of the Mouths of Children Adult expressions of racial prejudice, economic and social injustice, are usually underlaid by some kind of rationalization. However sinister, they have human purpose and leave some hope of combatting them. But too often, below this rationalization, there is the blind emotional force of hatred. In the home of the racial bigot, this publicly concealed emotion oozes out into family life. The fertile minds of children receive it as truth and, unthinkingly, they become new channels for an old, destructive force. To hear words of insane venom spoken by children, to know that young people lead in vandalism-it is this that leaves one most completely shocked and hopeless. To reach the child, we must begin in the home and the school. In each community, we, as Jews, must help to plan an educational program that will create an atmosphere where anti- Jewish feeling or manifestations of racial hatred cannot flourish. An intercultural program should be part of the curriculum in our public schools. Council sections should cooperate in community projects in housing, recreation, legislation, school education and prevention of juvenile delinquency. Mothers must be brought to understand the ultimate result of prejudice: the destruction of American principles of liberty and freedom. Mothers of the victims of persecution must learn to help their children to meet problems of racial prejudice, how to protect themselves. Most important, mothers must know more of Jewish history, religion, and current issues, so that they may teach their children pride in their heritage, as Jew and as Americans. -MRS. DAVID M. SMALL. Vice-Chmn.,National Committee on Contemporary Jewish Affairs WANTED -- Council Plays Here is a chance to exercise your talent and, at the same time, to help in publicizing the meaning and achievements of Council's program: The National organization is sponsoring a Playwriting Contest open to all Council members. You are invited to submit plays suitable for meetings, teas and other events, illustrating activities of any National department -- Social Welfare, Contemporary Jewish Affairs, Social Legislation, Service to Foreign Born, International Relations -- or illustrating any other phase of Council program. The individual playwright has a wide field, but make your presentation dramatic! We want one-act or other short form of plays, to last from five to fifteen minutes, requiring a fairly small cast of characters and simple setting. Nationally known men and women in literature, radio, and the theatre will act as judges. The prizes, donated by national officers, will be war bonds. Deadline for receipt of material in the National office is October 7. Watch for further announcements to be made this summer. - MRS. JACOB LOEB LANGSDORF Chairman, National Comm. on Public Relations Twelve THE COUNCIL WOMAN Black Star In new Service to Foreign Born Lounge, Miss Anna Kaufman helps two young refugee mothers and their children to reach American relatives. Welcome To America Long ago America stood for something that existed nowhere else -- freedom, equality and opportunity in a new world. Today, to thousands of refugees, it still stands for these principles more surely and dramatically than it does to many native born who take democracy for granted. The Service to the Foreign Born Department has opened a lounge in the National office, and in this friendly room refugee women and children can wait in peace and comfort until their American relatives come for them or until their train is due. The Lounge, with windows looking out over New York, has welcomed many a bewildered group after a long voyage or days of waiting at Ellis Island. Miss Anna Kaufman, Port and Dock Chief, tells of one particularly poignant episode that occurred a few weeks ago in the Lounge, after the arrival of the Gripsholm. "The couple had a refugee son in the U.S. Army, and they were looking forward to meeting his wife, whom he had married in this country. They were sure she had arranged a furlough for their son, and their coffee cups shook in their hands as she came in. The warm greeting was followed by silence when they asked about their son. 'Sit down,' the girl said quietly, putting her arms around them. 'You are going to live with me. Ernest was ordered to England. Your steamers probably passed each other'." MAY-JUNE, 1944 Thirteen NEWS OF INTEREST Contemporary Jewish Affairs The Shevuouth Festival is a reminder that the Israelites accepted the Ten Commandments for their children's children. So, too, the founders of Council recognized their responsibility to the faith of our fathers when, in the earliest years, they organized study groups for adults and religious schools for children. Council's current record show that many sections now maintain activities in religion in communities where no other Jewish organization is responsible for them. Sixty-four sections conduct religious study groups and forums. Outstanding among these during the past year were the Elmira (New York) Study Group and Scranton (Pennsylvania) Community Forum. Forty-two other sections report religious school activities, either maintained wholly by the section or in cooperation with a synagogue, school or Talmud Torah. Sections within easy access of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) — Ambridge, Beaver Valley, Butler, Coroapolis, Latrobe, Shenango Valley and Uniontown — have conducted religious schools for many years. In fact, several of these sections were organized because of the need for such a school. Mount Vernon, Port Chester, White Plains and Yonkers Sections, in New York, provide religious instruction for children in public or semi-public institutions. They also provide services of a chaplain for residents in county institutions. North Bay (California) Section, organized in 1939, has the distinction of furnishing the first religious school in Marin County. The very young section in Bremerton (Washington), organized only last year, has already provided a religious school. Interfaith activities are reported by a large number of sections. Cambridge (Ohio) Section, organized in 1941, presented an Orthodox Rabbi at a recent meeting attended by members of the Ohio State Federation of Women's Clubs. So pleased were his listeners that the Rabbi was invited to address meetings of the visiting clubs. Social Legislation With the increased participation of women in national and international affairs, it is well for Council members to have a clear picture of how their National Social Legislation program is conducted. As in each activity of Council, the program is under the direction of a national committee, composed of members from all parts of the country, and a steering committee that meets monthly in New York City. Mrs. Edmond M. Lazard, of Los Angeles, is National Chairman, and Mrs. I. Lee Levy, of New York, is Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Steering Committee. Through the work of Council members who serve on the Women's Joint Congressional Committee, direct contact is maintained with the Nation's Capital. Council is the only Jewish organization to be represented on the W.J.C.C., which provides machinery by which member organizations interested Fourteen THE COUNCIL WOMAN FROM THE SECTIONS in a given measure can pool their efforts. Legislative committees organized in this way have done active work in support of Women's and Children's Bureaus in the Department of Labor, Child Labor Amendment, entrance of United States into World Court, and other measures of social import. Council's official voting delegate to the Committee is Mrs. Louis Ottenberg. Other members represent Council on specific legislative committees. Mrs. Joseph Low is Secretary of the W.J.C.C. Chairmen of State Legislation, in consultation with their committees, are responsible for keeping the sections within their states informed of developments in state legislation and of calling for action on state bills within the framework of National Resolutions. The New York State Conference is an admirable example of a set-up that other conferences of individual states could use to strengthen the efforts of their sections. Mrs. Joseph Einhorn, of Albany, is Legislation Chairman of the New York State Conference. There is a state-wide steering committee, which functions in Albany. Each of its members is responsible for bills in particular fields: child welfare, public housing and postwar planning, etc. The strength of the National program depends on the effectiveness with which it is carried out in the sections. Detroit Section has a particularly fine record of action by its Social Legislation Committee, now under joint chairmanship of Mrs. Samuel Linden and Mrs. Harry Stocker. The members of the Committee are assigned to serve as research consultants, who initiate plans for action in accord with the National program in various fields. The Committee has conducted Study - Discussion - Action groups in four neighborhoods of the city. Social Welfare A telling example of the flexibility of Council's activities in social welfare is the fact that all our sixty-odd Mitchell B-25 bomber purchased by South Shore Section, Long Island, N.Y., in its $206,000 war bond drive. MAY-JUNE, 1944 Fifteen sections that conducted Play Schools prior to the war have broadened this activity to include Nursery Schools, maintained either by their own treasuries or in cooperation with community agencies. During 1942, Cleveland (Ohio) Section, which had conducted a Play School at its Council House for years, began Nursery School work in cooperation with C.D.V.O. In 1943, the Section was asked by the Cleveland Board of Education to provide after-school care for children in addition to its Nursery School project. Trained volunteers assist professional workers in this new activity. The success of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Section's Nursery School, in the Irene Kaufmann Settlement House, prompted the local City Committee on Day Care to ask the Section's aid. A number of Section's trained volunteers are now teaching in three community Nursery chools. Trenton (New Jersey) Section was one of the first groups in this important defense industries area to urge the establishment of Nursery Schools. In March, the Baltimore (Maryland) Section opened its War Nursery School and sent out a call to for volunteers. A lecture course was given to those who volunteered as nursery aides. New Orleans Section established a Nursery School in a housing project, secured trained teachers and then began the training of volunteers to serve as aides. El Paso (Texas) Nursery School project is an outgrowth of the Section's long-established Sunshine Day Nursery, conducted in cooperation with the local Family Welfare Association. THE COUNCIL WOMAN May-June, 1944 Published and copyrighted, 1944, by the National Council of Jewish Women and the National Council of Jewish Juniors at 1819 Broadway, New York 23, N. Y., bi-monthly except July- August. Subscription: 25c a year, the subscription being included in membership dues. Single copy 5c. Reentered as second class matter March 7, 1942, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. MRS. JACOB LOEB LANGSDORF, Chairman, Public Relations Committee 0 AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOC 25 BEACON ST BOSTON MASS Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.