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Community Currents
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 8, 1951,  page 2

By Albert Hutler, Executive Director, United Jewish Fund

Institute for Volunteers—Due to the many requests and to the need for volunteer case aides in the displaced person program in San Diego, another six-week institute for those wishing to do volunteer work with displaced persons will opened on Thursday, June 21, at the Temple Center. The pattern of the first institute, which graduated ten volunteers, will be continued under the direction of Mrs. Henrietta Rubenstein. Other members of the staff will be Albert Hutler, Mrs. Joan Wiley, Edgar Brown, Mrs. Rose Anderson. Since admission to the institute is by invitation only, anyone wishing to participate should call Mrs. Rose Anderson, F-1802, for an interview.

Liberal Legislation—I noticed in the Jewish Community Bulletin of San Francisco, that a Fair-Employment Bill which would have created a Fair-Employment Practices Commission was killed by the Board of Supervisors by a vote of six to five. Last year the same type of bill lost by a vote of ten to eight in Los Angeles. Liberal forces throughout the state will continue the fight for enactment of Fair Employment Legislation on a state-wide level as well as local. This type of legislation should be supported by everyone.

United Jewish Fund —At the Annual Meeting of the San Diego Hebrew Home for the aged, approval was given to the plans for extension of the Home to include an additional 12 beds. The extension will be built as a wing on the existing Home. You've got to really hand it to the people interested in the Home, to Sammy Addleson, former president, Saul Chenkin, newly elected president, Art Glickman, president of the Guardians, and Frances Moss, president of the Hebrew Home Auxiliary, along with the two driving spirits Even Chenkin and Rose Neumann.

Israeli Bond Drive—Now that the heat of the Fund Campaign is over, the Israeli Bond Drive has begun in an Diego. One of the few communities in which a coordinated effort was made between the Fund and the Bond Drive, so that neither would suffer, San Diego is expected to do its part in the purchase of Bonds of Israel. It should be understood that there is no conflict between the Bond Drive and the Fund Campaign. One is investment capital and the other is free money deductible for income tax purposes. Even Israel doe not want you to cut your Fund contribution in order to purchase more bonds. You are only harming the people you want to help if you do that. Together the United Jewish Appeal and the Israeli Bond, private investment and government loans will make the economy of Israel very stable in the next 3 years. Without this joint venture, Israel will remain in crisis. Let's do our part both in the United Jewish Appeal and in the Israeli Bond Campaign.

Immigration — Senator McCarran of Nevada is up to his old tricks to stymie immigration to the United States. In the last Congress he labored mightily to stymie DP legislation.  Now he is focused on the Nation's Immigration policy itself, introducing a bill to clarify the U.S. Immigration laws. The new law will reduce the 150,000 a year quota as much as 95 percent, expand the grounds for denaturalizing foreign born citizens, and it would reject the alien's rights and make it easy to deport him. It is not a law to simplify our immigration problems, as McCarran says—it merely is a law to halt immigration.