"Claiming' that under a proposed plan to bring to Toronto a Cincinnati specialist in social welfare work, the cost of administering relief by the Jewish Federation would be prohibitively high, many prominent Toronto Jews are preparing to combat vigorously any such move.
"The Jewish Federation was formed several years ago, and at the outset overhead expense was at a minimum, the work of administration being largely voluntary. Later the administration of the fund was placed in charge of a Mr. Kaufman, who perfected the organization and closed up the gaps to prevent promiscuous and undeserved charity. Mr, Kaufman has since resigned, and the necessity of filling his place now confronts the Federation.
"But Toronto Jews doubt whether under present conditions it is advisable to promote further the organization work undertaken by Mr. Kaufman. Some of them point out that inasmuch as the revenue of the Federation is in the neighborhood of about $75,000 a \ear, it is unwise to absorb any great percentage of it in administrative costs, and they fear that if a salaried organiza-t ion is maintained, this will be the result.
"Their view is that a local secretary at a salary of atx)ut $2,000 a year would be preferable."- Evening Telegram.
The above article, found among the treasures of the Evening Telegram news columns which permit any reporter to be an editor with a policy, came as a surprise to us low-minded who buy the paper just to find out whether the Telegram is keeping consistently anti-Semitic from day to day. From the concern for the Jewish community displayed in this article it is easy to guess that equally high motives must actuate the paper when on other days it tells how crooked, lawless and generally' obnoxious the Jews here are.
I: seems the Telegram is zealous for the Jews to save their money, not :o hie foolish and lavish a big salary on some social worker from oinside as head of the Federation, but to select an expert from at home and pay him half the former princely sum. In its ardour the Telegram almost smothers a sigh for the. days when charity work wa- carried on by volunteers and so far forgets its usual habiliments as to refer to some of our good Yehudim as "many prominent Jews." To their credit the paper lays the doubt as to whether it is advisable to keep up the work undertaken by "a Mr. Kaufman."
This Mr. Kaufman has just left the Federation after two years of valuable service. When he came here he found a community largely immigrant, in process of sturdy development but lacking as vet a community consciousness and men educated in leadership as well. It was dispensing its charities through well-meaning but untrained \olunteers and in costly duplication by many unaffiliated little groups. Some rich men who can place no money value on anything that does not concern business may have thought the modest salary of Federation director enormous. The poor will remember Mr. Kaufman as that anomaly to them, an experienced, seasoned social worker who has never lost the gift of tears. The unbiased observer will see that what Mr. Kaufman accomplished, if nothing else, was tc sell the idea of Federation to the diligent men who stuck with him and made possible such a thing, for example, as the recent campaign for funds. This campaign, although not such a o\ clonic e\ ent as to contributions, was, nevertheless, noteworthy as a big communal venture tending to cement toward a single objective the various interests of Jewish Toronto.
Now. in view of the customary very unquestionably disdainful attitude of the Evening Telegram to the Jewish population of this city, we have the right to be suspicious of the paper's motives as to the piece about the Federation and to inquire why it was written. \\ as it meant to please some petty Jewish politician who is willing to foment ill-will against the Federation if at the same time he can place as its head any favorite schlemiel? Or is it aimed at Rabbi Brickner, president of the Federation, and against whom the Telegram has some positive ob]ection"; Or worse than all is it a sneaking attempt to discourage the community and lessen in its own eyes the importance of the one concerted effort in which it can allow itself to take fair pride? f.f.C.
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