THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
JEWISH PRISONERS OF
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WAR
There is an extensive camp for .
war prisoners in the neighborhood
of the city of Cassel. The camp is
now organized into a model town,
Nv i h all the necessities of com-
munal life. There is a public li-
brary, several churches, a syna-
gogue, and also a Mohammedan
house of prayer. Recently, they
also established a theater there,
consisting - of a large tent, with a
platform, a place for an orches-
tra and several hundred seats.
Plays are presented in Russian,
French and in Yiddish. Dr. Doc-
tor, the rabbi of Cassel, describes
the first Yiddish production as
follows: At first scenes from sev-
eral well-known Yiddish plays
were presented. The music was
furnished from memory by a Jew-
ish musician, who also trained
twelve of the prisoners to do, the
acting. There were also quite a
few German officers and many
French prisoners, all of whom en-
joyed the presentation very much.
Quite a different picture of the
life of the prisoners in Russia is
presented by a correspondent of
the Russian Liberal paper "Dien."
The correspondence has been
greatly mutilated by the censor,
but even of what was allowed to
be printed the picture is most har-
rowing. The correspondent treats
only of the prisoners who are
hostages taken in Galician towns
and who were exiled to the prov-
ince of Tomsk, in Siberia. They
are placed there in small villages,
several hundred in one place,
coupled up in small, dirty rooms.
They are allowed seven roubles
and seventy kopecks a month, but
this money has not vet been paid
them since they were there. They
are practically cut off from the
outside world and can receive but
little assistance from their rela-
tives in Galicia. The officials treat
them in a most cruel fashion.
They are being beaten for the
least offense and their suffering
is very great. These prisoners are
for the most part men who were
important persons in their locali-
ties, men of learning and of
wealth, who were taken as host-
ages because of their prominence,
and to them this treatment must
be the more burdensome.
Half Million Dollars Sent War
Sufferers
At a meeting held recently in
the office of Felix M. Warburg,
chairman of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee of the American
Jewish Relief Committee, the
Central Relief Committee for the
Relief of Jewish War Sufferers
and the People's Relief Commit-
tee, relief appropriations totaling
$486,500 were authorized. Of this
amount $225,000 was for relief of
Lithuania and Kurland, $150,000
for relief in Russia, $75,0130 for
Galicia, $34,000 for Palestine, and
$2,500 for Jewish writers in Po-
land and Lithuania. The fund of
the American Jewish Relief Com,
mittee now totals $3,675,784.47,
Literacy Test Adopted by House
The literacy test section of the
Burnett Immigration bill was sus-
tained, 225 to 82, in the House.
This vote on the principal issue
between the advocates and the
opponents of restricted immigra-
tion presages the final passage of
the Burnett measure by an over-
whelming majority.
The comparatively small vote
cast against the literacy test also
indicated that the I louse may be
able to over-ride the veto of the
President should he again disap-
prove of the literacy test clause.
It is believd, by Chairman Bur-
nett that ibactically every oppon-
ent of the bill was present, while
many of its advocates, assured of
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the approval of the literacy test
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clause, were absent.
To the readers of the Jewish Chronicle will be given an •
On two occasions opponents of
opportunity to answer these questions. During the next 60
the Burnett hill have registered
less than 100 votes. The vote
days they will make their decision. The three young ladies
against the adoption of the spe-
and the similar number of matrons who will receive the
cial rule calling up the Burnett
highest number of popularity votes will receive a week's
bill was only 82.
No roll call was taken on the
delightful vacation, under proper patronage, as guests of
literacy test clause Monday, as
the Jewish Chronicle, at
the measure was being considered
informally in committee of the
whole. It is expected that Repre-
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sentative Sabath, who moved to
strike the clause from the bill, will
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renew his effort when the bill is
put on final passage.
Although a two-thirds vote is
required to over-ride a Presiden-
tial veto, Mr. Burnett estimates
that when practically the entire
membership of the I louse is pres-
ent there will he an ample major-
ity for the motion to over-ride.
Every new, paid subscription to the Jewish Chronicle
The House retained in the bill
will count as 100 votes.
the provision adding to the ex-
chided classes those "of constitu-
2 such subscriptions will count as 300 votes.
tional psychopathic inferiority."
• Mr. Burnett admitted that he
3 such subscriptions will count as 500 votes.
did not have a technical knowl-
edge of the ailMent of a person
5 such subscriptions will be credited with 1,000 votes.
suffering with "psychopathic in-
feriority." Ile said, however, that
Weekly coupons, which will be found in the Jewish
alienists said they should be
Chronicle, will count as 10 votes.
among the excluded classes, and
the committee included such a
No one connected with the Jewish Chronicle will be
provision.
allowed to participate in this contest.
"This term is unfamiliar to lay-
men and to some physicians not
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engaged in the special field of the
alienist," said Ntr. Burnett. "With
Mr. Leonard I. Franklin, Jewish Chronicle, Chairman.
alienists it has a well-defined mean-
Mr. Anthony Deutsch, Highland Park State Bank.
ing. One has defined it to be 'a
Mr. Maurice Rosenbloom, Detroit Board of Commerce.
congenital defect in the emotional
or volitional fields of mental ac-
tivity which results in inability to
make proper adjustment as to en-
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vironment.' During the last sev-
CHRONICLE OF JUNE 2, 1916.
eral years the number of alien in-
sane entering New York institu-
tions for the insane has greatly
increased, until it costs the state
more than $3,000,000 annually to
take care of its alien insane."
Representative Liebel, of Penn-
sylvania,
sought to strike out the
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of the war,