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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
A DAY WITH THE JEWISH MOTHERS
IN BROWNSVILLE, NEW YORK CITY
A Narrative of Human Happenings in the Congested Section of
the World's Metropolis During the Noble Effort of the
Council of Jewish Women to Educate Our Foreign
People to the Ideals of Americanism.
"Do con think I Lould really learn
The tragedy comes when the child
any English?" she asked the Council requires help in his lessons, A mother
of Jewish 'Women organizer eagerly. died bitterly before the organizer
"Tzorus" had made her look fifty, I when she told how she wanted to help
but she was probably younger. "I h. r little'boy but could not. The child
I oil t know anything," she explained
I had stayed out of school on account
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Wit it • sudden uutburet
of confidence. of illness and now is in mortal dread
".\Iy parents were poor, and in Europe oi being left back. lie cries and wor-
the family serape s
milt to teach the ries his mother. "Why can't you help
bcys. I worked at 12. 1
worked when me with my geography?" The mother
1 came to America. In those days pen- cannot even go to the teacher to find
pie weren't so smart; they worked un- out what his progress is because her
nil 9 or 10 o'clock and couldn't go to knowledge of English is limited to
tight school. fheii I married. Nu-- (one in n ad "All righ." \lien
\
me hr tzorus But now—I'm .
ifrai I'll the organizer offered tt
o visit the
never learn anything." The organizer school and see the teacher, the woman
was trying to edge in a few
argil- was pathetically grateful. She said
mews about the necessity. of English the school was on \Yatkins street,
to old and young, even in so Yiddish "gleich do," but the investigator did
a community as Brownsville. not find the boy's class in either of
"Oi--you don't have to tell int. the schools in the neighborhood. So
Don't I know? , A .few years nit intacquanited are these foreign women
of rich geilacht, 1 had to go to the
-foreign although in this country
hospital with my Goldie. I was so perhaps twenty years—with their
ashamed for the nurses and doctors." community that they do not even
The humiliating memory made her know the location of the school.
pause. "Well," she exclaimed as it
A Mother of Seven Children.
flashed upon her that the proposed
opportunity to learn English was too
There are hundreds of young mar-
good a thing to miss, "I'd like to try.
ried
women in the section of Browns-
.
You know, if I learn soni• English
e alone who do not read and write
that class I'll put 5 cents in the push- or even speak English, and whose
belt every day!" I younger children do not understand(
English. The women cannot go to
A Big Job With The Aged. night school because of their young
(From Detroit News, February 27, 1919)
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the highest grade of
remain at the old prices.
cigarettes have advanced
oportion . to the value of to-
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The Spring Pilgrimage.— Vacant
houses are so s•arce and seekers for
them so numerous that veritable
processions of house-hunters jaunt
about town every day front one ad-
verttseA vacancy to another,-accord-
Ing to a ' man who has been doing it
for several weeks. "I've seen the
same people just ahead of me'orlust
behind me all the way around the
circuit several days," he said. One
housewife who had started her
spring cleantr.g early told this man
she had been besieged all day by
house-hunters who thought she was
moving because her curtains were
p d o r w cn ii. and her furniture out on the
children or because their husbands
work until late in the evening.
They're too busy, sonic skeptical
rave the ?flighty Palle
people say, to execute their own lack
who Wows
of effort to decrease this foreignness
and illiteracy. Of course, the women
are busy every minute of the day.
lint. as a mother of seven children
said to the canvasser, "I must steal
the time." It is the business of the
Americanizing agency to make this
UP in the northeast corner of the city a man has started five
two- family houses.
sacrifice of time on the part of the
Each house with Its
lot will cost $6,000. Before even the trenches for the sewers were dug people hunted him up and took one of
women not too great. This implies
the homes at $35.00 a month. This
means $70.00 for the whole house,
$840.00 a year, or 14r; gross on his
arranging the time for the classes to
investment. And
yet there are those who say building prices are too high. They always
suit the women, placing the center
will be ME the man
who waits and waits and waits, instead of getting his dollars to work.
chs, to their homes, or even in tene-
ments, teaching the things that are
vital to the women and providing care
and entertainment for the children
while their mothers are in the class-
room. It's a great attraction to have
the center near the home. The women
are not obliged to dress up. They
come without their hats. And, above
all, they waste no time getting back
A rather humorous example of how to their
homes and duties.
di ,, nicerting a woman found her ig-
norance of English was told by Mrs.
Classes Arranged for AIL
Cohen. She was in the country about
The classes meet usually front 1:30
a year and has not learned more than
such words as "Go ahead." One day to 3 because that is a convenient time.
the man from the gas company came But unless the children under school
in and said something. 'Mrs. Cohen age are taken care of, the great major- with the help of the Department of
np
mothers cannot come. "If I
didn't want to appear a "Ileheimah,"
Immigrant Aid of the Council of Jew-
so she suavely met his appearance at can take Stirale with me, why ish Women, whose headquarters are
shouldn't
I
come?"
The
children,
the door with "Go, go ahead." \\lien
at 14(i Henry street, New York. The
it grew dark and she %%Tato light the therefore, are an important factor in epidemic interrupted the work, but not
The Ifadassah held its annual meet-
gas, she found herself in the (lark. the endeavor. This is trite not only even the "flu" can down a good piece ing'at the Shaarey Zedek on NVednes-
She wept as much out of chagrin as because the mothers cannot attend of work. Recently, organizing was day evening. March 12. The retiring
because she could not warm the sup- unless they have the assurance that begun in another section of Brooklyn. president, Mrs. Henry M. Weinstein.
their children will be taken care of,
gave a detailed report of the work of •
per.
A third section is now being can-
but also because the children give the
the Iladassah during the past year.
vassed. In a few months, the Brook- She expressed her gratitude for the
Young Mothers Co-operate Willingly. best o pportunity for constructive
lyn
section,
with
the
help
of
the
de-
co-operation of all the officers and
Americanization instruction. HOW
The younger mothers find the great- nitwit can be done to raise the tone of partment, has been able to organize members of the society. A beautiful
est need for English in connection the home and to make it more Amer- and keep in robust attendance four gold wrist watch was presented Mrs.!
with their school children. The chil- ican through the instruction and fun groups all taught by qualified Jewish IVeinstein by the Board of 1)irectors 1
as a token of appreciation for her un-
dren come home with their report that the children will he getting while teachers appointed by the board of
tiring efforts on behalf of the organ-
cards and find that "lame" not only their mothers are struggling with the education. This, an well as the little ization.
doesn't understand the triumph of an language in an adjoining, room! It is incidents above narrated, are proof
A very interesting talk was given
,\ report but can't even sign important that the friend in charge of of the interest and enthusiasm among by Mrs. Robert Marwil on "Reminis-
her name to it. "Look, mintier," said the children should approach her work the foreign Jewish women who attend cences of Palestine." Mrs. Marwil
the classes under the greatest diffi- spoke of her trip to Palestine and de-
a boy of 8 to his mother, "I'm (oily a in that spirit.
culty because of their l'ousehold scribed her visit to the various .col-
little boy and I know more than you!"
onies. .11i unusually splendid musi-
cares.
Work of Brooklyn Section.
Kupnick smiled when she told
cal program was presented by I.
the story, but she confided how it had The chairman of Americanization
Leonard Braun with Miss Sarah
Creates Better Understanding.
1Veinherg at the piano.
cut her to the quick when he first said of the Brooklyn section, Mrs. Edward
These groups have to be "smoth-
The following officers and directors
it and she realized that gradually the M. Evarts. began last fall to organize
Child was beginning to feel superior. these afternoon classes for women, ered" by council members. They are were elected for the coming year:
a challenge to each one of you, to Mrs. Noah Aronstam, President; !Ors.
T has meant the greatest opportunity to
your spirit of neighborliness toward Joseph Sanders, Vice-president; Mrs.
!tarry Wetsntan and Ales. J, Wine-
home lovers that Detroit has ever
the women, and of loyalty to America.
man. Corresponding Secretaries; Miss
Arc you busier than the women
The prices have been such as to double
Who Jenne F. Gordon, Recording Secre-
hate large families and households tary; Mi::s Jeanette Steinberg, Secre-
the purchasing power of dollars—a n
d there-
without any conveniences? Will you tary-treasurer; Directors, Mrs. Jos.
by complete the happiness of hundreds of
put your shoulder to the wheel? The Sanders, Mrs. S. S. Fishbaine, Mrs.
families.
groups 'wed leaders to be the con- Jos. II, Ehrlich, Miss Jennie F. Gor-
necting link between pupils and don. Miss Jeanette Steinberg and
Miss
Sarah
Wetsman.
The stile still continues! threat savings are still possi-
teachers. - rhe groups n.ed women
filo to you. And there are four large floors of every de.
who will make themselves responsible
slrable design and every wanted piece, that you could
wish for.
for the care of the children. The WOMAN SUFFRAGE
groups need other things. Do you
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If you 11(441 furniture— buy it here now.
know the picture on the cover of one
Next door the council organizer
came upon an old woman. The organ-
izer stated a little perfunctorily be-
cause the woman seemed too old, that
her mission was to organize a class in
the immediate neighborhood, where
the women could learn English; that
the children under school age would
be taken care of; that the class was at
a convenient time, since the school
children would then be in school and
the mothers would return iii time to
put the supper on the fire, the meat
having been kashercd earlier. Mrs.
Palminsky's hair was gray, her face
looked resigned, but there was a gleam
of ambition in her eye, She looked
at the organizer rather sadly and said
"Oi. kinderlach, vos but ihr sick yetzt
oisgeschlofen." (Why did you just
wake up.) "Mein kopf is schein zn
schwach•" But five or ten years
earlier, how she would have jumped
at this opportunity.
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of the Jewish weeklies, in which a
Ghetto-harrowed woman is devotedly
sewing stars on an American flag?
This Yiddish Betsy Ross reminds the
teacher that the class rooms have not
yet been provided with an American
flag. The children need toys. What
is your answer?
London— . The London Times pub-
lishes a dispatch from Jerusalem stat-
ing that a committee consisting of
representatives from all religions, the
English governor acting as chairman,
bias been formed superintending re-
construction work, namely, the laying
out of parks, the erection of art ex-
hibits, the founding of technical
The significance of the effort which
schools modeled after the Ilezallel
the Brooklyn section is successfully school, and the beautifying of the sub-
conducting is not alone that an in- urbs. The Jewish women of Jerusa-
creasingly large number of foreign lem are taking an active part in the
reconstruction work going on in the
women are given the opportunity to colonies. Lately the women have re-
learn English. It also gives the Ant-I ceived the ballot. The inhabitants of
erican women the chance to know the colonies at a
recent conference
their foreign neighbors, and through extended a vote of thanks to the Jew-
this friendly, helpful contact to estab- ish legion who helped free Palestine
lish that give-and-take which is true from Turkish dominion.
Americanism. The co-operation which
the board of education offers gives the
effort a civic significance.
GALICIAN JEWS EXPELLED.
PURIM ENTERTAINMENT
BY TEMPLE BETH EL
The children of Temple Beth El
Religious School will give an enter-
tainment Sunday afternoon, March
lb. An interesting program has been
arranged. The program will be held
in the Temple auditorium and will
begin pr6mptly at 2:3(1. The parents
and friends of the children are cor-
dially invited to attend,
The Hungarian government has is-
sued a decree ordering the expulsion
of all aliens from the country. The
government bias classified the Galician
Jews among the aliens. The action of
the Hungarian government has placed
large numbers of Galician Jews in a
desperate position, especially in view
of the pogrom movement which has
swept their native provinces. The
Budapest Zionist organization and the
Vienna Jewish National Council made
urgent representations to the govern-
ment against the eipulsion order.
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