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PaloSeal Carter

CLIFTON AVINU1 - CINCINNATI 30, OHIO

PAGE FIVE

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and thus be
i be sent back to . Mexico
COMMISSION SAYS
roomf „,
b,Vindg, tdleliporitiel
s pa red ctohue natrnigenh
MEXICO NO PLACE
they oau't
emigrated. Mr. Gottlieb pointed
FOR REFUGEE JEWS that this procedure would, moreover,



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save the government ti great deal of '
(Continued from page i.)
unnecessary expense.
'
"In Nuevo Laredo the commission
! tallt,
"This committee has decided to
ts who were await.'
rent a building and fit it up with beds,. say the oimmi gran
pportunity to get into Amer-
By Judith Ish-Kishor.)
d h
(Copyright 1921.
kitchen, recreation room anos.
ing an
pital rooms where the immigrants Ica were warned against making any'
CONDUCTED BY JUDITH ISH•KISHOR.
heltered, taught the Spanish efforts to do so illegally. The COM-
YOUNG FOLKS' PAGE
A
can be s
o f mission brought back the names of ,
Why does a cabinet maker, who
language and be treated in
these immigrants and those of their
makes furniture for everybody, have
sickness.
hom i v.• ,,u, relatives in the United Staten, with
Commission Add
whom the society will at once get Sometimes I wake before the dawn, to do without furniture? Why should
meet.'
c ommission convened a
When the sky is darkest blue,
the washerwoman, who washes for
"The
ing of Jewish immigrants then in' into touch and secure financial as-
When the night is not quite gone,
everybody, have to dress in dirty tat-
Mexico City and in this way learned , sistance for them.
And the day not quite come thru. tors? Why should geese, that give us
Reject Mexico for Jews.
th• personal experiences of every im•
our soft feather beds, have to sleep
"As will begathered from this Fe-
migrant, finding out their individual
on hard, bare ground? Why should
desires with a view of obtaining im-l port, the commission of the Hebrew Though it's quiet everywhere
a cow, that gives us her milk, have
Quiet as can be,
and Immigrant Aid Society
mediate results. The commission at Sheltering
to deprive her own calf of the milk
never
feel
afraid-1
know
I
the same time warned • them alllof America has not only perfected
God's awake with me.
she gives to others?"
against the consequences that follow plans but also laid the foundation for
—By
Sulamith
Ish-Kisher.
The Jew thought a while and mid-
ish
the
Jew
ing
work in solv
their entering the United States il- the great

ly shook his head.
i immig ration problem in Mexico. The
"My boy," he said, "have you ever
RIDDLE
BOX
legally.
"Most of the immigrants were commission is of the opinion that, un-
thought of asking this other ques-

the ages of 17 ' der present prevailing conditions,
tion? Why is it that the Jew, who
A New Sort of Puzala.
y ung men between kraine and other Mexico is not suitable as a center for
30, from the U
the first one to teach justice to
end
war and pogrom-ridden lands. All Jewish immigration. During the past Would you like to try a Portman- was
have relatives in America. There : 10 years the country
suffered the nations, should be the last to re-
teau has
l'uzzle?
,
That is something you have never ceive it at their hands?"
were amongst them several women . from stormy political events and is
Reuben was now too sail to say
with children whose husbands are in only now beginning to return to nor-1 had before. I'll explain it. You
-Black, brown and the new shade of russet tan calfskin;
America. Furthermore, there were mal conditions. How long this period know what a portmanteau is, don't anything. Quickly he ran up to the
thoroughly constructed with leather soles, counters and be see;
some young girls who for various sea- of transition would last it is difficult you? It is a trunk or bag in which porch, where his mother was sitting
correctly fitted.
sons could not secure American visas, to determine. The industries of the . several things can be packed. The and knitting.
"Mamma, dear," he cried, "can't
to enable them to join their relatives' country meanwhile are not well de- reason why we call this a Portman-
!
veloped and the opportunities for tea
Puzzle is that you have to find you answer me the five questions I
in America.
work for immigrants are very few. two names which fit into each other, will ask you?"
And he told her of the questions
LocalCommittee.
"After Aid
the commission pictured to For strangers unaccustomed to them, just as clothes and shoes and hair
brushes fit into a portmanteau when that were troubling him.
them the dangers they ran if they at.' living conditions are impossible."
But his mother hung her head and
you pack them up to go away for
murmured softly: "Child, I wish I
tempted to enter the United States
your vacation.
illegally, as for instance arrest, im-
I'll give you an example. Sup- could answer you but I can't. Maybe,
prisonment and deportation to the
posing I asked you to find "the unc e when you grow up and become a

countries from ;silence they had 1
of Queen Esther and the first mar- great man, you will be able to answer
,
(Continued From
come, the wanderers declared that
derer." You answer that the uncle these questions for yourself."
• Page 1.)
An eats tali.- shoe built of v1,11
r now, w ith the
they were satisfied to remain in Mex- ,
the
Reub n felt
i sh e d. It was no t so eas y to get . of Queen Esther is C Mordeca
brown calfskin with leather sole and
bettearound him, but
ico if they could only secure any kind w
Ifi you the arm ofehis mo ther
-
first
murderer
is
ain.
fir
not to become Kalich's consent, but finally she en
rub? cc heel .
these two names together, so that still he was far from being satisfied.
of employment so as
' . The commission tered into the experiment, although
"Wait till I grow up," he mar-
objects
of to do everything possible insisting that it was useless.
"Cain" fits on to Mor ems'," y
promised
And thus it happened that one Fri- this portmanteau name: "Mardecain." mused to himself. "I'll change this
for them to gain a foothold in Mex- day night, several weeks ago, at the Now do you understand? Go ahead world if 1 can. Wait till I grow up!"
iace
Theater, the audience and guess the other two. This puzzle
ico.
ng Pl
OUR MAIL
"The commission contr ibuted $500
Irvat had come to see the local leading may be rather hard, but it makes it

to the local committee toward an im- th
as- more interesting.
Main Floor—Mezzanine
migrant home, stating that it would woman in Go rdin's "Sappho" was
Front Rebecca Apple, 7 North Tre
Portmanteau Puxxle.
recommend thatillias make contribu- tonished to find the great Kalich who
so long ago had deserted the Yiddish 1. A son of Jacek> and the first man. moot avenue, Baltimore, Md.:
"My Dear Miss Ish-Kisher:-1 wan
lions from timirto time.
A prophet ifi the time of Saul,
"The commission constantly re- stage, bit& among them. They did 2,
and a Prophet who went to you to know that some children and
ceived the friendly co-operation of not know why she was there. And
I were sitting under the beautifu
heaven
without
dying.
the representatives of the American they accorded her, an ovation that
Do you remember the easy Arcos- trees of the Jewish Country Home,
at brought a flush of pleasure to the pale
e Sabbathh and someone read to us the stories
government, the American consul
Vera Cruz and the American charge cheeks of the star, while in the wings tic I gave you to guess in
from the Sabbath Ange l. We en-
this the
ofli- the group of physicians watched with Angel for °July 29. ? Th
joyed them very much.
d' affairs at Mexico City paying
eag l e eyes th e miracle that was be- skier to it:
"The most interesting things about
vial visits to the commission. They
.
ing worked.
t he Sabbath Angel were the puzzles.
offered their services.
When the final curtain fell that 1. The leader who came
I
will
try and write some stories and
Deported.
.1 oshua
Many Arrested ■ nd ories
after Moses
the co- rn night, the doctors knew that they had
poems as soon as possible.
The most tragic st
, but when the excitement w ore 2 . The woman who loved
"Yours sincerely,
0 rpha
mission heard in El Paso, Texas, an ' won
less than Ruth
the reaction came and Madame .

"Rebecca Apple. "
I
. i.
American
city, which
is Juarez
I always solve the other puzzles and should do nothing but look out of the soil. They will be very welcome, as
I
from
the Mexican
city of
by again protested that she was not yet 3 A king who hated
We shall be glad to read your
many, many of them are already skil-
S aul
David
Rebecca.
Send wait until we get the answers and window. The view in every direction ful farmers with long experience, and
the Rio Grande. In Juarez there are her old self. The doctors only smiled
e
stories and poems, R
are of French de- and asked her to go on again the next 4. The son of
find they are correct. is so wonderful."
.
they are bringing important agricul-
E phraim them Boon!
"In
that
case,"
I
said,
"it
should
be
Josep
only five Jews, who
"I did not write before, but as we
Here's a card from my old friend
I
scent and who do not interest them- night.
the duty of all the Jews in the world tural tools with them.
5. The country of the
Cheered by East Side.
P alestine 1Jean Tucker. She put a blot on her are having our summer vacation now to make the inside even more inter-
s ews
selves in Jewish affairs. El Paso has
By that time the news had spread ,
I want to occupy my time with what
300
card,
but
see
how
nicely
she
apolo-
a
Jewish mostly
population
of about
esting than the outside."
families,
Russian
and Polish, through the East Side that the adored e,. A brave woman who H annah
gizes for it! I am certainly glad to I think is interesting. We are going
This they are already beginning
had seven sons
partly German. There is a Reform Kalich was again among her friends
hear from her, because she writes me on our vacation in about a week, to
to do. Jews all over the world are
Rochester,
N.
Y.,
to
visit
our
grand-
Congregation with Rabbi Zielonka as and on that Saturday night the the-
Answer: Reading down the first quite often. And that makes me feel
sending
books for the University li-
parents, where we shall continue re-
spiritual leader and an Orthodox Con- eter was prfeked to suffocation by an
gregation headed by Rabbi Charles audience that made the walls fairly letter, "Joseph." (The name of the that she is a real friend. She says: ceiving this paper. I shall be de- brary. Only a little while ago, 105
"Dear Miss Ish.Kisher:—As you
Again boy who had a wonderful coat.
boxes
of
books came to Palestine
Blumenthal. The large majority of tremble with their applause.
wished to hear from me, here I am. lighted to see my name printed.
BOSTON.— (J. C. B.) —Justice
from ' Berlin, Germany. And fifty
"Very truly yours,
s .1001,
immigrants seeking to enter the the doctors were in attendance and
I live at 3207 Kennett Square, Pitts.
more
cases
arrived from America. We Louis D. Brandeis hap give '
"Thelma Meyer."
burgh, Pa. (Pardon the ink, I never
United States use this town as a step- this time Madame's protestations of
in
his Boston home to the wire and
Thelma is doing very well in pub- must try to have a wonderful library children of Nicolai Sacco, an Italian
failure were fainter.
noticed it.) I just love your Sabbath
in this great Hebrew College!
A week later, after a rest Kalich
ping-off place.
A Folk Story by Dr. B. Kirschen.
Angel page. 1 always enjoy reading lic school—I think you will agree with
radical, who, with a friend, Vanzetti,
"Acting Inspector Harris of the
boom.
it. Well, I wish you success in your me. And she writes a nice letter. I
immigration service in El Paso told was induced to return for two per-
has been condemned to death in a
Reuben and Simeon were friends. work.. Yours truly, your old friend, shall be glad to hear from her again!
The head of the Greek church in case that has been compared to the
the commission that one-third of the formalities in "The Truth." The cure
Jerusalem has sold a large piece of famous Mooney case in San Fran-
"Jean Tucker."
immigrants caught smuggling across was
working. With
each appearance
her confidence
in herself
was becom- Reuben was the little son of a rich
IN THE JEWISH WORLD
land to the Jerusalem Zionists. The cisco.
Thelma Meyer writes from 87
the "The
Mexican
border
were
Jews,
entire
Jewish
community
of ing more and more restored. Another' merchant; Simeon, of a poor cabinet South Park street, Pontiac, Mich.
Mrs. Rosins Sacco was left penni-
Little Bits of News from Palestine. land is in a very important location,
El Paso are heart and soul anxious to rest, and then three appearances in maker.
One day Reuben came to the ho ptiasye ,S, he gives the right answer to the
know a lady who has been as a °n Mount Zion, and with it goes an less and homeless after the long im-
gr
a
I
immense and beautiful building that prisonment of her husband. When
een of Simeon to play with him and
Daniel" puzzle, but of course it is
be of help to the Jewish wanderers.' "The Orphan," and Madme
aeed
e had b
. so too late to print her answer. I shall nurse t o Palestnie , and s h e to lls me
. will now become the property of the the death sentence was delivered, she
Rabbi Blumenthal and his wife are with the doctors that sh
h tat you rend her letter:
that the spot where the Hebrew Uni- Jews.
particularly devoted to the work and but the victim of a )elusion. She was him a visit. Now, Simon . was
was at a loss as to what to do and
versity
is
to
be
built
on
the
Mount
their noble example is bring followed again Kalish, the .' kerb,and began poor that the three
rooms
w fur-
any
Soly in
had
hard
Dear Miss Ish-Kishem—I shall be
where to go, until in answer to an
. for the new sea. s, his fa
tha t when 10 years old on Aug. 2. I am in the of Olives, is so beautiful that she
talk of her pla lays
lived at ail.
i
lythem
nituremin
One thousand Persian Jews have appeal to Justice Brandeis, his home
by the other Jewish families. Rabbi to and the new
Already
await
a
l and others sun her decision ith which to return . Reuben wanted to sit dow n he foun d sixth grade and a pupil of the Temple doesn't see how the students will be
in Boston was opened to her and her
enthal,
Mr.
Rosenthal
able
to
study
there!
"If
I
were
to
set
out
for
Palestine.
They
are
go-
i the Beth El Sabbath School. I am a con-
Blum
he
that there were no chairs in
two small children.
iaily the arrested immigrants, ing
is slant reader of the Sabbath Angel. be a student there," she says, "I ing to take up farming on the holy
vsit d
Ile wanted as to no ut down h
supply them with all necessities, place to Broadway.
y house.
w
s
return
to
Broada
.
table. And '
For Mad am
qe
w
b
t
th
relatives
an
e now under consi, t ra - books,
them in tch with their
plays a them
not three
lion, among
"Sophia Korana," the bed upon which Simeon slept was
ou the money ant
hand them
by Gordin, adapted for the English- only a rough board.
to them.
"Simeon,' Reuben said, "isn't it
t
A Visit to the Arrested. Jew'- speaking stage by George Foster
ish "The
young
men in the
prison
commission
found
nine where Platt. A more definite announcement true that your father is a ca ins
maker?"
within
the
next
is prised
plans
es,
it's
true,"
,replied
Simeon.
"Y
"f
d that
immigrants whose attempts to smug-.'
end it is
days, a
ly in September rehearsals will be "Why do you ask?"
gle across the border were unsuccess- few
"There is something I can't under-
eai
u were detained. The commission
Cl
stand," explained Reuben, after heal-
e on regarding in progress.
—______
took detailed inf ormati iession
toting
a while. "If your father makes
s
er t o
each case in order
furniture for others, why has he no
s to
enable
be
a ble them '
of all necessary fact
furniture in his own house?"
to go on with the efforts to save them
Simeon could not answer why. He
from being sent back to the coun-
had never thought of that question
tries whence they came. The scoun-
NEW YORK. — Or. Abraham J. before. Surprised and disappointed,
drels who undertook to smuggle the
R00gY for many years connected Reuben went away from Simeon and.
immigrants into the United Stales
,
home.
swindled and robbed them. The un- with maternity hospitals in New I walked
On the lawn that surrounded ' his
fortunate wanderers pleaded for York, and the treasurer of the Amer-
mercy and begged not to be deported lean Jewish Physicians' Committee, own beautiful home, Reuben met the
will make a special trip through the washerwoman, who was busy hanging'
to the countries from which they hail
!
come. "Rather throw on into the: Middle West, stopping first at St. out the clothes of Reuben's family.
they cried out. Louis, on Sept. 20 to 22, to address She was an old woman, bent and
sea, "
Jewish physicians and surgeons in be-lugly; moreover, she was dirty and in

In Juarez, there were 39 Jewish
tatters. Reuben ran up to her as
immigrants, 30 single men, four mar- half of the Medical College fund.
sight of her.
The American Jewish Physicians' soon as he
tied men with their wives, and one
"May I ask you a question?" he
child. With the exception of two, all Committee is raising $1,000,000 from
ers, others
brothers,
uncles
in among Jewish medical men in this I said. "Why is that•the cabinet maker,
the
have sisters
either or
fathers,
moth-
country for the foundation of a who makes furniture for everybody,
to be medical college as part fo the Hebrew has no furniture in' his own house?"
America. The commission gathered
The old woman looked at him and
so as
University in l'alestine, a gift from
sighed heavily as she said:
the fullest information
able to make efforts with the help of
"Why don't you rather ask me an-
relatives to secure their admission American
Jewish
physicians.
The committee was launched by Dr. other question? Why is it that I, who
Albert Einstein during his recent visit
into the United States:
committee has a, wash and clean for others, am myself
. i The
America.
Some Secure Work.
dirty and in rags?"
rYork
carat office in New
ork and co—dirty
"For some, work has been found central
ommittees of doctors inJ Still more cast down, Reuben left
c
operating
in Juarez. In some cases immigrants '
among them the washerwoman, crossed the lawn
cities,
at
receive sufficient aid from their par- most
of the
larger
Chicago
Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, and came into the poultry yard
the back of the house. Here some
cots in the United States. About 25,
'
Boston
and other places.
n
were feeding on the wide pas-
however, are supported by the El Bosto
ven , durins the quiet vacation geese
Paso Jewish community. The young ,s_E-
o of b• money are being re, - tore.
"Geese,
geese," Reuben cried out
men lodge with the immigrant tame- , '•"9,:' ,..P' eViz,e,'
ject of i r. Rongy s :
lies and the El Paso community pays 1 cei .tt s to help organize the St. Louis to them. "You feed here and do not
i
i
for each of them 25 cents a day. One trip
committee. All the money is held in bother about the rest of the world.
family cooks the meals, at a cost of America, under American control, Can you answer me two questions?
25 cents per meal to the El Paso
corn. and its administration will be under' Why is it that the cabinet maker, who
warned
makes furniture, is without furniture
munity.
spices.
an
America
"The commission personally
members of_this , himself, and why is the washerwom-
act'

. ive
th e act
each immigrant against crossing theAmeng
ommittee may be found some of the an, who washes for everybody, her-
c
border
illegally.
They arrested
were shown
the list of
immigrants
due- most prominent names in the medical self dirty and in rags?" The geese
, chattered together and then an-
,
ing the put few days and this made directory: s Former
New
York Com-
igismund
S. Goldwater,
I swore(' :
"Why don't you better ask us an-
missioner
a deep impression upon them. The
,
d eve r yNathan Ratnoff,Colonel Samuel J.
a
commission promise,
I Kopetzky, l'hilip Horowitz, Israel other question? It h is it
who supply the fine soft goose.feath-
thing for them with the and of the
Strauss, Leo uger
urger and others.
on
wich
people
sleep
so
corn-
Jews of El Paso, to whom the immi•
e
fortably, ourselves are compelled to
greats are very grateful. The visit
sleep on the hard, stony floor of the
of and promises given by the corn-
chicken coop?"
mission comforted these unhappy
Disappointed, Reuben went further.
—_
people greatly.
IsONDON. — (J. C. B.) — Colonel He strayed into the stable and no-
"The commission further promised
from
time
to
as
tired
a cow. "You cow," he began,
to
to recommend
that local
time
give to the
committee Young is proceeding to Palestine
the special emissary of the British Co- "I must ask you three questions:
Jewish
make First, why is it that the cabinetmaker
financial aid in its work for
. lonial Office with instructions to
a detailed investigati
on of condions who makes furniture for everybody,
wanderers.
to report back to has no furniture himself! Second,
Conditions in Other Centers.
mmission
in the country and
co
had
a
conference
with
Mr.
Truth,
his
government.
The
announced
re- why is that the laundress, who washes
"In Laredo, Texas, the
is dirty herself? And
spector of the United States. immigra- interpretation of the Balfour Declar- for everybody,
kiss service, and with Mr Davis, a ation w ill not be published until that . third, why should it be that the geese
Jewish business man and communal report is laid before the Colonial Of- who furnish us with the fine feathers
s tilton them-
worker. From the latter the com- five for consideration, but the Arab far our feather beds,
mission obtained information regard- delegation here is using all its efforts, selves sleep on hard floors?"
The cow just looked at Reuben
ing the condition of the young men to bring about a change in that de- with her big eyes, then her lips
still
--
attempts to vision.
, moved. "Why don't you ask me
unsuccessful
who made unsuc
I
A .) NED another question? Why is it that
cross the border ad of those who are
POSTPO
every-
The'
who
give
my
milk
freely
to
still in Nuevo Laredo:Texas.
T. .) —
a
tat
A
W
A
II
S
W.

(J.
cer
" evacuation edict which menaced the 'I body, should have to be separated
"The commission ascertained
and
J w
frontier'
whole d a y from m y own flesh
the day prior to its arrive
.
Ukrainian
homeless
in
the
o
fear
he
should
arrest-
If, for
een
, h
ish immigrants who had b
has been postpone
been sent to sections,
weeks. Due to(the intercession of drink some of my milk?"
ed on the border had
New York for deportation to the the Ukrainian committee in Warsaw,! Desperate, Reuben wanted to run
had
o wn room, to lock him-
countries from whence they
the Polish Minister of the Interior i away to his
few hours. But on his
come. Mr. Gottlieb immediately tele- telegraphed to the governor of Ga- i self up for a
J ew,
e housee he mett
graphed to Mr. Henning, Assistant licia at Lemberg, ordering him to way back tot`
Reu-
wi
Secretary of Labor, requesting
out the evacuation of the sato-, "Jew, you e o
carry
ees within six wks
cried. "Won't you answer
me
stay of deportation until Mr. Gott-
ee after the pro- I ben
ask
you?
the four questions I want to
lieb would return to Washington and g
posed date of the edict.
explain how these immigrants could

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ENGLISH OMMISSIONER
PROCEEDS TO PALESTINE

Particularly fortunate is the occasion of man: unusual
values in this August Clearance Sale, presenting as they
do incomparable opportunities for the selection and pur-
chase of entire suites or individual pieces at prices far
below the present market value.

Pringle Furniture
Company

POLISH EDICT

431 GRATIOT AVE.

One and One-half Bloc' ks from Broadway

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