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Dr. Wise Captures The Central Synagogue—"The Union of
a Great .Past With a Great Future"—Birth of the Central
Free Synagogue—Nansen Invades America—Nansen and
the Federation of Ukrainian Jews, Hoover and the Joint
Distribution Committee—Famine Distress and Russian
Grain Exports Explained by Captain Paxon Hibben.

A Bedroom Suite
of the 18th Century

By GERSHON AGRONSKY

A beautiful harmonious blending of Ivory and
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(Copyright, 1923, Jewish Correspondence Bureau.)

To the unsynagogued the actual
federating and approaching merger
of two great Jewish congregations,
the Free and Central Synagogues,
may he a matter of passing interest.
, The founding of a new synagogue in
New York is, intrinsically, not an ar-
resting event. Nor for that matter
the passing of an old synagogue
!For here places of worship and learn-
,ing are abandoned and new ones
erected or acquired as part of the
year's work. If the union of the
Free-Central has caused into to pause
I and inquire there must be a reason.
Dr. Stephen S. \Vise is the reason,
Without hint as the central figure, the
announcement of the affiliation of the
two institutions , and the contemplated
two million dollar Temple, would not
have stirred the community as this
has.

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Distribution Committee from its rep-
resentative in the famine area, Dr.
NOW LAND OF PLENTY Joseph Rosen.
In a district where even seed for
planting has disappeared in the
American Seeds and Tractors Helped scratching of bins for everything
edible, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and
Transform Plain.
the Dakotas have come to the rescue
with thousands of bushels of choice
seed corn. Relief workers in Rus-
NEW YORK. — Twelve hundred sia are transplanting and reproduc-
Ukraine acres, barren during the ing this seed at 52 multiplication
years of famine, are being added bases, whence it is distributed as fast
each day to the vast garden plot into as the land Is prepared to receive it.
which the magic wand of American
Next on the scene is the American
money and materials is rapidly trans- tractor, 57 powerful ones, each drag-
forming a section of untitled Russian ging two Russian five-bottom plows,
plain. The story is told in cable dis- harrowing and seeding the land in a
patches to the American Jewish Joint single operation and each covering

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15 acres a day. Using these ma-
chines, augmented by 1,400 horses
and $50,000 worth of horse drawn
implements, the relief organization
believes it soon will have 100,000
acres of hitherto barren land seeded
to grain..
Added to this activity is the in-
auguration of American methods in
dairy farming and cheese making.
Four hundred cows were purchased
by the Americans and imported from
other districts, to become the nucleus
of a system of co-operative dairies
in which the peasants rapidly are
learning to participate.
Cheese factories followed, until
now Dr. Rosen reports 121 of them,
all co-operative, are operating.

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Reg.
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Price
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Sale

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12.5x 9.5 425 285.00
12,0x 9.0 875 565.00
11.0x 9.0 850 650.00
18.1x11.6 985 645.00
17.1x12.0 1575 1150.00

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Asked what were included under
"causes and movements," Dr. Wise
with characteristic clarity, eiaeulate'd
The Jewish Congress; Palestine."
The causes abroad includes five rab-
binical seminaries which he, with the
help of his congregation, is keeping
alive: two in Berlin and one each in
Breslau, Budapest and Vienna. Here
j was something the interviewer knew
nothing about, and was glad to learn.

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While Secretary Hoover and his ad-
j visers in charge of the American Re-
, lief Administration are considering
i the ending of the relief work in Rus-
sia the Nansen Relief Mission is, ac-
cording to Captain Paxton Hibben,
replacing in its general relief work,
food, and clothing draft service and
medical aid, the American relief Ad-
ministration whose work among the
famine sufferers was reduced to 12%
per cent early in 1923, and which
ceased its food drafts and clothing
draft service altogether on March 15.
The Nansen Relief Mission is headed
by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen of Norway,
famous as an explorer, who was High
Commissioner of Norway to the Uni-
ted States during the war, and who,
last year, was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize for his humanitarian
work in Russia." says Capt Hibben:
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"It was Dr. Nansen who was char-

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There is nothing mythological about
that old (as ages of institutions in
America go) Central Synagogue on
!Lexington avenue, and Fifty-eighth
!street. In all liklihood there is a
story, and from a newspaper angle,
I an interesting one, in the, shall we
! say, capitulation, of the proud con -
I gregation. The story may date front,
or may ante-date, the acceptance by
Dr. Nathan Krass of the call to Tem-
ple Emanu El. Whatever the case
may be, it was undoubtedly Dr. Wise's
idea that the Central Synagogue, the
peer and contemporary of Emanu El
and Beth El, may approximately be-
come one with the comparatively new
Free Synagogue. This idea of Wise's
is now a fact. The sons and daugh-
ters of the Bohemian Jews who came
here in the '40's and •50'5 are now, or
will soon be, worshippers in a Syna-
gogue which believes that Jews are
"free to interpret and restate the
teachings of Israel of the past in the
light of the present, and that each
succeeding generation in Israel is free
to reformulate the truths first entrus-
ted in the Province of God to our fa-
thers"—a truly and characteristic
Free Synagogue creed.

more cheaply on the spot. This view
PLATINUM, BEIGE.
is based on the fact that Russia is ex-
and the popular new
porting grain, which she presumably
would nut do if the famine and dis-
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Storage
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clears up this apparent contradic-
Repairs
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tion.
Remodeling
the
"Dr. Nansen has already previous-
ly explained" he says, That owing to
the vast distances between the places
where there has hen a crop in Russia
and those where famine still contin-
ues, and the transportation difficul-
ties which prevent the shipment of
grain from one part of Russia to the
other, it is much as if there were
plenty of grain in Canada and a fam-
ine in Mexico, with no means of get-
ting grain to Mexico to fesd the star-
ving."

gel with the exchange of prisoners
with Russia, by the League of Na-
tions, and when the Russian famine
broke out in 1921, the League of N.
thins Assembly then in session in Ge-
neva, made Dr. Nansen IIigh Commis-
As to the need in Russia, in a letter
sinner of the League for relief in
Russia, and by November 12, 1921, dated April 3, Dr. Nansen writes:
30 nations had according to Lord "As to the aC11111 situation in Russia,
Burnham of England, agreed to sup- my conviction is that there is still a
port the relief work of Dr. Nansen great need for help in many places,
in Russia. Among those whose sup- in southern Ukraine and in some parts
port have enabled Dr. Nansen to car- of the Volga region, and east of it
ry on his work in Russia are the Ger- Several millions are actually starv-
man, Belgian, French, Bulgarian, Da- ing or will be starving before next
nish, Esthonian, Lettish, Swiss and harvest. hl r. Kalinin and other Rus-
Dutch Red Cross organizations; the sian official authorities have estimated
Swedish, Norwegian, Czecho-Slovak- the number at 5,(I00,000 at least. A
ian Danish Serbian and Luxemburg great number of children who are or-
governments; the Holy See of the Ro- phans or abandoned by their parents
man Catholic church; the British, Ca- are also in great distress and cannot
nadian, Irish and International 'Save , possibly live without being helped."
the Children' organizations, and Dr.
Nansen at once created an organiza-
There can be no doubt Dr. Nansen
tion to conduct effective relief in Rag- is an courant with the situation, and
s* in accordance, with the terms of that he this not exaggerate. That
his contract with the Russian govern- being so, it is a fortunate thing in-
ment, signed on August 27,1921, dividuals still have an opportunity of
which gave hint freedom of all cus- rendering aid to their kin and friends
toms duties for his relief supplies. It through a method which has proven
was Dr. Nansen who first, early in highly effective in the past. Dr. Nun-
January 1922, undertook relief work sen waited for the Hoover to stop the
aiming the Jews of the Ukraine, while sale of drafts before opening an office
the work of the American Relief Ad- for their sale, for Hoover and Nansen
ministration at the 'time Was confined are good friends. But the invasion
to the Volga region. It has been the appears to be timely. The J. I). C. has
Nansen organization which, for Eu- made no statement as to its immediate
ropean countries, has for the past relief plans in Russia, It is not
year conducted with success the sante known whether it will follow the A.
food draft and clothing draft service It. A. if and when the latter leaves the
that the American Relief Administra- tiled, or not. Its reconstruction activ-
tion has conducted for the United ities including loans for the rehabili-
States, Recently, when Mr. Hoover tation of artisans and tradesmen will
announced that the American Relief certainly go on, under the direetoship
Administration would withdraw from of Doctors Bogen and Rosen. If this
its Russian work, it was Dr. Nansen will be supplemented as long as neces-
who pointed 'out that conditions es- sary by the Ukrainian Federation op-
pecially in the Ukraine were still as erating through the Nansen Commis-
bad as ever, and who finally decided sion, and by the "Yidgescom" the
to extend his organization to America, Jews in the Ukraine may nut suffer ,
so that those in America who desired the extreme of privation and distress.'
to aid their relatives and friends in
Russia could continue to do so through
GARRICK THEATER
the Nansen organization, after the
American Relief Administration had
Miss Bonstelle and her associates
closed down on Russian work."
will begin the fourteenth annual sea-
The National Federation of Ukrain- son of the Bonstelle Company at the
ian Jews, with headquarters in New Garrick Theater next Monday night,
York and branches in several impor- offering for the first week the Gladys
tant cities throughout the country, Unger satirical comedy, "The Gold-
has become an agency of the Nansen fish," which served Marorie Rambeau
Mission for the sale of food and cloth- a 5 a starring vehicle.
mg drafts. The Federation stands in
approximately the same relation to
the Miss ion as the Joint Distribution
Committee to the A. R. A. Suspen-
sion of the parcel service by the A. R.
A. meant its suspension also as far
as the J. D. C. was concerned. The
1957 Grand River Ave.
A. R. A. has discontinued this ser-
Phone, Cad. 6853-4679
vice out of conviction that the trans-
mission of money is now more help-

Dr. Wise is very proud of the ac-
quisition, although he constantly and
insistently refers to it as federation,
and the "Articles of Federation"
adopted by both congregations speak
of an ultimate consolidation. The
Central Synagogue has a fine tradi-
tion of Jewish learning as typified in
such scholars as Rabbis Ileuhsch and
Kohut, who have ministered to it," he
told the writer. "The federation rep-
resents a union of a great past with
a great future." Ile is very hopeful
of its future. He is determined that
there shall be no single group in the
world doing more Jewish work than
the Central Free Synagogue. "It will
be no mere Jewish Cathedral, but a
great instrumentality of Jewish ser-
vice the world over," he insists. The
Federated Synagogues are committed
to an annual contribution of $25,000
for the support of the Jewish Insti-
tute of Religion, They are further
pledged to the support of "cause and
movements in Jewish life at home and
abroad as ought to be rendered by the
great congregation which the feder-
ated Central and Free Synagogues
are now become."

In the true sense of the word, this Sale
is the Greatest Oriental Rug event ever held
in Detroit. Mr. S. G. Gulian is closing out
his business and is entering an entirely new
line of work.

ANITOLIAN

Dr. Wise is no mere celebrq.
Whatever he is to his congregation
whose idol and pride he doubtlessly
is, to the public he is a power as well
as a naive to conjure with. It is sure-
ly no reflection on the other distin-
guished Rabbis to say that Dr. Wise
takes precedence over them all in lay
affairs. Ile is, besides being a Rabbi,
the busy man who finds time to do
many things which most men with
half the things, and less, to do, claim
they are too busy to do. The range
of his activity is amazing. It includes
civic, national, political and Jewish
nationalist endeavor. He is dynamic
and indefatigable. And he is possess-
ed of a great vision. Visit his office
at the Synagogue House on a busy af-
ternoon and you become convinced
what an incredibly difficult thing it
must he for hint to wrench himself
free of the countless claims that are
made on his time and patience, and
yet enjoy enough peace of mind to vis-
ualize unborn things. And what an
Herculean task it must he to see
things through once they are conceiv-
ed. The Free Synagogue is his cre-
ation, and although its future will
rest with disciples who follow hint to
the point of trying to match the mas-
ter's matchless and inimitable voice,
the Carnegie Hall services and ser-
mons occupy already a niche in the
temple of pulpit and social fame. The
Institute of Religion is of Dr. Wise's
own making. Whatever moved hint to
establish a third seminary—and the
motives could be nothing but credit-
able—he has created something out of
nothing, a very substantial something
to which celebrated scholars Joyfully
come to teach and eager students to
learn, With the Free Synagogue a
well secured and renowned institution,
r I and the Institute a ruddy and prom-
ising sapling, Wise's restless spirit
reached out for new elysian fields. He
!found the Central Synagogue.

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