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"One of My Best Friends--"

A Story of a Jew

lived in the capital city; 1,200 lived
in Yalatz, 600 in Livni and the others
were scattered throughout the prin.
ince in groups running from 25 t a
five families. During 1921 the refu.
gees who had settled there tempor-
arily began the return to their fro.
mer homes, resulting in a reduction
of the Jewish population by one.
third.
In 1919 the same cossack divisia a
who had butchered Jews in Tarnh. a
passed through Oriel and repeat,
the horrors of the former provi,.
though on a smaller scale. Elev,.
were killed in Oriel, 50 in Yalat ,
But the communities recuperac
rapidly' and, according to all
counts, are doing fairly well. S.M.1
of the Jews have real means, the
ers are managing to exist due
newly-acquired occupations or sin,:
trading. The number of depends
is insignificant and are being pro s i.1
ed for locally. ,Mainly relief tal
the form of medical aid and persi o , : ,l
service, exclusive of aid to tratbieics
and shelter and food for 66 orphan,
35 per cent of whom come from th
Volga districts and the Ukraine.

PLAN MEMORIAL FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON

As Told by a Christian.

By L. H. FROMKIN

This is a story told by a Christian of us hesitate for a moment to ask
about his Jewish competitor.
him for advice, to submit out prob-
But it isn't the Henry Ford kind lems to him, to consult with him.
of Jew-story, because the man who That's his idea of the way to treat
tells it isn't the Henry Ford kind of his competitors, and that's why week
Christian.
before last the 'Goyim' who make up
It's the story of Julius S. Levy of the rest of the Straw Hat Manufac-
Baltimore, newly elected president turers' Association elected him presi-
of the National Association of Men's dent by acclamation.
Straw Hat Manufacturers, and is told
Thoughtful Employer.
by William J. Dixon, whose plant
In his factory Levy is the kind and
ranks next to Levy's in that industry. thoughtful employer. Everything that
In all New York there is no one can be done to make the work easier
who knows Julius S. Levy better. I for his work-people is done in his
spoke to a number of people about plant. Recently a woman who had
Levy. Each knew something. Each been in the factory for a number of
had something to say about his fine years as forelady was given a ban-
qualities. But each referred me to quet by the firm and Mr. Levy pen-
Dixon.
sioned her for life.
I hesitated to go to Dixon. I was
Outside of his business and his
afraid that I was in for another dose home, to which he is extremely de-
of that nauseating refrain: "Some of voted, Mr. Levy's chief interest is his
my best friends are Jews."
fellow-man. President of the Feder.
Well, Dixon did say that Levy was ation of Jewish Charities, of the Jew-
one of his best friends. But from his ish Home for Consumptives and of
tone it was plain that he admired his synagogue, he is also keenly in-
Levy as one big, broad-gauged man tereated in all other Jewish efforts,
admires another big, broad-gauged to which he is a generous contributor,
man. There are no "buts" to his including the Jewish Theological
admiration, no mental reservations. Seminary. Ile directed two extreme-
ly successful war relief campaigns.
Levy's Jewishnees.
In due course, we fell to talking Recently he and his brother, William,
about Levy's Jewishness. Julius S. endowed, for $40,000, a room in a
Levy, man of affairs, man of culture, Baltimore hospital in his mother's
. lover of art and music and all the memory. When his mother died, 14
liner things of life, is an Orthodox years ago, he joined with his father
Jew rigidly, sentimentally Ortho- and brother William in erecting the
dox. But there is nothing stern about Betsy levy Memorial Home for Or-
his orthodoxy. And on Friday he phans. When his father passed away,
goes to market and buys the fish for II years ago, a social center was
the Sabbath. They all do that sort erected in his memory by the family
in one of the congested sections of
of thing in Baltimore.
"Ile told me all about gelfits fish," the city and was later given over to
said Dixon with a chuckle. Dixon the Educational Alliance. Ile is a
has sat at Levy's Sabbath table many- director of a number of banks and
times and has heard him make "Kid- an active member of several civic or-
ganizations. Only his genuine mod-
dash."
The story of Julius S. Levy's rise to esty, his shrinking from the lime-
what is virtually the leadership of light, has prevented his fellow towns-
his industry is a typical story of suc- men from conferring h onors upon
cess won by hard, painstaking, con- him which they feel he has richly
scientious effort. The big plant of merited, as a man, as a citizen, as an
today is the development of the little altruist. Ile doesn't care about pub
cap factroy his father started when licit and—honest to goodness—he
the family came from England. As won't see this until it's printed.
He is a member of the Baltimore
time went on, the caps gave way to
straw hats and young Julius went Art Commission, director of the Bal-
out on the road to sell the product timore Museum of Art, a director of
of his father's 'struggling shop. Ile the Merchants National Bank, the
was on the road for a number of largest in the city, and belongs to
years and in his traveling days won the Phoenix, Suburban and Civitan
recognition as one of the leading Clubs.

salesmen in his field. The business
grew and "Julius S." left the road
to become the manager of the thriv-
ing plant. As "inside man" he so
completely familiarized himself with
the straw hat industry that he was
able to devise many important im-
provements in straw-hat making ma-
chinery. Ile invented the process of
bleaching which is now used in all
the straw hat factories in this coun-
try. (land him a piece of straw braid
and lie will tell you in what land it
was grown and describe every pro-
cess it went through before it reached
him. "And," added Mr. Dixon, "there
is nothing that he knows about straw
hats that he isn't glad to impart to
everybody in the business and none

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Encourage. Artist.

But what he likes to do most is to
encourage young and struggling
attists. Recently Mr. Dixon accom-
panied him on a visit to the Ilenry
Street Settlement in New York. A
young Russian artist, in the art class,
came up and spoke to Mr. Levy, tell-
ing him of his former meeting with
him in Baltimore.
"You praised my work and made
it possible for me to go on," said the
young chap, going into details.
He showed Mr. Levy some of his
later work and Mr. Levy made it
possible for him to go on still further
by buying some of his latest paint-
i ngs.
His one great hobby is Oriental an-
tiques. A short time ago he and Mrs.
Levy spent six months in the Orient
and returned with a rare collection.
"And by the way," interpolated
Mr. Dixon, "Mrs. Levy is our friend's
greatest saset. Ask him, and he'll
tell you that the best thing he ever
(lid in all his life was to marry her."
We got back to the personal side
of Julius S. Levy. "Ile's as consider-
ate and as modest as a girl," said
Mr. Dixon, "and full of quiet fun."
"I remember once we went down
to the East Side of New York to-
gether," he went on. "Mr. Levy
wanted to get some Passover cups.
On the way My. Levy told me the
whole story of the significance of
Passover and described the ritual of
its observance. As he spoke I could
feel that he gloried in being a Jew.
And if I'd had any doubt about it,
I lost it when we got to the shop.
The proprietor started to tell me

CLOTHING SERVICE
TO RUSSIA STARTED
BY NANSEN OFFICE

Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson. near Charlottesville, Va.. built from his own plans and under his own personal supervision.
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation has been formed to raise • fund of 31.000,000 to purchase and maintain the estate as • perma•
champion of religious liberty Commodore Urish
neat national memorial to the author of the Declaration of American Independence and
and it has remained M
Phillips Levy, United States Navy, oil painting of whom hangs in the holm at Monticello, bought the place in 1813
is • member of the Board of
the possession of the Levy family ever since. Felix M. Warburg, banker and philanthropist of New York City.
Pilgrimage" of Americans to
great
"Spiritual
■
of
New
York
City
is
directing
the
detail.
of
Onvernors of the Foundation. Manny Stream
Monticello on April 13. 1924. she anniversary of Jefferson's birth
(Left: Photo of Felix M Warburg, by Underwood & Underwood Studios, New York; Center: Photo of Manny Strauss. by
Bachrach. New York. Right, Photo of painting of Commodore Levy by William K. Semple.)

abous the cups. He spoke Yiddish.
Levy's eyes danced with mirth as he
said to the little shopkeeper: 'Don't
bother. I know all about it. But
this man doesn't understand what you
are saying because he isn't a Jew—
aren't you sorry for him?"
A Story about Levy.
"I told Mr. Dixon a story I know
about Mr. Levy. Not so very long
ago he participated in a conference
with a leading non-Jewish banker of
Baltimore. Mr. Levy's "savoir faire,"
his many evidences of culture, his
outstanding integrity so impressed
this banker that he invited Mr. Levy
to attend some social functions at
the banker's home. Mr. Levy ac-
cepted.
Then, up spoke the banker.
"I am glad you will come, Mr.
Levy. Bring Mrs. Levy with you,
please. And, Mr. Levy, I want you
to know that you will be the first
Jew to cross my threshold socially."
Mr. Levy looked at the banker for
a moment and then, in his usual soft,
well-modulated tones, he said, smil-
ing significantly.
, I will not be the
"No, Mr.
first Jew to cross your threshold."
Mr. Dixon brought his fist down
on his desk.
"Good for Julius," he exclaimed.
"That's just like him. If only all
Jews were like him in that regard.
prejudice against the Jew couldn't
live a minute."

JEWS FLEE SMYRNA

Consequences of War and
Revolution.

—Arthur Studios.

MISS ELSIE RASSNER

Rassner, chairman of the publicity
committee, announces all plans for
the affair completed. Proceeds are
to go for charity. Tickets can be se-
cured from the following members of
the ticket committee: Ruth Cohen,
Aline Schiller, Elsie Rassner, Mollie
Goldstein, Belle Goodman, Miriam
Levin and Charlotte Miller.

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W

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new homes in the course of construc-
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to retain its proud reputation as a "City of Homes."

Some

of these homes are small—some are
But each of them
seems to have the true home atmosphere.

and pretentious.

The first payment on many of these homes
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service a small fee is charged.

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year 47,743 people borrowed $6,511,738.45 on
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JEWISH POPULATION
IN RUSSIA UPROOTED

The summer dance of the Sigma
Rho Tau Sorority will be given on
the evening of June 22 in the Rose
Room of Hotel Addison. Miss Elsie Tremendous Upheaval One of

SMYRNA.— (J. T. A.) — Many
Jewish families are reported to be
leaving Smyrna owing to the concen-
tration of Turkish troops on the Syr-
ian frontier. Nationals from foreign
countries are asked by the Turks to
produce papers entitling them to live 5,000 JEWISH FARMERS
in the city.
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Through the efforts of the Joint
Distribution Committee and its local
committees, 5,000 Jewish farmers in
Roumania have acquired 20,000 dean-
iatin t about 54,000 acres of land.
It is estimated that the value of the
land which came into the hands of the
Jewish agriculturists in Bessarabia
by reason of this service, which enab-
led them to he properly represented
before the government authorities in
connection with the division of the
land under the Agrarian Reform Law,
is approximately $600,000. An appro-
priation of $15,000 was voted at the
last meeting of he executive to aid the
Jewish farmers to establish them-
selves and hold the land under the
Land Division Act.
In addition to assisting agricultur-
ists in this way to acquire land, a
special $10,000 loan to agriculturists
authorized by the Committee last year
which the Committee now is renewing
for another year, and $12,000 set
aside by the Union of Jewish Co-oper-
atives for this work, have been devot-
ed to the distribution of seeds, imple-
ments and livestock among these
farmers.
The share capital of 26 co-opera-
tives in Bessarabia affiliated with the
Union of Jewish Co-operatives has
quadrupled since Decl 31, 1921. The
number of depositors and the amount
of deposits have doubled. During
1922, 2,733 new depositors left savings
to the amount of lei 534,175, with
these co-operatives. The reserve and
special capitals of these institutions
also have nearly doubled.

by tots under 5.

The "F. F. V.'s" of Veronexh.

The Jewish population of Vero-
nezh, the only town in that Gubernia
where there are any Jews at all, is
5,000. Practicaly all the Jews who
once lived in the other towns fled in
1919. On the other hand, most of
the present Jewish population dates
back to the beginning of the war,
plus those who returned to their old
homes in 1921-1922. These last and
the few who remained in 1919 regard
themselves as "F. F. V.'s"—first
families of Veronezh.
Conditions are not altogether bail
here. The number of Jewish depen-
dents is relatively small and the corn-
munity can take care of them. One
of the features of communal life
here is a "Bikkur Cholim"—a sick
aid society. A few months ago the
small traders began to feel the pres-
sure of heavy taxation, and some of
the leading spirits organized a credit
loan society. They raised a sum of
money out of which loans are ad-
vanced for a period of four or six
weeks.
For all that Veronezh has a gen-
eral population of 2011,000, it is ex-
tremely provincial, and a little money
opens up many opportunities. The
credit-loan society has been eminent-
ly successful. In the eight months
it had been operating when this re-
port was made it had not lost a single
dollar, and it has been encouraged to
obtain a government charter so that
it may widen its scope. There are
only 36 orphans in the town.

NEW YORK.—A tremendous up-
heaval of Russian Jewry is one of the
consequences of the war and revo-
lution. Pressure of armies, menace
of pogroms, economic necessity, the
desperate search for bread,and but-
ter all have combined to cause a huge
shift of population, one of the most
extraordinary incidents in the history
of a much-harassed people. Some
hint of this remarkable event was
given by Dr. Bogen in his oral report
to the Joint Distribution Committee.
Here are some intimate details of
this upheaval, as described in his
written report on the subject:
Tomboy, in Central Russia, had a
negligible Jewish population before
the war. Its governor, Muravieff,
was a notorious "Juden Presser." He
exerted all of his power to rid his
Gubernia of all Jews whose rights
of domicile could not stand the most
rigid scrutiny. The only Jews within
the borders wherein he was monarch
of all he surveyed were a mere hand-
ful belonging to the so-called "ex-
empt" class, professionals, children
or grandchildren of the Jews who had
Takes Care of Own and Others.
been forcibly conscripted into the
In 1920 Oriel and seven other
army during the (lays of Czar Nicho-
towns in this Gubernia had a Jewish
las I, and artisans who could prove
population of 5,600, of whom 3,600
that they were engaged in essential
industries.

Common Cause Against Jews.

During 1914-1915, following the
outbreak of the war, several thou-
sand refugees sought refuge in Tom-
boy, and settled in the capital city,
after which the province is named.
Others settled in Kazlor, Borisogla-
vesk and Kirsanor. In 1919 a Cos-
sack . cavalry division retreating
through Tomboy bathed its soil with
Jewish blood. Twenty-two Jews were
killed in a pogrom during which every
Jewish home was pillaged. In Koz-
lov, only four of the 184 Jews set-
tled there escaped without a loss. The
whole Gubernia was a shambles for
the Jews who had fled thither to es-
cape what now they were compelled
to suffer. The soldiers and civilians
made common cause against the
Jews. A second pogrom, this time
fortunately without fatalities, occur-
red on Yom Kippur of the same year.
Curiously, the pogroms had the ef-
fect of driving the Jews of the smal-
ler towns into the city of Tomboy,
where, somehow, they felt more se-
cure. This was a town of 40,000
without trade or industry.
In 1921-1922, due to the economic
difficulties they faced, most of the
Jews left Tomboy. A hundred of
them lacked sufficient means to pay
for transportation All that is left
of the one time Jewish population
of Tomboy is about 100 families, 20
of whom are in great distress. Most
of the Jews in Tomboy are artisans.
Perhaps a dozen are small traders.
The town has 64 pogrom orphans.
Of 100 food packets consigned to
Tomboy 77 go to the orphans and
their guardians.
When the Joint Distribution Corn-
mittee's representatve visited the or-
phan home, the children greeted him
with an entertainment, the program
of which included a playlet presented

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NEW YORK.—(J. C. B.)—The
auguration of a clothing draft sers:,
for relief of individuals in Russia I.
announced by the high Commission
Dr. Fridtjof Nansen for relief in
via, to begin immediately, in additii...
to the service of food drafts and duty
free relief packages which Dr. Nall ■
sen's organization has been forward-
ing to Russia from the United Stai..,
ever since the suspension of the A E.
A. individual relief service, on ,,unit
15. Four types of clothing drafts aro
issued by the Nansen Mission, set.0,,l-
ing to the age and sex of the per.,..,
for whom they are intended, and at
four different prices.
At the same time, the Mission an-
nounces that, in accord with the eel.
icy followed by Dr. Nansen of sending
into Russia only articles for relief
purposes that cannot be readily
bought in Russia, the contents of the
parcels delivered for the Nansen Food
Drafts will be changed to eliminate
flour as one of the articles, as the
prices of flour are lower in ltus,ot
than it costs to send flour into
and the parcels will hereafter cotect
of such articles as condensed milk,
sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, fats, rice,
preserved fruits and chocolate which
can only be purchased in Russia at
prohibitive. prices. A parcel deliver-
ed for a $5.25 Nansen Food Draft
costs in Russia, it is announced, $12.,
being a saving of over 128 percent
over sending dollars.
The Nansen Relief Mission has op.
ened a Chicago office for handling
Food I/rafts, Clothing Drafts and
Duty-Free Relief packages in the Vic-
tory Building, 3212 West ItoosevvIt
Road.

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