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OPTIMISTIC FUTURE
IS SEEN FOR 70,000
U. S. JEWS ON FARMS
(Continued from Page 1)
only the so-called South Jersey Col-
onies and Woodbine survive. Inex-
perience, lack of capital, injudiciou s
selection of land, the absence of lead-
(Tahiti, doomed these early, hastily
conceived, badly planned, poorly ex-
ecuted projects to certain failure. The
New Jersey colonies were the ■ le
exceptions because they were mor e
favorably located and close enough
to New York and Philadelphia to
command the attention of the Jewish
public in the two largest centers of
Jewish population.
from sunless, cheerless city tenements.
But the Jewish Agricultural Society
does pot essay to play the role 'of
missionary charged with the conver-
sion to farming Of large masses of
urban Jews. It scrupulously avoids
all propaganda, the preachment from
the housetops of the gospel of farm-
ing. t has always been its belief
that an artificially stimulated farm-
ing class means a weak farming class,
an ephemeral thing that sprouteth in
the morning and withcreth at night.
Farmers cannot be made in masses.
The responsibility is too heavy and
the risk of failure too great. The
Society prefers the slower but safer
method of directing the natural !low
toward the farm and guiding it along
proper channels.
Farm Settler Protected.
An integral part of the work of
farm settlement is the protection of
The establishment of the Baron de
the farm seeker against dishonest
Ilirsoh Fund—named after its illus-
farm agents and corrupt real estate
trious founder, Baron Maurice de
speculators.
Hirsch--in 1891, gave the Jewish
Many of our people, anxious to turn
agricultural movement that guidance
which the earlier, well-intentioned to the farm, some of whom have the
but poorly directed efforts lacked. The requisite financial means, are re-
objects of the Baron de Hirsch Fund strained from taking this Men through
were not solely agricultural. It had fear that their lack of agricultural
a broad program of which the pro- training will spell disaster. A per-
motion of farming wax simply one of iod of service on a farm otters such
numerous activities. It was soon men an opportunity to obtain their ex-
found advisable to entrust the agri- perience before starting out for
cultural work to a separate organiza- themselves. It enables the fit to get
tion, and in February, 1900, the Jew- an insight into farm life and thus
ish Agricultural Society was founded. accelerates their later progress, while
The Jewish Agricultural Society the unfit can merely return to the
has .wiolded at potent influence upon city no worse off for their experience,
the American Jewish farm movement. with their little treasure chests intact
The history of the Jewish farmer— to enter pursuits for which they are
his struggles, his needs, his failures, better qualified. An apprenticeship
his successes—is closely bound up like this serves as a rational, prac-
with the activties of the Society. Re. tical and inexpensive means of school-
duced to its simplest term)* the Jew- ing. It was these considerations that
ish Agricultural Society has for its prompted the establishment of a Farm
object the promotion of farming Employment Department early in the
Society's history.
among Jews is the United States.
The prospective Jewish farm buyer
In 1922 jobs were procured for 779
hi introduced to the society by means men and since its inception in 1908,
of its Farm Settlement Department. the Farm Employment Department
To this department comes a perennial has affected 14,446 placements. The
stream of city people, anxious to aim of the department is primarily
throw off the restraint of shop, fact- educational, to give earnest, willing
ory or foundry, or longing to escape young men the opportunity of acquir-
Agricultural Society Founded.
ing a practical agricultural training
,0 its to lit them to become farm own-
ers, or to command the teeter paying
politions as farm workers. That its
purpose is being accomplished is at-
tested by its ever growing contingent
of skilled laborers. ti per cent of
last year's placements having been
experienced men as compared with 12
per cent in 1908, its first year. The
percentage of independent farmers
that have developed out of farm labor-
ers is, of course, very much smaller.
It requires more than farm training
to become a farm owner. Yet the rec-
ords show that yrautically every case
in which a farm owner has been evolv-
ed from a farm laborer has resulted
in a profitable farm enterprise.
70,000 Return to Soil.
There is no state in the. Union that
has not its Jewish farmers and no
branch of agriculture that has not its
Jewish votaries. \Vithin the short
space of 20 years, or less, during the
very period when the general thrift
was away front the farm and during
the second half of which our foreign
born farm population declined by 88,-
188, well nigh 15,000 Jewish families
comprising 70,0011 souls have reutrned
to the soil, and a million of America's
fair acres spread over every state of
the nion, representing a valuation
of $100,000,000 have been made to re-
spond to the toil and to the genius of
Jewish hushandmen. If the number
is still not imposing, we must keep
in mind the difficulties inherent in the
change from city occupation to farm-
ing and from urban to rural living in
the cases of a people so long pro-
scribed from the land.
While the Jewish Agricultural So-
and the service's of the agricultural
plished much in fostering the Jewish
agricultureal movement, the Jewish
farmer is by no means a hothouse
plant, artifically nurtured by philan-
thropic or quasi-philanthropic endeav-
or . The numbers have grown so big
that the society cannot reach them all
in a financial way, eVen this were nec-
essary. Its resources are not suffi-
cient. Jewish farmers for the mos t
part finance their farm operations in
exactly the same way as other Ameri-
can farmers. They have a substantial
stake of their own in their business.
Thus the average capital possessed
by the new farmers settled by the
Jewish Agricultural Society gives
and the servicees of the agricultural
bureaus simply ease the period of
transition and accelerate the adjust-
ment to the new occupation and mode
of life.
an element in our farm population as Heads Nursery Organization
native farmers—and fur that matter
Whose Dance Will Be
our American horn sons of the soil are
Held Dec. 6.
steadily gravitating to the city—but
that is only because farming is com-
paratively new to him. A recent study
made by the society, which included
608 farmers, selected at random, in
the east and middlewest showed that
32 percent have been on their farms
from one of five years, 19 percent from
five to 10 years, and 49 percent over
The Jew as a Farmer.
10 years. The fact that almost one-
There are still skeptics who look up-
half of the American Jewish farmers
on the Jewish farmer as an object of
have remained on their farms for over
curiosity. It :cents hard for Sonis to
10 years furnishes unmistakable evi-
conceive that the Jew sun actually fit
dence that when once settled and ori-
himself into farming and to life it
entated the Jewish farmer becomes a
the •buntry. These doubters overlook
stable component of our farm popula-
the Jewish power of adapt ion. Driven
tion.
front pillar to post, unable like the
Another good index that the Ameri-
dove which Noah sent forth front the
can Jewish farmer has become part
ark to tined a resting place for the
of the woof and fibre of our national
soles of their feet, ever faced with the
fabric, is furnished by the fact that
necessity of rapid, oftimes violent
75 percent of the 608 farmers survey-
change, the Jew had developed that
ed are citizens of the United States
futility for adaption which enables
and 11 percent have declared their in-
him to tit himself into new conditions. tentions to becotne citizens. Only 14
It is that power of adjustment which percent are neither citizens nor declar-
stands the immigrant Jew in good
ants. In one of the older Jewish farm
stead when he emerges as an Ameri- communities) the results show that 82
can fainter.
percent are citizens, 12 percent declar-
To those who harbor misgivings as ants and only six percent allies. When
to the aptitude of the Jew for farm- the Jew immigrates to this country he
ing, we frankly admit that there are
burns his bridges behind hint. He
MRS. PEARL ROTTENBERG
failures. But failure is not peculiar conies here not merely for a tempor-
Mrs. M. Weiswasser is in charge
to the Jewish farmer. Not all non- ary sojourn, but to make this country
Jewish farmers are models of success. his permanent home, to enter com- of the dance of the Hebrew Baby Day
Nursers' which will be held Thursday
Nor do all city folk, Jewish or non- pletely into the spirit of America.
evening, Dee. 6, at the Arcadia. She
Jewish succeed in the ir chosen voca-
s assisted by the president, Mrs. Pearl
tions. Be it through the ordination of
Rottenberg; Mrs. F. Rodin, treasurer,
God or the machination of man, more $100,000 TO HARVARD
the board of directors.
of as seem dawned to fail than are
GIVEN BY WERTHEIMS and Favorable
progress is reported by
destined to succeed. The Jewish farm-
the committee in the sale of tickets.
er is no exception to the rule. His fail-
NEW YORK.—(J. T. A.)—A gift
The
support
of
the public is urged for
ures stand out more prominently of $100,000 to endow a fellwoship for
simply because, being a new product, the purpose of fostering better rela- the organization.
closer attention is focused upon him. tions between capital and labor was
My own conviction is that the percen- acknowledged by Harvard University.
tage of success and failure (highly
The money, the gift of the family of
relative conceptions) is about the the late Jacob Wertheim of New York
same among Jewish farmers as among City is to provide an endowment for
"SOUL TOYS"
people in all walks of life.
the Jacob Wertheim research fellow-
By Alvin D: Hersch.
Jews Remain on Farm..
ship for the betterment of industrial
James Knapp Reeve, prominent lit-
Gradually but steadily the Jew is relationships, which is to serve as a
erary critic and former editor of "The
taking his place in American agricul- memorial for the merchant and philan-
Editor," says of Soul Toys, the new
tures the may yet not be as constant thropist.
novel by Alvin D. Ilersch of Detroit:
BOOK REVIEWS
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revelation of a wise and
sonality. For more that.
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an outstanding figure in t.
life of Philadelphia. TI
the official head of a gto .* ...),
lion, owing to his modest) I,.
so widely known as his
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Warranted, but when ho— s
any moral or public assn ss
always curried convietieo
"These lectures are rst,
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suggestions for the in,
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phusis is laid upon the
careful preparation for
sd,
worship as well as for the
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also upon a catholic apt
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the disturbing different',
both within and without
er:s,yoew
t nenf;;Irde.1 y
apart fro os ' Is
letical value, it would In.
book could be places' in It. Iso
as many Christian leaders .. s,
for it opens the way to R host.,
standing of the hopes and
of our Jewish neighbor s 1,s Is e
ful spirit which makes it ; ssos
nous with the light of a Ise) I
for the coming of Goal's Kossd.
" LAW AND LEGENI
By H.
N. Malik.
"Law and I.egend" or "II
and Aggada" is an essay by th,
Ilebrew poet, II. N. Bialik: trot
from the Ilebrew by Julius I..
and published by Bloch Pub
Co. of New York.
In this essay the poet end
to show that the two great hr
of rabbinical learning go hand it
It is largely believed that 11
and Aggada demanded opposito
illustrating the natural opposit
tween science and poetry.
aims t ()remove this conceptio
finds both completing each oil,.
Jewish past reflected in both of
The essay is a highly interesti
and should go far to encours
study of both the Halakah al
globe.
"A story of the Idle Rich, with their
play at love-making, and the triumph
of at least one of the characters over
all man-made conditions that have
held her own soul in thrall. A fern.
inist story, in which the girl proves
that love untrammelled may prove
the way to happiness and a satisfied
life. In this tale, Mr. Ilersch has
taken a broad canvas, on which the
reader glimpses social conditions of
New York life, and the studio and
cabaret life of the continent, the gam-
bling rooms of Monte Carlo, the in-
trigues of fascinating French women
—the spice in short which goes to the
making of the modern novel of sophis-
tication. In his Palm Beach episodes,
Mr. Ilersch has brought in a situation "THE JEWISH HOLID)
"The Jewish Holidays," a pa
that is decidedly new in American fic-
tion and has handled it well and containing brief descriptions A
boldly. The story is coherent, united alienations of the Jewish h
and festivals, by Elma Ehrlich
and well written."
ger, is a publication of the
l'ublishing Co. of New York
INTIMATE GLIMPSES OF
contents are reprinted fron
THE RABBI'S CAREER Levinger's book "In Many Ise
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Deeds Not Words in This Sale of Sales!
By Dr. Henry Berkowitz.
"IN MANY LANDS
In the Public Ledger of Philadel-
phia there recently appeared an inter-
view of a book by Dr. Henry Berko-
witz, called "Intimate Glimpses of the
Rabbi's Career," published by the
Union of American Hebrew Congre-
gations, by Reverend Dr. John Arch-
ibald Macallum, one of the leading
Presbyterian irdnisterte of that city.
Dr. Berkowitz, who is Rabbi Emeritus
of Keneset Israel Congregation, Phil-
adelphia, was a member of the first
graduating class of the Hebrew Un-
ion College. lie and Dr. David Phil-
lipson are the surviving members of
that class, the other two being the
late Dr. Israel Aaron of Buffalo and
the late Dr. Joseph Krauskopf of
Philadelphia.
In his review Dr. MaCallum says:
"This book is made up of a series of
four lectures delivered to the students
of the Hebrew Union College, Cincin-
nati, in April 1918, with an additional
chapter setting forth Dr. Berkowitz's
centenary address in appreciation of
the splendid service rendered by Rabbi
Isaac M. Wise, whose vision, labors
and inspiration opened the door to a
rabbinical career for a large number
of Jewish youths in this country.
"The first, second and third chap-
ters deal respectively with the rabbi
as minister, teacher and preacher,
while the fourth deals with his ethical
problems.
"As both the title and the circum-
stances of the book suggest, the auth-
or's primary appeal is to Jewish teach-
ers of religion. liut his treatment is
so broad and his insight into human
nature so sympathetic and deep that
every clergyman, and particularly
every student for the ministry, could
read these lectures with profit. Apart
By Elm. Ehrlich Levin/to
"In Many Lands," by Elma
Levinger, is a book of stories
the scattered Jewish people he]
festivals. The book is a worth
panion volume to "Jewish I
Stories" by Mrs. Levinger.
Mrs. Levinger stands in tb
first rank of Jewish writers 1
the last 10 years, have increa
store of suitable books for if
ash youth. She is well known
number of stories, plays and
she has produced as well as
syndicated stories in the Jewisl
Her style is simple and natui
plots are as interesting to gnu
as to children, and her knowlo
things Jewish is wide and ate
tive.
The stories in this new volt]
of unusual charm and interest
is one for every holiday, with
laid in some foreign land
various periods of our history
are founded on fact; all are
and elevating.
An unusual feature in the
an introductory essay explaini
describing each holiday. Thi,
lowed by an original poem bea
the theme of each festival or
"In Many Lands" stories de
themes of Rosh-Ha-Shanah in
Yom Kippur in Holland, Sue
Russia, Simchath Torah in
Chanukah in Bohemia, Purim
many, Passover in Bohemia,
Days in Bohemia, Lag Baomer
estine, Shavuoth in France,
B'Ab in Poland and the Sall
Austria. "In Many Lands"
lished by the Bloch Publishing
New York.
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