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August 16, 1924

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Ten Years Afterwards

need for charity and, if possible. to eliminate poverty.
Merely in terms of sound investment and net cost it
would pay those who contribute large sums to com-
By ABRAHAM CAPLAN
munity chests and local philanthropies to make their
contributions to the Free Loan Association. for many
is ruled by erstwhile agitators and
which require the assistance of the chari-
I distinctly recall the ominous days
of the cases
laborers who wear greasy blouses, at
of August. 1914. It was a quiet,
ties would be avoided if these same people could get
least when they are on dress parade,
Pictures.
gloomy Sunday morning when I
and who talk an economic language
a long-time loan without devouring interest rates.
walked along the streets of the down-
EWS is recorded in pictures as
which, while it is fluid with the blood
In this more realistic age in which we live the old N well as in words. Photographs town section of a large eastern city of innocent men and women, has or
by a friend, a man of
had its roots in the principles of Karl
theory that poverty is an unavoidable incident of life often recite events more tellingly accompanied
scholarly nature, eager intellect and
e e the p ie-
by
Mard
x an K ronotki
is rapidly being relegated to the limbo of many un- than the most forceful sentences
Jewish ideali sm. W e n amed
as-
,
graphic writers. You see a situ ation
ture of P re sident Ebert and like
Bulle-
a
genuine newspaper office s.
country
with
the
wealth
of
America
one
v ith th e
r
e-
its
s.
are
filled
in its vivid reality, not merely
sound ideas. A
p n g American
hourly.
e windosn.
The
in
pp
tins aearedeve
a saddle-maker can be-
flection through the agency
of
the
need have no poverty, and where it is found it comes
e
that
if
h
op
.
n amore ofwte
l•
half h
conic the president of a republic of
word. Thus a is that the
not from lack of social efficiency but due to circum- written
die had been cast and a gloom, tem-
former swaggering Junkers, we may
photographic sections of newspapers
pered
by
a
sense
of mighty, apocalyp-
stances of environment, heredity and other conditions play such an extraordinary part in
attain the presidency of the United
the
.
tic events that might set aright
States, or our son. or son's son.
the
recording
of
current
events.
over which the individual may have no control at the
world's unfavorable situation, seize d
Photographs are numerous. coming
There have been ether adjustments,
us. The man with whom I was walk-
time, but which he may easily control with 'a little as-
from every part of the world. They
have there not? Poland may pick
ing—a mature, positive. kindly Jew
sistance which will not degrade or pauperize.
tell stories of varying import. We
presidents
who raise glistening swords
who quoted the sages, Kant, Tolstoi,
see celebrities smiling at us at gay
when they toast the republic and evict
lierzl and Nordau, and who was at
It must be borne in mind that the pauper is a so-
social parties; statesmen coming to-
bodily Jewish deputies from the Stint
in medicine and rabbinic lore,
cially diseased individual who spreads plague germs gether at momentous conclaves: ath- home
r expressing opinions with candor,
a not uncommon figure in the circles
everywhere. lie is a person with no sense of responsi- letes running at full speed to break of Jewish intellectuals—spoke in pos- but Poland officially is not as it was
records; men and women who have
in the palmy days—a country ruled
bility, no initiative, no stamina or courage, who goes achieved sufficently notable things to site terms:
by French-speaking, hard-drinking,
"This war will be a Godsend if it
lazy landowners cracking whips on
on living his purely parasitic existence. This same in- make camera men cross seas and
does but one thing. If it results in
high places merely to snap them.
the hacks of their serfs and especially
dividual can very often be made into an independent, scale
the defeat of Russia and in the liber-
The world likes to see the faces of
on the limbs of Jewish villagers.
responsible and efficient individual when he is put the persons about whom it reads and ation of Poland. we shall have much
Hungary may look at you through
upon his own resources and given a start toward self- wishes to become, as it were, inti- to be thankful for."
a monocle and wreak its Nordic tem-
It was understandable that a man
mately acquainted with the men an
per on its Jews through a standpat
dependence.
women who do the world's work hit -
with such a point of view would have
numerus clausus. Austria may be
little sympathy for the cause of Ene.
Another phase of the problem which is being faced
mir B io uutst %. , in ath significantway.
infested with hatred for the Jews,
land, France and Belgium. lie did
sparing neither the lowly tradesman
more courageously and directly is the very fact of
usri'de'
not stop to analyze the problem in
e rne t a re pl oa tcheedr alloiente
thestart
that
ar
nor the profsors at the universities
poverty itself. The blame attitude is rapidly disap -
photographs of the English Derby
all its minutiae—if that were pos-
n
or
;scr. the erects
sible—because his grand passion con-
m
th e
nt
nearing, especially among social workers in their
manian patriots may fling Jews fro se
cerned itself with the big, insistent
proach to the problem. The hypocrisy which was char-
and
inescapable
fact
that
Russia
typi-
running
trains and express surpri
ahiTt!
rest , frosn his aarduouslaVoros f aSspt
ed oppressMn. rapacity and savage when people object. But then Czechm
a country (mar whish the
sacristan of many others who tried to patronize the ruler
li
Slovakia is also it result of the war.
subjection of Jew and Pole. Bring
-
credited
e Gteli,ine r arlo tie rR i vas.: a iiii
t edl
dis
,,ei. c i i d
1, 1 cr
however disgruntled we may be with
poverty - stricken is also giving way to a more enlight
Richard
a Jew and a Zionist, it was logical
the variously termed treaty of Ver.
ened view on the subject. If poverty is not a crime or
Croker did when he' was Chief
for him to hope that a free Poland.
sallies, and a measure of composure
for which the Polish nationalists had
o fHall.
a disgrace, yet it is a most degrading and corrosive Sachem
T h
and industry is discernible in Jugs-
o u .);(,nn t,
prayed and in a measure suffered,
si raenv:i a Iwtoom e s .n
ine tumr en n
Slavin.
thing, and the fact remains that many of the better
would be achieved. Anti, illogically
an d b.rokPe
And as I write there looms up an
favored in the community treat the poverty-stricken and Jewesses in hunger-ruled towns enough, he identified with a liberated understanding
between Germany and
Roumania; waifs feast. Poland I as if it were passible to imag- the Allies un that
Poland
as they do the criminal and socially disgraced. The
rather important
wohe
market
t
inc
a
free
Poland
under
the
tutelage
question of paying the piper anti the
sensitive, genteel poverty-stricken individual who is a i'nfepl'oln

Since his return to England. after his most hectic
and picturesque visit to America. Israel Zangwill has
suffered from insomnia which has prevented him from
doing any creative literary work. This is a great loss
to us all. No matter what opinion one may have as
to his political sagacity and social point of view, there
is unanimity that his literary qualities are of the highest
order.
His insomnia is caused by the controversies he had
in America, according to the statement of Mrs. Zang-
will. A more phlegmatic and coarse-grained person
than Israel Zangwill would be a nervous wreck if he
were subjected to the vitriolic and vehement attacks
that were heaped upon him for the honest statement
of opinion upon the vitality of political Zionism. The
unrestrained adverse criticism of his play, "We Mod-
erns," contributed in no small degree to his present
illness. One must have a rhinocerous hide, an impreg-
a
man bo
nable armor, not to be pierced to the heart when the
of an arrogant Germany, raised to
place:Jewish
ggar
a
outlines are visible of a commercial
absolute mastery in Europe as a re-
charity is often destroyed by the taking of to retire for the Mat in her lodgings •
poisoned arrows of partisanship and intolerance are
rc ci lent. Of
treaty between Great Britain and
1 a Nlessianic solution
retain his in a cemetery: homeless refugets
o f
sun
charity, while this same individual would
which may bring usint a to
shot at one from all sides.
Roumanian cities and in Constants- M . the problem of the Jew in Europe, Russia
-
Eneland and through England to
nto acco unt the stark
No man with a purpose as sincere and honest as
mule threatened with exus , on and
i
i
ng
tak
self - respect, his sense of responsibility and indepen
al o
e
America,
anti a deeper respect on
to answer the question of
historical facts bearing on the atti-
Zangwill has been subjected to such calumny and derive, if he should but feel that he has entered into unable
part of Rumia for that home-sp the
"whither," young men and women
tulle of Germany and Austria toward
a contract for the loan of money to tide him over a straining h the Zeasihn tryingo tl walk the Jews as compared with the man- philosophy which sees in orderly
abuse in many a year. In all candor, can he be charged
o
trade relati ns the elements of happi-
difficult time and to enable him to get a new start. . cr a n ss sas
ner in which England and Fra ce had
with self-seeking? Was it for the purpose of exalting
rase rather than in the remotely coin-
er
n
JOilUda 11Slevi ,theurgiri;
ach.
like
acted toward them.
re
e
passionate ideology of communism.
his own ego that he expressed these realistic and
The Free Loan Association is a bank which does
soil of Palestie.
The intensity of feeling expressed
Ten years after the war witnesseth
searching opinions on political Zionism? Was his criti- nut charge interest. No one feels any sense of in- vnu TtrLare two kinds of pictures, by my companion was not true of him
a vari-colored s pectacle. He who sees
alone. The Jews of the world (the
cism of American life due to a cantankerous, conten- feriority or sense of depression when he goes to a
naught but good in the midst of the
Jews of America, at least, since at
tious spirit? As a matter of fact, was it not a highly
bk
world's turmoil has no problem to
an to make a loan when he knows he will get it.
Participation.
that time there WIPP nothing to pre-
solve. He who has given up hope
sensitized and perspicacious soul reacting to the cheap
This form of social prevention represented by the He-
vent a Candid articulation of their
proverbial ingratitude of r re-
that men will be able to dear away
sordidness which obtruded itself all too often? And
brew Free Loan Association has our unqualified ap-
n efun when tihnevi(t'seera thoughts) were confident that the old the debris which they have amassed
shw
was tr
p
order had reached the crack of doom
brew and we would recommend it to every Jew in man government refused to
and regards this mountain of infamy,
could we expect a poetic genius like Zangwill to re-
and that war of Got' and Magog, like
ative of the Jewish clergy
greed and selfishness with such deep
ss
main inarticulate under such conditions? Had he kept
a cleansing tire lighted by the hand
Detroit for his earnest consideration. It is an invest - repremnt
t o addre the memorial service ar-
misgiving as tie make him feel as the
Gail. had been unleashed. The
silent it would not have been Zangwill, for his senten-
ment that will pay social dividends and may even pay ranged, on the tenth anniversary of of
Israelitish messenger , felt when they
pangs of the world in travail would
the war. in honor of the fallen salt
went to spy out the land of Canaan
tious, keen intellect cannot permit error and absurdity actual dollar dividends.
be
heard
and
groans
would
be
clanged
diem. Some will dispute the appli-
need not bother about getting a
forth by vast guns on land and tor-
to pass unnoticed and uncriticized. But it has ever
cation of the term republic to the
shovel and helping to remove it. But
pedoes on the seas.
German government and will insist
been thus. Crimes are more readily forgiven than are
he who faces the facts neither with
I recall these throbbing, expectant
that the present rulership is an in-
hopelessness nor with soft assurance
The Jassy Tragi-Comedy.
disturbing, barbed ideas. The Philistine mind wants
sentiments of the Jews because, only
terreenum which will he succeeded
knows how short we are of the king-
complacency above all things and especially is this
a few years later, with the change in
by a restoration of the Hohenzollern
dam of God or the rule of justice and
Some of the attitudes and actions of Roumanian
the winds of fate, more definite and
dynasty. Whatever may be the case,
true in the realm of ideas from which it derives the
democracy. The day when the sun
Jewry are pitifully absurd. A howl is raised that the fact remains that the spirit of the logical develpoments occurred. The will shine with a luster many times
pleasurable sense which comes from the feeling of
advent of America into the arena,
German peoPlee is still governed by
grave injustices are being done and serious discrimina- the militaristic ardor which the erst- practical anti necessary as it may greater than now and the light of
doing a glorious act without requiring any activity.
the moon will be as the light of the
have been from the standpoint of the
emperor spouted forth with
sun, as the pamare in the prayer o
The American Zionist, whose Zionism for the most part tion is practiced while all the while their own ridicu- while
Allied powers, was heralded as a
ceaseless iteration. The offense which
welcome for the new moon has it,
consists in lip service to the ideal and money contribu-
token of rational factors playing their
lous position is either ignored or minimized.
the Jewish community of Berlin took
may be winging its way toward us
part in the eventual adjustment of
the snubbing received from the
tiona, was the most venomous in his attack. His emo-
from the far places whence travel the
Word comes that the authorities at the University at
the problems of the broken, war-
Ebert government does not augur for
slowest-moving of the stars. But, like
tions were vicarious and consequently more vicious and
of Jassy will not graduate Jewish medical students the superior judgment of the German dazed world. Wil son's stimulating the coming
dv
atter of h te M essiah, its aent
of ideals
g
unrestrained. During the war those farthest removed
the tilting
ctr
who have not completed the required work in dissec- Jews. What could they expect from doine,
for us to determine. As
is a m
recastingg
a government which, for all its fine
the gauge of
!feral
said
with
reference
tee
Pales-
from the actual carnage and those who were in the
tion. The students have been unable to complete the
democratic phrases, reflects a war-
th
of thin gs, somehow. filled men with
tine, it is a question of human will,
least danger of actual participation clamored loudest
e thought that. though the origin
work because they have no Jewish corpses to dissect
mad, vengeance-ruled people? Kings
the thoughtful, ordered and withal
the war was obscured by a tangle
for complete annihilation of Germany. If they had had
inasmuch as the rabbis prohibited such use and the may act like fools and presidents may of
God-tinged desire of men to make
of lies and vices, it mattered little
play the part of knaves. Ebort must
the world a place in which they may
an opportunity for primary emotional expression
university insists that Jewish students must use only have forgotten that 96,000 Jews en
the end would contrast so meg-
reach a state worthy of human aspir-
through contact or activity they would have been leas Jewish corpses, consequently this impasse. We do listed voluntarily and constitute d 1 '
nificently with the beginning. And
ation.
d
men hoped and hoped and hope
cent of all who joined the army
murderous and vindictive. The American soldiers at
not for a moment suggest that the university authori- per
What we need to realize is that
unurged: that 12,000 Jewish soldiers
again.
every day marks a beginning anti
the front had a kindlier feeling than did the non-com-
ties are using reason and judgment, but that hardly
were killed; that four-fifths of the
Well, there were adjustments, were
nothing, however glamorous, consti-
batants, especially those who could not by any chance
excuses the rabbis from blame. There are many dif- Jewish fighters battled at the front; there not? We can point to changes tutes the end. Ten years after the
that 35,000 were decorated for
undreamed of before the war. Rus-
be called to the front. Zangwill was unfortunately the
outbreak of the war men may feel
ferent opinions among rabbis as to the propriety of
sia is not ruled by a half-witted Czar
bravery.
disillusioned. But what of that?
the use of Jewish bodies for scientific purposes with
Bourbons never forget but republi-
and a band of beastly bureaucrats. It
victim of a group which has not the remotest idea of
Prohibition
cans have short memories. So it
even going to Palestine and trying to find out at first
the more enlightened favoring such use.
would seem. The Jews of Germany
hand the possibilitites of achieving political Zionism.
of this kind postponed the development of medical
should have known better than to in-
Zangwill should be able to derive a grim satisfac-
science for ten centuries, and are we now to place ob- sist that they, too, be included in a
SHAKING THE DUST OF SOVIET RUSSIA
tion from the actual activities of the Zionist leaders,
stacles in the way of our own people because of a war memorial service.
who are stressing the need for actual home building
disputed question of dogma? We are all ready to
Laughter.
By DR. ISAAC GOLD
and development in Palestine, and soft-pedaling the
submit ourselves to the helpful ministrations of the
AUGHTER, declared a New York
surgeon and physician and are thankful for the benefi-
professor, is on the verge of dy-
political aspects of the movement.
preparing themselves to shak e o the
In many respects Weizmann resembles his country- cent discoveries made in the field of medicine and
ing. The onward progress of the
Numeus
reports from Russia
ro
dust tit Russia off their feet in rde r
world, said he, bringing in its train
man, Lenin. Ile has the capacity of changing his mind
surgery, and do not hesitate to use all the skill and sobriety and evenly distributed com- have disclosed how the Soviet gov-
nowunt an d build a homeland of
afer he discovers that his original plan or policy is un-
ability they possess, and yet our rabbis do not hesitate fort, will destroy the incongruities ernment has been persecuting anti im. ttheir "
The fact with regard to these
sound or ineffective. For this ability Lenin earned the to make it next to impossible to enable these students and inequalities ch give rise to prisoning Jews for no other crime
mourns the catas-
groups are to be found in a recent
And he whi
than that
that they are Zionists. It is not
than
reputation of the ablest statesman in Europe. Both
to be graduated. Fortunately for us, we have no such laughter.
trophe which is about to engulf us.
number of a Publication known as the
easy to fathom the motives behind
have a stubborn, ruthless attitude toward those who
situations confronting us in America, but it is our can- The laugh is breathing its last.
liechaluz which ant-tears in Warsaw.
this barbarous and senseless perseem
The 100 groups consist of 2.900 niem-
What can we do? We must have
do not agree with them and in the case of Lenin many did opinion that not a single rabbi of any group would
tion. It is even likely that the Soviet
laughter at all costs. We love to
officials believe that they are aveng-153)ers besides 1.000 candidates for
died who had the misfortune to see the matter in the interpose an objection.
laugh and we are perturbed by the
ing themselves in this manner agaiWtst °membership. Seventy tier cent of
same light in which Lenin saw it later. Perspicacity.
that conditions are PO shap-
capitalistic England, for is England them are n you e men. The age of the
Another startling thing that comes out in this news thought
themselves as to threaten its con-
un-
majority is between 15 and 22 year,
•
not the mandatory of Palestine and
class are ing
l •ticat ability and honesty were vices in Russia
an
•
tinued
existence.
Hence
we
suggest
and only 15. per cent are above 24
less four views coincided with those of Lenin at the par- report is that 70 per cent of the graduating
the protector of the Zionist move-
that at least 50 per cent of the
is
about
time
that
we
stopped
crying
wolf
years. Only those are accepted as
ment?
Such
shrewd
"diplomatic"
rea-
ca- Jews. It
world's children he prevented from
members who work themselves and
ticular time. To differ with Weizmann is not so
soning and international reprisals
larnitous or costly as it was to differ with Lenin. You and ask what are the actual facts concerning ewish
the going beyond the third grade at would be in keening with the states- are preparing themselves for Pales-
school; that the child labor laws be
not 70 n Roumania. the Surely the J
tine in one of the occupations which
manship
of
the
Jewish
communists.
It
are only cast out into the outer darkness and are held numerus clausus i
forthwith revoked; that sober auto-
the of R
are indicated by the responsible com-
is to be hoped that the opinion ex-
mobile drivers be penalized and
up to ridicule if you differ from Weizmann ; although population is per cent of
mittee of the organization.
about
d
raise
pressed in some quarters, that with
mania. In one breath a hue and of
drunken ones be rewarded with
the resumption of treaty relations
Most of the groups engage in in-
will no doubt eventually come to your position if it
re-estab-
discrimination because 70 per cent cra class of st udents French champagne; that we
between
England
and
Russia
this
per-
dustrial and agricultural occupations.
erfdom and
s institution of
is practical, sound and advantageous. Weizmann is a
pidly arbi- lish the
secution will cease, will be justified
There are 200 in Odessa who are en-
be g rad uate d on
a stu. authorities. give a unanimous call to Wilhelm II by the events.
gaged in market gardening. weaving
great statesman because he does know when to change cannot tand on the part of
count
ofersity
acthe
u n iv
to take charge of the German state.
trary s
and sewing, the groups maintaining
Hence it is all the more remarkable
Other suggestions crowd in upon us
his mind,
For too long a time we have made the inquiry:
their own establishments in the vari-
that, despite this policy of suppress
and we are weighing them as to their
les us— that the present indisposition of Zangwill
number
• number of
die
Ilnl.
we
°mains
m
OUP
ous
JON
S.
mon
and
persecution
there
to the
with So-
_
doing
serviceable character. But with
What
are
they
around Odessa, an agricultural
will soon pass away. We need his keen intellect and
say that much. grievously vietism enjoying a palmy era of chop- Russia a branch of the World Ilecha- groups
group of 10 in Zacherevka, a dairy
his creative powers. He is one of the few men of today understood we want to
luz, an international organization
ping off heads and American mothers
farm in Berzevka, a tobacco plants-
much, has been done to the Jews, but now it is not at
whose work consists of helping its
urged to adopt the slogan "I shall
devoted to improving the quality of humanity.
tion in Ribnitza, a group of fishermen
members to prepare themselves for
all improper to inquire: What are the Jews doing?
raise up my boy to be a soldier,"
in Otehakov and another agricultural
pioneering in Palestine. The organiz-
there
is
yet
a
chance
for
laughter
to
They are a minority people in Roumania, but are,
group in Domianovka.
ation consists of groups of young men
hold its own in this cruel world. We
The organization has also a num-
Free
Loan
Association.
and
women
whn
work
at
the
various
must
make
the
world
safe
for
laugh-
Every community in America has contributed its however, entitled to the same rights and privileges as
ber of industrial plants fur technical
occupations which they intend to pur-
to European relief, Keren Ilayesod, Community any other people. This is the democratic creed which ter.
training. In Moscow there is a lock-
sue in Palestine, mastering the vari-
smith shop as well as a carpentry
ous trades and at the same time
quota
"1-deals."
Chest and every form of charity and quasi-charity. All we hold is applicable everywhere in the world. But
shop. A number of them are also pre-
studying the Hebrew language. A
the contributions were made with a feeling of duty the democratic creed does not imply that a minority
S'N years ago a clever European
paring themselves in the electrical
group may consist of several hundred
Jewish woman, who did much
welll done and with a sense of satisfaction that comes people are entitled to special privileges or favors. The
technical institute. The Moscow
or only half a dozen. They work not
traveling across the length and
branch consist-, of 55 members who
only in the various agricultural fields
from agenerous impulse. All these activities were and Roumanian
authorities
do
not
ask
the
Jews
to
furnish
breadth of this country, made some
live in three houses of their own.
but
also
at
other
crafts,
such
as
car-
corpses for Christian students, they ask each religious

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era

T -

gen
ary and
often
pressing.
necess
Hebrew
Free
Loan
Association does not appeal group to furnish its own corpses. There is no discrirnin-
are The
to the imagination so largely r forcibly and conse- ation to this, although we do think such a rule rather
quently many are left rather cold and untouched by silly inasmuch as one corpse is the same as another

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its appeal. The purpose of the organization comes for the purposes of
the science.
whole matter lies in the fact that
properly in the field of social prophylactics, it is a pre-
t
ventive for charity, delinquency and dependence. Be- the Jew has been the victim so ofen in the last ten
ears that even in those cases wher e he is at fault we
y
cause of its prophylactic character. too many pay little
do not hesitat e to lend an ear an to his
attention to it. This ignoring attitude is not confined
realism
lit tle co
any of these pr oblems whi ch wring tears from u s
he individual in matters of health, education and home
needfor tea r shedding . If the Jew-
life. How many men and women will not visit a doctor where there is no
to ecome
healers of men
b
dentist unless the illness or decay has progressed to ish medical st udents want
or
they will ha ve to submit for the present and at the
the painful state, limiting efficiency and diminishing
same time continue an agitation for the abolition of
the capacity to enjoy.
The Free Loan Association proposes to reduce the a rule of very dubious value.

keen-edged observations on the life
and character of the American Jew-
ish woman. Speaking of her inanres-
sions when she first found herself in
the society of prosperous Jewish mat-
rons, she remarked that her ears were
assailed be the oft-repeated word
"ideal." Her idealistic European
heart was quickened and refreshed.
She had come to America on a mis-
sion of idealism, had she not? And
to discover that the mind of the
American .Jewess was stirred by
"ideals" was a delicious experience.
Were she in America today she would
find even more of these "ideals." In-
deed, we question whether she would
hear a word more frequently spoken,
unless it be "bridge, "poker and
"pinochle." This is the age of
"I-deal" par excellence.

pentry, blacksmithing and even bas-
ket-weaving. The members submit
to a very rigid discipline. Candidates
for membership are very carefully ex-
amined with respect to their moral as
well as physical qualifications before
they are accepted.
It is a matter of additional interest
and of historic, or, shall we say, geo-
graphic irony, that most of the chi.
luzim groups in Russia are located in
the very district where, it was re.
cently heralded. a Jewish autonomous
state was to be established by the
grace of the Soviet government. Right
there, where the Jews were, so to
speak, to root themselves into the
soil of holy Russia forever, are lo-
cated 65 out of the 100 chaluzim
groups within the Soviet domains,

re.

There are 42 in Petrograd, where
they have hired a ^ark factory. There
are similar eatab'iahments in other
places. A shoemaker's !hop has been
established in Ycknterinoalav with
the aid of the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee. The latter, it appears, has
been assisting these groups generous-
ly, while the Ort, the Hechaluz
charges, has been ignoring them de-
spite the fact that the Oct was organ-
ized on the principles which guide
their activity.
The cultural work of these groups
consists of studying Hebrew, the
geography of Palestine and econom-
ics. The cultural work, however, is
hampered by lack of means and the
prohih'tion. against the publication of
material.

Ae" 191.

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