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,AarleriealH Palish Periodical Carter

CLIFTON AVINUI • CINCINNATI 30, OHIO

PAGE SEVEN

ZOE nerlis.WrdEMSfl al RON io r,

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JEWISH FARMERS
MULTIPLY IN U. S.

le One

The
inter-
author
ill live

Report Shows Number Has Grown
to 75,000 .
from 200 in 1900

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labor, buy and girl through the loan, I
labor, settlement, extension and sani-
tation departments, the report shows.
The loan department, since its es-
tablishment in 1900, has granted
7,441 loans aggregating $4,762,000.1
covering 39 states. Repayment of 1
loans is spread over a long period and
the report shows there is no exaction
of bonus or commission or payment
of renewal charges. Losses during
the 25 years have been less than 4
per rent.
Farm employment had been ob-
tained for 15,755 Jewish young men
since the labor department was estab-
lished in 1908, (142 being placed last

TEN COMMANDMENTS
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Jews In Soviet Russia

" America' s Best"

By RABBI DR. M. EISENSTADT,
In the London Jewish Chronicle.

1);
,i.rti I,:
i viii.i rt yo iseecrtitionuis, cpla ar s t s i e csu . I att;u
1.T. itioi
,1,1,1wu; ca°,,n! ..1
All Creeds Approve Reading ti,! ,.;r t e ir ie sin.in, c ,es 't tchoennii3 :tii'nhgevvisi wr
been heard as to the position of the help in particular is first of all re-
NEW YORK.—Ravid development
Without Comment as
Jews under the Soviet regime. It quired for the Jews in the Ukraine.
of the Jew as an American farmer
was stated, on the one hand, that the otherwise they will succumb alto-
Social Foundation.
Jew 1900, when there were only 200
, persecution of the Jews had ceased, gether."
Jew,-h farm families in the United
• that n new era had dawned upon The representatiVe inquired about
States owning 12,029 acres, to the
A I" — ItePre - them, but from other sources conic the project to settle Jews in the tri-
N VW l' Ilti'• —0
Episcopal-
. Eisenstadt replied
present with 75,000 owning more
h Dris
I sehtstivcs of the Catholic,
ian, Congyegayi,,,,Hii,y, methodist HMI ! news of the most appalling distress mea, to vchic
than 1,000,000 acres, is shown in a
a
at be A this
,
and
misery,
of
a
war
on
religion
and
and,
in
fact,
a
mere
drop in the ocean.
report issued by the Jewish Agricul-
t-
act,
at a mee
Jewi ' h faiths were P resent'
Dr. William
J. mere
pale,
persecution of Zionists.
government
not much free
u has
tural Society, Inc.
I ing in the office of
r thousand Jews operate farms
O'Shea, New York City Superinten- '
In vi ew of these conflicting opin- land to offer and it cannot forcibly
.
in Ni" York state alone and the so-
' dant of Schools, Whene a movement to ion , the narrativ e 0
take it away from the peasants; thus,
The extension department main-
ciety, headed by Percy S. Straus,
the Ten Commandments read in Eisenstadt given to a representative whatever they would be able to util-
tains a purchasing service bureau and , : hair
the public schools was approved by lot the London Jewish Chronicle is of ize is quite unimportant. 'Then, it
pre-ident, and Gabriel Davidson, gen-
, the department publishes the Jewish
eral manager, is assisting others who
them A request to change the by- extreme interest. Dr. Eisenstadt, must be remembered that to trans-
Farmer, the only Yiddish agricultural
e to Dike up land. Ilelp also is
Incas to allow this to be done probab- who has recently arrived in France plant even 2,0011 or 3,000 families
given to the farmer, the farm woman, magazine in the world.
1 y w 'ill I ie p resented at the next noel-. from Russia, has been chief rabbi of would cost a fortune, and this can-
g rad (then St. l'etersburg), not lie a solution of the Russo-Jewish
.s
ing of t he It ear( 1 o f k Education. The Leningrad
e
where Sc way greatly s- problem. It is to he deprecated,.
movement was started by Miss Ireton since1910,
nt er the' teemed for his wide culture, his Jews therefore, that false hopes are being
de
P. MeCermiek, presi
ish
knowledge
and Talmudic learn- given by prominent persons abroad."
Brooklyn l' atholie Big Sisters.
"I have liven asked to issue an order jag, with which he combines dignity
Deplorable Religious Situation.
which would make the reading of the' and personal charm. Ile now resides
1(r. Eisenstadt, in reply to a roes-
, Ten Commandments in the schools ob. in Paris, where he was invited on the lion as to the position of Judaism, as
ligatorY," said Dr. O'Shea. "I would initiative of the Grand Rabbi to be- distinct from the economic condition
: not give such an order no matter what : ntuits
come rabbi of the liusso.Jewish cons- of the Jews, said that this was even
' I thought personally, because such
— le 'hirable "Other religious
Disastrous Position of Jews,
u
an order is a legislative matter to
llowed to give religious
!he taken up by the Board of Educe--In reply to the representative's in. bodies are a
quirt' as to the present position of the instruction to small groups of chit-
by.
' (ions it is a question Whether the
. dren after school hours. The Chris-
law Which allows the reading to the Jews in Russia, hi' sal(.
/111(1 Mohammedans have availed
- The position of the Jews there Is thins
pupils of a portion of the Bible at the
themselves of the opportunity, but
I opening of the school day, without catastrophic. It is true that in prin. Ja'w's are alone singled out and are
comment, does not cover the reading ciple there is no distinction between forbidden to teach their chili ren.
ews,
of t h Ten Commandments without Jews and non-, hut in fact the
comment, for the Commandments are • ditTerence is very great. as far as the Synagogues
but religious
in-
struction is are
not open
allowed.
The Che.
a part of the Bible. Personally, I do ntass of Jew s are concerto: . It mw
darini and Jewish schools have been
, not think any change in the liy-laws be borne in mind that Su per cent of closed and .newish teachers who have
is necessary for the proposed read-, the Jews are neither manual workers given religious instruction to groups
I nor government officials -- the two of children have been arrested, so
ing."
Miss McCormick Mikis the opinion classes which are privileged. The that they are intimidated and dare
itizen
one
Jews are mainly traders and belong
that in order to be a true c
not take the risk."
must start laying the foundation of to hi. non-proletariat class which is
Asked whether the government was
citizenship when a child is of tender persecuted, and the population has responsible for the prohibition.
years. Those interested, including the been reduced to poverty.
"No," replied Dr. Eisenstadt, "as I
Superintendent of Schools, believe' "To give you an example: The have already said, in principle and
that there call be nothing objection- people of this class have no right to before the law, all are alike, and no
able to any creed in the reading of be elected or to vote, they have even distinction is made between one re-
the Law of Moses, no voice in the management of their ligious body and another. In fact,
Section Sixty-six, Subdivision Thir- „ )v0 ,households, and they are taxed when the question was brought to the
ty-three of the by-laws reads: "The beyond their swans. Their children notice of the government, it rightly
regular assemblies of all schools shall are compelled to pay heavy fees for denied that it made any discrimina-
be opened by reading to the pupils a ordinary education, be they even
tion on account of religious belief.
portion of the Bible, without cont. poorer than the proletariat class. This This, however, is merely true in
ment." To this the proposed results- is equally the ease with hospital treat- theory, but in fact it is otherwise, for
tion would add: "And at least one of I ment. Should there be room avail- which not the government but the
stub readings each week shall consist able, heavy fees are demanded, other- Jewish Communists are to be blamed.
of the reading of the Ten Command- (wise admittance is refused, and a man All Jewish affairs have been relegated
mods, without comment." of the non-proletariat class can die to a Jewish department known as
The resolution contains this state- in the streets; it is to this non-privi- 'Jevsekzia' (the abbreviation of
ment: leged class that the majority of the 'Jewish section'), which is in the
"The child deprived of a prelimi- Jews belong, and it is obvious, there- hands of Jewish Communists who en-
nary training and knowledge of the , fore, that they suffer most. The goy- force the measures against the teach- I
Ten Commandments is deprived of the I ernment finds itself forced to act in ing of Judaism. The persecution of
social and civic foundation necessary this way through lack of funds and a the Zionists. and the use of Ilebrew
number of hospitals and asylums have
to permit the child developing a requi-
as a bourgeois language must also be •
site and proper social, moral and civ- been closed down in consequence of attributed mainly to the Jewish Cons-'
You can pay monthly if you wish, • little at • time.
ic viewpoint to insure to such child their inability to keep them up. If monists. The government, it must
NO NEED TO WAIT.
proper social adjustment in its latter this is true of the big towns of Rus- be remembered, recognizes all small,
community contacts and life as a citi- sia, it is considerably worse in the nationalities, excepting the Jewish."
Ukraine, and for these in particular
zen of the City of New York." The
In conclusion, Rabbi Dr. Eisenstadt
I wish to plead. There are thou-
signers are Miss McCormick, Fred-
expressed the hope that the civilized
sands and tens of thousands of chil-
erick Boyd Stevenson, president of the
world will raise its voice and that
dren who are practically without
Protestant Laymen's Association, and
protests will go out through the press
Is an-
Alexander II. Geismar, president of clothing, and the death rate
and platform to induce the Russian
the Jewish Federation of Charities. palling. The tendency for sonic time government to issue a decree in order
has been to move to the big towns,
to prevent the Jewish Communists
and the Leningrad Jewish community
Woodward Plays to Repeat now numbers 55,000 souls. Their from exterminating Judaism.

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In
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part of 1924, the of-
"Who Cares?" is a delightful little
play which, with gentle irony and ficials of the Belle Isle Creamery
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were
approached by Rabbi
whimsical humor, conveys the idea
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children or by children alone. rey. The neighbor suggested to him
Although symbolic in character, ex- that they interview the officials of
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ters.
Dr. Goldsmith, the author, has been creamery considered it from a view-
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20 years. She served as chairman of thought of something other t an
it WWI
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National Council of Jewish Women. not a new• thought with them. For
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it
in
the
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she same
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1925
spring and summer wear. sentiment, and so in
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