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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1925

VOL. XVIII. NO. 17

cause we are too proud."
"flow is that?" asked the Graf.
"Well," replied he, "now that the
donkeys are organizing and calling
themselves 'Progressives,' we have
given up riding on donkeys in order
to avoid seeming to mix in politics."

schutz, the famous rabbi of Prague,
saying:
"How is it, holy rabbi, that fashions
have changed with your Jews so
much? Moses and his wife rode on a
donkey from Midian to Egypt, and
you say the Messiah will conic riding
in similar style, yet we never sec a
Jew nowadays ride any animal but
The most anxious man In a prison
is the governor.
horse?"
"It is because we wish to refrain
Life levels all men. Death reveals
from offending anybody, that is all,"
It is not be- the eminent.
answered the rabbi.

Hebrew Teachers College of Palestine

Expenses Involved in Settling
Russian Jews on the Prairie

The average cost for settling a Jew. expense. A habitable dwelling, a liv-1
ish family as farmers in Russia is able home, costs at least 600 rubles.
be tween $200 and $250. The maxi- Toward this the J. D. C. advances one-1
mum cost, according to Dr. Joseph A. half, and for the erection of homes
Rosen, noted American agricultural for the 420 families, it advanced 105,-
expert who is in charge of the Amer- 000 rubles, approximately $52,500.
ican Jewish Joint Distribution Coni- The items that come next are horses,
mittee's colonization work in that cows, oxen, sheep. The plan is that
ountry, is 1,197 rubles, or approxi- every family shall have one horse, one
c
mately $600 in American money. Dr. cow, and five sheep. One bull is sup-
Rosen adds that there have been a Plied for every sixty families. To
number of instances where the cost obtain items cost the group under con-
went no higher than 184 rubles. To- sideration 96,950 rubles, toward
ward this cost, the advances of the which the J. D. C. contribution was
Joint Distribution Committee run somewhat over one-third, or 38,800
from 130 to 520 rubles. These costs rubles. It also gave about one-third
depend upon the location where the of the cost of the farming implements
family settles, and the kind of farm- required by the colonies. These cost
ing undertaken. The money supplied 43,400 rubles, and the J. I). C. con-
by the Joint Distribution Committee tr ibution was 14,450 rubles, which
is mainly in the form of loans which also supplied seeds and tractors with-
out cost to the colonists.
the colonists are required to repay.
Certain stretches of land in the
Dr. Rosen who has come on from
also to help those who can ly currants. The families going in for
Ru s sia to attend the nation-wide con- Crimean colonies are especially suit- It aims
this form of farming can remain in
ference in Philadelphia on September able . for vineyards. To install these become farmers without migrating their home towns because the develop-
12th and 13th, called by David A. requires special expenditures. Five long distances away from their homes,
ment is being carried out in a district
Brown, Felix M. Warburg, Louis Mar- thousand dessiatine (13,500 acres) and part of the work of Dr. Rosen and
adjacent to old Jewish settlements.
shall, and 200 other representative were planted in grapevines at a cost his associates is to adjust them to
Jews to discuss plans for the man- of 9,450 rubles, toward which the J. local farming conditions. These oper- Four of these co-operatives have been
established bus far, and of these only
sins and intensification of the great D. C. paid out 8,150 rubles. The spe- ations, which involve no uprooting of one is composed of families coming
homes and habits, cost much less than
Russian Jewish agricultural coloniza- cial implements for vine culture coat the pioneering operations. This is es- from distant points. For the last, the
tion movement, has brought with him 8,000 rubles, which was met entirely pecially true of the farming collec- cost has naturally been higher, run-
by the J. D. C.
ning to 340 rubles, and the J. D. C's
a mass of data showing the cost of
The classification of expenditures tives in White Russia and the hop-
the operations involved. His figures
growing groups which the J. D. C. share per family, 190 rubles.
are based on actual settlement in the by the J. D. C. reveal that this organ-
helped establish in Wolhynia. The
Reducing the costs to American dol-
various regions where the new colo- ization contributes nothing toward
the traveling expenses of the pioneer- members of these co-operatives ob- lars, the money advanced by the J. D.
nies are rapidly establishing them-
tain only a half dessiatine (1.3,5 acres) C. to help a family settle•on the soil
ing
families.
In
this
they
are
helped
selves. They, throw light also on the
per family, and the plowing, seeding,
various branches of agriculture in by the government which allows spe- staking and cultivation, costs only runs from $65 to $260. If the num-
which the colonists are engaging. cial low rates on the railroads for about 187 rubles (including imple- ber of families who have become farm-
Twenty-five thousand Jews are al- colonists, as is the custom of far-west- ments) toward which the J. D. C. con- ers without making the long trek were
ern and southern railroads in Amer-
larger, the average advance, according
ready settled as farmers, and the
tributes 130 rubles.
to Dr. Rosen, would not exceel $150.
plans that will he broached at the ica. Railroad tickets are sold to colo-
nists
at
about
25
per
cent
of
the
reg-
The low cost, 183 rubles ($92), to- But, he says, there is very little avail-
Philadelphia conference contemplate
ular
price.
Nor
does
the
J.
D.
C.
able land ill West Russia, and espe-
ward
which
the
J.
D.
C.
contributes
the settling of 100,000 by the end of
supply food for the colonists or fodder 130 rubles, is that of settling a family cially in those sections where Jewish
1927.
for
their
animals.
These
expenses
along the southern part of the Dnei- population is thickest. In White Rus-
The maximum figure, 1,197 rubles,
sia, the only land available is widely
is required for the settlement of a most be met by the colonists from per River. Here the soil is especially
their own resources. It is therefore rich-bottomed and the sandy surface scattered, and to settle there means
family in the northern part of Cri-
necessary that each family shall have is suitable for orcharding, particular- isolation. Jews are unwilling to live
mea, and is based on experience with
at least 400 rubles which they must
420 families, say 2,000 men, women
and children. These 420 families com- invest in operation. According to Dr.
Rosen's figures, the average cost per
prise seven colonies occupying a
keL Lr aqL 112kW. Li=
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family, of the 420 families under dis- MLILIqLr-
0 U0110 621Sr.S UClUC1 Ue.1 Ue.1
stretch of 28,350 acres. The first op-
cussion,
was 1,197 rubles, toward
eration, obviously, is to make a sur-
vey of the land. The cost of the sur- which the J. D. C.'s average contribu-
vey is borne entirely by the J. D. C., tion was 521 rubles.
Practically the same figures cover
and in this particular instance, was
f,300 rubles. There were very few the operations in Cherson Gubernia,
in
the vicinities of Seide Menueha.
wells on the land in question, and a
goodly number were filled with de- Bobroy-Kut, and the Krivoy-Rog dis-
trict,
in which are settled the largest
bris or out of order due to disuse.
The existing wells had to be put into number of colonists who have come
during the past year from Kieft,
usable condition, and new ones dug.
The expense involved, 12,000 dubles, Tchernigov, Wolhynia, and other Gu-
hernias (provinces) of West Ukraine.
was also met by the J. D. C.
The first great need of the colo- The differences between the costs of I r
. nists is shelter. The pioneers come these settlements and those in North
to naked prairie, and their first job is Crimea are slightly in favor of the
to make dugouts or build shacks. But former, due to the fact that less seed-
after the dugouts have been made, ing is required, and that the colo-
or the shacks set up, thought must be nista have not gone in for sheep rain- , L jl
ing. Here the average cost is about
given to the building of more perma-
nent houses to protect the pioneers 1,170 rubles, toward which the J. D.
514 rubles.
and their families when cold weather C. advances about
The efforts of the J. D. C., how-
sets ,in.
ever,
are
not
confined
to the pioneers.
This is one of the largest items of

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that sort of life. They want Jewish
contacts. They want them especially
for their children. That is one of the
reasons why they prefer to make the
long trek where compact settlement
is possible, and where Jewish cultural
contacts can be established. For these
reasons the average amount required
from the J. I). C. is between $200 and
$250 per family.
Finally, it must be borne in mind
that since the J. D. C. contributions
are mainly loans, a large part of the
money furnished by the American or-
ganization to the colonists will even-
tually be returned—forming a revolv-
ing fund for the assistance of an ever-
increasing number of new Jewish colo-
nists.

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