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and glaciers in their shadowy recesses
working in silence, slowly completing
their sculptures; new-born lakes at
their feet, blue and green, free or en-
cumbered with drifting icebergs like
miniature Arctic Oceans, shining,
sparkling, cal nuts stars."

Who does not know of the Yosemite
Valley? And yet, how few have heard
of the Yosemite National Park? flow
few know that this world-famous, in-
comparable valley is merely a crack
seven miles ! ing in a scenic master- Newton D. Baker Praises Work
piece of eleven square miles!
of Joseph Hershey and
John Muir loved the valley and crys-
Wishes Him Success.
tallized its fame in phrase.
But still more he loved the National
Great pleasure is expressed by
Park, which,he describes as including
"innumerable lakes and waterfalls Newton D. Baker, former secretary
and smooth silky lawns; the noblest of war, in a letter to Joseph Her-
forests, the loftiest domes, the deep- shey, candidate for the city council,
est ice-sculptured canyons, the bright- at the news that Mr. Hershey is con-
est crystalline pavements, and snowy tinuing in Detroit an interest in mu-
mountains soaring into the sky twelve nicipal affairs that had its inception
and thirteen thousand feet, arrayed a number of years ago, when Mr.
'in 6pen ranks and spiry-pinnacled Hershey served under Mr. Baker, then
groups partially separated by tremen- Mayor of Cleveland.
"As one of our old friends," writes
dous canyons and ampitheaters; gar-
dens on their sunny brows, avalanches Mr. Baker, "it interests me to know
that
you are identifying yourself with
thundering down their long white
slopes, cataracts roaring gray and the life of that great city (Detroit)
foaming in the crooked rugged gorges, and carrying on there the activities

which you began here in the three
fine years you spent in the city gov-
ernment when I was mayor of Cleve-
land."
Included in Mr. Hershey's platform
are proposals for the establishment
of conciliation departments in connec-
tion with both justice and recorder's
courts. These departments, as Mr.
Ilershey will explain from the plat-
form during his campaign, would
eliminate a host of petty litigations
and entirely needless misdemeanor
prosecutions, which at present clutter
up the court docket, at great public
expense.

Whilst we have prisons it matters
little which of us occupys the cells.

t is the thought of God in a per-
son's life that makes him godly. The
ungodly are simply those that do not
take God seriously into consideration;
the godly are those that seek His will
in all things. Pray that we may medi-
tate on Him, and learn to love Him.

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NEED FOR LOCAL JEWISH CENTER

By SENATOR JAMES COUZENS

The New Year for the Jews is at hand and undoubtedly
it will mark the beginning of many new resolutions. .While
it is customary on Jan. 1 of each year for many new resolu-
tions to be made, it has become customary to treat them
humorously. These resolutions are made along the lines
of better conduct, more humanitarianism and a greater
consideration and respect for each other. These resolu-
tions should not be treated lightly or made the subject of
the humorist. While we must have a sense of humor and
while we must not take ourselves too seriously, it is well
that we take our personal conduct and behavior seriously
and that these resolutions mean more than something to be
said and then forgotten.
The whole United States is stirred up over the preva-
lence of crime of all kinds and of all degrees. What is the
cause of this? That is the question on nearly everyone's
lips.
Recently my attention has been drawn to the activities
of many Jewish centers and Jewish forums throughout the
country, who in the main are devoting themselves to social,
educational and civic subjects. They also are interested
in Jewish education and the perpetuating of Jewish values
among their children, by teaching them in their Hebrew
schools the traditions and culture of the Jews.
Might not Detroit establish one of these centers? We
have a great many very brilliant and competent Jews
among us, who could do a great deal of good among their
own people as well as among all of us.
Why not dedicate the New Year to the problems con-
fronting the nation and aid in leading the way to the solu-
tion of this crime wave, for example, and the making of
crime in America less prevalent? Why not, through a cen-
ter, demonstrate to the American public that the Jews
know how and can lead the way. My own experience and
observations are that they have the ability and what per-
haps is needed is demonstrated leadership.
My sincere wishes go out to you in the New Year for
the greatest degree of happiness and contentment which
I am sure you know is not attained by materialism. Let
all of us do what we can in the coming year to demonstrate
that the European viewpoint of the United States as to ma-
terialism is not well founded and that we know how to
conduct ourselves spiritually and socially as no other
nation.
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member is one sentence: "The whole aces of the nobility for the most part
town and the synagogue were wiped escaped unscathed. The Jews have
fallen heir to many of them and to
off the face of the earth."
This sentence has stuck in my mem- the estates.
Thirty-three Jewish communities
ory because of another.
"The whole town is sheltered now which, during the past two years have
settled
in the Crimea, as lessees at
in the farmers noble's palace."
I don't know why but these two first and now as owners (thanks to
phrases taken together have evoked the J. D. C. the land which was leased
in my mind a whole series of pictures has now passed into their possession
for perpetual occupancy and use, as
and thoughts.
I pictured this: A town ruined and is the case with the land occupied
in ashes . . .isolated chimneys pro- by the peasantry) pre-empted such
truding weirdly above piles of brick estates, palaces and villas. They
. . . the market place overrun with don't live the spacious life of the
weeds and high above the town, former residents of the palace; th ey
standing on a hill, the noble's castle, live, two or three families in a room,
its white columns bathed in sunlight, but they live.
And the squire of these broad
surrounded by stables, garages, barns
and cattle stalls—with all of its acres?
Ile and his two sons were shot by
abundance and wealth . . .
But the noble is not there—has not "Reds." Their graves are near by.
Even the old name is changed.
been there for a long time. Ile is
dead, or worse. Somewhere, on some "Yetzira" the Jews call it.
There are places where the old no.
farm he is a shepherd, or a waiter in
a Berlin or Paris cafe. And his pal- bility saw with their own eyes the
Jews
come in and take pu&sa,sion.
aces and his villas, once filled with
guests and ringing with revelry, now They are still alive, housed, m ost
likely,
in hovels in which their ,erv-
provide shelter for several hundred
pogrom survivors. The majestic ball- ants and scullions lived and they
room is now occupied by emaciated, thank God that they are being let
exhausted Jews, their agonized wives, alone. But it happens sometimes that
their hungry children. They swarm the newcomers need that hovel and
in the boudoirs, in the library, in the then the poor count has a hard time
hunting room ... 1 cannot guarantee keeping a roof over his head.
In reply to Mr. Brown's suggesti on
that this is an accurate picture, but
this I can guarantee—that the one- that a certain old lady, a former arils
tocrat,
might be permitted to finish
time owner of that castle will never
return; for its present cocupants a out her life in her old home, some of
the representatives of the "Comer
new life is dawning.
For some of them this new life replied:
"We wouldn't if we could. Even if
has already dawned. The Jews who
migrated from that ruined town have we didn't need the house she ores-
established themselves firmly on the pies, it's best to get rid of her. She
can't reconcile herself to the fact that
ruins of the noble's castle.
Bare walls, half-caved-in and with she is no longer the 'big boss around
gaping holes where once were doors here and she glares at us with eyes
and windows, that's all that was left filled with venomous hate."
of the old magnificence when the rage
Jews, you who are building your
of the Ukrainian peasantry had spent new homes and your new life on the
itself. Everything that could be ruins of castles whose foundations,
smashed or torn or hacked to pieces whose cement were the sweat and
or carried away or set aflame. And blood of human beings, isn't there
among these ruins live now about 30 something significant in this?
or 40 Jewish families from Vale-
dovka. They call their colony "Emos"
—Truth.
Thus saith the high ant lofty One
After they have ploughed their that inhabiteth eternity, whose name
fields and sowed their wheat and is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy
grain, they will salvage the castle place, with him also that is of a con-
brick by brick and build themselves trite and humble spirit, to revive the
homes!
spirit of the humble, and to revive the
In the Crimea, where the peasantry heart of the contrite ones.—Isaiah
is mainly of Tartar origin, the pal- lvii: 15.

A Visit to the Jewish Colonies in Russia

By Z. WENDROFF

Rosh Hashonah Greetings

(Editor's Note:—Z. Wendroff, one of the most brilliant Yiddish
writers in Russia, accompanied David A. Brown on his recent tour
of the Jewish colonies in the Ukraine, Crimea and White Russia. He
collected a vast amount of human interest material and Information
which he has embodied in a series of articles which have been pub-
lished in the Jewish Daily Forward of New York City, and have now
been done into English by a well-known American journalist.)

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would herd in the open spaces bac
All of the land in the Cherson
trict designated for Jewish coloniza- of the town, two days, until someone
ion (on the left bank of the Dneiper) came to buy their brawn. The price
belonged, before the revolution, to they would have chalked on their
boot heels or even on their naked
great squires.
Count Troubetzky, General Korni- feet.
The squire's overseers, riding whips
toff, Count Kapnist, among others,
each owned thousands of dessiatine. in their hands, sauntered about the
On the right bank of the Dneiper slave mart, scrutinized the peasants,
peasants were crushed by small hold- the "price-marks" and when they
ings, some only a half or a third of a made up their minds, would exclaim
dessiatine (a dessiatine is 2.6997 "Hey, half-roublers! About 500 of
acres) ; on the left bank thousands you."
That meant that 500 peasants on
of acres, held by the nobility, lay
fallow because there were no hands whose heels was chalked "50 kopeks"
were being hired through their "sta.
to till them.
Count Troubetzky owned 260,000 roots" at that price per day. Some
dessiatine, including 115,000 dessia- would hire a thousand. Still there
tine of excellent vineland, 15,000 were not enough hands to cultivate
truckland, orchard, and 38,000 on the nobles' acres, and much of it had
which he cultivated non-indigenous to lie fallow or rented to neighboring
trees. His great wine cellars were peasants for hay fields.
Much of this land is now being
famed throughout the land.
Would come the summer and the settled by Jews.
I heard the screech of a locomo-
peasants, in armies, would gather in
the steppe-towns. Kochalka, a small tive.
"A train?" I asked, Incredulously.
town right in the center of the nobles'
estates, was the general rallying "Where?"
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"That's a Joint Distribution Com-
point to sell their labor to the great
mittee tractor!"
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squires.
Looking to the left, I saw, off in
Like huge flocks of sheep they
the distance, what looked like a num-
ber of dark spots which seemed to be
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panions were more blase. At equal
distances apart, 15 powerful tractors
with their triple ploughs were claw-
ing at the earth's bosom, The mo-
tors roared, whistled, panted as they
struggled against the raw soil. We
were to see this sight again and again.
We were to see, many tractors claw-
ing the earth for the fall planting.
Ten, twelve, fifteen years this land
had lain fallow, parched and famished;
there are places where no plough has
pierced the soil for almost a score
of years. Now come these steel ti-
tans, rouse the soil from its deep
slumber, rejuvenates it, makes it
fruitful. And as I see the clods regi-
menting themselves, in orderly array,
I imagaine somehow that this is not
the same soil, turned over, but some
new soil that is being mined way be-
low the surface.
Cherson Gubernia has from time
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series of Russian provinces. From
the docks of Cherson, the city, there
used to be shipped down the Dneiper
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every year 35,000 poods of grain.
The poorest peasant in this section
now owns from 40 to 50 dessiatine,
which is more than he can cultivate,
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and there is no reason to anticipate #
that they are likely to begrudge to
the Jews the land which they have
been granted. As a matter of fact,
all of the peasants whom we met on
this trip made practically the same
comment about their Jewish neigh-
bors: "Good neighbors—men with
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come more cheerful in these parts
since they came. The steppe is alive
now."

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Stories Told by Colonists.

Every colonist has his own story
one story—a story that begins with
pogroms and ends with "Golus."
They vary only in detail: one town
suffered one pogrom; another several
and a third has lost count.
There are colonists—like those
from Traysnova, for example—who
went through 14 pogroms. Fourteen
times the government changed. There
I forget where, they boasted of 30.
The colonists hate to go into de-
tails. With the sane outlook of prac-
tical people, they are more concerned
with the present than the past. With
regard to that they may speak in
passing and then only when you bring
it up.
And after you have heard a ft'w
dozens of such stories they seem to
fuse your mind into one tremendous,
terrible tale without beginning and
without end. Names of towns, per-
sons, dates, incidents all fade away,
and all that is left are a few isolated
facts.
I was told a story of a terrible po-
grom, or series of pogroms, in a cer-
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