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we learn that European Jewry is self supporting or
fairly headed in that direction.
If there are any who participated in the local drive
who may feel that the work is done, they should go to
President Chicago and there they will learn what wonderful work
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
By HAROLD BERMAN
Editor has been done. They will no doubt get the thrill which
,
JACOB MARGOLIS
Irma May, Revisiting Hunger Belt, Finds Jews of Lithuanian
General Manager comes from a social service generously rendered. If
S:, JACOB H. SCHAKNE
(Copyright, Jewish Telegraphic
Capital Aided Through United Jewish Campaign
by any chance their enthusiasm has flagged, the vivid
Agency, 1926.)
V
Recovering from Recent Distress, but
Sobered aa lemmtd•clase matter March 1, MO at the Pootoffice at Detroit.
4;
pictures of life in Poland, Bessarabia and Russia will
Mirb.. under the Act of March 14 WM
Fearful of Coming Winter.
The New Haven Settlement.
revive
it.
Nothing
that
has
happened
in
American
Jew-
General Offices and Publication Building
The town of New Haven, the nu-
.5.:,
By IRMA MAY
ish
life
has
so
integrated
and
unified
Jewry
as
has
the
cleus of the Connecticut ( olony, was
525 Woodward Avenue
•
Russian land colonization. It is true that more millions
founded by James Davenport and The-
Cable Address: Chronicle
pounds, and in the meantime they sell
Telepimmel Cadillac 1040
\VILNA.—
This
was
to
pathetic
He-
of
London Office:
for
3-4
zloty
or
even
less. It is not
were raised for relief just after the close of the war, but ophilus Eaton, diligent scholars
town last winter. I spent three days
•";
brew and the Hebrew Scripture both
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England.
bad fey the farmer, who owns his
relief contributions are given somewhat impatiently of them. They greatly encou•agd the here, last January, when 1 toured the so
land,
but
the
committee,
who is only
Polish amaithunnian hunger belt on
Subscription, in Advance .......... .. ........... _.............$3.00 Per Year
and are usually accompanied by a sigh. tantamount to study of the Hebrew language in the behalf
:es
renting the soil, has had to take it
of the United Jewish Cam-
philological
loss.
To Meer. publication. all correvpondence and news matter must reach this
—glad that's over with. But in the present instance, colony, not on purely
paign. Those three days were tilled
as
a
means
for
en-
grounds,
but
rather
However,
while
this
work
was
start-
office by Tuesday evening of each wetk.
the work is of a constructive character. It is like cre- abling the people to study the Holy with sadness, because of the terrible ed On what Was hoped would he a sjelf-
I witnessed. glad bread-rush-
The Detroit Jmetvh Chronicle invitee correopondenc• on subjects of Int .....
supporting basis, it was not conducted
ating something substantial out of nebulous material. Writ in the original Hebrew, which scenes
to the jooi.h ,uple, hot disclaim. cmponvibility for •n indureernent of tn.
es. tights for position on the bread-
firmly believed was the language
for any profit and the loss incurred is
by the writers.
views tap
The whole project has had an ecstatic element which they
line, elderly grandmothers shivering
of God—the language spoken by the
not being deplored. Many of the men
in
front
of
little
shacks,
vainly
wait-
Tishri 23, 5686 comes from the release of the creative faculties. As Almighty in His revelation to Moses,
who went to work in the fields, will
October 1, 1926
ing for someone to come and buy their
have as trained gardeners. As such
the reports continue to come one can picture the pale and hence a sacred tongue.
green, frozen apples or herrings. Men,
It is a matter of record that when
'it
it will not be difficult for them to find
frail Jews of the town and city transformed into these founding, fathers established the pacing up and down the street, be- work, for Jewish gardeners are very
Welcome the Jewish Welfare Federation and
cause
even
the
bitter
cold
of
outdoors
bronzed, robust tillers of the soil. The desperation first public school in their sea' settle- was preferable to the grim, stark nmeh in demand, even among the non-
meat, shortly after their arrival, the
Jewish population. They show a
of Detroit.
which showed itself in the frightened eye has given
tragedy in their homes, where women
greater amount of skill, are more re-
stucly of Hebrew was made obligatory
and children were freezing, starving.
The much discussed and long awaited Federation
place to a hopefulness which now manifests itself in the
On the pupils. By all accounts, this
liable and are good workers.
And
there
were
children
out
in
the
Miss Breckler and I visited the fields
of Jewish Philanthropies has become an actuality. At
courageous expression which only those who have the surely was the very first instance of streets, too, little. half-clad waifs, hud-
compulsory public instruction in
at a time, when most of the hard work
meeting
held
on
Tuesday,
Sept.
21,
in
the
offices
of
died against each other around pots
solid ground of productive labor under them feel.
a
brew in the American Colonies.
was ewer. Many women worked there
containing a few bits of burning char-
the United Charities in the Penobscot Building, definite
The study of Hebrew was, as al-
and a number of men also. The first
It is interesting to note the change in the temper
coal from which they sought to warm
ready
said,
but
a
means
to
an
end;
which struck us Was their
action was taken in the form of a charter application
and criticism of those who originally opposed the col- a thorough acquaintance with the Old- their hands—their feet, or to delude thing
..
healthy complexions and physical tit-
and the election of provisional officers.
onization scheme. There has always been practical Testament and its prescriptions, so themselves that the pale, sickly em- !less. They were taken out of the O r
hers were giving them some warmth.
Henry Wineman was chosen president; Samuel
depths of despair. out of their cellar
unanimity on the question of Polish and Bessarabian that one may learn to know them well
There also 1 witnessed the silent
intimately and to practice them
dwellings. The few months in the
Summerfield and William Friedman, vice-presidents;
heroism of the boys a n d girls in the
relief. The bitter controversies raged about the pro- And
serupulously in his daily life, even as
fields has made stronger men and
Teachers' Seminary, fighting the bun-
David W. Simons, treasurer ; Morris 1). Waldman, sec-
J444.
the
Commonwealth
collectively
lira,
women out of them. Their pallor has
priety of settling the Jews on the land.
ger and the cold„hy studying, t ip tali-
14,,
ticed them and make them its guide in
covered by sunburn and while
retary and director ; Fred M. Butzel, chairman of the
At first the whole scheme was fraught with all so to all dealings. Of the laws on the code ing their mindS off themselves and into Been
.7
.
they all said the work was hard—they
the wide avenues of the spiritual. Nee-
executive committee.
one known of fantastic dangers. We were edified with descrip-' of the New Haven settlement in the cc shall I forget tbeest—their pale enjoyed it.
Two boards of governors were chosen: -
eighteenth century, 50 per cent were
on
the
There were also older women
faces, their emaciatea bodies, except
as governors at large, composed of David A. Brown, lions of pogroms by those with a flair for the morbid
based entirely upon the Old Testament,
fields who used to scrub and wash fur
where they were large with the hid-
Fred M. Butzel, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, William Fried- while the less extravagant told a wondering world that
it per cent upon the Old and New,
a living. Now—they were clearing
eons
swelling
of
hunger—and
the
while only 3 per cent were based on
weeds from the tomato fields arrang-
mY".., Bernard Ginsburg, Nathan M. Gross, Judge Harry it meant the destruction of all Jewish cultural values.
beautiful spiritual light in their eyes.
the New Testament prescriptions ex-
ing baskets. The day was perfectly
And for all this misery there was
elusively, the rest being temporary
beautiful.
B. Keidan, Julian Krolik, David W. Simons, Milford Well, the dour prophesies did not materialize.
no relief, great as the demand was—
rules and regulations enacted to take
While we were walking between the
The
carping
critics,
however,
have
not
abandoned
and
the
hopes
of
the
people
were
fad-
Stern, Samuel Summerfield and henry \\Inman .
care of certain contemporary exigen-
rows of vegetables, it young girl ap-
ing away, giving way to despair. The
the delightful pastime of irritating and obstructing. ers and happenings.
proached us, a large bouquet of flow-
The other board consists of representatives of the
problem
of
the
unemployed
ones,
the
It could readily be seen that with
ers in her hands. Fragrant roses and,.
constituent organizations and includes: Esser Rabino- They would be most unhappy if they could not think
necessity of feeding children, the need
the prevalence of this spirit in the
carnations. She used to live in Odes-
witz, representing the United Hebrew Schools; Walter up something which would compel the leaders to make newly-founded colony, and the perms- for cheap loans was imperative and sa. Her family died of typhus, dur-
people looked at me with big, qtrs.
Fuchs, the United Jewish Charities; Melville S. Welt, some answer. The latest question now is, why is the anion of the 01,1 Hebraic laws and out- Honing eyes and hardly dared to ask ing the great famine and ! she, fled to
looks among the officials and clergy as
relative in Poland, where she re-
Jewish Social Service Bureau; Milton M. Alexander, Soviet government so good to the Jews? Why has it
the question—when and whence will
47
it • of the seltlemcut,
mained. She had to give up her uni-
, enerosity? well .
curve their help. And now Hortense
0-
`-% Jewish Centers Association; Edith Ileavenrich, Fresh made the Jew the special beneficiary of its ;,
is w orking
the placing of the ancient Mosaic laws
Breckler and I are in Wilna again,, versity fi st udies. No h w
*
on the statute books of the town-
sheeard
of our
d
h
The
Soviet
government
has
done
notbnig
01
the
She
a
ld
s
in
the
e.
ng
Air Society; and David S. Zemon of the Hebrew Free
and the sun is shini!
in, it would prove a haven indeed to
presence in Mina and came to see us
kind. Now that the theory of counterfoil to Palestine many
11r. Gitterman, wh o is in charge of
of the oppressed Jews of other
would like
Loan Association.
with
a
great
request.
She
the new relief activities of the Joint
settlements as well as of foreign coon-
to enter the school for nurses in War-
The purpose of the federation is explicitly set forth is worn thin, they have decided to ask questions and not
Distribution Committee, Was also in
tries. New Haven thus became the
saw for the profession. The Nurses
in the charter application as follows: "To raise and to make bold statements.
magnet that attracted them towards * \Vilna, the day we arrived and a meet-
School is possibly the finest
Why is the Soviet government doing all these things its free, limits even as the magnet at- ing was scheduled for the evening. Training
and nest permanent contribution of
collect funds, acquire and hold property by purchase,
Miss Breckler and I attended it of
tracts
and
draws
',long
the
needle
the Joint Distribution Committee to
gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise, and to distribute and for the Jews of Russia?
course. We left our hotel a bit earl-
Polish Jewry. It is the only one of its
It must be remembered that the situation,of the Jew towards it
kr and tuck a stroll through the ghet•
apply the same of the use or income thereof, directly
First Jewish Member of Assembly.
kind in Europe and has a very splen-
to, which is right near the hotel. I
and through others presently existing or subsequently in Russia is unique. No other people has problems
did record. There is another school,
As far back as 1728, or 18 years
walked through the same street,' in
1' S
founded by the American Red Cross,
before the Declaration of Independ-
organized agencies for the advancement of the social comparable to its problems.
winter and they were , empty, desolate.
to'
with monies given by an American
env
e
was
written
and
adopted
by
the
...
'
,
The Ucture has changed altogether,
When
the
Bolshevik
revolution
broke
out
in
„,
and cultural welfare of the Jewish community and for
woman. Unfortunately,
). this se oo s
tinnental t [Ingress as the basn aw
It was a warm night and the streets
the promotion of any other philanthropy and to bring the peasantry formed 85 per cent of the population, C, of the newly-formed nation, a Jew, were tilled with humanity. Old men closed to Jewish girls, which is so ''''''
r e,'
sia and of this ' num ''
much more unfortunate, because , it is
and women were sitting right in front
about co-ordination and co-operation among Jewish There were 2.800,000 Jews in Russia
.`A
I t'infi'thi e a i.' 1 , ' 1:-%,. a .ts ieu el t '(f t r ' :i i k:ril s it 'A l -:nsht:: - Of their sho ps and on the
veone
st hil-stair- being done by an ins titution, which
ss
than
three
per
cent,
were
on
bar
only
75,000,
or
le
k"
Th e Je •
welfare and relief organizations in Detroit."
bly. Little more is known of this'nlan,
ways, quiet and p oft t he we the carries an American name will
s
loi
r
the
land.
The
Jew,
however,
was
better
represented
the
honor
of
being
ish
Nurses
Training
s,
hoe'Lti.ti
who
b: ti thus vi tro
yuOnger ones, boys and 'girls, some
The new organization is to be known as the Jewish
of
in the trades and crafts for, according to reliable esti- the fi r st
arm in arm, were promenadin ' g, slow he taken. over by the stale
Welfare Federation of Detroit.
(. b
main a lasting reminder of the Joint
l 'eclititi a mci l l s Ibi t 'arce at itrams':
a ' a tiiY .'le
ly, silently, happily. Children were
mates,
there
were
upwards
of
500,000,
or
anywhere
Distribution activities in Poland.
This organization is it long step from the original
s e mbly i n any one of the colonies. lint
running about and we had to watch
na
on
to
that
It was very interesting, for as to
from
15
to
25
per
cent,
engaged
in
industrial
occu
. " the nicer fact of his electi
our otep so as not to ste p on them—
Jewish charities agencies created in this country. Even
august hotly is proof conclusive f o h is
laughing
children.
Laughing
children
watch
the various types of men and p
the word charities is deleted and not because of any .ions.
women
whom «o, 'net out in the fields.
own high standing in the community,
Industry collapsed completely under Sovietism for n: well ns to that „f his f eih iw mi, in ; in Wilna. at last. We were very hap- Clad in rags, through which their hd-
special aversion to the word charity or sentimentality.
IT*
they
they
may
WS
ies
showed,
their shoes torn beyond
bees in *the faith, fe w
kn we looked at the crowds, relax-
but because the major activities are social and cultural at one time in 1921 the heavy industries of Russet '
hope of patching—their fires were
have been in numbers.
ing, engaged in conversati o n, the h o pe
and not charitable. Detroit Jewry is fortunately not had fallen to as low as four per cent of the pre-m ar
From the records that came down to
fine, their speech so cultured.
rose in our hearts, that some day they
us, we do not know with any degree
But Winter Is Coming.
faced with any serious charities problem due to the gen- basis. Aside from the numberless luftmenchen, specu-
too will he led hack to normal life, not
Most casually, we discussed their
certainty, whether this, first elected
eral prosperity, while at the same time our late comers lators, small merchants, money lenders. the industrial of
"'re ex bt"nc e.
life and I asked them once more the
repsentativ
of of
t he Jewish persua-
representative
re
The meeting of the relief commit-
have accommodated themselves to AMerican life and workers, artisans and craftsmen were in a precarious
in retaining his scat,
still unanswered question—how they
sion, succe
tee took place in stone dark room, in
state. If no others were to be considered even under though we do know that some of his tint' of the quaint buildings which manage to get along on what they
are able to take care of their own financial and cm
have. Most of them did not pay rent
in the assembly did
characterize not only the ghetto, but
nomic affairs. Soviet theory. these productive workers surely deserved fellow-m•mbers
; ,
i...
for menthe and were continuously
raise the question of the legality of
the entire city of Wilna. Most of the
It was at one time a current belief that with the consideration. No matter what bitterness may have his election, owing to his denial of men who were present. I knew' before, threatened with eviction. Of course, F"
the
Divinity
of
Christ.
We
do
know
the
summer
made
everything
much
treated
the same group of ardent and
f1 solution of the economic problem of the immigrant, been felt against the bourgoise, it cannot be maintained
\'
di
that a ciiii l Fred„iY.,
-)
easier, the children were fed by the
workers.
there would be a disintegration of the Jewish group that the soviet would place any burdens upon the Jew-
Phillips of Westchester County, N.
relief committee and cucumbers were
The relief ronimittee has opened
tested as a member of the assembly
so cheap. But dread of the coming •.
as a distinctive entity, but the fact is that a whole host ish workers ,who were adversely affected by the indus-
new channels for the unemployed in
winter was written on their faces. The
that colony, Sias definitely debarred
their attempt to give them occupation,
of problems have emerged which tax the cap:rely of trial dislocations. Since the low point was reached, it of
from taking his seat solely on account
general hope is that it will not tie as .
for mere help they would nut accept.
cultural and social leadership to a much greater extent is true that soviet industry has improved, but it has not
of his Jewish affiliations, despite the
hard and disastrous as the last winter
"Back to the Soil."
.
fact that he held a high rank in the
was. but it will be hitter enough for
yet
reached
the
pre-war
basis.
than did the financial and economic ones,
Some were given work in the fields
Colonial Militia and occupied a high
, r ,..
the little ones especially.
One would be foolhardy to maintain that the mob- We cannot, however, believe that the soviets are
and gardens, which the commit
social position as well. His rejection
hile I was in Wilna this last win- Xf ,
W
purpose
fronts the local ,
rented
for t tee
lems of European Jewry have not had an integrating interested only in the Jewish artisans. craftsmen and w as due to religious bigotry solely, of hat
which the colony of New York could ',emulation. Since the old vocations ter, kitchen
there was
talk impoverished
of opening a soup-
.7) .
for the
better
and coalesing influence upon American Jewry. Few industrial workers, but are equally concerned about the tad as yet get itself rid of.
are dead, the committee had to find
5'.;
classes. Wilna has always had a
new outlets and one of them is work
events have happened in the history of Detroit Jewry iuftmenchen. No one expects the three per cent Who
.:4 , ..
kitchen
for
the
poor,
but
this
was
an
so
i
oned
ove
ment
i
h
il
.
As
on t he so
*: ,".
I
learned
entirely different thing.
which have unified it more than did the United Jewish were on the land to reach 85 ner cent. Such a contin-
iat3
Ge '7rtg .a i ;* t.as • founded
The Georgia
often before,
fhere
there i is a grea t desire
t
that this kitch, n was open and went
by
General
Ogelthotpe
as
a
refuge
for
, Campaign. The momentum given by the overseas drive gency is neither feasible nor desirable.
the
Jews
in
Poland
to
work
on
among
•:.C.
with Nib's 'heckler to Sc.' it. Of all
Were doomed
While it is true that the soviets have done many those unfortunates who Debtor's
-cv
oil. It is particularly popular
t he
the things I have seen in Wilna during
Prison
sl, 4 crystallized loose sentiment which gave birth to Detroit indefensible
to the horrors of a
things. especially distasteful to those who or indenture as forced laborers, on among the Zionist,: who feel that this is , trip, this was the most impressive
' - Service Group. From the Detroit Service Group to the
apart from its local value, it is of
sight.
various plantations of North
great importance for the future of Pal-
Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, was but a short still subscribe to democratic doctrines of freedom of the,
,,'
The classes who suffer mostly in
The elements composing th,
speech, press, assemblage and trade, yet this same in- America.
estinian emigration, that the pe 'tile
7.:
Poland nowadays, cannot be easily app-
original
settlers
of
the
colony
wee:
step.
.
there,
should
be
familiar
C01111.
WhIl
*
preaehed and found. That's why tak-
Nloravians (persecuted by the Puri•
1:
The Welfare Federation has before it, for im- flexibility has manifested itself in other spheres not at
with the work un the soil. Zionists
.,. ,
ing
photographs
is
impossible,
because
tans
for
their
faith),
Scotch
High•
all
damaging
to
the
underlying
population.
The
work-
view
the
Russian
colonization
with
amt
i
•?,
mediate action. the building of a Jewish Hospital
one cannot go into homes of intend
It er,'
is and Jews.
!and
the same eyes. The fact is that in Eu-
yr
gent, formerly prosperous pe,ple and
recordes1 t hat while General
a representative "Y". The social and cultural ma tt e rs er is favored above all other classes and particularly
rope one does not meet with that has-
J --s-
, '
ask them to pose.
the
agricultural
worker.
What
is
more,
the
basic
idea
Oglethorpe and his associates were
tility to the Russian r 'Ionization
to which it will have to give its attention have been
, f+
k
itchttn
one
could
see
them
,
:
Fri
this
busily
occupied
in
surveying
and
al-
"t'l
is
to
convert
all
the
bourgoise
into
workers,
and
what
among
the
Zionists,
as
prevails
in
'',-
tq cared for by existing agencies in a satisfactory and acne-
air reopie, wiinni one would never,
loting the land, a ship, bearing 10
.....
Am!' rica. I disrussed this question
neter take for rum.' and destitute.
Jewish families, sailed up the Charles-
41 quate way, but yet the federation can widen the scope people hail a larger non-working group than did the
with numerous Zionists, and I noticed
; t*
Mr. Schuh, who is in charge of this
ton River and deposited them on its
Jews.
The
transformation
of
bourgoise
to
workers
is
a general dissatisfaction among them
44 of these activities to a degree not visioned heretofore.
kitchen, explained ill Me, that at the
shores. While there was considerable
with their colleagues in America.
We are hopeful that the federation will be able to of greater moment to the soviets than is any nationalist
time when it was plarund and opened,
grumbling and opposition arming some
Coming hack to the unemployed in
even the members of t he committee
of the new settlers against the ailnlis-
take over the administration of all relief drives affect- theory, therefore, the interest of the soviet touches the
\Vilna, aside from the work in the gar-
underestimated the volume of poverty
sion of the Jew's to the colony, Gen-
ing the Jewish people everywhere in the world. This Jew, primarily because he is not a worker rather than
dens, numerous Jews have been placed
in Wilna. The facilities are very poor
oral Oglethorpe was broad-minded
in fisheries, or at cutting lumber or
T grer ems ) , ;
y ix )(1 small,
e
( uoi
tihe
i rtam
enough not to be 4
cried away by this
does not mean that the groups forming the federation because he may have Zionist predilections.
committee has sup-
public works. The comittee
't blnyt. There n
In
the
recent
controversy
between
Stalin
and
Zino-
as
sufficient-
w
benighted clamor,
will be kleprived of their autonomy or initiative, but
plied tools to those employee' at pub-
e practical bent,.
p eeple registered there. but only 530
ly wise to realize
li'; wo , rks, SO that they should be a,'-
means that greater economy and efficiency will vie, the realistic attitude of Russian leadership was
eat at an average, simply because not
tits to the new' colony that would ac-
rented and regarded as full fledged
' -''
44 merely
everyone has enough money to par-
erne from the settlement of this
be had in the administration of those activities which clearly shown. This is especially true in matters of in-
lat"'"";
chase the food daily. The meals cost
worldly-wise and enterprising element
ternal policy.
M
The relief committee also complied
(;„ call for common action.
on an average of 80 groshen, which
among
them,
quite
aside
from
all
We are of the opinion that at the Chicago confer- questions of abstract justice and hu- with the terms of the J. D. C., nanie- amounts
i..t
to about eight cents. They
We welcome the federation. We know that the mil-
ly,
it
has
raised
the
50
per
cent
of
the
ences
data
will
be
submitted
which
will
prove
conclu-
consist
of a soup, vegetables, bread,
man
consideration.
And
so,
indeed,
': tural and social life of Detroit Jewry will attain to a
total sum necessary to carry en the
occasionaily meat. The relief cam-
did it prove.
sively
that
land
colonization
of
the
Jews
is
not
prompt-
work.
Various
means
were
devised.
7:7 higher level, while all philanthropic undertakings 1,611
mittee pays one-half and the people
Among these first Jewish arrivals
Haute ill house collections were made,
ed by any special love for a group. but is motivated by was
time,
the Nunez
only , the first, and, for
pay the other half. Those who come
receive the attention they merit.
a Dr.
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the town divided into districts, each
the hard facts of Russian life consistent with soviet eco- II
physician in the col-
there would rather the than accept
district hating a chairman and aME-
charity. The price is very low, and
'my; Abraham De Lyon, who was the
c-
nomic and political theory.
cars, rocnis were taxed and aff irs
yet, many cannot even eke out 411

THE i) ETROITJEWISII ORONICIIE

The Sun Shines in Wilna---but •
Winter Is Not Far ilwa_v

Jews in the
Colonial Period

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.-'• The United Jewish Campaign Conference.
'Flit. United Jewish Campaign will hold a confer-

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ence at the Standard Club in Chicago on Oct. 9 and 10.
Julius Rosenwald, who gave $1,000,000 for Russian
colonization and European relief at the Philadelphia
. conference held in September, 1925, is in charge of the
. . Chicago meeting.
At the forthcoming conference, reports will be given
by Jacob Billikopf, Maurice Heater, Ludwig Bernstein
. ', ; ) and other American observers who went to Russia and
t.Poland to see at first hand what is actually being done.
,
Dr. Joseph Rosen anti Dr. Bernard Kahn will give
account of the work actually done by the
. .',f, a detailed
et
Felix Distribution
istribution Committee. while David A. Brow11,
Walburg and Louis Marshall will give det
avi ge
reports on the work done in America to save, salale
i
and rehabilitate European Jewry.
State and city chairmen of the United Jewish Cam-
: paign as well as public spirited citizens are expected
' to attend. Detroit should send her quota, for notwith-
,•standing the fact that Detroit has already conducted
:ti her drive, yet the drive will not really be over until

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Poland Abolishes Numerus Clauaus.

first man to introduce there the cut•
ton, of the grape as he had known it
in his old home in Sunny Spain. lie
also introduced the cultivation of the
mulberry tree and the silk-worm, be-
ing most likely the very first person
now - so - important
to introduce these
imI t tis i, trtti
i s t, intoti the colonies. b))

The Bartel government of Poland has righted a
wrong done the Jews by the Grabski regime. Although'
neither the law nor the constitution of Poland discrimi-
, , ,:ri.nk in (!;etohr!
nated against the Jews. yet the, professional anti-Se- first white 'r:hia g tn°br e e
of
the offspring a Jewish ram" u
mites were able to excl de the Jew's from the universi- gin war
f t name was. Isaac Minis.
ties through a secret order sent out by the minister of ay.
It
he
many Georgian Jews who
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achieved fame and eminence during
education.
the stirring days of the Revolutionary
It seems that the order revoking the former order period
i od and the }t ars Im medi ately
conies a bit late, because of the fact that registration
n fi all
inen
en nt o t lif "lt
of )t)11 ( e .o en
ael,It
g tli:Taase t" ! mrn
7;nn
t
f
good
a
spiri
•
o
is already comp leted. but yet it s h ows
one
%orderai She
will CO contrary to that manifested by the Grabski's
d whites
in Geore;ia and I a -
t to he h
organised
of
that one can hardly be' charged with being over san-
n t r h g e
"la nn n
L
e e t he t c h he air em
d
ei ne when the prediction is made that Poland will soon a inng
panellise' Committee, which was ac-
culturally as free as the most enlightened of the Eu- toe in agitating the cause of the Re-
Mlion as well as in other &tonics
ropean countries.
in connection with the American
It will be a day of great rejoicing when we hear Cause Ile was for a time the official
ttat the Polish economic crises is past. but even though
ruler 1.f the city a Savannah, where
it is acute yet we all feel more kindly since the other he s 's n became Ya thorn in the side of
odious discriminations no longer prevail.
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The clothing situation in Wil-
groshen, in other stank four cents.
na is very acute and the committee an-
11r. Schoch told us that many men
pealed for clothing and slues for chit-
come to him and deposit money in ad-
dren and sent out •agnns to collect
Vance, as soon as they get it. In that
the deflations of wearing apparel.
way they at least insure their daily
Fear of the approaching winter is
supply of food. Same men deposit 211
strong among the population even now
cents, s 'Inc more and a few less. 1Vere
shining.
They
have
in
while the sun
it not for the plain, clean tables, and
net forgotten last winter.
Early next morning Mims Bucklerthe knowledge as to where we were,
we
could justjas well think that we
and I went out to see the men wh o
were in some middle-class restaurant,
worked in the gardens and fields.
and
m t in the relief kitchen of Wilna.
There are five. We visited four. They
Still Distributing Bread.
are under intensive cultivation; tome-
Due
to the summer slack, the Kehil-
toes, cucumbers, beets, carrots, cauli-
lah
was
rather deserted. I recalled
flower, being the main products. The
the
horrible
hunger seen., I witnessed
gardens are a gnat moist success but
there
in
winter,
as I passed through
not financial. The cost of e,tablish.
the corriders and halls of the build-
ing them, the wages paid to the labor-
ing.
into
Mr.
Kruk's
oflice, who is still
ni
ers, small as they are, the necessity
in charge of the Kehillah activities.
supplying tools and seed and finally
„
ints
.
.
Mr
Kruk
is
certainly
not a well man,
marketing the producta, were C t
and yet, he is carrying on his should-
d at a time when the crops were not
ers
a
tremendous
burden,
being eith, r
in yet
in charge or on the board of nn ..t .t
Cucumbers •t • Lees.
the Jewish organizatit ns and de-
•
,1,
In the meantime the cucumbers
his entire time to the work. !tread .1,-
which were one of the greatest seller;
tributifln is still going on. In fact it
came in such an abundance, that they
was increased 11 7,000 (16 ,1104 lbs.)
smashed the market. They were esti-

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for 20 zloty

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