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Report of Bernard Kahn

(Continued from Page Eight)

Elmer H. Christe, President
W. T. Greenwood, Secretary

A. R. Campbell, Vice-President
David Oppenheim, Treasurer

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We are often asked how much of an
effect the new funds of the United
'Jewish Campaign had on the improve-
!mint of the condition of the Jews in
-Poland. Undoubtedly everybody in
Poland will agree that only by the help
t hat came from America were the
. Uses enabled to participate in the
gencial improvement of the country
and to regain part of their old et•onom-
ie life.
Another question is often put to us
and was put last night by Dr. Bern-
stein. "When we see how great the
:masses of JON:: are that suffer is it
possible even with millions of dollars,
,to reach a sufficient number of these
masses to make our help effective '
It is very hard to give a concrete
answer to this question: but I may say
ti that almost every line of social work
is taken up by the .1. I). C.; when we
see the school children in sanitary
surroundings it is the work of the .1.
D. C. When the sick people can he
, treated, it is the work of the J. D. C.
r When women expecting babies can,
FI with light hearts, face their hour of
trial because they can go to a mater-
• nity hospital, it is the work of the .1.
I I D. C. When thousands of children for
B the first time have fresh air and see
a green tree, it is the work of the J.

JEWISH CONGRESS
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LONDON.—IJ. T. A.)--Questions
affecting the political status of sev - '
oral Jewish communities in European
countries and steps taken in the in-1
ternational arena by the Anglo-Jew-
ish Joint Foreign Committee were
discussed at the monthly meeting of
the Board of Jewish Deputies.
Lucien Wolf, secretary of the com-
mittee, expressed satisfaction in his
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co-operation between the Joint For-
eign Committee and the American
Jewish Congress concerning the pro-
tection of the rights of European
Jews. A special official was appoint-
ed in the minorities section of the
League of Nations to study the situ-
ation and collect data on the condi-
tion of the Jewish minorities in all
European countries, Mr. Wolf re-
ported.
In view of the election of three
new states, having a population of
national minorities, to the League
Council, a memorandum has been ad-
dressed by the Joint Foreign Com-
But if you prefer to have figures,
they may be added together from the mittee to the secretary-general of the
figures in this report, and we then ar- League of Nations suggesting that no
states be recognized as eligible for
rive at the following astounding num-
election to the council if they default
1 reported that our kassas in Poland their treaty obligations, he reported.
Two Stores:
On the question of citizenship and
have 90,000 members. 70,000 of these
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trouble to ninny Jews in East Euro-
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the
crisis,
means
that
350,000
souls
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have been helped with loans by these pean countries, Mr. Wulf reported
that he had associated himself with
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kassas.
We have 150,000 school children in the petition of the committee of the
the schools. We have 15,000 orphans International Red ('rots, submitted
under our care; we supported by free to the Council of the League of Na-
norm kassas loans to 1115,000. We have tions, asking that the League examine
= WALL PAPER, PAINTS, BUILDERS' HARD- -E= been
feeding 52,0110 school children cases of treaty breaches which caused
and 11,500 unemployed workers. This many cases of denationalization. Sta-
WARE, PAINTERS' SUPPLIES, WASH-
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means, with their families, at least tistics received in London show that
the Roumanian authorities in Buko
35,000 people.
ING MACHINES
We have about another 100,000 peo- wina denied national status to 15,000
ple that benefited from our work in Jews who are entitled to Roumanian
hospitals, andiulatories, X-ray sta- citizenship under the treaty obliga-
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Mr. Wolf also addressed the Inter-
children wards, athletic societies, and
et her miscellaneous institutions SO national Conference on Migrants and
I hilt during the crisis we can figure Refugees to appoint committees to
over 900.0o0 people have benefited study the question of nationality,
especially its relation to the emigra-
from our help.
That means ono-third of the Jewish tion and passport questions.
Concerning the grievances of the
imputation in Poland who have bene-
Jewish population in Poland and Rou-
fited in this one year of the crisis.
Other Countries' Needs Considered. mania, the matter WAS taken up by
, Although in the past year our dis- Mr. Wolf in direct negotiations with
' tribution of funds went chiefly to Po- the foreign ministers of the respec-
land, on account of the very heavy tive countries. August Zaleski, Po-
crisis facing the Jews in that country lish foreign minister, promised Mr.
I wish to emphasize the fact that we Wolf to remedy the grievances in the
never forgot to consider the nts ,ds of matter of the national status of the
the Jews in the other countries.
inhabitants of the Polish border prov-
inces, to issue proper passports to
Bessarabia.
Bessarabia is an example. I shall Jewish emigrants and to withdraw
refer to this country only briefly. A the unofficial nurnerus clausus ordi-
failure of crops in two consecutive nance. The long standing Jewish
years caused a famine. Thirty-five grievance in Roumania concerning
thousand people were starving. As in the nationality law was taken up by
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• Poland, we helped these famine strick- Mr. Wolf with Ministers Titalesco
to tide over the critical per- and Mitilineu, who agreed to settle !
en
, led. Thirty-five of our co-operatives, tin bona tide Jewish grievances. A
ith 21,000 members, are working plan on this matter is to be communi- I
there, among a Jewish population of voted to the Joint Foreign Commit-
300,000. That would indicate that tee by Nov. 15, Mr. Wolf stated.
about one-fourth of the Bessarabian
population is organized in the kassas.
This fact had a great deal to do with the present alleviation of the distress
the survival of many of the victims of of Jews as in its historical importance .
this famine. But, in Bessarabia, in We are all sure of the historcal im-
addition, tee had to give special famine portance of this work but few realize'
relief. We gave for food for six how much today this activity helps to
months until the new crop came in, the general promotion of Jewish wel-
the amount of $25,000. We did more fare in all of Russia. The details from
than we would have done ordinarily a general political point of view, are
for hospitals and medical work. We Its, delicate to be dealt with at a public
gave special credits to the co - opera- conference but one thing I want to
tiv•s amounting to $15,000 to buy food say, the agricultural movement among
and give it at A cheap price to the the Jews in Russia has madt , it pos-
poorer classes and we took care that sible for us to speak of as general Jew-
the 4,000 Jewish agriculturists in ish problem in Russia and to under-
Bessarabia received seed for their take steps for a gradual 'solution of ,
planting. The crop has n o t turned out many Jewish problems. Almost every-
as well as •xpeettal, but the famine is thing that has today been achieved
over. The normal poverty remains for the Jews in Russia in the last
and this poverty we will combat, not year gets its fructification from the
through actual relief, but through or- favorable wind that blows from the
ganized constructive help.
new Jewish Russian villages.
I could give you the same picture
I return from my short disgression
with varying figures and different on Russia, to make a few concluding
countries, but these twin examples, one remarks about the European work of
Poland, a fund containing 3,000,000, the .1. D. C.
and the other Bessarabia, a smaller
We all know that the work of the .1.
district of 300,000 Jews, will give you D. C. is far from being perfect. It is
a sufficient picture of the work the J. far from Ming complete.
D. C. does and must he prepared to
An experienced architect will never
do when new funds are available.
show a building in the process of con-
struction. Visitors who Inspect our
Russia.
the
I should be omitting snare of my work and are not familiar with only
experiences in the last year if I were leading ideas hehind it may see
materials
wreckage
and
building
not to trespass for a few minutes on
Dr. Rosen's ground. I was in Rus- strewn all over the place. They may
sia lately and I was there a year ago. find everything wrong and report
I saw the Jewish agricultural settle- that nothing so far has been dom., or,
ments in their infancy and I saw them at least, that nothing has been time
partly completed. When a few months properly.
They should realize that the re-
ago, I revisited the places where only
a year ago I had seen on the wide steps habilitation of millions of ruined peo-
ple
is a long and a slow process. The
The people of Detroit enjoy gas
a few barracks and dug-out.s and
Jewish men and often women working fragments they see are pieces neces-
rates "tthich are loiter than
sary
for the frame work which we
hard in the fields. I almost had to give
those existing in any other
cant to set up, a structure which can
up any disbelief in miracles.
strengthened and cemented by
similar city in America."
be
later
What has been done under the direc-
tion of Dr. Rosen is in itself a fabu- the Jewish masses themselves with
their
own
energy and adaptability.
lous piece of work' and is outstanding
not only among the Jewish settle- The eastern Jews themselves do not
want
relief.
They a-ant reconstruc-
ments, but among all Russian work of
peasant settling. I have seen the tive help.
Relief
work
we can do from day to
other work we do in Russia, medical
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work, kassa work, trade school work day. Constructive work must be laid
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out
and
planned
ahead for a consid-
and a great deal of other work, half
CIAlord at Bagley
relief and half constructive. and they erable time. The funds must be avail-
ahle
years
before
they
are disposed of.
are well conducted.
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One point I wish to stress. It is If these expectations are not realized,
out
task
will
be
the
task
of Sisyphus.
often said even by the best friends of
Jewish settlements in Russia that the We may have raised the heavy burden
new
erisk will
half
way
up,
but
a
tiamcrsrnci
Buena
hack-to-the-soil movement in
Bouleviml
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rives an opportunity only to a small cause us to let it drop again before
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they
have
been
able
to
reach
the sum
fraction of the Russian Jews. It is
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