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Feb. 19, at 8 o'clock. At this meet-
ing meatless menus will he dis-
tributed. The Twelfth Street Moth-
Cooking Class Opened.
ers Club will be hostess for the eve-
A cooking class has been opened in ning.
the Michigan avenue district at the
synagogue on Twenty-ninth street Oratorical Contest:
and Michigan avenue and will meet
The Senior Council of Clubs is
every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. planning to hold an oratorical contest
Miss Minnie Weiss of the Visiting some. time early in March. l'rizea
Housekeepers Association will be the will be awarded to the winners. Those
instructor. The mothers will be interested should get in touch with
taught the American method of pre- the Jewish Centers office, at Empire
paring foods, especially vegetables, in 4878.
the most palatable forms.

CENTERS ASS'N

arship from the Jewish Agricultural
Society. A girl student showed such
proficiency in dairy husbandry that
she was made a cow-tester—an u n usu-
al position for a woman. A scholar-
ship fitted the daughter of a Massa-
Most captains of industry owe much of their success to the fine
chusetts farmer to become the field
morale and faithful service of their immediate subordinates. Not
worker for the Council of Jewish
so Henry Ford. The mortality rate among his high executives is
Women in Connecticut.
frightful. Some of the best engineering and business talent in the
Oakland Mothers Club:
A recent survey of the graduates of
country is to be found among former associates whom Ford has
A meeting of the Oakland Mothers
the National Farm School showed that
driven from his works, or who have chosen to leave voluntarily in
Club will be held an Saturday after
of
all
graduates
of
known
occupation-
order to retain their self-respect. At Ford's whim whole depart-
al status 70 per cent are in agricul- noon, Feb. 19, at 2:30, at the Moore
ments have been revolutionized or abolished over night; staff officers
ture; of graduates of the last 10 years, School, Cameron and Alger avenues.
reporting for duty have found themselves jobless and a new depart-
77.3 per cent; of graduates of the last Miss 0. Salutsky of the Ginzburg
ment installed in their quarters. human material has been handled
five years, 84.4 per cent; and of the Public I.ibrary will speak can "The
as unfeelingly as the stuff that goes into cars.
graduates of the last two years 100 Behavior Problem of the Pre-School
And the man who handles human material as unfeelingly as the stuff per cent. This record compares favor- Child." Isaac Finkelstein will give
wit h the a vocati onal e c ency u e sev eral rea din gs fr om
he Yid dis h
that goes into cars is the idol of the Babbitts and the boobs of the country.
they leadi ng
gricultural colle ges in and will be followed by a musica l
who came dangerously near being President of
Ind that's the sort of TO
:
America, more so if certain filmic). program.
the United States. Of such stuff is a billionaire made.
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mental differences between these rail-
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leges and the farm school are colloid- Twelfth Street Mothers Club:
erea,
One of the most interesting characters in American Jewry is, to me
at
.
The monthly meeting of the
least, Jacob Epstein of Baltimore. Every time I go to Atlantic City to
Succ sssss in Practical Farming.
Twelfth Street Mothers Club will he
recuperate from the attacks of my displeased readers I always keep a The future of the Jemb:11 agriculture ! held at the Jewish Center, 31 Mel-
weather eye open for my old friend, Mr. Epstein. When I say "old" I am in America de-petls upon the disselni- bourne avenue, on Saturday evening
,
not referring to his age. A couple of months ago I spied him on the Board- nation of farming knowledge among Feb. 19, at 7:30. The Music Study
walk. It was just after he had purchased Van Dyck's famous painting, the rising generation. In a day when Circle will provide a complete mu-
"Rinaldo and Armida." Some one told me (it wasn't Mr. Epstein) that it farming is no longer a mere. grovel-
sical program, which will include vio-
cost him $250,000. We talked a b o ut hi s pi c tures and he told me he had ling in the earth but a scientific prac-
lin, piano and vocal solos recita-
thre e or four rather grand paintings. Well, I investigated his "three or four het., the nation needs more than ever
ions, danc es, etc. At this meeting a
rather good paintings and discovered that this lover of art has Riu-, scientifically trained farmers. Jewish l
ce will be held t a dis cuss
h meat situation. Delegates
brandes "Portrait of an Old Man,"
als "Portrait
Franz of
H a 1 oung Lady formers are. already taking ci leading the
have
and many fine examples of the best of the Barbizon group land I do hope part in all branches of tanning, but been invited from each Mothers nub.
this mention reaches the eye of my old artist-friend "Alec" Fournier out these signal successes have ben)
in South Bend, Ind., who painted a wonderful series of the"homes and gained through well-planned and per- Fenkell Credit Union:
Haunts of the Barbizon Painters." Mr. Epstein has paintings of ('trot, sistently applied efforts, both by
The second installation of officers
George Inness, Daubigny, Duprez Troyon, Diaz, and several noted can- brawn and brain,
of the Fenkell Credit Union was re-
vasses of Josef Israels, the Dutch artist.
Jewish farmers have contributed ported a huge success. Emanuel Pa-
materially to the development of 0.c• porno, a member of the Credit Union
ss famous Connecticut River Valley to- committee of the Jewish Centers As-
I am always glad to meet a business man who doesn't make his busie—
ban.°
belt. They are among the berg- sociation, was master of ceremonWs.
his life. Aside from the fact that he is one of the richest Jews in Balti-
more having amassed a great fortune from what used to be the Baltimore est individual producers and they raise Hiss Mary Caplan, director of the
a
product
of the highest quality. One • Jewish Center, was given the honor
Barglein House, but which is now the American Wholesale Corporation, he
is Baltimore's outstanding philanthropist. He takes a deep interest in the of 01011 is a pioneer in combining flit- of lighting the candles on the birth-
civic life of his city. One thing Mr. Epstein has to his credit in connection ale fattening with tobacco raising. day cake, this being the first anni-
with his business is that he developed it through his own efforts. He came Last summer he was invited to discuss versary. Speeches were made by the
to this country from Lithuania at the age of 17 years and opened a small the subject at a gathering held at the
eAsh each old
rollfirceni„i°sil)ledleevs,.p ,
store in Barre street, devoted to the wholesale business of notions. And State Agricultural College.
Individual poultrymen everywhere.
from that small beginning he today controls a business of some $30,000,000
presented with a gift as a token Of
annually. Ile is at present abroad, but when the robins give•the signal that rank high. The sons of a farmer in appreciation of the work done by
spring has arrived, I shall again look for the erect figure of Jacob Epstein Eastern Massachusetts built up a her A report was read of the year's
on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City. And I know I'll see him. The next ! poultry Plant which produces day old activities, money loaned and earned,
time he tells me he has "three or four rather good pictures" I an going to chicks of the highest grade. One of etc. Harold and Zangwill Garber
genu i ne than took the regular course in the
look right square in his eye and tell him that while his pictures are
played several violin duets, Miss Hot,
Maskaehusetts Agriculture College
he is a fraud, for I know that he has the largest and finest private art gal-
ence Balberor gave several piano so-
and another took a short course in an
los, and the Mesdames Wolf and
lery in Baltimore.
advanced phase of poultry husbandry
Stollman rendered several vocal num-
on a scholarship awarded by the Jew-
This is one of the most sensible statements I have read in a long time ish Agricultural Society. What is said bers. Miss S. Alpern gave several
on the subject of educating youth. It is not surprising that it comes from to be the second largest duck plant in dramatic readings and recitations.
the lips of one of America's sanest college presidents, Hopkins of Dart- Long Island is operated by a Jew who Refreshments and dancing followed.
mouth. I commend this to the careful reading of parents:
raised over 60,000 ducks in 1925. A
Kosher Meat Conference:
former hair goods manufacturer is de-
A conference of all Jewish wom-
People engaged in public instruction are inclined to go too far in
veloping on Long Island the largest
en's
organizations has been called to
thinking that every one should be encouraged to pursue his schooling
pigeon farm in the East—a unique
to the furthest possible stage. They lament what seems to them the
enterprise. Needless to say, Jews al- discuss the sharp increase in kosher
meats
at the Jewish Center, 31 Mel-
highly inadequate proportion of elementary school children who go
so supply their quota of successful
to high schools, and of the high school children who proceed to col-
dairymen, cattle raisers, and grain bourne avenue, on Saturday evening,

Speaking of our new billionaire, the New York World comments edi-
torially:

lege, and they glory in any increase in these proportions. They seem
to forget that the classroom is not the only means of education; that
a youth may get more intellectual and moral training from practical
work that he likes than from formal lessons that he loths. They do
not appreciate that all true education is self-education and that to
force a boy beyond a certain point to remain in school doing set
tasks in which he takes no interest may stultify his mind and fret
his character. They do not see clearly enough that one of the most
important functions of a school is the selective process—not only
selecting pupils for different types of instruction, but also distin-
guishing between those who will benefit by further schooling and
those who had better go at once into the larger school of an active
career in the work of the community.

growers.
The second generation of the Amer-
ican-Jewish farmer has proved pe-
culiarly successful in a few highly
specialized branches of agriculture
which require particular intelligence
and efficiency. The son of the original
South Jersey colonists is raising large
fields of flowers under irrigation. Ile
has developed the Spiegel type of
gladiola, regarded by experts as one
of the finest varieties. A son of an-
other pioneer farmer there is the re-
cipient of many prizes for excellence

I think Philip Guedalia is a Zionist. But he is one of England's most mining the truck growers in the euge..
brilliant men of letters. Yes, and I might go further and say that he is one . table sections of New Jersey. In so
of England's most brilliant men under the age of 40. Ile is here in this highly a specialized field of horticub
front Putnam's tore as hat-house vegetable. griming,
country on a lecture' tour. Only this very day has come
Guedalia's latest book, "Palmerston." It looks so inviting that I wish find two brothers in Wisconsin,
could drop that ton of newspapers and magazines that is piled up in a cor- each running large greenhouses that
tier of the room awaiting my immediate attention, out of the backroom turn out products which are prize-
window, and hurry to this book of Philip Guedalia'•. But I do hope to get winners A. I.., a 1105 graduate from
to it soon. Guedalia was in his university days Oxford's prize debater, then the Nati'inel Farm School, after de-
he became a leading barrister, and then a distinguished writer, notably of scribing his medicinal florist plant,
history. This brilliant young Jew has given the world "Masters and Men," gives his aspiration: "There seems to
"The Second Empire," "A Gallery," "Fathers of the Revolution," and now be great field fur anyone who can
he gives us this full length historical study of England's great statesman, increase the alkoloid contents of such
OS belladonna, cinchona, digi-
whose life was to a large extent the life of England and Europe in the las: Plants
tabs, etc.
16 years and the first 65 of the nineteenth century.
American Jews in Agriculture.

The argieultural profession, as dis-
I observe with distress that our friend "Sol" Levitan, thrice elected tinguished from the business of farm-
treasurer of the great state of Wisconsin, has aroused the ire. of the. state ing, includes some eminent Jewish
superintendent of public property and provoked hint to a very nasty state- scientists, such men as Dr. Jacob G.'
ment. It seems "Sol," who must be rather a lovable old gentleman, judg- Lipman, the. dean of the New Jersey
ing by the letters that come to us, hung a sign out on the front of his office Agricultural College and director of
door reading: "Uncle Sol, Your State Treasurer, M elcomes 1 ou.
Now everyone knows how cold a treasurer and a treasury usually are. the New Jersey Agricultural Expen-
They strike terror to the. timid soul. So naturally Sol Levitan, being a man mod Station; his brother, Dr. Charles
of the people, for the people and by the people, Wanted everybody to feel R. Lipman, professor of soil physics
at home. when they came to pay their bills, hence the sign. The irate in the Dr.
California
Agricultural
Col-
J. J. Taubenhaus
, Pl
ant
superintendent of public property, whose fine sensibilities were. offended by lerei ologist in the Texas Agric ultural '
this familiarity on the part of a public servant, write him a letter repri- path
manding him for this display of vulgar attention to the. populace and men- College: .1. Levine, plant pathologist
tinned that the sign "resembled an ad for a Jewish lire. sale." at the Minnesota Experiment Station;
Well, that set Uncle Sol on fire with indignation, and quite properly. Professor NI. E. Jaffa, nutrition ex
Now that gentleman must be more of a jackass than a gentleman, which pert at the California Agricultural !
may or may not Inc a libelous statement, but it remains as Written. In the Experiment Station—men who rank
meantime we urge our friend, Uncle Sol, to continue to maintain his cordial ' , high
among the. foremost of American
in agriculturists.
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relations with his constituents. Thus for he seems
to have been
confidence.
For moving'
a Jew to , Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, formerly sup-
li
I he right direction to gain their goodwill and
es, always leading his erintendent of the Woodbine Agricul-
sueep the state three times by stupendous majorities,
tural School, who introduced Rosen
awl everybody's else ticket, is some achievement in Wisconsin. We ask our Rye into this country, is now head of
!the comprehensive agricultural realm-
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colleague,
L. H. Frisch, in not that so?
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corn- , struetinn project in South Russia.
The Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity has again asked me to serve on the
mittee to select the individual, Jew or Gentile, who has in our judgment Unfortunately, the. number of
rendered the most constructive service to Judaism during the past year. American-Jewish
agriculturists Jewish
is yet I
"" Mall. thy encouraging
t
k young
men to enter the agricultural ,
Last year the committee voted Rabbi Stephen S. Wise as the one deservin l
profession,the
Jewish
Agricultural
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the Gottheil medal, which was presented to his at a dinner in New Yor
re
on May 10. It seems tnat the Zeta Beta Tau was so impsoed
with the profession,
Society hopes to increase it. Verily,
.
wisdom of the old committee that it has invited the entire personnel to agricultural scientists are one of the
see again. If I remember rightly, last year, votes were cast for Presi- most "I"3". "national assets.'
serve
dent Coolidge, Charles Evans Hughes, Lewis Browne, Dr. Herring' of the !
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goodwill committee of the churches. I am afraid to ask my readers to su c- ! CRAFTSMAN ENTERTAIN

gist names of the Americans who in their judgment have. rendered dP.
AT VALENTINE PARTY
greatest service to Jewry the past year. It might take me a month to open'
all the letters.. No, I think I'd better retire to my den and make up my own
ention that the Zeta Beta Tau
mind. In th e meanwhile it is in order to mention
(eternity is to be commended for focusing attention upon Jewish life in given under the new worshipful mss-
ter, William II. Robertson, was :,
this fashion.
Valentine dinner dance. by Crafts-
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' Man' s Lodge, No. 521 , F
"Who's Who" in American Jewry. Maybe your name is among the in honor of the members of Ontario
2.500 elect. Looking over the volume., the first of its kind to be published. Lodge, No. 521, who were guests of
I think the young publishers have done very well. I say young, because. I the evening. The dinner took place!
happened in on them one day in New York and they look like youngsters. in the fountain room of the New Ma-
They deserve a lot of credit fir having made this needed contribution to sonic Temple on Friday, Feb. II, and
American Jewish life. Of course you will find some names in the volume was attended by a large number of
that you think should he omitted. But most of us feel that way about the the brotherhood and their friends.
other fellow. Then each one of as thinks that our name should be there.
William H. Rosenberg, chairman
Maybe it will be included in the next volume, or the next, for, after all, of the reception committee, and Sam-
this is only the first. I think every newspaper, every library, every Jet,' uel J. Lave, chairman of the enter-
interested in public service of a Jewish character can use this book to ad- tainment committee, assisted by
vantage. It is the most representative of its kind and I firmly believe that Samuel Weingarden, Ray Fanazlow
it has more worth while names in it than any volume ever published of its and Max Winslow•, arranged a pro-
type in this country. If you want to know where to get a copy, write to me. gram of novelty numbers, including
the Wolverine Quartette. Music was
furnished by Finzel's Country Club
the Sabbath. I express no opinion of Orchestra.
the rights or wrongs of such activities
Those that attended voted the
on the Sabbath (my own activities will party as one of the most successful
speak for my personal views—and it and enjoyable given by Craftsman's
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is in the end a matter of personal be- I bodge,
lief) but at any rate here is a club
doing really good work among the
The Jewish Athletic Association Jewish men.
tenacity with which the Jew clings to
which eaters for sport among the Jews
life are well known.
We find that the psychological attri-
of England has five sections—Senior
To sum up, we can say without hes-
Chdo, Boys and Girls Clubs, and Boys butes of a Jew are eminently suitable itation that as a physiological and bio-
and Girls School Sections. It encour- for athletic success—what of his phys- logical entity, the Jew has most of the
ages football, cricket, lawn tennis, idol characteristics? Though the Jew characteristics which make for su-
swimming, running, boxing and many of fiction is traditionally lacking in preme success. Good physique wheth-
ether of the lesser sports. There are strong physical ability, in fact his er it is possible for it to develop; the
about 7,000 members of the Senior
tentialities are by no means weak, right kind of imaginary and highly-
Clubs and 19,000 from the schools.
and the reason through the ages for strung temperament, so vital where
There ix in London a Jewish Ath- his apparent feebleness is surely quick action is demanded, and that
letic Association which caters for ach- traceable more to his environment valuable asset, determination to suc-
and the power of sticking to
e Ica among Jews, and there is also than any other inherent weakness. The ceed ■
a Jewish athletic club, the Grafton, liberty accorded to Jews in many coun- things. We may expect Jews to get
and which whilst composed entirely of tries today is resulting in better phys- to the front in athletics as they have
Jewish athletes, competes in events on ical development, and the wiriness and in every other activity in life.

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Father and Son Program:

A father and son program will be
held at the Balch School, Ferry and
St. Antoine streets, on Thursday eve-
ning, Feb. 24, at 7:30. A regular
man's program will be presented.
There will lie music, boxing matches,
speeches, songs, etc.. Boys are urged
to bring their fathers arid fathers are
asked to COMe with their sons. Doug-
las Graham will be the speaker of the
evening.

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Art Exhibit:

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The fourth of a series of One-mici
in exhibits, showing the work of
Isaac Rader, and which opened at the
Jewish Center on Monday evening,
Feb. 14, will continue until 10 o'•lock
every evening. excepting Friday.
A reception will be held on Wednes•
day, Feb. 24, at 8 p. m. All are car
dially invited.

JEWISH JOKES MAKE
FOR ANTI-SEMITISM

MOSCOW.—(J, T. A.) —"Jewish
jokes" now current in Soviet Russia
arc generating anti-Semitism and
they must be' fought. This is the
opinion of Bucharin, member of the
Central Committee of the Communist
narty, and was expressed at a con-
ference of the Communist party in
the province of Leningrad. "It is
necessary to fight against the so-
called innocent expressions of anti-
Semitism contained in the Jewish
anecdotes which are now very fash-
ionable. In order to nip anti-Setnit-
ism in the bud, this must be stopped,"
he declared.
The growth of anti-Semitism in
Russia was caused by the concentra-
tion of the "Jewish capitalists ani
intelligentzia" from the western dis-
tricts in the big cities.
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districts the Russian workers are ig-
norant and the Jewish poor from the
former pale provoke jealousy and
hatred among the retrograde Russian
bourgeoisie. Even in the ranks of
the Communist party one can observe.
anti- Semitic tendencies, against
which it is necessary to tight," Bit-
•harin declared. "The Jewish nen-
men, however, must not be regarded
as a class enemy," he stated.

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