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THE. LEGAL CHRONICLE
ORGANIZERS OF NEW PALESTINE COMMITTEE
Greetings to Our Patrons,
Friends and Neighbors
We trust that with the ushering in of
the New Year our brethern will
have a full measure of health,
happiness and prosperity.
SATISFACTION — SERVICE
THE FAMOUS
Cleaners & Dyers
INCORPORATED
4465 BEAUBIEN ST.
May we pause a year tom now and look
back at this Rosh Hashonah that we celebrate
today with satisfaction and joy.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
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2380 Twentieth Street
BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR
JERUSALEM. — ( J. T. A. )-
The Bezalel School of Arts and
Crafts, founded by the late Pro-
fessor Boris Schatz, owing to lack
of funds, will be reopened as a
public institution, "according to
plans now in the process of for-
mulstion.
This information Is divulged in
a letter received from Henrietta
Scold by Mrs. Eli Daicher, direc.
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
tor of the Friends of Bezalel in
Chicago.
A delegation representing Jew.
WM. B. ISENBERG, C. P. A.
ish colonists met with the Pales-
ARTHUR S. PURDY, C. P. A.
tine High Commissioner with ref-
ROBERT J. DONOVAN, C. P. A.
erence to the draft of the new
municipal ordinance regarding tree
LOUIS J. PORTNOY, C. P. A.
uprooting and the British duty on
orange imports.
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The colonists urged that the
duty on oranges be imposed only
for the period of May 15 to Oc-
tober 30.
A delegation representing Arab
orange growers, who were also
received by Sir Arthur Grenfell
Wauchope, were informed that the
Colonial Office is now considering
the possibility of extending Imper-
ial Preference tariffs to Palestine.
A number of Jewish tourists
narrowly escaped serious injury
when they were attacked by an
Arab mob upon arrival in Trans-
Jordania.
The travelers were stoned by
the Arabs and 10 out of the 28
did sustain injuries. They were
saved from serious consequences
when the driver of the bus in
which they were traveling suc-
ceeded in getting his motor started
and speedily proceeded towards
Amman where the tourists ob-
A group of the notables at the initial organization meeting of the American Palestine Committee, a tained ample government protec-
non-Jewish body of sympathizers and supporters of the Zionist movement. Senator Borah was forced tion.
to leave prior to the taking of the picture, owing to an important meeting of the Senate Foreign Rela-
The Hebrew press devotes con-
tions Committee, which he heads.
siderable space to the attack and
Left to right, those in the group are: Senator James E. Watson, majority leader of the Senate; Dr. indicates that quite obviously it
Nahum Sokolow, president of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization; Vice-President had been planned, for the visitors
Curtis, and Senator William H. King of Utah, president of the American Palestine Committee.
found themselves surrounded by
hundreds of Arabs who appeared
Notwithstanding the compensation upon the scene suddenly when a
offered by the Soviet government shot was fired into the air upon
the able colonists did not return to their arrival,
From Amman the tourists were
the fields and the youth most cer-
tainly were missing. The Soviet escorted by a police guard and
were
brought safely into Pales-
By BORIS SMOLAR
authorities thus placed their hopes
on new colonists. They figured tine territory. Most of the tour-
(Cei/Yell:he/1832, Jewish Telegraphic Ageley. Inc.)
that since the situation in the ists were from Tel Aviv. Imme-
towns was bad; since hunger pre- diately upon their return they
The new Jewish year spells sig- months—and it is certain that it veiled there, Jews would flock to lodged a complaint with the High
nificant changes for Russian will be—the ,Jews will flock to it the colonies if transportation were Commissioner.
Neumann Returns to Palestine.
Jewry. It is preceded by the in- from colony and co-operative, de- supplied.
Emanuel Neumann, American
But hunger was equally preva-
troduction of a new policy on the stroying the bridge over which they
part of the Soviet government—a have been led in the past two years lent in the Jewish colonies in the member of the World Zionist Ex-
Ukraine as in the Jewish towns ecutive, returned to Palestine.
policy which permits private trade to collective and co-operative.
Naturally the road back will be this year. Not only the people in
Mr. Neumann, who attended the
in a certain degree; which gives
free reign to the artisans, and taken gradually and cautiously. the colonies hungered but even the meetings of the actions commit-
tee, has been spending some time
which presents improved opportun- Naturally the Jews will,remember cattle.
vl
It was very difficult in the past in Europe discussing Palestine's
ities for the inhabitants of the that they paid with the depriva-
tion of their rights for the "nep" year to estimate the number of financial problems and other mat-
Jewish towns.
Whether or not one is of the of the years before, and debate Jews in the colonies. True Jews ters relating to his work.
opinion that the present Soviet pol- carefully the advisability of this came from the towns, but when
icy is a return to the Nep; re- about face turn to private trade. they saw that the situation was as
gardless of one's belief it is a pure- But that many of them will travel acute there as in the towns, they
ly temporary policy planted to op- this road back is a foregone con- promptly returned to their native
L'Shono Tovo Tikosevu I
erate for a short period only— clusion. Moveover, it is unavoid- hearth.
Now that possibilities are opened
this much is certain—it is bound able.
to bring a change in the situation
Life in the Jewish towns will re- up for a more normal life in the
in the Jewish towns.
vive this year. The distrust evi- towns it is a certainty that Jews
In the , past year—this year of dent in the first weeks of the new will not flock from the towns to the
employment for all—there remain- policy lest the Soviet government colonies.
• • •
ed in the Jewish towns some 400,- later square accounts with the new
The past year has imposed ser-
000 Jews who were not permitted private traders as it did after the
m.o....-,. , .•Memo Officer. PARK AVE, • AT COLUMBIA•
to engage in- airy -work; 400,000 end-of 'the 'No In the years -gone ious difficulties-in the way, too; Of
Jews who were looked upon as by will evaporate. Little by little the project to establish a Jewish
DETROIT, MICH.
former declassed, as persons who the towns will begin to trade with republic in Bira Bidjan. The Jew-
ish
Communists
in
the
Soviet
Un-
the
village;
the
towns
will
be
have no place in a Communist land.
Now these 400,000 Jews will be drawn into small trading and the ion this year conceived the notion
able to breathe more freely. No Jews will put one foot forward and of utilizing the world crisis for
longer will they be dependent upon the other in the direction of semi- transporting unemployed Jews
from abroad to Bira Bidjan. They
aid from their relatives abroad or private, semi-collective trading.
forgot one small detail, however.
alms from children in the larger
Then life is certain to revive in They forgot that the unemployed
cities.
The new Soviet decrees permit the next year. Not so colony life. Jew in Germany, Lithuania, Argen-
The Jewish colonies which in the tine and America lives under bet-
any one so choosing to open his
own little workshop. They provide early years of their establishment ter conditions even in a state of
further that every small artisan evinced energetic activity have been unemployment in his native land
need not be dependent on the ar- virtually paralyzed by collectiviza- than it is possible for him to live
tels—that he may purchase raw tion. Collectivization has deadened even under the best conditions in
material in the private market and activity in the Jewish colonies in Bira Bidjan.
What transpired In connection
sell his finished product in the priv- the Kalinindorf region, ruined them
in the Stalindorf and New Zlata- with this migration to Bira Bidjan
ate market, too.
These new decrees provide a pol regions. It has had a less de- from abroad could have been fore- Kosher Meat Market
means of livelihood to those who structive effect in Crimea there cast. They came, became frighten-
were not accepted previously in any alone where the Argo-Joint for the ed at the difficulties there, and The Finest Meats and Poultry
in Detroit. We deliver.
co-operatives, who were not set- time being is continuing its work. fled. This flight might not have been
Townsend 6.950 3
The past year has served to em- a bad thing in itself. But the diffi-
tled on any land, and who were
not permitted to procure any other phasize the destruction wrought in culty lies in the fact that the Jews
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the colonies by collectivization. who fled were foreign Jews and
work.
This new policy, moreover, is cer- More than a thousand Jewish col- going abroad they spread reports
tain to have a marked effect even onists have left the Kalinindorf re- which neither the Soviet authorities
on the status of those thousands gion alone in the last twelve nor the Soviet press have yet dis-
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
of Jews who received full Soviet months..Hundreds departed from cussed. They blackened the repute-
rights, but who, notwithstalfding Stalinindorf while the number of ' lion of Bira Bidjan before public
those
who
bade
farewell
to
their
opinion.
They
told
tales
which
remained in an unfortunate posi-
tion owing to the shortage of raw fields in New Zlatapol is also large. had not been heard of before.
The last year has seen the suc-
When facts begin to seep into the
materials; the bureaucracy of lo-
Reduced Prices on
cal Soviet oftifficials and the unfor- cessful Jewish colonization experi- open, there is but one recourse—to
Cleaning and New
ment
placed
in
jeopardy.
It
has
tell
the whole truth. And the
tunate psychological adherence to
marked serious discussions on the truth which emerged was that the
ancient beliefs.
advisability
of
converting
Kalinin-
entire
Jewish
work
in
Bira
Bidjan
Thousands of Jews, nova colon-
ists, members of artels, superfici- dart, the first autonomous Jewish is on a point of collapse; that the
ally or otherwise now oriented in region, into a non-Jewish region. largest proportion of Jewish mi-
In the last year, it was empha- grants from the Ukraine and White
the Soviet system, will, in all like-
lihood, renounce their present affil- sized that more non-Jews remained Russia did not remain in Bira Bid-
in
this region than Jews. That the jan; that there Is neither food nor
iations and return to private trade.
This will occur not all at once Jewish colonists were deserting the shelter; that the Soviet adminis-
fields
en masse offered serious sub- tration of the grain trust does not
and not immediately. Should priv-
ate trade be permitted for several ject for discussion. The air seem- desire any Jewish settlers; that
ed burdened with catastrophe for none of the specialists desire to
settle in Bira Bidjan; that by the
the Jewish colonists this year.
In Crimea, the theater of the end of 1933 it may be possible to
Argo-Joint operations—the colon- declare Biro Bidjan an autonomous
ization proceeded at its normal Jewish district, but under no cir-
That the New Year Be One of tempo. In the Ukraine, however, cumstances will it then be possible
the Jewish Communists forced the to proclaim it an autonomous Jew-
Happiness and Prosperity
Jewish collectives to adhere to the ish republic. With this truth out,
WINDOW SHADES
is the wish of
"general line" of the Communist naturally the romantic notions en-
NEED CLEANING?
collectives. As a result, the able tertained about Bira Bidjan faded
colonists deserted and returned to even among those who firmly be-
the towns leaving behind only those lieve in the future of Bira Bidjan,
Jewish colonists who had not place including the Comzet, the govern-
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mental department for settling
to which to return.
'Pike whole Jewish colonization Jews on the land and establishing
work established after some )0 long them in industry.
WITH
and difficult years was on the verge Very early there were to be found Window Shades made to order
of colHapse when the authorities among Jewish Communist officials and installed. No charge for
strong emergency measures of the Comzet those who warned
Streng Chevrolet Co. created
to stem the tide of desertions. Even that too great hopes must not be estimates. Our autos will call
with these measures there was reposed in Bira Bidjan, and that in any part of Greater Detroit.
• 12TH at PHILADELPHIA
WOODWARD at GRATIOT
some danger this year that there Crimea could not be neglected. And
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wood not be sufficient colonists to the number of such persons has
Established 1917
DETROIT
harvest the crop in the Ukraine. recently increased.
As a result of these divisions of
opinion, A. Merezhin, the actual
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founder of the Comzet and father
of the Jewish colonization move-
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i ment In Soviet Russia, was forced Rosh Hashonah Greetings
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and Best Wishes to the
In resign his office. His resigns.
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followed upon the heels of the
Entire Jewish
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death of I. Lenin, co-founder with
Community
him of the Comzet, who also was
ri
Wishing all my Jewish friends, neighbors and
a strong supporter of Bira Bidjan
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Manager of
as a place of settlement for the
patrons a happy and prosperous New Year.
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Jews and who worked hand in hand
P, with Merezhin.
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the past year brought thousands
of
unemployed
Jewish
elements
into
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er
Takes this opportunity to thank his many friends for their
various industries in all fields of
valued patronage and desires to express his sincerest wielan
Jews have been drawn
F A endeavor.
into the metal and building indus-
JACK ROSENBERG,
to all his friends and patrons for • most happy and proepereas
F, tries,
Into the factories and wher-
New Year.
Manager—Wyoming Yard
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DETROIT LIFE
INSURANCE
Extends Sincere Holiday Greetings
To Its Many Jewish Friends
and Policyholders.
RUSSIAN JEWRY IN THE YEAR THAT
IS FINISHED
L'Shono Tovo Tikosevu!
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L'Shono Tovo Tikosevu!
What beautiful sentiments these three words
express! They speak volumes. To this day it
has not lost its meaning.
At the dawn of another New Year the John
W. Masury Co. extends heartiest, sincere greet-
ings to the entire community. Let us all strive
to make it a year of achievement and of progress.
May You Be Blessed With a
Happy New Year
Rosh Hashonah
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