limfrraorrjoasnffiturno. and PAGE NINE 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. 1101=1=111533112111A HAPPY NEW YEAR 5693 — 1932 Itanyminewsnamtan 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. 3223 BARLUM TOWER CADILLAC 7934 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 11510 DEXTER 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- LONGFELLOW 8324 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 Madison 3670 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 .......................................0 founder of the Comzet and father of the Jewish colonization move- A i ment In Soviet Russia, was forced Rosh Hashonah Greetings g and Best Wishes to the In resign his office. His resigns. F followed upon the heels of the Entire Jewish 4 n 1 tion 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 g Manager of as a place of settlement for the patrons a happy and prosperous New Year. t Jews and who worked hand in hand P, with Merezhin. g /A If the Jewish colonization in 8 229112211112111 VA FA Soviet Russia has been on the g F, downward trend in the past year, industrialization among the Jews ri has been on the upward swing. F A The industrial program of the F A 9925 DEXTER BOULEVARD ; Soviet, now at a standstill, has in IA the past year brought thousands of unemployed Jewish elements into - 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 I, F ever there was a dearth of AMC:7 loomovik ■■■■•■•■•■■•■■■•■■■■■•••■■•■■■■■■ workers. Isenberg, Purdy & Co. The 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! COMPANY of B•alalel Selma lam. COMPANY COLUMBIA 1111 GUNSBERG PACKING in .1 I C V . Plea R•404nIng . Lafayette 2908 JOHN A. REYNOLDS, Pres. Chas. 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