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April 30, 1943

FARMERS

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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

Rabbi Fram To Review
Wendell Willkie's Book,
"One World" on May 7

equipment, operation and, in the
case of the beginner, maintenance
Wendell Willkie's book, "One
over an initial period. The so- World," dealing with his recent
ciety's funds were derived ex- trip to Russia, China and the
elusively from one source—the Near East, will be the subject of
foundations set up by Baron Mau-
rice de Hirsch. No attempt was Rabbi Leon Fram's sermon at the
made to tap American support. Sabbath Eve services of Temple
The society's activities had to be Israel, on Friday night, May 7,
geared to its financial capacity. at 8:30, in the Lecture Hall of the
Had there been funds available Detroit Institute of Arts. Rabbi
for more generous lending, more
Jews could have been turned Frani, who traveled widely be-
landward—and this without creat- fore the war, has visited and
ing a subsidized element.
written articles on most of the
Yet, important and significant countries
which
Willkie
de-
results have been accomplished. scribes. The rabbi will discuss es-
Thousands of Jews have been pecially Willkie's impressions of
made farm conscious. Thousands the Near East and of Russia.
of Jewish families have wended
The Young People's Club of
their way to the farm. It has Temple Israel invites all young
been demonstrated beyond ques- people to attend the youth sym-
tion that Jews can farm and that posium and the question and an-
they do farm. And, this should be swer period which will follow
noted, the ratio of the Jewish Rabbi Frain's address.
agrarian population to the gen-
The Sisterhood of Temple Is-
eral Jewish population has in- rael invites all who attend the
creased many fold (luring the service to a social reception in
very forty years when the gen- the Romanesque Hall of the De-
eral drift was from country to troit Institute of Arts.
city, when the ratio of the na-
tional farm population to its to-
tal population went down from man's innermost urge, many Jews
almost forty per cent to less than have hewed out for themselves
a life on the soil. They are grow-
per cent.
I • twenty-five
Note should be taken, also, ing in numbers, adding to their
that, while the society served a acreage, and prepared in times
special clientele, it made definite of war as in times of peace to
contribution to American agri- make their fullest contribution
culture. It developed techniques to the basic economy of this
and practices, not a few of which blessed land of hope and oppor-
were adopted by other agencies, tunity.
even state and federal. The so-
ciety created what was in a sense
the first "farmers bank" in Amer-
ica. It collaborated in drafting
the first federal farm loan act
and its executive head became the
first president of the Federal
Land Bank having jurisdiction
over the New England States,
New York and New Jersey. The
Land Bank Commissioner loan
which was initiated upon the ad-
vent of the New Deal is in es-
sence the type of loan which the
society had already been making
for more than thirty years. The
society was a pioneer in the evo-
lution of the agricultural credit
union and its early recommenda-
tions became recognized credit
union practice embodied in later
credit union legislation. The so-
ciety set up the first specialized
I S I farm employment agency and
founded one of the first farm
papers in America to be published
in a foreign language. Its sys-
tem of field instruction antedated
systematic government county
agent work by seven or eight
years. The society's entrance into
the rural sanitation field was
characterized by the United
States Public Health Service as
"of statewide and national im-
portance . . ." The society was
the first to engage in planned
farm settlement activity. Its ex-
ecutive head was consulted in the
planning of New York State's
Bureau of Farm Information, and
appointed a member of its advis-
ory committee. The plan of the
Farm Security Administration in
resettling farm families is in a
broad sense akin to the society's
settlement work.
Fundamentally all Jewish agri-
cultural activity must be based
on the capacity of the family to
wrest a livelihood from the farm.
From the standpoint of the indi-
vidual, no such considerations as
relieving congestion, redistribut-
ing population, combatting anti-
Semitism, demonstrating Jewish
a 00 ability
to farm, dare count. The
Jew who chooses farming should
be impelled by precisely the same
motives that cause people to se-
lect other occupations—the re-
ward, material or otherwise, that
he expects to derive. But look-
ing beyond the individual settled,
there is a much deeper signifi-
ileance, and that deeper signifi-
cance is being brought home in
this (lay more forcefully than
ever before. Too often is the
charge heard that the Jew has
neither inclination nor aptitude to
toil or to till. The Jewish farmer
class which has been built up in
America within a comparatively
short span of years emphatically
refutes that charge. The Jews on
American farmlands signifiy a
LL
major social phenomenon not to
be measured by numbers alone.
They represent a positive gain in
normalization. Jewish farmers
have tapped for themselves a pre-
cious lode of self-reliance and
self-respect. In rediscovering the
satisfaction of life on the soil,
their ancient tradition, they have
also rediscovered themselves. In
no field as much as in farming.
does the American Jew have the
same sense of pride of achieve-
ment, the same quiet strength of
inner dignity. Responding to

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

ANSWER TOKIO KILLERS
BY BUYING WAR BONDS

By HENRY SIORGENTHAU, JR.
Secretary or the Treasury

Every American can take a hand
in exacting American justice for the
Tokio savages who murdered our

flyers.
Our people are thoroughly angry.

Our anger will mean nothing in the
fight to crush the Japanese war
lords unless it inspires Americans
to action.
We are now in the midst of a drive
to borrow $13.033,030,000 from the
American people. Our theme, "They
Give Their Lives—You Lend Your
'Money," has Leen given a stirring
morning by what has happened to
our brave boys.
I think Americans will want to
scrape the bottom of the barrel to
lend all the money they can pussibly
spare to end that kind of atrocity
ias quickly as possible.
Our flyers gave their lives. All
'Americans at home are asked to do
is to lerul their money. Let your
War Bond purcluises today answer
the murderers of Tokio.

Beth El Sisterhood
Annual Luncheon May 12

The annual luncheon of the
Sisterhood of Temple Beth El
will take place on Monday, May
10, in the social hall of the Tem-
ple at 12:30 p. m.
A group of women who have
sewed for the Red Cross unit of
the Temple for four years or
longer will be awarded chevrons
by Mrs. J. Vincent Dwyer, chair-
man of the Detroit chapter of

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BAY CITY NOTES

Pvt. Paul D. Ginsburg, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ginsberg, who
is serving with the medical branch
of the Air Corps, has been trans-
ferred from Kearns, Utah, to the
Miami Biltmore Hotel, at Coral
Gables, Fla.

Mr. and Mrs. Leo Graff are re-
ceiving felicitations upon the birth
of a daughter.

Distinctive scholarship of 723
University of Michigan students
was cited in the University's an-
nual Honors Convocation last
Friday. Among the students hon-
ored was Florine Frances Rob-
inson, senior honors, literary col-
lege. Miss Robinson is the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Robin-
son of this city.

Mr. and Mrs. H. F: Anthony
have received word from their son,
Pvt. Charles E. Anthony, that he
is now with an Air Corps Base at
the Red Cross.
Mrs. Henry Meyers, retiring St. Petersburg, Fla.
president, will give her annual
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Roman
report, followed by the election
of officers for the coming year. have been called to Chicago by
The program committee, Mrs. the sudden death of the latter's
Morris Rand, chairman, has brother, Miles Goldberg.
planned an afternoon of games
Miss Sybil Kahn has left for
with war saving stamps as door Indianapolis to visit with friends
prizes.
there.
Mrs. Herbert Kallet and Mrs.
Hilda Vau Consant are in charge
Robert Hirschfield, son of Jos-
of the sale of tickets and all res- eph C. Hirschfield, is home from
ervations must be in the Temple Dartmouth College for his spring
office by Saturday, May 8.
vacation.

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