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Friday April 19, 1946

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

National Farm School Ready To Celebrate Golden Jubile e

Founded by a young Amerie 641 i ...,,.•.. cm.cr uirun wouro oe tae gage or lien.
I tuition and for dormitory, meals, binet will be the guest of honor.
Rabbi 50 years ago, The Nation grestablishment of an agricultural
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, in her
Referring to its plans to ei _ j and all living expense of each
Farm School, near Doylestown in school for Jewish lads — and oth- pand into a 3-year junior colleg , 1 student $1,200 for an entire column "My Day," recently slap
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, h Li er lads." Then he added: "The Leon Merz, chairman of the Boar d I school year consisting of 11 full ed: "One of the things I think we
announced plans for a nationvri le existence of the National Farm of Trustees, declared: "Lookin g months instead of the 9 months' should help to promote is bet
Golden Jubilee celebrating its haIf School near Doylestown is testi- forward to its second half-centur: r, period usually required for college education in farm living. S o I
century of service, mainly to Je v. mony I kept my promise,"
interested to receive a notice
the new program of the Nation( t l attendance.
ish boys from crowded cities, w ho
Since the school's founding, the Farm School will offer a combins - "Every student admitted to the the efforts being made to raise ,
were provided with an educati on
, institution has prepared boys tion of academic and scientific e( National Farm School," explained fund to improve the National
in agriculture in accordance wi .1 from every part of the United ucation, with practical trainin Mr. Men, "will be awarded a Farm School, near Doylestown,
g
the Charter of the School, whi 1 States to find their places in life and healthy living. Never hero( 'work and learn' scholarship in Pa."
was signed on April 10, 1896, I as owners or managers of farms, has there been a greater need t 0 the amount of $600 for each year
Noting that the school was 50
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf of Phil 1. in many fields of agriculture, in open wide the doors to educatio n that he attends the college, or a years old, Mrs. Roosevelt con.
yProfessions,
or
in
industry.
delphia and by such other di
for Jewish lads. Our campus sha Il total of $1,800 for the 3 year tinued, "Leo Tolstoy inspired the
tinguished Jews of that day is
Fifty years ago the school was continue to welcome youth froi n period. This will leave a balance young Jewish Rabbi Krauskopf
Benjamin Gimbel, Samuel D. Li t, established when Rabbi Kraus- our crowded cities so that the of only $600 payable by the stu- who founded it In this country,
y
Joseph .1. Shellenberg, Howard L kopf bought the first farm of only may develop their minds, acquit dent for his entire cost of tuition But it was always "for Jewish
Loeb, prominent banker of Phil a- 100 acres with a pioneer house new skills, learn to know the goo d and maintenance for each year." lads and other lads.' Thus, it gives
delphia, and Leo S. Rowe, now d i- for $10,000 which he earned by earth, find a new way of life, an d
In addition to the "work and a lesson in tolerance and the abil.
rector general of the Pan-Ame i- lecturing to congregations all over be prepared to serve as true An
learn" scholarship of $600 a year ity to get along with others re-
can Union in Washington, D. C. the United States. When Rabbi ericans in a world of peace.
which is awarded to every stu- gardless of creed, nationality or
Scholarships of $600 each wi 11 Krauskopf died, about the time
The Golden Jubilee progran dent, Mr. Merz also added that racial origin.
be awarded every student accep t- the school was celebrating its Sil- he said, will aim to raise $1,000 the Trustees will grant additional
"Graduates of this school are
ed, according to the announce ._ver Anniversary, his work was al. 000 to enable the school to it scholarships to assist worthy stu- probably the ones who
will re-
ment made by Leon Merz, chair r- ready crowned with success and crease its dormitory and labors dents to pay part or all of the spend to the Government appeal
A
man of the Board of Trustees,
the National Farm School had al- toll' facilities, enlarge its facult1 remaining $600. "It is our earn- for increased efforts to save the
_part of the plan for expansion ,1 ready attracted the attention of and make it possible also to a( est desire," stated Mr. Men, people of the world from starve.
the school to that of a Junic ,, civic and educational leaders all commodate at least 200 additionr "that no worthy boy should be tion. These graduates probably
College of Agriculture.
over the country. Now, at the end high school graduates and vete] denied the advantages of the know what being hungry means."
of fifty years of service, the ans.
President Truman in his rece (t
training, education and prepara-
The school is maintained by
Trustees
who have continued the
"The entire educational prc tion for life which the National funds contributed by private citi-
message of greetings and congra t-
ulations, sent from the Whi 43 work started by Rabbi Krauskopf gram of the National Farr Farm School affords, even if his zens and by annual contributions
House to Leon Men, chairman I Point proudly, not only to the list School," according to the catalo family may be financially unable from the State of Pennsylvania,
the Board of Trustees, said, "Th e of graduates, but also to the 1,- just issued, "is based on a wel: to pay the full cost of his edu- the Federation of Jewish Charities
origin of The National Fa 0 200 acres and to the magnificent rounded combination of 'live cation."
in Philadelphia, and by Jewish
buildings, library, and equipment learn and work,' and therefore n 0
School is as interesting as its su
When the new junior college Community Chests in about 175
,'-, which have been recently valued attempt
is made to subdivide'th e program gets under way, more cities throughout the U. S.
sequent history has been notable.
President Truman added, "Yo a by an outstanding appraisal com- charges to the student into sena than 600 acres of ground will al-
The National Farm School is
celebrate the fiftieth anniversa I pany at more than $1,000,000 — rate items such as tuition, board ready have been cultivated on the situated near Doylestown, in the
all
of
which
is
free
of
any
mort-
lodging, etc." The total cost fo r farms that spread across the cam- famous Bucks County, Pennsyl-
of an institution founded with th e
pus. The students will also find vania, about 30 miles from Phila-
blessing of one of my illustrio a
greenhouses with an area of 16,- delphia, 75 miles from New York
predecessors (Grover Cleveland )
000 square feet, peach and apple and 160 miles from Washington.
and in a measure inspired by th e
Presented $250,000,000 Program
orchards covering thirty acres, a It has its own post office and rail-
great Russian reformer, Coun t
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herd of 135 dairy cows and a
Tolstoy."
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poultry plant of nearly 8,000 road station, both of which are
In 1894 Rabbi Krauskopf ha i
named "Farm School, Pa."
birds.
been a guest at the White House
On April 30, the National Gol-
where President Grover Clevelan I
den Jubilee Committee will cele-
encouraged him to make the tri,
brate the 50th anniversary of the
to Russia to plead personally wit
National
Farm School at a public
the Czar to stop religious perse
banquet to be held in the Grand
cation and to permit Jews to col -
Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria
onize neglected lands. As farmer 5
,
Hotel in New York City. Fanny
and bread givers, it was Kraus •
f
Hurst, the well-known novelist, is
koprs hope that the Russian Jew
chairman of the National Commit-
might return to the vocation o I
tee and will preside at the ban-
their Biblical forefathers.
quet. Henry A. Wallace, renown-
But the Czar's government ca •
ed agriculturist, Vice - President
h.
bled that it was impossible to ex
and Secretary of Agriculture un-
,
/.
.
,
tend the courtesy of a passpo
--
der President Franklin D. Roose-
visa to the "Jewish Divine," a 1
t
velt, and now Secretary of Com-
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they termed him. Nevertheless ,
merce in President Truman's Ca-
Krauskopf sailed with his Amen •
can passport but without any vi i
from Russia. The Czar's minions
however, dared not keep him ou t
of the land from which his c
PASSOVER GREETINGS
religionists — the refugees of th e
1890's' — were then being driven.
The final sessions In Jerusalem of the Anglo-American Committee
Krauskopf had come to see th e of Inquiry on Palestine were marked by frequent references to the
Czar and failed. But he met a Jordan Valley Authority, the program which, when implemented at a
greater man instead — Leo Tot. cost of *250,000,000 would provide sufficient electric power and irrIga•
stoy. The rabbi reported his mis- tlon facilities for Increasing Palestine's capacity to absorb an addl.
sion to Tolstoy who was deeply tional population of 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 Jews.
IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC DELICACIES
The American plan, modelled after the Tennessee Valley Authority,
sympathetic. He loved the good
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earth. He had faith in the Jews. mann, head of the Commission on Palestine Surveys; James B. Hays,
But he had no faith in the Czar's former Project Mgr. of the TVA at Bristol, Tenn., now Chief Engineer
government. It was then that Tol- of the Commission on Palestine Surveys; and John L. Savage, inter.
stoy counselled the rabbi on build- nationally famous American engineer who designed the Grand Coulee
ing farm schools for Jewish immi- and Boulder Dams. From left to right (above): James B. Hays and
grant youths.
Emanuel Neumann, boarding the TWA plane on which they flew tc
Jerusalem on their important mission.
Sixteen years later, in 1910,
when Tolstoy died, Rabbi Graus-
kopf acknowledged the inspiration
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