Friday, August 22, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Nazism Active,
Slawson Charges
HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
U. S. Troops Infected
With Racism, He Says
By IRVING 1. KATZ
Articles 73
Agricultural Activities
(This is the third article in a series)
CLOSE FRIEND OF Martin Butzel was Emanuel Wodic, who
had 25 years of succcessful farming back of him and was then
living on a small farm in Utica, Mich. (A biographical sketch of
Mr. Wodic appeared earlier in this series).
Butzel was determined to do everything in his power for the
colonists and he turned to Wodic for guidance. Wodic agreed to
go to Bad Axe and upon his ar-
rival there in March, 1892, found
conditions in a pitiful state of
affairs.
Upon his return to Detroit,
Butzel called a special meeting
of the Beth El Hebrew Relief
Society and a supply of clothing,
groceries and matzoh was sent to
Bad Axe, and arrangements
made to procure fodder for the
livestock. A fund of $1200 was
raised to bea used by Wodic ac-
cording to his best judgment.
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WODIC RETURNED to Bad
Aye in May, 1892. His first step
was to provide each farmer with
a cow. He also brought equip-
ment, oxen, and oats, peas and
potatoes for planting. He sup-
plied each family with a small
quantity of groceries. He re-
EMANUEL WODIC
mined in Bad Axe throughout.
that spring and summer, teaching the colonists how to sow and
cultivate, and later how to harvest their little crop.
Realizing the need for more cleared land, he kept the men
constantly at work, underbrushing and clearing. During these
operations he installed a temporary sawmill of the crudest type
in order to cut the burned logs into rough boards to be used as
siding for the almost open shacks, so as to make them more habit-
able for the winter.
Not only was Wodic the agricultural adviser but he acted as
the communal leader and arbiter of the many petty disputes which
naturally arose among the colonists.
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IN ADDITION TO appealing to the Beth El Hebrew Relief
Society. Butzel entered into .correspondence with the Baron de
Hirsch Fund and succeeded in obtaining an appropriation of $3,000
to meet the colonists' urgent needs.
In September, 1892, Butzel visited the Colony and personally
supervised the distribution of the money made available by the
fund. Butzel returned to Detroit much impressed with the calibre
of the colonists and wrote an enthusiastic report to the fund.
During the Succoth holidays of 1892, an exhibition of the
colonists' products was displayed at Temple Beth El, Detroit. the
first exhibition of farm products raised by Jews to be held in-the
United States. This was the means conceived by Butzel and
Wodic to interest the Detroit Jews in their neighboring farming
brethren.
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DURING TILE WINTER OF 1892-1893 Butzel kept in close
touch with Batt Axe, advising and encouraging the farmers. The
winter of 1892 was one of the severest ever experienced in that
section of Michigan and Butzel sent a second appeal to the Baron
de Hirsch Find for relief. In February, 1893, the fund made a
second loan of $1,000 which Blaze] entrusted to Woodic who later
loaned it out to 10 of the colonists.
Wodic's aetive participation was cut short early in the fall
through the illness and death of his wife, but the impetus he had
given carried the colony along for several years.
(Next Week—The critical years of the Colony and its disintegration)
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Enrollment Starts
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. Classes in all departments of •
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opening ,of the Detroit public
schools Wednesday, Sept. 3.
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MUNICH, (JTA) — Scores of
Jewish men and women wept
openly here when they were
roved to leave a train which was
about to start them on their jour-
ney to the United States.
At the last minute, after 315
displaced Jews had boarded the
train bound for Bremerhaven,
they were informed that there
was no ship available to take
them from the German port to
New York.
It is expected that a vessel
will not be available until some
time next month. Many of the
refugees expressed the fear that
now they would never get to the
United States.
At the same time a second
group of 201 displaced Jews set
out on a journey to new homes
in Palestine. They included 72
men, 91 woman and 38 children
up to the age of 17. all with
relatives residing in Palestine. The
total number of Palestine-bound
immigrants to leave Munich since
Jan. 1 of this year, excluding to-
day's group was 184.
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Frankfurt that no more displaced
Jews can be absorbed into the
German economy without risking
the revival of anti-Semitism.
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NEW YORK (WNS) — The
American occupation zone in
Germany has "not only not been
Americanized but no progress has
been made toward organizing
democratic forces" in that coun-
try where nazism and racism
have been "and are" on the in-
crease, Dr. John Slawson, execu-
tive vice-president of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee, charged
recntly.
Dr. Slawson, who just returned
from Europe, where he visited
England and Germany and open-
ed the AJC's Paris office, told a'
press conference that Lh. S. troops
in Germany have become in-
fected with nazism, racism and
the concept of lierrenvolk" and
that, unless "more potent" edu-
cational methods are employed,
this infection of bigotry would
spread.
'We cannot build up Germany
"materially at the present time
without doing a complete spiritual
and educational reorganization
job," he warned.
Pointing out that the liberal
tradition is vitally alive in
France Dr. Slawson declared
that that country is the most
hopeful example "of what west-
ern Europe might accomplish in
the field of assurance to minori-
ties." No basic anti-Semitism ex-
ists in France, he stated, adding
that many leaders, Jewish and
non-Jewish, with whom he had
talked, had assured him that
there as no semblance of social
anti-Semitism in France.
Queried on the question of the
displaced Jews, Dr. Slawson as-
serted there "is no question that
the vast majority of them wish
to go to Palestine." The displaced
persons, he stated, are an in-
escapable world problem and the
world has not yet "recognized
that they are a potential asset."
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