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. A • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • 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) llacataw ,Cand PINE RIVER r HOTEL Charlevoix, Mich. 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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." Page Eleven a rite or Phone for F. .SAMSON • SOUTH HAVEN, MICR. 'fe e t • ! Oilier MIR osor—tOnseed Ilia • IND Desellet1 Plow he Phone 379 or 443 \NW ... s r ,.