World Famous Leaders
To Address Convention
of Pioneer Women Here

COMMENTARY

Outstanding world and American Jewish leaders
will participate in the sessions of the eighth national
convention of the Pioneer Women's Organization of
America, which will open at the Book-Cadillac Hotel on
Wednesday evening, June 10. The sessions will continue

through Sunday, June 14.

David Ben Gurion, chairman of%
the World Zionist Executive and in Jewish life today.
Born in Pinsk, in 1886, he
an outstanding Palestine labor
leader, will be the principal helped found the Poale Zion
movement when only 17 years
speaker at the opening session.
Emma Shever, popular Detroit old. In 1906, he joined the Second
Aliya, going to Palestine as a
pioneer. He worked in the col-
onies, helped protect them as a
member of the Hashomer, and
when the World War broke out,
he and his companion, Isaac Ben
Zvi, were exiled from Palestine
by the Turkish Government. They
came to the United States in
1915, and founded the American
Hechalutz in 1917, which eventu-
ally gave way to the Jewish
Legion.
In 1920, Ben Gurion entered
the scene of large-scale Zionist
politics, and helped found the
Histadrut, Jewish Labor Federa-
tion of Palestine.
DVORA ROTHBARD'S CAREER
Dvora Rothbard has been in
the leadership of the Pioneer
Women's Organization for the
past eight years, has toured the
DAVID BEN GURION
country, addressing the clubs of

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will speak Saturday night; Sara
Feder and Dvora Rothbard, na-
tional secretaries, will speak at a
number of the sessions; the Rt.
Hon. Margaret G. Bondfield, Min-
ister of Labor in the Brit;Jh Gov-
ernment from 1929 to 1931, will
speak at the Saturday luncheon
session on June 13, on "Women's
Role in the Post-War Reconstruc-
tion Period."
BEN GURION'S CAREER
Outstanding leader of the la-
bor Zionist movement for over
three decades, and second only
to Dr. Chaim Weizmann in World
Zionism, David Ben Gurion is
one of the most colorful figures

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David Ben Gurion Principal Speaker at Opening
Wednesday; Other Noted Leaders at
Detroit Sessions

soprano, will be the soloist at
Wednesday's session.
OTHER SPEAKERS
Yehudith Simchonit, delegate
of the Palestine Working
Women's Council to the United
States, will be another speaker
at Wednesday's session. Mayor
Edward J. Jeffries is expected to
welcome the delegates.
Among the other notables who
will address the convention will
be:
Dr_ Haym Breenberg, eminent
lecturer and writer, editor of
Ykldisher Kempfer and Jewish
Frontier, who will address the
Oncg Shabbat session; Dr. May
Bere, noted leader and lecturer,

Outstanding Stars
In Detroit June 14

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GARDENS IN THE GHETTO
One of the most significant
studies of the present position-
of Jews herded together in the
worst ghetto of all times—the
Nazi-created reservation in War-
saw—is Dr. Simon Segal's "The
New Order in Poland," which
Alfred A. Knopf has just issued.
Dr. Segal's study is import-
ant not only as a revelation of
what is happending in Poland,
but more especially as a social
study, as proof of Jewish deter-
mination to carry on, as an in-
dication of the existence of an
underground movement that is
certain one day to destroy Naz-
ism.
For Jews, there is fascination
in the facts, presented by Dr.
Segal, that Jews are not only
carrying on but that they are
creating gardens within the
ghetto and that they do not let
Nazism bend their backs but
persist in trying to elevate
themselves.
THE GHETTO AGRICULTURE
In this season of the year
when people are thinking in
terms of improving their lawns,
of planting "victory gardens," of
enjoying a bit of the outdoors,
the study by Dr. Segal presents
a lesson which we may well
take to heart, even though it
comes from the ghetto.
Dr. Segal tells us that "the
ghetto has brought an eqoati7a-
tion of various Jewish social
classes, a greater solidarity
among the Jews, and more de-
mocracy within Jewish life."
He then proceedscy to relate
the following interesting and
important facts:
"Greater importance has also
been assumed by the Hecha-
lutz, an organization for the
retraining of Jewish youth for
farm work in Palestine. The

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Hechalutz groups have existed
for many years in Poland,

and have increased their ac-
tivities since the German oc-
cupation. In the ghettos these
groups are supported by the
Jewish Community Councils
and enjoy popularity with
DR. HAYM GREENBERG
Jewish youth. It is also inter-
esting to note, not as an actual
the Pioneer Women's Organiza-
tion and affiliated groups. She important economic factor but
has also visited Palestine, re- as a peculiarity, that some
`agriculture' has been de-
turning to the United States a
veloped within the Warsaw
short time ago from a six months'
ghetto. Vacant lots in the
study tour.
ghetto have been put under
Miss Rothbard is a graduate
of the Jewish Teachers' Seminary cultivation and some gardening
in New York, and the University is being done there. The Jews
are proud to raise vegetables
of California, where she received
highest honors and a scholarship and flowers in the Warsaw
ghetto. However, how much
in literature. She is a member of
this 'agriculture' can contribute
Phi Beta Kappa. Dvora Rothbard
has been active in the field of to the alleviation of the food
Jewish education for many situation in the Warsaw
ghetto, inhabited by 500,000
years, as a teacher in the Jew-
people, can be easily
ish Folk Schools throughout the
imagined."
country.
And yet, this is important, and
In the last year the Pioneer interesting, and socially signifi-
Women's Organization raised
close to $100,000 for the work
of the Working Women's Coun-
cil, which trains girls in the
"Mishkei Hapoaloth" (agricul-
tural training farms).

To commemorate the hun-
dredth anniversary of the birth
of the father of the Yiddish
stage, Abrahain Goldfadden, the
most revered playwright of Yid-
dish letters, Edwin A. Relkin
will revive Goldfadden's classic,
"Bar-Kochba," for two perform-
ances, Sunday matinee and eve-
ning, June 14, at the Wilson The-
ater.
Considered the immortal gem
of Yiddish classic, "Bar-Kochba",
an historical operetta, was first
produced 50 years ago, and has
been revived thousands of times
since by Yiddish repertoire
troupes throughout the world.
Right now, "Bar-Kochba," both
Yiddish and Russian adaptations,
are being played in many of the
Russian Army camps.
The great cantor, Moyshe Oy-
sher, has been engaged by Mr.
Relkin to enact the title role.
He will be assisted by an all-star
Yiddish cast, comprising such
eminent players of the Yiddish
stage as Ludwig Satz, Michael
Michaelsko, Celia Adler, Betty
Siminoff and Menachim Rubin as
well as chorus and cast number-
ing 100, produced by Isidor
Casher.

cant. It is proof that Jews are
not letting down, that they are
holding up under the strain. And
they repudiate the claims made
by -those who do not understand
us that grass refuses to grow
where Jews live. It simply is not
true.
JEWS AND THEIR LAWNS
This is a good time to raise
this point. We have been ridi-
culed by some who did not like
our "butting in" on "agricul-
tural" themes this time of the
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year. But we persist in harping
on the well-kept lawn question Feature Syndicate) -
and we repeat the appeal of
months gone by, of previous
springs and summers, that Jews
make a good showing in the
care of their homes, that they
take good care of their lawns,
that they honor their past tra-
ditions and cultivate flower-
beds and vegetable gardens. And
those who do not see the point
we make should read the piece
we have just quoted about the
Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.
Enable us to
These Nazi-oppressed people
may still have a good lesson for
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