Michigan Jews Conquer the Soil Jewish Farmers Make Their Marks in Many Fields Jewish farming groups in South- western Michigan, including Berrien, Van Buren, Allegan, Name Address Cass and Kalamazoo Counties. P. Goldenberg R1, Watson Rd., Sodus Private farms now are operated by Jews within an area of 20 to I. Fleishman RFD #2, South Haven 40 miles from Detroit. RFD, South Haven Louis Gore By JUDAH GILEADI Mr. Liph reports that in re- Hyman Kahn RFD, South Haven Unheralded and unsung, Jewish farmers in Michigan cent years a number of Detroit Jos. Kelman RFD, South Haven Type of Farms Conducted by Mich. Jews Agricultural Society Aids Pioneers to Settle on Land Continue to play an important role in efforts to retain Jewish interest in farming, to encourage a "return to the soil" and to provide opportunities for those with inclinations to agricul- ture to become rooted in farming communities. It is not generally known that a sizeable segment of American Jewry is engaged in agriculture; that a large num- ber of Michigan Jews have prospered on farms. It also is little known that a number of Detroiters who own farms are anxious to expand their hold- ings so that they should be- come more than "Gentlemen Farmers" but that they should also be in position to make their, farms actual media for agricultural production and for training Jews for settle- ment on farms. Nationally, it is reported by the Jewish Agricultural Society that • the increased interest in farming is in evidence among refugees, DPs and GIs and that progressive Jewish farming communities are to be found in many states. It is pointed out that Jews, whose cultural and historic roots were nurtured by the soil, should aim to broaden their agricultural activities and that interest in farming should not be limited to the powerful back-to-the-soil efforts in Is- rael.. In Michigan, the background of Jewish farming is traced to the "Palestine Colony" experi- ment at Bad Axe which started in 1896 and ended, after a brief seven-year period, in 1903. The late Martin Butzel was its instigator, in an effort to di- rect the interest of immigrants to farms rather than to ped- dling and entrance in small businesses. A much larger experiment— one of the most impressive ever undertaken by American Jews, was the establishment of the Sunrise Colony, near Saginaw, in the early 1930s, by several hundred Jews from Detroit, New York and a number of other communities in this country and in Canada. There were hard- ships and struggles which could have been overcome, but Sun- rise Colony suffered from polit- ical differences among its lead- ers whose internal dissentions caused its dissolution and its eventual acquisition as 'a gov- ernment project. The late Fred M. Butzel, the late Dr. Leo M. Franklin, Saul R. Levin and many others were interested in encouraging Jewish farmers and were instrumental in the settlement pf several groups on the soil. Samson Liph, midwest director of the Jewish Agricultural Society, has worked with Michigan farmers for many years and to this day is guiding Jews have been recruited as farmers, that a number of business men have purchased farms, that many of them are spending considerable time in their rural homes. Analyzing the progress made by Jewish farmers in the middle west, Mr. Liph said, during a recent visit in Detroit: "The Jewish Agricultural So- ciety was established by the Baron deHirsh Fund in 1900 and is now completing 50 years of service. The Chicago midwestern office has been functioning since 1912,, and has rendered service to a number of states including Michigan. "We continue to render serv- ice in providing for the settle- ment of refugees on farms, in making it possible for former GIs to settle on the land, in 'of- fering advice to business men who are -Operating farms." The record of.the Jewish Agri- cultural Society's services in- cludes 14,371 loans to farmers in 40 states for a total of $8,- 907, 268. Since 1939, 739 Jewish families have settled on the land and 692 of them remain rooted in their new activities. The appended partial list of Jewish farmers in southwestern Michigan and in areas near De- troit provides a chie to the mul- tiplicity of activities and the type of farms conducted by Jews who have conquered the soil in our state. $400,000 t-JA Payment Boosts Detroit's Israel and. Overseas Gifts' to $2 Million JWF Women's Division Party Sunday to Discuss Campaign With the collections on 1950 Allied Jewish Campaign pledges running ahead of those of 1949 at this time, Samuel H. Rubiner, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, an- nounced at the recent board of governors meeting that De- troit would send the United Jewish Appeal $400,000 to ease its cash shortage. Counting the $400,000 going to UJA this week, ,Detroit will have sent more than $2,000,000 to Israel and other overseas bene- ficiaries out of its 1950-51 alio- ...4W "ations. The financial report, read by Rubiner, in the absence of Henry Wineman, Federation treasurer, showed that better than 93 per- cent of the $5,362,000 pledged in 1948 has been paid and that col- lections on 1949 pledges have reached 87 percent. Rubiner urged that all con- tributors pay up their pledges as soon as possible so that com- mitments to all local, national and overseas beneficiaries can be met. `Drink-Think' Party Sunday Fund-raisers of the Allied Jewish Campaign have an op- portunity to discuss how a cam- paign should be run at a series of "drink and think" parties be- ing inaugurated Sunday at 5 p.m. Leaders in the Women's Division and Detroit Service Group of the Jewish Welfare Federations will serve as hosts. Men and women volunteer workers will include in their dis- cussion of campaign operation an exchange - of ideas and ex- periences concerning community organization in general and how , '1 .Federation can improve its pres- ent level of service to the com- munity. Parties will be held at the homes of the following hosts: 40 — THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 8, 1950 Mr. and Mrs. Louis Berry, Mrs. Hyman C. Broder, Mr. and Mrs. David Emerman, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Holtzman, Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Jospey, Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Levy, Mr. and Mrs. Sol Shaye, Mr. and Mrs. Jule G. Solomon and Mr. and Mrs. David Wilkus, who will be joined by Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Cooper as co-hosts. Mrs. Roosevelt Honors Famous Congregation Mrs. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT is shown here congratulating Dr. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN, rabbi of historic Congregation Bnai Jeshurun, • New York, at the 125th anniversary banquet of the famous synagogue, second oldest in the city and eighth oldest in the natioit ■ L Secret Agent Hatched Plot to Kill Trotsky NEW YORK, (AJP)—The 10- year-old plot to murder Leon Trotsky, Jewish-born leader of the pre - Stalin • era Soviet Union, was hatched here by a Russian secret agent who op- erated in t h e United States as an official dele- gate of the Rus- sian Red Cross, Trotsky Louis F. Budenz charged in an affidavit given a congressional investigation body and the FBI. Frederick Woltman, noted staff writer for the New York World Telegram & Sun, who "broke" the Trotsky story, told the American Jewish Press that the man identified as the mas- ter-mind in the plot to slay Trotsky, a Dr. Gregory Rabin- owitch, according to Budenz, had left the United States shortly before the 1939 signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact. Woltman added that Rabino- witch was last heard of in 1946 when he headed the Red Cross in the Soviet Union as its na- tional director. Budenz, who once edited the Communist Daily Worker, but broke with the Party in 1945, identified Rabinowitch as the agent w h o plotted Trotsky's bloody 1940 assassination in Mexico City. Fluent in the Yid- dish language and well-versed in Jewish history, Trotsky was in the fore of the movement to overthrow Czar Nicholas. But after Lenin's death, Trotsky and his followers, some of whom re- main organized both here and in the Soviet Union, were purged by Stalin and the little man with the famous goat-tee mus- tache was forced to flee for his life to Mexico City. Type Farm acr. Yrs. on Fruit & Truck Poultry 40 a. 4 yrs. 20 a. 8 yrs. 20 (Mich.) General 40 a. 15 (Ind.) Model Fruit Farm 40 a. 17 yrs. Fruit & 20 a. 13 yrs, Poultry Harry Kinchin RFD2, Bangor Fruit & 20 a. 9 yrs. Tobias Kroll Igangor Rd., So. Haven Poultry Poultry 15 a. 23 yrs. Poultry & Ben Bigman RFD, South Haven 20 a. 4 yrs. Truck Israel Martin Bangor Rd., So. Haven 40 a. 15 yrs. Dairy 40 a. 6 yrs. General M. Lustman RFD, South Haven S. Motanky Bangor Rd., So. Haven Truck & Poultry 20 a. 32 yrs. Poultry 40 a. 10 yrs. Nathan Green RFD, South Haven General 40 a. 30 yrs. C. Needelman Bangor General & M. Lindenbaum R#3, South Haven Poultry 48 a. 5 yrs. Louis Novak R#5, Phoenix Rd., Dairy 250 a. 35 yrs. So. Haven General & Jacob Levin RFD, South Haven Poultry 40 a. 40 yrs. Dairy & E. Seeder & Son Goebels 80 a. 15 yrs. Poultry Fruit 40 a. 15 yrs. D. Rosenheim RFD, South Haven (Sev. farms) Poultry & Sam Manilow R#1, South Haven 40 a. 40 yrs. General General 40 a. 40 yrs. L. Weisberg RFD, South Haven 60 a. 30 yrs. Paul Storck RFD, South Haven General Truck & Jacob Moskow RFD, South Haven Poultry 20 a. 18 yrs, 20 a. 14 yrs. Sol Kalom Bangor Rd., So. Haven Dairy 10 a. 9 yrs, A. Umansky Bangor Rd., So. Haven Poultry Al Sterling Poultry 10 a. 40 yrs. Route 2, Bangor General 40 a. 9 yrs, Theo. Nimz R#3, Coloma Fruit 40 a. 20 yrs. Joseph Daken R#2, Watervliet Fruit 60 a. 19 yrs. Max Fishier RFD, Benton Harbor Fruit 20 a. 29 yrs. Morris Zaban Territorial Rd., Small Fruit 10 a. 30 yrs. Benton Harbor Harold Zaban Territorial Rd., Fruit 8 a. 5 yrs. Benton Harbor Joseph Guise 1920 Highland Ave. Benton Harbor Fruit 10 a. 7 yrs. 20 a. 28 yrs. Wm. Marcus Route 3, Benton Harbor Fruit 18 a. 26 yrs. Martin Marcus Route 3, Benton Harbor Fruit 80 a. 34 yrs F. & W. SaretzkyR3, Benton Harbor Fruit 70 a. 28 yrs. Samuel Braudo R#3, Benton Harbor Fruit Fruit & H. Lieberman RFD, Coloma, 40 a. 25 yrs. General 80 a. 14 yrs, Dairy Wolf Shapiro R#1, Eau Clair General & Harry Shapiro Sodus Fruit 170 a. 25 yrs. Fruit & Mrs. J. Flamm Eau Claire Vegetable 42 a. 34 yrs,. 255 a. 26 yis. Livestock L. Dunaetz R#3, Eau Clair 80 a. 20 yrs. -Bangor Rd., So. Haven General J. Waxman • Fruit & B. Rosenberg RFD, Sodus Truck 110 a. 23 yrs. (Agricultural Advisor, to the Govern- ment-2nd generation) > 40 a. 20 yrs; . Truck Cassopolis Ben Shapiro 40 a. 16 yrs, Dairy R#2, Cassopolis H. Tokarsky 190 a. 4 yrs, Dairy RFD, Three Oaks M. Kessel General & Louis Loeser RFD, #3, Decatur 70 a 9 yrs. Truck (Refugee) 10 a. 25 yrs. Mrs. P. Dolnick Base Line Rd., So. HavenTruck Small Fruit M KershenbaumBenton Harbor & Truck 18 a. 32 yrs, 40 a. 35 yrs. General Bangor Wolf Lipa Harry Turnoy Base Line Rd., So. Haven Dairy & 10 a. 21 yrs, Poultry 80 a. 24 yrs. Dairy RFD, South Haven Louis Rubin 40 a. 35 yrs. Dairy M. Sendrowitz RFD 1, Kibbie 20 a. 35 yrs. General M. Androfsky South Haven Dairy & Ben Fagan RFD, Lawton 156 a. 18 yrs, Grape Poultry & Lewis Koplon Breedsville 40 a. 10 yrs. Grain 80 a. 22 yrs, Livestock L. Silverman South Haven 192 a. 11 yrs. General. James Cahan Boone 40 a. 6 yrs. General Almont Sam Epstein Fruit & Berrien Springs S. Fishlow 90 a. 8 yrs, General 40 a, 8 yrs, General Richmond, Harry Green 40 a. 3 yrs. General South Haven M. Sherman 60 a. 10 yrs, General S. LichtenStein Berrien Springs 20 a. 14 yrs. Truck Ben Richman South Haven General & Paw Paw Joe Roderick 80 a. 15 yrs. Fruit General & H. & N. Shapiro Sodus . Fruit 160 a. 30 yrs.: General & R#4, South Haven Sam Price 40 a. 25 yrS, Truck 20 a. 15 yrs. Fruit R#2, South Haven Joe Kellman Potato & Chas, Schpok RFD, Dowagiac General 90 a. 30 yrs. 193 No. Brockway, Oscar Weise Fruit 15 a. 2 yrs. South Haven (Refugee) 10 a. 12 yrs. . Ben Grossberg Phoenix Rd., So. Haven Truck G&L Hochman Phoenix Rd., So. Haven General &. ultry Poultry ez 60 a. 3 yrs. Fruit R#2, Benton Harbor J. Friedland 40 a. 2 yrs. Truck (Refugee) General & . 7740 S. River Drive Bittermans 138 a. 24 yrs. Marine City 80 a. 14 yrs, ayy i r Morris Sheiff RFD, Yale 40 a. 8 yrs. Dai r y RFD Yale S. Kaplan Dairy & Washington Irv. Kotlier 40 a. 12 yrs.. Truck 20 a. 15 yrs. Truck Washington Joseph Ross Truck 20 a. 17 yrs. Washington A. Krass General - 60 a. 10 yrs. Flint Frank Sears