20—Friday, April 14, 1967
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Report Names Jewish Farmers
ft U.S.; State Man Introduced
.sweet Potato Cultivation Here
The Jewish Agricultural Society
Monday issued a 100-page report
N.% lewing the status of Jewish
farmers in the United States and'
pointing out that thousands of ,
them continue to make a signifi-
cant contribution to the total out-1
put of food and fiber in the United !
States. Their gross product is esti-
mated at 5500.000,000.
While there has been a decline I
in the number of small and less
well financed Jewish operators as
has been true of farmers generally
in the United States, the ones that
remain have become integrated
into the American farm community
and are no longer to be considered
as an immigrant group with spe-
cial problems.
The report calls attention to a
number of outstanding individual
producers, among them Ben Ro-
senberg and his sons of Sodus,
Mich., who were responsible for
introducing the commercial culti-
vation of sweet potatoes into
Michigan and who also grow
many fruits including apples,
grapes and cherries.
Julius Goldman, whose Egg City
is located in Moor Park, Ventura
County, Calif., has one of the
largest egg-producing operations in
the country; Harry Eisen of Norco,
Calif., also has a very large self-
contained egg enterprise.
David Freedman Co. of Thermal,
Calif.. an important growing-
shipping concern headed by Lionel
Steinberg. raises 25 different crops
including carrots, cabbage, grapes
and cotton.
In the Northeast, among lead-
ing breeders and hatchers of
eggs are Max Brender and Law-
rence Batinkoff, both of Fern-
dale, N.Y., Maine Farms Inc. of
Auburn, Maine, operated by the
Stein Brothers, is one of the larg-
est and most efficient poultry
operations in the east.
The report also pays 'tribute to
the growth and strength of many
outstanding feed cooperatives like
the Inter-County Farmers Coopera-
tive of Woodridge, N.Y.; Central
Jersey Farmers Cooperative Asso-
ciation of Ilightstown, N.J.; Del-
aware Valley Farmers Cooperative
Association of Flemington. N.J.:
Central Connecticut Farmers Co-
operative of Manchester, Conn.,
which have performed yeoman
service for the farmers in their
areas.
It also calls attention to the
many outstanding Jewish scientists
in the fields related to agriculture
and notes with particular pride
the name of the late Jacob L. Lip-
man, who was one of the leading
soil scientists in the United States,
head of the New Jersey Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, and also
for many years a director of the
Jewish Agricultural Society.
The report also mentions Dr.
Sidney Hoos, professor of agricul-
tural economics at Berkley, and
Dr. Hans Fisher, head of the de-
partment of nutrition at Rutgers.
The society notes that while it
regrets the decline in the number
of Jewish farmers which has been
due to overriding sociological and
economic trends, it remains proud
of the part it played in helping
thousands of immigrants become
self-supporting citizens of the
United States.
Florida Firm Ends
Import of Anti-Semitic
Books in Spanish
MIAMI (JTA) — The Goyescas
Corp., Florida's largest importer
of Spanish-language publications,
which has been doing a brisk trade
here in anti-Semitic literature, an-
nounced that it has discontinued
the import and sale of the anti-
Semitic works.
Disclosure that the American
book market has been flooded re-
cently with anti-Semitic literature
in Spanish, produced in Mexico,
was made recently in New York
at a meeting of leaders of the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith.
The Jewish Floridian, local
weekly, had reported that these
books are being sold here "al-
most faster than they can be
imported," since Miami's Span-
ish-reading public has increased
vastly through the influx of
Cuban refugees.
Henry Wolff, chairman of the
ADL's Florida regional board, and
Arthur Teitelbaum, director of the
ADL regional office here, hailed
the book firm's announcement.
Among the volumes distributed
by Goyescas until now have been
Spanish translations of the notor-
ious canard, "The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion," and other
works picturing "international
Jewry" as responsible for world
wars and "conspiracies against the
human race."
First Hagada for Partially-Sighted
Is Printed; Available Upon Request
NEW YORK CITY — This Pass-
over, for the first time, Jews
throughout the world who are par-
tially sighted will be able to par-
ticipate in the seder with the aid
of a large print edition of the
entire Hagada, in 18-point bulletin-
size type, which has just been is-
sued by the Jewish Braille Insti-
tute of America.
Judge Emil Baar, president
of the institute, announced the
strikingly beautiful Hagada, in
Hebrew and English, was printed
in Jerusalem. A copy is being
sent as a gift, on request, to any
partially sighted Jewish adult or
child.
Passover Seder with their families
and sighted friends, because of
the Jewish Br aille Institute.
Sightless Jewish individuals in the
United States, Canada, Israel, and
many other countries have received
from the institute either a copy
of the Hagada in Hebrew and Eng-
lish braille or a high-fidelity re-
cording of the complete Hagada
service in Hebrew and English.
The institute's headquarters is
at 48 E. 74th St., New York City.
Wisconsin Votes to Aid
Religious School Busing
MILWAUKEE (JTA)—A con-
stitutional amendment to allow the
Publication of the volume was
state to pay for the bus transpor-
made possible through a grant tation of religious
and other non-
from the affiliated sisterhoods of private school children was ap-
the Union of Orthodox Jewish proved by a large margin by Wis-
Congregations of America.
consin voters in a two-day referen-
Jews who are totally blind will dum,
also be able to participate in the
The vote reversed the views of
the Wisconsin electorate which in
1946 defeated the identical pro-
- Maker of Catalan Map
Jehudah Cresques, a Jewish car- posal by 545,000 to 437,000 votes.
Approval this time was by a vote
tographer who lived on the island of 461,354 to 355,782.
of Majorca in the early part of the
Supporters of the amendment
15th Century. was the maker of said it appeared that the voters
the historic Catalan map of the had been influenced by a new ecu-
world used widely by navigators menical spirit, by more federal
of that era. He is also credited school aid programs and by the
with having introduced the astro- hard work of favoring organiza-
tions.
labe into the art of navigation.
'Flying Dragons' Reissued
by Dover as Paperback
Of the many strange creatures
which evolved during the Age of
the Dinosaurs. few were as peculiar
as pterodactyl, the dragon of the
air. Millions of years before the
first birds, these flying vertebrates
combined in a unique way charac-
teristics commonly associated not
only with birds but with reptiles
and mammals- as well.
The name pterodactyl is derived
from the peculiar way in which the
animal was equipped to fly: the
wing was supported by a single
digit. the fourth, which was greatly
elongated to allow for maximum
surface space on the wing.
From the bones and fragments
found, particularly those from Eng-
land and Germany, many more in-
teresting things have been learned
about these extinct creatures. The
first general comprehensive book
on the subject. Dragons of the Air:
An Account of Extinct Flying Rep-
tiles, was written by H. G. Seeley,
a leading authority on dinosaurs
who did a great deal to bring geol-
ogy and paleontology to the atten-
tion of a wide public. In this book,
Dr. Seeley covers thoroughly the
bone structure, plan of skeleton,
and probable form of the brain and
respiratory system, among other
things, and compares them with
those of mammals, birds, and mod-
ern reptiles.
Now reprinted by Dover as a
paperback, 51.75 with a new intro-
duction by Dr. Erwin H. Colbert
of the Department of Vertebrate
Paleontology at the American Muse-
um of Natural History, the book
gives a full history of the discovery
and classification of pterodactyls.
Ambassador of Jews
Simon Wolf was often referred to as
"Ambassador of Jews in the U.S. to
Washington." For over half a century he
labored to help his co-religionists.
He came to America from Germany as
a lad of twelve with a love of learning and
a devotion to Judaism absorbed from his
father, a teacher of Hebrew. The demo-
cratic and liberal ideas fostered in his
childhood led him to forgo a business
career with his uncles in Cleveland for
the challenge of law and public affairs.
Lincoln and the slavery issue attracted
him to the new Republican Party. He
used it as a springboard to launch a life-
long crusade against anti-Semitism. The
confidant of every president from Lincoln
to Harding, he was one of the most effec-
tive spokesmen and lobbyists the Jewish
people have ever had.
He spent his life fighting bigotry and
prejudice both here and abroad. He
worked tirelessly for Jewish causes and
public welfare, struggling to ameliorate
anti-Jewish policies and to counteract the
bureaucratic red tape which continuously
threatened America's "open door" policy
to immigrants. By his 80th birthday he
had been instrumental in preventing the
deportation of at least 103,000 Jewish
refugees, officially inadmissible to the
U. S. because they had fled Russia penni-,
less and without proper papers.
When he died in 1923, Simon Wolf's
eulogy was delivered by former President
William Howard Taft, then Chief Justice
of the United States Supreme Court.
Justice Taft declared in part : "He was a
leader in Israel, and had the interest of
his people deeply at heart ...In his death
the country loses a patriot, and the Jew-
ish people a strong man."
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