Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1938 — Page 2

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THE JEWISH POST

Friday, September 23, 1938

J. D. C. CONFERENCE TO STUDY PROBLEMS

Successful First Year Is Shown As American Kibbutz Reports

Delegates From Two States To Meet In Indianapolis, Oct. 2 Special INDIANAPOLIS.—Jewish leaders from over one hundred communities in Indiana and Kentucky convening 1 in Indianapolis Sunday, Oct. 2, for a one-day conference of the J. D. C. will face a busy program with talks by national leaders of the J. D. C. Speakers at the conference will include Edward M. M. Warburg, son of the late Felix M. Warburg; Joseph C. Hyman, Executive Director of the Joint Distribution Committee; William Rosenwald, son of the late Julius Rosenwald, and Isidor Coons, National Director of Campaigns. A radio broadcast is being arranged, the time to be announced next week. There will be no solicitation of funds. The entire conference will be devoted to reports and discussion. Wives of delegates have been invited to attend and to participate in the discussions. Isidore Feibleman of Indianapolis is chairman of the Credentials Committee.

BROADCAST BY WISE (Continued from Page 1) Monday, Sept. 26, and Wednesday, Oct. 5, respectively. The national broadcast on each holy day will be preceded by a special broadcast of the same program over the powerful transmitter of radio station WLW, Cincinnati (70 kilocycles), and will be carried to the rest of the world by short wave over Station W8XAL (6060 kilocycles). This special broadcast will be heard from 10:00 to 10:30 A. M., Sept. 26 and Oct. 6. Rabbi Louis I. Egelson, Assistant Director of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, will read the prayers of Rosh Hashonah, and Dr. Julian Morgenstern. President of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, will conduct the services on Yom Kippur.

Famed Yeshiva Rabbi Comes Here As Exile By Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK. — Rabbi Samuel Ehrenfeld, head of the famous Yeshivas Chasam Sofer in Mattesburg in the Burgenland province of Austria, arrived here this week on the liner Acquitania in exile. He came to New York at the invitation of Rabbi Chaim Berlin Yeshiva and Congregation in Brooklyn. Rabbi Ehrenfeld declined to discuss the circumstances under which he left. The town of Mattesburg, which originally had 110 Jewish families, had but 20 when he left about six weeks ago, he said. It was a strictly orthodox community, he said, none of the men shaving. The Yeshiva, which was founded by Rabbi Ehrenfeld’s great-great-grandfather, attracted students from many parts of Europe. The rabbi, who is 46 years old, is here with his wife and seven children.

CATHOLICS MENACED By Jewish Telegraphic Agency PHILADELPHIA.—The Catholic Interracial Forum was told here that anti-Semitism constituted a menace to the Catholic faith. Speakers also stressed the fact that race prejudice is foreign to the concept of Catholicism.

Isidor Borowski, a Polish Jew, served under Bolivar in the South American wars of liberation and later became a Perisan general.

(Continued from Page 1) our crops, but we frustrated them all, and brought our harvest safely into the storehouses. Then we sowed 200 dunams of summer grain, which we shall soon reap.

Slopes Afforested

The Jewish National Fund has been very helpful in various ways. Already it has planted 140 dunams of the stoniest slopes with pines, oakes and carobs, and contemplates afforesting several hundred dunams more next winter. In anticipation, we have developed a nursery for the saplings which will then be needed. Several of our men are employed by the Jewish National Fund for the tree-planting work and their wages are a welcome addition to our income. The National Fund will also clear 400 or 500 dunams of the uplands of stones, so that we hope to sow about 1,000 dunams of winter grain next year. One of our major problems is water supply. At present we have only one spring with capacity of 3 or 4 cubic meters an hour. Geologists from the Hebrew University have made some tentative borings on our land and reported that several wells dug at no great depth can yield all the water we shall need for irrigation, dairy, farming, etc. Now it will be possible to determine the size of the unit-holding per family and thus the number of settlers that can be established on the Juara tract. The water supply will be installed by the National

Fund.

Though the region is so exposed, the abundance of good pasturage in our hills has impelled us to engage in sheep-raising. Our flock already' counts over 200 heads, including natural increase. The cheese and meat which it supplies have made possible a pleasant variation in our diet. Our surplus of cheese and wool sheared from the flock were sent to" "Tnuva” for marketing. Road Needed Badly Once the work in the farm was Partition Report Ready In October By Jewish Telegraphic Agency LONDON.—The report of Britain’s Palestine Partition Commission will be issued early next month, it was understood from a reliable source.

World Broadcast To Open Hospital By Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK.—Mrs. Moses P. Epstein, president of Hadassah, who has been elected as the only woman member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University, announced that the *1.000.000 medical center built by Hadassah in co-operation with the American Jewdsh Physicians’ Committee will be dedicated during an international broadcast when Hadassah meets for its 24th annual convention in St. Louis next month. She stressed the urgent need for adding research and teaching to the curative and preventive system of medicine already operative in Pales-

tine.

Italian Rule Hits 200 American Jews Bv Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON.—The State Department has revealed that approximately 200 American Jews are affected by the Italian Cabinets decree for expulsion of post-war Jew-

ish immigrants.

^organized, we could think of cultural activities. In spite of keeping guard nightly and often having to fight off the terrorists, we have composed a sort of journal, held discussions on literature and listened to talks on agriculture and

politics.

We are acutely hampered by the lack of a connecting road. This increases insecurity in this isolated district at present. En Ha’Shofet lies seven kilometres off the.HaifaJenin highway and four kilometres from Mishmar Ha’Emek, the nearest Jewish settlement, by a crosscountry path through the hills. In the rainy season it took our farm wagons hours to traverse the seven kilometres from the highway, while our men were in constant danger. Yet we could not sit at home. We drove our wagons through the deep mi^d at all hours of the day, and tramped over the hills to Mismar Ha’Emek as often as there was

need.

We were not molested on our errands. Months passed. We began to feel more or less safe, in spite of the night attacks. One day in the early spring, our guide and mentor, Abraham Goldschlag of Mishmar Ha’Emek, was murdered on the cross-country path as he was walking back to his settlement with one of our men. The loss seemed too grievous to be borne. But more sorrow was in store for us. Five weeks later, our comrades Ephraim Tiktin and Eliezer Korngold were shot died ns they were returning from the fields in a farm wagon. The Village Takes Shape But we carried on. There was nothing else we could do. Life must triumph over death. When Shevuoth came, we brought in our first fruits with joy. We laid the foundation-stone for our village, a few hundred metres from the old house on the hilltop. Our dead comrades lie in our midst, and we sow and plant and build close to their graves. Our building program provides for a two story dormitory, a nursery, stable, barn, sheepfold, sheds for the machines, etc. In the autumn, when the first buildings are finished, the remaining members of the Kibbutz and the children will be transferred from Hadera to En Ha’Shofet. We look forward eagerly to the time when we shall all be reunited. It has been lonely without them. The cost of the buildings will come to about $20,000 of which $10,000 is already in hand. The agricultural machinery and other equipment, together with the funds now available, represent an investment of nearly $25,000. Most of the funds have been contributed by a prominent American Zionist who wishes to retain anonymity; Mr. J. Kapal of New York has also made a rather large gift. The Kibbutz has also received loans from tlje National Fund, since it has not yet been included in the settlement budget of the Jewish Agency. Much still remains to be done in our settlement. Many of the branches of agriculture essential to a mixed farm are lacking, while those already started are still in their initial stage. A connecting road to link En Ha’Shofet with the Haifa-Jenin highway is a life-and-death necessity. So is an armed lorry for transporting our men. We think of En Ha’Shofet as the rearguard of Mishmar Ha’Emek and the first of a chain of Jewish settlements that shall link Emek Jezreel with Samaria. In our mind’s eye we see them, humming with activity, a broad green belt stretching from here to Zichron Yaakov. Is it only a vision?

Calls Hitler’s Bluff By Jewish Telegraphic Agency CLEVELAND. — Abe Pickus, the oil company executive who likes to make transoceanic calls to European diplomats In the interests of peace, has cabled Adolph Hitler to “stop bluffing" and “get serious.” Recently Pickus promised to “lay off” his diplomatic activities at the suggestion of the State Department.

‘Month and Week’ Set For Education Special NEW YORK.—A “Jewish Education Month and Week” will be observed by Jewish communities throughout the country from Sept. 26 to Oct. 25, under the auspices of the National Council for Jewish Education. The “Month” and “Week” will focus the attention of Jewish parents on the importance of providing their children with Jewish religious training in addition to their secular education. The “Month” will be utilized for enrolling children in Jewish religious schools and the “Week” will be devoted to intensive appeals to the parents in every community through the press, radio, special literature, posters, etc. National “Jewish Education Week” will be generally observed from Oct. 18 to Oct. 25.

Bund Land To Become A “Model Community” By Religious News Service HARTFORD, Conn. — Repulsed by the Southbury townspeople in their attempt to establish a Nazi camp on 178 acres of land, The German-American Bund through the district leader at Westchester announced that the tract will be parcelled and sold to Bund members for a "model community". “A number of innovations in municipal government will be tried out,” Duncan C. Folger, lead- | er, announced, "together with certain economic ideas which have been suggested by several large in-

dustrialists”.

The Bund abandoned its plans for a Nazi camp after the Southbury Zoning Commission placed a zone restriction forbidding use of that particular tract of land for camp purposes.

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Kansas Democrats Repudiate Attempt To Defame Rival By Religious News Service EMPORIA, Kans.—An attempt to inject the religious issue into the Kansas gubernatorial contest was vigorously denounced by William Allen White in an editorial in the Emporia Gazette, after which the Democratic State Committee offered a reward of $100 for the arrest and conviction of persons responsible for the distribution of cards urging citizens to vote against the Republican candidate because he “is a Jew.” The cards were repudiated not only by the Democratic State Committee but by Governor Walter A. Huxman, Democratic candidate for Governor. Commenting on the distribution of the cards, William Allen White said editorially: “No one but an unconscionable bigot would raise the race question in Kansas, and an unconscionable bigot is always a fool and will do more harm to his friends than good. If Governor Huxman could just locate his fool friend and put the brand of folly upon him by denouncing him, it would be a good thing.” The editorial further suggested that the Democrats offer a cash reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the distribution of the cards. When the party acted upon his suggestion by posting such a reward, White further editorialized the next day: “No one believes that Governor Walter Huxman was in any remote way responsible for the circulars which have been flooding various parts of Kansas, labeling Payne Ratner as a Jew. Of course he’s a Jew. Also, his mother was Irish, and of course he’s Irish. And neither blood hurts him. Nor does the fact that he’s a deacon in the Christian Campbellite Church hurt him either. And Governor Huxman handed a stinging rebuke to the Ku Kluxers and Jew-baiters who peddled these circulars.”

Remnants of a Jewish cemetery dating from 302 have been found at Bologna.

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