The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-22

LEAVE TENEMENTS TO NEWCOM-
ERS, SAYS C. l.. SULZBERGER.

they Must Settle In the East Side Amens
Their Own People, but Those VINO Car
Should Leave N-variom Aspects
Of the East Side Problem Discussed
The East Side Problem In its various
Aspects was discussed last night by q
dozen speakers at a meeting OF B'nai
Birth at the Educational Alliance. DR..
Isidor Singer presided.
Leo ". Levi said that the so-called East
Side problem is no longer local. and that
the Jews Of all localities should join In the
spirit Of brotherhood to help each other.
Cyrus J.. Sulzberger said that the Jewish
problem Of the whole world lie to be worked
out in the United States. He continued:
The question is not what the East Side
OF New YORK needs but what the East Side of
Europe needs. We don't care whether the
Side Side G IL a Patronizi G way or whetherthe
Ess Side Gss The man
our poor brothers on the other side. We must
make room for them TO come here.
much Of this part dse the
move al once Go to Brooklyn. 10 to The
Make room here for the nevoomers. Re.
Of the city wasn't "a SO GIVE
you had They can't can't talk En- Slish. 90 they
must frst settle here among their own people.
But after they have been here long enough
to get their bearings. TO learn the Ian qua ge
and the ways, OF the country. urge them not
to settle in this city permanently. Tell them
that New York Is not the whole OF the United
States. but that there are many other cities
where there is more room and as many oppor-
Isidor Straus, president of the Edu-
cationl Alliance, had no solution OF the
problem to offer. He said that what little
he could do for the East Side he was doing
with work. rather than with words. Said he
Mere denunciation is not wanted. This insti-
tuition is to help in the AmericiniZing Of the
newcomers TO the country, 70 teach them
the Inference between liberty and license.
DR.. Leo X. Frankel manager Of the
United Hebrew Charities, began by saying
that he wrote to his father the other day
saying that he was going to Atlanta, Ga,
on business trip.
My father wrote back. He said: BE
sure e lSok Yp The town in Georgia org where
a Joke or with sense Of degradation, but
In a spirit of pride in the fact that he came
to this country, as thousands Of our people
have come, with nothing but his own brain
and Drawn to depend upon
the Alliance, diagnosed the case, as he put
it, by saying that the real question Is the
economic question of the immigrant, par
ticularly of the Jewish immigrant, and not
question peculiar to any special square
mile east Of the Bowery. He added
In six months the jew in America under
goes more changes than he would in a century
In the country from which he comes Here
the parent goes to work The child goes
understand each other There Ia no family
council, no heart-to-hear talk. The real
trac edy is that the home life Is not conserved.
Another great problem is the aptagonism
OF the Jews OF one country toward those OF
another. The Ru ssian jews and the German
jews for instance hate each other not be-
cause they are jews. but In spite OF that and
because one is Russian and the other Ger
man
The most important thing for us to do is TO
stop discus sng the East Side problem Let
US stop agitation and have more education.