The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1904-04-08
TYPES OF THE GHETTO.

less than formerly On arrival in this
land they have been wont to settle in
the port where liberated, 20 endeavor.
without loss of time and money spent
in travel farther westward. to begin
the mending of their races fallen for
tunes. And as a consequence our me-
tropolis now has the largest Jewish
population of any city in the world One
writer declares that New York is the
largest Jewish city in all history A
new dispersion of the Jews" has become
a necessity. and when the jew now
lands in New York, or other eastern
port. he is invited to move on
Not only the crowding of the Jews
in several of our cities has become a
problem. but their oyererowding of GER
tain trades Helpful in solving these
questions has been the action of the
trustees of the Baron de Hirsch fund. a
fund that has done very considerable
for the Russian Israelite. During the
Is years the trustees have been engaged
IN this work, they have satisfactorily
distributed numerous Russian Jew i'm
migrants by means of employment bu-
reaus in touch with factories scat
tered all over the United States: and
in the belief that Israel should return to
the soil, have also established an agri-
cultural colony. situated in New Jersey.
This agricultural colony has been q
costly experiment, but successful. Dairy
farming and truck farming are cngag-
ing the energies of the downtrodden
exile. and he at last is leading free,
wholesome, Independent life. He re-
pays the borrowed capital in easy pay
nents, on low rate of interest. and this
wise method of aiding him aid himself
is one Of the best of the many good
features characteriZlng the Baron de
Hirsch scheme of benevolence. 1t is
believed that the influence of the New
Jersey Jewish agricultural colony Will
be undertaking, and that those receiv-
ing training there Will go out to form
other such colonies. that the Ghetto evil
IN our midst Will thereby be much less
cned
Chicago now is receiving, since the
recent recurrence OF persecution of the
Jews, thousands and thousands of Rus
sian Jews 10 add 10 her already close
packed Ghetto. The Chicago Ghetto.
unlike that of New York and the Ghetto
of Europe, is very near the heart of the
city; one has to take but step from
splendor and beauty 10 find oneself in
a district as foreign, as squalid. as the
notorious Jewish Pales" across the
sea. Yet in these districts every mo-
ment come reminders that il is not
one of those old. hopeless Ghettos. one
gets a glimpse of Americas own man
ner of life, her own way of working upon
the queer peoples thrust upon her; here
comes a small boy with school books I'M
der his arm little Jewish girls speaking
broken English almost as voluby as
they DO the mother tongue. And these
children of junk dealer secondhand
clothes man. Of the man with pack"
possess the busy brains of their race.
and they are bound to forge ahead. By
and by they will leave the Ghetto, with
its lack of elbow-rCom. its dirt and
odors its queer dress ard bowed-dowl
folk, to dwell in comfort and mayha0
magnificence-an anyway, they will have
reached that for which their parents left
Russia or Poland: better conditions, h
higher standard of living
KATHERINE POPE.