Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-27
JUNE PRAISE y TRINITY CHINA JEWS CHARITY
Je,Os, Abhoring Mendicqncg, Care
for Their DUN Poor, as Girl Sdus
Lesson for Christians in the Way the Poor Hebrews
Over Seas by Oppression Are Greeted and Aided When
They Reach Here by Their Wealthy Brothers.

/ Some years ago in New York city
the daughter Of a celebrated review
I or of the staff of the Evening Post,
Of the Jewish faith, was asked why
it was that among the throng Of
beggars and derelcls in the streets
so few Jews were seen. Why" said
the young girl with a flush Of pride
we do not let them beg, we will not
tolerate mendicancys we take care of
our poor"
Not very long ago we asked a cler-
gyman Of this city about the pro-
| portion of the children of aliens II
the summer vacation schools Of New
ark, asking especially about the num-
Der Of Jews enrolled.
oh he answered, there are no
Jews in these schools; we do not
attempt to bring the Gospel TO the
Jews. In fact, it would be useless;
and, besides, there is no need to care
for Jewish children, either religiously
or mentally or physically. The Jews
| take care OF their own children.
Charity among the Jews is a sci
ence, carefully conceived, carefully
weighed, and, lastly, carefully admin
| istered.
Let any one who doubts this ex-
anime the brochure lately issued BY
/ the American Jewish Committee, OF
] $50 Second avenue, New York. The
pamphlet is entitled, The Agricul-
! tural Activity Of the Jews in Amer
j lea" written by Leonard g. Rob
/ inson, general manager the Jewish
/ Agricultural and Industrial Aid So
i ciety, New York city. And the whole
! content of the work is taken from the
/ American Jewish Year Book for the
year 5763 in the Hebrew calendar.
i The value of this book is that i
/ tells in a concise manner the success
of the efforts of Jewish philanthro-
pists of great wealth to establish
/ their co-religionists in comfort in the
/ United States, following the expert
ments which had been made in Pales'
/ tine by Baron Rothschild and IN tbs
| Argentine and in Brazil by Baror
/ Maurice de Hirsch. For the Jewish
| Colonization Association which ht
/ founded Baron de Hirsch contributed
/ g, 600 600, the whole capital.
1t is impossible TO overestimate tbs
relief which these vast schemes OF
charity gave to such Jews as lived
| for instance, in Russia. where, as
/ Mr.. Robinson says, unless a radlca
/ change in the attitude OF the govern
ment takes place, Jewish agriculture
/ in the mighty empire is doomed. Th'
! spirit of the people of Israel in tina
country has been quenched as never
before, perhaps, since the captivity
! of the children of Israel
| In the United States the beginning
/ of the Jewish agricultural movement
/
of murder and destruction which
paralyzed the Jews in eastern Europ'
in the nineteenth century. leading Z
a flood of immigration to the countr!
| regarded as a refuge from oppression
! and wrong all over the world.
Pogrom followed Pogrom, and th'
| BLACK Hundreds pursued tnei
| devastating progress like the horde
Of Scythians in an earlier age unit
the downtrodden people OF the chosei
race felt that Jehovah had left then
to their fate as He did in the day
of old in Egypt.
Thousands of families, as MI. Rod
inson relates, fed from Russia int
Austria. crossing the frontier in sucl
vast numbers that the Austrian gov
eminent threatened to send an arm,
Ito drive them back into Russia unless
the situation was relieved immedl
ately. Then it was that the riches
Jews of the world sprang to the res
cue of their prosecuted brothers.
The first assistance came wlthou
delay from the Alliance lsraellte I'M
yerselle. which assisted many hun
dreds of the refugees to immigrate Z
the United States, all of them with
cut money and without any mean
of support or even the necessaries o
. life for daily existence.
| The urgency of the crisis demande.
instant action, and the Russo-J ewlsi
Committee was formed to provide 10
the immigrants. Committees OF
like nature were organized in Berlin
Vienna. Frankfort and other Euro
mean cities. the best-known and mos