The Denver Jewish news., 1920-11-17
York city Board of Education.
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Mr.. Mahouey, who was appointed to
edit course for characterization
Teachers, which is now being publish
ed by the Federal Bureau. Captcr ~
of the Course is devoted to the Home
and Neighborhood Teachers. and has
been prepared by Miss Alsberg and my
self. 1t may interest YOU 10 know that
the secretary and chairman of this de-
partment represent the only voluntary
agency whose work re .eived such fed.
eral recognition, tho. as you Know.
other organizations have spent merely
for publicity thousands of lolsars.
while the Council has devoted concen-
trated. persistent and ceascless effort,
and the small funds at It's disposal. to
the development of the work itself
only.
Woodbridge
Another phase of our Americana
zation work brings us TO the effort
that the Department undertook to di-
rect. Tho the Jewish Agricultural
and Industrial Aid Society requested
The assistance of the Council of Jew
ish Women in problem of sanitation
and was willing to give it $1,000
against further $1,000 to be spent
by the Council for this work. the lat
ter organization did not have the
funds to meet this proposition. The
Department of Immigrant Aid with its
knowledge that the bad sanitation and
living conditions in those counties
were not only health problem but
largely a social characterization prob
lem. closely linked with the Jewish
Americanizat ton problem of New York.
Brooklyn, Newark and other New
Jersey towns. undertook to plan and
initiate the work and use its staff of
workers for the purpose. An early
survey was made last May and June.
CLOSER acquaintance with the peo-
pie, among whom the Council worker
lived as "A roomer for the first five
or six weeks of the spring and sum
'mer. convinced the Department that
the living conditions are due to an
ignorance on the part of the popula
ton. and most especially the women.
of home economics and of home and
hygiene. The resident population is
ninety-five percent alien Jewish. Yid-
dish speaking. whose contacts are al
most entirely limited to the alien Jew.
ish summer visitors that flock there in
ouch vast numbers. To bring tla
women. who are largely responsible
for home conditions, rudimentary
knowledge of home economies, of home
and personal hygiene. to take them
out of their isolation. to stimulate them
10 appreciate American standards and
home making ON an intelligent and sys-
tcmatic plan was the task we set for
ourselves
Post War Immigration Under Mrs. s.
J. R0sensohn's Craftsmanship.
Having concluded the report of the
activities of the Department for the
thirty months under the former chair
mans guidance, we shall now turn to
a discussion of the present postwar
immigration which, as was previously
stated. began to loom large in April
of this year-the mouth when the
work of the department was turned
over to me.
Unfortunately, the Bureau of 1fa,ni-
grafton is practically six months be
hind in its statistical reports ON the
subject of immigration and is unable
to furnish us with any detailed infor-
nation regarding the distribution of
These Few arrivals by race. national
ity or occupation. All they have been
able to give us We're the general to-
tails of the Immigration to all ports
for the first five months of 1920. To
quote from one of. these articles 3fS.-
600 immigrants arrived at Ellis Island
alone from April 1. 1920 to October
1. 1920. The distribution by race and
of the immigration at all
ports for the last fiscal year, accord
ing to Mr.. Winthrop ID. Lane. for
Inerly connected with the Surveys I'm.
mi grafton Department and an author
ity in the field. shows thai
The sectond largest emigration came
from England. the third from Mex
leo. and the fourth from France. Span
ish and Portuguese, Irish, Scotch.
Scandinavian, jewish. Greek. Armcr-
ian and Czecko-Slovakian peoples are