The Denver Jewish news., 1920-07-07
Hadassah's Mission
BY MRS. ADDIE r. ALTMAN.

. MRS AlDIF II AIiTMAN
rbo following manor was road nj the
I,st meetin. of tbe I,os AnseIes chm.
fer of the Hadassab society by Mrs.
Addie r. Altman fre.nent Denver
,.isitor and ono Of ,bo o1;to,.s of tbc
B,poi Birth Messenger from which il
is reprinted.
/ MANY wears ago when + was asked
os freopentlv was whether 7 he
I;avad in ziopisu my answer ALWAYS
w,s. ST do NOT y to which added
tbo now trita roma RI, made Inv all who
did nor fully understand: Il see no
reason why an attempt should he made
m fake tbe lows of the world hack
tn Jerusalem, which remark TODAY.
stands for considerable ignorance. =
| This connection 7 might add that mn q
of the original ideas of the FLORISTS
have undergone A change. having been
round improcticaI and unreasonable.
fancy / dismissed the subject even
No thousands of others dismissed il.
partly thru lack of knowledge of the
real object. partly thru Indifference to-
wards the cause itself, To he sure, L
knew that Doctor Hertzl had a bril-
liant mentality knew he stood for
The hest in Judaism, but again like
thousands of others. / deemed him Il
visionary. thought his dream Ttopian.
and gave no special consideration TO
the matter But. when l read of other
rreat mon who fathcred the pIan. ]
decided the subject should not be dis
missed so radically. 1t dawned upon
mo that even if Doctor Hertzls vision
might never become a reality. il was
none the less worthy of investigation.
Baron Edmund de Rothschild of Paris,
Nathan Straus. Stephen Wise. profcS-
sor Gottheil of Columblu University
m New York. and scores of others on
10th continents were and are not all
Missionaries and they saw feasibility in
tne plan for n Homeland. | hogan tn
study the question, became interested,
and nv views were modificd. Never
theless. 1 was not converted over night.
In the carly part of This century.
duripr nv residence In the city of St
T.oujs often observed n Young woman
who was n regular attendant at Bible
,lass of which / was a member. She
was clad in cheap ands long-used gar
nents She came i'm MT the moment
q ass-work rccap. say ,y herself in tic
bocI, of the room. and LETT the instant
the class was dismissed No one paid
ner any attention and She noticed no
enc One day. Mrs. w-the day
RI whom had heen ASSIGNED the writ
ing and reading of the weekly essay.
smoke of Palestine MS being an arid
country. with scarcely any water sup
riy with an unproductive. ROCKY. un-
Welding soil etc. When the custo-
mary discussion began. Rifka Il for.
get her other name) rose and asked
nermission to sneak. All of us were
amazed but we became Interested ut
once and iustifinbly so.
She smoke with such dignity that we
comnletelv overlooked the strong for
cjsn accent furthermore. she used good
Ianpuope and perfect grammar. she
goye ne , sketch of her own life. telling,
ms she was one of very uoor family.
who lived in large Jewish settlement
in Russia The sole ray OF hone in
tho sordid drcory existence of every
r,omber of the pommmitv was to be
oh,o +o On IN Jerusalem at some
t;ma she merely touched upon their
,ivoS f;,,ed with constant terror of the
horrors and nersecutions that Ecset
tbam on ovorv side and added that the
,pl,- oo,pfort or iovj tbev knew was
in Io,,,s,lam mr. somewhere else in