The Denver Jewish news., 1922-09-20
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HAS Means Much to
Brethern in Europe
THE COURIER, A GREAT POLISH
NON-JEWlSH PAPER, PRAISES
THE WORK DONE BY THE HAS.
Hias Activities in Europe Wonderful

What Has has meant and still
means to the Jews of Eastern Europe
is fully testified to by the people on
the other side. The Courier" the
great non-Jewish Polish Daily pub
lished in Warsaw, in one of its recent
issues published an article under the
heading: "What is Has; its Organi-
zation and Problems. A Description
of its Main Office in Warsaw"
The writer says:
within several days the attention
of the public is drawn to the fact of
closing several branches of Has in
the cities lying at the East Kresy' un-
der the charge that they have been of
aid in illegal settling down of Russian
Jews in Poland.
"What is Has?
"1t is a humanitarian organization
established by the American Jewry in
order to facilitate the departure to the
States of the European Jews. This
journey is connected with obtaining
very many permits. The emigrants
are very often victims of the agents of
the steamship companies who prey on
them.
''Hias takes upon itself the task of
giving advice, obtaining permits and
the prevention of robbery of the emil
grants. Has doing it without any
payment for its co-religionists. 1t is
a very nice aim which is good proof
of the solidarity of the Jewry on both
half spheres of the earth.
"The aairs of HAS are carried on
by the General Director, who has at
his side an advisory board called 'Di-
rectorium.' Besides, there are Dis
trict Directors too.
"The General Director and the Dis
trict Directors as well as the whole
office staff are paid members. The
Directorium fulfills its duties without
any payment.
"Mr. Adolph Held is at the present
time the General Director. He is an
American citizen, a. very energetic
young man, a journalist by vocation,
who has been already bornin America.
He is in Warsaw with his wife, an
American born lady, who is a jealous
worker of Has
"Who is visiting the offices of
Has has before his eyes a piece of
American-Jew America.
1.-THE distribution of work, the
nationality of this distribution, the
| &c l,a
any blame. There is no work left be-
hind. The documents are in exact or
der, The p disability of control is
splendid. 1t may be that there would
be of greater use, if Mr.. Held would
arrange the office work, for instance,
in our Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
where for weeks the documents are
looked for, and are travelling from one
referent to the other.
"The quickness, accuracy, the in
.ensity of the working staff, are first
class. There is one big room and a
number of small rooms, all filled
out with crowd Of people of different
ages. There are to be found different
kinds of dressings. There is a mix
ture of languages, Yiddish, Polish,
Russian, German, English.
"Some of them are crying, others
are laughing full of joy that at last
all the difficulties are overwhelmed.
"And in the midst of this crowd
several energetical Americans of Jew
ish origin are moving, as vital proof
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the American Union, which even from
the Jewish Ghetto is able to revive in
the second, sometimes even in the first
generation modern people, people liv-
ing in the whole meaning of the word. u
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