The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-11
EUROPEAN. # Ws C0ND|T| |0N BETTER.
Acute Race Propaganda Re- ported Collapsed In
 America

NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-(By Asso- ciated Press s)-What is called the "collapse of anti-semitic agitation in the United States" and the fact that no attempt on any considerable scale was made during the past year to revive this propaganda, has had a most salutary effect in minimizing g anti-Jewish activities in Europe" ac- cordlng to the sixteenth annual report of the American Jewish committee made public here. The report credits the callapse of the anti-Jewish prop aganoa to the vigorous protests by the press, the church, and other American organs of public opinion:
 Louis Marshall of New York is president of the committee, whose members include many of the most prominent Jews in America. The re- port was prepared by its executive committee, which includes Albert D. Lasker, Julius Rosenwald and General Abel Davis of Chicago, oscar s. Straus, Abral I. Elkus, Justice Irving Lehman Cyrus L. Sulzberger. Lewis L. Strauss. and MT. Marshall of New York, Dr. Cyrus Adler and Horace stern of Philadelphia, Felix Fuld of Newark, N. J., A. Leo Well of Pitts burg, A. c. Ratshesky of Boston, Colonel Isaac M. Ullnlan of New Haven, and Paul L. F'eiss of Cleveland Improvement Noticeable.
 The past two years have seen a mo- ticeable improvement in the condition of the Jews in eastern and central Europe according to the report, "al- though in many lands oppression, per secution and invidious discrimination still prevail. Even there a reasonable hope for eventual if not speedy bet 1 terment is justified.
 "Iniauitous anti-Semitic propaganda on the whole, has met with general | condemnation in western Europe, ex- ] cept in Germany where anti-semitism has been adopted as rallying cry by a number of minor political groups and especially those of reactionary tendencies. It Is evident from theil proceedings that anti-semitism is the hand -maiden of the broken remnants
 of militsrism and junkerdom and o1 those forces which are bent on over throwing the republic and of combat ting free and liberal government.
 With anti-semitism discredited il the more enlightened countries of the
 world, it cannot long survive in cen | tral and eastern Europe.
 "The improvement in the economic political and spiritual condition of tn, Jews due to postwar reconstruction is also evidenced by the falling off O
 Jewish immigration to the United | States, the. report continues. Some monthly quotas for Poland and other | countries were not filled, and al
 though this may partly be explained
 by lack of means to make the trip the betterment of conditions generally has had much to do with it, although in Poland political conditions leave
 much to be desired
 There has been tremendous re vival of cultural life in Poland, Ru
 mania, and to a lesser extent, in Lat via" according to the report. "Thi l number of Jewish schools is increas-
 ing by leaps and bounds, old school are being rebuilt and new ones es- tablished, modern text books are be.
 ing published in many places, nev publications are springing up, ant even the theatre, that unmistakabl' concomitant of normal life, is agair | coming into its own.