The Denver Jewish news., 1925-07-16


izations participating in work relat
ing to general Jewish interests have
come together, conferred and coop
Grated like members of one body.
You will remember the joint state
ment made by the Jewish organiza-
tions of America in 1922 in answer to
the Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
when this amazing document of fren-
zied fiction was issued by Boston
publishing house and given such wide
publicity in this country.
The Emergency Committee on jew
ish Refugees organized at the confer
ence of Jewish National organiza-
tions held in June, 1924, and made up
of Representatives from all important
organized circles is another instance
of this kind of cooperation pointing
the way to further, more systematic,
and more comprehensive united ac-
ton on part of Jewry. The agitation
begun the year before by the Amer
lean Jewish Congress in the interest
of an effective effort in behalf of the
refugees brought response from all
groups and important organizations
as soon as the need became clear, and
the joint Committee, which was sub
sequently formed, has by this time
practically secured the largest part
of financial means required and ar
rived at a program of meeting the
needs of the immigrants stranded in
the European ports and those who
had made their way to Canada and
Suba, etc. Delegates have been sent
to several countries in the interests
of the refugees. So we have the ex-
ample as well as the precedent of
united action.
The experience in this kind of work
which has been accumulated by the
American Jewish Congress and by
other bodies would furnish an excel
lent basis of larger and more extern
sive work for the prevention of in
fringements upon the rights of Jews,
wherever practiced, the effort of COM
batting of all forms of vicious race
prejudice, the more thorough consid
Grafton of the subject of immigration
and related problems, etc. This ex-
perience would also indicate that
through a union of larger forces,
through wider and clearer consulta-
ton, through the awakening of wider
public interest in all these questions,
much more could, in the end, be ac-
complished in behalf of the oppressed
and unfortunate whom we are seek
ing to aid as well as in the interest
of that Jewish standing and dignity
which we are endeavoring to main
tain
A large and comprehensive Jewish
organization formed on Il democratic
basis of representation could make
itself not only more useful in carry
ing through the tasks required but
could aid in the development and cry
stalization of public sentiment and
opinion which would make it easier
to carry these tasks through, bring
ing support from ever-wider circles.
Recently it became necessary for
| the American Jewish Congress and
other bodies to agitate for the re-
sumption of Jewish relief work in
Eastern Europe. We believe that this
agitation and the attendant publicity
in the Yiddish and English-Jewish
press have brought about the re-
quired reconsideration of the prob
lem. A well-organized and better
balanced Jewish community, giving
each component part of it the oppor-
tunity of voicing its opinion would
prevent the necessity of carrying on
such an agitation. 1t would have
easier, simpler, and more direct
means of ascertaining the sentiments
of the Jewish public, or establishing
the facts as they relate to the life of
our brethren across the seas. Less
centralized control of relief activities
more open conferences and consulta-
tions, would lend the aid of healthy
public opinion to all our efforts.
For the problem of meeting the
needs, of securing the means, Of
arousing interest and particularly OF
spreading an exact knowledge OF
what the needs are and what the
tasks should be-is largely matter
of the diffusion of wider response