San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-09

from every part OF the country anu
representing every element in Amer
lean Israel will be held in Philadel-
phia on Saturday evening, September
10, and all of the following day 10
consider plans for the continuance OF
relief Of their co-religionists in Eu'
rope and Palestine with special refer
ence TO a project for settling 1OO,OOO
Jews as farmers in Russia by the
end of 1927. Fifteen million dollars
is the amount which, il is estimated,
will benecessary TO carry out the plans
that will be submitted to the confer
ence.
The call for the conference, which
has been issued by David A. Brown,
president of the General Necessities
Corporation, and is signed also by
over 200 leading Jews from all parts
of the United States describes the
dates Of the conference rs important
days in the history of American Jew
~. The signatOries to the conference
includes many who are prominent in
orthodox and reform Jewry, Zionists
and Jewish labor organizations, and
nearly 5000 individual invitations
have been sent out for the conference.
RAISED s65,O00,OO0.
The gathering, which will be held
at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel IS to
be under the auspices CT The Ameri-
can Jewish Joint Distribution Com.
mittee, the American Jewish Relief
Committee, the Central Relief Com
mittee and the Peoples Relief Com.
mittee. The last three named organi-
cations Jointly raised upward of $780,
100000 in this country in a series OF
campaigns beginning in 1917 and end
ing in 1928 for the relief of their war
stricken brethren in Europe and in
Palestine. The first named Organiza.
ton, of which Felix NJ. Warburg, OF
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York bank
ers, is the chairman, acted rs the dis
triouting agency for this huge fund
and until last year had its Organiza-
ton ramified Russia, Poland, Aus
tria, Czecho- Slovakia, and other Euro
pean lands where it dispensed relief
to thousands of destitute men, women
and children, subventiOned orphan
asylums, established and maintained
trade schools and carried on a series
Of medical and sanitary enterprises.
Over a year ago reports from Its
European representatives were 10 the
effect that Jewish economic cOndi-
tons everywhere in Russia had been
sufficiently stabilized to make possible
the withdrawal of outside assistance,
The joint distribution committee be-
. h sNV-alT NEfaW In.
rope and TO liquidate its affairs. The
three money-raising organizations also
began to bring their existence TO an
end.
BACK TO THE SOIL.
The only exception to TIE general
withdrawal from Europe was in the
case Of Russia. DIR. Joseph Rosen, q
noted American agricultural scientist,
famed throughout the world as the dis.
coverer of "Rosen Rye" and as the
man whose plans resulted in the
breaking up Of the famine four years
ago in the NOlga region, was in charge
of the Joint distribution committee's
reconstruction work in that country.
He came TO America and persuaded
the joint distribution committee to al
lot 100000 for the purpose of set
Ting Jews on land assigned for col
onization purposes by the government
He stated that there were several
thousand Jews who wished to leave
the towns and cities to become farm.
ers and he urged that they be aided.
His request was granted and he re-
turned TO Russia 10 set up what he
aruacrnd t-oitld 10 a modest pf1fprnrisa
But. with the economic pressure ex-
erted upon the middle class, the mer'
chants and traders by the Russian
government, hundreds and then thou.
sands Of Jews joined in what has be.
come a movement back 70 the soil
which. according 10 many observers
is the greatest in all Jewish history.
OTHERS SEEK FARMS.
Reports that came from Russia Of
a new exodus. a mighty hegira inyoly.
ing tens of thousands Of men, women
and children which was filling up ten:
Of thousands of acres Of choice farm
lands in the Ukraine, in Crimea, n
White Russia, were so amazing that
the committee asked David A. Brown
to make an independent investigation
Toward the end Of last May, after {
tour of the new Russian Jewish col
onies. lasting over a month and cover
ing tens Of thousands Of miles, Mr.
Brown cabled 10 the joint distributiO;
committee that over 1000 families, aD
proximately 10000 individuals hal
already been settled on the soil, wit
over 100000 acres already under cul