The Denver Jewish news., 1925-07-30

when the llmltlCss Western prairie
was dotted by covered wagons" are
being duplicated In Russia today, with
almost mirror-likc fidelity, according
TO David A. Brown. president Of the
| General Necessities Corporation Of De-
troit, who has just returned from n
tour Of the Ukraine and Crimea. with
one difference. however The men,
women and children who fill the Rus
sian covered wagon" are Jews flee.
ing from the big cities seeking escape
from their former narrow. precious ex-
istcnce as merchants and traders, and
finding II new liberty on the vast
Ukrainian and Crimean Steppes as far
mers.
II is new episode in history, ac-
cording to Mr. Brown. II is the first
time In many centuries that Jews in
great numbers are making deliberate.
determined effort to become again
what they were in Bible days-tlllers
of the soil. 1t is new exodus,
| mighty hegira ont of the cities and
towns, where they suffered oppression
because the present Russian govern
ment aims to suppress and exterminate
the middlcman, into wilderness and
Il promised land" where the same gov
ernment which oppressed them as
traders encourages them TO become
free men earning their bread by the
sweat of their brow.
The Government has set aside vast
acres, says Mr.. Brown, for Jewish set
tlement These lands are free TO all
who will come and cultivate, and al
ready 1000 Jewish families, approXi-
| mately 10000 souls, are settled on be-
| tween 100000 and 6O0,0 acres of rich,
black, easily cultivated soil. These
Jewish farmers were greatly aided in
their new and apparently successful
venture, by the American Joint Distri-
button Committee. which has given
them loans for the purchase Of live
stock. implements, and seeds, and also
for erecting homes and farm buildings,
besides supplying them with a large
number of American tractors and sew
cral corps of instructors in the use OF
these machines and in the science of
farming The American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee is the distri-
Ibuting agency of the fund Of SGS,00O,O0O
which was raised by the Jews of this
country from l9l5-1022 for the relief
of the war-stricken peoples of Eastern
/ Europe and Palestine
Mr. Brown says that If sufficient
American aid will be forthcoming
shortly. 25.0OO families, say 100000
men. women and children, Jewish fugi-
tIyes from the big Russian cities, can
he transformed into successful farmers
by the end of 1927.
Like the ancient Children of Israel,
in their flight across the wilder
ness of Egypt to the Promised Land,
these new Israeliteish fugitives have Il
Moses American Moses. The name
Of this modern Moses is DIR. Joseph A.
ROsen, who is at the head of the Joint
| Distribution Committees constructive
and colonization work in Russia. DR..
| R0sem's home Is in CrotOn, little vii
Iagc on the Hudson River. in New York
| State, where he enjoys the distinction
Of being one of the greatest agricul-
tural experts on the North American
continent. and is known to every far
mer in the United States and Canada
as the discoverer of "Rosen Rye"
"An agriculturalist of the highest
standing" Mr.. Brown describes DR..
Rosen, IAN unusually successful bust
ness man in America, a proved ex-
ecutive, he left his home and family
over five years ago, at the request
of the American Jewish Joint Dis
tribution Committee, to give of his
vast store of knowledge to those OF
his brethren in Russia who through a
series of misfortunes due to the war
and its hideous aftermaths were
hurled into "A bottomless pit Of de-
spair. For several years, now, this
man has travelled from one end of
Russia to the other, facing the hard
ships of the fnmine period sub
iecting himself to the danger of ty-
phus and other diseases, travelling
under conditions that the average
man would contemplate with horror
eating when he could and what he
could get, sleeping anywhere and at
the same time doing one of the finest
pieces of social work done anywhere
in the world.
"He has built up an organization