San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-09
JEWS WILL RAISE BIG
SUM FOR COLONIZATION

tivation which would be increased to
100000 by this fall.
Mr.. Brown declared in his cable
that if funds could be made available
promptly $4,000 Jewish families, APP
proximately 125,000 individuals could
be settled as farmers by the end OF
1927. Applications, he said, were
pouring into DR.. Rosen's office in Mos
COW from thousands who were eager
to settle on the soil. and an opportun-
ity presented itself TO effect what
would be tastamount 10 the complete
psychological and economic transform.
alton of three million Jews OF Russia.
Mr.. Browns cable was confirmed By
another from DR.. Bernard Kahn, Eu-
ropcan director Of the joint distribu.
ton committee who followed him into
Russia, covering the same territory.
Dr. Kahn's report was even more en-
thusiastic. He spoke of the Jewish
back to the soil" movement as I'M
paralleled in Jewish history.
WILL RAISE s15,o00.000.
On the basis of these reports, which
were amplified by Mr.. Brown on his
return on June first to America, the
Joint distribution committee abandoned
its liquidation plan, and authorized
Mr.. Brown TO convene the Phila-
dclphia conference at which a cam
paign to raise $15,000,000 will be pro-
posed. While a very large part Of the
contemplated fund will be utilized for
the Russian-Jewish agricultural colo
nization, considerable proportion will
90 for welfare and reconstruction work
Of various kinds in other parts Of Eu-
rope and in Palestine.
Included among the signatories to
the invitation are Felix VI. Warburg,
chairman of the American Jewish Re-
lief Committee: Leon Kamaiky, chair
man of the Central Relief Committee;
Alexander Kahn. chairman of the Peo-
pies Relief Committee, and the follow
ing:
THE DIRECTORS.
New York: Herbert H. Lehman,
James y. Rosenberg, DR.. Julius Gold
man, Paul Baerwald, David VI. Bress-
Ter, DR.. Lee h. Frankel, Harry Fisch-
el, Mortimer L. Schiff, Colonel H. A.
Gutenberg, Nathan s. Jonas, Samuel
c. Lamport, Nathan J. Miller. Honor
able Adolph Lewiston, Adolph S.
Ochs, Honorable Otto A. Rosalsky,
William Fox. Nathan Straus, Ludwig
Vogelstein, Simeon W. Straus, Rabbi
Israel Rosenberg, Mrs. Rebecca Kebut,
Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Mrs. Jacob II.
Schiff. Frederick Brown, Henry A.
Dix. Honorable Abram /. Elkus, Nor
ris Rothenberg, u. G. Eladokc and Pc
ter Wiernick.
Chicago: General Abel Davis, James
II. Becker, Judge Harry Fischer,
Moses +. Greenebaum, Adolph Kraus,
Jacob NJ. Loeb, Julius Rosenwald,
Charles Rubens, Bernard Norwich, s.
J. Rosenblatt.
Others are Judge VI. c. Sloss, Moses
4. Gunst and Mortimer Fleishaker,
San Francisco; Moses A. Fox and Sen
ator Herman Koppelman, Hartford,
Conn: Emil Berliner. Simon Lyon,
Maurice d. Rosenberg and Rabbi
Abram Simon, Washington, ID. &. d;
Governor Moses Alexander. Idaho !;
Colonel Fred Levy and Emil S. TIA.
chou, Louisville, KY: Felix Fuld and
Michael Hollander, Newark, \. j.;
Congressman Nathan Frank, Irwin W.
Bettman, David Sommers and Aaron
Waldheim. st. Louis: Judge Eli
Frank, Julius Levy, Jacob Epstein
Baltimore; Ben Selling, Portland,
Ore. and Jacob Billikopf. Ellis A.
Gimbel. Albert VI. Greenfield, Jacob ID.
Lit. Jules f. Mastbaum. leasing Ros.
enwald, Judge Horace Stern and Nor
ris Wolf of Philadelphia.