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On the occasion of the opening last Sunday in Berlin of the third international conference of the Ort, society for the promotion of trade and agriculture among the Jews in the various countries of Europe, a description of this organization’s activities is outlined in an article which appeared in the Philadelphia “Jewish World.”
Pointing out that the Joint Distribution Committee’s renewed activities are based on the principles which underlie the Ort work and that the Ort began the colonization of Jews in Russia prior to the entrance of other relief organizations into this field, the article declares:
“Of the 10,000 Jewish families that have been settled on the land in the Ukraine and Crimea, 2,000 were seuled by the Ort. And when the J. D. C. wants to do its best work it assigns a sum of money for this purpose to the Ort, which has a staff of expert agronomists and colonization engineers with many years experience in organizing colonies.”
KANSAS CITY PAPER ON JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO THE U. S. AND PALESTINE
That the replacement of America by Palestine as a land of Jewish immigration is a natural development, is the opinion of the Kansas City (Mo.) “Journal,” wherein it is declared in the issue of Aug 1:
“A compilation of figures on the emigration of Jews from European countries to the newly established Jewish homeland in Palestine show that last year emigration to the Holy Land was nearly three times as heavy as to the United States. The latter received only 9,945, while 28,772 emigrated to Palestine.”
Referring to the immigration restrictions in the United States, the paper concludes:
“But the establishment of the homeland provides an opportunity for thousands to whom America is only a name and to whom the Holy Land is the land of their fathers, the lost paradise of their history. It is little wonder that tens of thousands of such, having no family ties in this country should seek the outlet which leads into Palestine.”
THINKS THAT MISS EDERLE PROVES “MELTING POT” THEORY
That the achievement of Miss Ederle, who is of German origin, may be regarded as an indication that the “melting pot” in America is working after all, is the view of the London “Observer” of yesterday. The paper writes:
“Twenty years ago no woman would have dreamed of attempting such a feat. Even now its accomplishment verges so nearly on the incredible that further details of the record time cease to surprise. Apparently the admixture of stocks in new climates is evolving a higher physical type.”
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