Louis Marshall Subscribes $100,000 Toward Ten Million Dollar Fund

A subscription of $100,000 by Louis Marshall was the first announced toward the fund which leading Jews of this country are raising to equal the $5,000,000 subscribed by Julius Rosenwald for the continuance of the Russian Jewish agricultural work. James N. Rosenberg, chairman of the Agrojoint the agency of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for its agricultural activities in Russia, made the announcement of Mr. Marshall’s subscription yesterday.

In announcing Mr. Marshall’s contribution, Mr. Rosenberg said, “I expect to announce other substantial subscriptions within a few days, but we still have a long way to go toward the raising of the five million dollars needed to match Mr. Rosenwald’s original subscription. We are confident, however, that the leaders of American Jewry will give their full support to the new Ten Million Dollar Fund and help us settle at least another hundred thousand Jews on land in Russia, in addition to the one hundred and seventy-five thousand that have been re-established and newly settled there through the offices of the Agrojoint. The number of families applying to our Moscow representatives for an opportunity to settle on the land reaches into the thousands, and with the ever growing need of the urban Jewish population, the movement toward the land is the only solution of the economic problem.”