To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
I wish to make belated comment on your last week’s statement concerning Jewish Book Week. You ascribed the successful conduct of this annual event to an estimable out-of-town librarian, who has in truth done much for the Week in her own large community. But it happens that from direct observation over a long period of time, I know that the prime factor in spreading and continuing the observance everywhere has been the Bloch Publishing Co. Their bulletins and publications are more than any other agency responsible for the widespread sentiment in favor of Jewish Book Week.
A. Burstein
New York City.
GOOD AND BAD RADIO BILLS
To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
Recently I have listened to some very evcellent Jewish radio programs, which included some really beautiful singing of Russian songs, among other things. It as quite a welcome change from those which I had been accustomed to hear and which I used to avoid as a plague.
What I would like to know is, how can we stimulate the good Jewish programs and weed out the bad? I can think of no worse propaganda than the bad ones, and of no more excellent propaganda than the good ones.
I believe the best way is this: Every time we hear a bad one, let’s write into the station and demand its removal. And every time we hear a good one, let’s write the station and encourage the program and its artists.
Florence Marks
New York City.
REPROVES BUREYA SKEPTICS
To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
Among those doubting the wisdom of large scale Jewish settlement in Biro-Bidjan are persons doubting the sincerity of the Soviet government. Stating that Bureya was conceived as a buffer state in time of war with Japan, they claim that the Soviet has no real sincerity in its establishment of the autonomous state.
I refer such persons to the cable from Moscow announcing that it will cancel 4,602,000 roubles—approximately $2,500,000—of the debt which the Jewish colonies, established by the Agro-Joint in Crimea, owe it. Previously almost ten million roubles had been cancelled in December. If any further evidence of the sincerity of the Soviet government in its Jewish colonies is needed, it is only for stubborn, muddled partisans, not for level headed, impartial persons interested in the salvation of fellow Jews.
A new excuse against Biro-Bidjan will have to be created. Certainly, the sincerity of the Soviet can no longer be denied.
Frank Halper
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