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The hope expressed by President Coolidge, to the Jewish delegation that called on him last Wednesday, that something would be done to reunite the families of declarants, now separated by the quota laws, is regarded by the “Day” of April 30 as the last ray of hope for those in whose behalf the Wadsworth-Perlman amendment has been introduced in Congress.
“The President has the power,” the paper writes “to see to it that the Wadsworth-Perlman amendment should be passed. True, he does not make the laws of the United States, but he is the leader of the majority party in the Congress. His word and his influence are strong and decisive enough to tip the scales of Congress in favor of a more just and human attitude to the separated immigrant families. The Jews of America, among whom are many of the separated families, place much hope on the President’s heart.
“The last appeal of American Jewry has been sent. It is directed to the heart of President Coolidge.”
THE SHUBERTS AND THE U. J. C.
The contribution of $50,000 toward the United Jewish Campaign by Lee and J. J. Shubert, well known theatrical managers, finds comment in the New York “American” of April 30, which observes, in part:
“An especially notable feature (of the New York U. J. C. drive) is the gift of Lee and J. J. Shubert of $50,000. Not only is it great in amount and characteristic of these enterprising and generous theatrical managers, but it upholds the best tradition of the American stage-its immediate responsiveness to calls of humanity.
“America, so often blessed for its munificence, will have new cause for pride when by this fine campaign a happy future for millions of suffering people shall be assured.”
MR. ROSENWALD’S PROPOSED MUSEUM
The plan of Julius Rosenwald to create in Chicago a great industrial and technical museum, to cost approximately $5,000,000 is lauded by the Chicago “Tribune” of April 26.
“The new museum” we read, “will provide for the general public a working knowledge of these things that only a few people provided with a technical education know about and understand. Visual demonstration will give the layman a far better comprehension of the vast technical world about him than weeks spent poring over abstruse texts.
“Both to the layman and the technical man such an educational medium as the projected museum will be well worth the $5,000,000 Mr. Rosenwald estimates that it will cost.”
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