High school boys will be given one opportunity to aid the government’s farm program this summer through special training at the training farm of the Jewish Agricultural Society, it was revealed by Richard S. Goldman who was elected president of the Society at its annual meeting hare yesterday.
“We have offered the facilities of a special training farm in New Jersey to the New York City Board of Education, so that high school boys will be able to go out on the farms this summer, fit to do a real job,” Mr. Goldman said, “and we have also promised to cooperate in placing these and other boys on farms to help the government overcome, as much as possible, the impending, critical farm labor shortage.”
The Jewish farm population in the United States has increased from 1,000 in 1900 to over 100,000 and this growth stems from the active part the Society has played in aiding Jews achieve this back-to-the-soil movement during the past forty years. The following were elected to serve as officers and directors for the coming year: Richard S. Goldman, president; Wolfgang S. Schwabacher, vice-president; Reuben Arkush, secretary; Harry H. Cohen, treasurer; Gabriel Davidson, managing director. Commander Lewis L. Strauss was reelected honorary president.
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