(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Many Jewish peasants in Soviet Russia have lost their right to participate in the Soviet elections as a result of the new electoral law.
It is learned that the local electoral committees are applying the law too harshly. For instance, in the Jewish colony Inguliets, where, last year there were 55 disfranchised members, there are now 222 disfranchised. In the colony Islutchiste 96 colonists have no right to vote as compared with 16 last year. There are 100 disfranchised in Kamenka this year, while last year there were only 9; in Nishtomir the number increased to 76 from 16 last year.
Reports received from White Russia state that complete agreement prevails now between the Jewish and non-Jewish electors. Previously Jews never voted for non-Jewish candidates. Now non-Jews and Jews are voting for each other, anti-Semitic propaganda having had no effect.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR HAKOAH SOCCER TOUR COMPLETED
W. L. Lewis of the Bethlechem Steel Company Football Club and Morris Vanderweghe of the New York Giants Football Club have applied to the United States Football Association for permission to conduct a tour in America of the Hakoah Soccer Team of Vienna this Spring.
The tour is contemplated for the months of April and May, and a tentative schedule includes New York, Boston, Fall River, Newark, Philadelphia, Bethlehem, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Toronto and Montreal. Additional cities may be added if the tour can be extended over the tow months contemplated.
The arrangements made by Mr. Lewis and Mr. Vanderweghe were brought to a satisfactory conclusion in a series of conferences with Dr. I. H. Koerner, President of the Hakoah Club, who arrived here two weeks ago.
Colonel Friedsam, who is Chairman of the Governor’s Commission on School Finances and Administration, declared that legislation of the type of the Baumes laws will be unnecessary when education reaches its broadest development, and indicated that it would be cheaper to spend money for educational rather than correctional purposes, in a letter he sent to the State Senate.
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