He pointed out that the national resurgince of confidence has also reacted favorably on the institutions and organizations.
Judge Lehman also reported on the action of the American Athletic Union, of which the Jewish Welfare Board is the only national Jewish member, and the American Olympic Association, in deferring America’s acceptance of an invitation to participate in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin because of Germany’s diserimination against German Jewish athletes.
In discussing the problems affecting Jewish youth, Mr. Warburg referred to the charge that young Jews seck the easier paths of making a living.
SMALL NUMBER IN FARMING
“One thing we find it very hard to contradict is the charge that Jewish young men are trying to take positions in life of the easir kind and that they are not working in the hard muscle and pioneer activities which every country more or less needs,” he declared.
“I should like to bring the message here to our young men that, much as we have like, and much as we have prided ourselves on the achievements of our Jewish youth in law, medicine and the higher educational positions, the percentage which prevails in Germany and which also prevails in other places shown that in the agricultural pursuits only a small percentage of the Jewish population occupies itself with that specialty.
“There are lots of Jews who are willing to trade in wheat and things of that kind,” Mr. Warburg declared, “but very few who grow wheat. There are lots of Jews who have been dealing in cattle but they have not taken the chance of raising them.
“I know that there are many excuses and many sound arguments why this is the case and why they cannot do it in this country or that country. But let us be aware of the facts that our young men ought to be brought up and their attention brought to the appreciation of artisanship, engineering and the many pursuits where the brain and the muscle are brought into work to their satisfaction and to their country’s health.”
Dr. Cyrus Adler, chairman of the army and navy committtee of the board, reported on the welfare activities driected by the committee among soldiers and sailors. Benjamin J. Buttenweiser, treasurer, presented his annual report.
The delegates were welcomed to the meeting by Frank L. Weil, president of the 92nd Street Y. M. H. A.
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