The Administrative Council of the Jewish Colonization Association (Ica) at its last meeting here under the chairmanship of the President, Leonard L. Cohen, approved the program of work on behalf of the Jewish farmers in Poland and Bessarabia, where the Ica’s activities affect a Jewish agricultural population of nearly 7,000 families.
This program provides for a number of measures intended to spread among the Jews cattle-breeding, dairy-farming, agricultural, and poultry-farming. The extension of intensive cultivation in arboriculture, viticulture, market-gardening, and tobacco growing constitutes one of the most important chapters of the program.
The assistance given by the Ica in accordance with this program consists not only of agricultural propaganda, to make know improved methods of agriculture, and secure better results for the colonists, but also of financial assistance to enable the Jewish farmers to obtain good terms for their current needs, (hire of agricultural implements, provision of seeds, vine plants and fruit trees, buildings, etc.) and to secure more profitable returns from the products of their harvest.
In view of the importance and utility of the patronage system in Poland, especially since the passing of the law under which it is made compulsory for artisans to undergo an examination and special professional training, the Council has renewed its subsidies to the Jewish patrons of Radom, Vilna, Czenstochowa, Kalicz, Lodz, Lemberg, Piotrkow, Przemysl, and Zolkiew.
These subsidies are part of a more important program of spreading technical knowledge among the Jews of Poland. It was in view of this action that the Council of the Ica at its previous meeting, granted subsidies to the professional schools for boys at Bialystock, Czenstochowa, Grodno, Kalicz, Lodz, Lemberg, Pinsk, Stryj, Warsaw-Grzybowska, and Warsaw, Stawki, to the mixed professional school of Vilna, and to the professional schools for girls at Cracow, Lemberg, Pinsk and Przemysl.
The Council of the Ica has also granted a subsidy to the professional school for girls at Kishineff.
There are nearly 4,000 students supported by the schools and the patrons of the Ica in Poland and Bessarabia.
As in previous years, the Council at this meeting gave its cooperation to the educational and moral work in the Argentine, Brazil and Canada, where it maintains 115 schools, providing general and religious instruction to 4,800 pupils.
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