Theodore G. Risley, Solicitor of the Federal Department of Labor and U. S. Senator Royal S. Copeland, will address the annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, at the Hotel Astor, next Sunday.
They are scheduled to speak at the afternoon session, at which time Mr. Abraham Herman, president of the organization, will present, for ratification a plan for a chain of immigrant-aid centers which it plans to establish in Europe, South Africa, Australia, and a number of South American Republics, to prepare Jewish settlers for life in those countries.
These centers which will be established under the joint auspices of the Hias, the Jewish Colonization Association, of Paris, and the United Emigrant Aid Societies of Europe, will, at the points of departure, give advice as to the countries offering immigrants the best opportunities, and teach the prospective immigrant, the language of the country for which he is bound, and a trade or vocation suited to that country.
Representatives of several South American Republics are expected to be present at the meeting to present the attitude of their governments toward the Hias project.
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