New Ica Colonies Show Progress in Agrentine

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The report of an agronomist of the Jewish Colonization Association in the Argentine who has been visiting the colonies established there by the Ica in recent years was made public here. In the district of Santa Isabel, he visited 34 of the newly settled families, 13 of whom were established during 1927.

Sixteen of these families in training are now to be permanent colonists. They have paid off their debts for renting, completed their inventory and in general have shown themselves capable land workers. Many of these colonists have increased their stock considerably. There is one colonist who, established in October, 1927, has already acquired 6 horses, 5 cows, and 1 separator. Another colonist, established in February, 1926, has acquired at his own expense 5 cows, 3 horses, 1 wagon and 1 pough.

The new colonists have successfully taken up the plantation of mandarin orange trees. One colonist established in July, 1926, has planted a hundred orange trees and has already obtained a good income from them. He has also planted a garden which brings him in a sum of 100 to 125 pesos a month by the sale of the vegetables.

A dinner in behalf of the scholarship fund of the Jewish Education Association will be held on April 22d at the Brooklyn Jewish Center. The scholarship fund of the Jewish Education Association is devoted to the payment of tuition in Jewish religious schools for children of the poor.

Justice Edward Lazansky is Honorary Chairman and Jacob H. Cohen is Chairman of the arrangements committee.

Figures bearing on the religious education of Jewish children in Brooklyn made public by Mr. Samuel Rottenberg, reveal that only one in every five of the Jewish children of school age in the Borough is receiving such an education. There are 168,213 Jewish children of school age in the Borough of Brooklyn and a close estimate of those in attendance at Talmud Torahs and other Jewish religious schools places the number at 32,500 or 20 percent of the total. A comparison of the situation in Brooklyn with that in Greater New York as a whole, shows that borough considerably behind, the percentage for the whole city being 28.

An association of Religious School Teachers of the States of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin will be organized according to a decision taken at a meeting in Chicago of representatives of the Chicago Rabbinical Association, the Board of Jewish Education of Chicago, the Chicago Conference of Conservative Rabbis, and the Department of Synagogue and School Extension of Cincinnati.

It was further decided to hold a convention in Chicago on April 28-29, at the Stevens Hotel

Problems of the curriculum of the Jewish school and of methods of teaching will be discussed.

Alexander M. Dushkin, Solomon B. Freehof, Felixjacb S. Glum, Max Kadushin, Gerson B. Levi, Felix A. Levy, Louis L. Mann, George Zepin were named on the committee on arrangements.