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The Southern Israelite
Your Federation
Hy EDWARD M. KAHN
Executive Director of the Atlanta Federation of Jewish Charities
Interpreting Social Work
The Georgia Conference on Social
work, held recently at Albany, Ga.,
brought home very strongly the need
for interpreting social welfare pro
grams to the public. The tax-paying
public of Georgia knows little of the
methods present-day social work has
developed for coping with the inade
quacies and maladjustments which
break down normal individual respons
ibility and family life.
The lot of the social worker in Geor
gia is a hard one. He faces a continu
ous uphill struggle, surrounded by
lack of appreciation of what he is
trying to accomplish and lack of
sympathy with his objective approach
to the problem. His task is largely
one of education. Yet theeducational
process is nullified by lack of support.
Financial handicaps hamper him in
all his efforts to get out from under
the system of doles and grocery ord
ers. And so the social worker finds
himself and his program within the
confines of a vicious circle.
What shall he do? The answer is,
exercise the patience of Job, work
away quietly at his Herculean tasks,
and be content with slow progress.
A step in the right direction was
taken by the Georgia Conference on
Social Work authorizing the organiza
tion of a State wide Publicity Council.
We must reach the people. We must
make our program known to the pub
lic. Ultimately we must build up a
tradition of giving to philanthropic
movements. We still persist in the
belief that the individual personal
giving of alms is the best form of
charitable work. When shall we
catch up with the demands of 1930
and forget 1880?
Alliance Activities
Women's Gym Class. Every Wed
nesday morning, at 10 A. M., the thin
ones get fat and the fat ones get thin
at the Alliance. The secret—Jane
Boy’s Methods of Diet and Exercise.
The fee for the course is $3.00 for a
series of twelve lessons, the class
meeting once a week.
Art Classes. Something new. The
time has come for talent to be recog
nized. Have you a desire to paint?
Have you a burning wish to draw?
Have you an irresistible impulse to
sketch, model, to charcoal? Get it out
of your system by joining the Alliance
Art Class. The fees will be nominal.
The class will meet Wednesday even
ing from 7:30 to 9:30 and Sunday
morning from 10:00 to 12:00 M. Join
now. Telephone the Alliance office
MAin 2171.
Magical Entertainers at the
Alliance
The Paul Hubbard Troupe of Magi
cal Entertainers will present their
show at the Alliance Sunday Evening,
March 9th at 8:00 P. M. Their magi
cal tricks appeal to young and old
alike. Health and Educational tricks
are the major part of the entertain
ment. Parents come yourselves and
bring your children. Small admission
fee.
Volunteer Workers
One more volunteer worker was
added to the staff when Mr. Sol
Golden consented to serve as coach
for boys’ dramatics.
We need more volunteers for club
leadership.
Russian Jewry in Sad Plight.
Visitor Asserts
New York—That the condition of
two million Jews in Russia and Poland
is becoming constantly worse was the
statement made by Dr. Leon Bram-
son, president of the World Ort Or
ganization, upon his arrival here from
abroad in connection with the impend
ing Ort campaign for Jewish recon
struction work in Russia and Poland.
Yiddish Theatre Seen
Declining
New York—At a conference of ac
tors and managers of the ten Yiddish
theatres in New York, plans were dis
cussed for stopping the drift away
from the Yiddish playhouses. It was
revealed that these houses take in
$100,000 a week, but that the restrei-
tion of immigration was responsible
for the decline of patronage. Too
high salaries for stage hands and too
many large advertisements to please
the vanity of stars were blamed for
the small net profit.
Jews Found Moving From
N. Y. East Side
New York—A movement away from
the East Side is indicated by statistics
gathered in a recent survey of hous
ing conditions there. 189 of the 4,-
946 houses investigated were totally
uninhabited and 13,000 other apart
ments were found to be empty.
Polish Ambassador Gets
Memorandum of Complaints
New York—A memorandum urging
that the Polish government call a con
ference to deal with the economic
plight of the Polish Jews was pre
sented to Tytus Filipowicz, Polish
Minister to the United States, by a
delegation of the Federation of Polish
Jews in America. The memorandum
said that the spread of large co-op
eratives in Poland has displaced many
Jewish middlemen; that Jewish work
ers are virtually boycotted in such in
dustries as are nationalized; that
Jews seeking to become artisans meet
difficulties placed in the way of open
ing technical schools; that the burden
of taxation falls heaviest on the Jews
and only the most meager credit facil
ities are open to them. The Minister
joined the delegation in deploring the
condition of the Jews of Poland and
explained that “Poland is at present
Announcing the
Opening of
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STORE
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I Aliiliaimai
With tt Complete IAne of Shoes
For R omen and Children—
Agency for lliisl<»r llrown Shoes
(Jttality Footwear—Always—
SOL I. YUDELSON
D. L. SPIELBERGEK
just finding its way as a new re ^
lie and to a great extent the sufferT
is general among Jews and non
alike.”
Many Jews Immigrate 7
Uruguay
Montevideo, Uruguay- 1
entered Uruguay in the fi rst
months of 1929, it has been anrn.un,-*
by the Uikem, the local .Jewish is
migration committee. This number
greater than that for the entire
1928.
Belgian Royalty To Visit I
Palestine (
Brussels, Belgium—King Albert of |
Belgium, together with the Queen, will I
visit Palestine in the near future in ■
the course of a tour of the Near East B
it has been announced. S
Rumania To Ease Citizen
ship Laws For Jews
Bucharest—The Attorney Genera;
of Rumania has been ordered by the
Cabinet to study the citizenship law*
of the country with a view to making
it easier for Jewish refugees from
other countries to become naturalized
Rumanians.
Commission To Decide Or.
Wailing Wall
Geneva—A commission of three,
none of them a Britisher, will decide
upon the respective claims of Jews
and Arabs to the Wailing Wall, it was
decided by the Mandates Commission
at the fifty-eighth session of the Coun
cil of the League of Nations. The ex
traordinary meeting of the Mandates
Commission, scheduled for March. ha<
been postponed in the meantime at
the request of the British Foreign
Secretary, Henderson, who stated that
the discussion in Parliament on the
Shaw report may not be concluded by
that time.
Says Jewish Colonies Are
Protected
London—Dr. Drummond Shield*.
Under-Secretary for the Colonies, de
clared in the House of Commons tha
the Jewish colonies of Palestine are
receiving adequate protection and that
High Commissioner Chancellor u
bringing into execution plans for con
necting outlying colonies with
Jewish centers by means of roa *
200 special constables are to le*' f
England for Palestine in the near
future. General Dowbiggin, Police n
spector of Ceylon, is to reorganize
Palestine police force.
/atican Archives Opened to
Jewish Researcher
Vienna, (J. T. A.)—The ^ ope jF
or the first time permitted a Je ^
cholar to study documents in tne
ican archives in order to c *-
ertain questions about p :, te< j
nd cultural conditions tha
uring the last Jewish king 0 • '■
report from Bratislaw to
rian papers, referring to a turne d
us Verhand who has J u?t ” “
rom an extended stay m Lur pe
he guest of the Vatlca "‘ 4 ‘ cfovakian
nee with the Pope, the -* ^
tabbi received permission re .
"atican documents for
earch.