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Page 6 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 EIIWARIIS’ SIIOI STORE .VI WHITEHALL STIILET 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.