LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME IV Christmas Party in Wilmington, Delaware, School, Showing Adaptation of a Typical School Room for Recreational Work. PAGE - Frontispiece, Vol. IV Women taking oath of allegiance before Justice Beers, New York Su preme Court 4160 [xvi] CHAPTER XII Civic and Other Organizations STATEMENTS FROM REPRESENTATIVE ORGANIZATIONS 1. Alliance Israelite Universelle, 309 Broadway, New York City, N. Behar, American representative (headquarters in Paris), March 18, 1920: "In this country the officials of the Alliance work for the Americanization of immigrants by calling on the latter in their homes and urging them to attend the public evening schools." A YEAR'S ACTIVITY OF THE ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE SUMMARY OF ITS WORK IN THE ORIENT DURING 1912 Translated expressly for the "Jewish Exponent" by B. H HARTOGENSIS The year 1912 was for the Alliance a period of serious preoccupation by reason of the march of events, particularly hard on our suffering coreligionists in different countries in the East. First in Morocco, the situation of the Jews was disquieting. In the month of April, the Jewish quarter of Fez, which is made up of a population of 10,000 souls, segregated without any defense or protection, was prey to the Cherifian soldiers for a number of days. Their homes were pillaged and destroyed, and the occupants, the victims of murder and acts of violence. A work requiring enormous assistance and relief was imposed on the Alliance. This duty it was able to take care of, aided by the Israelites of the World. For several weeks it was first necessary to provide food for more than 7,000 souls, then it became necessary by advances of money to the heads of families to procure for them means of earning a livelihood, hereafter to reinstate the Jews in their old quarter, to negotiate with the French government to procure for them indemnity for the tremendous damages they had suffered, finally to profit (in a sense) from this disaster to demand that the Mellah, wherein the thousands of our co-religionists had been living surrounded by the most unfavorable hygienic conditions, be enlarged by the grant of a large plot of ground, |