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Jersey Town ALL Jews By REBECCA HOURW1CH [ by Permission Grom Haarst'a International Metfaztne

1 tb th« r«9 to th« blvUlsatlon

k of irbkt UM , complicated by

r MB th«r BUB J r Btorr M wall aa t la Amarican Ufa. I entirely created Bitty eatL—Jy

ind la the ext of New Jereey, . mile after l dirty, aeranTy

a aky. Only at

i loom op. For

■ klatorr baa been a of .Use firat » the United BUtea. flttl. the Woodbine I purchaaed by the

of Tear l «!* eichtiea had

i and. to alleviate t, the ileeiBC Jew*.

l board < l 8. Uaat* Jacob H. Dr. JotJaa

i by the committee

• with the Uaeola Agricultural Collate of Nehraaka. and the other with the Wyomlnc Collete. both of which he deThe Saheovieba were happy at Fort Col line, bat the opportunity, in im. to mansce Woodbine < aa as answer to their dreamt. Throughout the fourteen yean of their stay in Woodbine this cultured continental couple earnestly endmvored to fashion their dreamt out of the (rim elements tad the nneducated but sturdy-hearted immigrants. Plana for the farmer* housM drawn by a New Turk architect were ready in the wring of lltl and work was then started on the sixty houses. The already there were given the

and builder*, but additional neat by the United Hebrew Charities from Nsw Tork. « need of The list clothing factory started operation, the tail of lOl; a machine shop and pocketbook factory opened shortly after. The*, factories ware sebaldtoed by the Woodbine Land and Tmprnvsmiat Company, the name under which the Baron de Hlrsch Fuad hen always carried ‘ colony. of tree rent and tree | bathhouse, a grocery, and a i ity-tve p

Ike achievements of the tost iwe years are beet portrayed la a letter by the manager of the eotoey which

After school hours, arisen or especially the younger people. They twenty boyt attend the Talmud Tor- are very comfortable. If I want anynh. the Hebrew School, to study thing done. 1 go to Woodbine." Hebrew. Not all the children are Mr. Carroll had had a minute of busy studying Hebrew, and the sing- thoughtful preparation. "There la a song unity chant carried through the variety of opinions about Woodbine, windows Is likely to compete with They are very much like their na"Ym. we have no bananas." Tue en- tlonallty. The Jews are always lookroUment at the Talmud Torah grows Ing out for tUeir Interests In a busiless each year because the Jewish ne» nay; some of the people you can boy*, as other boys, want their aftei- rely on. some of them bear watchnoons for base be 11. kites and marbles, ing." In Woodbine. 1 felt like Alice in! Mr*. Carroll—"Another thing, they Wonderland. Sunday came first, Bat- don’t observe tbe prohibition laws, urday came after; Saturday was as Our boys go over there end gwt inSunday. Sunday was aa Saturday.; toxlcated. every Saturday and SunSalurday morning, the smell of roeat-j day." Ing chicken wafted up the stair*. Mr. Carroll—"But they are not the Down the street sa'intered - the old Jewish people. They are Polish." patriarchs in twm and threes, dressed : M.a. Carroll—"But we are speak-

ing of Woodbine.

•tain, one of the dve. has always i of the few farmlitlcs, acting as

late white skirts. Toelr conversation nee almo-t entirely In Yiddish. Uttle

week’s gossip, too. were In their Sabbath best. The orthodox Jewish rell-

Mr. Carroll—"I don't suppose there are a half-dosen people In Woodbine

Announcemen of a prise Bmst Contest open to students of the Woodbine Schools only, prises to be offered as follow*. for the best essay cn this article: First prise, |S; second prise, IS; third and fourth prises. 91 each. Each winning essay will be printed in full In the TIMES, and all essay* receiving honorable mention will be published. Tbe contest opens with the pubItMtlon of tbe article this week, and will dose on Tuesday, March ISth. and winners will be announced the following Friday. Judges to be announced In a later

ilrty-flve-year-old laron de Hlrsch has Just sold his with him savings New York at the say. of 9S0.000. a one of th« tow . brought up ob

who haven’t their wine!" I erery uineM The doctor 1 the medMra. Carroll— I talked with Moe. id mspsctcr. the custodian of the a butcher over there, and he say* It’s board of education, end the tax col-

glon requires a married woman to ihe Polish. I won’t say It’e the Jew*. | leclori erery ir*ll*bl* p^riM office skmve her head and don a wig. Only because I don't know. They’ve tried him by his fellow townsmen

for fear that he may seek more lucrative fields, es he once did. The doctor has never prospered In his drug store, where everything la sold at coat Cosmetics are not kept, and when artlclee called for cannot be had. customers are urged to try the other drug

added fifty acres aa! thirty, ewlah (arras Just

c in town at the ittea. helping the gged. bent, gray-

to leave, nger a farm eoj-

s original town, irk. the clothing

i robber toe- ^bool guides could think of only Urge scale. At night, sharply reciotking too- tbr*,, (• m iiies in the town tnat did peated shots and wildly passing Ceets

the Fund has Btoe outages costing 11.0*0 to 91.9*0 sack, and a pleasant hotel heeled by steam lighted by electricity. *T have graded four miles of 1 ity-fiv* feat wide, end over

t the aUric section the agent of It Committee, v*!;o r picked the Icca-

t the Woodbine sta-

l one family home-

a built for them, i pillow, a blanket.

■ an office for the rat of the colony, . a widow, ope I a food and nodal

c of land, and woile . six dollars a The men were t physically undei and 'vallors |t Russia. Galicia and knew nothing of a— and harsh . tough living, winter they atrugwood. pulling up ditches and building 1 streets that had ' a Dennisvllle stu-

t town, to show the do heir work. Fred rienced practical

1 for tbe Uw, bad in Rt harlrlng of hl« d his own student it it his duty to rehlmself to the ■ement lor the Jews, bsorict. both young rever left Russia tor Ute at the agricolted there. The Paris only eingle men. so continued to Zurafter paaiexamlnattooa, on-

lettem firm ■a started in Oregon Jewish refugees v 1997 Mr. and Mn. their Ilttls daughter America, stopping t Cltj. Only a few beovich accepted chemistry at the ment Station in there he was offered

“Our educational factII ties are yet email, but we have o»snsd two temporary schools with an attendant 100 children and also a night ad few adults with twesity-dv* to thirty In 1**9 the New Jersey UagWature. in answer to a Wocdbine petition. created Wood Mas Township as an Independent borough, making it. so tor as known, the first Jewish self-

moved to great depths of Joy. town celebrated its creation with bonfires, tooting of horns and torchlight par*dm At Its fi

The contrast between the i mayor and torn praam one to evidence of the thirty years cJuage in Immigrant status The present mayor, William Etaenberg. Is a preapn contractor and bandar of concrete roads His business and his family absorb ind fill his life. Tbs Eh berg home has trim hedges a stone fence, sad a frontage of eemeat a' ~ wai>. all luxuries beyond tbe bm of met of the other families The younger married women Woodbine vie with one another as to who keeps the most attractive home. The kitchens have cabinets tile sinks white ruffled shelves rows of shining aluminum, sad potted plants The bedrooms hare dressing tables abundant cretonnes and a general air of trtmness A plana, a rietroia and shaded lamps arc in every living room. A mam of dahlia*, marigolds, cosmos zinnias and all of the hardier

udred men and averaging an

ittve factory

’ employees with >f about 990.09*

I by them,

hundred of the Iris have been ■rsaentatlve aot- . head master of tool tor boys, in i to red the find

To this day.

three women in Woodbine wore these to enforce it over there, but I don’t wigs; the absence of them indicates ( know whether lt>, the Jews Rouprobably a little natural fem- manlans, or Polaka. They don t entn!ne vanity rather than a lock of force the laws in Woodbine, devout observance. Services are held! Driving back. I seriously considered In the synagogue every morning and . the objections raised by Wood' 'ne’s

evening, with special services Friday! neighbors "They bear watching.

evening* at sundown and on Saturday amused me. Anyone remembering the itore. The’doctor who built hi* own mornings The first settlers all of beginning of our own Barnum’s • | Briw Louse himself to save cTrp*ntm. the grandparents never miss a serv-j career in Connecticut, and hi* sub- no ^ aQd hM aiw*— waig*! toe; the middle-aged parents are dlla-; sequent life philosophy, cannot help t0 hla BUU ^ neTer MDt tor/ In attandanoe; tbe young gener- but feel that through the history of from hu offlee , patlenu expected to

are never present except on American commercialism it is a case special holidays Some traditions are of "Let him who is without guilt cast aver honored. The married woman, | the first stone." Cheating and cutyoung or old. lights her two, or four.; throat methods of business were oandlee every Friday evening, bowing doubtless known in New Jersey beher bead o~er them In abort prayer.[tore 1901. (It would be foolish to The families have two seta of dishea, deny that they exist In Wocdbine; one for milk foods and one tor meat it would be equally foolish to say fbods. TV* two els mas of foods are! they exist there more than anywhere

never put on the table at the

My faithful group of high I Bootlegging dose exist, and on a

The girts! of can do not disturb sleep, as In also told ms that the butcher, who towns of similar else in the Adlronror Chris- 1 dark mountains, but bootlegging Is a tian consumption, keeps it in his recognised, undisturbed town indus-

try. Gem Ming is largely concen-

There is almost no child or adult delinquency In Wc^blne. Jacob Levin. Justice of ttu> Peace, summarised the situation: "In 'he twelve years that I have served as Justice, then have been five adult domestic caan taken to court. Of these, three were)

The wjfe-beater was

a Pole, the deserter a Jew. For the part, we settle our cases, few ihat we have, out of court. We have about tour or five general cases of petty larceny a year. We have with his neigh- about one Juvenile case a year; alhis students. ‘1 ways bojm. never girls. Two boys— U young, one twelve and one nineteen—have Mr. Joffe’s been committed to reformatories. use my office tor social work and

adjustments * rather I

prostitution:” Then was a prompt

native.

Woodbine had been developing these thirty yean, side by Mdo and alongside of Dennisvllle. a orowsy village one hundred and fifty year* old. What old Woodbine's neighbor* think of it? I decided to visit Den nisvWe, the adjoining town, and in order that I might get frank opinions. it to the Ford agency to get a Christian driver. I was curious about a Ford agency in a Jewish town. The only red hair shining forth within

came forward from the

rear of the garage. Young Peterson announced himaelf ready to answer anything. "We picked Woodbine for an agency because it Is the only town around here that has light and water, both pretty necessary to a garage. The other towns we went to said they didn't think there would be enough

flawsli. One of d of the widow sixty men. The >ne of the early is still on ~

Incipal is t weiWoodblne boy. graduate of the vanla. where he wrestling cnetn-

each entrance. Paint is not used es lavishly as it might be. but the many vines and bushes partially soften this

I with:

"Last year. Woodbine won the South Jersey baseball championship, playf - - - -

re have won the h Jersey debat I oar own sehol-

and athletically.’' Tbe faculty/ to the high school U equally

Jew and Gentile,

superintendent of both the and the high school is an "The Dearborn Independent? They on. A. B. Voealer, who used to ask us to get subscribers, but Philadelphia every we Just kept wrt.ing ‘Jewish terrinuplete his studies for lory.’ and that ended It. I suppose During the war. while the Jews wouldn't buy Ford cars i f Voesler was moved to they could help it, and I wouldn't is awakening. On bis blame them, but y^u can’t beat thej or* here, while studying for the car for the price, and that is wir by the in- out of the ninety to one hundred cars isov against the Jew and deeid- in this town about sever ty-five are that he would like. If possible, to Fords." the Jew* and come to At Dennisvllle. I first siw Uriah Mr. Voealer a. d I Gandy, an old seafaring man. iveraationally for many, "We're on friendly terras with during which he aaid, "It was Woodbine. A good many go over wonderful opportunity for me to there tor the moving pictures. They »** Woodbine. It ha* been an'are way up in the schools; you'd be You can t surprised at the school building they oi and know people. You hive have over there; they are so eager to live with them. I find the Jewish learn; they are different from our

Ira ted in aa ice cream parlor, back of which are fire pool tables, and a bowling alley In the procec- of construct; m. In the absence of fraternal aodettea, lodges, or clubs, tbe pool room acts as a masculine lounge. There are a few Socialists In the wn, all men. and Mia. Anulta Jo Be, married to one. Is a Republican County committee-woman. The Democratic counterpart is Mrs. Ida Katx. the butcher’s wife. Both Mia. KaU and Mrs. Joffe received candy and flowers from their fellov constituents

when elected.

No picture of Woodbine would be complete that did not include Dr. Joseph Joffe. an early colon.rt, who has officiated at the birth of every child, and seen the people through

, I. P. Ddancy, Sf.

pay when they are able,

tells hi troubles to this man; he

never tells his to anyone.

As the shadows of evening were falling. Just before train time. I visited tbe cemetery. 'The several hundred tombstones were simple gray and white, on each a Hebrew inscription. Standing there. I thought of the long years of suffering and hard-

roves, lured

across the high seas, toiled and slaved, and died la a strange land, that their children and their children's children might grow up free from persecution. I thought of other little cemeteries, particularly of the istery in Province town. There, too, the men and women adventured across the high sees, tolled and slaved, and died in a strange land, that their children and their children's children might grow up tree from persecution. I wondered, and I am still wondering, is Americanism a matter of ancestry, or is it a matter of spirit?

PILING Raymoad Boz&rtk Ocean View, N. J.

CCMBNT BLOCK, BRKAC. and COLUMNS AND CKMKNT WORK OF ALL KINDS PLAIN ANO ORNAMENTAL PLASTER I NO

SKA EXE CITY

W. E. OLDFIELD ATJHERT OLDFIELD W. H. OLDFIELD & SON TILE AND MARBLE WORK 918 CEHTEAX AYKBUE, 0CEAH CITY, H. J.

Time-saving device* ere prevalent; practically all the housewives have ] electric appliance*; nearly all have i irons; some nave vacuum cleaner* and toasters, while two have electric btovee and electric machines. The three hundred families have continu-

ous electric service

and girls Individualists, think-; people that way.

>r themselves. Somehow their; “They’re like other people, some training teaches them to think, good and some bad. They are t ms remarkable to me the way shifty people in tbe trade, but that,] e parents respect the thought of 'i suppose, you're aware of. I get my [ • young people. There is a certain feed there because I can do better j idency in Gentile homes to hold there they buy in large quantities, el lldren down, for example by refus- "My daughter taught over in ln|; to answer questions. You don't; Woodbine for nine years. My daugh-' that In Jewish hemes, and right ter it on the board of education and

water within town Umitt. for tzom th re is a fundamental difference." *he has fought for our boys and girls the very beginning the Woodbine j rhe school holidays, beside the going over there to high w -ool. We Land ard improvement Company has lei *i ones of the State of New Jersey, could get transportntlor cheaper and - th« louio. -..Quid b. on-b.lt com-

pared to what it cost* to send them

maintained e de rural Elation supply-; i U ! U de five of the most Important ing tbe town with water ano elec-: Je rUh holidays. The holidays on tricity at a nom'aal oast. Most of wl ich the school is dosed are: Roeh the homes are heeled by wood and Hi ihanah, the Jewish New Year; coa! sterta, but about twenty femUles Yofc Klppur. the Day of Atonement; are the fortunate possessor* of cen- SucAoth. the (east of the Tabernacles; tral heating planm. Every kitchen Purfikn. the feast of Hamar; Shevuronge, in evary kitchen, has a hot oth.t the Pontecost. commemorating

water attachment. Modern plumbing the and bathrooms are a luxury, and by •re enjoyed by only one-third of the whit inhabitants. The town ha* no sewer-, year age cyntem. but each dwelling has fto own cistern. Garbage is coUictel born

regularly sad either

dumped Into the swamps.

The towL homes are no more attractive than tboeo of the farmer*, but the majority of the farmer fami-

Ivtng of the ten commandments

lose* on Mount Slant

occur during the fall of the

and the week o' Paeeover. a pity that boys and girls this country should speak with eo marked 1 y a foreign

accent i certainly thk could be remedied tfj- having social daaeee in spoken fengllsh, but aa yei .o one has

suggertej ‘

fe-d it

to Ocean City, but there are i old-style people here, and some not so old. who are prejudiced against the Jow The old farmer* didn't want their chiRlren to mingle with the Jews. It is voted down every time it comes up before the boyd; this time it was voted down six against throe, though the county superintendent recommended it, for as tar as the ecbcol is c* -ictrned it's the best

in the county.”

The CarroMe. at the crossroads grocery, rapidly Interrupted each other's opinion. Mrs. Carroll started elowiy. carefully and judicially. “They are a very progressive people.