Foreign Language Press Service

Wash. May 28. Today, acting Secretary of State,Frank Polk sent another cable to Hughes Gibson, Ambassador in Warsaw, asking that he send immediately by cable, a statement of the report of pogroms on Jews in Poland, such as he previously sent by post, in order that the American Government know

A conference of three hundred Jews, representing every kind of conservative Jew in Chicago, was held yesterday in the Hebrew Institute. Judge Harry Fisher presided. The chairman reported on the activities of the leaders regarding protests against Polish pogroms. He also reported tha

Two hundred and fifty delegates attended the conference of the Defense League Against Pogroms, held last night in the West Side Auditorium. The meeting voted to call a national convention in Chicago for all anti-pogrom groups. It was voted also that the Defense League should be a permanent or

My friends, publishers and editors of Jewish newspapers and various publications in all dispersed Israel: In a time when the world is being renewed, when the highest and most beautiful ideals break through on the path leading to the broadest circles and stratum of the nations, when

The four free nations, Lithuania, Ukrania, Estonia, and Latvia, have joined the protest voices raised in the great free America against the terrible state crimes of the twentieth century, the "official" military pogroms on Jews in Poland, by denouncing the barbaric repressive, uprooting polit

More than 2,000 men, women, and children took part yesterday evening in a "neighborhood reception" for Colonel Abel Davis, commander of the 132 infantry regiment, which took place in the street in front of his home at 5125 Ellis Ave. The street was decorated and illuminated with white and blu

The inciting articles against Jews that the Polish newspapers in Chicago printed these last few days finally aroused the Polish leaders to warn their papers that they have gone too far. Polish newspapers yesterday printed an appeal: "On the Jewish Question," by the Polish National D

Worthy Editor: Reading in your paper, the Courier of May 19, the article "A Glance and a Thought," by Zokan Godol, brought back to my mind a similar story that happened to me in Lodz. A friend of mine and I entered Gitkin's Book Publishing establishment to buy some works o

Something is lacking in us that prevents us from surpassing other nationalities. That "something" is well known to all of us. We sense it in our associations with other people, and we envy it in them, but still we cannot succeed in attaining it. That "something" is called ORGANIZATION.

Standards in the profession of journalism are at present practically ignored by the Greeks. No requirements or qualifications are demanded and for this reason we see journalists spring up like weeds. They are tolerated by the Greek community, not because their worthlessness is not recognized,

Poles of Chicago will today march in a demonstration which will also have an anti-Semitic character. The anti-Semitic propaganda in the Polish press, these last few weeks, set a large portion of the Polish population in Chicago in an attitude of incitement against Jews. There are gr

It would be interesting if the foreign language branch of the Liberty Loan organization of the Treasury Department could give figures showing how well the different foreign speaking groups in the United States did their duty in the last loan campaign. The Czechoslovaks felt confident that the

more about it to familiarize itself with the idea of a creative, constructive Jewry. Such significant descriptions of the "new" type of Jew, have been revealed to the entire world recently by two Holland "tramps" who made their way to the Jewish colonies, worked there for some time,

The conference of the 185 Jewish organizations gave a clear mandate to the executive, which met Wednesday evening in the West side Auditorium, that they should widen and enlarge the scope of the League's activity, and also the promise was made that money to cover all expenses will be raised.

The five thousand Poles who gathered yesterday afternoon around Kosdieshka's monument in Humboldt Park, where their demonstration closed with flags and banners, national costumes, soldiers, sailors, children, and other paraphernalia, were very much disappointed. The disappointment came when t

Yesterday afternoon Rumanian Jews of Chicago received a sad and heart-rending message from their sisters and brothers in Rumania. It was brought to them by Mr. L. D. Fisher, a businessman from Milwaukee, himself a Rumanian Jew, who just returned from a trip to that country. He addressed a gat

We, the Grand Officers, District Deputy, and nine thousand members of the Progressive Order of the West in Chicago, wish our worthy and trusty brother Mr. Harry Wolfe a hearty farewell. Mr. Wolfe left Chicago Sunday, May 25, because of unexpected illness, for the Saratoga Springs Sanitarium o

A group of Polish ruffians, under the agitation of Polish "pogromists", attack Jews every evening in different sections of Chicago. The bloodiest attack on Jews occurred in Douglas Park. A band of young Poles overwhelmed a group of old Jews, threw some in the water, and injured the others. Wh

Gangs of young Poles wander in Douglas Park, spit on the Jews, throw them off the benches, and beat them within an inch of their lives. Such was the case Sunday and also yesterday. There were no arrests made Sunday. The park police and detectives who receive salaries so th

Mr. N. L. Piotrowski, president of the Polish Roman-Catholic Union and cashier of the National Department, sent a cable ram to President Woodrow Wilson on May 26, 1919, which reads as follows: Hon. Woodrow Wilson President of the United States Paris, France