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vision to see that the changing order requires more pre- 

 ventive than remedial charity! Will our statesmen re- 

 member the cruel and unceremonious answer given by 

 the Polish Premier to a Jewish delegation that he and 

 the Polish people would rather see the Jews leave that 

 country and, this being manifested covertly or openly 

 by many other governments and peoples, will not those 

 who watch over the destinies of the people see that no 

 group or part of a population, attached to land as an 

 essential limb of the national body, can be easily uprooted, 

 heartlessly persecuted and suffered to be tossed about 

 from place to place? Will they not all make haste and 

 avail themselves of the golden opportunity offered by this 

 free land, with its millions of inviting acres, and with 

 the art of agriculture making giant strides, and thereby 

 save millions of our brethren from torture and degrada- 

 tion in the future, which has not or rather could not be 

 done in the past? 



Let us hope, yes. Professor Sabsovich blazed the way ! 



Next to his intensive study and sublime efforts in the 

 interest of agricultural education for the Jewish youth 

 and the promotion of the farming industry among the 

 Jewish population in general, his main and most impor- 

 tant work, from the point of view of community organ- 

 ization and methods of Americanization, was the found- 

 ing and up-building of the town of Woodbine, which 

 formed another chapter of a life replete with service and 

 unselfish labor. 



Here, as in the many other activities of the Baron de 

 Hirsch Fund, his native power, executive ability, genuine 

 devotion and self-denial have manifested themselves in 

 their full strength, and here, his personality, his character 

 and his wonderful gift of inspiring people with con- 



