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Show JEWS IIY FLOCK 10 SHORES Of AMERICA NEW YORK. Feb. :T. General emifrra-tion emifrra-tion to the United Stales after the war Is Improbable, according to reports made to Leon Sanders, president of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigration Society of America, and made public by him at its annual meeting here today. "It may be otherwise with the Jews, however," Mr. Sanders said, "owing to the especially unfortunate situation which the war has created for them. Nearly 6,000,000 Jews are ruined; in the greatest moral and material misery; many of them are refugees dependent upon the good will of their brethren." The society is directing its attention, he reported, to the problem of distributing distribut-ing immigrants in the western states, so that immigration will not be concentrated in the east, hut will flow normally to the less densely populated districts. The society so-ciety Is In 'communication with chambers of commerce and other important commercial com-mercial bodies throughout the country, many of which have expressed their willingness will-ingness to aid Jewish immigrants. Immigration on the Pacific coast has become unusually heavy, according to the report. Many refugees who made long journeys from Russia, through Siberia and Manchuria, have arrived at San Francisco and Seattle. The following were elected members of an advisory board: Louie D. Brandeis of Boston. Isaac W. Bemheim of Loulfville. Moses Fraley of St. Louis; Max J. Kohler, Edward Lauter-bach, Lauter-bach, Louis Marshall, Jacob H. SchifT, Isaac N. Seligman. Oscar S. Strauss and Dr. Stephen S. Wise, all of New York; Adolph Kraus and Julian W. Mack of Chicago; Mayor Sulzberger of Philadelphia; Philadel-phia; Rev. Dr. Martin A. Meyer and Lucius Lu-cius Solomons of San Francisco, Ben Selling of Portland, Ore., and Simon Wolf of Washington, D. C. |