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Show Pres. Harris Gives tasting . Data On Recent Travel in Russia . President F- S. Harris o the fcrig-ham fcrig-ham Young University, who recently returned home from Europe, where he headed a commission to investigate investi-gate the possibility and advisability of colonizing the Jews in Eastern Russia, was the principal speaker at the Stake Priesthood and union meeting meet-ing for the Relief Society and Primary Pri-mary organizations, held Sunday at 2 p. m- in the Alpine Stake .tabernacle. The first part of his subject was on "The House of Israel", during which time he gave a brief sketch of the history and travels of the Israelites Israel-ites from the flays of Abraham down. His general topic was on his recent trip through Russia and the many Jews found in that country. He also spoke on the Jews who were scattered scatter-ed at the time of the distruction of the city of Jerusalem. At the present time about one-half of the Jews of the world now live in Eastern Europe, he stated-There stated-There are about 15,000,000 Jews in the world and about 6,000,000 of whom live in old Russia. In the city of New York there are four times as many Jews as there are people in Utah. There are about 177 different classes of people in Russia. The Jewish people are by far the best educated people in Eastern Russia. Under the new Soviet government established in Russia, all Jewish property was confiscated by the government, gov-ernment, leaving them practically without employment. He said that the commission had traveled 35,000 miles on the trip- He discribed the tract of country visited I as a possible place for colonizing the Russian Jews. He safd that Russia embraces one sixth of all the land in the world. President Harris continued his talk in the Priesthood department on the probability of effecting the proposed Jewish colonization scheme in Eastern East-ern Russia. He further spoke on the conditions generally in Russia, and also spoke on the present conditions in Palestine. Elder Melvin E. Dunkley, recently returned from the British' mission, gave an interesting account of the method of carrying on missionary work in England and gave a brief report of his labors. PresMent C. E. Young presided and took charge of the meeting. . c |