Excerpt from Fifteenth Annual Report of the National Farm School: November, 1912 While our National Farm School is not a sectarian institution, and while its doors have always been open to applicants of any Jewish people faith, its special purpose has been to solve the sufferers from problems confronting such of our jewish people soft $2155 minn as live amid the squalor, the congestion, the um cities wholesomeness of our large cities. Our people are affected by the same laws that rule other people. They are oppressed by the same dire forces that weaken others. The influences of a vicious environment are apparent. Too few producers among them results in a shortage in the food supply and its consequent poverty and suffering. An unnatural manner of living results in a disregard for the decencies and privacies of life, which tends to breed immorality. The overcrowding in the cities brings upon them just that dire calamity that has recently become the disgrace and shame, not only of New York City, but also of the entire nation. Israel, that has maintained through the centuries a reputation for purity and morality, is shamed by the recent revelations in the Ghetto of New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.