Religion: Jewish Farmers

I'll be sweetched

De hay'll wouldn't gonna be peetched, Gerryaple Nepolian, it geeves de rain a look!

The above Milt Grossian verses were to be seen issuing out of the mouth of a farmer of decidedly Hebraic aspect drawn last week by able Cartoonist Will Johnstone in the New York World. Cartoonist Johnstone's fantasy was inspired by the annual report of the Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc., whose president : no less eminent a Jew than Percy Selden Straus, famed Manhattan merchant-philanthropist (R. H. Macy & Co. Inc.). The report declared, to the surprise...

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