The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-08

What the war has done to Belgium
 has been recorded times-innumerabIe
 What the war has done to Servia. has been discussed over. and over again. But Belgium and Servia have at least
 8 future to look forward to after the war. The nations will not permit i them to be totally obliterafed. But
 the Jews, with no land they can call their own, no autonomy, no govern
 ment, face a situation that is as per picking as it is tragic. The Jews of America are being appealed to by the Jews all over the world to save the Jews of Europe and Palestine from extinction. All they ask for is enough to tide them over these trou- been 3exiIed- Vengeance has been
 wrecked upon them, not by one or two of the warning nations, but by i nearly all the bel1igerent powers
 Their only comfort is that, here in America they still have members. of
 their race who feel for them and
 mourn with them It was to meet this sad situation
 that the Central Relief committee for the relief of Jews suffering through the war was. organizedA Oct 4, 1914, with Leon ZKamaiky, of the Jewish Daily News as chairman and Harry
 Fische1 as. treasurer of the commit
 tee A conference was held later in Temple Emanu-EI, New York, when the American Jewish Relief commit tee was organized, and it was arrang- ed that the information at the dispo- saIzof both committees Should be con- sidered by a body in which both com nittees should be rePresented- It is
 this joint disHri butions communities that
 apportions tf1e money and makes all appropriations of fundS to the differ
 e11t centers abroad Through this
 committee there has been sent to the various countries in the war zone and Palestine the sum of $1,3O0,OO0- The fU. s. Collier Vulcan carried food stuffs. medicines, etc.,, to the Jewish sufferers in PaIestIne,e last March, at
 aAcost of $84S62.81-
 The Central committee has contrib zuted $172; 900 toward dss the relief sent
 to Russia, Poland, Ausro- Hungary,
 Ga1fcia. Germany and alestine, be- sides $10 GO which was specially vot-
 ed towards the food-ship Vulcan
 The auditors report of the exarni- nation of the books, vouchers dupli- cate receipts, letters and all records
 from October 4, 1914, the date of the organization of the Central Commit
 tee down to and inc1uding Nov. 16, 1915, shows that over $4o0,000 has
 passed through the hands of Harry
 Fischel, the Treasurer of the Commit
 tees
 In reading this report it is notice able that $215, ,430-z9 has been con tributed in small amounts by sthous-
 ands of people throughout the coun-
 try, which has been collected through rabbis, officials of synagogues, lodges, friendly societies, ladies auxiliaTies, young mems and women's ssociations5 who have formed sthemse1ves into branch committees sof the Central Re lief committee in the various cities throughout the country
 The Central committee also issued self taxation stamps in denonnina- tions of one-cent, ffve-cent, ten-cent and twenty-five cent! which netted $58, ,5e7.84-
 Certificates, issued in the value of
 s1 and $5 have so far netted $25,142 but a very much larger sum is expect ed from this source. They are spread throughout the country and an active campaign is being conducted in many cities, especially in those that were visited by Rev. pr. Bernard lDrachman, Harry Fisohe1 and's Morris Nngelman. who addressed meetings in