The sun., 1916-11-26
DR.. MAGNES PAINTS
"A PEOPLE IN RAGS"
~Whole Race Visited With Dis
aster" in Poland and
Lithuania.
ONLY HOPE JEWS HERE
"American Aid Sole Ray Of
Light That Pierccs the
Dark Cloud"

D.. Judah L. Ma snes last night issued
q amplifed report OF the conditions he
observed on his visit to the war zones
abroad on behalf Of the Joint distribution
cemmittee for the relief Of the Jewish
var sufferers.
/. b. Ma~nes said the pressing imme-
diate needs Of the situation, to relieve
which steps are now under way to raise
60, 900, 900 In 1917 and the campaign for
which will be started at Carnegie Hall
On December II, were such he wished to
Inform the American people more fully.
This in no way Affects DR.. Magnes's
plan to raise a fund for rehabilitation
purposes after the war. DR.. Magnes In
hi statement said:
n do not believe the American people
realise what hunger III be. A I saw II
In the wal zones of Poland and Lithuania
u becomes more terrible than death and
y - inexorable.
I'm Poland and Lithuania II IL not In
0lviduals but a whole race visited with
Disaster that words cannot describe.
8eggtng II futile. There in no one from
whom to beg. Supplicatlons do not avail.
There n naught with which to answer
sthem. The world for these people Is en-
veooS4 in n cloud black AS night.
through which no ray OF sunshine filters.
And yet there Us a ray. 1t is the thought
In the minds Of the Jewish people that
over the seas In America. a land OF free
dom, Of peace. Of plenty. there have been
ah~AAa ~ chair hrnthara and gfqtor0
.NhU Ssve thought. have helped and have
bssn. concerned.
Mech More Must he Done.
"But while I am able and glad to re-
mort that many mouths have been filled
land many raimentlcss ones have been
clothed and many homeless ones shell
teUods The demand is SO great, affecting
- 1t'does nearly 1000. 900 souls. that the
agsncies nave been inadequate and that
much. oh, much more. must be done II
thooo- people are to live, II the race. the
mort affected and yet the most instru-
mental In leading TO tho conditions
which blight II. Is to be saved to the
,brotherhood OF mankind. For the dam
ser 70 great. the peril cannot be overesti-
mated. II help. liberal. constant. steady.
w growing In volume. Is not afforded
them the Jewish people In Poland. In
'~IItthuania n elsewhere in Europe will.
should tho war last, become merely q
memory. a tradition.
TN short II Is tho absolute duty OF
Amortization no other nation can do II
and II Is the primary duty Of the men,
bens OF the Jcwish race in America. 10
feed these people until the war ends,
AID the Jews OF America must a uT
their minds that this help must be az
foeded for the duration Of the war
whether this be one year or ten. Moth.
Ing Len will suffice.
T. sTho misery Of abject poverty Is great
evon where it could have been avoided
by. energy. by thrift or other qualitic.
with which our people are so richly en-
,dowed. In this case nothing is availing
There 10. no work for strong hands ant
'wirling to do. Nothing but unemploy'
.msnt, idleness. resulting In idleness
idleness. idlcncss. idleness until the yer,
'mpnotony OF II is enough to TAXI ava!
thu reason. Only that bodies are y
weakened by %privation as to make mind
Ices sensitive than normally. wholesale
madness must inevitably have ensued.
Impression Of Dumb Agony.
sOver all the areas I visited thu
Impression left was one Of agony
dumb. mute. made so because OF IL
Z enorpnity, because OF the full realizatio,
that expression Is useless. that erie
have no hearers. and that II they had tn
listeners could 10 unable to afford help
1t 10 this situation that obscures indi
.vidual cases. even when extreme. an,
that makes the observer forget them. 70
where there Is so much misery attention
10 not long concentrated on specific In
stances.
what ono secs Is a people withou
clothes, a people in rags. a people with
out shoes. a people without light in thei
homes, II they have homes: a peopl
without warmth. a people that has. how
,ver, such tremendous vitality, such
desire to live. it will not die. The,
themselves are hardly aware OF what l
happening except they know more peopl
are dying, fewer babies arc being borr
that some are sick. that children tina
once could walk cannot walk any more
that some people that once could carr
bundles cannot carry them any more
Tho same conditions prevail In LemberI
and throughout Galicia.
1.-THE funds that ave been sent hav
gone to Das Juedischcs Hilfscomite fu
Pollen. an organization OF German Few
created for the sole purpose OF distrib
'uting the funds from America sent b.
the Joint distribution committee.
How Funds Are Distributed.
TN the occupied districts there ar
two large administrative divisions. On
division, roughly speaking. Is the up
per, che northern part, beginning soutl
Of Bialystock and continuing up to tn
tGuif Of Riga. That is called the dis
.trict Of 'Oberost'-upper east. The sec
onA IL rDas General Gouvernment Wal
,schAu,' that Is practically the old Po
Land These are W distinct Govern
,mspAa Oberost Is responsible to 'Da
0glege Ministerium'--War Ministry. TIL
old Poland division is responsible to
Viceroy directly representing the Kaise
Gen. Won Bessler--and also to the Min
lister OF the Interior.
"And ] want to emphasize that II
due only to the Jews OF Germany tina
II has been possible at all to distribut
JsW1sf relief funds Without this helI
We would have been unable to send on
money 20 wilma and to Kovno n I
the rest Of the places under militzr
coatrol. In the district OF Warsaw
In also due 10 the Jews OF German
that We are able 20 distribute our fund
in the manner we do.
Elm the whole district Of Oberost
man In one town does not know what
man IN the next Town In doing. Wins
for instance, Is but n couple OF hour
distant from Oszmiany. The people !
Wilma do not know what Is going on |
,Ossmiany. There Is no communicate
possible. People cannot travel. Pee
pie cannot dc business. People cannC
write. People Cannot telegraph.
"As II Is now our money m aboV
tS0Avt yvtthnnt atlNVi.,t,n vuith the Aav,