El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-01
AID NEEDED FOR
SUFFERING JEWS
Little Children Starving to
Death, Their Parents
Unable to Aid.

The local committee on relief Of
I Jewish war sufferers, working in
I conjunction with the national COM
mittee attempting to raise $4,000. -
coo. is preparing for a large mass
meeting in the immediate future.
Some large subscriptions have al
ready been received. Haymon Krupp
gives $500 towards the first $4,000
raised in FL Paso and 10 percent ad-
dition to all over $4,000 raised. VIM.
Rosing gives $1,000 to the fund: Mrs
A Krakauer gives $500 to the fund.
The need Of raising this large fund
is evident from the letter of Julius
RosenwaId. in which he offers ST.
00O, 900. and also from the letter of
the national chairman. Henry Nor
genthau-
4 Patriots Offer.
THE marked change for the worse
which has taken place in the condi-
lion Of our coreligionists in belliger-
ent lands, SO graphically outlined by
Jacob BillikOpf. has impressed upon
me most acutely the great need OF
raising Immediately the fund which
the American Jewish relief commit
tee IS endeavoring to collect" writes
Mr.. Rosenwald-
In the hope that the urgency Of
the situation VIII be brought home
to the Jews Of the United States, I
make the following offer: I viii do
nate TO the fund of the American
Jewish relief committee an amount
not 10 exceed 100000. conditional
as follows:
after March /, I will contribute $780,
600. but in order that results may
be obtained with sufficient rapidly,
at least in some small measure. to
meet the present crying needs, I put
a time limitation until November !,
1917, upon this offer.
Money Needed Quickly
Il trust that the total amount Of
100000 will soon be collected and
wish you GOdspeed on your noble err
rand"
7 wish to sound for you the most
terrible cry, the most urgent call for
aid that Jewish ears have heard in
5000 years says Mr. Morgenthau in
his letter.
I wish TO ask you TO look with me
at a scene of absolute misery and
starvation that Jewish martyrdOm in .
all its history has never equaled.
wish 10 ask you TO look with me
upon a whole Jewish people-actu-
ally about to die,
Most Horrible Suffering.
Today in Poland, in Galicia In
Lithuanla- in Russia in Palestine and .
Turkey, whole families are driven
back and forth and back again by
invading armies, are homeless and
dying from hunger and exposure Old .
men are dying, mothers are wander
ing homeless with babies in their
arms, and there are thousands. yes
thousands Of little suffering children
whose feet and arms and little faces
are swOllen-no, not from disease
but, on, Cod from awful hunger.
Their parents know that only three
meals, three little meals such as your
children eat, would reduce the SWELL
ing and take away this awful baby
suffering; and helpless and hopeless.
these mothers and fathers stand and
watch the tragedy, looking to God
and America alOne-looking for help
10 you,
In this blacklist tragedy Of our
race, I ask your aid You may have
already given We all have given
We must give again
We have not yet sent enough 10
keep them all alive. Even doing
1ut but barley stepped IN warm water
70 our brethren. we have actually
JAILED 10 send enough for all
will you not join me in this effort
10 save the lives Of the Jews now in
such imminent danger2"
This appeal is seconded by Jacob
4. Schiff. Nathan Straus and Louis
Marshall