The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-04-13
seek OUT SLACKERS"
JEWC WHO HAVE NOT GIVEN TO
WAR RELIEF DENOUNCED.
julius RosenwaId Of Chicago, Makes
$1,000 900 Contribution Conditional
That Equal Sum Be Raised Before
November I, This Year.

Donouncing in vigorous language
those Jews who have not given aid
To- the suffering members Of the race
in Europe the leaders Of Jewish war
relief work in America demand the
ostracisiHg Of every jew who does not
give within his means to help those
abroad
This action is called for in the Off
cial monthly Bulletin for April Of the
Joint distribution committee, which
handles all funds raised here for the
Jews in Europe and Palestine, in the
following words:
Seek out the shirkers Pillory
them before the community. Compel
them to do their duty Shame them
into giving. OstraCisc them if they
will not heed the call Of distress that
echoes around the world"
The Bulletin further says.
AT such a time as this it is dis.
graceful there should be so many Jews
who have not seen fit TO do their
share This is all very well for weak.
lings, but unless willing to be so char.
acterized, willing to be set apart and
labeled as 'shirkers,' 'slackers.' to be
known as persons who, understand.
ing our duty, still fail 10 heed the die.
tales Of conscience, none can afford
to rest under this stigma"
Referring to the gift of $1,000. 900
by julius Rosenwald, Of Chicago. the
statement says that such contributions
have been called forth, to the shame
of many Jews that the sums sent by
the approximately 100000 persons of
Jewish birth in the United States
should not prove both totally made.
quate to the necessities of the situa.
ton and so ridiculously small as to
cast a stain upon American Jewry
never to be blOtted out. Mr. Rosen.
wald's contribution is conditional that
an equal sum be raised by November
/, this year
Specializing upon the apparent GER.
talnty OF the United States being in.
VOWED In the war, the statement fur.
ther says.
This is not the time for any man
or woman to evade the call of duty
either in the national emergency
which confronts us in the wider field
OF international distress. which is con.
stantly broadening and in which the
burroughs made by death. misery and
starvation are constantly becoming
deeper and deeper
Jews UnswerVingly Loyal.
Ihe entry of the United States into
the war will make even more pressing
thah formerly the need of succor foI
me unfortunate Jews in every land
we must not, of course, neglect an,
OF the new problems Of relief which
the coming of this country into the
conflict Is sure to bring We appre
ciate our duty toward our own There
Is no question of the unswerving low
atty of any Jewish citizen of the Unit
ed States, but the war GOES not alter
one iota unless it is to accentuate in
irlshllulness the plight of those who
cannot flee from the war-torn lands 81
commenting upon the conditions
Drought about in Russia by the reyo
luton there and the overthrow of the
car and bureaucratic government. the
statement says:
There are, to be sure, great homes
Tor the future, and Jews all over the
world are rejoicing at the turn OF
events, at the promised and expected
liberation OF the jew from Restrictions
winch in the past have for centuries
o'en inlolerable But the future is
not the present, and absolute political
freedom, to be gained later ON. will
NOT aii'ct those who are starving now
Nothing in the situation in Russia us.
titles the belief that conditions infect.
lhE Jewish noncombatants VIII be less
acute than in the past or that the need
Tor h'Ip viii diminish for many
months TO come"