Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-08-17
AIDING SUFFERERS
Jews Raise Millions For Their
Stricken Brethren.
POUR OUT A GOLDEN STREAM.

Julius ROsOnwaId Of Chicago Has
Pledged Himself to Give 10 Per Cent
on All Moneys That Are Contributed
In AmounGs Of 100000, Up to $780,
100000.
Chicago.-"Many great meetings have
been held throughout the land at which
the most noted orators Of the Jewish
race have raised their voices In behalf
Of the suffering millions Of their breth-
rem across the sea- says American
Jews and the War" by John W.
Schmidt and Cromwell Childe. Thou
sands Of dollars have resulted from
each Of these meetings. Chicago, Kan
sas City, Philadelphia, st. Louis, Bos-
ton, San Francisco, Los Angeles-eaSt
and west, north and south-whereVer
large numbers Of Jews are to be found,
the; answer has been the same. And In
the towns and villages and IN the cOun-
tryside there have been smaller meet
ings, but In each case the stSry has
been no different poured out
spontaneously wherever the message
has reached Rich ana poor Jews,
stirred to pity, have needed the call Of
the war sufferers " the book says. "Jyl-
Illus ROsenwald Of Chicago has pledged
himself to give 10 PEI cent on all the
moneys contributed by the rest Of
American Jewry up to Nov. J, 1917, IN
amounts Of 100000 collected up to
310,000O00." The book goes on:
within little more than month
from the date Of MI. Rosenwalds offer
American Jewry was ready to claim
100000 Of the amount he pledged as
an individual, with little doubt remain
ing that long before the time limit be
has fixed his whole contribution of
$1,O00O00 will have been called for.
1--WE marvel at what has been done
We marvel still more at what it is pro.
posed to do. We realize it is one thing
to set afre by spirited words and
phrases that come direct from the
heart auditOriums filed with excited
sympathetic people whose blood leaps
In their veins; quite another to TURF
into millions Of money these sympa
thies and tears.
1T Is In saving cost the Jew O.
America who has been aiding his co
religionist abroad has e&celled all BIZ
compeers. Day by day for more thai
two years now he has been causin,
money to come in one continuous fiov
for his relief funds, checks, big ant
little; the cash contributions of tn
small business man down even to th
dime, the nickel, the penny, of tn
'greenhorn' operator at a machine
the Yiddisher lately landed here, VIII
can speak scarcely any English, ye
who drlbbles in his little payment ev
cry week.
"This collecting of millions at a COZ
per million of practically nothing ha
been the American Jews bigges
achievement. He had to deal with
people like no other In the worlds
one moment emotional, fearful, excited
ready to empty pockets, give jewell
make out checks; the next cool, co
lected, calculating. More than this, b
; had many an element to handle, th
millionaire, the northumberland, grow
rich In America, now fully American
lied; the people striving to get to IL
top with a good start, though still NJ
rich, ardent Americans all; a grei
group of orthodox, prosperous, yet sti
supporting the old faith Of Moses
every detail, and the foreigner n,
yet a real American, filing the poor,
quarters Of a score Of American cite
The way it has been done has cor
PEELED the admiration Of every non-Je
who has been permitted a glimpse
the operation"