The evening herald., 1918-03-25
SOLDIERS OF JEWISH
RACE LOOKED AF TER
At CAMP LEWIS. WN.
Mental Picture of Man Who Has
Courage of His Convictions
Tells of Treasure House at Al
buquerque s Northern Door.

Camp Lewis Tacoma. Wash. Mar u
25.--Bringiug homc-likc surruuuGinv,
20 the boys In the national army wh,
are away from home. surruuud.n-
them with q pleasant social utmos-
pherc and seeing To- it thai the relIs
lpus side Of life is not lost through
lack Of place - worship m then
itiih. i' the reason for the prcs,nc,
at camp Lewis Df Eimou T.. Whence
field representative of the Jewish
board pf welfare work.
Mr. Ncncr formerly was lawyer
in seattle, but hv gave up his pr.tctc,
tu Dee uf service tu the Jewish boy- al
'aup of whom there are nuV about
500,
Religions services nrc held ever.
tiidHy ught and Bible study cla,ss,.
are conducted with other cis-rs for
he study of Jr. J4h history aud tr.-
niti"ns There also are cla.ses iu ,a.
ri"us other subjects boz vhi.h the sol
dlcrs are Interested 4 uIt.,i nnDI,
bound 100 khaki and "a vumprumiS, he .
tween tho prayer books ui the artha.
'uih are provided the men
Another phase or tho worA. and pu.
Whirh probably takes the MORO tim,
is ih" social side OF camp lIfr. Th.tr
are many hundreds ut jewish hDu,..
,n Tacoma. seattle aud other pIa,e-
which welcome the boys from Camp
ini" hem for the week. end. MI
Wiener makes Arrangements FOR en-
tertuinmcnts at th, Hostess House Z
The } W e. \ OF az the $ NJ. c. a.
and huiZhts OF GWumbu- buildings. ut
winch the soldiers become a .qualntrd
with the VILLAINS who wish to hnA,.
thcW for gucst- In this way tho sol o.
dl,r feels trccr To- call when he is Ina
town thau ne would IL the host l,
h'stess were strnugcr There are
not enough soldiers TO gu around. Mr..
Wiener said, so great is the den1au,,
Tor chance t1 entertain tho boys iu
olive drnb
Through the inf uruHc of Mr. Wiener
q club Tor soldiers and sailors has been
established go Tacoma hy the HNai
lirith wher the men may he enter
ihincd white they lrr boo town ON
leave
u Fo-hCtwccn Tor soldiers and rc.atlt tcs
looks after their Interests visits them
wheu they are sick ana helps them
when they are in need OF advice
summed up by Alr Wiener. tho OLE
jrcts of the camp work are the,c.
We do whatever can be- done bon Doe
half of Jews in the service without
enr"nchins on The disciplin. and mu-
Talr Of the soldiers our object ls q,
enhance the esprit de CORPS and
lhr"ugn our representative bring
about AN amoiioration OF conditions
where such an amcliuratiou seems
necessary ana "a hotter ndcrstaudiu..
where a misunderstnudinr cxists.
among men pf an faiths Zoo the ser
vice
The spirit ~ the Jewish soldiers .s
shown boz o., ras" of the rng Aus
triaus of Jewish faith who were en-
ttlcd Co discharge from the army az
enemy aliens only one askDd and
attained his discharge and hc has
auIght persIstcutiN 10 get back into
the service. Bahbis. the CouuvU a.
jewish Women. the Council ~ tho
Young Mems Hebrew and kindred ats
sociaiiuus ludcucudeu order of s.
Mai Firth. tho Jewish Publication
Society uf America the United Syu-
agogucs uf America and other lessor
organizations
EXPENSE Of th, wurk are met from
thc-a orsaGI1ttiuus The Camp Lewis
office ~ boo nuHd.ug So Iof be- Y M.
g. A.