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New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Mo Conflict With
1 Y Other Groups

The work Of the Jewish Welfare Board
does not conflict or duplicate that Of the
Y. M. c. A., X. of c., War Camp Community
Service any other welfare agency. The
Jewish Welfare Board has place of its
own in camp life. 1t steps in where the
other agencies would be less effective, and
it works with the other agencies, making
the Jewish contribution TO the larger well
fare programme of the country.
DR.. John R. Mott general secretary of
the Y. M. G. A. and director general Of the
United War Work Campaign, says: 1.-THE
most distinctive vital function of the Jew.
ish Welfare Board is the safeguarding
and developing Of the religious life and
conviction of your men. This cannot be
done by any other organization or worker.
1t is a matter of utmost Importance and
fully justitles you in developing and carry
ing out programme to make it possible"
The Jewish Welfare Board itself vigorously
opposes any attempt at segregation. Its
aim is, rather, to help the Jewish boys
to adjust themselves to. understand and
sympathize with their Gentle brothers
in arms and to be, in turn, understood by
them.
officially recognized upon the same basis
as the Y. NJ. c.. A. and K of c. as the
only Jewish agency authorized to do well
fare work in the camps.
The work of the Jewish Welfare Board
has been extended overseas. Headquarters
have been established in Paris and are To-
Gated at al Boulevard Haussmann. A spe-
cial commission has returned from France
with recommendations as to how the or
ganization can render the most effective
received by the executive committee An
overseas force of over one hundred men
has been recruited
Eight Jewish chaplans have been named
to date, seven in the army and one in the
navy. Six have already been sent over
seas and others will follow shortly Twer.ty-
five additional chapains are to be ap-
pointed, recommended by the Jewish Wei
fare Board to the War Department.. The
Jewish Welfare Board has co0rdinated all
Jewish welfare work in the camps, Its
administrative council represents all Sec
tions of the country and all elements and
groups of Jewish life in America.
Every mail brings letters to the Jewish
Welfare Board from the boys in the SER
vice. who have high praise for its work "I
can't tell you what it meant to me to find
the kindly smile and welcoming hand of
your man." said soldier before he sailed
overseas.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
French Association Aids Cause

With the help of the American Y. W.
c. A, the U. c. j. F., under whose direction
the other homes are run, opened country
house for girls at Bossy, This house called
L'Oiseau Blue (the Blue Bird, can enter
tain sixty girls at one time. The girls
come for week-ends, or for period from
q week to q month for vacation or recupera-
tion from illness.
During the past years of war the first
house started in Paris, on the Rue de
Naples, has opened its doors to refugees OF
all ages from three months to eighty years,
and it has turned one of it's rooms over
for sewing for soldiers and refugees.
Women who are destitute are employed
here and in addition to a small fee, have
luncheon and dinner A hundred and fifty
women are being helped in this way, the
main object being to provide them with
food. The women allowed to bring
their children with them. Mile. Fuchs or
ganized the first Girl Scouts in Paris, and
these girls, who at home. come to the
home and help to serve the women in the
workroom.
Mile. Fuchs is the daughter of Edmond
Fuchs, a famous professor in the Mining
School Of Paris, explorer and writer.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

York City Branch Of the Jewish Welfare
Boart, has placed its entire facilities at
the disposal CT the men in uniform Sleep-
ing accommodations have been provided for
65 men in the new Heinsheimer wing, and
on emergency the gymnasium is turned into
an overflow dormitory. The men receive
bed, towels, soaps and breakfast for 25
cents.
The associations swimming pool, gymna-
siuan. showers, library and other facilities
are open for the free use of the soldiers
and sailors.
The Jewish Welfare Boards rabbi at a
base hospital in New York City paused
beside wheel chair
"Are you going back again." he asked
the convalescent youth.
"Bet your life!" came the quick rejoin-
der "just as soon as my leg heals And
He says:
"On the battlefield every distinction,
every difference of social standing is dis
not only that--three of my brothers are
going over with me-four Of US, fighting
the Hun. The boys are in camp now, get
ting ready to go across Any more? Well.
my other brother and my two little sisters
are too small to do anything more than sell
Thrift Stamps and Liberty bonds, but
Rrooklyn's going to be proud of US all some
day. You see, we're making this war
kind of family affair"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

tons, are working intellectually for the
success of the United War Work Cam
paign, which will provide the wherewithal
to carry on for the seven war work organ
izations, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish,
that are backing up the boys in the
trenches Both Mr.. Schiff and Mr.. Straus
have been intensely interested in the work
Of the Jewish Welfare Board, which has
provided home comforts and spiritual guild
ance for the young men with our fighting
forces.
Give until it feels good" is Mr. Strauss
slogan for the United War Work Cam
paign.
appearing in the comradeship of the same
bravery, the same hardships and the same
danger. And workers representing
every faith have united behind the lines to
give the boys home comforts and good
cheer. We owe great debt to these de-
voted war workers. who look after the well
fare and happiness of our fighting men,
No person is rich enough to give too much
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Will Care for Jewish Dependents in
New York
BY Mortimer l.. Schif

~ UR fighting men, from the rawest
u recruit to the veteran who has
~ been the top score of times,
have hundreds Of persistent needs
that the army organization cannot satisfy.
These needs range from doughnut or a
certain brand Of cigarette to participa-
ton in religious ceremony of their own
faith The business man goes home after
his work is done, but the soldier cannot
go home. He depends on our seven war
work organizations to bring home to him,
in camp or il. the trenches, 70 supply the
missing element in his life. 1t is the big
human task of these agencies to fill the
personal lives of the soldiers with whole
some comradeship.
The week beginning November II is TO
be devoted to the United War Work Cam
paign, a campaign to raise not less than
sl70, 100000 to enable the seven agencies
recognized by the War and Navy depart
ments to carry on the work they are doing
to furnish recreational, educational and
religious facilities to our soldiers and sail
ors both here and overseas. Thousands
of and women are engaged in this
task, buildings ranging from magnificent
hotels and casinos to humble huts and
tents are being used for this purpose, but
the spirit of all is the same, namely, to
minister to the needs of those who are
fighting for US on land and The work
itself knows no race or creed it is not
even limited TO our own troops, but spreads
among those of our brave Allies and in
the same way the appeal for funds is made
to all Americans, irrespective Of their re-
ligious beliefs or the stock from which they
have sprung
1t is united campaign, united not only
in purpose, but-what is even more i'm
portant--in the spirit which underlies it.
Protestant, Catholic and Jew have come
together for a single object the one and
only test of which is the maximum service
to be rendered to the fighting forces This
unity of thought and purpose will have
a farreaching effect not only upon the
work itself but upon our country after
the campag gn and the war itself are over
Working together as they are doing with
the common respect which this engenders
will result in better understanding Of one
another. and much prejudice and section
aism Is bound 10 disappear. 1t is toward a
united country that we are striving, united
in thought and in action. and | venture to
believe that campaign such as the one
upon which we are entering will make no
mean contribution toward this end.
1t is impossible within the confines of
this brief statement even to touch upon
the many activities in which these seven
agencies are engaged, but there is one feat
ure Of situation which must not be
overlooked, and to which special attention
should be called as it has so great bear
ing on the need for the work these organi-
cations are doing. Our allies are fighting
to q great extent at or near home They
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
WIN Cooperate
w With Other Bodies

The canteen will work in cooperation with
various other organizations in the neigh
borhood and throughout the city to provide
a social life which will be much broader
than a single clubhouse could afford. Among
these organizations are: The Community
Council, the Nurses Settlement, Young
Women's Hebrew Association, Jewish We'll
fare Board and the Educational Alliance
The canteen will be strictly non-sectaran
and open to men in any branch Of the army
or navy.
The canteen will be open from a. m. to
L. p. m. with three meals as we'll as re-
freshments throughout the day. Sleeping
quarters for men in uniform will be ar
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

you, who are SO anxious to make our boys
feel at home, that We can never repay"
This is from sister Of soldier.
From parent: ut certainly is comfort
to know that although it ia an impossibility
for me to be with my son, there are others
who are keeping watchful eye over him
and giving him the fellowship of wonder
full organization"
Catholic. before he sailed overseas,
wrote: II have only few more hours be-
fore leaving, and do not want to depart
from my adopted country without express
ing my thanks to the Jewish Welfare Board
for all the courtesies and favors which were
accorded me at Camp Merritt, New Jersey,
by your representatives. l am 6 Catholic,
but | cannot help expressing by heartiest
thanks to all your secretaries, and sim
cerely hope that can recprocate some day
what they have done for me-"
Major General J. F. Bell, U. S. A., for
merly stationed at Camp Upton. said: 1.-THE
Jewish Welfare Board has exceeded ali ex-'
pectations. In spite of tremendous OBJ
stacles at the outset. it has become one of
the most efficient organizations IN camp"
Raymond B. Fosdlck, director of the Com
mission on Training Camp Activities, IN
letter to Colonel Cutler, said: Il want to
express to you my hearty appreciation of
your fine cooperative spirit in all the work
we have jointly undertaken, as we'll as my
realization of the many obstacles you have
had to overcome and the difficulties that
have faced you"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

TO this great work; no one too poor to give
something
Mr.. Schif speaks of tie campaign as fol
lows:
at speaks volumes for President vii
sons catholicity and deep vision in clearly
seeing, he does, that as a result of this
world war all prejudice and division be
tween men will diminish and gradually
become eradicated. 1t is no doubt in this
spirit the President has suggested that
the raising of the necessary funds for
war camp activities in army and navv be
undertaken as a united effort by protes-
tants, Catholics and Jews. This will
surely serve as practical demonstration
that the American people. without any
division whatsoever, stand shoulder to
shoulder in the endeavor to uphold the
morale of their young manhood which
has so courageously come forward to bat
tie for the ideals for which America
stands and the principles for which it has
gone into the war"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
l y Of Appreciation

young dentist, who was generally dis
interested in Jewish institutions, expert
enced complete reversal Of opinion, when
he came in contact with the Jewish Welfare
Board. He wrote Of the strangeness and
difficulties of his camp life and of the
facility with which the Jewish Welfare
Board overcame them all. He said, "I am
sorry that | can't express to you all that
the Jewish soldier feels toward the Jewish
Welfare Board"
There is q debt of gratitude that we owe
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
n MAT the Knights of Columbus and
Salvation Army are working IN

\HAI the knights or Columpus ana
Salvation Army are working IN
complete harmony among the
american troops in France IS asserted by
Joseph Scott, Overseas Commissioner for
the Knights Of Columbus in a recent inter-
view in Lafayette, Ind. In an interesting
statement Mr.. Scott paid q warm tribute
to the noble work dore by the Salvationsts
in France.
"Let me say word for the Salvation
Army lassies," said Mr.. Scott. "They are
out there, right up as close to the front as
the commanding officers will permit them to
go. They have given the Knights of Co
lumbus the opportunity to demonstrate
clearly that the Knights slogan, Every
body Welcome means just that-for the
lassies are carrying their doughnuts and
their hot coffee in automobile trucks which
the Knights have given them. Now the
Knights are sending up doughnuts of their
own, also, but the Salvation Army lassles
still are using the Knights trucks. We are
over there to help, but SO are the Salvation
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
III ow the Work
III Is Carried On

The Jewish Welfare Board does its work:
J. In camp
(a) BY sending trained workers to
camps, cantonments, forts and naval
training stations to provide for the rec
reational and spiritual needs of all men
in uniform.
(b) BY erecting fortheir welfare build
ings in camps with auditorium, rest and
writing rooms, libraries with English,
Yiddish and Hebrew literature, victrolas,
pianos, etc.
(c) By conducting religious services on
Friday evenings, on all holidays, and on
special occasions with the aid of the visit
ing and resident rabbs
Cd BY having its representatives dis
tribute among the boys various supplies,
such as prayer books, Bibles and other
necessary supplies.
(el By having its representatives per-
form variety of personal services for
the men, visiting them in the hospitals
and barracks.
~ By arranging classes in English,
history, Hebrew, current events, etc.
(g) By arranging concerts, theatrical
lectures, debates, etc, in cooperation with
the other welfare agencies.
2. In town
(a) By having branch organizations in
over $50 cities, which have established
community centres for soldiers and sailors
containing rest, reading and social rooms,
sleeping quarters. baths, etc.
(b) Arrange send-offs to draftees il
their towns.
(c) Collect and distribute gifts among
the boys.
(d) Provide entertainments for visiting
soldiers and sailors
(3) Obtain home hospitality for uni
formed men on leave
u Perform variety Of personal ser
fices, such as looking after the welfare
OF parents and other relatives, corre-
spending with the men in the service, etc
More than two hundred workers are il
camps, and they include rabbis, teachers
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
How Welfare Bod,
Is Organized

~ ME Jewish Welfare Board is organiz-
ing New York City block by block
to care for the dependents of its
men in uniform. When the drafted
man marches away the folks that are left
behind require some looking after. The
Home Service Division Of the Red Cross,
the War Camp Community Service, the
NJ. c. A. and the Y W. c. A and other wei
fare agencies have cared for those casez
that have been brought to their notice. The
New York City branch Of the Jewish Wei
fare Board, Of which former Ambassador
Abram |. Elkus is chairman, has plan that
will make sure that no one is left out.
Using the local draft board as the unit
of organization, the Jewish Welfare Board
plans to form committees on each block
The committees will be chiefly composed Of
men In deferred classification, upor whom
will fail the burden Of caring for the FAM
lies of those who are inducted into the
service
The block committee will ascertain from
the draft board the names and addresses
Of all men subject To call AS far as nos
sible an effort will be made to determine
the home conditions and the need for future
assistance
The Jewish Welfare Board, through It's
personal service and information seryjc.
bureaus at national headquarters, I4S Fifth
Avenue, New York City. and through loca
branches, has already taken care of largo
number of dependent families This nun
Der includes those left destitute because
their government aliotments failed to ar
rive; others impoverished by illness or
other unexpected contingencies, and shop.
owning families whose source Of income
failed because the head of the business
was called away
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

the United War Work drive for
$17O, 100000. Mile. Fuchs is general secre-
tary and founder of the Union Chritienne
des Juennes Files, the French Y. W. c. A.
in Paris.
1t had always been her ambition to found
some work for girls which would be analo-
gous to the work of the American Y w.
c. A. Seven years ago, with the help of
friends, she opened home for employed
girls at % Rue de Naples, in a vacant old
convent school. This house accommodates
a hundred girls providing them with lodg-
ing, board and all the programme common to
American houses of the kind-recreations,
gymnasium. educational classes and all the
rest. Girls from fifteen to thirty years Of
age are admitted. They are of all classes
seamstresses, embroiderers, dressmakers,
telegraph operators, bookkeepers and sec
retares.
Later another home Of the kind was
opened mt 20 Rue Boulevard, which accom-
modates from thirty to forty girls. Like
the mother house it is run on the lines of
. q private home 80 far as is possible.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
lsh Welfare Board Cares for 100, 900 Fighting Mer
National Body Cooperating With the War Department
Represents Important Jewish Societies

"NHE Jewish Welfare Board is Il win
the-war organization that is help
ing the United States government
to build up the morale of more
than 100000 Jewish men in the army and
navy 1t s national body cooperating
with and undsr the supervision of the War
Department Commission on Training Camp
Activities.
The board was created by the Joint ac-
ton of representative from some ten or
twelve national Jewish organizations to
meet the emergencies precipitated by the
war The organizations represented in its
councils are: Agudath Ha- Rabbonim, Cen
tral Conference of American Rabbis, Coun-
ell of Y. Nj. H. and kindred associations,
Independent Order Birth Abraham, Jewish
Publication Society of America, Council of
Jewish Women, Independent Order B'nai
Birth, Jewish Chautauqua Society Indepen-
dent Order Birth Sholom. United Syna-
gogues of America, National Federation of
Temple Sisterhoods, New York Board of
Jewish Ministers, Union Of American He
brew Congregations, Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations.
It's officers are Colonel Harry Cutler,
chairman; Dr.. Cyrus Adler. vice chairman;
Chester J. Teller, secretary; Walter E.
Sachs treasurer
Executive committee: Henry J. Bernheim,
Abram I. Elkus, ]. Edwin Goldwater,
Rabbi Maurice H. Harris. Charles Hartman,
Louis 4. KRISTEN, Justice Irving Lehman,
Judge Julian W. Mack, Rabbi NJ. S. Margo-
lies, Louis Marshall, Rabbi D. de Sola Pool,
Rabbi William Rosenau. Joseph Rosenzweig,
Bernard Semel, Mortimer L. SchifF and
Israel UnterDerr
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
J. W. B. Canteen, Real Home for Soldiers and Sailors

ranged for through the Educational ALI
ance
An entertainment committee will arrange
for weekly dances, concerts and other en-
tertainments through cooperating organiza-
tions The Community Council will be at
the service of boys who come in during the
early morning. evening and Saturday. The
Nurses Settlement will give the use of
their playhouse for entertainments.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

social workers and professional and bus-
a ness men,
The Jewish Welfare Board maintains
training school at its headquarters, which
provides a practical preliminary course in
the history of the movement, policies and
problems of camp and town work.
The Jewish Welfare Board has staff
of field supervisors who superintend the
work Of these representatives in the camps
and in the communities in all sections of
the country
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Organizations Working in Complete Accord

''1f you want friend indeed" writes Mr..
Redrup, "you will find him in the Salvation
Army. wish you would do something for
me and also for the rest Of the boys by
giving the Salvation Army the biggest pos
sble boost you can. The Salvation Army is
doing real good at the front. If you are
broke they give you all you need and no
questions asked. They always greet you
with smile and a hearty handshake. Go
down to the Salvation Army barracks and
give them our heartiest appreciation for
their splendid work among the American
troops And the next time when subscrip-
tons are called for to aid the work of the
Salvation Army abroad don't forget them"
Mr.. Redrup forwarded his sons letter to
the Salvation Army headquarters in his
place of residence, and a copy was sent to
the headquarters of the United War Work
Campaign, No. so Vanderbilt Avenue, New
York.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Noted Men Are
l. y Working for Cause

Jacob II SchifY and Nathan Straus, known
as "the two grand old men of American
Jewry" and noted for their many benefac-
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
rs Like Great
n Home Living Room

The canteen clubroom is large home
like living room with open fireplace, book
shelves, writing desks and comfortable
chairs Meals will be served for 25 cents
in the canteen and big kitchen will be
at the disposal of the boys for fudge par
ties or popping corn whatever use they
wish to make of it. The hut as a whole
will accommodate $50, but plans are being
made to enlarge it if necessary.
eve do not know yet just how many boys
to count on" Mrs Unterberg said "on ac-
count of our location being SO different
from existing canteens throughout the city,
but we intend to make it so inviting and so
cheerful that it will be necessary to
large very soon"
Dedication services will be held at the
canteen at 10 a. m. to-day. Colonel Harry
Cutler, president of the JewisS Welfare
Board, will preside.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

Declaring that the Salvation Army is
doing a great work in this war and that the
American troops "take their hats off to
the Salvationsts all along the line," Ralph
c. Rogers member of the medical corps
now serving hospital train in France.
has written interesting letter to his
parents, who live in Jonesport, Ne. Mr..
Rogers wrote under date Of August 20, and
incidentally referred to the work Of "the
Yanks who were making things lively
wherever they happened to face the Boches"
"I'm glad you're doing something for the
Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A." writes Mr..
Rogers, "but | want to tell you that the
Salvation Army is doing a great and won
derful work in France. 1t is playing
big part in the war and should get credit
for it all over the United States. The boys
back from the trenches take off their hats
to the Salvatonists all along the line. l
hope all the organizations working in be-
half of our troops, get all they ask for, as
they are entitled to it and more, too"
Mr.. Rogers's letter has been submitted to
the United War Work Campaign, No. go
Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, and in
formation contained therein is being en-
ployed in the campaign. Mr.. Rogers is
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Rogers, of Jones
port, Me-, and he enlisted in November,
1917. OF thirteen letters sent to him he
has received seven thus far, and he says
that if the people in this country knew how
happy the troops when they receive a
letter from home, parents, relatives and
friends of American soldiers would write
eYery day.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

his IS the purpose Of the Seward
Park Canteen of the Jewish Welfare Board,
which will open November 10, celebrating
the opening of the United War Work Cam
paign for s17O,5o0 900, the next day accord
ing to Mrs. Israel Unterberg. president of
the Young Women's Hebrew Association
and chairman of the new canteen.
ours will be the first canteen on the
lower East Side" Mrs Unterberg said. land
we want especially to serve the needs Of
those boys who have gone out in thousands
from this section and the boys from the
Brooklyn navy yard. We want to serve their
families, too, if necessary and to see that
they are well taken care of, as we'll rs show
ing the boys a genuine good time"