The spectator., 1919-05-13
GIVE UNTIL IT FEELS GOOD," SAYS NATHAN
 STRAUS.
Pawovs Philanthroplst Urges Utmsst hslp For oufserino Jsws Abroad.

Hsip or OuUeFino JeWe AoroaO.
 At very honorable mass meeting held at Wilkes-Barrs. Pa, in the h. tsrsst of Jewish War Relief, Hoa. out the country and abroad for his philahthropie generosity. spoke in b> ksH of the millions of his co-rsligien- ists who are fsciAs death of starvA sl hts address hs sat1;
 'l appreciate highly your kind n vitation and the opportunity it Givss ns of saying what is in my heart. If I had hcsitated to aocept. no sueh chaacs was Jeff to me Judge Straus appealed to me % urgently that l. could not refuse in spite of my rsiue- tance of speaking in public ProviAr AS pure milk for the oabaes-tAas has been my life's work, and it is tA4 only subject with which I am Dsr feetly familiar
 "1 have been doing things and I have not accustomed myself to speAkins.
 But these are unusual times and require unusual efforts Else I would not come among you and beg. which is no easy task for nc.
 "1 have never asked nor accepted financial assistance for my own work which have carried on for twenty. hve years. But when I think Of our suffering people in the War Zones, all personal preference sinks into in significance before the eone great ob- 1ect-that is-to get help for the helpless
 Since I have reached my limit since am not able to grstify my pas sionate desire for giving to the ssme extent as heretofore, I must do the next best thing and prevail upon oth- CTS to give.
 The saying is: Give until k hurts My personal experience makes me change 1t to Give until it feels good I assure you it is the best investment for happiness. For after all, you cannot deceive your God or your conscience Watch the exalted expression of the cver' Take example by him who has grad uated into The realm of the happiness of giving! Do not initiate the msser the stacker. Many of you were more prosperous through the war now. Give liberally then of what you made, while others only lost and .uf- fered. RUIN. STARVATION. DEATH was the caption under which Lord Rothschild and others made an ap- peal to English Jewry recently. and Ruin, Starvation. Death are at their worst now.
 Conditions have been growing more critical from day to day, and the need is ever greater We have heard so much and so long now of this calamity but there Ia danger, lest we become callOus 10 the cry of our people.
 We lack the imagination neces- sary to realize the horror of their fate, and We must be told again and again.
 Painful as II is to me. I must speak of tie narrowing sights that go with cold and hunEsr-despairing fathers, forced to sit by while chil- dren starve. Mothers going mad, as babies die st their milkless breasts Young girls and boys sapped of their vitality and ambition, in their frantic search for crust, Draw on your in,as sination, my friends. how you would feel for one can hear the shrteks of the mothers and the chll drsn, deprived of tf, breadwinner, of the homes and of cir daily bread I can feel thei- despair in their help less condition. If we don't help to save them. if we don't help them to we don't help to feed them then we help them to starve, We are rsspon sble for what We don't do: and isn't it wonderful to think of the things that we have the privilege of doing, and the dollars we may have the honor of giving And the sympathy that these dollars will show. and the help that they will bring and the ser vice that they will render. How can we live here in prosperity. and not snare some of our abundance 10 save these unfortunaj They are suffer ing through no fault of thsir own For four years now, that have been subjected 70 all the horror Of war; 10 destruction rspea famine and plague, and sudden evacuation. Thousands and tens of thousands. young and old have died As many have been eco nomically ruined Imagine people iihe you and mo, suddenly to be de