The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-25
(By julius RosenWald)

The sending OF vast QUANTITIES. Oh
/ 'oGdstuffS and clothing and medicines
speedily to Europe is not Il matter
merely Of relieving distress. The prop
en- is Il far greater one.
To-day it means an effort to save
rom death large part Of the people
II hundreds of cities. villages and vide
,rras that have been turned into ruins
md dcSoate wastes by five years OF
.euSelesS fighting and destruction.
In what it means to the whole world
Vt tomorrow, many see IL problem more
staggering still. When he pointed out
the Importance of this relief work III
helping to save the world from Bol-
Shevism, because .'where there is food
and plenty this horror cannot live,
Samuel Golnpers spoke the coilVlct1oh
Of nearly all who have made personal
investigation of the terrible after-War
: conditions in Europe.
! no the Jews of America the problem
is to save from extinction the greater
part of Europe'S remnant OF the race;
~
the horrors Of the war, the Jews, men
and women and children, are today the
greatest sufferers. and out OF all pro-
portion in number.
But Jewish relief is not limited to
the Jews. 1t is nOn-Sectarian. 1t goes
out to Jew and GENTLE where other
aid is not available. 1t co-opera'es
,,,l>, l.
cheney and for speed in distribution.
The Joint Distribution Committee,
which controls and directs the relief
work made possible by the American
Jewish Relief Committee, and other
American Jewish Embarrassing 0rganl-
cations, has taken over during the past
six months Il considerable part OF the
task of feeding undernOurished chill
dren in Poland and other sections Of
Central and Eastern Europe. And the
manner in which the task is being
accomplished has brought this word
from Herbert Hoover:
'"The broad. nOn-Sectarian spirit
shown by the Joint Distribution Com
mittee, although primarily devoted to
Jewish work, and their willing cooper
iatiOil, which my own administration
has enjoyed, places me under an obi
CATION to the committee. l Go wish
you every possible success for there
was never Il greater need
1t was Mr.. Hoover who estimated
the number of these undernourished
children at between four and five mil
lions in the territory named. And this
was after he had had access to reports
and data available to no other man
in the world, and after he had con
Quoted exhaustive investigations Of his
own.
OF these starving children about a
million arc Jewish. The orphans
among them number a hundred thou
sand They and the 100000 or more
destitute adult Jews are scattered in
pathetic, helpless groups that swell
into thousands in the cities and dimin
ish to scores, or to fewer still. on the
sites of what, five years ago, were
prosperous villages.
For their relief. more than thirl y
millions Of dollars have been raised in
/ America and expended; yet this sun
/ has been far from adequate. ~,
American jewish relief organiza ton:
are now Engaged in Z series OF SHAT,
cuuruigns 10 raise Il linmrm Of $40
100000 to cover IN part The needs OF
rhe coming year. It is hoped the total
; will reach $35.OOO,OOO.
Nhj1n Tho war Sti1l r,,ro,1 / !,
extent and acuteneSs of the suffeiiittu
especially in Eastern Europe. was
hardly sensed here But af~er the
arnistice American investigators were
hurried abroad. The conditions they
discovered stunned them. All agree
that no description can even family
make one realize the suffering and
distress.
Now the relief workers have Il foIr
knowledge Of the gigantic task they
must carry through if additional hin
aretts OF thousands of lives are NOT to
be sacrificed. 1t is not just a problem
OF supplying food, though the wide
spread nel';icr of starvation must lie
met first Of all.
| hundreds of thousands are NOT only
homeless and without shelter of any
Einef, except wreck-sffewn ce}lars but
Tack even the scantiest Of cfotfritg, In
| many OF The most desoltte, regions
Through Which the armies battled again
and again, the roads are oiliferafe,l,
there are no drnught animals nor
vehicles nor are there tools; neither