The Brinkley argus., 1919-05-16
NO SECTARIANISM
 IN JEWISH DRIVE
ALL AMERICANS BEHIND JEW ISH RELIEF IN THE TASK OF RAISING S15,ooo,o0o
 FOR STARVING JEWS.
Jacob Billikopf, Director American
 Jewish Relief Committee.


 No one is in better position to re mark the united spirit of America il the war than the man who goes [, the people with an appeal for mono. to help the boys in the service or t, relieve stricken humanity in the wa zones. Barriers of race and creed which appeared to exist before th' war have been destroyed and th, ed a new fusion out of old prejudices and hostilities.
 Who can read the names in the daily casualty list without feeling that the cause of America is indeed the cause of humanity? With the re alization so strikingly thrust upon us that Americans of every belief and of the most diverse extractions have been fighting shoulder to shoulder IT the trenches, we who remain al home cannot do otherwise than sup port wholeheartedly causes which may seem on the face of them sec, tarian, but which are really humant tartan.
 This, at any rate, is the convincing experience of the American Jewish Relief Committee, which, under the Chairmanship of Louis Marshall and with the active efforts of the leading Jews of America, has been engaged in the task of raising s15,000,000, in 1918 for the millions of starving Jews in the war zones.
 For this cause s1O,0O0,0O0 was rais- ed in 1917. the dramatic feature of that campaign being the contribution of one-tenth of the national total, or S1,- 100000, by Julius Rosenwald of Chi cago. Practically the entire sum ob- by Jewish subscriptions. As no gen eral appeal was made, contributions by non-Jews were occasional and un- solicited
 The reason for this is that the tra- ditional attitude of the worlds Jewry is strongly against any appeal to people of other creeds. It is the deep-seated pride of the Jewish race that it has always taken care of it's own. Though Jews have responded to charitable calls of all kinds in the 5000 years of their history-years full of the bitterest struggle against injustice and persecution-in all these years the Jews have never be- fore come to the general public with request for help
 That they are doing so now IS symptomatic of the change wrought by the war. It is no longer possible to regard Jewish war relief as a sec tarian charity
 The relief of innocent sufferers from the war is bound up with our var aims.
 Convinced of the desire Of the whole community to contribute to the cause, the American Jewish Relief Committee adopted the policy of a general campaign From the outset the new plan was a success. The re- sponse in every community where a drive has been held has been wonder ful. Not only have non-Jews given liberally to the case of Jewish relief they have taken active part in the work of executive committees, as captains of teams, and as workers. The good will which the common ex- perience of the war hass created found expression in an enthusiastic co-ope- ration This change is beyond qrSs- ton one of the most significant spir- itual by-products of the war.
 Illustrations of this new spirit are so numerous that only the most out Etandng instances can receive notice here Wilmington, Del. stands for' most, for if was in Wilmington that the new policy received it's original trial. and ir was the unqualified sue cess of Wilmington that inspired och' CT communities. The fact that thu uuota of S75,000 originally assigned vas almost doubled is due i1 no small degree 10 the efforts of Pierre g. DuPont, whose leadership created a solidarity of support by the entire citizenship If the community. A Senator Salisbury of Delaware said:
 This is not only a Jewish move ment; it is human movement. Ii will clothe where clothing is neede.i and feed where feeding is necessary, it will go wherever the cry of human ity calls it. It is of human beings. for human beings, and by human beings"
 The contagion of this idealstc at- titude caught city after city. Pitts burgh followed Wilmington with q drive in which s417,000 (almost twice it's quota) was raised. Throughout the campaign Jews and non-Jews worked with equal ardor.
 What was true of Wilmington anc of Pittsburgh is now true of a score of other cities Newark, N. J., IS re nresentative. That thriving city ac- cepted with extreme difiidence an al