Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-10-17
Three Yards Of Material and
Pair Of Shoes All That
a Million Expect
GREAT NEED IN POLAND
New Jerseys Non-Sectarian Cam
painn to Provide Aid For Starv-
Ina Jewish Children Among
Europe's War Sufferers.

Newark, W. J-One million destitute
Jewish children of Poland must be
clothed on the ration" plan if they are
to be saved from freezing during the
coming winter.
lust as tons of condensed milk and
other foodstuffs have been doled out to
hungry little boys and girls on basis
of distribution as rigidly apportioned-
by sheer necessity-as chow" was dealt
to the fighting soldiers in field and
trenches, just so the small folk OF Po-
land receive their winter garments.
Here is the Clothes ration"
Heavy cotton flannel .........1A yards
Light cotton goods ..........1Is yaros
Thread ................. i spool
Shoes ................. .''..'''''A pan
That's worth more than passing
thought, isn't it, Mr.. American Father,
as you discuss with the wife the selec-
ton of small sons new fall suit or
daughters coat with baby furs to
match2 Particularly when you know
from past experience whether it be ad-
mitted or not, that due consideration
will be given the smaA wearer's opinion
in styles, materials, etc, regardless OF
cost.
Distribution of Clothes.
Yet in Poland the ration" plan of
distribution is only the solution for one
of the saddest problems confronting the
Joint Distribution Committee, which
handles all the funds raised in America
by the American Jewish Relief Com
mittee and other Jewish fund-raising
organisations in the United States.
DIR. Boris D. Bogen, one Of the rep
resentatives abroad of the Distribution
Committee, explained in detail the need
of inaugurating this system in report
on the subject made public by the Amer
ican Jewish Relief Committee head
quarters.
"In order to get results" said DR..
Bogen, ct is necessary to put the dis
tribution of children's clothing on a
ration basis, and make il as simple as
possible. This is certainly very small
allowance" he continued in referring
to the ration and when it is ready to
be put into practice it will have to be
increased"
An Impoverished Community.
How he expects to clothe thousands
of the small children in the Jewish
schools of Warsaw via the rationing
plan was explained by DR.. Bogen The
official requirements that goes with a
new suit may arouse undisguised con-
tempt in the American small boy; never
theless, American fathers and mothers
cannot help being impressed by its far
reaching benefits to health and santa
ton, especially IN an impoverished COM
munity.
Before l leave Warsaw" said DR..
Bogen, "I hope to equip 5000 children
in the Talmud Torah schools of the
be entitled after taking bath"
Sans soap, bathing facilities, and nee
essary changes of outer clothing or
underwear, thousands of innocent small
far victims in stricken Poland have been
without the benefits of bath for
months at time.
$50 l am glad" concludes the inves-
tigator, "of the telegram / received to
the effect that the steamer 'Thala' is
already on the way to us with 2461
boxes, a total of seventy-hve tons OF
soap. This is just the stuff we need"
The American Jewish Relief Com.
mittee is now conducting a series Of
state-by-state campaigns to provide
$35,000,000 to continue the work this
winter All these campaigns are non.
sectarian, and the Jewry of America is
calling upon Americans of every race
and creed for its humanitarian work
of saving the survivors of the race
abroad.
New Jerseys quota of the fund to be
raised in the nation Is $1,OOO0OO The
campaign in this State is from October
go to October 2s. Felix Fuld, of New
ark, is state chairman, and the State
Executive Committee is composed OF
Abe ]. Dimond, Louis Bamberger,
Nathan Bilder, Louis Plaut, Harry
Friend and Louis Straus, of Newark;
Alexander Kaufman, of Elizabeth !;
Sigmund Eisner, of Red Bank; Simon
Gerson, of Trenton; Harry L. Schwarz,
and Max Heller, of Dover; Abraham
Jelin, of New Brunswick; Aaron A.
Melniker, of Jersey City; William New
corn, of Plainheld, Henry Salz, of Key
port; William Hauser, of Bloomfield !;
Harry Weinberger, of Passaic, and