New-York tribune., 1919-12-26

$50
Relief in Pales tine ....... ~ 0on
Kspatnatlon of war prisoners. i0o noo
For Jews in Rumania p-n11
Soup kitchens in Turkey g ooa
Reliet work in Czecho- -Sloyakia "a ann
Persian relief f....... ia onn
'0"' III SYRIA ..-.-..-.... 1000
One half of the Polish approDrja-
ton will be spent to purchase flour
Tor Passover matzoths to be baked in
warsaw, affordng employment for a
large number of Jewish bakers. In
Palestine the money will be spent for
me maintenance OF soup kitchens and
peclal relief work among the children.
Zionists TO Raise Fund
Another extensive program Of con
tructlon and reconstruction in Pales-
me IS being planned by Zionist organi-
zations of America. Fifteen hundred
workers are being modified in this
city to raise $3,5O0,000 toward fund
Of $i0,o0O000, which is to be raised
in a countrywide campaign. beginning
January lS. The money viii oe spent
IN the purchase OF land in Palestine
and the preparation Of the country to
are eager to escape from Eastern
Europe.
The program of construction and re
construction in Palestine, as Planned
by the Zionists, who expect GreGs Brit
ain to assume the mandate for that
country, includes water conservation
and the development Of water power;
irrigation. survey and development Of
natural resources; sanitation and drain
age in cities and towns. and the estab-
hshment OF technical laboratories for
agricultural purposes.
1t also includes maintenance of g
school system from kindergartens to a
university, loans to agricultural and m
dustral organizations, rehabilitation OF
war devastated colonies. the American
Zionist Medical Unit, with tnMe hospi-
tails and two nurses training schools.
an anti malaria campaign and improve
ment in the housing conditions of
Jerusalem, Jatfa and other cities.
Working Committee Appointed
Hughes and Arthur Curtiss James,
mem bers of the special gentle COM
mittce Of the United Building Fund
Campaign OF the Federated Jewish IN
stitutions, Colonel Arthur Woods,
chairman OF the special group, yester-
day de ignatcd working committee
composed Of
Newcomb Carlton Ms John T
Patti, G. S. Clarke, Guy Emerson.
rank T. Wilson, Mrs. c. Grant lie
Fargo Roy ". Wngate and Mrs Cort-
land Barnes. This committee Will con-
duct its drive from the Hotel Pennsyl-
vania.
The centenary campaign for a mil
lion new members in the Methodist
Episcopal Church viii get its starr at
mass meeting which viii be held in
December 29. at 1880 o'clock Bishop
Luther B. Wilson, resident bishop Of
New York, will preside. Laymen and
ministers Of one thousand churches in
the New York area have beer invited,
and it is expected that the campaign.
which will continue until June |, 1920
if necessary, Will get off with flying
start.
Expansion of the work of the Indus
trial Y. NJ c. A. in the West Virginia
coal mining fields soon Will De under
way as the result of a meeting ycster-
day in Charleston, when a plan was
approved for appointing two state min
ing secretaries, securing the service of
song leaders and the experimental use
Of women workers as in army huts. In
addition to representatives., of oper-
ators and miners, there were present
delegates from fifteen mine Y NJ. c.
AS, together with c. R. Towson, head
of the Industrial Department of the
international Committee of the Y NJ
G. A.