The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-28
WINTER INCREASES
WOE OF 100000 jews
TERRIBLE CONDITIONS AMONG
STARVING HEBREWS FOR
PAST FIVE YEARS.

Terrible as conditions have been
for the past five years among the
destitute Jews of eastern Europe
they have never before been so ap-
palling as they are at the present
moment. With the coming of winter
the climax of tragedy has been reach
ed, according to the latest reports
from American Jewish relief work
ers in every part of these stricken
countries.
To sum up the situation of these
starving Jews sounds like a summary
of all human woe. Six million Jews
out of the 100000 in the world,
or considerably more than a third of
the entire Jewish race, are today
standing IN bread lines or getting the
soup on which they live from the
soup kitchens of the joint distribu-
ton committee or American funds
| for Jewish war sufferers!
Thousands of them are sick, hun
dreds of thousands are without
homes, all are destitute. A hundred
thousand Jewish orphans, many of
whom are sleeping and living on the
streets, look forward with terror to
the coming of the winter. 1t is i'm
possible to compute the number of
mothers who have gone insane as
they watched their children starve,
or the number of typhus patients who
are praying for death, as they lie sick
without hospitals or medicines or
sufficient food.
Weakened by Malnutrition.
One year more of malnutrition has
so weakened these poverty-stricken
Jews that they will not be able to
endure the rigors of the winter even
as well as they did last year, when
thousands of them died from cold
has been greatly increased also by
the bolsheviki fighting and innumer-
able homes have been destroyed
4 within the last II months.
! Hundreds of thousands of Jews are
living today in open fields or on un-
rooted platforms, Is families to a
platform, in broken houses, in stalls
of old stables or in holes in the
earth They are clad, for the most
part, in the rags they have worn for
the past five years, with strips of
cloth bound to their feet, or bits of
bark tied to their soles to serve as
shoes.
There are thousands of children in
the number who at or 10 years of
age are not larger than babies of a
few months. They cannot walk or
even stand because of weakness in
duced by starvation.
DR.. Nathan Krass, rabbi of the
Central Synagogue, Lexington ave-
nue. and Fifty-ffth street, New York,
who has Just returned from several
months of relief work in eastern Flu
rope, confirmed the report that eX-
istence through the winter was i'm
possible for hundreds Of thousands of
Jews, men, women and children, with
out immediate aid.
"Only the promptest action on The
part of the people of the United
States can save them from freezing
to death and from starvation during
the coming winter" he said. II these
unfortunate men, women and chill
dren are to be kept alive scores of adj /
QlClOnaI soup klICHeHS must NC OpCh
ed, and large shipments of shoes and
clothing and bedding must be sent
to Europe Immediately"
100000 Monthly Not Enough.
Although more than 100000 is
now being spent every month in east
ern Europe by the joint distribution
committee from sums donated in the /
United States to the American Jew
ish Relief committee and other Amer
lean Jewish relief agencies, this sum
is not nearly sufficient for the needs
of 100000 destitute persons, thous-
ands of them sick. This sum makes
possible the expenditure of a dollar
a month as the entire outlay for ev-
cry three penniless persons. Obvious
ly this is not enough to support life