The Donaldsonville chief., 1919-01-04
DRIVE FOR JEWISH RELIEF.
Weeks Campaign for Funds to Aid
Suffering Millions in Europe.

Weeks Campaign for Funds to Aid
Suffering Millions in Europe.
A non-sectarian campaign for
funds for the continuance of the
work of the Jewish War Relief So
ciety, which is rendering much-need-
ed assistance to the destitute Jews
of war-torn countries, will be car
ried on in Donaldsonville and AS
cension parish, as elsewhere through
out the state, during the week
of January 6 to IS, inclusive. The
public is earnestly requested to con-
tribute to the cause, and it is sincere
ly to be hoped that the fair name of
Louisiana will be enhanced in glory
by the noble and generous response
accorded by all its citizens to the pit
iful cry of the millions of starving,
perishing and helpless Jewish women
and children.
This is the first time the Jewish
War Relief Society has asked for as
sistance from the Gentle population
of the country In the past, its own
members of the Jewish race have sup
piled all the funds for the carrying
on of it's work. This has grown to
such an extent, however, that outside
financial assistance has become abso-
lutely necessary.
In statement given out by the
society, it's officials state:
"In Russian Poland, Lithuania and
Bulgaria there are three million home
less, friendless Jews, impoverished
and scattered over wide areas of de-
vastated country by the Germans.
Eye-witnesses have written that con-
ditions are so pitiful that they al.
most beggar description; little chill
dren torn from their parents and
wandering the streets vainly in search
of food and shelter; old men and
women being subjected to the most
horrible treatment; hospitals filled to
overflowing and the streets piled with
dead
"These conditions can be remedied
and are being remedied through the
Jewish War Relief Society. There
never was a better opportunity for
Christian to prove his practical Chris
tianity-and never a better one for
the Jew to prove his broad humanity
and devotion to the teachings of his
fathers, than through liberal sub
scriptions to this great humanitarian
work"
The Louisiana branch of the
American Jewish War Relief Com
mittee is in receipt of a report from
the national headquarters giving adj
ditional details of the frightful con
dition existing among the peoples of
the territories evacuated by the
enemy.
Eye-Witnesses relate events SO
horrible as to be indescribable.
Visitors who arrived in the towns af-
ter the Germans had left them say
that very seldom did one meet 4 child
OF woman who l1oked normal or
even in moderate he&[ [th. The streets
seemed aasezlal = !
wards of 4 hospital saunt, hollow
eyed shadows wandered along eager
" intent. seeking food. ln many
places unburied heaps Of putrefying
corpses added to the horror of the
scene
The hospitals were full to over
flowing and the great majority of
cases were suffering from under
nourishment One of the physicians
at Warsaw hospital reports that in
his clinic during the past year there
has not been a Jewish child up to
four years of age, which could walk.
Some of the children have forgotten,
have unlearned how to walk. They
have become rachitic from lack of
food, being fed once day on thin,
insipid potato soup and mouldy
hunk Of bread.
Now that all this territory has been
thrown open for relief purposes there
has come the realization Of the in
sistent and urgent need for immedi-
ate response. The generosity of the
American people is the only means
of alienation Of these frightful con-
ditions.
The campaign for funds in behalf
of these suffering victims of brutal
ity will be directed in Ascension by
Sam. Samuelson, a leading young
business man of Donaldsonville,
who has appointed the following team
captains for the various wards on this
side of the river: First ward, Wal
lace Landry; second ward, Arthur
Lemann; third ward, Jasmin Tobias;
fourth ward, Sidney Harp. These
ward chairmen, with Mr.. Samuelson,
Mayor E. X. Sims of Donaldsonville,
and Messrs. A. H. Bloomenstiel,
Walter Lemann and G.. D. Bentley,
constitute the advisory committee
which will have general charge Of |