The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-04-01
WILL MAKE DRIVE
TO RELIEVE JEWS.
Thousands in Europe STAYING and
Helpless.

For the first time in human his
tory, perhaps, the Jewish race is be
.seeching the American people for
financial aid. It is a call for SIS, ,o0o.-
600 to save 100000 OF an ancient
people from starvation and the pos
sible extinction Of q race which has
writ large it's name on the scroll OF
the centuries.
OF this sa5,ooo:Soo, South caroiin-
ians, irrespective OF race or creed
are asked to contribute sl25,0o0. Il
Is call to arms for humanity. This
-non-sectarian campaign, which is i'll
dorsed by eminent Protestants and
Catholics, will be waged from Apri!
Ito April 9, inclusive. and its pro-
ceeds will give sustenance to the
starving and raiment to the naked.
Today" says Jacob H. schif iu
an appeal for the people OF his race.
t'in Poland, in Galicia, in Lithuania.
in Russia, in Palestine and in Tur-
key, old men are dying, mothers are
wandering homeless with babies IN
their arms. Thousands, yes thou
sands, of little suffering children
whose feet and arms and little faces
are swollen are dying from disease.
and from awful hunger In this black
est tragedy of our race ask your
aid"
This is not only a Jewish move
ment. it IS a human movement" said
Senator Saulsburg Of Delaware. 1T
will clothe where clothing is needed
and will feed where feeding is nec-
essary. It will go. where the cry
Of humanity calls it 1t IS OF human
beings, for human beings and by hu-
man beings
Preparations for the campaign fo-
Jewish war relief have been prac-
tically completed by August Kohn OF
Columbia, State chairman, and A. A.
Protzman, State director, with Mon
tague Triest of Charleston as State
vice chairman. The advisory boar-
consists of Jewish rab5is from Char
lesion and Columbia. They are Rabbi
J. S. Raisin, Rabbi J. j. Simonhoff.
Rabbi Julius Cohen and Rabbi 2.
Meyerovitz all of Charleston, and
Rabbi David Karesh of Columbia. The
district chairmen, who have built Up
powerful county organizations, are
Montague Triest, Charleston; Isaac
C Strauss, Sumter: Max Fass, Dillon:
alorton Visanska. Columbia; M. S.
Polier, Aiken; Harry L. Watson.
Greenwood; Harry Getsberg, Ander-
son; David Kohn. Greenville: j. Co
hen, Union; L. L. Block, Camden, and
DR.. D B. Johnson, Rock Hill.
A mass of literature has been sent
out from the central headquarters in
Columbia to the various county uniis
and this has been distributed effect
lively in the various counties prepara-
tory to the drive" The State chair
nan and the State director are very
much pleased with tie results 50 far
achieved and particularly with the
hearty and spontaneous cooperation
they have received from their Gentle
friends.
The money raised in the United
State will be distributed by the Joint
distribution committee of the Amer
lean funds for Jewish war sufferers,
Of which Felix NJ. Warburg is chair
man. Through the cooperation Of the
department of state at Washington
the money will be sent direct to rep
resentative OF the committee in Eu-
rope. who will see that it is put to
the best advantage and wisely and
properly administered in communities
where aid is needed.
Uuless relief is vouchsafed from
America, thousands upon thousands
OF the Jewish race. sufferers from the
world war with which they had moth
Ing to do in bringing it on, in Po-
land, Galicia, Lithunia, in the new
states of Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-
slavia and in western Russia will
perish. An apt illsutration as to the
suffering OF the Jewish people, par
tioularly defenseless little children, Ia
given by an eye witness as follows:
"Dr. Goldflamm Of Warsaw tells me
upon the authority Of his medical rep
utation that in his clinic during the
past year there has not been a Jew
ish child up to four years OF age
who could walk. Some OF the chill
dren have forgotten. have unlearned