The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-03-19
Commission Now Perfecting Sanitary and Medical
Program Designed Not Only to Cure but to Up
root Disease Throughout Jewish Colonies -
Work Provided for Hundreds. Loans Without
Interest Made to Deserving. and Aged and
Orphans Are Fed.
BY MARION wEINsrEM

none OF THIS none comcs from
the relief funds We handle. but from
tho Zionist Restoration or Prepare
ton f,und. collected hy xionlntn aud
from Ziunlstsl Nor % al relief funds
cosnc from America alone. Amounts
reach us from England. Holland and
even from South Africa
As for our actual relief distribn-
ton. FULLY 10 per cont OF the fund.-
are spent IN Jerusalem. und onlS 80
per cent IN the rest OF h country
licra b money goes chiefly for
maintaining Institutions and hof-
pitala and the support 81 widows. the
arcd. deserted women incapable Of
cnrlnF for themselves. and about
~. 600 orphans. many Of whom have
been placed IN private homes. MCdl.
cal relief H. carried on IN live clinics
IN different quarters Of the city.
bread " provided Cor zoe old men
aud women. more Than 2boo orphans.
and for the children In some thirty
hcvcn schools and ~ nurseries.
Supporting Many Needy
We are SUI porting AZ present the
Hebrew teachers. pupils In tho higher
schools. or NcEhihoth, orphans. wid.
oNa and other ncrdy nf All the Jew
lsh communities In Jerusalem except
tho Hungarian and Oaiician. In tho
Gaze OF the latter We have stopped
giving relief TO certain ahlc-bodicd
men and women, including momhera
% the Ncahiboth. because Of ~ dis
agreement The commission received
Information that these two commu-
niiles we're getting money from
abroad. and demanded "a monthly
statement Of sueh receipts and no
assurance that no relief would be-
~dlatributod by them o. members that
ucrr not In need. Since they ron1aad
ihe commission cut on part Of their
allowance a few weeks aEo
'of tho institutions an are main.
tanned wholly or partly by us except
the mcur Choiim Hospital ana one or
two small orphanarcs accommodating
about 100 children because they will
moi comply with certain elementary
conditions az regards management
Wherever possible We are trylng
90 provide employment for tho needy
VINO are able 70 work. The commits
sion n managing "a large workshop
With saving stocking making. aui
shoe manufacturing sections and ono
wool work shop. n subsidies a
handmade lace aielicr
Loans Without interc~t
1t has recently introduced n loan
department that makes advance
without Interest 90 deserving com
mbnal and craft societies. and 10
individuals. fffty young mon have
bccn sent 10 the colonies Ia do farm
labor and ninety Rre IA work on rit-
uni articles In Jerusalem. We F-e
also training a number of men ~
acrihrn
The trade schools and workshops
Opened for women Keep one thousand
self -HupporiinE Tho ovcumsn has
helped US by swing our shops Orders
for shirts Tor The Egyptian Labor
Corps Then. too. We have u goo
deal ~ sewing o. b. done 90 keen tho
Institutions lndor our care supplied.
In tho Ncahlhoth here we are re-.
moving the young men Who are not
serious students supplying them with
work. Those We find earnest students
of tho law We continue 20 maintain.
Taking carr ~ Orphan
"pf the orphans We have semi ono
hundred 90 the Mikwo Israel ArrI-
cultural School near lana and hnnul.
ed out some n hundred and nny as
apprentices 20 carpenters, tailons. and
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