The spectator., 1919-05-20
NO. SECTARIAMSM
 IN JEWISH DRIVE
AL AMERiCANs DEhiNp J9w
 ISh RELIEF IN THE TASK ' or RAielNG $to.ooo, 600 FOR 4TARVlNG JEWS.
Jacob Biliikopf, Director American
 Jewish Relief Committee

oArk the united spirit of America ln the war than the man who goes to the people with an appeal for mone to help the boys in the service or tr relieve stricken humanity in the wal aenes. Barriers of race and creed which appeared to exist before the war have bean destroyed and the force of national emotion has creat d now fusion out of old prejudicss and hostfiities.
 Who can read the names in ths daily casualty list without feeling that the cause of America is indeed the cause of humanity? With the re alixation so strikingly thrust upon as that Americans of every belief and of the most diverse extractions have been fighting shoulder to shoulder ir the trenches, we who remain at home cannot do otherwise than sup port wholeheartedly causes which may seem on the face of them sec tarian, but which are really humani tartan
 This, at any rate, is the convincing experience of the American Jewish Relief Committee, which, under the Chairmanship of Louis Marshall and with the active efforts of the leading Jews of America, has been engaged in the task of raising $l5,000.000 in 1913 for the millions of starving Jews in the war zones
 Fop this cause s10,000,000 was rais- ed in 1917. the dramatic feature of that campaign being the contribution of one-tenth of the national total. or s1.. 000,000, by Julius Rosenwald of Chi eago. Practically the entire sum ob. tained in 1917, however. was raised by Jewish subscriptions. As no gen sral appeal was made. contributions by non-Jews were occasional and un- solicited
 The reason for this is that the tra- ditioaal attitude of the worlds Jewry Is strongly against any appeal to people of other creeds II is the dsep-seated pride of the Jewish race that 1t has always taken care of it's own. Though Jews have responded to charitable calls of all kinds in the S,000 years of their history--years full of the bitterest struggle against injustice and persecution-in all these years the Jews have never be fere come to the general public with a request for help.
 That they are doing so now is synptomatic of the change wrought by the war. It is no longer possible ts regard Jewish war relief as a sec tartan charity.
 The relief of innocent sufferers fnoa the war is bound up with our war aims
 Convinced of the desire of the whole community to contribute to the oeAss. the American Jewish Relief Committee adopted the policy of a general campaign. From the outset ths new plan was a success. The re- sponse in every community where a drive has been held has been wonder hl. Not only have non-Jews given literally to the case of Jewish relief they have taken active part in the work of executive committees, as captains of teams, and as workers. Ths good will which the common ex- psrsenoe of the war has created found expression in an enthusiastic co-ope- ration. This change Is beyond ques- tion one of the most significant spir' itual by-products of the war.
 rllustratioGs of this new spirit are % numerous that only the most out standing instances can receive notice here. Wilmington. Del, stands fore nest, for it was in Wilmington that the new policy received it's original trial, and it was the unqualified sue cess of Wilmington that inspired oth' er communities. The fact that the quota of S76,000 originally assigned VAS almost doubled is due ir no small degree to the efforts of Pierre .. DuPont. whose leadership created a solidarity of support by the entire citizenship of the community. As Senator Saulsbury of Delaware said:
 This is not only a Jewish move mont: it is a human movement. It will elothe where clothing is needed and feed whore feeding is necessary, 1t will % wherever the cry of human ity calls 1t. It is of human beings 1or human beings, and by human { heings"
 Tho contagion of this idealistic at. tituds caught city after city. Pitts burgh followed Wilmington with a dSivs h which s417.000 (almost twice its suota) was raised. Throughout tho eampaisn Jews and non-Jews wexlko1 with equal ardor.
 WHst was true of Wilmington and ' Ptttsb1xlh h nov true of a score