The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-10-11
JERSEY TO HELP
STARVING JEWS
Non Sectarian Drive in October
to Raise 100000 for
War Sufferers.
CAMPAIGN TO LAST FOR WEEK.
Five Million People in One Section
of Poland at Point of Starvation.
Children Have Little Chance
to Live.

A non-sectarian drive to help the
Jewish War Sufferers of Europe will
be conducted in New Jersey from Dc
tober 20 to %. 1t is planned to raise
at least $1,000. 900 in this State of the
S35.000,000 asked for in the nation.
Quotas for all counties have not been
decided upon. but those which have
been selected are: Essex, 100000;
Bergen, $4,000; Hudson, S150,0OO:
Middlesex, $4,000; Monmouth, $50
600: Morris, $4,000; Passaic, 500
900; Atlantic. $19,5o0; Sussex, $4,000,
and Union. 100000.
Felix Fuld of Newark is Chairman of
the State Committee. The other men,
bers are Abe ]. Diamond, Louis Bam-
berger, Lewis Straus, Nathan Bilder
and Louis Bamberger of Newark, Alex
ander Kaufman of Elizabeth, Sigmund
Esther of Red Bank, Harry NJ. Friend
of East Orange, Simon Gerson of Tren-
ton, Harry l.. SchwarzH of Dover, Abra-
ham Jelin of New Brunswick, A. A.
Alelniker of Jersey City, William New
corn of Plaintield, Harry Salz of Key
port and Charles Rosenberg of Hack
enSack.
There are. it is estimated, about
16O.0o0.000 Jews in the world. Of all
Of them. 70 per cent live in the war
swept countries. Fully 100000 Jews
III Poland. Czechoslovackia. former
Arstria-Hungary, Russia, Lithuania, ST.
IBERIA. Palestine. the Balkans and the
nr,ionf ~ today totally 6nnnnnnnt
upon outside aid for life's necessities.
As All example of the sufferings in
some parts Of Europe, the story of
some of the hardships undergone by
the people of the River Bug, in Poland,
will suffice. Little has been heard of
this vast territory since the war start
ed. The rivers eastern shore bounds
on one side the hungriest and most
stricken territory in the world today.
Five Million Near Starvation.
Five million people are at the point
of starvation, according to figures Civ
en- out by the American Jewish Relief
Committee and compiled by the Ameri
can Red Cross and the American jew
ish Relief gents. A great number of
them are Jews. The war has left
GW0.0O0 destitute and stricken Jews
in Eastern Europe, a number as great
as the entire population of New York
City, utterly helpless, in many cases
sick. and in every case hungry and de-
pendent.
East of the River Bug these people
are living in devastated houses. in
stalls of old stables, on roofiess plat
FORMS built for refugee families. one
family to a platform in old freight
cars, in holes in the ground or under
tae open sky. They are weak from
I7any months of semi-starvation, for
they have gone five years without one
square meal. They are still terror
stricken from the war. Their number
is being reduced every day by a Sc
ries Of the most terrible epidemics
thar ever swept any section of the
world.
TYphus. cholera and smallpox are all
raging in the territory east of the Riv-
er pug. The first and most genera
Of these epidemics is carried simply
by body lice. AT least one member of
every fifth Or sixth family is stricken
with some form Of it, as is inevitable
among people clad in f~ye-year-old rags.
people who have not had a bath with
soap or a change of clothing since the
beginning of The war. No estimate Of
the actual numbers of those smitteu
with typhus in Poland has as yet been
compiled, bit it is probably greater