The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-08-07
Leading Jews of
Nation to Gather
for Relief Work


New York. Aug, 7-scveml score
OF leading Jews from all parts OF the
country will meet here next SUNDAY,
August 10. at the invitation OF Felix
NJ. Warburg, the wall street banker
and chairman OF tie Joint distribution
committee Of the Jewish relief FUNDS,
"a consider the present extreme crisis
OF Jewry abroad as outlined by re-
Gently returned investigators and TO
determine upon a definite. unified pro-
gram Ia which all sections Of Amcri-
can Jewry shall Join 20 ave the rae
In Europe from destruction. The con-
ference Will extend over a period OF
two or three days. with sessions In the
morning. afternoon and evening.
The purposes OF the conference, as
officially outlined are to survey con-
ditions abroad as they exist at present;
to prepare a tentative budget which
vii! cover II possible the whole future
activities ON behalf OF the Jews abroad
and TO take up plans for raisii.g fur
Their funts. The aim. u Is stated, Is 10
to organize the relief Work that every
advantage may be taken OF facilitating
these efforts by cooperating with the
relief organizations established by
England. France or other countries.
The commissioners who went abroad
for the committee and afc now back
IN this country Will attend the meet
ing. These men and women made a
n%rst-hRnd investigation OF conditions
throughout Eastern Europe, the Bat
kans and Palestine. II n their direct
Information that IL To Furnish the
basis for the relief budgets. Among
these commissioners are jacob Bill
kopf OF Kansas CITY. Bernard HorWich
OF Chicago. and isidOrc Herschiield OF
New York.
The reports OF critical conditions
brought back by these representatives
are confirmed In a recent statement
given out by the American Rel Cross.
This statement was contained Ia a dis
patch from Frank W. America. one OF
that organizations agents In warsaw
The American Red Cross Party,
writes MIR. America, visited scores 81
cities, towns and villages, from big
towns like Brest-LitoVsk and Bielostok
To the smaller villages like kamien-
Kakzyrski. where there was not "A
single doctor for 5000. 600 Inhabitants
and not "a house where at least one
was not down with typhus. tubcrcu-
losls or smallpox. The people were
suhsisting on "A sort OF bread, an aw-
fui black substance. made OF Darn
from oak ICES. acorns, chair ana
heather. but containing no particle OF
I lfOhE. III s0int iiNAhhA AhfA
bread was made "A little more palatahle
with potato peeiinss.
we passed from village to village
and everywhere found famine n dis'
ease. Many villages were ahHolntois
uninhabited. There was not a Twins
thing In them except the inevitable
/ carbon crow, aud we wondered whS
he lowered there. II was as II bhshI
had PASSED over these places.
by slow stages we moved on u
/ pinsk, on the edge OF the iripe|
marshes. through which so many
refugees fled before the Russian army
in is rctreat. These people are nov
streaming back to their homes. W.
found a group OF these huddled Yer,
closely IN a large low fiat buildinH
Many OF them were Intelligent peopia
There was a professor OF language,
mechanic and an engineer. m I'M
town itself there Is an orphan holh'
which is the last word In human mis-
cry. Its sixty children were Eaunt an
emnciated from starvation, They ~
not even stir as Ne entered, 50 htu'
life was there left in them.