The Penn's Grove record., 1920-01-09
SUMS SENT
FOR RELIEF ABROAD
Jews Have Giver
1880 in Eight Months for
Stricken People in Devastated
Countries of Europe.

Newark. N. American Jews IN
the eight months ending August 81.
spent $S,93S,037 for relief Of theii
stricken co-religionists abroad, accord.
ing to a statement from Felix NJ
Warburg, chairman of the joint dis,
tribution committee for Jewish wal
sufferers, a copy of which has been
received by Felix Fuld, chairman OF
the 1919 New Jersey Relief Commit.
tee. The campaign In this state to
raise S1,000,000 for Jewish Relief
opens October 20 and closes October
%.
More than half of the money, or
fS5,476,000. has been expended In Po-
land. where the Jews are found in
great numbers, and where food and
health conditions are worst. Sums
ranging from 100000 upward have
been distributed in Rumania, Siberia,
Turkey, Palestine, Czechoslovakia,
Jugoslavia and other countries where
the Jewish population is in dire
straits for food. clothing and other
necessities of life.
Kosher meat, condensed milk, cot
tonseed oil, dress goods and numer-
Gus other simple articles have been
sent in quantities with this money
TO the affected countries. The total
also includes several hundred thou
sane dollars In cash which has been
distributed to the needy.
Plans already laid call for the *
penditure of even larger sums during
the remaining months of 1919, to save
the stricken Jewry of Eastern Eu-
rope from destruction. The American
Jewish Relief Committee is now con-
Quoting a series of state-by-state cam
paigns to provide a total of $50, 900
for this work. All these campaigns
are non-sectarian, and the Jewry Of
America is calling upon Americans Of
every race and creed in It's humanita-
rian work of saving the survivors of
the race abroad.
Recurrent epidemics of typhus or
spotted fever which ravaged the
war devastated countries Of Eastern
Europe last winter are feared in Po-
land and adjacent countries, accord
ing to the news advices received by
Mr.. Fuld. All the dreadful toll that
may be exacted from among the i'll
fed, destitute people, annot be fore
told, according to his late informa-
ton from abroad.
Lithuania a Heavy Loser.
NfxfY~-ia particularly suffered from
the ktipe, and some idea of the
frightfGf,Ad conditions during the cpl
demic is conveyed by Sholom Asch, In
q report of the joint distribution com
mittee, which administers the funds
that are raised by the New Jersey
committee.
In many cities, he says, n may
often hear weeping in the streets, and
the frightened whisperings of people
on the corners, as typhus swept
through the homes of the Jews.
"a population which has not had a
full meal for five years, and which
has wandered homelessly from place
to place. living in dirty freight cars
and railroad stations, without under
wear or change of clothing through
out that period, naturally develops
spotted typhus," he states. 1.-The dis
ease ragged everywhere, but chiefly
among the Jewish population. Thou
sands of children have peer thus be-
reft of their parents.
SIN Kovno, a city that today has
10000 Jewish inhabitants, and is, from
a sanitary point of view, better pro-
tected than other cities, more than
% NOR nont nf tho antiro Dnp&lotIn-
had spotted typhus, according to the
statistics supplied by the chief physl-
clan Of the Jewish Hospital. In the
hospital reOpened by the Jews Upon
their return to Kovno, there were 500
cases alone. The institution, however,
has accommodation for less than half
this number, and most Of the sick
lay on straw pallets spread on the
floor
Used Paper Undertaking.
"Since the hospital was short a
sufficient supply of underwear, it was
necessary to use paper undercloth-
ing or half-torn sheets, quilts and
tablecloths gathered from anywhere.
The principal requirements of the
UDSDltdl, ulcIe1OIe, art underwear
for the sick (Which cannot be pro-
cured for money in L%ithuania), drugs,
b~andages, cotton and other medicines.
This hospital was formerly supported
by public funds, but the general eco
monte ruin has made it necessary to
supply aid from the Jewish Relief
funds.
I'm the province the epidemic was
much worse. In Slobodki, near KOvno,
almost half of the 1000 Jewish in
habitants have had the disease. There
Is not a single house which typhus has
not visited, and where it has not
claimed its victims. In the short time
| was there l heard weeping in the