The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-06-24
JEWISH AID FUND
CAMP PA|GN GIVES
HUGE OPPORTUNITY
Appeal for Starving Victims Of
War Should Reach Hearts
OF Gentle as Well as All
Others.
BY JOHN 3. RANSOM.

BY JOHN 3. RANSOM.
ms ms is bargain day, and the citizens
opportunities.
There are some seasoned campaign
contributors in our midst, it is said,
put none ever had chance to do more
sooo with given amount of money
lhan right here in the Jewish relief
campaign.
For 5000 some good Methodist can
Keep the life in the body of some starv-
ing Polish Jewish child for a year. For
Inc same sum any Presbyterian in good
standing may be assured of feeding ten
emaciated little Rumanian Jews for a
month.
The people running the campaign
Know how to get the funds to the par
tles they are meant for with the min
iimum Of delay and overhead expenses,
If Herbert Hoover's statement means
anything. Hoover worked with these
people during the armistice in Eastern
Europe, and he says they helped him
efficiently, and regardless of whether he
was feeding Gentle or Jewish children,
though they were officially there to
care for Jewish children only.
Jewish children of this country and
Of this city are like that. When the
Young Mems Christian association
starts drive, they insist on being al
lowed to contribute to the good work
when Baptists are raising a hospital
fund they dig down just as deep as a
on their hospital, the Jewish brethren
expect to be considered in the same
light as members of that persuasion for
the purpose of campaign subscriptions,
and are so considered.
If anybody took the trouble to aver
age out the citizenship of various
classes Of this city's population, on the
basis of the willing spirit with which
they took part in the good works of
the city, it is likely that the Jewish
would tn n 10
They never weary in well-doing
AIDES Apt Remark.
George Ade said there was no differ
ence between the Jew and the Gentle
so far as helpfulness was concerned
except that the Jew gives in larger
amounts.
Not all the good citizens of Memphis,
however, are Jews. There are some
Gentles and these are the ones who
are going to oversubscribe the $4,000
which is oL4 citys share of the coun-
than third of this total has been
secured. 1t is evident that some Of the
good citizens are holding back for
little while to see how much the others
are giving,
During the war we were all Ameri-
cans. There was no Jew nor Gentle,
rich nor poor bond nor free. Nothing
is better for this country than for the
people to forget classifications and work
together for the common good. Moth
ing is easier when the cause is as
convincing as this one.
The people for whom these funds are
being raised are Just as much charge
upon one section of this rich country
as upon another. In the scriptures there
is an account of a man who asked the
scornful question, Am my brothers $
keeper?" The point was that he was
just that by all the laws of heaven
whether he liked it or not. ..-
The Jewish children of Eastern Eu-
rope are starving and so far as human
wisdom shows, they will perish If the
Jewish relief campaign is not sue"
cessful. But these children do not be-
long to the Jewish citizenship OF this
country any more than they belong to
the Gentle. They are about equally
remote from both kinds of American
citizens, and the only reason the Jew
ish ones have made a campaign out
of it is that their hearts are little
softer toward human suffering
Innocent Victims. =
The Jewish people occupied the bor-
derland between the fighting empires
in the East. The empires put them
there in order that war, II it came,
might overrun only the homes of the
Jews. Their calculations were correct;
over many Jewish cities OF Poland and
Galicia, formerly Russia or German or
Austria, armies swept ten or twleve
times and blotted out all signs OF CIVIL
lied habitatiOns. go, =.
In many places there is no life left
except that Of human beings and weeds.
Horses were taken away by the armies,
cattle were slaughtered, crops were
burned, and the population killed or
crippled until there is no possibility OF
cultivating the fields for the present.
The official description given TO the
children by Mr.. Hoover's commission
is ''undernourished. Considering the
fact that hardly one of these children
has had a square mean for flVe years,
the description is hardly an error. nc
lures of the children, which contributors
ought to see If they want to appreciate
what an investment there is for their
money. show standing up on skinny Mt
tie legs that look entirely unequal 10
the task, and still others lying flat for
the very good reason that they lack the
strength TO stand up. -
There is a stranded Jewish population
of some 5000, 900 in Eastern Europe.
Nearly a million are children, and most
of these will die if Americans say they
have had enough of being generous ana
tired of campaigns. ill.,,
There are other facts about the STU
alton which any interested parry may
find out If he cares TO ask those III
charge of the local campaign, ana an
of them will make him glad that he can
spare the funds for the greatest ana
best of campaigns, . ~.
For inasmuCh as ye dld 1t unio the
least of these, ye did it unto Me