Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-10
GEORGIA JEWRY
TO AID STARVING
State Campaign To Run
From February q
To 20

Inc Georgia state campaign iOI
100000. part of a national fund OF
$35,000000 being raised by American
Jewry for the care of 100000 starv.
ing men and women and little chill.
dren in Eastern Europe and Palestine,
will begin February 22d and continue
through February 10Th.
The campaign is being conducted by
the several Jewish relief organiza
lions, which have already collected
more than s25,00O000 almost wholly
from Jews, and which has been sent
abroad during the past five years
Conditions in Eastern Europe, how
ever, have grown so much worse dur
ing the past few months, and the suf
fering of these people has so greatly
increased, that the larger sum is i'm
mediately needed
The state committee is headed by
V. Fl Kriegshaber, of Atlanta, with NJ
G. Michael of Athens, with Walter
T. Gambler. treasurer.
Fred Ruslander. of Pittsburgh, q
representative of the Jewish War Re
lief Committee of New York, and. a
newspaperman who has seen cOndi
tons a. they exist abroad, is general
secretary of the committee and direc
tor of the state campaign. Charles
Miller, business manager of the At
lanta Georgian, Is publicity chairman
The following chairmen of city
campaigns are also on the state ex
ecutive committee: Harold Hirsch
Atlanta; Leonard Farkas, Albany; Lee
Blum, Augusta; R. H. Drake, Griffin;
S. H. Eisman, Jackson; Rev. Spencer
Tunnel and Max Hagedorn, La
Grange; Morris Michael. Macon
Judge D. S. Sanford, Milledgeville;
Rev. W. A. Wray, Sandersville; Leo
pold Adler, Savannah; H. H. Bird
song, Thomaston; Rev. S. F. Lowe
Tennille; L. Krumbine, Washington
M. E. Nussbaum cambridge.
Zone hears so much of starving and
suffering, which no one in America
can even comprehend, that one is APT
to overlook the need" declared Chair
man Kriegshaber. Every atrocity
every deprivation known to any PEG
pies. is intensified among these mil
lions of unfortunates. Hundreds OF
thousands have already persisted
Millions more will die if for any rea
son the funds to continue our relief
work are not Immediately forthcom
ing.
"A letter from Herbert Hoover
dated September 16, 1919, says, in
part AS you are aware, my col
leagues and myself are endeavoring tC
carry on the special feeding of under
nourished children through Central
and Eastern Europe on charitable
basis over the forthcoming winter
There are between four and five mil.
lions Of these children to whom the
application of the term "under-nour'
ished'' conveys no proper indication OF
the state in which they exist Your
committee has taken over consider
last six months in Poland and other
sections of Central and Eastern Eu
rope, and without their cooperation
success would have been impossible.
""The broad non-sectarian spirit
shown by the Joint Distribution Com
mittee, although primarily devoted tc
Jewish work, and their willing cooper
alton which my one administration
has enjoyed. places me under obliga
lions to the committee. l do wish you
every possible success, for there never
was a greater need
"This letter, which was written to
Nathan Straus, the great Jewish phil
anthropist, who, single-handed, has
maintained hundreds of milk depots in
Eastern Europe and elsewhere fol-
several years, shows the reason why
this campaign is not limited wholly tc
subscriptions from the Jewish people
but is based on humanitarian grounds
only. and contributions will be gladly
accepted from all those whose charity
knows no creed"