New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Drive for War
Relief Fund
Starts Tonight
Leaders of All Creeds Join
Jews in Campaign for ST.
500, 900 i'm Aid of Suffer-
ers i'm Central Europe
Have Raised $4,000, 900
Movement Is Non-Sectarian
and Money Will Be Dis
tributed ON Same Basis

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With the saving Of the lives Of pos
sibly hundreds Of thousands of men,
women and children in Central and
Eastern Europe as their objective,
workers in the campaign for Jewish
war sufferers will begin their drive
tonight to raise a $7,5o0.o0o fund to
be expended for the relief of the war
victims in that part of the world.
The drive is non-sectarian, and the
foremost Jews of New York and New
Jersey will have as their aids in the
effort prominent men and women of
every faith. The campaign will last
one week, and will be formally opened
with hunger dinner" to be given at
the Hotel Biltmore tonight. Balm
bridge Colby, Secretary of State, will
represent the nation, and Governor AL
fred E. Smith will speak for the state.
Other speakers, all of them leaders In
the campaign, will be Jacob H. Schif,
Felix M. Warburg, Nathan Straus and
Louis Marshall. More than two thou
sand workers IN tne urlNe VIII atteno.
s2O00,O00 Already Pledged
Already 100000 has been raised
during the weeks of preliminary work.
1t is the first time in the history of 8
charitable undertaking in which the
Jews of New York have taken lead
ing part that an appeal is being made
to Jew and non-Jew alike. Not only
are the collections to be made on this
non-sectarian basis, but the distribu-
tion of the funds abroad will be made
in the same way.
The campaign has the unqualified
support of Archbishop Patrick j.
Hayes of the Roman Catholic Diocese,
Bishop Charles S. 'Burch of the Episco-
pal Diocese, Bishop Luther B, Wilson,
president of the Board of Foreign Mis-
sions of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; Miss Evangeline Booth, COM
mander of the >salvation Army, and
other prominent men and women who
ar etaking an tctive part in the cam
paign as members of the executive
committee, including Cleveland H.
Dodge, treasurer of the Committee for
the Relief in the Near East; DR.. Mich
olas Murray Butler, president of Co.
lumbia University; George Gordon
Battle, Otto T. Barnard, John G. Agar,
the Rev. David J. Burrell, Robett Grier
Cooke, Paul G. Cravath, Francis D:
Gallatin, Charles Fl. Sabin, president Of
the Guaranty Trust Company; George
w. Wickershanl, Judge Joseph f. Null
queen, Judge William H. Wadhams and
Alfred E. Marling.
No Paid Workers
It is the first occasion that such
campaign has been conducted in New
York, where the services of paid di-
rector were not regarded as necessary.
To avoid thi sexpense men and women
have volunteered to do all the work
hitherto placed in the hands Of paid
workers and for weeks have been
spending their entire time at the head
quarters, 389 Fifth Avenue. Judge Otto
A. Rosalsky is the chairman. Acting
directly under and for the chairman is
the committee on admlnlstration and
finance, with Colonel H. A. Guinsburg
as chairman. Others on the committee
on admin stration and finance are How
ard S. Cans, DR.. l. Edwin Goldwasser,
Samuel C. amport, Harriet B. Lowen-
stein, Carl Pforsheimer and Cyrus l..
Sulzberger.
The treasurer, of the fund is Paul
Baerwad, of Lazard Freres, who is
also associate treasurer Of the joint
distribution committee, of which Felix
M. Warburg is chairman and which
abroad.
S35,000,0OO National Fund
This committee has disbursed since
the beginning Of the war upward of
$28,000,0O0 contributed by American
Jewry for the relief of the war suffer
ers in all lands. What mighty effort
is now being made is indicated by the
fact. that the $7,5O0,000 is only New
York's quota of a $35 100000 national
fund.
Much stress has been laid on the fact
that in addition to the duty to provide
for the millions of sufferers the catas-
trophe impending in Europe directly
menaces the United States, and that
unless the danger is eliminated now
ruin and plague must inevitably bridge
the Atlantic and take from America
toll of suffering and sacrifice greater
than the war itself entailed.
Aside from the facts Of starvation
and destitution, the great menace in
Eastern and Central Europe Is typhus,
which already has affected 80 per cent
of the population, with the mortality
in some districts running as high as
70 per cent.
Special Sermons in Churches
The appeal to all hearts contained
In such facts as the foregoing is to be
forcbly brought home to the people
of New York in many ways. To-day is
Church Sunday and there will be spe
cial sermons in manv churches of all
denominations. The Rev. DR.. S. Parkes
Cadman, pastor of the Central Con-
gregational Church, Brooklyn, prepared
the sermon for the Protestant churches;
Vicar General Joseph F. Mooney has
written message to the Roman
Catholic churches, and DR.. Nathan
Stern, rabbi Of the West End Syna-
to the Jewish congregations.
Children in the public schools,
through the cooperation of the Board
of Education, are to hear the story Of
the sufferings of the children in other
lands, and in the theaters, moving pic
ture houses, the clubs, hotels and res
taurants, in short, wherever people are
gathered together, the conditions they
are asked to alleviate will he made