The log cabin Democrat., 1921-11-28
10 CONSIDER PLANS
 FOR JEWISH RELIEF
Local Men to Attend Conference to be Held in St. Louis to Raise
 S14,000,000 Fund.

St. Louis, Nov. 28.-Louis Mar shall, chairman of the American Jew ish Relief Committee of New York. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago and David A. Brown of Detroit, leaders
 of American Jewry, will attend conference to be held here November 30, at which time plans will be made for the campaign to be conducted in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklaho- ma and Texas, in behalf of the Jew ish sufferers from the famine in the stricken areas of Russia and Europe.
 Charles Frauenthal and Leo Schwarz of Conway, Ark, will attend the con- ference.
 Nathan Frank of this city, chair man of the conference, has invited these local leaders in order that they may be made acquainted with actual conditions in Russia and other strick- en areas, by leaders in the movement to raise a fund of s14,000,00O, with which to alleviate the suffering.
 Mir. Brown, who rose in few years from a newsboy on the streets to a powerful leadership in the business and civic life of that city, is chairman of the national committee.
 "The drawing aside of the Russian curtain has revealed widespread con- ditions of misery that have greatly complicated our task says Mr. Brown. "In the former war area along the Russian border scores of thousands of families are homeless and in complete destitution. We must enable them to get a new start in life and become lf-supporting again, and a credit system is being worked out to avoid pauperizing these peo- pie. They want to help themselves, and it is our task to give them the opportunity for life and self-respect. Already in some instances we have been enabled to restore whole con- munities of predominantly Jewish population from utter ruin and star vation to a resumption of self-sup- porting life. But this is only start. We have much more to do than effect here and there a little pitiable oasis in vast desert of misery.
 "One of our immediate problems is the care of some 100000 Jewish war orphans. These helpless little tots in central and southeastern Europe are absolutely bereft and have no pros pect of help from any one except the Jews of America Without us they starve Their lives must be our sacred trust"
 Recent reports from the agents of the committee on the other side have revealed the extent of the problem facing the committee. Of the 3,000,- 900 Jews in the Ukraine it is esti- mated that nearly fourth have suc- cumbed to disease, pestilence and wars, and there are over 90,0O0 or phan children in extreme need. In the Odessa region there is acute suf- fering among the 500,000 Jews. Of the 100000 Jews in Poland large proportion are still in straits and need assistance to become self-sup- porting.
 In the Bessarabian province of Bukovina, where there is relatively small Jewish population, agents of the committee have reported 5000 Jewish homes destroyed. In the Jew ish town of Smargon, in the Minsk district, the committees representa- tive found only few brick chimneys standing amid the general ruin caused in the Russo-Polish war and subse- quent guerrilla raids, while the ex- fled inhabitants, eking out wretched existence in Lithuanian towns, among strangers, pleaded for repatriation.