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JEWS PLAN Big BIG
STATE FUND
MaryIand's Quota $50O,OOO To Meei
European DesOlation.

Maryland is a small State, but the
Jews of Maryland have assumed a
fairly large share of the $14 200, 600
which the American Jewish Relief
Committee has undertaken to raise
this winter for the relief and rehabi-
Iitation of the destitute war victims
in Eastern Europe. Half a million
dollars is Maryland's quota, and the
campaign will begin Saturday,
February II. At an organization
meeting in Baltimore last week plans
were completed. and the officers Sc
lected as follows: State chairman,
Eli Frank; Vice chairman, DR.. Henry
Friedenwald; treasurer, Abram /.
Weinberg; advisory manager. Louis
II. Levin, office manager, Paul c.
Wolman; chairman of voluntary
clerical workers, Mrs. Louis c. Ham
burger All are well known Balti-
more people, and the campaign head
quarters will be in that city, in the
banking rooms in the Equitable
Building Calvert and Fayette SITS.
Three years and two months have
passed since Armistice Day. but re-
ports received from representatives
rnittee On the other side show that
the Jewish population in the Ukraine
and IN Poland and the other border
countries, is worse off than it was in
December 1918. The armist;ce
brought no peace to those sections
in which most of the European Jews
are so unfortunate as to live.
Foreign invasion and civil strife,
massacres. crop failures. disease and
the complete chaos In economical life
have combined to distress them and
decimate them.
There are not now many Jews in
the drought districts along the Volga
where the American Relief Admins
tration is operating. The A. j. r.
c. cooperate with the A. R. A.
there, but this is but a minor phase
of the Jewish problem. 1t is the
Ukraine, that vast and turbulent ter
ritory, with the Jews forming one
tenth of the population of 35,00O,-
coo that calls most for help. There
at least 100000 Jewish heads of
families have been killed, thousands
Of Jewish homes have been destroyed
and hundreds of thousands of sick
and miserable women, old men
children are hecding in tumble-down
barracks, sleeping in the fields. even
living in abandoned German trench
es along the border.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees
are struggling into Poland with their
few household possessions on their
backs. They carry disease with
them, naturally, since they have no
means of keeping clean, and not on
iy humanity but self-interest should
lead the whole world to seek their
restoration to normal life.
With the $14, 100000 the Com
Ilittee is raising there are 100000
Jewish refugees to be helped; there
are 100000 orphaned children to be
saved from death; sanitary work to
be done, houses are to be built, and
Jewish artisans and merchants. help
less now through the destruction of
their shops and tools, are to be start
cd in the pathway of economic in
dependence. 1t is big work Amer
lean Jewery has to do, bpt David A.
Brown, chairman of the national ap-
peal, who attended the Baltimore
conference, says that the choice OF
the Maryland officers and the spirit
they show guarantees that this State
will do its full share and more.
Among the prominent Baltimore,