The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-01
Shows Great Need of Relief Funds

1 Whatever phase of the great Jew
 ish tragedy of Eastern Europe one
 nomentarily regards as the most
 agonizing, others press upon your
 Bilikopf, executive director of the
 Philadelphia Federation of Jewish PhilanthrOplC Societies, and a pioneer | in Jewish war-reHef work, told a rep Iresentative of the Times today. MT. l Bilikopf was here in the interests of l the campaign which will open here
 Sunday to raise S50,0OO of the s25O,- | 900 of Connecticut's quota of the na- | tional $14, 900 900 fund.
 | Yet, according to MT. BilHkopf, de- spite all of the great deal that can be said regarding all of the phases of the tragedy there is one that stands out l in boldest, starkest relief.
 That is the tragedy of the children, l the tragedy of 800, ,000 Jewish children orphaned in consequence of the war he said. "One contemplates this trag- edy with special horror, even if he is not a sentimentalist. He contemplates cold to which these waifs are exposed; he shudders with horror when he realizes that death will claim these babes in terrible numbers;- but, he terms of the future. And for those who would peer into the future, there is a terrifying picture of the genera tion of Jews that may result from the present IraSeOy or the Cn1lOr6n. For these children, most of whom
 have seen their brothers and sisters
 and parents slain before their very eyes; most of whom have lived l through the hells of war and po-
 grams are not only unfed unsheltered
 feeling, without any conception of right or wrong.
 'Uneducated, except alas, in that brutality which is characteristic of I T0f -1nfI Inv JN I
 ethical or moral concepts, beggars
 gamins and worse, the residue of that vast horde of orphans may grow up
 with hatred in their hearts for all
 mankind" the speaker continued. 'I have seen some of this tragedy
 with my own eyes. and know whereof I speak. That remarkable
 young man, James Becker of Chica- go, has seen it in other phases. Dr. Bogen has seen it and so have Dr. Frank Rosenblatt and Judge Harry Fisher Of Chicago.
 Tt was in my native town of Wilma on my revisit recently, that the trag- edy of the children was brought home to me. With a noted correspondent of the New ' ork World, was return ing to the hotel after meeting of the relief committee. From a dark alley we heard a dismal, heart-trending ing. We went into the alley. And then we found two children, a brother and sister. They told us between sobs that seemed chronic, that their father had been killed in pogram and their mother had disappeared. They had not eaten for many days and they had no place to sleep. We reused the family on whose doorstep we found these waifs and persuaded them to give the children shelter over night The next day we took these orphans to the Vilva Orphan Asylum, three mean little buildings in which there were 286 children.
 There we saw another phase of the tragedy We saw hundreds of chil- oren sitting in the courtyard of the hospital. rythnically, hideously blink ing their eyes. First we thought it was some new pastime but we learned they were afflicted with a new aiIment due to malnutritton and starvation.