The New York herald., 1922-02-19
JEWS WILL LAUNCH
Big DRIVE TONIGHT
100000 Fund Is Object to
Relieve Suffering in East
- ern Europe.
QUOTA HERE Is SIS, 100000
New York Campaign Begins
With Dinner at the Com
modore.

New York Jews will launch their
campaign tonight to raise this city's
quota of a s14,0OO000 fund that will be
solicited in the United States to relieve
conditions among the Jews of eastern
Europe-declared to be the most de-
plorable ever recorded in modern times
New York's quota OF the fund is IS, ,O00.
900. and it is expected that the full
amount will have been subscribed, and
perhaps oversubscribed. when the cam
paign closes March 4.
The campaign throughout the United
States will be conducted by the Ameri-
can Jewish Relief Committee. which
has its headquarters at 103 Park ave-
nue.. The New York campaign will be
started at dinner at the Commodore.
Louis Marshall and Nathan Straus are
honorary chairmen for the city, and
David M. Bressler is associate chair
man. The dinner at the Commodore
has been arranged by them in order to
get the New York drive under way.
The Jews who are interested in the
relief OF their brethren in the Old World,
numbering thousands, have been thor
oughly organized for the purpose of con-
ducting the s5.000.000 campaign here.
sent the various trades. businesses and
professions. so as to insure a thorough
caLvassing of the city.
Committee of 5000 Women.
Besides the men who will be connected
with the work a division of 5000 women
Is now in course of organization and
will be ready within the next few days to
give active assistance in the campaign
Mrs. Henry Moscowitz will be director in
charge of the operations of this division
and she will have the assistance of Mrs.
Jacob Fl. Schiff as honorary chairman.
The Federation of Jewish Womens Or
ganizations. with forty-three affiliated
bodies. will supplement the work of
Mrs. Moscowitzs division
Among the chairmen who have been
designated to direct the soliciting of the
various occupational committees are the
following Louis J. Horwitz. Abraham
Gussow. Abraham Gottlieb. Sidney
Worms. Max Landay. Daniel Nicoll,
Samuel O. Lamport, Norris Asinoff, Wal
ter Goldman. Herman Lissner. Truly
Warner. Harry G.. Lazarus, Otto c..
Mayer Reuben Sadowsky. Jacob Sperber.
Herbert Martin. A. A. Tauber. Israel
Unterberg, d. NJ. Mosessohn, ]. M. Gid
ding, DIR. David Goldwasser, Samuel D..
VI,
Ladin. DR.. /. Hirschfield and Henry A.
Dix
Justice Mitchell May is chairman OF
the Brooklyn committee and it is ex-
pected that 100000 will be raised in
that borough The Brooklyn drive also
will be launched tonight at dinner
to be held at the Bitmore in Manhat-
tan. Judge May will preside. Louis
Marshall and David A. Brown of De-
troit. national. chairman viii address
this meeting, as we'll as that to be held
at the Commodore.
The Bronx committee hopes to solicit
an equal amount under the direction OF
Louis d. Gibbs. Judge of the Bronx
County Court.
Thousands Utterly Helpless.
Nathan Straus said that hundreds OF
thousands of Jews in eastern Europe.
weakened through years of progressive
political and economic upheavals. are
now utterly unable to help themselves.
Three hundred thousand Jewish or
phans have been left helpless by par
ents who either were slain in pogroms
or died of starvation, he added. while
100000 Jewish refugees are wandering
through strange lands, homeless and
pennless The suffering in the Ukraine
was declared to be particularly acute.
but conditions in the Russian border
districts are described as being but little
better.
The fund which will be raised in
America will be expended to care for
Jewish orphans, to financially assist
and reestablish refugee victims of poll
tical instructions. and to finance CO.
operative and loan agencies in their
work Of extending helping hand to
farmers. tradesmen, merchants and