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Felix M. Warburg Makes Sensational Appeal For
War Relief Fund
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Asks Jews to Forego Luxuries to Help Starving Brethren
in Europe
Much attention has been attracted
throughout the country by a very un-
usual appeal issued by the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee of the Funds for
Jewish War Sufferers, through its
chairman, Mr. Felix M. Warburg. The
appeal is not merely the stereotyped
request for funds for the purposes of
war relief, but is an arraignment of the
better-off Jews for not giving as lib-
erally as the needs of the situation de-
mand and as their prosperity would
seem to justify. It asks that the Jews
of America give tip some of their so-
cial functions, which cost large stuns
of money, and abandon some of their
luxuries, giving what is used in this
manner to the starving people on the
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In part the appeal, which is couched
in sensational language, says:
"Have American Jews become cal-
lous to the suffering' of their brothers
and sisters, fathers and mothers in the
war zones?
• "The question is asked • in all sin-
cerity.
"Certain it is that our Jewry scents,
in large measure, to have lost sight of
its manifest duty.
"Has the novelty of giving worn off?
"Does any Jew feel that he has done
all that is required of him?
"From the Jews of every country
come appeals born of desperation, ask-
ing that the funds be increased—that
money be sent quickly or that it may
not avail.
"And yet American Jewry, with its
own flesh and blood involved in this
maelstrom of agony, is complacent,
. self-satisfied, enjoying every good
thing that money can buy, that peace
and plenty can provide. In every city
in our land Jews continue to enjoy ma-
terial pleasures, to engage in festivity,
to stage social functions, to spend with
lavish hands to gratify self, to indulge
the vanity, to give evidence of the
prosperity that is theirs.
"God of our Fathers!
"It is as though we were mai:lin,
merry in a funeral house.
"A moment's delay is fatal.. The
Joint Distribution Committee through
its treasurer but a few weeks ago sent
to Europe and Palestine every dollar
that was in the treasury. No other
action could have been taken in ,view
of the appeals that came by cable,
came by wireless and came by letter.
The action also was taken because it
was then feared severance of diplo-
matic relations with Germany might
make it difficult to transmit funds in
the immediate future, and with help
from America cut off there would
have been but one result, the Grim
Reaper would have harvested his full
crop of the helpless souls of Jewish
babes. Jewish mothers, Jewish boys
and girls, and the Jewish aged.
"At every place where a few of us
gather together, either for pleasure,
for business, or for religious observ-
ance, let us pause, if only for a mo-
ment, to give thought to the helple s s
and suffering; let us put ourselves in
their place and then let us open our
hearts and open our pocketbooks and
give what we can afford, give all that
we can give with the utmost sacrifice;
let us give up sonic of our luxuries,
some of our unnecessary diversion,
some of our comforts that the starv-
ing may have a crust of bread, a bowl
of soup, at least once a day; that the
cold may for a few hours have their
bodies warmed; that the wan, thin
faces of little children may lose a lit-
tle of their gauntness; that our aged
fathers and mothers may not be turn-
ed away empty handed front the bread
lines; that bodies may be covered with
a few rags to save them front the bit-
ter wind; that the shelterless may
have a place in which to rest their
weary bones.
"American Jewry, awake! You and
you alone can answer the prayer put
by suffering millions!
Feed us! Save us!"
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