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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
SHAME SHIRKERS INTO GIVING, SAYS JOINT DISTRIBU-
TION COMMITTEE
Demands That Wealthtj Jews Who Do Not Heed Call of Distress Be
Ostracised From Comnnutittj
Denouncing in the most vigorous lan- the war will make even more pressing
guage those Jews who have not given than tormerly the need of succor for the
aid to the suffering members of the race unfortunate Jews in every land. We
in Europe, the leaders of Jewish war must not, of course, neglect any of the
relief work in America demand the os- new problems of relief which the coming
tracising of every Jew who does not of this country into the conflict is sure to
give NVIthIll his means to help those bring. We appreciate our duty toward
abroad.
our own. There is no question of the
This action is called for in the official unswerving loyalty of any Jewish citizen
monthly Bunchy: for April of the Joint of the United States. but the war does
Distribution Committee, which handles not alter one iota unless it is to accen-
all funds raised here for the Jews of tuate in frightfulness the plight of those
Europe and Palestine, in the following who cannot flee from the war-torn
words:
lands."
"Seek out the shirkers. Pillory them
Commenting upon the conditions
before the community. Compel them to brought about in Russia by the revolution
do their duty. Shame them into giving. there and the overthrow of the Czar and
Ostracise them if they will not heed the bureaucratic government, the statement
call of distress that echoes around the says:
world."
"There are, to be sure, great hopes for
The Bulletin further says :
the future, and Jews all over the world
"At such a time as this it is disgrace- are rejoicing at the turn of events. at the
ful there should be so many Jews who promised and expected liberation of the
have not seen tit to do their share. This Jew from restrictions which in the past
is all very well for weaklings. but unless have for centuries been intolerable. But
willing to he so characterized, willing to the future is not the present, and abso-
be set apart and labeled as 'shirkers,' lute political freedom, to be gained later
'slackers,' to be known as persons who, on, will not affect those who are starving
understanding our duty, still fail to heed now. Nothing in the situation in Russia
the dictates of conscience, none can af- justifies the belief that conditions affect-
ford to rest under this stigma."
ing Jewish non-combatants will be less
Referring to the gift of $1,000,000 by acute than in the past or that the need
Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, announced for help will diminish for many months
last week, the statement says that such to come."
contributions have been called forth, to
the shame of many Jews, that the sums
CLEVELAND JEWS TO RAISE
sent by the approximately 3,000,000 per-
$150,000 AS SHARE OF $10,-
sons of Jewish birth in the United States
should not prove both totally inadequate
000,000 RELIEF FUND.
to the necessities of the situation and so
ridiculously small as to cast a stain upon
CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The war relief
American Jewry never to be blotted out.
Speculating upon the apparent cer- fund committee of the Federation of
tainty of the United States being in- Jewish Charities. at their meeting held
volved in the war, the statement further on Monday, April 9, in response to the
says:
"This is not the time for any man or urgent messages of the joint distribu-
woman to evade the call of duty. either tion committee in New York, decided to
in the national emergency which con- raise at once the sum of not less than
fronts us or in the wider field of inter- $150,000 as the Cleveland Jewish com-
national distress, which is constantly munity's share in the $10,000,000 fund
broadening and in which the furrows which it is planned to raise in this
made by death, misery and starvation are country in 1917 for the relief of the
constantly becoming deeper and deeper. millions of Jews who are suffering with
"The entry of the United States into hunger and disease in the war stricken
countries.
Charles Eisenman, president of the
Federation. in a telegram addressed to
the meeting from Washington, expressed
his faith in the Cleveland community's
response to the present appeal. He said:
If Cleveland's needs are $150,000 for
the sick and indigent. is it not reasonable
to request members to at least share
with each other the same total amount
in the saving of helpless millions in
blood-ridden Europe. I have great faith
in the Cleveland Jewish community."
The following are members of the
tsar relief fund committee: Rabbi
Moses J. Cries. chairman; Edw. M.
Baker, Morris Baumoel, A. J. Bialosky,
N. I. Dryfoos, Herman Einstein.
Charles Eisenman, Julius Feiss, Paul
L. Feiss, S. P. Fisher, Edgar A. Hahn,
Eugene S. Halle, S. P. Halle, Eugene
K. Hays, Louis H. Hays, Sam Hart-
mon, Sol M. Hexter, Dr. D. A. Heubsch,
Isaac Joseph, Siegmund Joseph, Rabbi
Jacob Klein, David S. Kohn, Sam Ko-
rach, Nathan Loeser, Benjamin Lowen-
stein, Rabbi Margolies, Frank Muhl-
hatiser, Abram Lewenthal, Sol Rein-
thal, Ben Rich, Maurice Rohrheimer,
Max Rosenblum, M. C. Rosenfeld, S.
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