THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

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United States Consul Reports on Jewish Relief
Work in Palestine

Over $688,000 Sent by Joint Distribution Committee Accounted
For--$1.00 Keeps One Person Alive for One Month

Felix M. Warburg, chairman, yes-
terday received from Otis A. Glaze-
brook, until the outbreak of the war
between the United States and Ger-
many, American consul at Jerusalem,
the first detailed statement as to how
part of the total of $688,838.23 for-
warded to Palestine by the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee of the Funds for
Jewish War Sufferers has been ex-
pended. The report of Consul Glaze-
brook was forwarded to the State De-
partment at Washington by diplo-
matic pouch, and contains informa-
tion for which American Jewry has
been impatiently waiting for many
months.
This report covers seven separate
remittances, totaling $215,179.58, and
embraces relief distributed up to Jan-
uary 1 of this year. Consul Glaze-
brook, in the letter which accom-
panies .the report, states that it has
been exceedingly difficult to forward
the communication due to interrupt-
ed service and restriction placed upon
consular reports by the Turkish Gov-
ernment.
How Money Was Divided.
The money forwarded by the Joint
Distribution Committee to Palestine
and distributed there represents prac-
tically the entire sum which has gone
to PaleStine for general relief. Of the
.$688,000 forwarded by the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee 50 per cent. has
been distributed in . Jerusalem, Heb-
ron and Moza, 5 per cent. in Tiberias,
13 per cent. in Safed, Einstitun and
Pekein; 4 per cent. to the colonies of
Galilee, 3 per cent. to Haifa and 25
per cent to the Jaffa and Judean col-
onies, including Zichron Jacob and
Hederah.
• The report sent by Consul Glaze-
brook includes the reports of the va-
rious committees of Jews in charge of
the relief in the different communi-
ties.
Consul Glazebrook shows the pres-
ent total Jewish population of Pales-
tine to be 82,000, of whom 64,000 have
to be completely supported out of the
funds sent from America. Thirty-two
hundred persons, before the war, were
enabled to live without charity, and
• the consul states that these people
would prefer to starve rather than to
accept direct assistance, and that it has
been necessary, in caring for them, to
do so by giving them employment
and paying them wages, or else to
make them loans against securities—
in some instances their household

JEWS AND THE NEW RUSSIA
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thereof might in itself have produced
—in the future United States of Rus-
sia—if not a completely Jewish State,
at least a local Jewish predominance.
As it is, the dispersion and chaos of
,communities wrought by the old
regime in its remorseless military
evacuations make artificial measures
necessary to guarantee their' national
culture. This is as much a Russian
as a Jewish interest, inasmuch as
moral disintegration' is apt to over-
take a community whose cohesion is
suddenly loosed. And it is a world-
intered, since the disappearance of any
human species, especially of a gifted
human species, is a loss to mankind.
The remedy—though national rights
on the Austrian plan would be an
admirable palliative—can only take
the shape of the concession to the
Jews of an undeveloped province of
this raw continent. It is probably in
Siberia that an adequate and suffi-
ciently empty territory could most
readily be found. To judge by "Di-
neo's" fascinating account of its "Far
Northeast," Siberia is still a terra
incognita. In this mighty land of the
future the Jews, opening up some vir-
gin region for the New Russia, could
also open up for themselves a new era
of political stability and self-govern-
ment tinder their own moral genius,
and contribute to save this sixth of
the earth from a sterile sameness.—
N. Y. American.

goods—and which they hope to repay
at the conclusion of the war.
$64,000 Per Month Minimum.
The least per capita amount to pre-
vent the population from starving, lie
declares, is $1 per month, so that a
minimum of $64,000 per month is nec-
essary; hut, inasmuch as this estimate,
which was only received here yester-
day, was made many months ago—On
'lily 31, 1916, to be exact—it is highly.
probable a larger sum is now required,
due to the increased cost of food and
fuel and to the fact that a larger num-
ber of the people arc undoubtedly des-
titute at this time.
The relief in Jerusalem has been di-
vided into fourteen separate items,
among which may be mentioned a gen-
eral weekly subvention amounting to
50 cents per month to the population;
special assistance to the sick and to
women in confinement; assistance to
institutions; loans against security;
loans for work giving; assistance to
soldiers and their families, and assist-
ance with food. There have also been
expenditures for relief in the cholera
epidemic, which assumed large propor-
tions, for soup kitchens, Passover
bread and hot tea and hot water
given to the people to induce them
to refrain from drinking unboiled wa-
ter during the cholera epidemic.
Once Charity Givers Destitute.
The report of the Jerusalem Com-
mittee states: "The longer the war
lasts, the greater the economic bur-
den becomes, so that many people
who until recently were well-to-do
and could give charity, are now them-
selves in the direst need and must
be saved from starvation. In this
class of aided ones the families of
many prominent scholars are to be
found.
"Special cases of general Jewish
interest frequently require immediate
cash outlay, which we could not help
taking under our direction, since the
sum placed at our disposal by the
Joint Distribution Committee con-
stitutes the only Jewish public cash
box. We have had to give immediate
assistance in cases of dangerous ill-
ness, death, where children have been
suddenly orphaned, and in many oth-
er emergencies. Thus we have saved
an important number of the danger-
ously ill and have cared for many
abandoned orphans."
Palestine Relief to Go On.
Accompanying the report, which
goes into lunch detail, both as to the
problem of relief throughout Pales-
tine and the neecIS to be met in the
future, there is a complete statement
of the actual disbursements in all of
those places which have reported to
Consul Glazebrook, and there are
complete receipts for the money
which has gone to the several com-
mittees.
This news will have the effect of
largely reassuring those Jews in
America who have contributed to the
relief fund, and who have taken an
especial interest in Palestine, for
while it was possible to get reports
from other countries to which relief
has been extended, this is the first re-
port received in America showing
what has actually been done in 'Pales-
tine out of the funds sent by the Joint
Distribution Committee.

DR. BETHMANN-HOLLWEG OF
JEWISH ORIGIN.

. The retirement of Dr. von Beth-
mann-Hollweg as chancellor of the
German Empire has brought to light
a very interesting fact in his ancestry.
Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg is the great-
great-grandson of a member of the
Jewish banking family of von Beth-
mann of Frankfort, whose daughter
married a Prussian squire named
Hollweg. The Bethmann family of
Frankfort were the chief bankers in
that city even before the Rothchilds
became firmly established. The for-
mer chancellor is another proof of
what great influence the Jews of
Europe have exerted in spite of the
anti-semitic feeling.

JACOB H. SCHIFF PROTESTS
RACE DISCRIMINATION
IN RED CROSS.

lesser privileges in time rendering
war services than other Americans.
May I be permitted, with the utn i ..... t
respect both for your high office ;Lill
for you personally, to give it as in v
opinion that proper consideration as 1,)
the effect of this action on the p;Irt
of the Department of State can hard-
ly have been given, or the action
have just taken through the Red Cnn,
would, as I am convinced, have bct
withheld.
I believe I need hardly add that in
speaking in the above individually I
have done this for illustrative pm
poses solely, in order to better clue ,
date the position in which thousamF,
nay, likely millions, of good Ameri-
cans have been placed by the coin-
munication from your department sew
to the American Red Cross District
Headquarters by the Director Gener.tI
of the Red Cross' military relief.
Very respectfully and faithfully
JACOB II. SCHIFF.
yours,

The following letter has been sent
to the Secretary of State by Jacob II.
Schiff:
The lion. Robert . Lansing, Secretary
of State, Washington, D C.
Dear Dlr. Secretary — Fifty-two
years ago, having immigrated from
Germany, I became an American by
niv own free choice, and ever since,
I believe I may say, my loyalty to
America, both in thought and in ac-
tion, has been as thorough and as in-
tense as that of any native American.
I may say that I have taken advan-
tage of every opportunity that has of-
fered itself to me to co-operate and to
aid in constructive work for the bet-
terment and strengthening of my
country in fact and in ideals. In
short, I have endeavored to be a good
citizen in the fullest sense of the word
as I understand it.
WELCOME RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR
I have brought up my children in
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the like spirit, and, now that the lat- has not rendered some service to 1111
ter have children of their own, I am
inanity," and of the home he said
sure that my children's children are
"People do not meet here as aristoeral
being raised under the like influences. nor as proletarians, but as human 1):•
Until now I have firmly believed
ings."
that naught could happen through
Russian Revolution for Mankind.
which, with the acquiescence of my
M.
Bakhmeteff then attempted to ex
Government, I might be placed in a
press his feelings of happiness and in-
different class from any other Ameri-
terest, and repeated that the Russiac
can. But, to my great chagrin and
revolution was for mankind. M
mortification, I find that in this I have
Chrystal Eastman said that Russia wa.
been mistaken.
Need I state what I am alluding to? leading America in democracy, and that
the Russian revolution had given in,
You, Mr. Secretary, within the last
and hope to internationalists the world
few days have announced through the
over.
American Red Cross that American
"No narrow, nationalistic spirit mad,
citizens of German, Austro-Hungarian,
the revolution," she said. "You wanted
Bulgarian or Turkish birth, loyal as
•
they may be to the United States, as it to he a revolution for the whole Nvorld
your hands to every
held
out
and
you
well as native Americans, the children
people, allied and enemy, and asked
of fathers born in the countries just
named, shall, in obedience to the them to join you. And you will teach
wishes of sonic of our allies, be ex- many things to America. You will teach
cluded from service to the cause of America that there can be no real
with the women left out."
humanity in the United Kingdom, democracy
Any indirect propaganda that may
France and allied countries.
have been in this speech did not disturb
Thus, the American Government has
Herbert Par-
not only acquiesced in these mortify- the audience, and when
sons,
chief
among
the
friends
of Rus-
ing dictates of our own allies, but it is
sian
Freedom,
spoke,
he
echoed
:Miss
almost like adding insult to injury to
have it proclaimed broadcast that cer- sons, chief among the Friends of Rus-
tain of its citizens, loyal as they may Eastman's sentiments concerning Rus-
sia's leading the United States in the
be to the United States, are to be
placed in a class by themselves, with matter of woman suffrage.

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