THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
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The Jewish Woman
JEWISH WOMEN URGED TO
SEND SWEETS TO SOLDIERS.
Mrs. Maurice Goldenberg Heads
Movement in Detroit Initiated by
Stage Women of New York.
Detroit Jewish women who desire
to do their "bit" in the furtherance of
"making the world safe for democ-
racy" have an opportunity to do some
constructive work by taking part in
the movement initiated by the Stage
Women's War Relief organization
with headquarters in New York. This
body of practical women, realizing
that taking part in the fads of mili-
tary drilling and target practice can-
not be of any value to the country,
have concentrated their energies to
providing the men • at the front with
preserves and sweets of all kinds.
Mrs. Maurice Goldenberg, of 131
Putnam avenue, is in charge of the
movement in Detroit, and urges all
women to co-operate by sending sup-
plies. She has offered a room at her
home as headquarters for Detroit
women.
An urgent cry has come from
France for sweetstuffs for the sol-
diers. Sugar creates heat, energy and
resistance, yet French rations are al-
most entirely without it, as the beet
fields are in the hands of the Germans.
Jars of preserves of all kinds are
desired; as well as tins of cocoa and
packages of sugar. Jells.do not travel
as well as preserves and jams, but
will be accepted. Containers must be
of glass with tops of tin or glass, af-
ter sealing with paraffin. When you
send a jar, paste your name and ad-
dress on it. The committee says the
soldiers will appreciate it far more if
it has this personal touch.
Fruit collected here will be sent to
the Twelfth Night club at the Jam
Kitchen, New York City, where it
will be sent abroad tpider the direc-
tion of the Stage Women's War Re-
lief fund. To defray packing and
transportation charges every woman
contributing fruit to the Detroit head-
quarters is asked to include 25 cents
expense money.
Money contributions are welcome
from those women who do not do
their own preserving.
BICUR CHOLEM JUNIORS
MOONLIGHT.
One of the most interesting affairs
for the coming week will be the•fifth
annual moonlight to be given by the
Bicur Cholem Juniors, benefit of the
needy sick. Tuesday evening, August
14. The boat will leave the First
street dock at 8:30 p. m. The com-
mittee on arrangements has complet-
de its plans and promises a most
pleasing diversified program. The
steamer Put-in-Bay has been char-
tered to carry the members of the so-
ciety and its friends.
In addition to helping. the needy
sick of Detroit, the society has aided
the war relief campaign and taken
Part in the Red Cross work. The
following compose the committee in
charge of the excursion: Harry Satos-
ky, chairman; Miss Helen E. Weis-
berger, Miss Clara Gladstone, Jack
Behrman, E. Rosenthal, Harry Stone,
Joseph Miller. Tickets are obtainable
from any of the above or at the dock.
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THE "CHURBAN" OF WARSAW.
The horrors of ill-fated Warsaw are
so appalling that no pen is powerful
enough to describe them adequately.
New "Kinoth" would have to be writ-
ten to express the terrible weight of
woe that is bearing down upon that
great Jewish community and crush-
ing it to the point of annihilation.
A letter that has just been received
in New York City attempts t6 give
a glimpse of the situation, as it exist-
ed toward the end of last June. The
writer fails utterly to express the ter-
rible anguish that is rending his soul,
that is struggling vainly against the
limitations of modern phraseology.
Yet the very omissions from the let-
ter are in themselves eloquent of the
great Polish city, now prostrate and
all but destroyed.
Here is a part of the letter. Most
of it must be withheld from publica-
tion, in order not to betray the iden-
tity of the writer, of whom all that
can be said here is that he is one of
the most reliable men in Warsaw with
an international reputation as a work-
er for his people.
"Death by starvation—Hungerstot
—no longer has an abstract meaning.
We see it here, everywhere, at every
street corner, in every alley, in every
hovel. It stalks the highways and the
byways.
"Jewish mothers — our Noshim
Rachmonioth — rejoice when their
babes die. At least, then they are
free from the pangs which have been
gnawing at their vitals * * * .
"Our best people are cutting the
beautiful hair from their daughters'
heads to buy bread for starving babes
* * *
"Children of 4 and 5 years have be-
come so weakened, so sickened, that
they must be carried like babes in
arms * * * .
"Fathers who are on the battle-
lines will return, if they ever return,
to find. instead of the half-dozen or
more babes they kissed good-bye
when they responded to the call to
join the colors, three, maybe two, or
none at all.
"How long will our woe endure?
From whence will come our help? A
commission has been sent to Switzer-
land. , to try and get a little something
to keep our soup-kitchens going. But
I doubt the success of the commis-
sion.
"Yet our soup-kitchens must be
kept going, somehow. Three thou-
sand babes depend on them to keep
them barely alive. The parents try
to find a crust somewhere—they have
relinquished their places in the 'bread-
line' to the children, who are falling
victims to hunger-typhoid.
"Help us! Rouse America! She is
our only hope. If America fails us we
arc lost!
"Why must our children suffer so?
Why have we all had to suffer these
three terrible years of unmitigated
woe?
"Rouse America! Beg it to send
money at least for the little ones."
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WOODWARD
Charley White, Kid Herman, the
featherweight, Harry Lewis and many
others.
With the exception of the Irish no
race has produced so many good
fighters as the Hebrew.
The present-day champions, NVith
the exception of McCoy, are tip to
the average of the old days.
Leonard certainly is greater than
the two champions who came before
him, and, unlike either Welsh or
Ritchie, is willing to risk his crow%
now and then.
Lewis is a great fighter—shift\,
clever and hard hitting.
Levinsky made a name for himself
as an iron man when he fought two
or three times a week against the be , t
men of his class. He won his title
from Jack Dillon, in itself no easy
task.
Al McCoy, generally recognized
middleweight champion on account of
his one-round victory over George
Chip two or three years ago, manages
to hang on to the title because no
middleweight has been found able to
knock him out in ten rounds, and Al
won't play unless it's a ten-round no-
decision fight.—Brooklyn Citizen.
PUGILISTIC RANKS INVADED
BY HEBREWS WHO HOLD
FOUR OF SEVEN WORLD'S
TITLES.
A glance over the list of our boxing
champions reveals the rather unusual
fact that, of seven divisions in Amer-
ica, four of the champions are He-
brews.
A list of their real names probably
would not be recognized even by the
Most ardent boxing fan—Benjamin
Leiner, Gershon Mendiloff, Al Ru-
dolph and Barney Levinsky. Leiner,
of course, is Leonard; Mendiloff is
better known as Ted Lewis, and Ru-
dolph fights as Al McCoy.
They hold the lightweight, welter-
weight, middleweight and light heavy-
weight crowns among them.
All of which reminds us that some
of our greatest fighters have been
Jewish.
Joe Choynsky, than whom there was
never a gamer or greater fighter at
his weight, is a Hebrew.
Abe Attell, in his prime the most
wonderful of feathers, is Jewish.
The list includes Leach Cross,
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