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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
Commission Goes to Holland to Estab-
lish War Relief Bureau
Dr. Boris Bogen and Max Senior Will Aid Distribution of Ameri-
can Fund in Europe—Carry Credentials from the
United States to Neutral Governments.
Announcement that the Jewish war
relief bodies have reached a solution of
the problem of distribution of Ameri-
can relief moneys in Europe, through
the sending abroad of a commission
duly accredited by the United States
' 'Government, was made by Albert Lu-
cas, secretary of the Joint Distribution
:Committee of the Funds for Jewish
'War Sufferers, of which Felix M. War-
)3urg is the chairman.
The commission, which is composed
of Dr. Boris Bogen and Max Senior,
has left an Atlantic port for a port it
.Europe and will establish in Holland a
bureau of the Joint Distribution Com-
inittee during the duration of the war
and for purposes of rehabilitation after
the war, with such clerical and other
employes as may be necessary to ad-
minister the relief work for the Jews
in all the war zones and in Palestine.
The commision, through the new bu-
reau, will co-operate with the commit-
tee of Dutch Jews that has been formed
in Amsterdam under the chairmanship
of Frederick Solomon Van Nierop,
president of the Amsterdamsche Bank
in Amsterdam. The committee of Dutch
Jews, acting with the bureau of the
Joint Distribution Committee, will ap-
portion remittances from the $10,000,000
fund and subsequent funds transmitted
from America for the relief of Jews in
the warring countries.
Dr. Bogen and Mr. Senior carry
with them letters from the American
State Department to the American Am-
bassadors in the neutral and Allied
countries, urging that they be given
every opportunity to successfully perform
the duties allotted to them. The estab-
lishment of this bureau in a neutral
country will permit American relief
funds to be distributed directly to the
war sufferers in all the war zones, and
is the. first step of the kind which has
been taken.
Dr. Bogen was born in Moscow, Rus-
sia, in 1870, and came to the United
States in 1891, graduating from New
York University in 1895. He is na-
tionally known as a social worker and
has been connected with the New Yort-
Educational Alliance and has been r
teacher' in the Baron De Hirsch Trade
School and the Hebrew Technical In-
stitute of New York. From 1900 to
1904 he was principal of the Baron De
Hirsch Agricultural School at Wood-
bine, N. J., and he was superintendent
of the United Hebrew Charities in Cin-
cinnati, O., from '1904 to 1916. Up to
his departure for Europe he was field
secretary of the National Conference
of Jewish Charities.
He has traveled extensively in both
the United States and Europe, and har.
made an intensive study of problems
affecting philanthropic disbursements.
Mr. Senior was born in Cincinnati,
0., in 1862 and is a retired merchant.
having devoted his entire time for the
last twenty years to social work. He
was one of the organizers of the Jew-
ish Federation of Charities in Cincin-
nati and in 1900 initiated the National
Conference of Jewish Charities.
As president of the National Jewish
Charities of Cincinnati, Mr. Senior has
been associated in social work with Dr.
Bogen for the past twelve years. He
is a member of the National Conference
of Charities and Correction, a director
of the School for Jewish Communal
Workers and was first among Jewish
philanthropists to emphasize the neces-
sity of professional training for Jewish
social workers, establishing scholarships
for this purpose as early as 1902.
Both Dr. Bogen and Mr. Senior will
remain in Europe for the duration of
the war.
DR. COFFEE RECOMMENDS
CHANGE IN B'NAI B'RITH
SOCIAL SERVICE.
Rabbi Rudolph I. Coffee, director
of social service for the B'Nai B'rith,
who recently accepted a call to the
pulpit of Temple Judea in the Law-
dale district of Chicago, is in San
Francisco visiting relatives before en-,
tering his new field. He expects to
leave in the latter part of August for
Chicago. Dr. Coffee's term with the
B'nai B'rith expired August 1. He
says that he has recommended that
instead of filling the position of na-
tional director which he has held for
two years, trained social service
workers should be engaged on salary
in each district of the order. This
would enable the workers so engaged
to do considerable field work, he says.
During his stay Dr. Coffee addressed
a number of meetings.
COL. CUTLER SAYS JEWISH DETROIT JEWISH YOUNG MEN
RECEIVE ARMY
WELFARE BOARD WILL
MISSIONS. COM-
CO-OPERATE WITH •
Y. M. C. A.
Isadore Levin and Nathan Komer
Are First Lieutenants in Officers'
Jews Will Use Shacks at Training
Reserve—Other Jewish Boys
Camps With Gentiles—Estimates
Accepted for Second Train-
Jewish Soldiers Will Total 10
ing Camp at Fort
Per Cent. of Draft Army.
Sheridan.
Washington.—Col. Harry Cutler, of
The Detroit Jewish community is 11/C11
Providence, R. I., was in Washington
represented
in the list of young men
last week in conference with the Sec-
retaries of Navy and War and with who received commissions as officers in
Raymond Fosdick, on the subject of the various branches of the military
welfare work among the Jewish soldiers service of the nations. The boys Mi.,
in the army and navy, both at home and answered the call to the colors in May
abroad. Co-operation was promised and who sacrificed business and proles-
between the military branches, the Y. sional careers for an opportunity to be-
M. C. A. and the Jewish committee, of come executives in the United States
which Col. Cutler is chairman, and the armies, completed an intensive course of
other members of which are Dr. Cyrus training of three months' duration at
Adler of Philadelphia, Vice Chairman Fort Sheridan, Ill. Not all who at-
S. S. Rosenstraum of New York and tended the camp and remained for the
Treasurer Judge Julian W. Mack of last examinations received commissions,
Chicago. Col. Cutler said: "The fullest but this is no reflection whatever on
co-operation now exists between the their ability. Many eminently capable
Y. M. C. A. and other agencies on all Young men were rejected for minor
work of a social or athletic character physical defects unknown even to them-
and the same uniform with different in- selves. Many of these have announced
signia has been suggested by the Secre- their intention to accept the rank of
tary of War. Whenever formal re- non-commissioned officers in order to
ligious services are conducted, the same fight in France.
Among those who received commis-
shacks are utilized by the rabbis officiat-
slims
are:
ing. In due course Jewish chaplains
Isadore Levin, First Lieutenant, field
will be appointed. in order that inside
the camp there will be no need of civil- artillery reserve.
Nathan A. Romer, First Lieutenant,
ian ministers. I firmly believe that spir-
itual consolation to the soldier or sail- in fantry reserve.
Max Smitt, Second Lieutenant, in-
or should be dispensed by regularly ap-
fantry
reserve.
chaplains
who
have
enlisted
for
pointed
Julius Born, Second Lieutenant, field
that duty.
"Outside the camp the usual activi- artillery
reserve. Second Lieutenant,
Eli Levinson,
ties of a social center in special build-
infantry reserve.
ings leased or built adjacent to the can-
Among those who received commis-
tonments will be inaugurated.
sions in various technical branches o'
"It is estimated that at least 10 per the army without previous military
cent. of the national army, which is 7 training,. Mr. Michael Victor passed the
per cent. greater than our ratio of pop- examinations for the ordnance corps
ulation, will be called to the colors very creditably and was commissioner
through the draft act of men of Jewish First Lieutenant.
faith.
The following will attend the second
"This was about the percentage of training camp course at Fort Sheridan:
our men in the service in the regular Alexander Tolchan, Gerald May, Harry
army, the navy and the National Guard Brown.
Most of the men commissioned at the
prior to the entrance of the United
States in the war. Thus in the pres- training camp will be ordered for serv-
ent draft it is fair to assume that out ice at the various cantonments for the
of an army of 650,000 we shall have at vast army of conscripts who will be
called. out in September. Michigan con-
least 60,000 men of Jewish faith."
Col. Cutler also suggested to the mil- scripts will train at Battle Creek.
itary secretaries the wisdom of sending
American troops to the eastern front. hearten the 30,000,000 man power in
He said: "The psychology of the situa- Russia than anything I know of.
"Incidentally, many Jewish men, for-
tion is in my opinion that if we sent
one or two divisions to the eastern war mer Russian subjects, would cheerfully
zone and the soldiers of the oldest dem- go to fight for the land of their nativ-
ocracy, the United States, fought shoul- ity, while simultaneously fighting for
der to shoulder with the soldier of the the land of their adoption, this great re-
newest democracy, it would do more to public.
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