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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

The ewish Woman To the Subscribers an

THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY OF JEWISH GIRL DESCRIBES HOR-
ROR OF FLIGHT FROM
THE COUNCIL OF JEW-
ISH WOMEN.
KOVNO.

This year the Council of Jewish
Women celebrates its twenty-fifth
birthday, and the committee on exten-
sion is most anxious to nuke a record.
A lightning campaign is being con-
ducted in every city where there is a
Section and new Sections are being
formed all over the country.
There. should be no question in a
Jewish woman's mind as to the ad-
visability of her being a member of
the Council. The mere fact that it is
the largest body of women united for
the cause of Judaism disassociated
from the synagogue and not con-
nected with any one phase of belief
or ritual should appeal to all. As a
national organization the Council is
affiliated with the National Federa-
tion of Women's Clubs, and as such
is interested in all the big movements
which affect the lives of all women,
and American women in particular.
As a purely Jewish organization ,
everyone knows the good the Coun-'.
cil has done and is doing, in stimulat-
ing the religious consciousness of
every woman, thus reaching the Sun-
day School, the Synagogue and the
Home. The specific work along Jew-
ish lines by each Section depends
'upon the demands of that community,
but truly we can be proud of our na-
tional work in guiding and protecting
immigrant women and girls. It is the
one Jewish national organization for
women conducted on strictly club
lines, teaching the club spirit and fos-
tering tolerance and respect among
all shades of Judaism. Where for
purely cultural purposes the Ortho
dox and Reformed can meet without •
'friction, and where the endeavor is al-
ways not to offend the most observ-
hw. If only in this regard the Coun-
cil has been a liberal education and a
tremendous force in all large cities,
and the woman who remains outside
the Council because she claims she
can get nothing from it, should re-
member perhaps she can give some-
thing to it. In this day of organiza-
tion it should be the proud boast of
every intelligent Jewess that she be-
longs to a united body of women of
her own faith whose members alone
can make themselves felt where voice
carries weight whenever it is uplifted,
and in whose unity there is surely the
capacity for such constructive work.

ROSE STRUNSKY TRANSLATES
JOURNAL OF LEO TOLSTOI.

The brilliant Strunsky family of
New York, some of the members of
which have achieved fame in various
branches of art and literature, is in
the limelight again, with the transla-
tion of "The Journal of Leo Tolstoi
from 1895 to 1899" by Rose Strunsky.
Miss Strunsky visited Tolstoi in
May, 1906, and in her book says: "He
told me that he was a religious thinker
and not a politcal one, and that to' his
mind the revolution in Russia would
. take 50 years to develop." That was
onjy 11 years ago and events have
proved Tolstoi a poor prophet.
A sister of Miss Strunsky,- the beau...
tiful Anna Strunsky, who is also a
brilliant writer, is now Mrs. English
Walling and collaborated with the
late Jack London in his volume, "The
M a c c-K cmpt on ' Letters," which
evoked considerable discussion.
Anna Strunsky has insisted in
keeping her own name after marriage,
declaring that she refuses to sub-
merge her individuality in a change of
name.

MONTAGUE GLASS IN AUTO
SMASH

The Women's Proclamation Society,
the national woman's organization for
Jewish war relief, has just had printed
as part of its statement of activities
the story of Lorena Cohen, who was
one of the few young women refugees
who escaped from Kovno, in Lithua- '
nia, after German. afo
issi„
Cohen is now a rest ent
emphis,
Tenn.
bliss Cohen narrates the fact that
her journey to , America took five
months, and that before she and oth-
ers reached Holland they suffered in-
describably. "We were huddled to-
gether in cold, close, dark cars, with-
out a drop of water or a bite of bread;
half frozen and nearly starved," she
said. "Our fears were unutterable."
Miss Cohen described the scenes
when the' Jews were driven out. of
their !Wines and the men were torn
from their families and impressed into
warfare, many to return so badly
wounded as to be unrecognizable. She
said that later part of the population
was allowed to return.
"Then a few months later," she con-
tinued, "came the first German air-
ships, from which bombs were thrown
into the city and hundreds of inno-
cent ones were killed in the streets.
Every day brought some new misfor-
tune, and we passed through many
periods of shame and pain, and it is
both shame and pain to be compelled
to narrate that the then Czar regard-
ed us Jews in Kovno all as spies, and
that we were summarily ordered at
one time to leave every town within
100 kilometers of the front or to for-
feit our lives.
"Of the 90,000 inhabitants of Kovno,
80,000 were Jews and the rest were
Poles. Thousands of us, therefore,
had to leave our homes, our business,
everything we held near and dear.
We were compelled to go without fur-
niture, without clothes, without food.
To go—where? Only one haven was
held out to us—this was Siberia!
"Everywhere we went we came
upon countless other thousands wan-
dering as we were wandering, suffer-
ing as we were suffering, without food,
without drink. We saw, horses so
weary that they, like the weaker ones
among us, fell by the wayside: Most
of us, indeed, preferred death to life,
and often hoped for it. We seldom
spoke. We were not. in the mood to
talk, nor had we strength to converse.
Over the countryside, here and .there,
flames burst into the air as whole vil-
•lages were'laid low in ashes.
"Ultimately, I myself, after hard-
ships so terrible as to make my mind
concerning them almost a blank,
reached Dilna. When that city,fell on
Sept. 5, 1915, we- were once again en-
abled to return to KoVno. But things
were not as we had left them. - The
city had been bombarded by the Ger-
mans and everywhere were signs of
plunder and ruin."
Miss Cohen said that all that kept
the people from starvation was aid
given by Americans.

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PRAYER BOOKS TO SOLDIERS

Philadelphia.—The Jewish Publication
Society of America has issued and has
distributed free of charge thousands of
copies of an abridged prayer book
among Jews in the army and navy of
the United States. This prayer book
has been prepared under the direction
of representatives of various sections
of the Jewish community so that it can
be used by both Orthodox and Reform
Jews.
The prayer book consists of 170 pages,
contains the Hebrew text and the Eng-
lish translation; is handy in size, and is
bound in khaki just suitable for the kit.
It is estimated that there will be at
least 60,000 Jewish soldiers and sailors,
and the society intends to supply a copy
to every Jew in the service.

New York.—Montague Glass, short
story writer and playwright, was injured
in an automobile accident which oc-
curred as he was on the way to his
home at New Rochelle.
Mr. Glass was thrown from the ma-
chine and sustained lacerations of the
hands and face. The accident occurred
Dr. Joseph M. Shapiro of Denver,
in the evening. The driver of the car Col., has been appointed. a contract sur-
was blinded by the glare of head lights 'geon in the United States army ' with -
and drove the machine into a post.
the rank of first lieutenant.

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