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CLIFTON AMU{ - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
VOL. III. NO. 24.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1918.
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Detroit Jews Ready for Service In
$7,000,000 Patriotic Fund Drive
JEWISH WAR RELIEF
AND WELFARE FUNDS
FOR 1918 INCLUDED
HUNDREDS OF JEWISH
MEN AND WOMEN WILL
BE ACTIVE WORKERS
United Jewish Charities and
Jewish Fresh Air Budgets for
Year to Be Raised Through
Community Union of City's
Social Agencies.
David A. Brown is Vice-Presi-
dent of Fund; Henry M. Fec-
himer is Director. Other Jews
Serve in Various Responsible
Capacities.
$410,000 IS TOTAL
TO JEWISH PURPOSES
JEWS WILL WORK SIDE
BY SIDE WITH NON-JEWS
Hundred's of Detroit's leading Jew-
ish men and women have enlisted
their full services as active workers
in the great Detroit Patriotic Fund
drive which begins on Monday, May
20, and extends to May 27. They
will serve on the various teams that
will canvass every man, woman and
youth i tithe city and environs. There
will be no distinct Jewish teams.
Jewish workers will be distributed
throughout the city and will serve
shoulder to shoulder with their Cath-
olic and Protestant negihbors and as-
sociates just as Jewish soldiers are
fighting shoulder to shoulder with
men of other creeds in this titanic
struggle of Democracy for Democ-
racy.
The idea of the Detroit Patriotic
Fund is Jewish, for the Jew has al-
ways favored federation of charitable
enterprises. Individual Jews are
playing a great part in the organiza-
tion of the Detroit l'atriotic Fund and
are lending their every ounce of en-
ergy to its ultimate success. In the
forefront is David A. Brown, the emi-
nently successful general director of
previous Jewish War Relief drives.
As head of the local Jewish War Re-
lief work and as director of the big
$5,000,000 Jewish Relief drive in New
York City last year, Mr. thrown has
acquired a knowledge and efficiency
in raising money for public purposes
that is a credit to himself and the
Jewish community of Detroit. Mr.
Brown's ability was readily recognized
by all the people of Detroit and his
appointment as Vice-President of the
Detroit Patriotic Fund followed. Mr.
Brown has spent all of his time for
the past three or four weeks in the
offices of the Fund on Griswold street.
He has truly enlisted in the "land
furors" for humanity.
' Henry M. Fechinier is a member of
the Board of Directors of the Fund.
- Help us, fellow Jews of America!
\Ve are starving and dying. Send us
food! Send us clothing! Send us
medical aid! Alleviate our terrible
sufferings. 0, Help us, Help us!!"
"Fins heartrendering cry from the
unfortunate Jews of blood-soaked Eu-
rope and Asia has been heard by the
Jews of Detroit during the past long
years of this devastating war and
they have responded nobly and gen-
erously. This year the cry is more in-
sistent and more urgent. A crisis is
fast approaching. The Jews of
America must answer in greater de-
gree. It is not enough that they give
nobly and generously. They must
sacrifice some of their own luxuries
and expensive conveniences and re-
spond to the very limit. The ques-
tion this year is not how much to
give, but how much to leave for
oneself. The Jews of America and
the Jews of Detroit must and will act
quickly that their fellow Jews across
the waters may not perish.
The cry of the suffering Jew is
mingled this year as never before with
the appeal for succor from the suffer-
ing Pole, and Belgian, and Rou-
manian, and Armenian and every
other people who have felt the cruel
hand of the Prussian tyranny. It is
the cry of suffering humanity which
is expressed in no particular tongue
and which concerns no particular
race or creed. The appeal for aid
from Europe comes from humanity
to the people of America, from Cath-
olic. Protestant and Jew, to Catholic,
Protestant and . 1 CIA'. It Will be an-
swered in the spirit of the Red Cross,
Which alleviates suffering universally.
Flue Detroit Patriotic Fund com-
bines all pleas for money fur war re-
lief purposes for every creed and
nationality. Besides the civilian war
relief, it includes the funds of the
Y. M. C. A. the K. of C. and the Jew-
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These Public Spirited Men Are Among the Leaders In Detroit's Greatest Communal Charitable Effort
DAVID A. BROWN,
Vice-President, Detroit Patriotic Fund.
EMORY W. CLARK,
President, Detroit Patriotic Fund.
HENRY M. FECHIMER,
Director, Detroit Patriotic Fund.