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JEWISH WAR FUNDS
(Continued From Page 1.)
ish .11'eBare Board which administer
r e spectively to the welfare of Protes-
tant. Catholic and Jewish soldiers
and sailors in camp. on the seas, and
on the hatletield.
$7,0011,(100 is the amount of money
asked of the people of the prosperous
city of Detroit for the entire year. It
will cotes all contributions to the
sari National \Var Funds and Lo-
cal Funds and will also include the
budget 01 the newly formed federa-
tion of Detroit social sunny agencies
known as the Detroit Community
1 . nion. The entire amount w ill be
distribut e d as follws:
National War Funds.
.\ inerican Red
XI:among
Cross
1,500,00u
Y. NI. C. .1
Knights of Colum-
5:10,000
bus
Jewish \Var Suffer-
325,1S I
ers ......
.1inerican Commit.
tee — Armenian
and Syrian Re-
200.0111
lief
130,100
V. by. C. .\
\Var Camp Com-
Recrea-
munity
tion .......
Salvation .bents
Jewish \V elf are
.bruit
lioard
and Navy
112.300
.15.0u0
'5,000
$5. (1 47,511)I
Local War Funds.
League
\Voinan's
S
for Sc r vice
\Volum'', Commit-
tee, National
Council of De-
fense
.\ inerican Fund for
French \Voundt:il
Lihert ■ Rand
\ Var Stamps Sav-
ings ('ominittie
(expenses)
\Vayne County \\*m-
il:lard
Board o f Com-
merce. Patriotic
\Vork
111.000
IN DETROIT AND WAYNE COUNTY
8,51111
0,11101
7.500
30,0011
151000
30000
Community priors (42 local
agencies)
107,11110
,4110
$ 6,61590 0
t: se r e
F 1111 d
To PATRIOTIC AMERICANS
500,000
57,115.400
Jewish War Quotas.
Jewi.li \Vat- Relief quota of
$325,081 for I ietroit was decided upon
by the national committec and the
local C01111111( tCe. The .11110Wit to be
raised this . ■ ear for ,le \visit \Var Re-
lief for the entire States is
$15,Do0.ono, which is but 50 5:d greater
than the national fund of $10,11011.01ill
last year. Inasmuch as the Jews of
Detroit contributed over $2511,00:1 to
the Jew,ish \Var Pend last year
there is no reason w hatever it by
they cannot subscribe v; ry much
more this year.
The national fund for Jewish \\": I-
fare \Vork in the army iind iia‘y is
$111011.11:10, This is not too large a
stint for the vitally important mork
this agency is performing among Jets -
ish boys in the camps and in the
trench,. The work of this still:11,1M
organization is di tailed in another
column of this issue of The Jewish
Chronicle, and a reading of the story
of its activities \\ ill com ince any
patriotic Jew that it is his solemn
duty h i support the J. W. II. with his
dollars. The quota for Detroit for
this fund has beet set at $25.1100. The
total amount that trill In: taken out
of the Di trait Patroitic Fund for
Jewish war purposes is therefore
$.125,1810.
Besides the war funds, ItOt Jrteish
social service agencies base presented
their nearly budgets with other social
sent ice institutions ni the Detroit
Community Union. The United Jew-
ish Charities requires 849.761.55 as its
minimum expense for the fiscal year,
and the JeNvish Fresh Air Fund w ill
receive 80..1111.14. The Jewish chari-
ties are ilmong the largest sectarian
organizations in the l -ontinunity
Union. The foIM‘ving is the net ex-
pense Midgets of all organizations in
the Community Union:
t
•ts NI
A•sa‘,.,t,-.1 Charities
17.s61
IVelfare
5 , uIi40
Lo Cot. t Home
10500 70
la Lie.' N1111. Fund
3.395 00
tureau of Catholic Societit ,
Itu eau of Corrnmental Hese:Hall 30,256 65
3,111.
oBureau
enttal
7s0 7o
hilLten'x Aol Societt
69.7605 9
liblretCs Free Hospital
1941.00
lase Street Settlement
500 00
kill muni,y Vnton
811.35
trtroit Home Nursing As•..
4, '96 00
truant Crhan League
retroit 116tv.ing Association
40.207 25
lorence rtmentun Home
19,591 79
orti Itcp•ldic
8.'12 00
tSranklin Street Settlement
4,223.18
Protective League
' t iris' 1'a truitte League
27,371.06
km, of Providence Auxiliary
1,406.65
Fund
louse of Provident e
6,301 14
w ish Fresh Air Fund
6.594.31
.eague of I atholic Sooette
10.9,039
Nlichigan thildren's Home
I tt,059.53
Michigan tiostniA School
.205.00
Psychopathic Clinic
1.63200
Phyllts
heat!), Horne
6.5!152
So this Wright Nursery
15900,00
Salvation Arno:
22,582
57
Salvation Arms liescne Home
4.612. 9 8
St. Agnes llotle
16,006.51
St. Frallt, Home
5.346.55
St. Jtoeph Horne
28.850.00
St. Vincent de Paul Society
11,054.37
St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum
7,417.52
Thompson Home
15.86
Tau Beta
49.761.55
Cnited Jewish charities
6,800.00
Visiting Housekeeper At•toriAl1011,
37,941,530
Visiting Nurses Association
2R,200.21
Woman's Hospital
Young Women's Christian Assn 35.766.70
That relative or friend of yours—strong, healthy and
hearty—who marched away to war just the tither day—
Have you thought about what he has given up to fight
YOUR battles for you—that YOU and YOUR loved ones
might be spared the awful fate of the Belgian people?
He has sacrificed his job, his personal comfort—every-
thing, that makes life worth living at home—and he has done
it willingly, gladly.
impossible for them to arrange their payments conveniently.
The result was that the burden of giving fell upon compara-
tively a few.
The Detroit Patriotic Fund has been formed so that all
funds for all war service and local charity are subscribed at
one time for the period of one year—June I st, 1918 to June
I st, 1919—and payments can be made to these organizations
through the Patriotic Fund in monthly installments, if de-
sired.
EVERYBODY MUST DO HIS BEST TO WIN THE WAR
Each organization will receive from the Patriotic Fund all
How are you helping HIM and the millions of other men
the money that it needs to carry on its work for a whole year.
that are doing the same that he is doing?
Under this plan they will not have to worry about money
Perhaps you have bought Liberty Bonds—perhaps you
matters but can give full attention to the work of carrying out
bought them so heavily that it's a hard job to keep up the
their various activities.
payments. If you have, you are doing a splendid thing, but
Those who subscribe may state which organizations are to
after all you are not SACRIFICING anything—you are
benefit; otherwise each subscription will be distributed ac-
simply making a good investment.
cording to the requirements of the members of the Patriotic
If you gave ALL you earned, you wouldn't be giving as
Fund.
much as that friend or relative who marched away the other
The Patriotic Fund is indorsed by working men and wo-
day. Then, are you willing to give a very small part of what
men, business and professional people, the Roman Catholic,
you earn to make things easier for him while he is fighting
Protestant and Jewish Churches, all of whom are working to-
YOUR battles?
gether to make the Patriotic Fund a success.
In the past twelve months you gave something to the Red
This is your great duty—your great opportunity to do
Cross or the Y. M. C. A. or the Knights of Columbus, or the
your share in this big war for humanity. It is your chance to
Jewish War Fund or the Salvation Army or to the other
GIVE TO THE POINT OF SACRIFICE and even beyond—
organizations doing war relief work. And perhaps you have
and when our boys return victorious you can look them
given something to charity work in Detroit.
squarely in the face and say "I could not go but I did my full
Was the total amount you gave as much as you COULD
share over here."
have given? Was it as much as you SHOULD have given,
Do your best—which is your share. Give all that you
compared with what our boys "over there" are giving?
ought to give to the Detroit Patriotic Fund. Remember that
EVERY LOYAL AMERICAN WILL SUPPORT THE
your gift is for a whole year.
DETROIT PATRIOTIC FUND
THE PATRIOTIC FUND SOLICITOR IN
It is the patriotic duty of every American to bear part of
YOUR DISTRICT I1AS INSTRUCTIONS TO
the actual burden of war—and every patriotic American is
CALL UPON YOU—IF HE FAILS TO DO SO,
willing to do his part.
SEND IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE
The numerous "drives" in the past have been somewhat
PATRIOTIC FUND HEADQUARTERS—DO
confusing, and while thousands of people have contributed,
NOT FAIL IN YOUR DUTY IF YOU HAP
many have not done so—some because they were not asked
PEN TO BE OVERLOOKED.
directly to do so, others because the many appeals made it
DETROIT PATRIOTIC FUND
BENEFITING THE PATRIOTIC FUND
Associated Charities, Animal Welfare Associa•
Bon, Bay Court Home, Babies' Milk Fund, Bureau
of Catholic Charities, Bureau of Governmental
Research, Central Nurses' Bureau, Children's Aid
Society, Children's Free Hospital, Chase Street
Settlement, Community Union, Detroit liome Nun.,
ing Association, Detroit Urban League, Detroit
!lousing Association, Florence Crittenden Home,
Ford Republic, Franklin Street Settlement, Girls'
Protective League, Girls' Patriotic League, House
of Providence Auxiliary, House of Providence
Red Cross
V. M. C. A.
Knights of Columbus
Jewish War Fund
Salvation Army
War Camp Community Recreation Fund
V. W. C. A.
American Society (or Armenian and Syrian
Relief
' Oscar B. Marx
Honorary President
Emory W. Clark
President
Tracy W. McGregor
Vice-President
Joseph B. Schlotman
Vice-President
David A. Brown
Vice-President
William M. Walker
Vice-President
Vice-President
Dr. A. G. Studer
Detroit Trust Co.
Treasurer
W. J. Norton
Secretary
Milk Fund, Jewish Fresh Air Fund, League of
Catholic Women, Michigan Children's Home So-
ciety, Michigan Hospital School, Bachopathle
Clinic, Phyllis Wheatley Dome, Sophia Wright
Nursery, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Rescue
Ilinne, St. Agnes Home, St. Francis Home, St.
Joseph'x Home, St. Vincent tie Paul Society, St.
Vincent's Orphan Asylum, Thompson Home, Tau
Beta, United Jewish Charities, Visiting House-
keeper Association, Visiting Nurse Association.
Woman's Hospital, Y. W. C. A.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
David A. Brown
Clarence H. Booth
Emory W. Clark
Howard A. Coffin
James Couzens
J. J. Crowley
Martin E. Galvin
A. R. Demory
George Engel
Henry Fechimer
Emory L. Ford
Edsel Ford
Luman W. Goodenough
Abner E. Lamed
Henry M. Leland
W. D. Mahon
Tracy W. McGregor
George F. Monaghan
Ernest A. O'Brien
Harry L Pierson
G. D. Pope
John R. Russel
John W. Staley
A. G. Studer
J. B. Schlotman
B. E. Taylor
Allan A. Templeton
Wm. M. Walker
Richard H. Webber
GENERAL. CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN—ABNER E. LARNED
The stuns given above cover merely the net
amounts secured by general solicitation from
Individual contributions. The total gross ex•
'tense budgets of the institutions here listed,
the ensuing year amount to $1,250,045.00.
I
Lord Reading May Speak.
The week of the l'atriotic Fund
Drive will be a most interesting one
Great public meetings will be held
each day. Men of national and inter-
national fame will be guests of the
Telephone Cadillac 7461
Headquarters 100 Griswold Street
'iMiN•10
city and will speak to the citizens.
lion. James \V. Gerard, former U. S.
Ambassador to Germany, will address
a mass meeting in the Arena, May 18.
A. Mitchell Palmer, custodian of alien
enemy property amounting to more
Noon rallies will be held daily in re-enacted every day
than half a billion dollars, will speak fund on May 13, unless international
at the Board
at which there will of
at one of the meetings. Unusually 1 questions arise that may make his Cadillac Square
Commerce when the hundreds of
many
novel
"stunts"
to
entertain
he
great interest attaches to the hoped presence in 'Washington imperative.
Fund 'salesmen will gather to report
for visit of British Ambassador Lord1 Theodore Roosevelt is also listed as and enlighten the crowds. The stir-
their efforts and receive added in-
Reading who has tentatively promised one of the notables who will be heard. ring scenes during previous Liberty
Loan and Red Cross drives will be spiration.
to speak in Detroit on behalf of the here next week.