PACE EIGHT
J. W. B. APPEALS FOR
100 MORE WORKERS
BETWEEN AGES OF 31-50
Jewish Welfare Board to Send Workers
is Trenches, Billets, and to "No
Man's Land"--60,000 Jews
in the Service Now.
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
ate need of 100 workers for overseas
service.
"The possibilities for national service
at the front challenges the best talent
of the leathers of education and indus-
try—men willing to face hardship and
possibly danger, in order to cheer and
inspire the troops of our faith who are
war-weary. or homesick, and who are
facing extraordinary temptations. It
calls for the highest type of American
leadership, and no 111;111, whether bank
or college president, or captain of in-
dustry, is too big for this patriotic job.
"Every person sent must be in ac-
cord with the war policy and principles
of the United States, and believe thor-
oughly in the aim and the necessity of
the war. (Mr representatives are men
of profound loyalty to our country and
her allies.
"Tim NVar Departtnent of the United
States has given this Board franchise
to become an auxiliary corresponding
to the Young Nfen's Christian .\
anon and the Knights of Columhus, to
minister to the spiritual, mental and
moral welfare of the men of our faith
called tic the .colors. The extension of
our work abroad must mipeal to the
.Nmerican Jew ish citizenry as no other
call fur civilian service at this mo-
ment. The efficiency with which this
Board will discharge its obligations to
our government, to our men and to the
communities they have left behind. will
depend entirely upon the self-sacritice.
patriotism, tact :mil zeal with which
this call is answered by the innumerable
public-spirited leaders of Jewish faith.
to whom it is extended.
Oq hundred welfare workers will
He sent overseas shortly for service
among Jewish soldiers and sailors in
France, according to a statement issued
by Colonel !tarry Cutler, Chairman of
the Jewish Welfare Board, United
States Army and Navy. who Its been
ill Washington where he !mole arrange-
ments for the dispatch of the first
quota. Colonel Cutler is a member of
a committee of six that will next week
visit the Chaplain's Training School at
Camp Taylor, in company with the
Assistant Secretary of War.
The Jewish Welfare Board, respond-
ing to the insistent demand of Jewish
Imp: with the American fighting forces
for seen of their own faith who min-
ister to their spiritual ;Ind religious
needs, has issued a call for one hun-
dred especially qualified workers. The
Board is anxious to enlist the services
of men between thirty-one and fifty to
represent the highest type of American
Jews. The present field workers of the
Jewish Welfare Board in camps and
naval training stations throughout the
country will be sent over as fast as
they develop the necessary qualifica-
tions, but there is an imperative and
immediate need for older and highly
PROPORTION IN svuviu I VERT GREAT.
gifted men. Applicants will have to
"According to our most conservattve
pass a thorough medical examination, estimates we now have about 5% of
and it will he most desirable for them the Army and Navy represented by men
to 'know French as well as English of our faith, vidide our population is'
thoroughly.
less than 3% of the country. At this
Officially Recognized.
moment we arc contributing our quota
Ti* Jewish Welfare Board, whose of injured and killed "over there." \‘'e
headquarters are at 149 Fifth Ave., New need, and the Jewish troops want, men
York. City, has been officially recog- of their faith front their own beloved
nized on the same basis as the Y. M. United States to minister spiritually and
C. A., and will co-operate with the religiously to their needs in the billet.
Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus the trench, in No Nlan's Land, the hos-
in France, so that the most desirable pital and cemetery.
res may lee attained. The workers
"'Hie Jewish NVelfare Board gives
will tae sent to billets, trenches, hos- and receives the best possible co-oper-
pitali, and even into "No Man's Land," ation tee, and the other agencies and
following the flag.
the most efficient "Ii'ason" will be in
In his statement Colonel Cutler said : operation with the Y. NI. C. A. and K. of
"The Jewish Welfare Board, United C. in all athletic, recreational and social
States Arm)' and Navy, is in iminedi- functions overseas in the same degree
as now obtains lucre, but as one of the
three agencies recognized by our Gov-
ernment for this work, we must con-
tribute our share of man power and
heart power in the discharge of our
civilian work—a work which has made
it possible to send into the field the
finest and cleanest army, morally, spirit-
ually and physically, that ever took up
the implements of warfare, for a just
and holy cause. .N work which will
surely speed on an early and enduring
victory' for a world democracy.
"A duty confronts us which must not
he neglected. There are certain re-
strictions which will make it impossible
to accept the service of every appli-
cant, but it is hoped that a sufficient
number will qualify to enable its to
add these men to the group which is to
sail shortly.
FRANKFURTER OPPOSES
CONSCRIPTION OF LABOR
Washington.—The question of la-
bor conscription in the United States
was finally officially settled in the
negative. Felix Frankfurter, assist-
ant secretary of labor and chairman
of the War Policies Board, speaking
for the government, stated:
"Nothing like that is needed, con-
templated or would be successful."
'file thirteen superintendents and
forty-eight state director.; of the
United States employment service in
attendance cheered the speaker's
statement.
"All we need to do," he continued,
"is to take the pieces of machinery
''Ni man of craft age will be con- already in existence in the govern-
sidered; applicants must be between 31 ment and put them together under
and 50. and in extremely exceptional one head "
eases over 511. Native Americans pre-
ferred. Applicants must pass a thor-
ough medical examination. Knowledge
of the language of the country is most
desirable, but not a, requisite."
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HIS war is a test of a democratic Govern.
ment. It is also a trial of democracy as to
its fitness to survive. A small group of auto-
crats within whose hands are the resources of
Central Europe are attaching the principle of
the right of people to govern themselves. Should
the United States and its allies fail in this war
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there will not remain on earth a people absolutely indepen-
dent of the dictation of the Teutonic empires, organized for
military efficiency and bent on using that efficiency for the
purpose of forcing their will upon the world. Let the Teu-
tons triumph and the world will not be a safe place for
democracy, and to make it such a safe place, is not only
the expressed purpose of the United States in taking up
the challenge of the Huns, but also the purpose of the other
powers who took up the challenge when Germany sent it
forth three years and a half ago, and who for three years
and a half have borne the burden of the conflict.
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For this reason the PRESENT BUSINESS OF THE
UNITED STATES IS WAR—war to exterminate or-
ganized unrighteousness and to establish peace
among the nations of the world.
The Government has perfected a plan which
will enable all of our people without exception, to
tape a definite part in winning the war.
One of the first great steps called for by thus Govern-
ment is—SAVING. The American people must cease to
require all of the pleasant and comfortable luxuries which
they consumed before the war, the production of which
calls for the energy of millions of men and women. These
men and women must devote themselves to the production
of the things which are needed to win the war. This is the
hey to the present situation ; it rests in the hands of the
average man, woman and child in every state in the Union.
by refraining from everything not absolutely necessary to
health, and efficiency, to release strong arms for the pro-
duction of materials of war to support our army and navy.
Idle dollars are SLACKER dollars, but dollars spent for
unnecessary articles, the production of which require labor
and materials which the government needs to save the lives
of our fighting men, are TRAITOR dollars.
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