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The Jewish Chronicle, 1918-12-20

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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

PAGE EIGHT

is not a brilliant success, the ommit- continitd found through this' He once complained that even the
its real dynamic leaders. men l'an-Hernias movement was too Jew-
HOW NEWARK WENT "OVER THE
tee and not the public will be slack-
and women is ho like M r i Fuld, NI r. ish in character and was not sufficient-
yrs."
the Jews.
a rousing campaign, 'a de- Dimond, Mr. -Straits and others will Ls- determined to
Tor FOR JEWISH WAR RELIEF lightf It was ul week
of driving--hard work, he recognized always as vital in coin- . He used to ascribe to the Jews, in

Brice

fight

This was the .slogan (or Newark's
Campaign for the Jewish War Relief
and Welfare Fund. It was a drive-
with-a-punch, a real, aggressive, Am-
erican campaign, to which everybody
--Gentiles as well as Jews—rallied.
If ever there was a heart-stirring
example of real democratic co-opera-
tion for a cause—this was it; and
Newark, working tooth-and-nail to
make good its promise of "$200,000
and more," went "over the top" in
great style, raking $280,000,
gladly, Gentiles as eagerly as Jews.
From the first minute of the cam-
paign, every Newarker knew he
would dig—and dig many times—into
his pockets. For every War Drive
Newarkers have done their part -and
they did it brilliantly for Jewish \Var
Relief.
On the evening before the drive
opened,a dinner was given to the team
captains and their assistants. The
stirring appeals of Ambassador El-
kus and Rabbi Nathan Krass impress-
ed the campaign workers_ deeply. Tel-
egrams were read from Louis . • r-
attail, Jacob IL Schiff and Ilcliry
Morgenthau. At the dinner there
were also present Mr. Jacob Billikopf,
Governor Walter E. Edge, Mayor
Charles Gillen and many prominent
Citizens, Jews and Gentiles. The ex-
ecutive officers of the Relief Commit-
tee were: Lewis Straus, Chairman;
Abe Dimond, Vice-Chairman; Felix
Fuld, Treasurer, and Chairman of the
State Relief Committee of New Jer-
sey; Nat Milder, Secretary.

u t carrying with. it the
the audience, bringing in very sub- to lie sure. b
stai itial sums. At most of the thea- - tine joy of seeing results mountiug
with
every
effort. It seemed that
ter. the policemen and firemen were no
act' VC. At the leading vaudeville the• Newarkers enjoyed giving just as the
ate r these firemen were themselves campaigners enjoyed their asking.
On every hand the spirit of co-
"Ai Act.'' They sang and played—
operation, the better appreciation by
and collected,
Gentiles and Jews of one another, the
tit the final evening of the rain- clearing away of barriers between
pal gn, a general auction under the no-
:inspires was held at Military Russian Jews and German Jews, and
lice
between Reform and Orthodox, the
par k, the articles sold—anything from realization by citizens of all beliefs
"a bar of soap to a
that Jcws were doing their full share
cot itributed by citizens.
thousand and one such activities, in winning the war, was emphasized.

mo aof them very funny, brought

Was Well Advertised,
Advance notice of the campaign

/

Governor Elated.

"It is beautiful to see, in the V. NI.
for th generous contributions trout
crowds, and everywhere people gave C. A., the Knights of Columbus, and
ing and more easily renewable than the Jewish Relief and \Vehlare drives,
how we all have gotten together and
Quota Raised.
learned to know , vach other as I sue
After a few days the campaign boys have learned to do in the serv-
gathered such momentum that the ice," said Governor Edge. Every-
committee in charge decided to raise where, men called each other "Dave,"
its quota from the original $200,000 "Harry" and "Jim" who, before the
to at least $250,000 and it was entirely campaign drew them so closely to-
successful. At the end of the cant- gether had not known each other or
paigu $280,000 had been obtained.
had, at best, boon casual acquaint-
As Mr. Hardin, who had charge of ances. And the WM-11(AI found a com-
the Red Cross campaign in Newark, mon forceful cause that enhanced
told the committee, "The people are their civic, communal solidarity in A
willing to give, and if the campaign very definite measure. The Jewish

was given the people of Newark
through strong, effective advertising
appeals in the newspapers, and this
advertising was reinforced by con-
stant newspaper appeals throughout
the campaign by leading business
firms, bankers and others.
The workers in the campaign, 'Were
organized in teams, led by captains,
each team having an exclfisive list of
subscribers to call on. • Each day they
visited the parties' assigned to them,
meeting at lumheon to report ,their
totals and gifting new lists. There
were teajo's led by Gentiles as well as
Jews/And all thanks are due these
head-minded, earnest Gentile citi-
gns for their whole hearted efforts in
support of the campaign. One Gen-
tile lawyer, a team leader, gladly 'nit
aside his work and went about gath-
ering subscriptions. It is known
that he insisted everywhere upon
maximum subscriptions, refusing
sums less than he had set his pros-
pects down for; and he got the sums
he wanted. Hii is the 'example
many other Gentile team leaders who
gave tireless, invaluable aid.

City Government Employes.

"The machinery of the city govern-
ment is yours," said Mayor Gillen
when the campaign opened. That
meant that the highly efficient organ-
izations of policemen and firemen, so
thoroughly adapted and trained by
previous Liberty Bond, Red Cross
and V. M. C. A. Campaigns, were to
work band in glove with the Relief
Committee.
And work they did! The firemen
one day and the police the next, lead-
ing each other a merry race for the
largest totals collected each day.
They made house-to-house campaigns.
They halted practically every auto-
mobile passing through the city and
pasted the blue six-point star on them,
collect lug a dollar each time. In one
case, a policeman suggested "pinch-
ing" an automobilist who showed
some slight hesitancy about paying
his dollar. A five dollar bill issued
quickly from behind the steering
wheel. Nor were milk wagons and
bakers' carts exempted. The police
band played almost daily on the bus-
iest streets, while members of the
force went through the gathering
crowds for collections, Through Cap-
tain McRell, the police conducted
community "block dances," collecting
constantly from the large gatherings
for Jewish \Var Relief. They brought
to town a marine band, which played
at Military park, and the crowd, of i
course, could not refuse the out-
stretched arms of the law. A thou-
sand and one antics and novelties—
jazz bands, policemen dancing with
girl relief workers—brought a steady
stream of generous small change con-
tributions from the laughing crowds.
• The police. were almost constantly
tied with the firemen in the totals re•
ported.

pamphlets issued under his direction,
[minal activities.
And more than that—Newark has , all the internal troubles, and spoke of
seen to it that the plea of three mil- the demands for reforms in Germany
lions of Jews dying of starvation and as inventions of the Jews.
Now, after the heavy defeat of the
disease in Poland, in Galicia, in l'al-
estine and Turkey, should not be in German army, the same patriotic gen-
% ain and that our 75,1)00 Jewish boys : eral has changed his tone. He has
in the country's service shall he help- suddenly come to the conclusion that
rd as effectively as .possible by the i internal peace is a necessity for Ger-
many, as is also a truce of all parties
Jewish Welfare Board.
Like the people of many other cities and nationalities in the Kaiser's do-
iliey have, by their generous glad giv- 1 "'"'"" 5 .
Ile no longer advocates war on all
Mg, extended their aid to help these
a ffli c t e d millions and have declared parties that demand reforms, and he
their readiness, as true Amer,icans.!ev" consents to the suspension of the
anti-Semitic campaign.
without regard to creed, to stand by

--,,- --
those in need, that the horrors of war
shall be minimized and that our com- . ODESSA JEWS EXPEL
GUTN1K, PRO-GERMAN
mon efforts as citizens shall win the
war and make the world, through lun-
CABINET MINISTER
_.
tual appreciation ind honest co-raper- ,
ation, a better place to live in.
Member Upheld Anti•Jewish Persecu-
! tions of Holman Skoropadsky.
_______
GELBSATTEL HALTS

E V.—The Odessa Jewish Com-
munity has expelled fro :nits midst
----
BERLIN—During the period of the the Ukraine Minister of Commerce,
German advance the Pan-German M. Gutnik. The latter is a member of
von Gebsattel gained notoriety for his General Skoropadsky's reactionary and
ultra-Chauvinistic utterances and anti- pro-German Gove.rnment.
In his capacity as M in M ister of
Jewish speeches.

ANTI-SEMITE WORK I.]

I

Commerce, he voted with his col-
leagues for the abolition of the Min.
istry for Jew ish Affairs and against
National Autonomy for the JCWS,
The Odessa Jewish Council dis-
cussed NI. Gutnik's action and decided
to remove his name from the roll of
the Community to which he had be•
longed for many years.
At the same meeting it was made
clear that ht. (Munk's services were
secured by General Skoropadsky in
order to make the world believe th a t
the new Ministry was not anti-Jewish
in character and that hf. Cottnik's col-
leagues knew at the outset that he
would not oppose their reactionary
measures.

KJ E \'—The inquiry set on foot by
Jews into the pogrom at Surar, in the
COMM.! Of Which the property of Jews
plundered in a wholesale manner. and
many of them were cruelly heater. ft'-
crated the fact that it was organized
by the leaders of the Bolshevik gan g ..
who came to the town to suppress al-
leged anti-revolutionary activity.
They begun by accusing the Jews of
welcoming and sheltering the enemies
of the country, although the commu-
nity was particularly careful not to
take sides in the struggles for ascend-
ancy which were in progress.
The gangs ended up their activities
by a violent pogrom.

1

ILL UP THE CARDS

Before December 31st

Your state your country
your conscience—all are ask-
ing you to make good on your
War Savings Stamp Pledges

The war won't be over for
you and I until we have done
all we promised and a whole
lot more.

Firemen Raise $23,000.

The firemen, led by Chief Towey,
with their hook-and-ladder apparatus,
were daily on Broad and Market
streets, the main thoroughfares, and
raked over $23,000. They spread their
life net before them and urged the
crowds to give to "fill the life net."
An appropriate slogan indeed. They
raised a ladder towering into mid-air
and offered to "go over the top" for
crowd. And soldiers, sailors—and
even kilted Highlanders on leave—
rallied around the "life net," singing,
speaking and bringing constant small
change contributions — and going
"over the top,"
At the important corners of the city
barrels were placed with appeal pos-
ters hoisted over them. Girl workers
stood ready, asking "Just one penny
for Jewish relief," and men and wom-
en brought forth not only pennies
but coins and bills of larger denomin-
ations.
At every theatre performance, a
squad of girl collectors, headed by a
"our-minute Man," went through

Buy
War Savings Stamps
from
Banks, Post Offices,
Mail Carriers and

Fill Up Your Cards and

Then Get MORE Cards

■ ffiltimmail

Before December 31st

Other Authorized

Agents

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