THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

VOL.. VI. NO. 25.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1919.

Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents

DETROIT JEWRY DETERMINED
TO RAISE $100,000 ADDITIONAL TO
FILL PATRIOTIC FUND QUOTA

IF YOU HAVEN'T
GIVEN YET-GIVE
NOW! IF YOU HAVE
GIVEN-GIVE MORE

THE JEWS OF
DETROIT MUST
GIVE THEIR FULL
SHARE TO FUND

. This means that for every thousand

BY DAVID A BROWN

dollars raised we, the Jews of De-
troit, will receive a little over $100, or

Vice-Pres. th trott Patti(); le Fund.

over one-tenth of the entire sum.

\Vhat is the matter with the Detroit

Not only are we obligated to return

Patriotic Fund, or the Detroit Coln-
immity Fund, as it should he properly

this sum of money which comes to

caller!?
My answer to that is. and has been,
othing is the !natter with the Fund,

duty to participate in this general

but something is the matter with some

our part to carry out full share of all

of the people in Detroit."

of the other social, charitable and

its exclusively, but it is our solemn

subscription for a sum above this
amount that will evidence a desire on

Dm campaign for $5,250,000 eile4
in failure, in the opinion of numbers
NI people. but the campalgo v .1 , with- .
out quc•.; , •;: sii;;;;es•ful o;

philanthropic activities in the city of

Detroit.

Duty of Every Jew.

Any person in this city who tries

.1 .11 this cit.,. or in I

its kind ;
;my otlyi ;
at a 1 ; ; ;mg held the (lay the cam-
paign ch, ;I the Board of Directors,

to get out of doing his duty by re-

citing the individual burdens that he

has to carry, or makes excuse that be

wants to do his charity in his own
way, or furnishes any ,one of a half-

all of th it g,,tt; n to-
get! , ; ;;, I!, II , ; , ,ht and leaded that
end until
;,;;ild
tl.i. r.o.IpII I

dozen reasons why he cannot give

more, or will not give at all, should be

such time a• :h.11;on and more
dollars had been ra,..;t1. and :wain nit

told in no unmeasured terms what his

NIonday noon these same determined

duty is as a citizen of the city and as

men met for the purpose of plannnigi

a Jew.
This is a time for sacrifice. Men of

a personal campaign, and if ever a
group of men had the "bit in their!

great wealth should feel that that
%%Tani] puts upon their shoulders the

teeth" and the spirit of light in their
blood, it was the twenty or thirty of

responsibility of its proper use. Any
man who has the conception that his

Iktroi•s c;tizeris r‘ ho sat around hat

job in life is to pile one dollar on top
of another, to accumulate material

table.

Money Will Be raised.

things, has a rank conception of the

'fins Ii nrey is going t;. he raised,
because ought to he raised; there
is not an agency, whether it be Cath-
olic, Prolc,tallt or Jewish. that does

purpose and use of money.
Any man who leaves as an inher-

itance to his family and relatives this

kind of money, may feel sure that he

not need awry dollar that it asks. nor
will one penny or the entire sum col-

has left those he wanted to protect a

liability instead of an asset.
In these days of •great unrest, we

le •ted he wasted intentionally.
9 his campaign has been successful•

are not thinking so much, when, in

in the writer's judgment, for the very
reason that it did not raise its full

judgment of a man, as to what he

quota in the live or six working days,
for it has proven conclusively that the

has, the amount he has piled up, as to

men who have given so freely of their

rendering.

what he does, the service that he is

To Raise $100,000 More.

time, (lay in and day out, have the in-

*terest of the city's needs so much at
heart that they are willing to "carry
on" and on and on. until such time as

riches will not be counted in material

the fund is raised and every man, and
woman, if you please, is labeled "For

by the dollars one has, but he who

Detroit" or "Against Detroit."
'Hie Jews have responded, in many
cases liberally, and the grarral opin-

live so that he will gain the love, the

It is only a question of time when

thingS and success will not he judged

would be rich and successful must

admiration and the respect of those

who are close to him and those with
whom he conies into contact daily.

ion in the community fund organiza-

tion is that they have done remark-
ably well; but regardless of this opin-

\\'e have obligated ourselves to

the Patriotic FuLl to raise another

ion, we on the inside know that Many
of our people have not given in pro-
portion to their wealth and their in-

$100,000.
This money must be secured from
two sources—those who have already

comes, and litany of them, whose
names we have. has,. not given at all.

subscribed and those who have not as

yet given at all
I believe that this money can be

Must Give NOW.

Dr. Franklin, Dr. Hirschman and

secured promptly, providing the work-
ers are met in the proper spirit by

Rabbi Levine and other men moon-

, rat in Detroit's Jewry, have said
time and time again that if there ever
was a period when the Jew's should

those whom they will call upon. No

give as they never have before, it was

men and women who are out raising

at the present time and for the pres-

ent cause.
Dm of a total of $3,000,000. we are I

to receive $350,010 for Jewish relief in

the war-stricken areas; $64.740.12 for
the United Jewish Charities; $8,002.29

for the Jewish Fresh Air Society;
$45.000 for the Jewish Fresh Ail
Camp, and $7511110 fur the Young

Men's Hebrew Association and the
Yining \\. onien's Association--a total

approximately of $550,000.

worker need apologize for asking
funds for a cause of this nature. -rite

Pale, hollow-cheeked, stalks gaunt despair,
Along life's tortuous path.
Fear, hunger, cold spreads grimly there
Its loathsome aftermath.

But you, the virile and the sane,
Will you allow your own—
The moaning tides of human pain—
To groan to hearts of stone?

Bold, pampered souls on rose strewn paths,.
With puffed up cheeks that blind--
Will pleading hush their empty laughs,
And wake each greedy mind?

No, you will rend your ego's veil;
Your blood and brawn will save.
Let joy crowd out their piteous wail,
Because of what you gave.

this money should receive praise and
commendation at the hands of the

entire community. They arc render-

ing a noble service, a service for hu-

manity, a service for God.
Let the Jews of Detroit be the first

group to take its share of the extra

$2•000,000 which is going to be raised

to complete the task of the Detroit

Community Fund..

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