The New York drive for $6,000,000 for the United Jewish Campaign will be launched tonight at the Hotel Biltmore and the Hotel Astor, where three dinners will be held. Two dinners for the Men’s and Women’s Division of the New York drive will be held at the Hotel Biltmore. The Brooklyn Division will launch its drive at a dinner at the Hotel Astor.
United States Senators James M. Wadsworth, Jr., and Royal S. Copeland, in letters to William Fox, Chairman of the drive, expressed their sympathy with the forthcoming campaign.
“This is just a line to wish you and your co-workers in the United Jewish Campaign in New York every possible measure of success,” Senator Wadsworth wrote. “No one who realizes the plight in which so many poor Jewish people find themselves in certain portions of Europe can doubt for one moment that the $6,000,000 undertaking is well worth while. The funds which you are about to raise will save thousands upon thousands of desperately poor people who, otherwise, I fear, are doomed to a bitter end.
“I am sure the response to your appeal for funds will be prompt and generous as is always the case when Jews are asked to help those who suffer.”
Senator Copeland said in his letter: “I have seen with my own eyes how the Jews of Eastern Poland have suffered the terrible effects of the Great War.
“Three and a half millions of Polish citizens were driven out of their home, every house was burned, the flocks and herds were driven away, and utter desolation followed. The suffering was beyond words to describe. I can never forget the terrible sights of that country.
“If any poor word of mine can help, I pray that liberal contributions will be made to save the children, the women and the old of these suffering countries.”
The principal speakers will be David A. Brown, national chairman; Louis Marshall, honorary chairman of the New York drive; Fannie Hurst, and Inna May. Felix M. Warburg, also honorary vice-chairman for New York and chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, will preside at the men’s dinner.
Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, chairman of the Women’s Division, will preside at the dinner of this group. This division, which has set itself a $500,000 quota to be raised exclusively from women’s contributions, is headed by Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff as honorary chairman.
The addressed of both meetings will be broadcasted through Station WRNY of New York.
The Brooklyn dinner, at the Hotel Astor, will be presided over by Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, chairman of the Brooklyn section of the drive, and other speakers will be Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May and Edward Lazansky. The Brooklyn drive is to raise a $1,200,000 share of the metro politan quota.
Beginning Monday, the various teams of the Women’s Division will start out to raise the $500,000 which is the quota assigned to them. Every day at four o’clock their chairmen will report to Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, chairman of the division, in the headquarters at the Biltmore Hotel.
BREVITIES
An organization of Americans who have visited Palestine has been formed with the object of fostering a sustained interest in Palestine.
A rally at the Society of Advancement of Judaism Building, 16 W, 86th Street, will be held this evening. It is expected that the Hakoah soccer team will be present. All those who have visited Palestine were invited to attend. The officers are: Harold Horowitz, president; Philip Frankel, treasurer; Helen Tannenbaum, secretary.
The immigration problem entered the race of Governor Pinchot, Senator Pepper and Congressman Vare for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in Pennsylvania, when the Patriotic Order Sons of America, a strong society in Pennsylvania, ordered Congressman Vare to “watch his step and guard his word on immigration.”
Congressman Vare stands for a liberal interpretation of the restrictive immigration laws, and, if necessary to prevent naturalized Americans from being separated from their families abroad, he advocates modification of the laws.
The Cornell chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic fraternity, announced the election of sixty seven members, among whom are Jacob Borut, New York City; Ruth L. Calisch, Toledo, O; Blanche H. Lesser. New York City; Solomon Rauch, New York City; Sarah Rubin, New York City; Alexander S. Wiener, Brooklyn; Irvin Wizenberg, Brooklyn.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Proskauer, George Gordon Battle and Dr. Nathan Krass will be the principal speakers at the tenth anniversary of the Corner House. 309 West Fourteenth Street, next Tuesday evening.
David Pankin, 61. died at his home in Brooklyn. He was active in charity work and was associated with a number of philanthropic organizations in Brooklyn.
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