(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Over $18,000,000 of the $25,000,000 United Jewish Campaign has been raised, Louis Marshall announced in his address at the banquet held here last night inaugurating this city’s drive for $150,000.
Sixty-two million dollars has been spent by the Joint Distribution Committee for relief abroad since its inception twelve years ago, Mr. Marshall said. “Without our help European Jewry would have been a mere handful. Eight million Jews in Eastern Europe are now dependent on the Joint Distribution Committee,” he declared.
The situation of the Jews in Poland has not changed, Irma May declared. Even if there has been a slight change for the better in Poland, the Jews have not benefitted by it at all, she said. “Economic conditions have shattered Jewish life in Poland. Those Jews who were the life blood of the country, the large merchants and industrialists in Eastern Europe, have become bankrupt and are helpless.”
Forty-eight thousand dollars toward Washington’s quota was reported raised following the banquet. Kahn Sons and Company head the list with $5,000. Rudolph Behrend, Chairman of the Campaign, J. Kaufmann and Morris Cafritz each contributed $3,000.
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