Gov. Henry Horner was the principal speaker at a recent meeting at the Hotel Sherman which opened a special drive of the Jewish Charities of Chicago to raise an additional $405,000 for the annual budget of the organization. Pledges totaled $102,400 before the meeting ended. More than 5,000 persons were present.
Governor Horner made an appeal to the Jews of Chicago to give their support to the work of the charities. “The problems of the Jewish Charities are problems for all of us here,” he said, “and we must share and meet them. See what happened in the last few weeks to the Jews in Germany. If our protests and demands for justice are sincere we cannot make them unless we meet our own obligations at home. The boycott of our own conscience will be as severe as any imposed against Jews in Germany.”
A. D. Lasker, chairman of the board of Lord & Thomas, presided.
Among the larger contributions made during the meeting were $20,000 from the Jewish lawyers of Chicago as a group; Mr. and Mrs. E. O, Freund, $4,500; Jewish brokers of Chicago as a group, $4,000; Sol H. Goldberg and family, $3,000; John Factor, $2,500; Alfred Cohen, $2,000; B. J. Rosenthal, $2,000; Maurice L. Rothschild, $1,500; Maurice Berkson, $1,600; Elward Sonnenschein, $1,250; Hugo Sonnenschein, $1,250; estate of Joseph Weissenbach, $1,100; Harry Kunin, $2,000; Goldblatt Brothers $1,000; Isaac H. Mayer, $1,000; Robert Mandel, $1,000, and Mrs. Gerhard Foreman, $1,000.
It was explained that these contributions in practically all cases were in addition to the sums which these individuals already had given the Jewish Charities as their regular annual subscriptions.
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