Contributions and promise of support from organizations all over the country have been received by the American Christian Fund for Jewish Relief, to aid the suffering Jews in eastern Europe.
Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and Justice Victor J. Dowling, co-chairmen of the Christian committee, said the opening meeting at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine had met with a wide response.
William J. McGinley, Supreme Secretary of the Knights of Columbus, has written to Justice Victor J. Dowling, co-chairman of the fund with the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, that the National Board of the Knights of Columbus has requested the Supreme Knight to write personally to the Council officers urging cooperation in the work.
Letters supporting the movement have been received from W. H. P. Faunce, President of Brown University; Bishop Ernest M. Stires of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Long Island; Dr. John R. Mott, head of the National Council of Y. M. C. A.’s; President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, and John G. Agar, a prominent Catholic layman.
Contributions included $25 from a Salvation Army Post. From a far away Canadian village was received a small gift with the note “My mite to help atone for the sins of my ancestors.”
The “Jewish Daily Bulletin” acknowledges the receipt of a check for $25 from Bishop Charles H. Brent, to be forwarded to the American Christian Fund for Jewish Relief. Bishop Brent wrote in his letter accompanying the check:
“As I am ignorant as to where I should send a contribution to aid suffering Jews in Eastern Europe, and as I receive your ‘Daily Bulletin’, I am trespassing on your kindness to ask you to place the enclosed small check in the proper hands.
“You have my hearty wishes for your undertaking. I trust that General Pershing’s hopeful aspiration, that Christian America will raise $25,000,000, will be achieved.”
Mrs. Isaac Kubie, Associate Chairman of the women’s division of the New York Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, announced that next Wednesday, Dec. 15, had been designated as Federation Tithe Day. She said that 10 per cent of the gross receipts in four stores of the Huyler Company on that day would be devoted to the tenth anniversary campaign fund of the federation.
The Women’s division has already raised more than $442,816, according to an announcement by Mrs. Sidney C. Borg.
Mrs. Norvin L. Lindheim, National President of the Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, will speak before the Women’s Organization of the Free Synagogue this afternoon on “The Romance of Palestine.”
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