Within the next few weeks the United Jewish Campaign for $25,000,000 is expected to be completed, according to an announcement made today by David A. Brown, national chairman of the campaign, at the headquarters in New York.
The United Jewish Campaign while formally launched in the fall of 1925, actually got under way with the first of its community drives in the winter of 1926. In the year that has elapsed, more than 2,500 communities have participated through local and sectional drives, and it is expected that when the campaign is concluded every town of 5,000 population or more in the United States will have taken part in the effort. Reports returned to the national headquarters to date show approximately $20,000,000 pledged thus far.
The state quotas toward the fund were allocated to meet the original objective of $15,000,000 set for the United Jewish Campaign at its launching. Subsequently it was adjudged necessary to increase the goal to $25,000,000 if the relief and reconstruction operations to which the Joint Distribution Committee was committed were to be carried out on an adequate scale. While state quotas were not increased, the difference in the national objective is being made by maximum returns from all the states, and in numerous instances, by oversubscriptions of the quotas formally assigned.
Among the states that have exceeded their assigned quotas, according to Mr. Brown’s report, are Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
New York City and Chicago, which were assigned quotas independent of their states, both achieved recordbreaking over-subscriptions. Among other large cities which exceeded their quotas are Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Penn.; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Akron, and Toledo, Ohio; Rochester, Syracuse and Albany, N. Y.; Trenton, N. J.; Louisville, Ky.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Detroit, Mich.; Portland, Ore.; Nashville and Memphis, Tenn.; Seattle, Wash.; Wheeling, W. Va.; Dallas, Ft. Worth, and Houston, Tex.; New Haven, Conn.; Birmingham, Ala.; Little Rock, Ark.; Springfield and Peoria, III., and Montreal, Canada.
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