Warburg and Brown Invite Prominent Leaders to Attend Chicago Conference

Prominent leaders of national and local Jewish communal and philanthropic activities in practically every city of the nation have received invitations to attend the Constructive Relief Conference of the Joint Distribution Committee and the United Jewish Campaign to be held in Chicago Oct. 22 and 23.

The call to the conference was signed by Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, and David A. Brown, national chairman of the United Jewish Campaign, and read:

“A Constructive Relief Conference has been called under the auspics of the United Jewish Campaign and the Joint Distribution Committee, in the City of Chicago on Saturday evening, October 22nd, and Sunday, October 23rd.

“This Conference, through the courtesy of the Chicago leaders, is to be held at the new Standard Club, considered architecturally one of the finest buildings in Chicago and acknowledged generally to be the finest club building in America.

“This Conference has been called the Constructive Relief Conference because it is our hope that the reports to be made will be of such a nature that they will evidence the constructive angles of our work and in addition will show conclusively how our temporary relief has been blended in with our constructive effort.

“Complete reports will be made by Felix M. Warburg, Herbert H. Lehman, Paul Baerwald and David A. Brown, covering the activities of the United Jewish Campaign and the Joint Distribution Committee.

“James H. Becker of Chicago who, in the company of Mr. Warburg, visited the Jewish agricultural settlements in Russia, will report his observations and impressions, and Mr. E. M. Newman, the noted travelogue lecturer, who visited Russia this summer and is the first man to bring out uncensored pictures covering every phase of Russian life, has agreed to show those pictures that cover the Jewish colonies and give a brief talk on his impressions from actual contact with the Jewish settlers there.

“Dr. Joseph A. Rosen who took the last conference by storm with his recital of the work in Russia and the part that it has played in the rebuilding of thousands of lives in that country, has been prevailed upon to remain in the country until this conference, so that he may report in person on the accomplishments of our agricultural program up to date.

“Dr. Morris D. Waldman, President of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, who lately was sent into Poland as the personal representative of your National Chairman to make a study of the social, economic and political situation of the Jews in Poland, will return in time to present up to the minute conditions of the Jews in that country where many millions of our funds have been spent during the past years.

“While it will be impossible for Dr. Bernhard Kahn, our European Director, to be with us in person because of the necessity of his remaining in Europe at this time, yet his detailed report concerning the activities of the Joint Distribution Committee throughout Eastern Europe will be presented at this Constructive Relief Conference.

“Mr. Louis Marshall who, throughout all of the years has played a most important part in the raising of funds through the collecting agencies and the distribution of these funds through the Joint Distribution Committee, has once more agreed to present the problems of both organizations covering the work of he present and that of the near future.

“Last but not least–the program of his Conference has been so arranged as a allow sufficient time for reports to be resented in person by our State Chairmen, State Treasurers and by the leaders four campaigns in all parts of the country.

“Those of us who have been living and working close to the United Jewish Campaign and the Joint Distribution Committee realize that the Constructive Relief Conference will be, without question, as important a gathering of Jewish men and women as has ever been held in the history of America.

“Because of the significance of this Conference we believe that it is your duty to set aside the 22nd and 23rd of October as a special contribution to the work of these two organizations, about which Herbert Hoover said that “it has accomplished the greatest piece of human engineering in the history of any people.”