Corsicana Semi Weekly Light Newspaper Archives
April 11, 1919 Page 5

Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light (Newspaper) - April 11, 1919, Corsicana, Texas THE SEMIWEEKLY APRIL Do You Know of a Single Gentile Charity Which is not Largely and Willingly Contributed to by People of the Jewish Faith George Ade One of Americas most gifted brings home to every Gentile a statement of facts and conditions that many of them have been Take time to read what Ade says below IN ANY CAMPAIGN TO FEED THE HUN GRY OR LIFTUP TH ESTRICKEN OR SHEL TER THE HOMELESS IT IS TAKEN FOR AS A MATTER OF THAT THE JEWS WILL DO THEIR FULL SHARE AND THEN OVERSUBSCRIBE A THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED TO DO THINGS IN A BIG WAY AND ARE NOT DISMAYED BY ORDINARY NOW THEY ARE UP AGAINST AN EX TRAORDINARY TASK AN UNDERTAKING VAST IN HEDGED IN BY APPALLING THE AMERICAN JEWISH RELIEF COMMIT TEE IS ENDEAVORING TO SAV FROM STAR VATION SIX MILLION JEWS WHO ARE THE HELPLESS VICTIMS OF THE GERMAN TER BETWEEN THE COMMITTEE IN NEW YORK CITY AND THE UNFORTUNATE REFU GES OR PNNED IN PRISONERS THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO ARE OPEN SEAS AND DEVASTATED IT CAN BE DONE AND THE COMMITTEE WILL DO IT WILL GET MONEY AND FOOD TO HELPLESS EVEN IF IN THE FARTHEREST PART OF IF IT IS BACKED AND SUPPORTED HERE AT I HAVE LIVED IN SEVERAL TOWNS BUT I CANT REMEMBER THE NAME OF A PLACE IN WHICH JEWS WERE EXEMPTED FROM CONTRIBUTING TO GENTILE THE CALL OF HUMANITY KNOWS NO FOREIGN NO RACIAL NO FAV ORED IF EVERY CITIZEN OF AMERICA WHO HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT DIRECTLY BENEFI CIARY OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPY SHOULD NOW COME FORWARD AND HELP THE AMER ICAN JEWISH RELIEF COMMITTEE THE NECESSARY FUNDS WOULD BE READY TO THEY SHOULD COME Think over what this keen observer of human nature has said be ready to do your part for when the solicitors call on you Rabbi County Chairman Sidney City Chairman Navarre County War Work Board