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Show JEWISH RELIEF WORK IS NOW WORLDWIDE Christian as Well as Jewish Sufferers Suf-ferers Are Aided by Organization Organiza-tion That Covers Many Countries Coun-tries in Europe and the Orient. Quietly, nnd practically without publicity of any sort, tho Jews of America Amer-ica hno built up, through the American Amer-ican Jewish Relief Committee nnd other official ngencles, a machlno for tho organization and distribution of relief to war sufferers1 of their own ami other rares that Is now practically practi-cally worldwide. Tho headquarters of the Committee are nt 15 East 40th Street, New York. Expenditures for this work now uggregnte more than $2,000,000 a month, and hy means ot stnte-hy-state campaigns to be held this fall a total of 13.000,000 Is to be sought to finance tho work through tho coming months. An enumeration of the countries In which relief efforts are being made Is indicative ot tho scope ot the work. Representatives of these Jewish agencies agen-cies am to be found In Poland, Czechoslovakia, Czecho-slovakia, JugoslaIa, Onllcla, Serbls, Rumania, and other Balkan states, Orecce, Turkey, Palestine and Siberia. Small groups of refugees, cast up by the backwash of war, are being assisted as-sisted In Holland, Japan, China and other Isolated parts ot the globe. All told, many million Christians nnd more than O.COO.OOO Jews In conn-tiles conn-tiles other thun the United States aro being directly aided by American Jewish Jew-ish relief funds. The major portion of this humanitarian work Is of course curried on In Eastern Europe. It Is theru thnt thu but': of thu world's Jewish Jew-ish population lives. Tho fact that these same nations lime been perhaps hardest hit hy tho lato war, explains wbj Win Id Jewry Is ut tho greatest crisis In Its hV.nr.v. Rut though tho Jews of Amerlcn havu set out to save their race fi out destruction, they nru not forgetting that their own pcoplo aro not tho only sufferers In thcu lauds. Tim tdgulfi-caucu tdgulfi-caucu of the 'Vhole undertaking becomes apparent when It Is known that tho relief supplies which hnto been purchased pur-chased mid shipped Inrgely with Jewish Jew-ish finals nrti distributed wtthuut ills-crlmlnntloii ills-crlmlnntloii to Christians ns well as Jews. Harriers of race and creed" have been submerged In thu Hood tide of sutTerliig throughout much of the earth, mid thu efforts of American Jewry to nlil In tho great frlsls of today hue become as broad us humanity human-ity Itself. |