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Show JEWS SUFFER GREAT TORTURES 1 EUROPE Thousands Face Wintry Blasts Without Shelter of Food on Medical Aid "The Jews of eastern Europe suffered suffer-ed greater hardships, sustained greater great-er losses and have been left in a worse economic condition than any other people peo-ple with the possible exception of the Armenians." according to Dr. Cyrus Adler. noted Jewish educator, in an interview given the American Jewish Relief committee. There are thousands of Jewish fam-ilio.' fam-ilio.' in Europe whose only home is a rude cart, open to the snows and rains. They must face the wintry b'nsts without with-out hope of medical aid, without heat, without shelter, without food, unless the people of America help them in their truly American manner. , Six million human beings are suffering suffer-ing the tortures of disease, hunger and death in tho devastated countries of Poland, Galicia, Rumania, Lithuania, and Plestine. Eight hundred thousand i of these are children, robbed of their birthright, who never have known what a square meal looks like or even I tastes like. They have never tasted I milk. They are too weak, thousands I of them, even to walk. They cannot ! I raise a hand to help themselves. j ' For tho first time, the Jews of America Amer-ica are appealing to their fellc w citizens citi-zens to ad them in an effort to save these unfortunates from such a horrible hor-rible death Through the American-Jewish American-Jewish Relief committee, a campaign has been organized to raise a fund of 35,000,000, every cent of which will be spent to buy food and clothing for these destitute people. Utah has been jKh asked to raise 70,000 as its quota. jjf State headquarters have been open- jHl ed at the Salt Lake Commercial club, ''flS with Daniel Alexandera s state chair- E man, and Wesley E. King as campaign ij5 director. In Ogden headquarters for JbJ Weber county have been opened at -jSi the Weber club. Samuel C. Dye is in charge of the Weber county campaign ggf and is being assisted by a numberi of prominent Ogden citizens. fB |