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Show JEWS IN EUROPE SLOWLY BIG Local Committee Issues Statement State-ment on Conditions Faced in Near-east A human pergatory erected for living people" is the way a recent traveler described the awful conditions condi-tions in eastern Europe. ' Thousands of children, old men and women without clothing, warmth or food "Starving and dying women and otifMran .Ulirinn.l.. i , , j ------- " .-..us.,., Liiiii; LUJ orenu. "Orphaned children. Inmates of hospitals, hos-pitals, slowly starving to death. "Despairing fathers forced to sit by while their children fade. "Mothers going mad, as babies. die at their mllkless breasts. "Young girls and bos sapped of all vitality in their frantic search for a crust." Over 2.000.000 people of one race slowly wasting away bOo 000 almost j naked innocent children dying by Inches SOO.OOO kiddles w ho cannot I remember w hat a sguarc meal tastes pr oven looks like- 300,000 precious little ones robbed of their birthright 800,000 blights on humanity s escutcheon. es-cutcheon. A statement, issued by the loc.il committee siys "This Is eastern F.uropr today. 'We arc responsible for what we don't do. If we don't alleviate that terrible condition, the responsibility for hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of lingering, frightful deaths is upon us No escaping es-caping the onus or 'passing the buck." A condition not a theory, must be met - and met squarely. "Can we, snug and secure In our comfortable homes, permit nearly a million innocent youngsters to come back from the Rrae and haunt us a million and more of grownups to condemn us with their dying breaths when a few dollars will save them? "The Jews of this country do not believe that the people of tho United i States will illow race, creed or nationality nation-ality to weigh in the balance of the suffering of little children. Weber county is short $4, 50a of her quota and it Is hoped by the committee In charge that this will be made up within with-in the next few days. Persons desiring de-siring to contribute to this humanitarian humanita-rian cause arc requested to send their donation to Samuel G Dye, chairman nt W'eher eonntv " |