- Seite 2-TsglM OmM TribMe-Mittwoch' den '10. September 1919
WM
OF JÄHE ADÄflS ÄND DR. HAH1LT0N
. X
To the American Society of Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia
On the SITUATION IN GERMANY
In explanation of our jouroey lato Germany it may de weil to Quote
Vom a "nrtniita" passed at a meetlug faelij In Devomshlre Home, London,
the central Office of the Society of Friends, July Foürth, 1919. "Ve are
thankful to lcarn that the followlng membera of the Religlous Society of
Friends are now proceeding to Germany under a deep eense of the need
vkiek exists for jnutual frlendly intercourse and fellowehlp between those
ho all belong to the sanie great human family and who have been sep
arated during these sad years of war, namely:
"Marion C. Fox, Joan M. Fry, J. Thompson Elliott and Max
JJeJlow fron England, together vlth Carolena M. Wood from
Amerir, who is accompanied by Jane Addama and Pr. Alice
Hamilton. '
"Our frienda are traveling on behalf of the Committee vhieh has under
ff 3 care the arrangements for sending 'Gifts of Love' to Germany in the
form of foed, clothea and other necessitien a vorl that Is ehared in, not
only by 'the Emergeney Committee for the Assistance of Germany, Aus
triaps and Hungarians in Diatross' and 'the Frienda' War Victims Relief
Committee, but by niany other peraons uot associated vitk Friends in
memberahip."
The four English member of the Cominittee who traveled through the
-occupied region and entered Germany via Cologne reachej Berlin July 6th,
the three American roembera vho traveled through Holland and crossed
the börder on the first civilian passnorts issued there gince the signlng of
peace, arrived in Berlin July 7th. Dr. JUett Jacobs, a Dutch physician,
vrho had been asked as a neutral to make observatjona on health coudi
tlona in Germany, was the fourth member of the gecond party Pr, EHw
beth Rotten of Berlin, vho has been acting as the representatlve in Ger
many of the work of the English Frienda and is also head of the Educa
tional Committee of the Germaa Association for tbe rromotion of the
Leaguo of Kations, was aturally our guide and advisor in maklng arrange
ments for the distribution cf such assißtance as ve tnlght be adle to end
frojn America. : '
' Both the Englisa and American menibers of the Committee attended
the Conference arranged by Pr. Rotten in the Office of Dr, Albert Levy,
head of the Centra! für Frlvatfüraorge, än organlzatlons sijnllar to our
Associated Chariües, In vhich varlous Organisation, responsible for the
care and protectlon of chlldren wer represented. The decision vas made
to appoint a central committee of whlcn Pr. Leyy, Pr. Rotten, ßlgmund
Schultze the head cf the Munlcinal Jueendfüraoree Amt. and Pr. Alice
Lalomon, head of the Berlin School of Philanthrop?, were to be members.
Provision was made that in ach place ia whlch ve Ehould find unusual
need, eomeone was to be selected who would serve as a. member of the
Committee and ald in the distribution of supplieav - Credits bad already
been established by the Society of Friends in America Jot 130,000, for
whieh um we were to seetire, through the offlee of the American Food
Administration in Hamburgs ,
, - IS ton yf eocoa, ' ' . :
17 tont of eugar.
Cd tons. ot Condensed uiilk,
40 tons of white flour.
In addition to this, 2 ton, f pew clothing madq by Frienda In
America was also to be disposed of. We realized that thi was only an
Infinitesimal amount in the face of a great eed aad Tery little compared
to what the Engliaa Friends had been endlng to Germany ever eine the
Eigning of. the armistice. but we boped tt was only an tarnest es what
America would ?end later i
From the very first we Wade every effort to ee as many chlldren as
. 11.1- I - 1 11. . ..HJ4MAfna
IJ'jaaiUiO mal we luigui. uu uiv eueti vi tuuc-cuuimucu uuucuccuuig na
registered in thelr growing bodies. In each city, tberefore, someUmes
under the guidance of the worker or patrons of privat chariües, some
timea under city pbysicians and other medical ofQcials, and eometlmes with
well known Professors or ehild speciallsts, we visited tbe cburches, the cbild
velfare clinics, the playgrounds and outdoor sanitaria, the Kornes for con
valescent chlldren, the bospital orphanages, and alwaya several publlc
kltcbens and the working people In thelr own homes.
' After Berlin the Committee of eight diMsd into separate groups. Ths
English Friends remained in Berlin and we went to the industrial reglona of
the Ruhr valley, to tk Erzgebirge; Dr. Jacobs, pr. Hamilton and Jane
Addams went into the industrial eitles of Saxony, Leipzig, Halle and Chem
Dltz, where Mr. Hoover bad told them that the need vas unusually great.
Later Dr. Jacobs and Carolena Wood went to Breslau and the Süesian
TiUages in the neighborhood, Dr. Hamilton and Jane Addams, after seeing
something of the villages in South Saxony, went to Frankfurt am Maln.
We reeeived belp and every possible CQUrtesy in tbe carrylng out of
our plans. One Sunday znorning in Leipzig three of us were accompanied
by tbe Oberbürgermeister, the City Physician; and by the head of the
Jugendfürsorgeamt, a woman, We visited with the.m tbe city orphanage
and a detsntion born for dependent cbildren and a city bome for delicate
children, where a distlnguished orthopedist, Professor Koliiker, met us and
demonstrated to s by mean, of bis Nttle patients the effect, of prolonged
bnnger on rickets and tubereulosis. Of Course, at other times we made our
oib connections quite Informally through old acquaintances in ths Philan
thropie or medical field who shoved us every hospitality a.nd kindness. An
vnusual pportunity was occasionally given us to see a large umb? of
ebildrea together, la eonnection witb the endlng of groups of chlldren to
Switzerland and to Holland, where, they were to be the guests of kindly
people who took them into their own, bomes. Tb ebfldren selected were
not always tuberculous, but chosen bScause they were plainly suikerinx for
laek of proper foed, whieh eannot be procured at present. in Germany,
It seemed apparently qulte natural to our guldes that we should be
Interested in the privations of these cbildren irregpective of thelr national
ity, as indeed the Germans were themselves. .
W entered Germany just one week after peace bad deen slgned at
Weimar and food eonditions were already changing for tbe better, altbough
most of the food Shops and bakeries still bad Windows containlng nothing
but empty caai of biseuit boxss. An eccasional diaplay of American bacoa
weuld at once attract a crowd of adults as well as children, feasting their
yes n the unaceastemed sight of fats. The pale people we saw on the
streets, peciall? in tbe industrial quarters, were very serious and qulet,
sad in the rallroad etatloas there was a eonspieuous lack of all that talk
and family bustle wbich one associates with German travel. Even the
ehildren were quieter. For them tbe war had evidently been translated
tsto a lack of milk and butter and choeolate. The editor es a large city
üewspaper told us that h bad beea able the nlght before to take bome a
bottle of milk and that bis little glrl, who met bim at the dooe; bad shouted
Zoyously to her mother that peace bad eome. He went on te sey that the
ehild could only feast her eyes, as tbe milk was intended for the little baby.
We were told by a mother that her little girl bad asked her if it was true
that there were countries in the world where there was no war and where
people could eat all they wanted to. Perhaps It was these mothers who
ruffered most, these Intelligent women who knew perfectly well bow Im
Xortant proper feeding was and who yet wer, nabls to btain the bareat
rsceL!t!ss for thelr ehildren. On such mother sald lt was hardest at aight
alter the children were in bed and ona beard thim sryia, and wblmpertng
srora bungsr atil they feil ailep and Gvea after. KbG added, "l da ot
ree bow th wome endured It who wer ebl!get to b alwsys in the sam
room with their cbildren and could offer them a diveraien.''
W, fouvd conscientioos people yerywaer who bad scrupulougly üved
cnly upos the ration4 food, Ithougb it wüst de Tememberei that the
ration represented cnly about one-tbird f th ealoric valus eonildered
normal. This restraist vi peciall? bienrfd by tbos woe werk
brouxM them coBtiBually in onlact with th lis es t poer, (fcougä it was
sst by a? mssvs nkned t hN, . .....
We ,cre entert, ined ia a btautiful ountrj; ktui wbei ths supxer
served Upon old silver by & butler consisted of treah vegetables and frults
from th garden and the after dinner tea had been mad dy our bost from
drled strawberry and raspberry leaves and linden blossoms. On the other
band, we were told that there bad been a very general evsslon of the food
regulations and many people w met rueiully confessed that they bad com
pounded with their consciences in the second yar of the strlct blockad.
It is obvlous that a mother who anxiously wonders whether ehe should
really et a highe? value upon impartial obedlenee to tbe rationing regula
tions than upon her elementary duty to preserv tbe health of her cbildren
has taken the first step toward maklng llllclt purchases. "My busband
knew that I bought smuggled food for the chlldren, but he would touch
none of it hiraself." He died after a slight Operation and 1 torment myself
thinklng that it was because be had no reslstanee lest. . I bought what I
could for my old father after he had lost forty pounds and looked so
wretchedly that all my friemjs accused nie of neglectipg bim. At first he
would not take any of the illieit food, butat last b was driven to it and
he always refers to it as the tinie my consclenee died "
Everyona. we saw men, women and ehildrea- had lost weight, many
of them to the point of emaciation. This loss of weight' is very serious
because it is a eign of lowered sutrition and conaequently dlminished
reslstanee to infectious diseases, especlally in the young. Wberever we
saw chlldren gathered together we were struck by the greyish pallor wbich
has taken the place of the ruddy color formerly so characteristle of these
blonde German children, and also by the thin necks and wrtsts and lege,
even when the face Itself was fairly round in its outlines. It (3 of Course
impQssiblo to judge of emaciatlon in a ehild, unless very extreme, without
strlpping it, but in several places we were shown the ehildren with their
clothes off. The ?'Luftbad" in Frankort doe not take chlldren who are
really 111, but many of the naked boys we saw there were quite shockingly
wasted. ,
We tried always to bear In mind the norm for German children, whlch
is high, and to judge of the actual eonditions we saw aeeording to this
Standard. Recently the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company made a
study öf the weight and beight of New York pubüo school chlldren and
found that tbe children of German parentage stood at the top. outstripping
those of English, Scotch and Scandinavian parentage, their nearest rivals.
In normal times the German children are probably even taller and sturdler
than those of German parentage born in a new country. The eontrast
between the cbildren as one sees them in Germany today and tbe cbildren
we were accustoraed to see betöre the war is very striking and wken one
can see them stripped there is vo mlstaking th ffects of th long starva
tion. Tbe shoulderblades of the boys stand out like wings it s really
almost a deformity, tieir ribs and their vertebrae can be counted, and their
bony little arms and legs look still thinner because of the swollen joints
whlch rachitis eauses so commonly, Th, narrow, sunken ehest bode Hl
for th future in a society where tuberculous Znfectlon will certainly be
widespread. '
v It is after the sixth year of life that the effects of vnderfeeding b.
comes increasingly evident, for there is not enougb food to supply the
needs of a growing ehild unless a good deai can be sdded by tbe purchase
of smuggled goofls. Already the school children of Leipzig average to
cm. ßhorter than the pre-war average. In Frankfurt v wer told that
the average loss of weight for the younger children is 8 to 10 per c'ent, for
the older, 10 to 15 per cent, and in this last year & loss in average beight
is becoming evident " In general, the resutts of the blockad begaa to
appear in 1917, but people familiär with eonditions among th poor saw as
early as ISIS a change in tbe little cbildren and Is th mothers. whieb
bowever became much mora striking the followlng year. It Is certainly
fair to conclude that the shortage of food has been reglstered on th. bodies
of German women and cbildren for a period of early three years, and of
course it; cpntlnues to register still. '
" From notes selected at random we find descrlptions such as th follow.
ing: "A girl 8 years,: weighing 30 pounds, one of th ge weighing ?8
pounds. a third of 13 years weighing 48 pounds," These are not supposed '
to be ili, only In need of food and fresh air. That was in Frankfurt. In
tbe notes taken in Halle we Lud mentlon of a cbild f VA weighing 14
pounds, a I2-year-old boy weighing 64 pounds, a glrl of 11 welgblng 60
pounds, and the followlng reeord of a 4-year-old who bad been under
bospital care for malnutrltjon since February last, The miserably Jnad
quate food is revealing in this cbild story: Weight In February, 1 pounds;
In March. 25 pounds 8 ouncesz in April, 26 pounds 7 ounces; in May, 25
pounds, and in June 26 pounds 4 ounces.
. In Leipzig, in Frankfurt and in the little bill town of Bärenstein in th
Erzgebirge (on the Saxon Eide) we saw large crowds of cbildren at sebool
or in playgrounds, and always it was the rosy-cheeked, sturdy cbild who
stood out In sharp eontrast to the crowd. In the Villa g cbools in Bären-
stein, the teacbers bad th different classes pass slowly before us, so that
we could look closely at tbe children. They did not show th effects of
underfeeding as ßtriklngly as did the cbildren of the eitles, especialjy the
Saxon eitles, for in the country it is easier to k out the rationed food with
extra vegetables or even a litll milk than it is In th city, tbough the
villages in th Erzgebirge are bleak and th soll is poor. Judglng only
from the looks of these school cbildren as they Sied pat us, V estimatsd
that about 85 wer in fairly normal condition and 126 wer decidedly thin
ner and paler than normal, Of course, this is a very superficial judgment,
but it hat some signlficance.
As a preUminary to understanding the food eonditions of the children
early in our stay of live days in Berlin, we went to th ollice of the central
food control, where we wer met by Professor ßchelainger and Dr. Pfeiffer,
who gave us every facillty for studying their methods of food allotment and
especlally the distribution ot milk to cbildren. Tbe supply of milk for
Berits, in 1114 was 1,000,000 litres, There was a quick fallin off In
quantity In 1915, whlch contlnued tilj in the winter ot 1918-19 it reached
150,000- Milk is given to cbildren up to th age of four years, at the rate
of a plnt a day, and in exeeptional cases to delieate cbildren up to the age
of six, but at timea there has been pe milk even for the four-year-elds.
Among adults only the cases es open tubereulosis may have as much as a
pint es milk and acute nephrltis entitles the patlent to half a plnt, chronie
nephritls to none, This latter is especlally bard, as patients witn nephrltis
on a milk diet may recover. W met on well-ts-do woman who spok with
greatest bitterness of the deatb fron, nephrltis, of her brother, for whom
she bad been unable to get milk.
This fall in th milk supply Is due cbleßy to lack ot rieh fodder, whlch
Germany bas always been obliged to Import, and without whlch her cowi
yield less than one-third of tbe usual amount. Th elty of Berlin has a
berd of 7,000 cows wbich are fed von potato parings and vegetabl trim-
mings carefully eollected from bouseholders eyery rnornlnS. If they could
Import oil eak for fodder they could ration It o th peasants and thu
control th milk for th peasants, wbieb now passes Jn part ftt least; into
th, smvggling trade, wbat th German call tb "Schleichhandel."
V found later In Chemnita tbst tb milk supply bad fallen fron,
60,000 litres dally to 7,000. This milk goes to infantH and norsing moth
ers. and. aecordina to th supply. to chlldren up to W ag of four. This
U distributed by eolorsd eards, vv color for Infants, tznother for Zi;v chil
dren. ets. WKsn tb supply U lor, on color Is wlthdrawn. beginaing with
ih nitF hiiriMB. thoüe over tb advanced ag of four years. Frankfurt's
forme? supply of milk was f 29,000 litres of milk daily, wbich bas now
fallen to 16,600. This doe not promise to impreve, since tb hinterland
from wbieb Frankfurt b,s always drawn her supply of milk Is now in th
occupied terri'tory nd its produce sed by th, FieneU rmy.
Th sam oMce la ratioss th tat. TK pspuZatton i genersl is
slled t Ky wekly ? strammes u ouncej oi euuer, a i
of vetable insgarin, 13 5g. (4 J usces) es slm,l fsts. Tsis es eour
i only perrniasioa to buy and many, peopl caanot aßorl buttf at Zi 9 l
marks a pound. or American bscon at J J to 16 arks a pound- W wer,
told that probably as much as 60 per cent of th food In Germany passes
Into the Schleichhandel to well-to-do people at enormous priees, and that
there is constant peculatlon In food cards. Tder Is Try little tat in tbe
meat that reaches th market from German sources, for th lack of fodder
bas greatly reduced all cattle.)
Berlin bas a separate publlc ofOc for providlng food for th sick,
where we saw many sick people walting to be given cards entltllng them to
buy milk and white flour. Tbls ollice Is now carlng for 210,000 people,
altbough the permlta are coosincd almost entircly for thoso suffering from
tubereulosis, rachitis or acute nephrltis. Before the war lt was estimated
that about l per cent of th Population of Berlin would be sick at any on
moment, now It Is at least' 10 per cent. Tb xcords in n room. wer
especlally pathetie, It eontalned the cards of those whose allowanc bad
been revoked not because the given case no longer required spaclal food,
but because so many new cases bad eome in that the llst bad to be revlsed
in tb interest of th most pressIng need. Old peopl bad to b sacristeed
to the young, the incurable to th mor bopefui. W wr permittsd fl
examlne any cards whlch w choae to pull out of their ca.se.
W saw with our own yes a striking demonstration of the InsuM-
ciency of food for th sick when wo visited the kitchen of" the- great ünl-
versity bospital in Berlin, th Charlie. There ar i.JOO people Jn th insti-
tution to be fed and since the Revolution tbe 'EinbeUessen" xul bas been
in force, that is, xactly the sam food in bind and quantity is served to
everyon connected with th Aospital, from the scrub women to, th head
profesqor. W were shown th supply of meat for one day. It consisted of
lumps ot very lean beef with. much bone, already thoroughly boiled in Order
to make eoup. It filled a tray about two and a half feet long by one and
a half feet wlde and about five lncbes deep. This was the meat allowance
for 2,800 people, but they do not get H every day. The weekly per caplta
allowance for the sick ia 250 g., but after the bone bas been removed it is
only 150 g, whieb we were told would make a daily allowance just the
legal weight of a letter. The bread allowance for the bospital is ZZZ g.
daily. but many of the sick cannet eat this bread, for it is made of war
meal containlng all but 5 per cent bran with the addition of ground drled
vegetables, wbich render it damp and llable to mould or ferment in a tsw
days. There is only one ioaf ot wbit brqad for ten patients weekly. They
wer using ten timea as much greea vegetablesas formerly because they
had o dried beans, peas or rjee. For that weck the supply ot potatoes was
only one pound per caplta. There bas been no sih since the armlstlce,
when the blockade provlsions prohlbited fishlng in the North Sea. With
this diet of unsatisfactory bread was served th inevltable marmalade mad
of vegetable fibre, a mlntmum of frult, the wbole eolored witb anillne and
swectened with Saccharin. It is obvlous that such a diet is insuWcient
and that under it there Is little cbance of real recovery from slekness. The
Director of the bospital was suffering from a fracture ot the bip, wbich
would not he&l because bis powers of recuperation were at so low an ebb
from underfeeding.
As we went through other institutions we often bad an opportunity to
see the food served to the inmates. In the City Orphanage ia Berlin chll
dren with rickets reeeived for their' noonday dinner a soup of war itzai
and drled vegetables, with a few drops of vegetable margarine floaüng on
the itop. In a crecho in Frankfurt for well chlldren they wer rving at
noon a meal soup made with one pound of margarine fox 100 children. In
the afternoon they, were given a mug of German tea, made from drled
leaves of strawberry and other plants, without milk and witb only ihre,
quarters of a pound of ugar to 40 quarts of tea". Many of the children Ja
th creche ehowed aigns of rickets nd almost all of malnutrltion save one
small boy, conspieuou? for bis ryy cheeks, who bad just returued from a
visst in the country to bis grandmother.
In Leipzig we visited a "Landkolonie," a larga playground In whlch
25 children from 6 to 12 vears of aae snend the day and are given a mid-
day diÄner. It consisted ot one pint of meal eoup, to whlch bad been added
little dried vegetable. Out of 190 cbildren sested t one Urne Ia the
dining room all save one wer pale and anaemic. The director made several
anvouncements to the cbildrena fcike for the tollowipg; day, wbic be
carefully explained was not mpulsory th Um wbea the pri?e would de
awarded so? the best garden, and so forth. Attof thes wer reeeived witb
curlous sort of apathy by tb? liaUsss ebttdren. but when fee saüd that n
boped they would hav milk in th?ir soup toroorrow or th ext day, tb
announoement was greeted by a sbrill and spyntaneous cheer. Her as
everywbere the etfect of food privaten was mor striking on tbe boys than
on the girls. This was usually explained by the greater activlty ot the
boys, altbough one professor xegarded it as anotbe mjdenee yf the greater
resistance of th femalo e wbich bas always been shown ia the iower
deatb rate of girl babies.
Tbe "Luftbad" ia Frankfurts a very original mode ot treatmeat for
delicate cbildren. Tb chlldren in batbing sults on the boys' sid they
wear a very abrldged form-are kept in tbe sun and tbe open air for three
bours a day, some of them playing, but other lying down aeeording to the
doctor's Orders. The children were used to be given a large glas of milk
and all the bread and butter they wanted. Now the city allowance for
them is half a pound ot soup meal a montb per caplta. to whlch the patron
add some fresh vegetables, but they hav no tat. Many of the boy ex
hlbited such extreme emaciatlon as to remlnd US of plctures of Indien
famlnes, yet we were told that these children had greatly improved during
thelr mnth ot treatment in the Luftbad. Of course many of themrougüt
bread carefully roeasured out by thelr mothers from, th born allowance,
for lt would be Illegal for th management of the Luftbad to secure an
extra supply of bread, At another charmlng outdoor charity for little
chlldren, who are taken to epend each day in the woods, we again encoun
tered the afternoon tea without milk and 19 little sweetened that w were
gurprised the cbildren were drlnking it.
I neacb city expect in Hall we visited publie kitebens, to whieb men
and women of tbe working lass and middle dass eome t buy eooked food,
either taking Jt bome pr eating lt oft th premises. We visited six ot these
In Berlin, two in Leipzig, one in Cbemnlt, nd oe Jn Frankfurt. In Berlin
a meal could be bought; for a mark and a quarter r a mark and a half.
For thls. they xscLlvsd soup of meal and dried vegetables, then a disb of
boiled greens, part fresh and part dried. and another dlab es drled cabbage
er potatoes, and for deserta quote from notes taken on th Spot
"drea4ful pasty, slimy ttwn cake cp Joathesome slabs ot aniline red jelly
Uke tu." la Leipzig the kitchen we visited was ervinß 10.000 boiled
durnplings made of war meal and eaten with dried pears that bad been
tewed wit sugar; fox two dumplIES they paid forty-flve Pfennigs, In
Chemnltz forty pfennigs bought a pint and half of soup made of sauer
kraut and potatoes witb a fairly generous allowance et margarine, Thls
last Is a municipal enterpris as is a kitchen we visited in Frankfurt where
school cbildren ara served thgir mldday meal, th mest early adequate one
wa saw.- They were given on pr two quarts as they cboa ot a tbiek soup
es potatoes, xaxrots and aoodles; tbis was mad in a central kitebea and
distributed througb many center. Tb food ia these Berlin kitchens
seemed luffleient in quantity, but.poor in nutrition, and very taateless, and
wbile in Cbemnlt and Leipzig the quaiity was bester and mor attraetjy,
the quantity wss very Jnsumcient. Tb children in Frankfurt bad tJ eat
a barmfully largo quantity of soup in order to satlsfy thelp bunger. Of
course no-one know, better than tb German themselves tb brmflness
of thls bulky diet, so poor in utritiv qualities. German scIenUsts hav
made every possible ekfort to get at ew seuross of fat, eyery bone is saved
that it may be emshed and tb tat extracted fron) the rnerrow; they hav
taken tb germs from tbe ry kemel for tbe sake of fat; they even collect.
tbe fat from the disb-wate? of tbe great botel.
W were constantly reminded that tb pauclty of food doe not effect
only the poorer people. W wer told that many working popl witb rela
tive In the country. from whom they might obtain food, fared better than
Professional people and ethers. who bad no such connectlo. Cfn Üben
sked a direct question, the Professors in clinics revealed tb difCculty they
had bad In providlng for thelr own familie. Qn fameu physician sald
that b bad never during the blockade and up to th present bad meat
mor than pnee a week. The wfe of a great biologist sald that many a
momlog when sbe bad faced n empty larder he weuld go out Ja one dlree
tion, her Kuband in snptber and t" nun In a tdird, in erder to find food
for her three little children. Another professor wk was taking us througa
a chlldren s ward admitted rather reluctantly that bis breakfait condsti
of black war coffe with bread and marmslale, that be eats se mldday
(Ccntinued on Page 2)
.. .f.
VPOP (yu9rc oic . s
Leiden der InHen
VckanMch hat sick' daS STnxcrifii
nische Jüdische Krieahilfe.Komit
entschlossen, zwischen dein IS. und
22. Sept. in diesem Lande die Sum
me von p?.0ttg,tt für di not.
leidenden Juden Europas auszu
bringen. Ncbraöka hat hierzu die
Summe bon $400,000 beizusteuern
und sind big Vorbereitungen dazu in
bestem Gange und Erfolg verspre.
chend. Die Juden haben am schreck
lichsten in Polen, Tschecho-Slowakien
und den Valkanländern gelitten,
nicht nur wegen des Krieges selbst,
sondern auch wegen der in jenen
Ländern stattgefundenen Versolgun
gen, die jetzt aber ein Ende erreicht
haben. Die amerikanischen Juden
haben ein Komitee berühmter Ame.
rikaner in Europa gehabt, um die
Lag ihrer Glaubenbbrüder zu un
tersuchen und diese haben gefunden.
dah viele Millionen notwendig sind,
um die Not und daS Elend zu stil.
len. p i
si . V I . y .i ...rv ..i .
cynu.it, .yuuvil (ui uiuui. u4.
Goldflainm in Warschau sagte mir,
daß in seiner Klinik während der
letzten Jahrs kein jüdisches Kind un
ter vier Jahrs lausen konnte, Eini
ge der Kinder, haben das Laufen ver
gessen. Sie leiden an Nachities.
denn sie erhielten rur einmal d?s
Tages Nahrung und zwar eine war
m? Kartoffelsuppe und ei Stückchen
Vrot."
Die hervorragendsten Bürger
OmahaS werden den Jiiden helfen,
die für Nebraska bestimmte Summe
aufzubringen. Das Hauptquartier
für die Kampagne befindet fich in tu
ner 'Hütte auf dem Courthausplatz.
wo jetzt schoy Beiträge entgeaenge'
nomnien. werden. '
prelskartenspiel -öes
S. S. Surnverekns
Allabendlich dieser Woche fulden
in dem , Versammlungslokal deö
. r j . iv . ii .. s i
uoicue .Turnvereins vreislanen
spiele statt., wobei den . bellen
minmjie, uns kummyipieiern icijorn.
m!k h,:,... . in
MV4 V n KJt klJiW tlVi"
den Taschenuhr. 21 Pfund Mehl
frtffs QtirciT iiiS rtiiSrt PfFtf(iP
HUH, 41W VilliWt.lr drVttl'kt'
h?. für 55N .CSrtiiSfinTf itttpnfsnsirTirf
t
sind. TaZ Tournier begann letzten
Samstag abend und eZ steht zu er.
warten, dah dig Beteiligiing recht
zahlreich sein wird. Jeder Liebhaber
nc Miittrtffitit min Mfiitmnl iit
iv'UM.'HJ(V Wtltti, l:
freundlichst eingeladen. Ter Neinge
winn klickt ., in die liosse zur Lerö
besserung der Halle ' ' ' '
Mich die Bundesregierung hat cr.
fahren müssen, daß Bauen Mährend
deö Krieges eine kostspielige Sache
war, nur den Bau einer Muni
tionsiabrik. die nack den Boran.
schlagen 1,230,000 Dollar kosten
sollte, hat sie vierzehn Millionen
bezahlt, und fertig ist sie heute noch
nicht. Anscheinend hat schon ein ganz
bescheidenes Krtegökonträktchen ge
nügt, uin den glücklichen Inhaber
zum Millionär zu machen.
ES bezahlt sich, in den .Kla
A
sisizicrten Anzeigen"
annoncieren.
der Tribünf,
4':
nkV.M'U
omplei, lk,ep und InIInisttonen. uu
Haus, öw, tilitcfi'l), wirkliches fUt und tJH
aewüblle Meine herzustellen, einlchüchlich l k ,
iieNung und vverailon von HeimDellIn f '
samnienkieslellt von Leuten, die kllber Im
sowie Tellillsnonge!chä!i in ,
sich Waren, kein rfafmilld; tat Vf, t
partene rlaubt bt Vkilendimg von v!.
Un. Hgnde schnell. To elev. welch ft
Berkaul )on Lilör'Rezevlen perbielel, !egs ki
Kougreh or. kZuge'chickk lür kd, i '
Monetz Ordtt, tat ober V!rken, -
Baltimore fformnia Company
UlVIk, V,. , ; '
" ' b
,. . rule. klgt. , S !
rcl. Wtt im ' V
-tf($i
r
IckkRkinI,
leibn iom Gr( i
1717 Int, U !
I
MIMWM!W!WSBliWWlWÄM
William SternberS
Deutscher Advokat
Zimmer 050.954, Omaha Natio
Vank.Gebäude.
Tel. DouglaS SL2. Omaha,
:i
ammmmmäSEääm'msia f
'A
Orrie S. Hülse E. H. T. Niep
hülse & riepe:
Deutsche Leiche bestatt,,
Telephon: TouglaZ 1220 1
M sdl. 1ö. Ctt. Omgha.Nkl l
Verlangt!
Mehrere Zeitnnzsträgfr
derlgt für die Tägliche
Omh, Tribüne. Mi ikie
thiiue Ttzler 210 nni ro
fit itch He tzlsekf.
P?