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The Southern Israelite
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Your Opportunity To Save Your
People Is Here and Now
Redeem All Pledges In Georgia To
The United Jewish Campaign
Intensive Effort Being Made To Liquidate State’s
Obligation In Big Life-Saving Campaign—
Cash Urgently Needed
SOUP KITCHEN IN POLAND
In this emergency ... one of the
gravest our people ever have faced
we do not lack for wise counsel
or leadership. The United Jewish
Campaign conducted in 1926 has
pointed the way for reconstruction
and relief in foreign countries. It is
the succor for those who suffer in in
hospitable alien lands.
Economic rehabilitation is solving
the problems where Jewry in foreign
lands may bud in flower and bring
forth newer and finer fruits for the
blessing of all humanity. The economic
solution of these problems are being
well taken care of through funds
raised in the national campaign in
1926. By those funds, ours is the power
and the privilege to say:
Those who hunger shall have bread;
The fatherless shall be provided
for;
The sick shall be healed;
The homeless shall be sheltered;
The wanderer shall find a home;
To every Jewish child its heritage
in God;
To all Jewry the hope and inspira
tion of a reconstructed people.
In the wealth that is ours lies this
power ... it is a power we hold in
trust for all our people. As good stew
ards, we cannot deny to pay our
pledges to our brothers who still are
in dire need. The world is watching
American Jewry. The eyes of Amer
ica are on Georgia where we have
prospered so wonderfully, to see how
we shall answer our pledges made in
1926.
You shall be the sole judge of your
duty toward the suffering brothers of
yours. But judge generously and char
itably, as you might wish to be
judged were the situation reversed
. . . You over there, persecuted, ha
rassed, our family facing starvation
and with no hope except charity of a
more fortunate brother, living hap
pily here under the favored skies of
Georgia.
Fail not to remember that you are
answering not for yourself alone, but
for all your people, Pay cheerfully,
freely and thankfully. Never let it be
said that the Jews of Georgia were
weighed and found wanting, when the
future of our own people was at
stake.
The progress of the different fields
T activities of the Joint Distribution
Committee in foreign lands are Child
are Work, Care of Refugees and
Emigrants, Medical Work, Cultural
ork, Reconstruction and Emergency
< ases. The funds subscribed in 1926
r^ave aided in assisting many of these
unfortunate across the seas. The best
an ® w ® r as to whether or not this work
and the money raised for these activi-
jes are proving fruitful is the reply
l nat a non-Jew gave to American
' ewry upon his return from investi-
gating conditions in Europe. We point
0 ae $500,000.00 subscribed by John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., who was so taken
up by the activities of the J. D. C.
that immediately upon his return
from abroad he sent his check to our
National Leaders.
President Herbert Hoover who has
been interested in the work of the
Joint Distribution Committee, stated
to our National Leaders that Ameri
can Jewry could not possibly contrib
ute to a more deserving human cause.
What will your answer be? It can
be no other than an immediate pay
ment of your pledge in full.
The final drive for the collection of
all unpaid pledges in the three year
campaign of the Georgia United Jew
ish Campaign, conducted in May,
1926, is now under way.
The State Committee, under the
leadership of Harold Hirsch, State
Chairman, Leonard Haas, State
Treasurer, are putting forth every
effort to collect every outstanding dol
lar, so that Georgia may take its place
in the sun with other states of the
country.
Every element of Jewry in Georgia
in 1926 joined with their fellow Jews
of every city and state in America
and every province in Canada in the
greatest Life Saving movement in our
history.
The Jews across the seas were
starving. They appealed to us to help
them. We responded to their heart
rending cries of distress in the
splendid spirit of Jewish sympathy
and justice.
We pledged a total of $126,242.70
in this great appeal. Almost three
years have passed and pledges are
now due. May 15th, 1929, is the final
date for complete liquidation of all
pledges. To date we have paid $91,-
911.17 in cash. We still owe $34,331.53.
The National Committees have re
peatedly sent appeals to our local
leaders urging and praying that we
send the balance due on our City and
State pledges. They have already
spent all the money pledged by the
Jews of Georgia. They borrowed
money from New York banks on the
strength of our pledges to buy food,
clothing, and medical aid for the suf
fering Jews overseas.
To those Who are hungry, to those
who are naked, and to those who are
suffering, we. owe a debt of honor.
They are our own flesh and blood.
We cannot leave them but must make
good our promises to them. This is a
sacred pledge and a legal obligation,
just as binding on every one of us
who made it as any commercial debt
or promise to our own families or
friends.
Georgian Jewry has never yet vio
lated its pledges to local, national or
international Jewry. Georgian Jewry
will not, must not, fail to keep its
sacred word in this greatest of all
humantarian appeals.
The responsible officers of the Geor
gia United Campaign urges every
Jew in the state to make good his or
her pledge right now. Pay it now!
Don’t put it off until next week. As
soon as you lay this article down, get
out your check book and mail the bal
ance of your pledge to Leonard Haas,
State Treasurer, 1715 Candler Bldg.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Let Georgian Jewry respond 100 per
cent. Let us complete our sacred job
in the traditional spirit of Jewish
Honor and Pride. And in the name
of your suffering brothers and sisters
all over the world—DO IT NOW.
JEWISH CHILDREN IN POLAND
Have You Paid Your Pledge?