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The Southern Israelite Page 3 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?