The Sentinel, v.047 no. 12, 1922

              THE SENTINEL
Dr. Lee K. Frankel
(Concluded from page 57)
work out its own salvation; the other, away until he has accumulated enough
dealing with administrative detail, such to make a start. Don't you think that
as overhead, personnel and the like. such courage as this deserves every
I don't know how interesting the sec- bit of help that we can give in order
ond part will be except for those who that it shall not be in vain? Dr.
have been "on the job" since the be- Frankel asked. "That's the spirit of
ginning of the Joint Distribution Comn- the people we are trying to help-and
mittee's work, but I am sure that the we ought to be happy to do all in our
first part will be one of the greatest power to aid them in their struggle to
human documents ever prepared for begin life over again.
Jewish purposes. "The great need of the Jews of
First, because of the men who have Poland, of Lithuania, of Latvia, of
made the investigations and collected HIungary is loans and more loans.
the data that will go into this report, "Of course it is hard to say how
and on which they will base their rec- far we ought to go in this direction,
ommendations. And secondly, the im- but at any rate, Col. Lehman's com-mense
amount of territory covered by mittee is on the right track. Excel-the
commission. Upon its arrival in lent progress is being made in Con-
Vienna, where the main offices of the gress Poland, in Galicia, in Lithuania,
Joint Distribution Committee are lo- in Wilna, in Bialystok, in Brest-Lit-cated,
the commission was split up into ovsk, in Latvia, in Roumania. And I
sections so as to cover more ground. am looking forward to great results
Bressler, Wolf and Rosenau proceeded from the loan-co-operatives.
to Brest-Litovsk and Rovno and all the "The whole thing boils itself down
intervening territory. Dr. Frankel and to this, as I see it," said Dr. Frankel.
Goldsmith went to Wilna through "The great need of the Jews of Europe
Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. Then is to know that we are standing
the commission reassembled in War- squarely behind them in their efforts
saw to report their findings. Follow- to return to normal conditions. When
ing this Dr. Rosenau went to Lithu- the leaders of the Polish Jewish com-ania
and Latvia, thence to Riga and munities said to me that if they can
into Russia, where they were joined be assured of our support for the next
by Brown. They are coming out of two or three years they will be able to
Russia by way of Constantinople. solve their child-caring problem, they
Bressler and Goldsmith left the War- did not intend to limit themselves to
saw conference for Bukowina; thence that phase alone. They really meant
to Kishineff to Jassy and Bucharest, the whole problem.
and back to Vienna by way of Con- "It is my very decided conviction,"
stantinople. Dr. Frankel went to Frankel declared, "that the only
Rovno, Dubno, Radziwillow, Brody, Dr. Frankel declared, "that the only LembeCrRakDoubvno,Rn adoziwrill,ow Budapest, wheBrody, thing for us to do here is to continue
Lemberg, Crakow and Budapestto, gwetnhde re our support as generously as we have
he was joined by Brown, and together gie it to the Jews of Europe during
they went back to Warsaw taking in given it to the Jews of Europe during
such points in Poland as had not al- the past. For the actual work,
poets n Poland as had not al- whether it be child-welfare, medical aid
ready been covered. Brown left foor reconstruction, and indeed, for all
Russia on August 26. of these things, I would trust the lead-
Hundreds and hundreds, even thou- ing men and women of the local com-sands
and thousands of miles. I munities. First, because they under-thought
of covering this vast mileage stand the problem so thoroughly, and
in American Pullmans these hot sum- secondly because they are so remark-mer
days, with electric fans and iced ably able. In every field I found men
drinks to strengthen one; with splen- and women who are the peers of our
did hotels and glorious shower and very best American Jews. They know
tub baths at the journey's ends. That's what needs to be done-and they know
one thing. And then I thought of how to do it. And if we let them do
the unspeakably wretched European it- if we don't attempt to impose our
trains, foul with neglect, stinking from ideas on them, because we are giving
the sweat of the unwashed, unbathed the money, it will raise their morale,
refugees jamming them full, with no their self-respect, and give them even
water to drink, I thought of the hor- greater courage."
rible hotels at the journey's ends- We both fell silent for a moment.
and I got some idea of what these Dr. Frankel's eyes were turned toward
commissioners of ours have had to en- th windows through which the sun
dure in order that they might come was streaming in broad, golden rays,
back and tell the Jews of America through which came those sounds and
how our European brethren are far- noises that are New York-secure and
ing. prosperous New York. In the park
Brown Gets Another Job below children were playing. Every
But Frankel would not talk of these now and then we could hear them
things, except as I have already in- laugh.
dicated. "As I said a while ago," he Dr. Frankel sensed what was in my
went on, instead, "Brown is now in mind, because the same thoughts were
Russia. How long he will stay there- in his.
how long he will continue his invest- "And over there-" he said, softly.
igations I don't know. He talked of Then he shook himself together.
going on to Palestine. But whenever "Last April two hundred men were
he gets through he has another job gathered in a hotel in Detroit," he be-waiting
for him. gan. "They had come to rejoice over
"He has promised the Jews of Eng- the success of a great humanitarian
land to come to London, later on, and enterprise-the raising in cash and
help them run a campaign to raise pledges of nearly $17,000,000 for the
£1,000,000. By the way," he inter- relief of the Jews of Europe. Much
rupted himself, "do you realize that of that money is in. Much of that
this remarkable man has virtually has been spent, and much more has
abandoned all of his interests since been appropriated by the Joint Distrib-last
September, and has given himself ution Committee on the perfectly
freely, without stint, all of his energy, proper assumption that the rest of this
all of his ability, all of his soul-every- money will be paid in.
thing that is in him-to the one and "You were at that conference," he
only job of helping to save the Jews turned to me-"the 'Victory confer-of
Europe? When men talk of ence.' You remember how these
'sacrifice' I think of Brown." splendid men and women stood up and
I mentioned reconstruction-and pledged themselves to Louis Marshall,
this was one of the few times that Dr. to David A. Brown to 'stay on the job'
Frankel smiled during the course of until every outstanding dollar is col-our
talk,-a talk interrupted a score lected. That's the thing we have to do.
of times by the clamor of the tele- That's what I want to ask these men
phone, and the equally important and women in whose behalf I and my
clamor of officials who wanted "just splendid colleagues went abroad-that
one minute." they spare no effort to bring in quick-
"In one town I met a man so eager ly, immediately, every outstanding dol-to
rebuild his home that he was buying lar. For it is needed-God, how it is
one log at a time, and storing them needed."
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