The Sentinel, v.060 no. 10, 1925

              THE SENTINEL
In a week so filled with drama and
feeling that it should go down in the
annals of Chicago's Jewry as its most
memorable period, the United Drive
for $4,000,000 swung into full action
and its army of men and women work-ers
went forth, armored in determina-tion
and enthusiasm, to put the relief
campaign over the top.
Three events marked the real start
of the drive. In their sequence they
,were :
Three hundred of the leaders in the
,Jdeiwnnisehr community, gathered at the tables in the Crystal room of
the Blackstone Sunday night, contrib-uted
nearly $2,000,000 as their per-
:sonal subscriptions to start the cam-,
paign on its way with omens of sue-
(cess. These donations came with
.spontaneous outpouring of charity.
At the opening rally of more than
_-800 workers held in the Gold room of
the Congress hotel, Monday evening,
the full faith of the soldier in his own
(cause was demonstrated forcibly.
Stirred by the appeals of their leaders,
the workers themselves subscribed an-other
one hundred thousand dollars.
The great part women will enact in
the drive was. portrayed Thursday,
when hundreds of feminine workers
met at breakfast at the Congress.
Then it was revealed that under the
leadership of Mrs. Maurice L. Roth-schild,
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald and Mrs.
Hannah Solomon, there had, been per-fected
one of the most effective organ-izations
ever formed for such a pur-pose.
Clubs and ward organizations
and every other conceivable asset of
feminine activity in the community
was taken into consideration in organ-izing
this division of the relief cam-paign
army.
Most impressive in its outpouring
of response was the Sunday night din-ner.
And within, less than an hour,
from those seated at the tables, had
come the pledges. Sincerity brought
modesty, and quietly and without os-tentation
came the reply to the stir-ring
appeals that had been made for
the Michael Reese and Mount Sinai
hospitals and the Jewish People's insti-tute
and Chicago's share of the
$15,000,000 fund for foreign relief
work.
Jacob M. Loeb, as general chairman
of the United Drive, presided at the
dinner and opened the meeting. Then
followed the appeals of Leo F. Worm-ser,
Dr. Solomon Freehof and Julius
Rosenwald. In the hands of General
Abel Davis was wielded the gavel that
gave the signal for the announcements
of the gifts.
Dr. Rosenwald's donation was
$250,000. Of this, $50,000 was given
in the memory of A. G. Becker. Then
followed rapidly and quietly the other
donors. Announcement was made of
a donation of $100,000 from S. J. T.
Straus of Chicago, and Simon W.
Straus of New York.
From Max Adler came $50,000 and
from Max Epstein another forty. A
similar amount was read off from
Maurice L. Rothschild and $25,000 for
the Spiegel family. Jacob Kesner and
Oscar Foreman each was written down
for $20,000. The same amounts came
from Maurice Katz and Lubliner &
Trinz.
Then again came announcement
from Mr. Rosenwald. He spoke for
Mrs. Rosenwald and stated her gift
was $25,000. This amount will be
credited to the quota of the Women's
Division.
Marcy I. Berger, secretary of the
drive and nationally known as a
worker, spoke for himself and Mrs.
Berger. Through the months of prep-aration
for the drive, Mr. Berger has
worked day and night bringing to
fruition the plans of the campaign
executives. His contribution was
$2.000.
Varying in the amounts, the other
subscriptions piled up. Some were
given anonymously. So rapidly were
the pledges spoken that the tabulators
had difficulty in keeping pace with
them.
Another bright page was written at
the opening rally Monday night.
Gathered in trade and professional
divisions, more than 800 of the men
who are carrying the drive to its peak,
sat down to hear the appeals which
were to bring their enthusiasm to the
final pitch.
Seated at the speakers' table were
the chairman, honorary and associate
chairmen and the vice-chairmen in
charge of the. brigades of divisions.
Noticeable was the youth of many of
the workers who had enlisted. Notice-able
also was their sincerity and deter-mination.
From Jacob M. Loeb, general chair-man,
Judge Harry M. Fisher, Dr. Ger-son
B. Levi, Modie J. Spiegel and
General Davis came the stirring ap-peals
that brought the hundreds to
their feet cheering. Marcy I. Berger,
secretary of the drive, explained the
purpose of the working kits that were
to be passed out to the workers later
in the evening.
Through every speech ran the key-note
answer to the slogan of the drive,
"Are You a Jew?" And when the
cheers died down, there seemed to be
no doubt that the question had been
answered.
"The man who thinks 'I' is the
greatest word in the language, is un-just
to himself," Mr. Spiegel told the
workers. "I, by myself can do little,
but 'We' can do much. The answer
to the world should be, 'Yes, we are
Jews!'"
Eddie Cantor, famous comedian and
the star of "Kid Boots," who volun-teered
as a worker and has been at-tending
the meetings in the Straus
building headquarters, added his to the
thrills of the evening. It was one
occasion, he said, when even a com-edian
could not be funny. In the
balcony had been playing the boys'
band from the Chicago Home for Jew-ish
Orphans.
"There is a bond of sympathy be-tween
you boys and me," Cantor spoke
up to them. "I, too, was an orphan,
never knowing a father or mother
after I was a year and a half old.
And if it had not been for the philan-thropists
of another day, I would not
be where I am today."
The passing of the working kits was
one of the most impressive moments
of the rally. In bindings which re-sembled
classic volumes and bearing
the slogan of the drive, had been
packed the material which the workers
will use to carry the message of giving
to those whom they will ask to swell
the fund. Dozens of girl workers for
the drive bore the kits to the tables.
As they were opened by the team
members, comments of appreciation
and applause passed through the room,
After General Davis had completed
his speech, girls passed around the
nledge cards. Then, spontaneously,
the men who had come there to start
asking others to give, themselves an-swered
the appeal of the cause. While
the gavel sounded on the speakers'
table, the workers called out their
pledges of subscriptions, and when the
final hammer fell, tens of thousands
more had been added to the fund.
As completely organized as an army,
is the woman's division -now. At a
meeting at the Standard Club Mon-day,
at which final plans were laid
for the starting of their share of the
drive, the division was completed. The
following is the commanding staffs:
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, honorary chair-man,
and Mrs. Maurice L. Rothschild,
general chairman. The following are
vice-nresidents: Mrs. Max Adler, Mrs.
Gottfried D. Bernstein, Mrs. Emanuel
J. Block, Mrs. Abel Davis, Mrs. Ed-
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Ward 49-Mrs. Max Korshak, chair-man;
Mrs. H. Gershenow, vice-chair-man.
Ward 50 Mrs. Samuel Zucker,
chairman; Mrs. B. Morris, vice-chair-man.
Suburbs
West-Mrs. M. Van Buren, chair-man;
Mrs. L. Wechter, vice-chairman.
North Shore
Evanston-Mrs. Simon Klee, chair-man.
Glencoe-Mrs. A. J. Freiler, Mrs.
Jack A. Benjamin, Mrs. Abel Davis,
co-chairmen.
Winnetka-Mrs. B. Faroll, chair-man.
Highland Park-Mrs. Joseph Mich-aels,
chairman; Mrs. Morris Hirsch,
Mrs. M. J. Freiler, vice-chairmen.
Presidents of the most prominent
and active women's organizations in
the city attended the Standard Club
luncheon and assisted in forming the
ward teams. And they were the ones
who led their fellow members to the
breakfast at the Congress. There,
ward J. Flonacher, Mrs. Edwin G.
Foreman, Mrs. Beatrice J. Foreman,
Mrs. I. H. Foreman, Mrs. Joseph
Frank, Mrs. Charles E. Frankenthal,
Mrs. Herbert L. Hart, Mrs. Max M.
Korshak, Mrs. Gerson B. Levi, Mrs.
Felix A. Levy, Mrs. Jacob M. Loeb,
Mrs. Louis L. Mann, Mrs. Elias Mayer,
Mrs. Joseph Mayer, Mrs. Joseph
Michaels, Mrs. Harry J. Meyerson,
Mrs. I. Natkin, Mrs. Henry Neufield,
Mrs. George Pick, Mrs. Joseph Regen-stein,
Mrs. Ignace J. Reis, Mrs. Edwin
Romberg, Mrs. Maurice Rosenfeld,
Mrs. J. Harry Selz, Mrs. Benjamin
Schiffman, Mrs. Abe Simon, Mrs. Han-nah
G. Solomon, Mrs. May 0. Spiegel,
Mrs. Samuel B. Steele, Mrs. Julius
Stone, Mrs. Martin L. Straus, Mrs.
Jesse Strauss, Mrs. Samuel W. Weis,
and Mrs. Abraham Weiss.
The ward organization was an-nounced
as follows:
Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, ward di-rector:
Mrs. Ignace J. Reis, assistant
ward director; Mrs. Henry Neufield,
director of north side district; Mrs.
Jacob M. Loeb, director of south side
district.
Following are the chairmen of the
various wards, with several wards yet
to be assigned:
Ward 1-Mrs. Gerhard Foreman,
assisted by members of the Chicago
Woman's Aid.
Wards 2 and 3-Mrs. Max Adler,
chairman; Mrs. Ignace J. Reis, presi-dent
of the Council of Jewish Women,
vice-chairman (assisted by the presi-dents
of the Johannah Lodge, Sarah
Greenebaum Lodge and Lincoln
Lodge).
Ward 4-Mrs. Louis L. Mann,
chairman; Mrs. Moses L. Purvin, vice-chairman
(assisted by Sinai Sister-hood
and Council of Jewish Women
and Council Juniors).
Ward 5-Mrs. Gerson B. Levi, chair-man;
Mrs. Arthur H. Spiegel, Mrs.
Solomon Strause, Mrs. Frank Sulz-berger,
vice-chairmen (assisted by the
K. A. M. and the Temple Sisterhoods).
Ward 6-Mrs. Joseph Sabe.l, chair-man;
Miss Lucille Zinner, vice-chair-man
(assisted by the Children's Aid
and Co-Workers of the Children's
Aid).
Ward 8-Mrs. Max Van Cleef, Mrs.
Gottfried D. Bernstein, co-chairman;
Mrs. George Fox, vice-chairman.
Wards 20 to 30-Mrs. Harry Gor-don,
chairman; Mrs. L. B. Greenberg,
Mrs. David Lipsey, vice-chairmen.
Ward 33-Mrs. B. Schiffman and
Mrs. H. Shur, co-chairmen; Mrs. N.
Van Buren, vice-chairman.
Ward 38-Mrs. Arthur Jelonek,
chairman.
Ward 42-Mrs. Samuel W. Weis,
chairman; Mrs. Armand Deutsch, vice-chairman
(assisted by north side mem-bers
of the Chicago Woman's Aid and
Jewish People's Institute).
Ward 43-Mrs. Sol Lande, chair-man.
Ward 44-Mrs. L. King, chairman.
Ward 46-Mrs. Joseph Regenstein,
chairman; Mrs. Joseph Indig, vice-chairman.
Ward 48-Mrs. M. L. Rothschild,
chairman; Mrs. H. Zeitlen, vice-chair-man.
Mrs. Edwin G. Foreman, Edwin G. Foreman,
Jr., Gerhard Foreman, Mr. and Mrs. Henry G.
Foreman, Mrs. Dora K. Frank, Harry Gold-stine,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Greenwald,
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Harris, Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen Hexter, Gustav Hochstadter, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Hoefeld, Mr. and Mrs.
Julius Kramer, Mrs. Belle Kuppenheimer,
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lanski, Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney Loewenstein, Mr. and Mr.
Abraham W. Meyer, Mr. and'Mrs. Joseph B.
.Moos, Fred Nachman, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Phillipson, Lessing Rosenwald, Philadelphia,
Pa., Peter Sampson, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob L.
Schnadig, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Schram,
Angus Roy Shannon, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand
Siegel, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Stein, S. D.
Stoll, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Straus, Mr. and Mrs.
Melvin L. Straus, Mr. and Mrs. Martin L.
Straus.
$4,000.00
Herman Altman, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Baer,
Abe Cohn, Dr. J. B. DeLee, Mr. and Mrs. August
Getzert, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Klee, Mr. and
Mrs. Leopold Kling and Kling Brothers, Her-bert
A. Loeb, M. and Fred L. Ottenheimer,
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Platt, S. J. Rosenblatt,
Mr. and Mrs. Lessing Rosenthal, Henry
Schoenstadt & Sons, Henry C. Schwab, Nathan
Shure.
$3,500.00
Edgar R. Born, Mr. and Mrs. Barnett Faroll.
$3,400.00
Charles M. Rothschild.
$3,250.00
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Gordon
grouped at their respective clubs, were
hundreds of women ready to set forth
on the campaign.
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald and Mrs. Fe-lix
A. Levy spoke, as did Judge
Harry M. Fisher and Dr. Louis L.
Mann. Then, when enthusiasm had
been aroused to the highest pitch, kits
were distributed to the workers.
The following is a list of contributions re-ceived:
Julius Rosenwald...............................$200,000.00
In Memory of A. G. Becker........ 50,000.00
Samuel J. T. Straus and Simon w.
Straus, N. Y.................................. 100,000.00
Max Adler................................. 50,000.00
For John Robert Adler.................... 500.00
Emil G. Hirsch and Julius Rosen-wald
Fund................................... 1,000.00
Max Epstein................................... 40,000.00
Maurice L. Rothschild.................... 40,000.00
Anonymous ..................................... 30,000.00
A. G. Becker Family, in Memory
of A. G. Becker............................ 30,000.00
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald.................... 25,000.00
Spiegel Family................................. 25,000.00
Oscar G. Foreman.......................... 20,000.00
Emil G. Hirsch and Julius Rosen-wald
Fund. ............................... 500.00
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Block............... 20,000.00
P. D. Block..................................... 20,000.00
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob L. Kesner........ 20,000.00
Lubliner -& Trinz............................. 20,000.00
Edward A. Dato............... ............... 15,000.00
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Dato
Emil'G. Hirsch and Julius Rosen-wald
Fund.................................... 1,000.00
B. E. Bensinger............................. 15,000.00
Emil G. Hirsch and .'Julius .Rosen-wald
Fund................................ 500.00
Louis Eckstein............................. 15,000.00
M. E. Greenebaum........................... 12,000.00
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Rosenfeld.... 12,000.00
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hartman............ 11,000.00
Mr. and Mrs. Elias Mayer............. 11,000.00
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred K. Stern........ 11,000.00
. $10,500.00
Mr. and Mrs. Bertram J. Cahn, Mr. and
Mrs. Armand S. Deutsch, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Foreman, Jacob M. Loeb, Fred Uhlman, John
Wineberg.
$10,000.00
Anonymous, Balaban & Katz Trust, Mr.
and Mrs. E. J. Block, Mr. and Mrs. M. Born,
Arthur Dunas, W. B. Frankenstein, Henry
Friend & Son, Mr. and Mrs. Gustav H. Gott-schalk,
H. E. Greenebaum, J. E. Greenebaum,
Joseph Brothers Lumber Company, Edward,
Arthur, and Mortimer Katzinger, Milton L.
Livingston, John, Phillip and Edward Magnus,
Louis Olin, Martin C. Schwab, Henry L. Stern,
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Vehon;
$8,500.00
Jacob Lindheimer, Mr. and- Mrs. Harry S.
Schram.
$8,000.00
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Rosenberg, Charles
Rubens, Mr. and Mrs. David Straus.
$7,500.00
Mr. and Mrs. I. Baumgartl, Sidney H. Kahn,
Nathan F. Leopold.
$7,250.00
Metzenberg Family.
$7,200.00
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Deutsch.
$6,500.00
General and Mrs. Abel Davis, Mr. James
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. A. Younker.
$6,300.00
Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Goodman, Theodore
Regensteiner.
$6,000.00
Max Annenberg, New York, Mr. and Mrs.
David Blum, Alfred Decker, Mr. and Mrs.
John E. DeWolf, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Flors-helm,
Alexander and Samuel F. Flower, Marcus
Heiman, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hirsh,
Michael Hollander, New Jersey, Morris and
George Kurtzon, Mr. and Mrs. Lee J. Lesser,
Benjamin F. Lindheimer, E. Lowitz & Com-pany,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Meyer, Joseph
Michaels, B. F. Stein, Ludwig Stein.
$5,500.00
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rosenberg.
$5,000.00
Louis E. Asher, Sol M. Block, Samuel G.
Graudy, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cohen, Mr. and
Mrs. David Copland, Ralph Davis, Herman
Emerman, Fish Family, Alfred K. Foreman,