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About Beaverton times. (Beaverton, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1919)
Page 6 BEAVERTON RESTAURANT ed trra j3yc::i ( 7 ' WORLD JEWRY AT GREATEST CRISIS Leaders in America Striving to Save Race in Euro'pe From Destruction. Don't Delavlome Canning The United States Department of Agriculture again urges housekeep ers not to neglect nor delay home canning, drying and preserving. Fruit, sugar, and containers may be expensive, but even rft the prices being charged for them a saving in household expenses can probably be made by filling the pantry shelves while there is an opportunity to do so. mere is no indication that the usual margin of difference - in cost to the consumer of home and commer cial products will be lessened. More over, a well-stocked pantry now as 'sures "a more varied, attractive and wholesome diet next winter. t Home demonstration agents and club leaders of the department and the State agricultural colleges will give all possible assistance. House keepers who desire copies of the de partment's canning directions may obtain them immediately and without cost by addressing the Division of Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture at Wash ington, D. C. Canning directions may also be obtained in many cases from the State agricultural colleges. Teddy the Second does not like the BolshevikL He has adopted the slo gan of "Meet 'em Head On." . CHEVROLET! Better than Ever Same Price Come in and look ifover at Stipe's Garage $857.50 STIPE Beaverton, Ore. MUST SEND AID QUICKLY. Children Are the Mot Pitiful Sufferer From the Cataclyem That Hae Ruined a Onee Proeperoue People. The Jews In almost every country, of the world except America are In a state more dire and terrible, perhaps, than any in. which they have found themselves since the fall of Jerusalem. Briefly, the Jewish race in much of Europe is on the verge of annihila tion. The countries In which the plight of the Jews is the worst are Poland, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Ru mania, Serbia, Gallcia,. Palestine, Turkey, Greece and Siberia. " In Vllna, a typical town of Poland, the Jewish population has been cut down by star vation, typhus and other diseases In the last five years from 90,000 to 45,000. Nearly half of the survivors are dependent upon relief supplies sent by their co-religionists in America. Warsaw, Kovno, Constanza, and many other cities throughout Central and Eastern Europe tell the same tale. - ' American Jews, aroused by the re ports that first filtered through after the signing of the armistice, imme diately "organized 'under the American Jewish Belief Committee, of 15 East 40th Street, New Tork City, to save their race abroad. They sent .some 20 commissioners to various foreign coun tries to investigate the truth of these reports. - Almost all these commission ers have now returned and the first hand information that they have brought back is more alarming than the early unsubstantiated reports. ' Such men as Nathan Straus, Henry Morgen thau, Julius Eosenwald, Jacob H. Schiff, Felix M. Warburg, and many other prominent members of this com mittee are now bending every effort to arouse America to the great need abroad and rush the food and supplies across the ocean which, If sent quick ly, will save the Jewish race from destruction. Saddest of the victims of all this woe are the children. Tens of thou sands of pitiful youngsters who are seven or eight years old have gone" so long undernourished that they are lit tle further developed than normal In fants of one or two years. In the Polish cities orphaned children wander about the streets, homeless and unable to get into the orphanages. These are already overcrowded and depend primarily upqn American relief funds to keep them going. JEWISH RELIEF WORK IS NOWWORLDVIDE Christian as Weil as Jewish Suf ferers Are Aided by Organiza tion That Covers Many Coun tries in Europe and the Orient. Quietly, and practically without publicity of any sort, the Jews of Amer ica have built up, through the Amer ican Jewish Belief Committee and other official agencies, a machine for the organization and distribution' of relief to war sufferers of their' own and other races that is now practi cally worldwide. The headquarters of the Committee are at 15 East 40th Street, New Tork. Expenditures for this work now aggregate more than $2,000,000 a month, and by mean of state-by-state campaigns to .be .held this fall i total of $35,000,000 la to be sought to finance the work through the coming months. An enumeration of the countries In which relief efforts are being made Is Indicative of the scope of the work. Bepresentatlves of these Jewish agen cies are to be found In Poland, Ctecho Slovakia, Jugoslavia, Gallcia, Serbia, Rumania, and other Balkan states, Greece, Turkey, Palestine and Siberia. Small groups of refugees, cast up by the backwash of war, are being as rlsted In Holland, Japan, China and other Isolated parts of the globe. All told, many million Christians and more than 6,000,000 Jews In coun tries other than the. United States are being directly aided by American Jew ish relief funds. The major porf$p of this humanitarian work Is of course carried on in Eastern Europe. It is there that the bulk of the world's Jew ish population lives. The fact that these same nations have been perhaps hardest hit by the. late war, explains why World Jewry Is at the greatest crisis in Its history. But though the Jews of. America have set out to save their race from destruction, they are not forgetting that their own people are not the only sufferers in these lands. The signifl-, cance of the whole undertaking becomes apparent when It Is known that the relief supplies which have been pur chased and shipped largely with Jew ish fuMls tore distributed without dis crimination to Christians as well as Jews. Barriers of race and creed have been submerged in the flood tide of suffering throughout much of the earth, and the efforts of American Jewry to aid in the great crisis of today have become as broad as human ity Itself. " A dollar saved is a dollar made. WORK ON NEW CHURCH V NOW IN PROGRESS The work of excavating for ihe- , foundation for the new Congregation,--4 al Churchbuilding in this city which is to succeed the one when was de stroyed in the disastrous conflagration which occurred here on Sunday, July 20th, when a $75,000 fire swept the town, was commenced today. The neW structure is planned on the same lines as the Sunnyside Con gregational Church of Portland and is to cost about $25,000, much of the money for which has already been . pledged. The new church building is to oc cupy the public square in about the same position as the one recently destroyed, but being set back about forty feet from the street. The Forest Grove Congregational Church is one of the oldest organi zations of its kind in Oregon, and the church which was destroyed last July was the second One to be burned down. E. E. McClaren," of Portland, is the architect, and the erection of the building will be under the direction of J. S. Loynes, a local contractor and builder. - Those in charge of the work of building have purchased the brick which avere left in the ruins of the Odd Fellows building, an agreement having been reached whereby .ihe church secures all the brick ;for $1,100. They will be cleaned and piled up ready for the brick nuuons. i It is hoped that the weather will re main favorable so that the, work of construction'' may be well advanced v yet this falL Mr. Loynes is an excellent builder and. has some of, the best buildings in the city to his credit. He was the superintendent of the construction, of the new auto garage recently con structed by Wiles Auto Co. and Chal mers & Wilson Co. Those in charge of the securing of funds are pushing the work rapidly torward and feel certain that suf ficient money will be available to build a church edifice that will be a credit to the church it represents and the .community in which it is to be erected. Quite a number of out ness 'and professional men not con nected with the churcn have signi fied theii1 willingness to .contribute liberally to this good cause. -Forest Grove News-Times.