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Add Uo' Your ti n ? ami Wit .- S While the 3 ,5 00,000 American Jews twotf loyally fighting and laboring to help "make the World safe for Democracy the Jews of Easterh Europe, where lives the bulk of the world's Jewish population, were being ground out of existence by the ebb and flow of , contending armies, Today 6,000,000 Jews Are Facing the Darkest Days Ever Known in the Long History of the Race Families are scattered broken. A hundred thou sand children are orphaned. Poverty is the com mon lot. Whole cities have not known a square meal in five years. Disease stalks on every hand. The death rate mounts to double triple quadru plethat ever before known in a civilized country.' America Is the Only Hope In this, the greatest crisis that Jewry has ever known in centuries' of suffering and persecution, the Jews of America turn to their fellow citizens of all races and creeds for that material and immediate aid which alone can save the survivors of the race in Europe from destruction. $35,000,000 NEEDED! This sum represents the amount sought from the country at large. . Every cent of it will go to buy food, clothing, medicines and other necessities of life for the destitute, starving and utterly stricken men, women and children across the sea. It is veritable ransom money, for without ft millions will surely die I . JEWISH RELIEF CAMPAIGN , "Life for Those in the Shadow of Peath 99 1