JEWISH RELIEF
FUNDS BEING
SENT TO AMERICA
New Tork, August 6. The Trans
mission Bureau of the Joint Distribu
tion Committee of Jewish Relief
Funds has sent abroad this year to
relatives of people in America, nearly
half a million dollars in individual
remittances and has located thous
ands from whom parents, children, or
brothers and sisters on this side have
had no word since 'the beginning of
the war. The semi-annual report from
January 1 to June 30 places the total
of remittances handled in this period
at $467,877.28. The average single re
mittance is about $25. Poland, Lith
uania, Galicla, and Czechoslovakia
are the chief regions to which private
funds have been sent.
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CATHOLIC MOVE 1
FOR EDUCATION
BY THE MOVIES
Machines Mounted on Mo
tors Will Visit Isolated
Places.
Washington, Aug. 8. Training
thousands of batteries of movie ma
chines on the quarters where ignor
ance and illiteracy hide true Ameri
can democracy from nine million
forelg-n-iborn or uninformed people the
National Catholic War Council today
began a nation-wide campaign of
civic education that will enlist twenty
thousand workers. Behind a barrage
of patriotically educational films, fit
ted for tho comprehension of every
foreigner and of every Illiterate, regi
ments of minute-men, trained to the
language and customs of thesa class
es, will rght to bring to them the real
meaning of democracy, their rights
and obligations under the American
democratic government and the fund
araental nrlnrinio. . ,
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tice. Until mm HI-lrM-f ., ..
