THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
gitives in the synagogues, which
cannot he heated.
Hence the
rapidly
increasing
mortality
among the futitives.
Society for Jewish Cult.
Despite-the prevalent distress
and disquietude, a meeting has
been held here, under the presi-
dency of Winaver, at
which a Society for the Promo-
tion of Jewish Art was founded.
The founder is the sculptor, E.
(;unzburg, pupil and friend of the
great. :\ntokolsky, who traced the
history of modern Jewish art from
Antokolsky to the present day,
and spoke of the external hard-
ships and internal sufferings of
the Jewish artist. The object of
the society was to promote the
- plastic arts among the Jews, to
unite the artists, foster new tal-
ents, and to seek jointly the paths
of Jewish national art. The com-
mittee includes the sculptors
(;unzburg, Aronson, Brodsky,
the painters Gewurz, Mtiimon,
Warschauer, and two members
of the first Duma, \Vinover and
Sheftel.
of speculation. Whilst the prices
for meat' and bread ought to be
reduced, they are constantly ris-
ing. The fault lies with the
Jews, who hide the small coin.
You will bear the responsibility
for all these actions." When the
rabbi tried to reply and uttered
the word "Fxcellencv," he was
interrupted by the general : "No
conversation, I am not to he
talked to. I am only to be lis
tened to conversations are not
necessary. You will be the first to
be hanged. Mr. Police Commis-
sioner, don't be sparing with re-
ports: If there is only a shadow
of suspicion, then punish without
pity." The pastor of the 4,000
Lutherans was told that they
were all to be expelled.
THE JEWS IN GERMAN-
POLAND.
The manufacturing town of
Bialystock has again assumed its
normal form and all the factories
are working in-full force. There
arc about 1 2,000 Nyorkingmen in
that town, most of whom are
Jews. .Every trade is represented
by a commission, the members of
Kieff Jews Falsely Accused. • which are guarding the interests
of the particular trade. There are
The following episode, which several schools now in which
gives a further illustration of the German is the vernacular. The
false accusations heaped upon inspector of schools visited the
the ,Jews, dates back to last Au- schools recently and expressed
gust. The lack of small change in himself . as highly, pleased with
Nieff made itself very seriously the work done there. Represen
felt, and the story spread among tatives of the I lilfsverein, includ-
the people was, that the Jews had ing Dr. Nathan, Dr. Kahn and
lfought up all the small change Rabbi Dr. Rosenak, recently vis-
and concealed it. The Police Com- ited Bialystock. The Jewish com-
missioner of Kieff called a local munity of Koenigsberg sent 90
influential Jew, Mr. M,, and re- cases of wearing. apparel for dis-
quested him to use hi;; influence tribution among the poor of
with the Jewish population, so Bialystock.
that they should stop their evil
"The Warsaw press is full of
practice of buying up and hiding horrible details regarding the fate
small change. Ile pointed out of the ''exiled Briskers." The (10,-
that the feeling among the masses 11(1(1 Jews of Brest-Litovsk, one of
was very bitter, and that it might the oldest and most Jewish Rus-
find vent in excesses against the sian communities, have all been
Jews. M. replied that the exiled and are wan(lering- about
Jews had nothing to do with the from place to place. In Warsaw
lack of money, that this phenom- there is a large number of them,
enon was prevalent throughout destitute and without any means
Russia, and was due to general of subsistence. A special .com-
causes. Shortly afterwards two mittee to assist these unfortunates
other influential Jews were sum- has now been formed there. The
moned by the Governor, who re-
Jews of Novogrudok arc in a
quested them to take measures similar plight.
for reducing- the shortage of small
A committee was also formed
money. The Governor said : ''The
in
Warsaw to provide Kosher
people are excited, excesses are
meals
for the hundreds of Jewish
possible. I shall not allow any
prisoners
of \var who arc passing
Pogrom, but it is absolutely ne-
that
city
almost
daily.
cessary that measures should be-
.\t the suggestion of Major van
taken." The Governor was also
Struensee,
the military command-
told that the Jews were utterly
ant
of
Kovno,
the reorganization
powerless to remedy the evil.
of
the
Slobodka
Yeshibah has
Soon afterwards the represen-
been
undertaken
by
the Agudas
tative of the Stock Exchange, of
Israel
of
Frankfurt.
The
military
the Electric Trams, the Pastor,
the Rabbi, and the Catholic chaplain, 1)r. Rosenak, visited
Priests were summoned to appear Kovno and through his activity
before the staff of the Kieff Mili- the re-building of the Yeshibah
tary District. Upon their arrival structure has already been begun
the head of the Commissariat and several of the students have
Army, General Mavrin, without already conic! back. An appeal is
asking them to be seated, turned made to all the former supporters
to the police commissioner and of the Yeshibah in Germany to
asked him: "'Who is that there? renew their subscriptions to the
The rabbi?" "Quite right,- your institution.
Excellency." Then the general
said: "Rabbi, tell them in the MISSIONARIES ACTIVE IN
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA
synagogue that they must behave
differently from what they are
The missionaries are taking full
doing. In Kieff everything has advantage of the grave ,condition
become dearer. That is the result in which the great majority of
Jews are now placed to do their
work of proselytizing. The af-
fair of the Edinburgh committee
was reported in these columns
recently. While the leaders of
the Jewish Fund in London have
now withdrawn their names from
the list of patrons of the Edin-
burgh Committee and the London
Committee has entirely severed
its relations with that organiza-
tion, the con,imittee still continues
ite work in Fdinburgh and ap-
parently some leading Jews of
that town are sponsoring the
movement, or, at least, allow
their names to remain associated
‘vith it. Protests have been made
by several . Organizations in Edin-
burgh against the actions of their
representatives, but these have
not availed.
.\t a meeting of the Birming-
ham Ministers' Union, Rev. A.
Cohen took occasion to denounce
the activities of the missionaries
in Russia at present. In the
course of the discussion that fol-
lowed, Dr. Rendell llarris, Pro-
fessor '11. G. Wood and other
speakers expressed their loathing
of the methods adopted lw the
proselytizers among Jews, and
urged that the wideSt publicity
be given to what was proceeding
in Russia, because the subscrib-
ers to the hind were entirely ig-
norant of the discreditable man-
ner- in which it was being ad-
ministered.
Two Jewish boys were recent-
ly baptized in London in the
presence of their "Jewish father,"
and as it was announced by the
baptizing minister, with the en-
tire consent of their parents.
PRO-JEWISH PETITIONS IN
RUSSIA.
Prominent non-Jewish bodies
have again raised their voices
on behalf of the Jews. A con-
ference of merchants in Moscow
demanded from the government
facilities for settling the Jews in
the Moscow district with the ob-
ject of stimulating- the develop-
ment of the local fuel production.
The Moscow Theatrical Confer-
ence is supporting the demand
that the right of domicile of Jew-
ish' artists should be extended to
all parts 4if the empire, and that
Yiddish plays should be permit-
ted to be presented.
The Central Military' Commer-
cial Committee has sent a mem-
orial to the premier, pointing - out
that the defense of the country
demanded that Jewish joint stock
companies should' not be ham-
pered in the choice of managers.
and that they should be allowed
to obtain more land outside the
urban areas. The committee
complained that the restrictions
harassed the mobilization of
commerce for military- purposes
and that the Ministry of Com-
merce did not avail itself of the
privileges recently accorded it to
exempt companies, which are of
great utility to the State, from the
anti-Jewish regulations.
STATE HELP FOR AUS-
TRIAN REFUGEES.
According to the official report
of the Austrian Ministry of the
interior for 1914-15, 1,110,000 per-
sons were driven from tdace to
place ill .\ustria since the war
began until October, 1915. ( )f
these more than half needed sup-
port and the government spent
On them during that time the
sum o f .;), - ;0,:i01,090 crowns. .\bout
ill millions of crowns were spent
on transportation and more than
lo milliOns of crowns were spent
in the maintenance of the camps.
It was necessary to move from
place to place 5,158,009 persons,
of \Omni '2,166:);1 were Jews. In
the confusion of the flights and
removals, many parents lost• their
children and children were sep-
arated from their parents. The
bureau established for the pur-
pose of locating missing persons
had about '200,000 inquiries and
was successful in locating about
31 per cent. of the missing. .\n
idea•of the items that entered in-
to the maintenance of the _refu-
gees may be gathered from the
following data: In order to ac-
commodate part of the refugees
i n camps, 305,013 sacks of straw
and 3•1,133 blankets were need-
ed. Among these refugees were
distributed 581- ,;60 shirts, ''tin -
0011• suits and 188,590 pairs of
shoes. The cost of these mater-
ials alone amounted to about
twelve millions of crowns. In
the barracks there were establish-
ed . .?0; schools, with 510 teachers
and 1?,810 pupils. Besides there
were also established 3 ► high
schools and 91' trade schools, with
a i e m a i c ) h
00:- ) and about
i i i i t l i g i. iis Is t !iff of
These expenses in behalf of the
refugees does n o t include what
was spent by the various charit-
able organizations and what was
received in their behalf from
abroad.
The Jew in America.
(continued fn ■ in Page
sites to Cat that which others have
produced nor drudges to grind at
half-requitted tasks. .\ republic
from which shall have been ban-
ished the sweat-shops of labor,
and the tired fingers of women
shall find time to rest,. and little
children, jn the morning - of their
lives, shall not be herded in the
shadows of great mills that men
may make a profit from their toil.
A republic in which the merely
rich shall be regarded as only
vulgar, where virtue shall out-
shine gold, and the robe of humor
and crown of glory shall be re-
served for those who have toiled
and wrought for the benefit of
the human race. To this happy
fruition let each contribute his
share.
The Education Committee of
the London County Council de-
cided to name one of its schools
in Whitechapel the Robert l'on-
tefiore School, in memory of the
late Sebag - -Montefiore, who fell
in the Dardanelles campaign.
Mr. Montefiore had been a mem-
ber of the London County Coun-
cil and took special interest in
the arrangement in connection
with the erection of that school.
M. Solowitchik, director of the
Siberian Railway and a member
of one of the foremost Jewish
families in Russia, died recently
at Petrograd.