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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
:: Local and State News ::
Y
UNITED JEWISH CHARI
TIES DOING SPLENDID
WORK.
It is doubtful whether the Jew-
ish community of Detroit fully
'realizes the splendid work done
by the (fnited Jewish Charities
in relieving need and suffering
among the Jewish poor and sick
of this city.
During the month of Febru-
ary, 1916, the United Jewish
Charities had 221 applicants for
relief and 36 children were
hoarded out.
Labor conditions have been
very satisfactory and there is
practically no relief given on ac-
count of unemployment. There,
is great difficulty experienced in
finding good hoarding homes for
neglect4 and deficient children.
There are now 11 children in the
home owned by the United Jew-
ish Charities on Tiendrie avenue.
Only this week homes had to
he found for a baby six weeks
old whose mother was neglect-
ing it ; for a baby of three months
and a :child four years old whose
Mother has deserted; and a home
for three children ranging from
ten months to nine years, whose
mother had been sent to the psy-
chopathic ward at Ann Arbor.
Tt is impossible to place any
feeble minded children at Lapeer
as the institution there has a
waiting list of over 200. There
is an excellent, private home for
feebleminded children in a sub-
urb q Detroit kept by a wo-
man who is herself the mother
of a feeble minded child and
therefore t ► as become quite ex-
pert in the treatment of this kind
of child, and at this home the
United Jewish Charities have
hoarded quite a number of chil-
dren of mental deficiency. Al-
though the problem of caring for
mentat deficients is quite an
item in the program pf the
United Jewish Chariti(s, the
number of such cases is not out
of proportion to the growth of
the community. Such children
can, of course, never he given
for adoption and ultimately must
be withdrawn from community
life.
The: Jewish Fresh Air Society
has had an unusually large num-
ber of hospital and pre-natal
cases. There is a great need for
more volunteers. The society
will be very grateful for the
names of ladies who are willing
to assist in this very important
branch of the • visiting work.
Any one interested should call
Miss Louise Goldstone. Main
3710, for further information.
Herr Leopold Vadasz, attor-
ney-general of Hungary and
member of the cabinet, has been
awarded the Commander's Cross
of the Leopold Order. This is
the highest order in Hungary
ever obtained by a Jew.
DETROIT JEWS ARE RE-
SPONDING NOBLY.
From all indications the $100,-
000 mark which the Detroit com-
mittee for the relief of the Jews
in the war zone has set before
it hill not only he reached,- but
far exceeded. At a luncheon
held by the members of the com-
mittee at the Board of Com-
merce on last Monday, Mr. David
A. Brown, the active head of the
relief work and chairman of the
committee, announced that
without having made 'any effort
to secure subscriptions, and with
the final whirlwind campaign for
contributions still on the pro-
gram, Ile has received the sum of
$25,000 in voluntary contribu-
tions.
"If this sum, fully one-quarter
of the total we are striving for,
has.,•already been reached," .said
Mr. Brown, "what will he the
result of the entire campaign,
with our trump cards, the per-
sonal canvass and the big mass
meeting, still to be played? We
sincerely hope that' when the
doors of Arcadia Hall shall have
been thrown open for the mass
meeting on April 4th, we will
find that Detroit Jews have al-
ready subscribed $100,000."
SAGINAW JEWS GIVE AT
THE RATE OF $100 A
MINUTE FOR JEW-
ISH RELIEF FUND.
A foundation of $1,200 for the
fund to be raised in Saginaw to
assist in the relief of the Jews in
the war zone was raised Friday
evening at a meeting of the Jews
of the city held in Forester's
Temple. The address of Rabbi
Franklin of Detroit, who was the
speaker, drew so vivid a picture
of the sufferings of the Jews in
the war zone that only 12 min-
utes was required to raise the
$1,200. He stated that there are
at present 8,000,000 Jews in Eu-
rope whose only hope lies in the
generosity of their American
brothers.
The .campaign in Saginaw is
but a part of a nationwide cam-
paign which has been started to
raise money for the relief of the
sufferers and similar campaigns
are being organized in many of
the large cities of the country.
In Detroit it is hoped to raise
$100,000 and the active work of
soliciting this amount will begin
Monday.
The local campaign will be vig-
orously pushed and Max Heaven-
rich has been appointed to re-
ceive contributions to the fund.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S HEBREW
SOCIETY OF SAGINAW
HAS OPEN MEETING.
Before a large and appreciative
audience which filled the audi-
torium of Forester's Temple, the
Young People's Hebrew Society
of Saginaw, on the evening of
Maich 28, staged an open meet-
ing, which was thoroughly suc-
cessful. The feature of the even-
ing was a debate on the Literary
Test Bill, between Miss Hilda
Goldman and Robert L. Seitner..
The speakers displayed a wide
knowledge of the subject and
did 'ample justice to their re-
spective sides. The program fol-
lows:
Opening Address —"Achieve-
ments of Our Society"
Daniel B. Jacobs
Rena Thal
Solo
Violin Obligato
Edward Oppenheim
The Jew in Socialism
Minnie Gluck
Beth Levine
Piano Solo
Debate—"Resolved, That the
Literary Test is a Detriment
to the Progress of the Peo-
ple of the U. S."
Affirmative ...Hilda Goldman
Negative ...Robert L. Seitner
Closing Remarks —"Duty of
A little over three and a
the Young People in a Jew-
quarter million is the total of
ish Community". A. D. Phillipe
contributions and pledges toward
the 1916 relief fund, according to
the latest report of Mr. Felix M.
Warburg, treasurer of the Amer-
AND SUPPLILS
ican Jewish relief committee, 52
William street. The exact fig-
ures are: In cash, $2,587,610.69;
ESTO leso
in pledges, $663,840.08, making a
6 W 000wto? °
total sum of $3,251,450.77.
UNIVERSITY MENORAH SO-
CIETY TO GIVE SMOKER.
The annual smoker of the Uni-
versity of Michigan Menorah So-
ciety will be,held on Wednesday
evening,. April 5. Prof.. David
Friday of the economics depart-
ment will be the chief speaker.
Addresses will also he given by
Prof. T. Leo Shorfman of the eco-
nomics department, Harry Rab-
inowitz and Sylvan Grosner of
Detroit. The entertainment will
be furnished hy .Abraham J. Gor-
netzky of Detroit, composer of
last year's Michigan Union Op-
era "All That Glitters" and this
year's opera "Tres Rouge" and
Hilliard Goldstick of Detroit.
Mr. Samuel M. Levin, instruc-
tor in American and European
history at the Detroit Central
High School will deliver 'an ad-
dress before the University of
Michigan Menorah Society on
Sunday evening, April 2nd; :on
"The Personality of Juda P.
Beniamin." Mr. Levin. who was
graduated in 1912, is the founder
of University of Michigan
Menorah Society and is its hon-
orary president.
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WE ARE GLAD,
I t will be of interest to • our
readers to learn that the first
subscription secured by the local
committee for the relief of the
Jewish war sufferers has come
to it through the "Jewish Chron-
icle." Miss Sadie Messinger of
Alma, Michigan, has the proud
distinction of having been the
first donor to the $100,000 fund
which the local committee is
seeking to obtain. On March
11 th Miss Messinger wrote to
the headquarters of the commit-
tee, enclosing her check, and
stating that she had read the ap-
peal made for the Jewish war
sufferers in the columns of the
Jewish Chronicle.
San Francisco has raised three
hundred thousand dollars for the
benefit of the Jewish war suffer-
ers.
Charlie Chaplin will hereafter
be exclusively shown on Mutual
films. The contracts, it is as-
serted, provide a bonus of $100,-
000 for Chaplin, $10,000 a week
salary and a percentage of the
business. Chaplin is a Jew, his
real name being Charles Caplan.
' Lou Tellegen, who was re-
cently married to Geraldine Far-
rar, is Jewish. His real name is
Isidor Louis Bernard Edmund
Van Dammelen, which he peti-
tioned the New York supreme
court Jan. 8 last to have changed
to Louis Tellegen. He said he
has used the name Tellegen since
he was 17. He is near 32.
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