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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
SAVING A STARVING PEOPLE.
Jewish Pioneer of Michigan Dies.
(•ditorial—Detroit Journal, May 9.)
Michael Pollasky Settled in State in 1854—Was Distinguished
Mason. Active in Public Life.
Michael Pollasky, 84 years old, distin-
guished Jew and one of the foremost
Masons of Michigan and pioneer resi-
dent of Alma, Mich., died at Battle
Creek last Saturday. Funeral services
were held at the home of his son, Max
E. Pollasky, 96 'Monterey aV dime, Mon-
day afternoon. Rabbi Leo NI. Franklin
of Temple Beth H, officiated. The full
Masonic obsequy rite was given under
the direction of Herbert Montague, su-
perintendent of the Nlitsonic hone,
Alma.
Mr. Pollasky was born November 15,
1832, at Lipnitz, Hungary. At the age
of 16 he enlisted under Kossuth in the
revolt of 1848. Two years later he mar-
ried Celia Wicks at Joblonka.
Expatriated in 1854 by Francis Josef.
he came to the United States with his
parents, his wife and two children, set-
tling in Detroit. After a short residence
in Detroit, Mr. Pollasky moved to Alma,
then known as Elyton. and numbering
less than 100 inhabitants.
He entered Masonary in 1861 and rose
to prominence in the order until he be-
came known as the "Nestor" of the Sagi-
naw valley. He was signally honored at
his golden anniversary in 1912.
Mr. Pollasky held several public of-
fices in Alma, where he became success-
ful in the hide and lumber business. He
was actively identified in many charit-
able enterprises and gained a reputation
throughout the state for his upright
OBITUARY.
The funeral of Mrs. Fannie Jacobs,
92 years old and a resident of Detroit
for a half century, was held from the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. Simon
Partritc, 167 East Montcahn street,
at 2 p. tut. Tuesday. Mrs. Jacobs, who
was identified with the Orthodox
Jewish charities, is survived by three
daughters and one son. -chey arc:
Mrs. Partrite, Mrs. Mary Falk, Deck-
erville; Mrs. Anna Smith, 126 John
R. street, and Herman Jacobs, Har-
bor Beach.
MEMORIAL DAY TO BE CELE-
BRATED WITH FLORAL
OFFERINGS.
Memorial Day in 1917 assumes an
aspect more significant and pregnant
with meaning than ever before. The
entry of America in time world con-
flict brings the meaning of war closer
to us, and causes us to understand
more clearly the perils of the notion
in other trying times, and the 30th of
May in every year has been set aside
for the honor of the brave men who
died for their country and the liber-
ties it stands for. it is indeed a 'Me-
morial Day, dedicated not only to the
martyred dead but to the living men
and women who are unselfishly risking
their lives and fortunes on behalf of
Humanity.
Memorial Day took on the solemnity
of a national holyday soon after the
Civil War. It has been extended to
include the victims of other American
wars, and has lately become a day of
solemn memorial for all who have
given up their lives for the nation.
It has become a custom to decorate
the graves of the dead on Decoration
Day. Floral offerings are the ma-
terial expressions of the appreciation
of the living for the dead. Not only
on the graves will flowers be placed.
Every home will display with flowers
its patriotic devotion to the heroes
who made this great nation possible.
Nature will be in bloom on 'Memorial
Day. The flowers and plants of the
season will pay tribute in their own
beauty and fragrance on leinorial
Day.
MICHAEL POLLASKY
character in business and social life.
Surviving him are four children: Max
Pollasky, Detroit ; 1' rank E. Pollasky,
Alma: Mrs. Anna Messenger, Alma, and
Nlarcus Pollasky, Detroit. Burial was
in Woodmere cemetery in the family lot.
Marcy I. Berger, director of the
Wholesale Clothiers' Association of Chi-
eiego, Iii., for four and one-half years,
has been elected secretary of the Asso-
ciated Jewish Charities of Chicago as a
reward for his work in doubling the
membership of the charities in less than
ft) days,
A touching appeal is made to the
Jews of America in behalf of their
suffering brethren in the war zone of
Europe and Asia. Three millions of
them are destitute and actually starv-
ing, and with no immediate prospect
before them of an improvement in
their condition.
The most unfortunate, the most
persecuted race on the face of the
earth, they are among the principal
sufferers in a war in which they have
no ;part and very little interest. Liv-
ing, as the most of them do, on the
borders of Germany and Russia, they
have seen the tide of war roll over
them again and again, they have seen
their property destroyed, their food
stolen by one side or the other, and
very often their homes burned. They
are dying by inches of actual starva-
tion, they see their children wasting
away before their eyes and they are
helpless.
In Palestine they have hitherto
been spared the actual horrors of war,
but an invading army already has
crossed the frontier, and the Turks
are threatening to repeat the atroci-
ties they committed against the Ar-
menians.
There are three million Jews, it is
estimated, on the verge of starvation,
and the nations of Europe are in no
position to do anything for them. It
is to America they turn their eyes for
aid.
The committee in charge of collec-
tions figures that it costs 7 cents a
day to provide food enough to keep
the life in each individual, which
means a yearly per capita cost of $26,
or $75,000,000 a year. Of this sum
America must contribute $10,000,000
in addition to what it is doing for
other suffering peoples.
Some of America's richest Jews
have offered to contribute one-tenth
of the total amount raised in their
cities or states, and Julius Rosenwald
promised $100,000 for each million
raised by the Jewry of the whole
country.
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A campaign to raise money has been
started in this city, and it is to be
hoped that our people will contribute
in proportion to their wealth.
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WOMEN TO ISSUE OWN JOUR-
NAL.
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"The Woman Citizen, a Journal of
Democracy," a weekly publication to
be edited entirely by women, will be
brought out about June 1 by the
Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission,
Inc. The funds for it will come from
the fortune left by Mrs. Frank Leslie
to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt for suf-
frage work.
The Citizen is formed by the con-
solidation of three suffrage period-
icals, The Woman's Journal, forty-
seven years old, founded in 1870 by
Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell;
The Woman Voter, organ of the
Woman Suffrage Party of the City
of New York, and The National Suf-
frage News, organ of the National
Suffrage Association. The Citizen
will be the organ of the National As-
sociation and its 2,000,000 women
members, and is intended to be a self-
perpetuating memorial to Mrs. Frank
Leslie and "her faith in woman's irre-
sistible progress." For its slogan the
words of President Wilson have been
taken:
Rose Young, director of the Leslie
Bureau of Suffrage Education, will be
editor in chief; Alice Stone Black-
well, who succeeded her father and
mother in the editorial control of The
Woman's Journal, will be a special
contributing editor, and for associate
editors there will be Ida Husted Har-
per, Mary Ogden White, Mary Sum-
ner Boyd, Betty Graemc and Rose
Lawless Geyer. Florence E. Bate is
business manager.
A SURE CURE
Is building stopping on account of the
war? Take a drive over Detroit—North,
East, South, West. A sight of the thou-
sands of houses and apartment buildings
that are going up is a sure cure for the
"business-mourner."
most confirmed
Building operations are unabated—and
the 'Thomas Forman Company is doing
its Clare by furnishing acceptable esti-
mates and making quick deliveries of
lumber, interior finish, maple and oak
flooring, sash, doors, lath, shingle—
everything in the nature of lumber that
goes into the building. Let us furnish
YOU an estimate on that job—big or
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