THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
The only Jewish publication in the State of Michigan
Devoted to the interests of the Jewish people
Vol. II. No.
DETROIT, MICH., NOVEMBER
39
Detroit Will Raise $50,000
More for Jewish War Relief
23,
1917
$1.50 per Year
Single Copies10 Cents
"IT HAS COME TO PASS"
STATEMENT BY DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
Adolph Finsterwald Will Direct Supplementary Campaign—Many
Who Subscribed in 1916 Are Not on 1917 Subscription
Lists—Detroit Will "Give More Than Its
Share Until It Hurts"
Detroit began its campaign for
funds for the relief of our Jewish
brethren in the war dvastated coun-
tries last year with the slogan, "Give
until it hurts." Over $100,000 was
raised. Last spring we were again
called upon to give and to give in
greater volume and our appeal was
"Give more than your share." Over
$300,000 was contributed. On Wed-
nesday last the executive committee of
the local ,war relief organilation met
at a luncheon at the Phoenix Club for ,
the purpose of answering the call of
the national war relief committee to
raise more money for Detroit's share
this year. It was decided to call .upon
the Jewish community of this city to
give more Money for the relief oitheir
stricken brethren—$50,000 more 'than
was subscribed last Spring. No new
slogan Is necessary in the opinion of
several members of the committee.
Detroit last year gave until it hurt;
last Spring we gave more than our
share. We are now asked to "GIVE
MORE THAN YOUR SHARE UN-
Tit, IT HURTS."
In the absence of our own "Dy-
namic Director," David A. Brown,
who has been adopted by New York
for the purpose of raising its $5,000,-
000 share, the honor of "going over
the top" on this latest drive is ac-
corded to Mr. Adolph Finsterwald,
who was one of the most able gen-
erals in the campaign last Spring. In
a stirring talk to over forty of the
most prominent communal workers
of Detroit, Mr. Finsterwald said:
Mr. Finsterwald paid a glowing tri-
bute to his friend and co-worker,
David A. Brown, which met with a
tremendous ovation by all present. He
read a telegram from Mr. Brown who
expressed his deep regret in not be-
ing able to be with the Detroit
"bunch" and stated that he was sure
Detroit would "come across" with the
extra $50,000.
$185,000 Has Been Paid.
•
Mr. Fred M. Butzcl, as treasurer of
the fund, reportQd that of the $300,000
subscribed over $185,000 had already
been paid in. The remainder is being
paid according to the installment plan.
Mr. Butzel stated he was highly
Pleased with the way the money was
coming in, and expressed the opinion
that the entire subscribed amount
would be paid in full. He urged, how-
ever, that subscribers aid the collec-
tion administration by remitting their
instalments without being notified by
the treasurer.
Detroit's Generous Donor, Julius
Freud, who contributed 10% of the
fund in the Spring, was present. He
There Is No Limit to Fund.
"The demands for the relief of our
brethren in Europe have exceeded
our maximum calculations. We set
out to raise $10,000,000 for 1917. This
amount; has not as yet been raised,
although we have every confidence in
our great leader, Dave Brown, as di -
rector of the New York campaign
for $5,0001000. We know he will raise
this amount and more. But even
though we raise our $10,000,000, it is
not enough. Our own people are
starving all over the world, in (;a-
licia, in Poland, in Roumania, in Rus-
sia, in Palestine. We must not lw
satisfied with any financial limit.
"1t is true that we have been sub-
jected to heavy demands on behalf of
our own country, \Ve have sub-
scribed to Liberty Bonds, to the Red
Cross, to Soldiers and Sailors Wel-
fare, in a measure that reflects the
unswerving patriotism of the Jew. We
can and will do more, We will raise
$50 .0 00 more for Jewish war relief,
This might at first thought seem un-
reasonable _but it should be the easi-
est thing yet undertaken. In our cam- ► -
paign of 1916, we receive.d blibberi
lions from 1,500 individuals. In our
1917 campaign we received contribu-
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Chairman Provisional Zionist Committee, on the Declaration of the British Govern-
a
ment, Favoring the Zionist Movement and the Establishment
National Jewish Home in Palestine
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It has come to pass—the day long
wished for in all its momentous and
farthest-reaching consequences to Is-
rael and the world. Zionism was.
Zion is about to be. The declaration
of the Right Honorable Arthur James
Balfour on behalf of the British gov-
ernment has transferred Zionism from
the field of national aspirations to the
realm of political' fact. Not in cen-
turies has any word been spoken of
equally vital consequence to the well-
being of Israel. The British govern-
ment, true to a policy of 200 years of
sympathy with and friendship for the
Jew, leads the way in indicating to its
allies and to the world that the day
has come for the establishment in Pal 7
estine of a national home for the Jew-
ish people and that it will use its best
endeavors to facilitate the achieve-
ment of this object.
Two things may be assumed on the
basis of the historic utterance of the
British minister of foreign affairs, the
one that Britain is not acting alone.
It is not for us to predicate that Eng-
land has spoken and acted in concert
with her allies, but we are justified in
believing that England, ever working
pankrighritig frodamation
By The President of the United States.
T has long been the honored custom of our people to turn in
the fruitful autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving
to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us
as a nation. That custom we can follow now even in the
midst of tragedy of a world shaken by war and immeasurable
disaster, in the midst of sorrow and great peril, because even amidst
darkness that has gathered about us we can sec the great blessings
God has bestowed upon us, blessings that arc better than mere peace
of mind and prosperity of enterprise.
We have been given the opportunity to serve mankind as we
the great day of our Declaration of Inde-
once served ourselves in
arms against' a tyranny that threatened to
by
taking
up
pendence
master and debase men . everywhere and joining with other free peo-
ples in demanding for all the nations of the world what we then
demanded and obtained for ourselves. In this day of the revelation
of our duty not only to defend our own rights as a nation but to
defend also the rights of free men throughout the world, there has
been vouchsafed us in full and inspiring measure the resolution and
spirit of united action. We have been brought to one mind and pur-
pose. A new vigor of common counsel and common action has been
revealed in us. We should especially thank God that in such circum-
stances in the midst of the greatest enterprise the spirits of men
have if we but observe a reasonable and
have ever entered upon, we
Practicable economy, abundance with which to supply the needs of
those associated with us as well as our own. A new light shines
above us, The great duties of a day awaken a new and greater na-
tional soirit in us, We shall never be divided or wonder what stuff we
are made of,
And while we render thanks for these things let us pray Almighty
God that in all humbleness of spirit we may look always to Him for
nidance that we may be kept constant in the spirit and purpose of
be directed and our hands
service; that by His grace our minds may
and security and Peace
good
flint'
liberty
strengthened; and that in His
and the couiradeshio of a common justice may be vouchsafed all the
nations of the earth,
president of the United States
Wherefore, 1, Woodrow Wilson,
Thursday,
the 29th day of Novem-
designate
of Aineriea, do hereby
of
thanksgiving
and
waver
and invite the people
day
1 4 1, next, as a
their ordinary occu-
day
from
Muni
that
cease
Ihrongliont the land to
and
in
their
oeveral
homes
and
places
of
worship to render
pation ►
il lanko (4) GA, the great rider of nations,
set toy hand and cause the seal
Im witness wherefore, 1 hereunto
be
affixed
of the Vilited Stairs to
Doni, i n the Ih o irjo of Colunibia, the seventh day of November
one thousand nine hundred and seventeen,
ill the vest• of our I,11141,
ence
of
the linked States of America the one hun-
andd Of t he Indoend
n
faria
d re ad folly
%Ng /01)1{0W WI I.SON.
Secretary of State,
Kohl
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Lantiing,
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in closest co-operation with her allies
in the war, will in the day of peace
find. herself not only supported by
France and Italy but above all by the
American government and people,
which, under the leadership of Presi-
dent Wilson, must needs insist that
the destruction of the. Prussian ideal
must be followed by the establishment
and maintenance of the integrity of
the lesser nations.
The other fact that is bound up
inevitably' with the declaration of the
British cabinet as made by Mr. Ba17 .
four is that it is to be taken for
granted that opposition to Zionism is
ended. Whatever some Jews may here-
tofore have thought and said about the
Zionist hope, they face a fact which
cannot be controverted nor annulled.
I for my part believe that not only
the great masses of Jewry throughout
the world look upon these days as the
beginning of a new and perhaps the
happiest epoch in Jewish history, but
that even those who could not up to
this time be persuaded of the practi-
cability of Zionist plans will be ready
as Jews and Americans, alike, to as-
sent to the unanswerable argument of
a fact.
Every Jew Should Be Zionist.
The doors of the Zionist organiza-
tion have never been shut even to
those who kept themselves outside of
the Zionist organization. If anything,
the doors are to be wider open than •
ever before. It is our'business to for-
get who was or was: not a Zionist or
an anti-Zionist before this time. The
time is come to put away the memory
of difference and division in the past
and to welcome the service and help-
fulness of every Jew who recognizes
that this is the hour of Jewish destiny.
One word of warning to the Jewish
people needs to be spoken. However
important may be Mr. Balfour's decla ,
ration on behalf of Great Britain,
nothing more than the first step has
been taken. We have done no more
than pass out of the realm of hope
into the field of possibility. This is
the hour that will test the soul of the
Jew. They who have shared the dream
of their people must now serve as they
have never served before, and they
who up to this time have held aloof
will find fullest opportunity for high
and devoted service, The immediate
task is greatly to augment the num-
ber of members of the Zionist Or-
ganization of America, Every Amer-
ican Jew ought to become an enrolled
and shekel-paving Zionist. This is the
prime duty of the hour.
May not we who have borne the
burden of the day in expressing our
joy and gratitude call to mind the
wisdom and statesmanship of our
leaders, who, alike in England and
A merice have made possible the com-
ing of the great day—Justice Bran-
deis, loved and honored leader of
Zionists in our own land, and Dr.
Chaim Weitzman of England, who has
carried the infinitely difficult and deli-
cate negotiations with the British gov-
ernment to the point of glorious
triumph. The privilege it has bean
of my associates and myself of the
1irovisiona1 Committee and allied
to hold up the
of oo
Zionist
its
rguar leaders.
The vreatot and heaviest of tasks
vet lies befOrr , us. We 011111111011 every
Jew in America to the post of servlet -
And pf honor alithl the