THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
Vol. III. No. 4
DETROIT, MICH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1917
$25,000,000 FOR JEWISH WAR
RELIEF IS MINIMUM FOR 1918
LED WORKERS "OVER THE TOP" IN NEW
YORK'S JEWISH WAR RELIEF CAMPAIGN
WILL RAISE $50,000,000, SAYS NATHAN STRAUS.
■,,
'that we appoint hint Ambassador in be raised.
Everyone told me that we could
General and MMister Plenipotentiary. "
to the Pacific Coast and the outlying never raise it in a hundred years. And
,
now INC have raised not only the ten
islands for the campaign of 19182
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'I have come to these meetings'
PROGRAM OF ZIONISM
MENACES JEWISH UNITY
By PROF RALPH P. BOAS.
T
COMMEMORATE NEW HOPE OF
ZION IN NEW YORK MEETING
Thousands Storm Carnegie Hall Last Sunday to Join in
Celebration of British Declaration and
Allies' Success.
— - - --
DR. WISE, STRAUS, ELKUS, DR. LEVIN SPEAKERS
Success of 1917 Ten Million Dollar Fund Inspires Plans to
Collect Huge Sum Next Year From
American Jews.
The successful close of New York'slevery slay," said Mr. Straus, ''and
campaign for $5,000,010 for Jewish I have come to learn how to collect
war re li e f and welfare work i n the inoney. 1 have learned it, but I want
army and navy brings also to a sue- to say that we have only begun.
erssful conclusion the national cans- What is $10,000,00 when 3,000,000
paign for $10,000,000 for war relief people are starving? We are going ,
for the year 1917. The ten millions to make it $30000,000 next year. I
are assured in addition to the money ens not a lightning calculator, but I
to be obtained front the wages of can multiply—"
Jewish workers on the east side of
"No, no," Mr. Marshall interrupted
the metropolis, estimated at a million Inits, "1 ou divide."
and a quarter dollars, and to the mil•
"My friends," Mr. Straus continued,
lion and more which will come from "if as you left here tonight you saw
Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago, who children dying on one side of you
has pledged to give 10 per cent. of and mothers starving on the other,
everything contributed by all the rest you could not eat your dinners till
of the country before the close of the you had relieved their sufferings. You
year.
who have worked in this campaign
But this great accomplishment, are beginning to realize some of the
which represents 50 per cent more sufferings of our brethren in Europe,
than had been raised for that pur- but there are many who do not. I
pose in the two years previous, is lie awake nights—I cannot sleep be-
likely to he a mere preliminary of a cause of the thought of those people
far greater drive next year for the in misery and starvation.
purpose of keeping the millions of
"We must give store and yet more
suffering Jews in the war zone from next year, and we v.ant to have two
starvation. Detailed plans for next kinds of rolls—a roll of honor and a
year's work are not ready yet, but it roll of dishonor. On this latter roll
is understood that American Jewry let there be inscribed the names of
may be asked to contribute $25,000,000 those who do not give, or who do not
to its fellows in religion vs Is° have give enough."
suffered from the war, and Nathan
$18,500,000 Rinsed So Far.
Straus, in addressing the final meet-
A further appeal fur the fund to be
ing of workers in the New York cam-
paign, went so far as to say that fifty raised next year was made by Judge
millions could and should be obtained. Otto Rosalsky. Jacob Billkopf, who
has been in charge of the work of
"Make It $50,000,000." — Straus.
raising the national fund, said that
Mr. Straus, who has been 1111C of
since the fall of 1914 American Jews
the heaviest contributors to war re-
had raised about $18,500,0011 for the
lief jn the country, was introduced by
relief of their brethren in Europe.
Louis Marshall at the last meeting
"When this campaign for ten mil-
of the workers in the New York
lion dollars was begun last March,"
campaign with the statement that he
Ire said, "the air was full of Ressinsism.
r California.
was just starting
I propose," said Mr. Marshall, Nobody thought so large a suns could
Per Year, $1.50; Copy, 5 Cents
WILLIAM FOX.
MORTIMER L. SCHIFF.
These, two gentlemen were among the most prominent workers in this
raising of New York's quota of $5,000,000 for Jewish War Relief. Mr. Fox
was the manager of the campaign among the theatrical and moving
picture folk of the metropolis and succeeded in raising many thousands
of dollars. Mr. Schiff was captain of a team of workers that collected
the remarkable sum of $293,479.40. This almost aprpoaches the entire
contribution of Detroit last spring.
NEW YORK HAS DONE ITS DUTY.
By DAVID A. BROWN.
Director of the New York Campaign.
(From The American Hebrew of Dec. 21, 1917)
New' fork--In celebration of the 1. w by this assembly tonight real-
British prtstnise to restore Jerusalem tirms his faith that there shall be no
and the Holy Land to the Jewish faltering until victory shall crown our
his ople, thousands of New York Zion- arms, and such a triunsph be granted
isms packed Carnegie I tall last Sunday to our aims and the aims of our allies
night in a commemoration meeting as shall bring the boon of liberation,
Thousands more crowded the streets justice, and peace to all the nations."
around the building, unable to get in Nathan Straus, who was repeatedly
until long, after the beginning of the interrupted by applause spoke as a
meeting. Inside American British man who was seeing the realization of
and Zionist flags were intertwined the dream of a lifetime. "There are
and with songs in the Ilebrew Ian only a few things that can enthuse a
guage, interspersed between the man of !sly years" he said. "I have
speeches a group of leaders of Zion- come to the place where I ant skep-
ism in New York and the Old World Beal and hard to be impressed, for I
told of the significance of the British have seen so many things go wrong.
promise. But now they are going right. The
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairman of moment of realization has come.
the meeting said that whit Zionists
Nathan Straus Enthuses.
were rejoicing over was only a scrap
"I stand before you in appearance
of paper, "but that scrap of paper is
written in English. It is signed by and somewhat in fact an old man.
the British Government, and there- Many of these gray hairs have come
fore is sacred and inviolable. It rep- through years of striving for the na-
resents not an unconsidered policy of Donal cause of our people. My eyes
a temporary government, but all the have grown weak watching, my heart
great political parties of England have heavy with praying; but all this time,
united in giving their adherence to as the soldiers say 1 carried on. And
this moment is ray reward.
this declaration. It is true to the fin.
est traditions of the British people, "All we who have worked for Zion-
a
noew
c,.!s saurtytlisse
li
sthat
u p -
and is a symbol of the will of the ism are hrice ijiu vi ti,o
mo s t n
Allies to right wrongs however an- Port v‘
cient, to undo injustice, however of the masses of Jews are Zionists.
hoary, to supplant the Prussian ideal If they are not I'm sorry for them.
of rule by' might with tin' changeless- In Zionism the Jew and the non-Jew
ly true principle of justice and right. have found a bond of brotherhood.
'The promise of England has made
Challenge to Jews to Unite.
"This meeting is a challenge to IIIC young again. All Jews are young
every American Jew' to unite wills us, now. I feel that this appearance of
1Ve offer our hands in welcome to mine is camouflage; I want to buy a
those vsilio up to this tissue have not horse and plow, a cow—for 1 can't be
worked with us. Let than come to separated from the milk business, and
begin a new life in the old land. All
LIS.
"More than all else this meeting Jews are young now and we shall
has been called in order to reaffirm make our old country tlow wills milk
the faith of every living American and honey.
Abram I. Elkus, former Anthassa-
Jew not only in the certainty of tri-
umph of our arms but in the right- to Turkey, praised the work of the
essusness of our aims. The American
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Let Inc make a confession: Several the equal of the captains and teams
months ago I addressed a very perti- that made up the organization to put
nent letter to Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, across this $5,000,000 result.
asking, "What is New York going to
The enthusiasm that was in con-
do in the $10,000,000 campaign that stant evidence was an inspiration to
was being waged all over the coun- me. The amount .of time and energy
try?" I asked this question as chair- that was given up by the team work-
man of the committee that conducted ers and captains proved conclusively
the Detroit campaign, and because of that these men not only know how
the fact that tip to that time no at- to give liberally of their money but
e slim had been made to conduct a to be equally as liberal of themselves.
campaign its New York city.
Starting with the wonderful ban-
1 have since learned that a large quet given by Mr. Schiff at the Astor
number of similar inquiries were sent hotel at which $1,000,000 was raised,
to different men of prominence in and ending with that istost remark-
New York.
able of meetings at campaign head-
Upon coming to New York as gen. quarters, 19 West Forty-fourth street,
eral director for the New York cam- Saturday, the 15th, at which over
paign, it was soon evident to me e t:Jai $500,000 was reported, the series of
the quostism would be answerer by meetings night after night at which
New York's Jewry in such a manner the daily reports were mad(, were
that in return they would be permit- all of such a nature as to spur every
ted to say, "You have asked what is worker to do his level best and more.
New York going to do; here is our
Praises Work of Teams.
answer. The answer is $5,000,000 and
It was my privilege as director of
over the top, and more than makes
the campaign to come into daily con
good on the real campaign slogan
tact with the team captains and their
that New York will 11" its duty."
By ELSIE K. SULZBERGER.
workers at the stools gatherings and
Enthusiasm an Inspiration.
ream i n • oh- u tin gs IL which the
Y
'ill
if
very delinitiont painted the rainbow in the sky. More
Fur
years In some horns or plans were being laid for attack the
Debar I have had the privilege of next (lay. And 1 want to pay this
Zionism and : \ nt i - Zi on i sm are over, there is nothing gratifying, fruit
furl or synthetic implied in a prefix
working in one kind of campaign or compliment to a number of the teams
incompatible, if not inimical
nti. It registers a barren protest
another. For the past year or so I and that is, that they were as well
But
I
truly
believe
that
thi.
and „ ot hi„, „„, n ,.. A s a matter o f
have had something to do with the organized in conducting the business
is proof of the limitation of language fact, and as a matter of conviction
Red Cross, Liberty Loan, Y. M. C. A of getting money, and used the sans
and several Jewish VVar Sufferers' degree of care, as (lo some of the best and not of Jewish heart. Zionism, deeper than fact, the terms are both
It
insufficient
and self-defamatory.
campaigns. But never in my experi- selling organizations that I have the in its strictest sense, is an pie
anti(
ffi
ence hive I met a group of workers (Continued on Page Five.)
ideal, and anti-Zionism itself 0.1.1- is of such outworn appellations the
poet wrote:
fashioned.
For even yesterday be-
vine still clings to the moulder-
comes old-fashioned
one's
when
ing wall,
ARE ANTI-ZIONISM AND
ZIONISM IRRECONCILABLE?
THE WOMAN'S • VIEWPOINT.
therefore, tea
II E fall of Jerusalem is one 111 Zionism demand;,
the most romantic events 01 Jews regard themselves as a nation
the great war, for it gives ality forming with a dozen other na
reality to what has for a gets- tionalities a union under the Star
eration been a dream—Zionism. 'f hat and Stripes.
It would conside
Zion with its memories and its ro-' .Atnerica not as a "melting pot," bur
mance should once more pass into as a inasr.iMed Balkan peninsula. 1
the.keeping of its ancient people, that would, if consistently interpreted,
t',...1 should once again be praised in regard the individualism shown by
the ancient liturgy in a new temple, the Germans its the United State.
that the ancient culture which gave and by the French Canadians in the
Fur..pe its religious should o nce more Dominion as entirely justified, sine
wagon is hitched to tomorrow'. Pen. :sold at every gust the dead leaves
flourish- here are possibilities the these groups refuse to allow thei
fall."
The death is reported from Berlin haps then, out of the pregnant Tres-
realization of which might well stir individuality to be fused with other.
Responding to the call for trained
gust—and today is the cy
th.w scar-healing
into a single national group. Zionists executives in the army, Captain Julius of Dr. Adolph Kohut, brother of the rot,
the most pedestrian mind.
It is just because the Zionist pro- is therefore more than a romantic tterman has again joined the military late 1/r. .11exander Kohut. The (le- bracing term shall issue. .1m1 if not,
Zionism - to this vine still cling all
ceased was born m Hungary in 1848,
gram is near fulfillment that honest adventure; it is a very practical and forces of the government.
lie re-
ass old one will still suffice Judaism. the implications we remember Iron:
issue.
but . lived the greater part of his life
criticism must riot be stifled. This 1110111CIII0111
ceived a commission as captain in the
our childhood. That long-haired fa-
Status of Jewish Woman,
n
l,ermany.
For
a
time
he
was
edi-
That
Zionism
has
its
dangers
is
ob-
is no time fur a comfortable and
section of the signal corps i
(I
caoriroyugahhaandckoeir(-1
a mind f cola it ticf
tor of the Berliner Zeitung, and be-
tor
vious.
And
these
dangers
are
the
It has been asked by
easy acquiescence to what is after
days
cause
of
his
antagonism
to
Ilismark
more
vital
since
it
is
likely
that
men
all a matter involving the future, not
modern how women feel 011 the clues- prove his martyrdom, he was a Zion-
he was exiled from Prussia and lived
of a few thousand colonists, but of carried away by sympathy with and
for a lints' in obscurity in Dresden. tion of Zionism. If the restoration, ism. .111,1 that unshaved Hebrew
the whole Jewish world. Fur Zionism adsMration for success may fail to
teacher who never carried an um-
Ile was a most prolific writer, espe- is to be the Zion of antiquity, of t h e ,
is nit merely a proposal to erect a recognize them.
Dispersi(sit or the Diaspora, brella on Sabbath, though Isis derby
cially on subjects pertaining to the
become a miniature Niagara Falls- -
new state in Palestine; it is a pro-
Gravest Danger
history of music. His best known the Zion of old-world orthodoxy—' Ise, pm, was a Zionist. Ile prayed
gram of life for Jews everywhere.
The gravest danger lies in a Con.
and most popular work is his "Ile-
1'h, Zionists maintain that Judaism
there is in it no appeal to vvoniets of "Next year in Jerusalem," and added,
cept of German pseudo-science, the
mistime Israelitische Manner and
is a way of life. Judaism, they hold,
a the Lord who has not
"Jewish race." The world sees only
1:rauen," in two volumes, which ap- today. It is true that a higher place "Blessed be
wuman.,, Division and
presupposes a complete round of
dimly that the riot of national roman-
peared its Leipsic in 1900. There he was accorded the ancient Hebrew mails. we
Hester Streets, terming with push-
human/ activity. It Femur..., cer-
ticism which is upon us is the child
gathered the biographies a u nt photo-
woman than her neighboring sisters,. carts and punitive odors--this was
tain theological beliefs and certain
of Kiiltur. The idea of a primitive
graphs of a large number of famous
"She is not afraid of the snow, for their home. Zionism, in my child-
spiritual activities consequent upon
Jews and he drew upon sources which
unspoiled German race which in all
these beliefs. It presupposes also a
she hall) clothed her family in scarlet it""ll , was ignominy. And it seems
respects was like an individual ;owl
have hitherto been unknown.
only yesterday that Anti-Zionists
submission to the traditional disci-
and her clothing is strength
which, therefore, wss under the bio-
The death of Dr. Kohut is of espe- . . .
ineaist nothing more to my young
Jewish
law.
It
holds
that
pline 1.f
logical necessity of living its life as the
cial interest to Detroiters, inasmuch and honor," sang Solomon. Anil
ciii ignorance than that class of Jews
such spiritual activity and such sub-
plant lives, tirelessly and remorse-
as he was the uncle of Mrs. Elsie K turies after him the Ifonians grew s e• who lived uptown and were not
mission to discipline are imposslde
Sulzberger, of this city, and Mrs
lessly—this idea is the father of the
Atone-
in countries which cannot make al-
hement over the question of whether obliged to fast on the Day of Atone-
Julius Kahn, of Youngstown, Ohio,
present insistence of self-styled na•
lowance for them, countries in which
women and other household pets had mint. This latter was by far their
tionalities on independent existence.
formerly of Detroit.
convenience
, most distinguishing mark.
custom, prejudice, 31111
souls!
Some men, instead of finding out by
are all against separatism and indi-
vote his attention to his business, but
,
Newer Conception of Zionism.
%%lust right they ask for the creation
N eve rtheless, women do 1111I Core
viduality its everyday
ter call to service in the present great'
of a new state, assume that the world
I wonder how many women have
1
to
to
revert
t(
their
ancient
statns
.
.
crisis
found
hint
ready
and
willing
Assimilation Great Fear
shotshl• recogreiver their yearning for
I set themselves the task of revising
give Ms more of Isis time to the coml. About nine years ago I stumbled ac-
Zionism maintains, 'therefore, that peculiarity as inspired by a kind of
childhood's estimates? Events of the
try.
eidentally
upon
the
Zion
of
antiquity.
hour
are
a challenge to do so.
the only possible way for a man to be zoological necessity. The mere blind
For
Capt.
Berman
was
born
in
Suwalk,
It
was
in
the
auditorium
of
the
only
there has arisen a Judaism so new
a complete Jew is to believe in Jew- impulse to be one's self, to remain on
CAPTAIN JULIUS BERMAN
Russia, on Jan. 14, I880. Ile came to synagogue in Venice, th a t seas h e ll ,,1
earth
as
an
individual,
fundamental
ish theology, to order Isis spiritual
that the agony of birth is not yet
this country with his parents at the the Adriatic.
Had I been ass inns- siren.
life as that theology dictates, to obey thought it be, is after all a character- and left on Wednesday for Morrison,
faithfully the minute prescription of istic which one shares with the cab- \'a., from which place he will go to age of three and has been a resident cent tabby-cat, pursuing a harmless,
Can it Ise this set(-same Zionism of
of Detroit practically all his life. "Fen sight•seeing, feline career down the
the traditional Jewish law, to speak a bage.
Arcadia, Florida, where he will organ• years ago he organized the real estate aisle of a church tilled with hysterical mumbled liturgy that today claims as
Jewish language, to cultivate the Jew-
suc h folk as Judge Bran-
No Race Necessity
ize a squadron of men.
finis of Berman-Dwyer Co., whichhas women. I would not hare been greet- (leis, Rabbi
1
ish arts, to live in a Jewish latsd under
\ Vise, Henrietta Soldt,
The fact is that there is no pure
Captain Berman began his military been a prominent factor in Ilse indus- ed wills such cries of consternation as!
a Jewish government. The Zionist
Prof. Felix Frankfurter, Israel Zang-
Jewish blood. The whole record of experience as a pr'vate in the 31st trial development of the city. I n 1903 these Venetian elders set up when 1 I w
ill
.
(m
a
i
m
w
t.it zma „ , Lord R o th.
maintains, moreover, that Judaism is
Judaism is a record of constant inter- Michigan National Guard regiment in
he married Anna M"SC°WitI "f De- entered. W ifina n i s tab" in then schild, and the cabinet member, Iler-
now confronted with a very real issue,
marriage and assimilation. Every 1902. Ile was promoted to corporal troit.
The union has been blessed Temple (4 Zion.
preservation or extinction.
pert Samuel? To a long list of other
one knows that Jews differ among and sergeant in the same year because with four splendid children, Irving,
With the last of the compact Euro-
Women Not "Anti."
distinguished Jews can be added some
themselves as much as Frenchmen, of his aptitude for life work and his Toba, Esther, and 1.ester M. The
pean Jewries in process of dissolution,
Are women, then, AIIIi - Zionists? illustrious Gentile !lames as well, men
and that the class-concept "Jew" is organizing ability. In 1913 be was family resides at 28 Burlingame Ave.
Judaism has no longer any central
the product of loose observation of elected second lieutenant. Ile rose to Capt. Berman is the son of Mr. and No; not entirely. There is in woman, who uphold the Zion ideal. Institu-
home. The result is gradual but in-
tions, civic and moral conceptions,
particular groups. All talk of race first lieutenant early in 1914, and re- Mrs. Bernard Berman of 103 Ferry as there was in !henry Clay, a natural
evitable assimilation, which can have
necessity in connection with .7.ionism ceived Isis commission as captain on Ave. Ile is a member of the Shaarey propensity towards contpromise. She personal standards—all have altered
only one end, the extinction of Juda-
is misleading. The only possible jus- Jan. 6, 1915. Capt. Berman acco• Zedek congregation, the liffiai Writh, yearns, with feminine instinct, to since the war. Nor can Zionism have
ism as a religion and of the Jews as
renmmed . unchanged in character.
tification for Zionism is that it will pained his regiment to the Mexken the Y. M. II. A., and has taken an ac- bring together the warring children
Can Zionism ever revert to the mere
a group.
enable Jews to live better lives. border in 1916. Ile resigned his office tive part in every Jewish communal of men. It was the *woman in God
Assimilation is the crux of the Jew-
who sent the branch to Noah and
last September and decided to de- endeavor in the city.
tContlnued on Page Eight.)
(Continued On Page Seven I
ish problem as the Zionists sec it.
CAPT. JULIUS BERMAN DR. ADOLPH KOHUT
RE-JOINS COLORS
DIES IN BERLIN
1.
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