PAGE THREE

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETY OF TEMPLE 'PROMINENT JEWISH
BETH EL ACTIVE IN PATRIOTIC WORK BUSINESS MAN ENLISTS

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Hyman A. Atlas, of the Atlas Floral

Organize Army Welfare Committee—Raises Fund for Com-
fort Kits—Many Members in Nation's Service—Wed-
nesday Night Clubs Prove Great Success Edmund
Sloman Speaks at Last Meeting.

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Company. Joins the Quartel

masters Division.

well known I
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enlisted moler the colors and he
for training at the Barracks a•.
25 Per Cent With Colw.
m•ul.tis. I
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It , sal,' • teal the
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Division ..•
Soeu ty of Temple litr th I I IN, a the Limo...nue burp, of the
larger proportion ot men in the
tion Department of the 'ergot.,
servici than has ant other Or- .1rine of the l'inted State, amt
w.mization in the city. From among anticipat,
transfer in the very
It. mixed oil min r•lini .ot flair 111111 - future Co Kelly
Number .'
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ALFRED J. RUBY

INCORPOR ATE

101 Washington Boulevard

than half 41 , men. ;Already sixty-two aration before being sent to I..
hat, mined the arm, d loners oti the

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mend., estop has Air &Iv Joined the
and many others ate pr par-
do so
VIlhmlgh the ay eragi age is com-
p,irai ie ly lute , th,
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members
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inspiration
work.

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the ', dd.'
Edmund Sloman Speaker.
ehate Board at Camp I weer and
I ..nit. NlacArthur. 1 be •p, aker at the last \\'ed n ,day
The committee. which is uwJtr the nu, ting id: Ile society was Mr. Ed-
chairmanship of Mr. St ymour and 01111111 Slonian, spot, upon the
Frank, will undertake to interest the subject. Th' 1-tienty \\Io I , 1Vithin
member• of the Temple I trganization I cur (late,.
Mr. S111111,111. who is himself a for-
in constructive work looking to the
organization.
improvement of th, condition...1f tilt tun r president of the

soldiers at 'each of the camps. and spoke upon the problem of the alien

lit' Pointed out the subtle
hill Pro\ lde a ', ha , of rt,ading umUcr eorloY.
It is 11.111:• , r in said' our country is placed
and entertainm , it for them
the !torts of unnaturalized
hoped that the work may extend tin.
tin oughout the ountrt, so that a ita-
-p,
aker next \V,.Inesday ev en-
I
t e lnal organization Ili leysish cuing
II Ise \l, Fr, d \I Revel
societies will result
peoph

GEOGRAPHY OF PALESTINE

- it how ,,11o1 iii„de the district :,round Mount
1 . .tt II . r , e ...ple I I.. - !lop
p a i,„1,,,, 1 .,11, i nto I.. 1 longitudinal Lbal, who re the earliest Jewish set•
I I, \ ,,,„.., -. , lion which dements were situated, no susceptible
, 111 ,,,,,•
I , t pt to Bei- to foreign influences that later the
11111• .,11 t h e ,, a , 1,.....
rut and beyond., I 2.i ., mountain sec- Samaritans beetinle the type of all
tion composed of the proloneation of that was corrupt and backward in
Mount Lebanon towards the Egyptian Jewry. There are two main exits
desert, (3) the deep trench of the from this plain to the south; one is by
g annim,
Jorda n %alley which extends even the Pass of En
of the Dead Sea almost to Aka- carries the railway to Shechem (Na-
south
ha'', and ta I the hills beyond Jordan blus), the other connects the Plain of
„bid, are .1 1 ,,„t onga ti o n of Mount Esdraelon II ith the Plain of Sharon
Hermon and the anti-Lebanon to- and the , oast plain by the Pass of
‘t. ,,,( • . e r .,1,, a. I o s i ng t o this curious Megiddo. a moue so fantotts in mili-
formation of Ih1 country, you have Carr history that Armageddon is de-
) little larger than riled from it At the eastern end of
tt dim' an area III .
, the muss amazing varieties of the plain is lieisan, the ancient Beth-
\\ ale
TI,, , coast re- ,Ilan, the gate by which the Nliddian-
, Moat , and sc. nett
gum, at any rate south of Haifa, is ites used to inyade ancient Israel. In
In the halilee. of the north side of the plain,
Void prolonged into Asia.
hill districts you may get a climate the general direction of the hills is
like that of the cInti.,1 European high- east and west, rising in tiers one be-
tall y, the deep- hind the other from the Nazareth

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i ;,,,.i. The ssion
on du land surface of Ranee on the smith up to the great

e st It, p re
the world. is almost tropical in its hills iii Upp,r Galilee. The natura
the
north is
yeg, tation, and a few miles to the frontier of Palestine to the
,.0 get breezy uplands, heather- at Pant.,-. ' Itane.,•5, so called from

HYMAN A.

ATLAS.

Hyman .11I..•
, .ne who has mad ,
real sacriene, of
order to serve Iii-
country. I le had established in Oa
past lew years a substantial and lu
erative business and the moue of th.

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Beginning
Wednesday

January
Second

20% DISCOUNT

is offered during the event

Every pair of Boots and Slippers in
our shop is included

This means that you will be able to
secure, at greatly reduced prices, Ruby
Footwear of that exceptional standard
of quality and fit that has made it
dominant in Detroit.

Atlas Floral Company he made to
stand for service, reliability and ill
legrity. His commercial reputati.,
was budded on methods of condi'.
and responsibility. of character that
could not be questioned.
But, answering the call for men.
Nit. .1tlas has sacrificed the product
of his arduous and conscientious ef-
forts. Unselfishly lie has cast aside
the result of years of attention mid
work, and given his services to tin
government.
Although he has a host of acquaint-
ances, cultivated by his years of busi-
ness activity. those who can call
themselves his intimate friends are
numliA•red as comparatively few. lint
among them NI r. Atlas was indeed
held in the highest esteem and frater-
nal respect.
\1r. Atlas was prominently connect- ,
ed with the B. P. O. .X. He was also
an active member of the Independent
Order of B'Nai Brith, the Temple
Beth El, and it, Voting People's so- .N. SELIGMAN LEFT $100,000 TO PINCHUS RUTTENBERG
MANDS PETROGRAD HOME
ciety. Ile is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
CHARITY.
GUARD.
II. S. Atlas, of Cadillac. Michigan.

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AUSTRIAN PRESS
AGAINST JEWISH
PALESTINE

Says Jewish State in Holy
Land Would Arouse Chris-
tian Animosity.

Pinches Ruttenberg, who played an
important role in the Russian Revolu-
tion of 1905 and was responsible for
By the will of Isaac N. Seligman the arrest and execution of the notori-
who died on September 3(1 as the re- , out provocateur Gapon, who for a
fall from a horse 'lea', h i ' ! number of years betrayed the Russian
I rvington, await Revolutionists to the autocratic re-
at
y. Place
is bequeathed othirty-eight gi, has been appointed Vice Com-
n s mander of the Petrograd civil army
and r.1ig i:ti s t organizatio o!
al s
:c1111)itik
italtrii'llt;rf
$
and ha ,. been vested with the author-
i.i ti et il i icy to maintain °tier in the city of
te, tsll
n, iltgsi; : ilil,lit:tii.1 bulk lio n,fita,t:11,1).c...,n est a
a al it st7t' iio
$15,000,000 Petrograd. Ile is a member of the
and $20,000,000, goes to his famil y .
foals Zion organization.
Mr. Seligman's gifts to charity . cov-
When the war broke out, Muck's
iousand pill
Ruttenberg came to this country to
vr a Wide range 1,1 reli g
anthropic activity. The lal gest char- propagate the idea of an International
; L od,. bequest was slow() to the Soh Jewish Congress and to organize a
onion and Betty Loeb Memorial Home Jewish legion to be sent to the Pal-
for Convalescents. I idler Jewish in estine front, \\Idle being successful
s tttutions receis ing Lifts were as l" 1- in helping organize the Ameriean
Alliance. Jewish Congress, he failed in his at-
t ows ; The ducational
to form a Jewish legion. Dur-
m
Mount si t ., Ilo.pital, the Society for tempt
Ethical Culture, the United Reber ing his stay in this country, Mr. Rut-
Society.
tenberg published a booklet, - "file Na- „
‘W ork s o f the 1- thical Culture
l o f the jeti . it.it people.
which also gets \H. Seligman's stock t i„,,,,i R ev i va

NEW Y(

Many Jewish Organizations Share in

Bequests of Late Banker.

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various American consular officials in
that empire, "veil° spent their time and
energy without stint to alleviate the
suffering of those of all races and
creeds."

Dr. Levin Stirs Audience.

last and most enthusiastically
The British declaration in fav or of
welcomed speaker was Dr. Schmarya
1.1..1 5
scent, AI moors and great forests. tin slow, In Pan which used to he Zionism and the establishment in
Levin,
who spoke Yiddish, declaring
Pam as I' at the Southern end Palestine of a national Jewish home
le re
Maritime Section.
that the act of Great Britain was not
the t.ill ■ Ill t It veil Mount LehatiOn does not meet with the approval of
the .,titil Mount Ili noon, and its position the
an act of politics or diplomacy, but
l l liv Maritinie se ,. lion lit (.ins on tne at
e press in Austria, which sounds a
has been ,
the t „limo,. of this Ii
something far deeper, a stage in the
south at El .1rish, though the present
warn ng to the Jews that if they
ar
at
the
ac-
politcal frontier of Palestine begins at comparrvl to that of Peshawar
development of history which ill effect
. cum the English offer they will incur
Rafa. half way hetw I en 1-t 1rish and „mane,. to t i ll kho„ r b etween I n
added another chapter by which the
,listaml .“.411.inistan. the enmity of Christianity..
(la/a. At Ga/a the plain. " hid ' , has ,list
Is of today could link something
y irom
The Jewish Morning Journal pub-
South of the Plain of Esdraelon We
been losin g ar idity all the sta
o
if their wn
time to the story of the
lislies
a
special
cable
giving
extracts
iri
in
Samaria.
;
ile
El -Xti , h. dcliiiiiil` I" i',''' irit,
old Jewish k.ingdoin.
of i 'Giza therefor" II., alwey. , had t
f r om an editorial which has appeared
Historical Places.
Dr. Levin spoke as a representative
the same importanc. tor the south of
geographical in the "Vienna Reichspost." a Gov-
Vale•tote as I la11111selis for the 11,rth.
•1'h , re is no clear
'Flue "Reiclispost" in the organization; the Hebrew which gained a wide circulation' of 'Iv international Zionist organiza-
eminent organ.
Technical Institute. United Hebrew throughout the country. "fliis booklet'- Him. the Rev. Dr. Otis A. libuebrook
North of tiara we enter the old break betwe, II 51 oun 1 Ephraim and
, t h ere is b e t ween advises the Jews to accept, instead of Charities, NI ontefiore I I,nne, and II, was, so to speak, a confession
of I
„,, t 1 1 , 1 1, 1 1, , 11 , 1, as
plain of libilistia, which geographic m,,
‘11t,e. 1.1,1,Iliecrlicaitr i1 4
1 , coofnis i iiel
the range Palestine. the offer by Great Britain, b rew ili.,,,, yo t tli t an d I Irphati Sort- 1f1a1,i ‘l11111, ::::(Ithceatil,saeritl onfattiititen -wide-
of th e " ile Y Samaria ;11111 Gililt . t . , 1111t
SitstiZXinenolf
;dip end , :lust mirth
I, ty cmisiderably between in 19112, of Uganda, British South
d
In-
o
ld
s '
.
for
.Xged
along which the railway rims from narrows
cry, $5,00 0; Home
Jewish
relief
fonds
in the Holy City.
e
J,,ef,, t o Jerusalem. The whole of this the two. and along this narrow ridge, Africa, for the establishment of an firm Hebrews, $'.500; Young \frills well as the .1nglo-Jewish Press. D
,
ii ri l isttrs i. 11 , : tiif
of
t
,,,.re itt:c.i st enthusiastic
country. which may be likened to the draw- autonomous state. It makes this sug• Hebrew Association, Hebrew Shelter- was also active in other branches of ,,-,Iii:.,ii,r
district is rich agricultural
T.
;,Ilae ici li iii . Jizta'%isiii zs ch r national
irt k
iotaizttlidi
or- c
iottiti
$1 il .ti.)41ixr}
at natural fortress of 0 .„,, ',, i t declares,
the evening
e (,,:
t11i i niog a ri ,o, occurred
c st,
. t ler; :il-
l
r ,o
'tine innicg ait Isnair
d ,i,ai n f ,,S
'tre Palestine
because
though it suffers from the lack " I, bridge ,ii the coat
.
Nationalist was t)
o, iris,
good harbors, and at th, northern end I 'idea, tools place most of the civil '''
is a holy land in the eyes ot the
f ., ,
El Sisterhood of Personal Service O rganization with an affiliation
liation
isto.
ry
number
,`"
wars
of
classic
Jewish
h
of
the
n,
duty
number
of
.1
e".1
of it there are
Christian world. and the establishment
I 50 000 Jewish laborers. It is report-
The flat sun of Judea is, indeed, al-
$500.
e•tine
, who fosters the hope of the
co lonies. The old, st of these, the
, gnalde to direct attack of a Jewish State there would serve
SA .1ig man left to his wife the ed that ill Petrograd lie has again
Mil, y eh Israeli was founded as kin g most Mud.
income
from
his
residuary
estate
fin
taken up the work of organizing a r, storation of Israel to use his intlit-
igailist an enemy who is prepared and to arouse Christian animosity. against
ago as 18711, and north of the railway . . .,
life, and upon her II, ath one-half tin Jewish legion, which is meeting with mice, his material wealth, and his life
wary. and besides, Palestine has now the Jewish people.
on the banks of the Naltrel - Aui a, i s
,
,
.Xt the time that Great Britain 'Al- principal goes to In r son, Lieutenant considerable success, to see that England and the Allies
Petach Tit:salt, one oi the Largest and II nal it net er had in its fast IiiiiitarY
15111 this war.
on duly
most prosperous of the I, II i•li coin. history. an I xcellent system of milt- ft•r•d Uganda to the Zionist , their Joseph Lionel Seligman. 'mu
' tary railway,. "The two relevant
campaigns
in international congress sent a cont. at the camp at Spartansburg, S. C., and
SCIENCE
AND
HEALTH.
to
the
Sees Restoration of Jewish State,
extent
acre'
in
710
Ines. about 5.
to br disposed of in
North of the Nahr el-Auja we enter history which art' most
mis.ion to investigate it. possibilities. the ot lir half is
Bulletin of Michigan State
are those of Vespasian This commission reported to the lot- llier will. If she makes no disposition
'AVe have seen a vision of the
, net ., I . nt
he
Plain
of
Sharon,
which
latterly
t
restoration of the Jewish people," he
Titus and of Napoleon. The
in itas i e. .of it the income ems to the daugh,
Board of Health.
Ira, been a most promising district of
h,„ me c,,,,,.,.,,. I te m
V. Seligman, wh o ,
'
1 5512 pray that this vision
Jew ish colonization. Athlit, the site Roman generals had slid' a profound
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I9114. that it had ( she marries.
In no field has science contributed • ' aid. "an`
es. I.1 s to receive half the fun
enlonirs ,Was r1 , pact for the natural strength at s,it,,,I d lid, in
may not be spoiled by wear, but may
of one of tilt's , .1,16511
outright.
Mrs.
Seligman
also
',Teti.,
Of
re
found
Uganda
undesit
able.
more
to
the
future
happiness
not
venture
idn
1
.s. uia,e
‘ileiii ct t 1..t
the I.,t place held liy the Jews against
ag
the he crowned by a war, ending glue-
n
The British press, w ithout excep- all her Imsba d's
paintings, statuary
;
,
,
race than in the remarkable li cok '
u n ti l t hey
ainst
the Ronan,. North of armel is the to
vica1t,o‘isrtyinehiisr to }Item rEe.nsttoc rnettri
Con. i• enthusiastic over the project Itric-a-britc and other personal A ffects
It
1. p
1 i
• C been made i n r dation
.
great Plain of Acre with a bay that is
of
national
Jewish
home
'in
the
town
house,
the
country
plat,
tnoun,
Tentitries ago, 1;tti:1,11 .!..riy.' ;'t:: ".:,Yr'ln i . i
i t '..,' 'Isv
c;I T
: ' i u: ::..ti'Is
probably destined in the future to
of establishing A
\
.
i
1
to Israel, remember that Palestine
eamiga
.
s, are ti erliaps
all to snit
iron, on
Lase great commercial and naval int-
. •Iiperstition. people Were 11.1 t,, be•
of
the we,t‘ here in Palestine. The Nlanchester I Mard- lai In ington. camp at Upper Sri
and Syria must " Mai,. in the hands of
a
l ke and \Villow Brook.
portance. lint north of Acre the moon-
according to another special cable
0 • Inv , that sickness was not .1 natural the Alli
0
Lieutenant
Seligman
gets
$1041,0
es.
most
tains of Lebanon approach nearer the. Ile ereat rampart of the Plateau of
im'
A n d the one
to the Jewish Morning Journal con- outright. and \Gs , Seligman receiv..• happening, but a manifestation of ',..,.,,, tl
just now, more import-
coast and this narrow ledge of land outwork lows
'''''',11'
lesson
,
I
a
trust
Mud
of
te2(1,1)00,
with
half
th,
divine
displeasure
incurred
by
some
gratulates
the
British
Government
on
ant . than the immediate working out
has usually lain apart from the main Lnoau as the Shrphclalt, which have
Happily, science lias
11, 11 Iron' fought over. Perhaps. than its historic declaration made through principal outright if she marries. wicked deed.
ei , te details of the Z.Mnistic state, Is
current of Jewish Iii•tory.
George \V. Stitt:Mall :Ind ProfessoI ' proved the error of the conception.
, any district in the whole world. The .Xrthitr J. Balfour to the British Zion-
that you see and do your whole and
Ancient Palestine.
tie knit _ ,,..., , ti......
Edwin
R.
A.
Seligman,
brothers,
n•
,,,
at It.ast
'today',
nge forms the great- Shephelah are pierced by a number of ist Federation.on November 3rd. It
'"
''""
disc..,
"
"`
complete duty in this war for the sue-
• .
Th e c en t ra l R a
ys, narrow, tortuous, and impos- hails Jewish Palestine as a link which et ive 525,000 each, and a like slit,
t of it, is merely the result of
''
i""t""
.
c
ess of Great Britain, France, Italy
\II,
er part of ancient Palestine and the Yaffe
goes to the testator's sister.
loptian
ignorance
and
carelessness.
greater part of Jewish independent sible to force except by surprise Or will unite the West with the East. It
ica "
Frances Hellman.
ived on its strategy. The most northerly of these
and
Aimr
•
'
\
nil
what
is
better,
we
know
likewi•e
expresses the hope that the Jews will
national life has been l
Other speakers were Dr. Aaron
itryer th o ught (.alleys is the Vale of Ajalon, the receive immediately after Palestine's
',ere( pogrom org.iiiiiation that good health is ours for the tak-
Tit,.
slopes.
But
the
Jews
•karonson,
director
of the Zionist ag-
of it as a continuous range. They easiest road from Jerusalem to the
by the Itritis.li army, full which has been agitating through its ing. Science has pro v en th a t th ere
He e Joshu a bade th e sun conquest
, experiment
t;rxriiise
spoke of it as Mount Natithali in Gal coast. sti ll,rhere w as the seems o f a local autonomy. This, says the legal newspaper, (;rota, for pogroms is no longer an excuse for epidemics., r i c u 1 t u ral
tislit:rtgi“, nchian irnPiaall;
lee. as Mount Ephraim in Samaria, stand
1 srael- "Guardian," will be the first step to- upon the Jews, had its headquarters but better conditions can come only estinvi ,,i
. hund red batt les bet w een
,b
out,t i cil
e
a eat;
Gsr.
s cre
rN
t aerw
y
and as Mount
Judah further s
theof Itulas ward the establishment of a full- at Petrograd. The organization was through the health of the individual.. of the Zionistt.:
'M
Moutht
ties and the Philistin es and
oun
flans,
Mount Natithali and
h
fficer Nicholas The value of health cannot be reek.: York, and Jacob
Between
O
Ephraim the break is clear and ills. Nlaccabacus's finest victories over te
fledged Jewish State.
discovered' by the
, of the lirovisional Zionist Executive
a
Stembo, a brother Of the deceased oiled in dollars and cents, but the
tinct, for the Plain of Esdraelon runs Greeks and of a terrible rout of
Committee.
is journalist, Stembo. The nib- possession of it paves the way to sue-
broad and continuous right front Car- Roman army tinder Cestins
'
The Birmingham f
"'rile Star Spangled Banner" and
mei to the Jordan, and this plain is In the next valley, the XVadi es Sura,
in
service
on
the
Roumanian
cess,
while
its
lack
can
only
mean
. as
.
its, and community mourns the
his
I "The Hatikvah," the Jewish national
important political Samson performed
I where the mignon society was ultimate failure.
exrth
ploer south Ind B. Sterne, a promit
perhaps the most
\Vadi es Stint still fu
f
Supply
yourself
with
health
liter-
anthem,
were sting at the beginning
and military factor in the history o in the
I ing very diligently, and after
ath, and through th e who ffied recently at t
and end of the meeting. Palestinian
Palestine. "It lilt a high road of all David tilled Goli the
d
-:vg important information about attire, and learn of the care and pre-l
* the
Stel
For
four
years
Sir.
invasions from the north and the , Wadi Afraid Greeks advance
ociety lie went to Petrograd and vention of communicable diseases., were sung by the Hatlassah
south. It separated the early Jewish to their greatest defeat of Judas and tary to L'nited States S
The State hoard of health will send! Choral Union, directed by A. W. Hin-
mcd the government of its ac-
settlements in Galilee front the an- the Turks rushed troops down just in
,would, and later on wal
I der.
I you pamphlets free of cost.
(-t kngdom f Israel, and it opened time to save Gaza. In the southern- the Birmingham City
es.
o
ten a i
the heart of Samaria most of the valleys about I.achish.
way into
ti

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