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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
Vol. III. No. 6
DETROIT, MICH., FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1918
RUFUS ISAACS IS
NAMED BRITAIN'S
ENVOY TO U. S.
England Herzl's Great Hope
Had Theodore Ilerzl lived, the
English declaration in favor of a na-
tional Jewish homeland in Palestine
would not have surprised him. Eng-
land was his great hope for the
realization of his ideal.
"England—mighty England, free
England—with its world embracing
, iglook, will understand us and our
a p fru tions.
"With England as a starting point
Lord Chief Justice of England
k Appointed to Most
Important Diplomatic
Post
By Lansing Bank
Lansing Jewry is rejoicing in the
fact that one of their fellow co-
religionists has been elected on the
board of directors of the City Na-
tional Bank, one of the strongest
lmilks of this city.
Mr. Gerson has been a resident of
Lansing for about fifteen years and
in the course of time has encircled
himself with a host of friends.
In the history of Lansing banks
there can only be found one other
Jew who has served in this capacity
before.
NI r. Gerson is interested in the Ger-
son-Carrey Brass Foundry and a
number of other manufacturing and
mercantile projects.
In Detroit. Mr. Gerson is well
known, and here, as well as in Lan-
sing, he has a host of friends. He is
a prominent member of Temple Beth
El of this city. and has taken an
active part in the Jewish relief cam-
paigns here and in Lansing. It is a
credit to the Jewry of the state capitol
that such a public spirited gentleman
is their most representative member.
1)ecember 19, 1917.
My Dear Mr, Schiff:
congratulate you
all my
heart On the fine colletion of the
Ca 111Pc16111 to obtain $5,t )0.0011 for the
increase of the Jewish War Relief
und and for Welfare Work amorig
the Jewish men in the army and
navy.
It tots certainly a brilliant
achievement for the most ;earthy
object.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
(Signed) 11 . 0()DROW WILSON.
Mr. Jacob II. Schiff,
965 Fifth
JEWS INDIFFERENT TO
BRITISH STATEMENT
SAYS DR. GOTTHEIL
eZt. fork CitY.
ALL CHURCHES IN
ANN ARBOR TO CLOSE
FOR JEWISH SERVICE
University Professor Declares
Great Movement of Jewish
Peoples to Palestine is Not
Desirable.
"I can understand the attitude of
those who, opposing the movement
for a Jewish homeland in Palestine,
believe it would be better for the
Jewish people to continue to remain
in their present places with the peo-
ples and nations of the world, but I
cannot understand the indifference
with which this offer from the British
government has been received by
many persons," said Dr. Gottheil.
The speaker then compared the ac-
tion of Great Britain with benefits ac-
corded to Jews by leaders of other
nations years ago, and declared that
Britain had exceeded by this attitude
all former helpful things for Jewish
lift. Referring to conditions under
the Ottoman government in peace
times, l'rofessor Gottheil said:
Turks Never Oppressive.
"The Turkish 1;0N- eminent was
never an oppressive one; rather it was
an indifferent government, both as to
its relations to the Jew as well as
other inhabitants of the country. So
far as the government itself was con-
cerned in peace tine s, the people had
nothing to annoy them further than
the periodical vi-its of the tax col-
lectors.
"It is not expected or desired," con-
tinued Dr. Gottheil."that there should
he a great movement of Jewish peo-
ples from all parts of the world to
be centered in Palestine to form the
national hotly. but rather the re-
establishment there of Jewish civili-
ition, a nucleus of influence for de-
elopment and keeping alive every-
EARL READING.
where the best spiritual forces and
after he had made a failure of s. veral ideals of national Jewish life.
"I believe these national aspirations
other vocations, and his rapid rise
after he became a barrister is one of will be characterized by the most
the most remarkable life histories of democratic form of government in
the British Empire. He was made a Palestine, as designed by experience
Knight in 1910, and was elevated to and of best thought and minds of
the peerage in 1014 with the title those who have the enterprise at
Baron. In 1914 he was created a Vis- heart. It will not be a place for lay-
count. The new British Ambassador ing up riche: or building palaces. but
Extraordinary is a Jew who is proud where the people may return to the
of his ancestry and racial origin. His tillage of the soil and Ike a life of
great success is a refutation of the natural development and faith by the
argument of anti-semitism in high sweat of their brows, in a country
that is fertile and is capable of pro-
places.
viding abundantly."
Joseph Gerson, Honored
Till: WHILE 11(>1 .SE
than ever before."
These were the prophetic words of
Theodore Ilerzl, Uttered at the Fourth
Zionist Congress held in Tondou, on
• lugust fah, igoa.
NENY YORK.—Dr. Richard Got-
theil, professor of Semitic languages
at Columbia University, discussed
some of the principal features of the
aims and hopes of leaders of the Zion-
ist movement for the establishment
and development of Jewish national
life in Palestine, in an address last
Sunday night at the Free Synagogue.
His subject was "'File English in Pal-
estine."
Mother Seek• Son Here
Jac ■ d, Nathan, president of the
local Y. M. D. A., has received a re-
unest from a Jewish mother in New
York to aid her in locating her son,
Sam Appel. She has reason to he-
lieve he is working in Detroit. If the
young man will call on Mr. Nathan at
his office in the Saturday' Night edi-
torial rooms on Fort street west, lie
will learn something of vital import-
ance to him. The boy is 16 years of
age, about 5 feet 11 inches in height,
and wears large shell rimmed spec-
tacles. Anyone knowing the young
matt will please call his attention to
this item.
Colonel L. Levy, of the Engineers,
and Colonel A. Meyer. of the Colo-
nial Infantry, cave been promoted
brigadier-generals in the French army.
INCREASED WAGES FOR YOUR
MON EY.
If you can earn 15 instead of VI,
why should YOU not RAISE THE
WAGES of your money to 5 per
cent?
We can and do pay that—we are
,Co-operative.
1DETROIT & NORTHERN NIICHIGAN
Hon. Sol }fetlock, of Ligonier, Ind., I BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION,
DETROIT, MI('IIIGAN.
has been elected Mayor of that city
Washington Blvd. at Clifford..—Ad
by a very large majority.
pR EsIDENT
(•oxGRA TI7LATEs
The followiny letter MIS ref
by Jacob It Schiff, folloteing the
successful conclusion of the New
fork ll'ar Relief Ca uiraign:
zee may be sure that the Zionist out-
look will soar further and higher
HIS RISE REMARKABLE ,
Earl Reading, Lord Chief Justice of
England, has been appointed British
High Commissioner in the United
States. Besides taking over the work
of the British Embassy in Washing-
ton, he will have charge of the work
of the war mission and its establish-
ments in New York and Washington.
Lord Reading thus replaces Lord
Northcliffe as head of the British war
mission to this country..
It is said in London that Lord
Reading's appointment will be a tem-
porary owe and will not involve his
retirement front the position of Lord
Chief Justice. Owing to the national
work on which he had been engaged
since the war, Lord Reading has been
obliged to vacate his place at the
bench at intervals. This has been pos-
sible only because the volume of
cases has not been at normal level
and there are sufficient judges to cope
with the business.
Lord Reading was elevated from
the rank of Viscount to that of Earl
but a few weeks ago. This was done
in recognition of his able work in ne-
gotiating financial arrangements for
carrying on the war. He headed the
commission that arranged the terms
of the famous half billion dollar loan
floated in the United States in 1916,
In September, 1917, lie returned to
the United States on a special mission
from the British NVar Cabinet to con-
vey information, particularly regard-
ing financial affairs, to the Washing-
ton government.
The name of this illustrious Jew is
Rufus Daniel Isaacs, second son of
the late Joseph M. Isaacs, a merchant
in the city of London. Rufus Isaacs
was born in 1860. He studied law
"Ambassador to West" for Jewish Relief
Per Year, $1.50; Copy, 5 Cents
Student Congregation Holds
Its Fourth Annual Service
—Dr. Leo. M. Franklin to
Be Speaker.
011 Sun day evening of this week,
January 1301, under the auspices of
the Jewish Student Congregation of
NATHAN STRAUS.
At the bast meeting of the workers of the New York drive, NIr.
Straus was given a great ovation for his noble efforts in aiding the suc-
cess of the national campaign. He contributed several hundred thou-
sand dollars and most of his valuable time. In recognition of his serv-
:ces, he was unanimously appoi ted "Ambassador to the West" for the
Jewish War Relief Campaign o 1918. Mr. Straus will lie in charge of
the work on the coast.
MENORAH CONVENTION DISCUSSES
MANY JEWISH WORLD PROBLEMS
The quinquennial convention of the have suggested that the former be called
Intercollegiate Memorial Association Judaeans and their land Judaea. The
opened last week in Earl Hall, of Co- really interesting point of the present
controversy is the old quarrel between
lumbia University, with delegates pres-
those who claim that Israel connotes
ent from forty of the sixty-two ilsti-
a people, and those who claim that
tutions in which the organization is
Israel connotes a mission to be con-
represented.
veyed through a religion. I never have
Louis L. Newman, of Columbia, been able to see why mission and people
President of the organization, in deliv- should be alternative or antithetical.
ering the opening address commented The brutal logic of facts demonstrates
upon the growth of the organization, that as there cannot be for centuries a
and referred to the absence of many territory capable of receiving anything
members who are now with the colors. , but a minority of the race, the anti-
Reports were read from various Zionists, for whom dispersion is inevi-
!crouches. There was a reception by table, will have enough of it and to
the Ladies' Committee, headed by Mrs. spare; while on the other hand Zionists
Abram I. Elkus and Mrs. S. S. Prince. for whom a territory is indispensable to
The evening was taken up by a public Israel's survival, will be condemning
meeting.
the bulk of their people to absorption.
At this gathering the greeting: of
The trouble with the Jewish mission-
the University of Michigan, there will
be held at the llill Auditorintn, Ann
Arbor, Mich., the Fourth Annual
Service, for which all the churches of
the city close their doors.
The service is unique in Jewish his-
tory, as no other instance is on record
where practically all the churches of a
community suspend their own serv-
ices to permit their congregations to
participate in a Jewish service of wor-
ship,
'flue sermon this year will be
preached by Rabbi Franklin, Super-
vising Rabbi of the congregation. His
subject will be "The 'Times and Their
Interpretation." 'file musical service
will be under the direction of Mr.
NN'illiam Howland and will be ren-
dered by the quartette choir of Tem-
ple Beth El.
Large Contribution of Schiff
Interpreted as Not
Endorsing Political
Plan.
FUND SUCCESS ASSURED
New York—Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
Chairman of the Provisional Execu-
tive Committee for General Zionist
AtTairs, announced last week that
more than one-fourth of the first mil-
lion dollars of the Palestine restora-
tion fund, to be devoted to immediate
needs for re-establishing a Jewish
state in Palestine after the war, had
been subscribed in three days, while
the organization for raising the fund
still was in process of formation. The
commission, headed by Eugene
Meyer, Jr., started its work last Mon-
day and, according to the announce-
ment, met with immediate response
from Jew's all over the country,
$25,00 From Schiff.
An outstanding, feature of the fund-
raising efforts thus far, it was said,
was the early arrival of a check for
$25,00(i from Jacob 11. Schiff. Though
Mr. Schiff is a large giver to philan-
thropies of all sorts, this was hailed
as his first contribution to the Zionist
cause. While no explanation was at-
tached to the announcement of Mr.
Schiff's contribution, it was inter-
preted as being sent in conformance
with his recent statement of his posi-
tion on the Zionist question. Utter-
ances of the banker having been mis-
construed by some as indicating his
conversion to Zionism, Mr. Schiff last
May wrote a letter, published in The
American Hebrew, in which he de-
nied such conversion, and explained
that what he did advocate was the re-
establishment in Palestine of a large
Jewish population, not a Jewish na-
tion, from which Jewry all over the
world might be nourished. In that
letter Mr. Schiff predicted that unless
something of the kind that he recom-
mended was done, Jewry in
every
country would disintegrate.
Other Large Donations.
It is likely that quite a few Detroit-
Another offering was from an
ers will go to Ann Arbor for the serv- anonymous donor who sent $25,000,
ice. All are invited.
Marion Travis, of Tulsa, Okla., sent
another $25,000.
NEW YORK JEWS
ADOPT MILITARY
PLAN FOR FUNDS
200 Teams in Command of
"Colonels" to Raise Five
Million Dollars for City's
Philanthropies.
the university were extended by Dr. ers is not that they are arrogant, brit
Talcott Williams, head of the School that they do not function. Had they
of Journalism, who said that he had been as devoted to their mission as the
NEW YORK.—The tactical plans
found among his students a thorough I Zionists to their territorial concept, the
for the campaign to obtain from $4 , -
knowledge of the Hebrew language was I war for Jewry—and perhaps for the
5(0,(1110 to $5,000,000 for the support of
a great help toward English composi- world—might have gone differently.
the ninety federated philanthropic so-
tion, and observed that the language ! But in practice the Jewish mission has
cieties of New York City, which was
was more likely to become disused in , never appeared except as a stick to beat
periods of material prosperity than the Zionists with. I f Jud a ism is to be a launched last Monday, was commu-
nicated to the twenty colonels and
during persecutions.
universal religion, it must be universal-
'
and denationalized. Here lies one the two hundred captains who are to
President Robert J. Aley, of the Uni- :zed
lead the soliciting forces, by Felix
versity of Maine, declared that the solution of the controversy—mission
M. Warburg, the commander in chief,
greatest difficulty the modern university versus territory.
at a frugal supper of fish at the Ilotel
had to contend with was the resistance
"Orthodoxy and its rabbis having
to learning on the part of students and shirked this problem, having failed to !Whiteley. Federation was made pos-
declared that the passion for learning adapt Judaism continuously to life as sible initially by the comparatively
large contributions of 21,000 Menl-
which characterized the Jewish race the great rabbis of old did, having al-
might be a factor in bringing a return lowed the cornerstone of orthodox tiers. The plan now is to enlist 5f1,-
000, that the larger war-tone upkeep
of the condition where real honer is Judaism to crumble, are responsible for
paid to scholarship. "The war has .lone the ruin of their religion among the of all institutions may be met, and
more than almost anything else he masses, while the failure to reconcile it that true democratization of Jewish
,aid, "to convince people everywhere with certain results of modern science welfare work may be assured.
Two Hundred Teams.
There will be some 200 or more
teams, each with a colonel in com-
mand. Each colonel is to have ten
captains, each captain ten lieutenants.
and each team so large a number of
privates that every element of Jewry
will be represented. Mr. ‘Varburg,
as President of the Federation for the
Support of Jewish Philanthropic So-
cieties of New York City, and his
chi, I aide. 1. Edwin Goldwasser, Ex-
Director of the Federation,
with the assistance of many others,
have devised a detailed, elaborate and
comprehensive method of field work.
For the men engaged in the week's
high-pressure drive, the work is to he
divided into a campaign of trades,
universities of the United States and but will continue to miss both the in-
professions and other occupations,
Canada, including Harvard, Columbia spiration of the past and the call of
and Texas and the University of Cali-
subdivided into zones, and for the
the future."
fornia.
women, who will share equally in the
The controversy over the government
l% cab, into zones only.
Zangwill's Letter is Feature.
of the organization was resolved phi-,
Everybody to be Canvassed.
mately
by
the
decision
to
appoint
a
At Friday's meeting of the quinquen-
Contrilititions are not wanted from
Board of Governors consisting of two
nial
convention
Chancellor,
Hurwitz,
read the
a letter
from Henry
Israel collegiate representatives, five alumni of mm-Jews, and every effort has been
Zangwill in which the writer criticized at least five years' standing, and four be et to listing every Jewish firm and
cry family head. During the single
the failures of those who believed that , "Mel] Of affairs."
Prominent Speakers at Banquet.
week of soliciting it is intended to
Judiasm is a world mission to be pre-'
Representative
Julius
Kahn,
ofCali-
reach
every. man, woman and child
seated through their religion as due to fornia, who spoke Saturday at the din-
who might he expected to become a
their failure to universalize their re-
ner nasium
in the of
Columbia
Gym- federation member and contributor.
ligious teachings, and obsei red that the
the Fifth University
Annual Conven-
Federation headquarters has prepared
Jewish
religion
in
England
"is
kept
tion
of
the
Intercollegiate
Menorah
alive only by Christian prejudice and a Association, urged that fomenters of statistical information of every help-
Jewish superstition.'
ful sort, and from there the campaign
disloyalty he dealt wnh in accordance will be directed.
"The political status of the Palestine with military law. He said:
Dr. Goldwasser urged as a battle
Jews and the Jews of the Diaspora,'
cry, "From each according to his
!Continued on Page Eight.)
he says, "must he absolutely distinct. I
that knowledge is worth while.' and thought, on which humanity will
Divergent views of the proper ex- never go back,fias equally alienated the
pression and value of Jewish culture intellectual classes.
"Here in England among the richer
were expressed by the Rev. Dr. Sam-
uel Schulman and by Professor NI M. classes, apart from Mr. Montefiore's.
Kaplan, of the Jewish The01 ,, ,zical mild movement, Judaism, but for the
Seminary. Dr. Schulman decried the Zionist movement and racial affinity is
only by
a Christian by
prejudice'
idea that there was any impossibility preserved
and a Jewish
superstition,
anti-
of reconciling the spirit of Judaism and Semitism and the Day of Atonement.
the spirit of Americanism in the indi-
"I do not want orthodoxy set up as
vidual.
Professor Kaplan insisted on
the essential national and geographical immovably as the Vatican. But perhaps
character of the Jewish "national re- I have a subconscious hope that ortho-
doxy will again be stupid enough to
ligious
Justice chancellor
Irving turn down the suggestion and continue
Lehman civilization."
and Henry Hurwitz,
obstinate on its road to ruin. And I
of The
the Menorah
association,
also spoke.
have more than a subconscious fear that
Association
is com-
reform
is not
really or
reform
Judaism,
posed of fifty-eight societies in as many
whether
on Jewish
universal
lines,
$250,000 RAISED
FOR RESTORATION
PALESTINE FUND
Pledges and cash totaling $80,000
were received last week at Zionist
headquarters as the result of a three-
day Zionist convention in Chicago,
which closed last Tuesday, About
$20,000 was contributed by delegates
living in Chicago and the rest by those
from the middle west, generally. Dr.
Wise formally transferred to the fund
$100,0I/0 which was raised at the re-
cent Zionist conference in Baltimore.
Some of the larger individual con-
tributions, in addition to those men-
tioned, are Eugene Meyer, Jr., $24,000;
Nathan Straus, $12,000; Mrs. Joseph
Fels, $12,000; anonymous, $12,000;
Sidney Conrad, Boston, $2,500; Louis
Robison, Leon Kamaiky, S. S. Rosen-
bloom, Pittsburgh; S. S. Bloom, and
A. Waxman. Philadelphia, each $1,000.
"All Eyes on America." — Wise.
"We have made a splendid start,"
said Dr. \Vise. "In many cities we
find that individuals are anticipating
the formation of our organization and
volunteering their assistance. By the
end of the week we expect to have
our campaign thoroughly mobilized,
with local sub-committees covering
every city.
"We are receiving messages of
God-speed for the fund front all parts
of the world. In every country the
word seems to have spread that
America will make the first contri-
bution toward restoring Palestine.
From every country Jews are looking
to their brethren in America with
hope and prayers. The success of
our preliminary campaign will have a
moral effect all over the world.
means—to all according to their
needs!" and added:
"When the federation was declared
in operation on Jan. 1, 1917, the num-
ber of siffis,7ribers was 9,500. Today
there are 15,504. Beyond these there
are some 6,00(1 additional supporters
of our affiliated societies. The aver-
age per capita subscription is a little
above $100. There are 100.000 heads
of families who can afford to give.
Shame rests upon us all that 21,000
people have home the burden."
Campaign Ends Jan. 27.
On Sunday, Jan. 27, at the annual
meeting of the Federation in the Mu-
seum of Natural History the results
will be announced. Every one con-
cerned insisted that the only possible
result thus to be made known would
be a sweeping victory that would as-
sure the future financial solidity of
federation. The minimum subscrip-
tion for junior members under 18
years of age,
is $5 a year; for adult
members, $10 a year.