A merica Path Periodical Carter CLIFTON AVENUI - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 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.