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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

Vol. III. No. 7

DETROIT, MICH., FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1918

LOCAL ZIONISTS BEGIN DRIVE
FOR $30,000 TO RESTORATION FUND

Delegates From Local Organ-
ization: at Meeting Wednes-
day Night Raise $10,000.
To Rebuild Palestine.

DRIVE ENDS MARCH 1ST

Detro:t Zionists formally opened

the local campaign for the Palestine

Restoration Fund at a meeting held

ein \Vednesday evening, January 16th,

at the Shaarey Zedek, at which over

8(1 delegates representing various

Jewish organizations in the c:ty with

a combined membership

of

many

Per Year, $1.50; Copy, 5 Cents

Leader of England's Zionists

ANN ARBOR SERVICE, POSTPONED
LAST WEEK, TO BE HELD SUNDAY

A Yiddish War Glossary.

Rabbi Levy's Last Message.

I humorous French Jew has con-

"Men and reOlnin, I tell you today,
were it my last ;cord I Tema utter to

tributed the f ollawing Yiddish glos-
sary of war terms to "L'llomme En-
eliding'," the famous Parisian paper:
Ganef: The neutral country.
Mechulla: Our budget.
Meshuggah: The belligerents.
Shekorim: German co niniUniques.
Metsiah: Life in the trenches.
Oser : Peace.
Chutzpah: The aeroplane.
Chutzpah Ponim: The I 1-boat.
Chamer: The military expert.
The Poilu.

.You, I would say with the conscious-
ness that I was passing out of your

Inc.,, I would say to you, Jews of
America, wake up and realize that
before you IS the greatest opportunity
in all history to become the espousers
of the international movement that
shall place She nations of the earth
under the sway of the One and only
Cod, on the basis of international
brotherhood."—The Late J. Leonard
Levy, Pittsburgh, Pa.

JEWISH

SERVICE FLAG OF
SHAAREY ZEDEK

RUSSIAN

REBEL MOURNED

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IS DEDICATED

New York Jews Close Shops
to Attend Funeral of Dr.
Paul Kaplan, Beloved
East Side Physician.

The time set for the completion of tirday, Jan. 5, removed from the east
the fund is Nlarch 1st. That the De- side one of its outstanding figures,
troit quota of $30,0(10 will he raised engaged for the last thirty-six years

long before that time was evidenced in interpreting to America the aims
by the enthusiasm of the delegates at of the Russian Revolutionary move-
1Vednesday's meeting, which express: meat and to furnishing relief to the
eil itself in the material form of needy,
pledges from those present totalling
Many Jewish business houses on

Speaker at Jewish Student
Congregation Annual
Service.

CITY CHURCHES CLOSE

Ilecause of the great blizzard which

swept this part of

the country on
Saturday and Sunday last, and which
made railroad travel impossible, the

great Hill Auditorium service, under

the auspices of the Jewish Student

DEATH OF NOTED

thonsands pledged the success of De-
(:nits quota of $30000.
Rabbi A. M. Hershman as presiding
officer outlined the purpose of the
fund.
He stated that the raising of
$1,11001100 Nast decided at the extraor-
Binary conference of two hundred
leading Zionists of the country limier
the direction of the Provisional Zion-
ist Committee which was held in Ital.
tillore on December 16th, 1917. The
NEW YORK.-4Zepresentative citi-
purposes for which this fund is to be zens and social workers on the East
raised are: (1) to rehabilitate the Jew . - Side, including Miss Lillian I). Wahl
ish settlements and institutions in of the Henry Street Settlement, Abra-
Palestine, and facilitate their con- rallain Cahan, editor of The Jewish
tinned development and extension; Daily Forward; Prof. Isaac Hour-
12) to prepare for the final estalilish• wick, Rabbi J. I.. Magnes
s Joseph
meat of the Jewish homeland; (31 to Barondess, Nicholas Alcinikoff, 1)r. H.
continue and expand the work of the Solotareff and Max Pine, paid tribute
Zionist Organization, here and abroad, :last Tuesday to Dr. Paul Kaplan,
to enable it to realize its aim.
whose death from pneumonia on Sat-

Rabbi Leo M. Franklin to Be

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Contains 118 Stars Represent-
ing One for Every Four
Families—Impressiv e Ser-
vices Held Monday Night.

It)

tiP
liil:ia'nr:rh
°% e c 1: (11: ::: ::gPt
: r ri . l e:I t t "I 'pairi
i :1
from the services of the
holidays, was
the dedicaton of a service flag last

Monday night in honor of the boys of
the congregation who have answered

DR. CHAIM WEITZMAN

the call to the colors in the present

Dr. Chaim NVeitzman, the president of Federation of English Zion-
fists, was a leader, together with Lord Walter Lionel Rothschild and
Nachum Sokolov, of the campaign which resulted in the declaration by
the British government. f^v^ring Zionism, and promising to use its best
efforts towards the establishment of a Jewish National Homeland in
Palestine.
1)r. Weitzman is a distinguished chemist. Early in the war he
invente d the high explosive which is being used with so much success
by the British army. Ile refused to accept any compensation front the
British government for his invention other than a hearing by the British
Cabinet of the claims on Palestine of the Zionists.

great conflict. The flag which con-

tains 1 18 stars was presented to the

congregation by the Ladies Auxiliary

Society, under whose auspices the

ceremonies were conducted.
The meeting opened with a rendi-
non of the national anthem by the en-
tire
assemblage. As the strains of the
over $10,000. Announcement of this the east side closed so that the em-
stirring melody filled the air, the sig-
tidal was made by N1 r. Aaron Klein, ployes could attend the funeral serv-
niticance of the occasion made its lin-
a member of the executive committee, ices at Forward Hall. The last act
of
and was greeted by a most extraordi- Dr. Kaplan, which gave him the cold DRAFT OFFICER WHO SLURS AGRICULTURAL COURSE AT press on all present and tears welled
in the eyes of many. The presenta-
nary ovation lasting several minutes. that caused his death, was typical of
JEWS IS OUSTED
JEWISH FARM SCHOOL
lion speech, a masterful and appropri-
Mr, D. %V. Simons, who was named his life on the east side. A week ago
ate
exposition of the sentiment ex-
a member of the National Finance he was called front his home to at- Gov. Whitman of New York
Young Men, Between 16 sad 21, May
pressed in the flag, was eloquently de-
Drastic Action Against Race Preju-
Commission at the Baltimore meet- tend a sick girl in a family that was
Take 3-Year Course in New Field of
livered by Mrs. David R. Stocker.
ing, was elected chairman of the Ex• without fuel and with little food. Dr.
dice.
Science, Without Cost.
(Her entire address is published in
ectit:ve Committee for the local Cant- Kaplan received no fee for his service
this issue.)
i•aign. Mr. Simons has been one of and left with the family money, from New Yorks—The removal of Samuel l'he National Farm School, located The flag was accepted on behalf of
the leading spirits in the Zionist move- his own purse, to pay for medicine, II. (..7ragg as a Member
of Local Ex- in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is the congregation by Mr. I). \V. Sim-
ment for many years, and his setae- food and fuel. emption Boar d 24 in Brooklyn was now preparing for the enrollment of on
s, president, who with great per-
tion as the local leader is public rem-
announced i n a statement given out its new class of students, for the
Associate of Prince Kropotkin.
sonal emotion, responded to the in-
(ignition for his unselfish and noble
An exile front Russia, where he had in the office of Adj. Gen. Sherrill on term, beginning March, 1918,
spiting words of !Ors. Stocker.
efforts on behalf of the great move- been engaged in revolutionary work behalf of Governor Whitman. The i
1 The National Dann School gives a
The address of the evening was
!ti•nt. Mr. Fred M. Iltitzed was elect- with Kropotkin and Breslikovsky, Dr. statement is as ,follows:
!three-years' course of instruction in made by Rabbi Hershman, who said
ed vice-president of this committee, Kaplan came to this country thirty-
"To my regret I have been obliged the practice and science of agricul- in part:
although he was not present at thy six years ago
from Odessa. At that to remove Samuel II. Cragg as a titre, to such young men who desire The great Lincoln was wont to say
meeting. Other officers are:
Treas• time much misunderstanding existed member of Local Board 24, Brooklyn. to make farming their life's work—a during the Civil \Var that though he
veer. I. Dann: secretary, Louis \Vine. in this country with regard to the On the afternoon of Dec 20 Mr. calling which presents a splendid field saw the flag every day he never re-
Rabbi Hershman stated that the aims of the Russian revolutionists. Cragg was one of the speakers on the of opportunity to ambitious young garde(' it for a moment steadfastly
local appeal Will be addressed to all Dr. Kaplan set himself to the
task of occasion of dedicatory exercises in men, and in which they can render without emotion. Poor hearts should

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Congregation, announced for last

Sunday, wilt be held next Sunday

evening. Jan. 20th.

The complete program for the ser-

vice is published herewith. 'Ile ser-
mon will be delivered by Rabbi Frank-

lin and the musical program will be

rendered by the choir of Temple
Beth El.

A large delegation of Detroiters
will attend the meeting, and a cor-
dial invitation is extended to the gen-
eral public to be present.
The following will be the order of
services:
Organ, "Improvisation on Tradi-
tional Jewish Melodies,” Abram Ray
Tyler, A. G. O.; anthem, "The Lord
is King" (Dudley Buck), choir; rit-
ual service, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin;
choral responses: Borchti, Shma, !di
chomocho, Kodash; responsive read-
ing (Psalm 27); anthem, "He Sendeth
the Springs Unto the Valleys" (Ware-
,); choral re§ponse, "Va-anaclinti";
solo, "There's a Land" (Allitsen), Mr.
Howland; sermon, "The Times and
Their Interpretation", Rabbi Leo M.
Franklin, Detroit; anthem, "Still, Still
With Thee" (Arthur Foote); benedic-
tion; postlude.

Well-Known Local Boy
"Somewhere in France"

in Detroit regardless of their af- explaining to the American people connection with the presentation of a great patriotic service to their coun- we have, were we not in a moment
idiat . ons with the Zionist 1111/Ventent.
the realities of the revolutionary a service flag in honor o f th e
boys of try, by fitting themselves to become like this, when the Service Flag about
as the present fund is to he used in Tinnetnent in Russia and the big per- Public.
School 129, Brooklyn, then in leaders in what is today considered to be unfurled is presented to 11111.
the rehabilitation of Jewish colonic. , sonalities engaged in the work of un- service. The exercises took place
at America's greatest and necessary in- view. were We 1101 to feel :i peculiar
in l'alestine destroyed in the war, as dermining Czarism. the schoolhouse, in a
district adjoin- dustry,—the raising of food to feed drawing at the heart and a peculiar
an object in which every . Jew as a , At the same time lie kept in close mg . the division presided
over by Mr. the nation.
Jew should he vitally concerned touch with the movement ill Russia.; Cragg's exemption board. The with-1 Tuition, books, board, lodging and stirring in the breast.
The 1N . ..rid NVar in which we are
Ralibi Her s
hman is of the opinion that and maintained a catalogue of all the ence was composed of friends and other necessities are furnished free
the recent historic utterances of Tres- men and women active in revolution-
I ' ••.. of the I .•. 'ques t i on , . . of charge to all students, irrespective participants
It is a contest
social
and
is a between
war for two
a new
world.
ident \ Vilson and Premier 1.10y il are work there. l \lien any elf these largely women, and included many o f creed.
i.olitical theories, which cannot exist
George on the subject of Turkish am. workers escaped from Russia or Si- Jewish people. The population of Mr.
years; together in this world. It is a struggle
t o
implied a guarantee of Pal- beria and made their way to •Anierica Cragg's own district is over 80 per
Ap p licants for admission must be
for supremacy. between the principle
estine and Armenian autonomy nnth , . Dr. Kaplan would shelter them and cent Jewish.
!between the age of lo and 21
of power and the power of principle,
part of the Jews and Armenians.
I must be graduates of grammar
' see that they were not in want until
"After two patriotic speeches had
forcween
the spirit of force and the
bet
Members of the Execiltite Coimuit• they were able to help themselves.
schools; and must he of good physi-
been delivere d ,
e of the spirit.
Anierica is the
:1 Ir. Cragg rose, and cal, mental and moral health.
tee were elected as follow s. David , llis wide knowledge caused the dim-
in the course of his remarks ma the
,
keeper
Robinson, Louis Benson, Jacob Fried- illation of bogus revolutionists who following statement: 'There are three
As there are always many more al ,-
Ill
the
w
i7 bare
il ellrOtiCii
thn
. 'They
r ci .,(;1:er
I CO.!, M. ZaCkheilli, U. NI.ist,.r. Aaron pretended to have escaped from 12 us -
epochs in t he life of the Jewish boy: plicants than the School can accom- t h e s t arry fl ag
Klein, Joseph Towleii, S. Siverstein, I sia, and who attempted to prey on
=date,
and
as
all
applications
are
first, at birth, circume's.on; second,
L. Chernoff, Herman Fieliner. H !their fellow-countrymen here.
considered in the order in which they "Sign
of a nation
great and
To ward
her people
from strong
foreign
at El, confirmation; third, at 21. ex-
Kaplan, J. Let in, NI. Redfield. and ex- I
Aided Russian "Reds" Here.
are received such as desire to avail
emption.'
officio, all orthodox rabb's ill the city.'
Dr. Kaplan was belies in working
themselves of the 0 1MortlinitY offered are sol ‘d rie" rnsg.i. :1 the liberation war of
"NIT.. Cragg has admitted that he b _, •
The following teams were appoint- for the release of political prisoners
y The National Farm School and ni lualku.:, ii \itL ri",l'alie,i):.t aari. going forth to
ed to make personal solicitations: of the Czar who escaped to this cOltn• said this in subs ! ance, and there i• no WW1 to enroll for the new term, I
world power, but FIRST LIEUT. ISADORE LEVIN.
Louis Wine and Jos. Ehrlich, Louis ' try. and he figured largely ill the re- real dispute as to any of the impor• should lose no time in applying, rich-
a power in the world. They are "to
The many friends of First Lieuten-
Duscoff and D. Robinson. NVin• Fried-lease of Jan l'ouren, the exile wanted, • • • • cr in person, or in writing. for ad- t a k e
\ Vas hington. J elf erson and I•ill• ant Isadore Levin, son of Rabbi and
man and II Myer, I Shetzer and M. by the liar's government for a polit- the words were tittered in jest. As mission blanks, to the office of The ,,,l
it
o
ut
of
the
restricted
class
of
Mrs. Judah L. Levin, will be pleased
,
Krell. E. Rabinowitz and L. C•ranet, I cat offense, a nd w h om president s,0 ■ 1 as I learned of the Occurrence, , v
Sch oo l,
to learn that he has recovered from
a :)1 3 .,
J. W etsman and I). Levine, I.Anti , Roosevelt finally refused to order re- I sent for M r. ( ragg, and he came to , Cjfte";,:ii(i'
'
.
, 11 . :
1 i. :iliw
t I Y tirr\c l,: u,' rni , ci a A
' ' ,,I ,'Ti i ' - , . t 'n
a a hl tl r1 ,,,k,". 'ae lrli( -1
the
injuries which he sustained recent-
Albany to see me. After hearing his
Smilansky and Louis Colien..\. KleM turned.
ly' in France. Lieut. Levin is a grad-
and J. Friedberg, II. Kaplan and Ben
Organizing the Friends of Russian admissions I asked him to resign and GERMAN
MAJORITY
SOCIALIST 4, i i :Jo
i;i1IInew
ti: e: (H.O.':irl i (ziaat isoi( imirli c ;Ili ti c r li i. uate of the first school for officers
till'ct
Krell, S. Rubinowitz and L
I. Stoll. M. Freedom. Dr. Kaplan became
m its sec- he promised to do so. Ile has 11 , 1w i
ENDORSES ENGLAND'S PALES-
every nation shall find its place." Vet. held at Fort Sheridan last spring, be-
Srere and I.. Dann. flugesfievite and retary, and was also secretary of the refused to resign,
ily "they that bring many to right
TINE DECLARATION.
ing commissioned First Lieutenant in
tditsberg, Cherkoss and J. Levine, I.. Russian Social Revolutionary Party.
"The country is at war. !'his is no
the stars for- the artillery division.
iens(si shall
lie left for
61azer and R. Lowenberg, II. J. Kilf- He lived to see the dearest wish of his time to excite racial prejudices: no
A sensation has twin caused in Gee- ::se•eursta
forever."like
France soon after completing his
man and II. Greenberg, Alex Stein life accomplished when the scions of time for a public officer to ridicule many, according to a cable to the A
s w e b e hold this flag, we become course at the camp.
and IL Eichticr, 1.. Benson and I. the Romanoff family abdicated the any race or religion in connection Jewish NIorning Journal, by the pub•'
conscious of a two-fold duty devolv-
Kaplan, M. Berger and Grossberg, II. throne of Russia. with its duties toward s
the Govern- lication of an article written by Herr ing upon its. In the first place Amer- Rabbi Louis Bray was
installed as
\Vine and Louis Sillman.
Dr. Kaplan gave his medical serv- Incnt• There is no excuse for what Cohen-Reds, a member of the Reich- l e a bills II, keep our feet
on the firm rabbi of Montefiore Congreg a ti on of
ices freely to all who asked, and ac- was said. and no other course was stag and an adherent of the majority
1- ,,,,n,1 \A e must face stern realities. Philadelphia, Pa., on Sund ay even i ng,
septet a fee only when the patient 'Mien to one as Governor of the State ' socialist party advising Germany and The grim and fierce struggle in which January ti, when appropriate services
was unquestionably aide to pay, li e • except to secur e th e severance of 'Mr. ' Turkey to issue a declaration in favor we are engaged is a call to service, I. were held at the synagogue in honor
was ill less than a week and died in Cragg's relations with the draft."
of the establishment of a Jewish Na- call not only to our young Inert who of the occasion.
Beth Israel hospital
ospital at the age of 70.
tional homeland in Palestine, along have elected to enroll in the military
Ills body lay in state in Forward Hall
IN RUSSIAN PEACE DELE- the lines of the famous British der- service of the country, but to you and "Not throne will wrong he on th e
LONDON.—The Parliamentary and several thousand men, women JEWS
laration, which he endorses in the to nit• as well. It is not the service
CATION.
committee of the British Trade Union and children, many of whom recalled
strongest terms
flag which is to be dedicated. It is we Not fisicrae veorlii.,w ill right be
on the
service rendered by
and the Executive commit- personal acts ofservice
Among the thirteen Bolshrviki
Herr Cohen Reis pronounces th e who are to dedicate ourselves to the
ff
the
bier.
tee of the Labor party in their mem- him,passed
peace delegates who are negotiating British declaration as a move of the service of the flag. To us too there Fromthe ruins of a
world, strewn
orandum on war antis, to be consid-
the truce with the Teutonic allies. greatest Political wisdom. He de- conies the admonition addressed by with the debris
of shattered idols and
ered by a special conference of the NEW ZIONIST-LABOR PARTY IN there are at l eas t th ree J ews. The pl ores th e l ac k o f political foresight Moses to the children of Reuben and broken ideals a new world, a new
hu-
labor movement on January 28, has
RUSSIA.
chairman of the Russian committee, on the part of Germany and Turkey Gad. "Shall your brethren go to the Inanity will emerge.
recommended that Jews in all coun-
M. Joffe, is a doctor of philosophy, a in permitting England to take ti le war and will ye sit ( nib' I here?" The renikdficsrse :1:11a,y
(lyssii\:aT
rriennieg (a;vaervae delight-
The “Sionis tow-Trudowikow" is the well-known writer on socialistic sub- lead in the respons e t o th e Jewish de- time calls for action, for service,
tries enjoy the common elementary
tries
for NI reading; instrumental music was
rights of tolerance, f ree d o m of re s t - name of a new Zionist-labor party or- jects, and an author of a philosophic mand, and even if they should both sacrifice.
teeli gsitittl
(fence and trade, and equal citizen- ganized in Russia, with aims some- work; Kamene•, whose Jewish name make the declaration he proposes i iic l g ila z
t l , ieuis.
eraorti dd
i:,1,n
t tee0.1,:tiftatecreiscatobtihdse o f rtehprorstiiaoanretyhezeRde:k
1 Curnoistswaacstigviivtieens
ship, and that Palestine be set free what different from Poals-Zion, un- is Rosenfeld, a man with a strong they will not, now, derive the great-
from the oppressive government of • der the leadership of "An-sky," one mind and the very right hand of est political advantage from such a
up
up," i t says, "and t take by e kal r
stars.
a
Wolf byK a plan, w ho startled
o f the
the Turk and formed into a free State, of the leading Yiddish writers of Eu- Lenine; NVeltman-l'avlovitch is an ' course, as it will come too late to • heart. "Look
dark the audience
tthe extent
under
international guarantee, to rope. It has already begun the pub- Odessa Jew, who lived 'or many years win the sympathy or the Jewish pro- around Aycoruo,,,thtehree hios rilzigohn t isahead
„,.
cwoonrgkr el being nd(onine behalf eoflaidhiecsbooy
f
which such of the Jewish people as lication of its own weekly organ in abroad, from where he acted as cor- , pie for the cause of the Central Em-
r t eat! congregation
written
of
boy s in
Russian.
desire to do so may return.
• respondent to several Russian papers. I pires.
in starry characters that
camp and at the front.

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British Labor Party to
Demand Equal Rights
For Jewr of All Nations

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