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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
Vol. III. No. 8
DETROIT, MICH., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918
THOUSANDS HEAR
JEWISH MESSAGE
AT ANN ARBOR
ZIONIST LEADERS CONFER WITH
LLOYD GEORGE.
A Dominant International Figure
London.-- I.,,rd Rothschild together
with the Zionist leaders, Dr. Tchle-
now, Nahum Sokono• and Prof.
Weitzman were received by Premier
Lloyd George in audience. An im-
portant conference concerning Zion-
ist affairs took place.
SPEAKS
All City Churches Close to
Hear "The Times and
Their Interpretation."
Despite zero weather several thou-
sand people assembled in Hill Audi-
torium on Sunday evening, January
20th, to participate in the Fourth An-
nual Service held under the auspices
of the Jewish Student Congregations,
As in former years, on this occa-
sion, all churches in the city of Ann
Arbor closed their (boors in order that
all might participate in 111e Jewish
service. The ritual service was read
by the Supervising Rabbi of the con-
gregation, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, of
Temple Beth El, Detroit, Mich., who
also preached the sermon. The re-
sponses and mttsical service were
sung by the choir of Temple Beth El,
Detroit, under the direction of Mr.
William Howland.
Rabbi Franklin took as Iris theme,
"The Times and Their Interpreta-
tion." Clearly analyzing the condi-
tions of the times in which we are
living, and facing facts as they are, he
yet showed clearly that there is no
justification for the pessimist and the
unbeliever to exalt themselves.
"Religion," he said, "has not failed,
but men have failed. Religion must
reinterpret itself and assert itself
anew along the lines of Israel's pro-
phetic teachings." The address was
listened to by the vast audience with
rapt attentions and was pronounced
one of the most stirring addresses
that had yet been delivered in Hill
Auditorium.
The regular services of the Jewish
Student Congregation are held on
Sunday evening at Newberry Hall.
The attendance this year has been
unusually large and the interest and
enthusiasm on the part of the stu-
dents grows from week to week. The
organization is far beyond the experi-
mental stage and has come to take a
definite and important part in the life
of the student community at Ann
Arbor.
RUMANIAN AMBASSADOR
TO U. S. PLEDGES FREEDOM
OF JEWS IN HIS COUNTRY
(Communication)
New York, Jan. Pttli, 1018.
To The Editor:—The newly elected
Executive Board of the American
Union of Rumanian Jews held its
first tneeting Sunday, the 12th inst.,
at its headquarters, 4-1 7th Street, in
the City of New York. All the mem-
bers from the different parts of the
country attended the meeting. Mr.
I.eo Wolfson was elected chairman,
and Mr. Louis Diamant, vice-chair-
man.
A report of the visit of a committee
representing the American Union of
Rumanian Jews was given by Dr.
Siegelstein and others who met Dr.
Constantin Angelescu, the new Ru-
manian Minister at Washington on
the Ilth inst.
'The report in substance was to the
effect that a committee consisting of
Dr. P. A. Siegelstein, Leo Wolfson,
Sam Schwartz, Edward lierbert„\. L.
Kalman, Dr. Joseph E. Braunstein and
Max Gelberg of New York; Dr. J. A.
Greenberg of Baltimore, Md., and
Reuben Fink of Washington. inet by
appointment Dr. Angelescu on Satur-
day, the Ilth, at the Shorhain Hotel,
Washington. That after an address
of welcome, in which the question of
Emancipation of the Jews in Ru-
mania was pointedly raised, Dr. An-
gelescu replied by a lengthy statement
in which he assured the committee in
the name of his government, that the
Jews in Rumania will be emancipat-
ed, and that they will be completely
accorded full political and civil rights,
as soon as his country will be aisle to
hold a constitutional convention for
the purpose of amending the consti-
tution in that respect.
Dr. Angelescu promised that he will
shortly through the American Union
make a statement over his signature
in which he will make clear to the
American public the intention of his
government towards the Jews in Ru-
mania.
After the conference which lasted
over three hours he posed for a pho-
tograph of himself. the members of
his commission and the committee.
lie then together with several mem-
bers of his commission was the guest
of the committee at a luncheon given
in his honor at the Shorham Hotel.
The committee pledged to the Ru-
manian minister the whole-hearted
FIRST Y. M. H. A. IS
ORGANIZED IN FRANCE
New York.—The Council of Y. U.
H. and Kindred Associations is very
glad to announce that it has been in-
formed by its New England Federa-
tion of Y. ht. If. A.'s that the first
association has been definitely organ-
ized in France among the American
troops of the 26th division.
The president of the association,
which has a membership of about 50,
is First Lieutenant Bernard Gortinkle
of Boston. Lieutenant Garfinkle will
be remembered as the head of the
rmy and navy department of the New
England Federation.
It is expected that the Jewish board
for welfare work, which is collecting
funds to aid all such work as that ac-
complished by Lieutenant Garfinkle,
will help this Y. M. Li, A. as it is to
help other military V. hi. H. A.'s,
particularly those in the Pananta canal
zone and Fortress Monroe.
support of the American Union in his
work in behalf of Rumania and its
interest in its present trials.
The executive committee adopted a
resolution of thanks to Dr. Angelescu
for the cordial reception given to the
committee and for his assurances of
the emancipation of the Jews.
EDWARD HERBERT,
Executive Secretary.
I
iy
$500,000 Was Transmitted to
Occupied Territories
Last Month.
ious circles in February will be the
dedication of the new synagogue of
the Congregation Ilene Moshe, other-
wise known as the First Hungarian
Congregation of Detroit on Sunday,
February 17th.
lu harmony with the prevalent spirit
of economy and absence of elaborate
New York,—Albert Lucas, secretary
display it is planned to conduct the
of the Joint Distribution committee
dedication services as a congregation-
of the various national Jewish war re-
al affair only, although the general
lief committees, has announced that
public will be invited to attend. No
in the last month $500,009 had been
definite arrangements for the program
transmitted to the German occupied
of the day have been completed. It is
parts of Poland and Lithuania. The
planned to have a dinner for the mem-
money was transferred by arrange-
bers of the congregations and their
merit with the War Trade hoard in
wives in the evening following the
Washington, and is a part of the $10,-
dedication. This dinner will conform
111X),000 war relief funds raised by the
to all the regulations of the Hoover
Jew's of the United States in 1917. In
tood administration and will be pa-
addition to the money sent to I'oland
triotic in character. Mr. Alex. Stein
and Lithuania, the Joint Distribution
is the chairman of the Arrangements
committee has sent $25,000 to Turkey
Committee.
to maintain soup kitchens in various
The synagogue is rapidly nearing
parts of the Turkish Empire, $100,000
final completion and will rank with
to the relief of the Jews in the British
the most beautiful religious edifices
occupied parts of Palestine, $50,000 to
in Detroit. It represents an invest-
the Jewish Colonization of Petrograd,
ment of over $90,000 and is built with
$30,000 to Salonica, Greece, and $10,-
a view to the furtherance of every ac-
000 for the relief of the Russian Jew-
tivity in a modern religious center.
ish prisoners in Germany. Mr. Lucas
The building is located at the corner
announced that within the next ten
of Garfield and Beatfbien streets.
days the comtnittee expects to trans-
mit $100,000 to Rumania.
Jewish Soldiers Will Send Pay
Allotments to Families
in Europe.
LEON TROTZKY,
Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Russian Socialist Democracy.
LEON TROTZKY
ARCH-NEMESIS OF CZARS AND OF KAISERS.
A STORY OF HIS REVOLUTIONARY TRIP THROUGH
EUROPE DURING THE WAR.
JEWISH REFUGEES IN
CHINA IN DIRE WANT
The State Department transmitted
yesterday to John I.. Bernstein. PreFi-
dent of the Hebrew Sheltering and
Immigrant Aid Society, a cable mes-
sage from Yokohama telling of suf-
fering and sickness among the thous-
ands of Jewish refugees from Russia
stranded at Yokohama and Harbin.
The message from Samuel Mason,
who was sent by the society to inves-
tigate conditions and remedy them,
read:
"Conditions appalling.
Sickness,
want, heavy demands. Organizing re-
lief. Locate unanswered cables."
"The first word that Jew's fleeing
from Russia to relatives in this coun-
try were in distress in the Far East
was received here in a letter from 13.
ht. Fleischer, publisher of The Japan
Advertiser of Yokohama, to Jacob II.
Schiff. Three thousand dollars was
cabled with which to obtain a suitable
home for the refugees. The state de-
partment directed the American Con-
sul in Yokohama to investigate, and
Ire reported that I man, 156 women,
and 170 children, Jewish refugees
awaiting transportation to the United
States, were poorly fed and living in
crowded quarters. lie added that
more than 2,1100 immigrants en route
to Yokohama were held in Harbin,
lacking accommodations.
There are now reported to be 11,-
1011 refugees in Harbin, 4,000 in Yoko-
hama, and about 11,000 stranded be-
tween these places. The message of
\1 r. Mason will be considered at a
meeting of the society, and further
measures for relief will be taken.
AMERICAN RELIEF
FOR JEWISH WAR
VICTIMS SPEEDS
DEDICATION OF BENE
MOSHE SYNOGOGUE
TO BE HELD FEB. 17
An important event in Jewish relig- MORE TO BE SENT SOON
Dedication of the new home of the
House of Shelter (Ilachnosath Orch-
itn) will take place on Sunday, Janu-
ary 27th, between the hours of 2 and
p. in. Arrangements have been
completed for a characteristic house-
warming with appropriate observance
of the event.
The new honte is located at the
northwest corner of Winder and
Brush streets and has been furnished
out completely, making it one of the
imost modern and up-to-date institu-
tions of its kind in the country. It
will accommodate about 75 inmates
for shelter purposes and is consid-
erably larger than the former quar-
ters on Division street, which the in-
crease in the population of the city
and the consequent industrial ad-
vance made it inadequate to meet the
pressing needs.
The officers of the House of Shelter
organization are N. Ilieltield, Presi-
dent; A. Brand, Vice-President; L.
1)ann, Treasurer; A. Rogvoy, Secre-
tary. The Board of Directors con-
sists of Nathan Ilieltield, David W.
Simons, Jacob Friedberg, Louis Dann,
Max Lieberman, Abraham Brand,
Michael Krell, Louis Duscoff, David
Oppenheim, Isaac Rosenthal, Daniel
J. Alpert, Hyman I.. Goldman, Julius
P. Rosenthal, Aaron Ackerman and
Isaac Ogoosliewitz.
The Arrangement Committee for
the dedication consists of D. J. Al-
pert. Chairman; L. Dann, L. Duscoff,
NI. Krell, J. I'. Rosenthal, M. Lieber-
man, I. Rosenthal, N. 13ielfield and A.
Brand.
SIMON WOLF DENIES THAT HE PE
A ZIONIST.
\V \
- ..\ rumor that
\II' Simon \Volt' had been converted
'to 'Zionism was denied by Mr. NVolf
himself. In a letter to the \1'ashing-
ton Tittles Mr. \\'iolf states that his
position with reference to Zionism is
still unchanged and that America was
his Palestine.
Fourth Annual Jewish Service
Last Sunday Attended by NEW HOUSE OF
SHELTER TO BE
Master Throng.
DEDICATED SUNDAY
DR. FRANKLIN
Per Year, $1.50; Copy, 5 Gob
By
r. J.
Gould.
HEN the history of the Grea:Igendarmerie in stealing in and out of
\\'ar i s wr itt en it s e ems
Vs native land during his period of
ly probable .bat .1 r
before the , Czar
tion of being one of the doer- took up his residence at Tobolsk Si-
inant figures of the world's greatest beria "Geberny," and learned how to
conflict will fall to none other than sweep snow fronts his front door, and
Leon Trotzky, a Russian Jew, who bother his head about coal and sugar.
but a few months ago was eking out Trotzky was horn of orthodox Jew-
a bare existence on the East Side of isle parents in a little town, which is
New York, and who now holds the bound to become well known in his-
center of the world stage as the Eris- tory, in the province of Kherson, near
stars Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Black Sea. I.ittle has been writ-
President of the Executive Commit- ten regarding his boyhood • which was
tee of the \Yorkers and Soldiers So- probably uneventful from an interna-
viets, and erstwhile piercing thorn in tional standpoint, but he began very
the side of one \Yilliam Hohenzollern, early in life to take a deep and active
Kaiser of Germany. As such, Mr. interest in the growing movement to
Trotzky, has monopolized practically free the Russian people from the
every available limelight in the world, cruel and bloody autocracy of the
and millions of eyes are watching his RomanotTs. Naturally, he became a
every move with thriller•mio ie-pic- Socialist, and a •'llolshevik" at that.
tore-breathless expectancy at his next A Bolshevik is a very radical Socialist,
an extremist, who doesn't believe in
act of surprise.
waiting for the normal processes of
Opinion of Him Changes.
economic development to enlighten
\Alio is this individual who breaks the people as to the localities of the
into our front pages daily with Roose- Co-operative Commonwealth. The
\Titian dynamic persistency? Prior to word is derived from the Russian
a little surprise party that he and his "holslie" meaning "more" or "most."
friend Nikolai Lenin gave their mut- It has now developed to include
ual friend .\lexander Nerensky last "everything."
November• an event politely referred
Leader in 1905 Revolution.
to as a "coup d'etat," Trotzky was
Being gifted with the keen intellect
known Ins exist (1111Y to those on the
inside of the "International Socialist of the "yesIsivaboch." possessing a
Movement." From November and forceful literary style and the power
continuing through several weeks We Of magnetic eloquence. Trotzky
prominence
learned from all sorts of "authentic V1,11 distiuctiun mini
sources" that Ire was a "German spy" among the revolutionary leaders of
in the employ of the Kaiser of Ler- the •nropeatt continent prior to the
many, for the purpose of bringing year I90. It was in the historic ab-
chaos out of order in Russia, and ortive Russian Revolution of 1005,
blasting all the hopes of the Allies. that the outside world first had occa-
But today several hundreds of editor- sion to learn of him. Ile had pub-
ials have been written proclaiming lished a book at this time which em-
hlr. Trot zky a sincere and honest bodied practically the entire program
man, a visionary idealist perhaps, lint that he is now following in the in-
a very clever fellow who is drivim., . to ternal reconstruction of his country
nervous prostration the gold-braided along socialistic doctrines. Ile was
emissaries of Prussia, Austria, and elected President of the Council of
Turkey. An English statesman goes Workmen's Delegates (there being no
so far as to say that Trotzky is a soldiers in it then) which planned and
much better diplomat than Earl Dray conducted the great General Strike
or Balfour or Lord Curzon, because that was to precede the revolution.
he knows more history and more That Mr. Trotzky did not at that time
about the people of Europe than these become the dominant figure in the
gentlemen. And the famous Petro- Russian government is the faith of the
grad correspondent of the London Don Cossacks, who shot down the
Daily News Arthur Ransome makes rebellions people, broke up the revo.
the assertion that Trotzky has done lotion and who attempted to duplicate
more to undermine the boasted mor- this feat a few weeks ago with dis•
ale of the German troops in three astrous results to themselves.
months with his Bolshevism than all
Exiled to Siberia.
the armies of the Allies in three years
For his part in the rebellion of 1905
with their swords and guns. So it Trotzky was arrested and his trial in
is incumbent upon us to acquaint our- Petrograd drew the attention of all
selves with the facts, such as they Russia to the case. With other "reds,"
are, concerning the origin, and his- he was exiled for life to far off north-
tory of this decided international ern Siberia. lint spending a life time
figure, regardless of the delectability in such a chilly and inhospitable place
of his social and economic theories did not appeal very strongly to the
for making this a better world.
present Minister of Foreign Affairs
His Early Life.
It is said that Trotzky's "real Jew-
ish" name is Leber Bronstein, or
Braunstein. or Bronstine. It is also
probable that he has possessed at var-
iouts times a dozen other appellations
which he used to fool the Russian
NEW YORK DRIVE IS
EXTENDED FOR WEEK
New York.—The meeting of officers
and privates of teams who have con-
ducted the week's drive to get 50,000
new members for the Federation for
the Support of Jewish Philanthropic
Societies last Sunday, was in the na-
ture of a victory celebration. True,
there were only about 38,000 new
names actually on the books, but re-
ports for the last two days had been
scattering and incomplete, and many
teams had not reported at all. So
there was cheering and general joy-
making when Felix ht. Warburg,
President of the Federation, and gen-
eral of the soliciting forces, announced
that with the 21,000 present members,
the rolls now numbered more than
60,1100 individuals.
It was felt that the two aims of the
drive had been achieved and that not
only were funds for the present year's
upkeep of the eighty-nine institutions
assured, but the democratic distribu-
tion of the burden of federation sup-
port and of responsibility for the con-
duct of Jewish welfare work had been
accomplished. Nonetheless, the gen-
erous response from all quarters, the
breadth of the field to be canvassed,
the late starting of the campaign
among orthodox Jews, and the gener-
al interruption of business, because of
the Garfield closing order, caused the
leaders to decide to extend the cant•
paign another week.
Solicitors for the final week will
press their efforts, and special atten-
tion will be paid to the orthodox cam-
paign, that among fraternal orders ex-
clusively Jewish or with large Jewish
memberships, and the scattered pros-
pects in all classes not yet reached.
The final results will be announced
at the annual meeting of the federa-
tion next Sunday night in the Ameri-
can Ntliseum of Natural History. Ity
that time it is hoped the initial goal of
the drive will have beets passed so far
that a total enrollment of 75,0()0—new
and old—may
.ie 1 o rated.
POLISH OFFICIALS FAVOR
JEWISH EMIGRATION
The Hague.—'The Jewish corres-
pondents' Bureau learns from Berlin
that the Polish Ministers of Justice
and Social Affairs have conferred with
Jewish leaders and members of Mu-
nicipal Councils regarding the settle-
ment of the Jewish question in
Poland.
The Jews told the Ministers that
there must be more than a statement
by the Premier promising freedom
and justice. It was absolutely neces-
sary, they said, that special laws af-
fecting Jews he abolished, as the Jews
in Russia had been emancipated by
the revolution.
Expulsion of Jews
from villages must cease.
Jewish
quarters in the markets must be abol-
ished, as well as the double tax for
hospitals, which is demanded of Jews.
The Ministers replied that the emi-
gration of Jews from Poland seemed
desirable. and asked the leaders
whether they would co-operate in such
a project.
in the "First Socialist Republic," and
in accordance with his inherent disre-
gard for precedent and formality pro.
ceded by "direct action" to effect his
MM. Yachnin and Ginzburg have
escape with the aid of the "Anarchist
been appointed government labor
Red Cross" and similar benevolent
commissaries for the districts of
(Continued On Page Four.)
Kherson and Donetz, respectively.
Aids Dependents Abroad.
Mr. Lucas said that he had procured
a ruling from the government in
Washington whereby American sol-
diers and sailors, by filling out Form
1-B, relating to compulsory allot-
ments of their pay, and swearing to
an affidavit before their commanding
officers, which ruling includes enlisted
men and nurses, male and female,
non-commissioned and petty officers
and members of training camps, may
designate wives and children in occu-
pied territories to receive the allott-
ments to which the United States will
add, for each grandchild, parent,
brother or sister, $10 a month, $20 a
month for two parents, $5 each for a
grandchild, brother, sister or addi-
tional parent, including parents-in-
law, at the rate of $5 a month under
Form 38. The voluntary allotment
of pay may inc made by arrangement
with the Quartermaster General, who
will transfer such funds to the Joint
Distribution committee, which, acting
under the war trade license, will trans-
mit voluntary allotments abroad to
relatives of American soldiers and
sailors in the occupied territories.
Affidavits may be procured from the
Joint Distribution committee, 20 Ex-
change Place, New York, and may lie
sworn to either before a notary public
or commanding officers.
JACOB H. SCHIFF JOINS
FRIENDS OF GERMAN
DEMOCRACY
The Friends of German Democracy,
an organization of Americans of Ger-
man descent to aid the liberal ele-
ments of the empire in the establish-
ment of a democratic government, an-
nounced yesterday that Jacob II.
Schiff had become a member. The
organization is in favor of a vigorous
support of the war until America's
aims have been achieved, and tinder
the leadership of Franz Sigel, son of
General Sigel of civil war fame, is con-
ducting a vigorous campaign all over
the country to enlist Americans of
German blood in a work which has
for its object the promotion of the
true interests both of Germany and
America.
Among the new members in Phila-
delphia are former Mayor Rudolph
Illankenburg and Professor Morris
Jastrovv, Jr. Other university profes-
sors lately enrolled are l'rofessors
Otto Manthyzorn of Amherst, Benja-
min VV. Bacon of Yale, Konrad 11.
Bierwirth of Harvard, and J. H. Wor-
man of the University of Vermont.
Professor Max F. Meyer of the Uni-
versity of Missouri has organized sev-
eral branches in his state. The latest
branch formed in the vicinity of New
York is at Bronxville and is headed
by I)r. G. H. Franzius.
"The Friends of German Freedom,"
Julius Koettger. General Secretary,
said yesterday, "is growing rapidly.
Americans of German source and
others in sympathy with our aims are
flocking into our society when they
learn that our real aims, like the war
aims of the United States and the
Allies, are directed not against the
German people, but against the Kaiser
and his Junkerthum, with its attend-
ant evil of militarism and menace of
world domination.
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