A merica Palish periodical Carter CLIFTON AITINUI • CINCINNATI 20, 01110 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION Vol. III. Per Year, $1.50; Copy, 5 Gob. DETROIT, MICH., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1918. No. 12. CLAIM TO BE A AMERICAN mall , LOCAL BOY PROMOTED FRANCE SUPPORTS "I REAL BOLSHEVIK," IPalestine Restoration Fund TO CAPTAIN IN ARMY SAYS DR. MAGNES BRITISH STATEMENT CHRONICLE FOUNDER Will Be Over-Subscribed Officially Declares for Jewish INTERNED BY U. S. State in Palestine in Letter Dr. Isaac Straus, Publisher of National Jewish Weekly, Held Pending Investigation of German Connections. CHARGED WITH BEING AIDE TO BERNSTORFF Came to United States in Com- pany of Dr. Dernburg—At- tempted to Buy Yiddish Daily—Other Charges. Nathan A. Komer, Youngest Jewish Officer of High Rank, is Appointed Assistant Commander at Off'. New York Rabbi Says Pres. Wilson Will Soon Demand Immediate eels' Training Camp, Peace on Russian Terms. That the opportunities offered to the ambitious young unit of America who enter the military service of their country are exceptional was again demonstrated by the rapid promo- tions attained by Captain N. A. Ko- mer, son of Mrs. R. L. Koster, 213 Warren Ave. East, Detroit, who has gained. glorious recognition in mili- tary circles in spite of his compara- tively short term of service. Answering the appeal to arms at Fort Sheridan's first Officers' Train- ing Camp, unacquainted with all the phases of military evolution, Captain Komer is today considered the young- est officer of high rank in the service, representing the Jewish young men of Michigan in military life. When the first camp was disbanded he was ap- by Foreign Minister. New York.. -"I claim to be a 1, al Bolshevik," was the startling state meat made by Rabbi Judah I.. Magnes, in the course of an address before the National Radical Conference at the Central Opera House in this city last Sunday. Citing President Wilsim's The French Government has made "beautiful tribute" to the Bolshevist an official declaration in favor of a movement in Russia, he said he Was Jewish State in Palestine in accord the position to state with absolute with the British declaration to the assurance that the President was pre- same effect, made by the British Cabi- pared to accept and enunciate once net on November 2 last. more, and even more definitely than This information is contained in a before, the principle of peace, "Mime- series of cable and radio messages mate peace without victory." from the French Minister of Fort;:,;" "I can say definitely," declared Dr. Affairs, AL Stephen Helton, to Al. Alagnes, "that the President of the Tardieu, the French High Commis- linked States in a very shot , Iime sioner to the United States. The Provisional Executive Commit- tee for General Zionist Affairs has been authorized by M, Tardiett to make public the following messages bearing on this subject: (From M. Piclion to M. Tardien.) Feb. 12, 1918. "Having seen M. Sokolow, I author- ized him him to state that, as regards the question, our views were essen- tially the same as the views enter- tained by the British Government. It was agreed upon that a Zionist delegation should be sent to Pales-1 tine." (From M. Pichon to M. Tardieu.) Same Date. "I beg you to notice the statement 1 which I gave to the newspapers re-1 garding the Zionist question." (Naval Radio, From the Press Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Sokolow, representing the 'IL 0 „;!• organization, was received today Nation-wide Drive for $1,000,000 Totals Over $745,000 At Last Report—Expected to Reach $1,500,000—Many M. SOKOLOW RECEIVES HISTORIC MESSAGE Large Contributions Made By Non-Zionists. MONSTER MASS MEETING AT DETROIT OPERA HOUSE, SUNDAY EVENING, MARCH 3 Notable New York Banquet Marks Success of Fund–$400,000 Is Cabled to Anglo-Palestine Bank—Work of Recon- struction Begun—Plans for Rehabitation Detailed. Local Zionists and Zionist sympa- Henry Solomon, Max D. Shier, James Rosenberg, in addition to the num- ber of well-known Zionists. An unex- thizers are enthused over the excel- lent prospects of greatly exceeding pected guest was lion. Col. A. Mur- Detroit's quota of $30,000 for the Pal- ray, D. S. 0., of the British Army, New York—The Department of estine Restoration Fund. The cam- Other notable guests were Lionel Su- Justice, according to a statement paign, which has been conducted to tra, Abram I. Elkus, Congressmen made Monday in the office of Thy American Jewish Chronicle, 33 \Vest (late along informal lines of personal \Valter AL Chandler and George R. Forty-second Street, has taken charge solicitation, has now broken out in a Lunn. of the files of that publication, and is stirring, snappy drive with the object Mr. Eugene Meyer, Jr., Chairman now going over them for the purpose of acquainting every Jew in the city of the National Finance Committee, of ascertaining whether the paper is with the aims and purposes of the through which the Palestine Restora- more friendly to the German than it fund. Over $15,000 has already been tion Fund is operating, announced is to the American cause in the pres- contributed, but it is expected that that the prompt response of Ameri- ent war. Dr. Isaac Straus, founder twice that amount will be raised be- can Jews to the appeals of the Pal- and Treasurer of the publication, who fore the campaign closes. estine Restoration Fund had saved it was said came to the United States In order to reach the general Jew- the population of Jerusalem from with Dr. Bernhard Dernburg in the ish public a monster mass meeting starvation. "The relief of the Jews of Fall of 1914, is now in the enemy will be held at the Detroit Opera the Holy City," he added, "was ef- alien detention prison on Ellis Island, House on Sunday evening, March 3. fected by cabling a loan to the Anglo- pending the completion of the inves- Prominent national Jewish leaders Palestine Bank, the financial center of tigation which the Government is will detail and expound the reasons Jewish enterprises in Palestine, which making of his past activities. for the Restoration Fund and the loan made it possible for the bank to The editor of The Chronicle Zionist movement in general. 'l'he reopen and begin anew its lending Samuel M. Melamed. It 7: tai; that speakers so far secured are: Judge operations. The credit cabled to the when the war al in 1914, he was by M. Stephen Pichon Hugo Pam, of Chicago; Leon Zolot- bank was for $400,000. the correspon ,:nt in London of a was happy to reaffirm that - te, il*.cr; h koff, of Chicago, and Rev. Hirsch How Money Is Used in Palestine. German newspaper. About a year ago standing is complete between m. Masliansky, the eloquent rabbi from "At the time when the first credit Dr Straus is said to have taken out French and the British Governments, New York. Morris II. Zackheim is Capt. N. A. Komer, MAGNES, arrived," said Mr. Meyer, "the funds DR. JUDAH his first papers for American citizen- concerning the question of the Jewish chairman of the ;Committee of Ar- Relief Com- pointed a First Lieutenant and re- ship. completed program of the American Jewish establishment in Palestine." 'mons. will issue, an address to the attic(' mittee, which had been looking after tained as an instructor of student offi- ranto' • 'dished n our next issue. i governments, the burden of which Attacked by "American Hebrew." cers for the second camp which was Ire ne • the needs of the war-stricken inhab- will he a call to all belligerents to In February of last year The Amer- assembled shortly thereafter. The at- Collected. itants, had been exhausted for three conclude an immediate peace on the Great Sum s. 11. fit, „ ican Hebrew published a two-page tention of his conunanders was for- ..74"tleti- months, and the great mass of the basis laid down by the Bolsheviki of article dealing with the alleged activi- ever focused on the young lieutenant "1 a nopidatinn were actually succumbing The financial report 0. ' ties in America of Dr. Straus. - Ex- and a recommendation to the super- tine Restoration Fund, dated r cu. •. Other speakers were James Maurer, cerpts were printed from a statement iors at Washington gained for him shows that about three quarters of to starvation. An interesting event in connection president of the Pennsylvania Feder- "The Directors of the bank imme- issued by the "Committee for the the promotion to captaincy with a re- with the dedication of the new syna- ation of Labor, and delegate-elect to the first million that the Zionists are diately voted a substantial loan to the East." which comprised about 200 of quest to report at Camp Sherman, gogue building of the irnai Moshe the international labor conference; raising for the reconstruction of •a Jerusalem representatives of the Am- the wealthiest and best known of the Chillicothe, 0., and assume the new Congregation, the First Hungarian Morris Hillquit, recent Socialist can- Jewish State in Palestine. are already Kaiser's Jewish subjects. The com- office of Assistant Commander of the in hand. The exact figure of that erican Jewish Relief Committee, en- Hebrew Congregation in Detroit, will didate for mayor of New York; Amos date was $745,581.42. Front practic- abling it to resume its ministrations, mittee was organized in Berlin shortly Officers' Training Camp. be the Purim Festival for the children after the Outbreak of the war, and its Captain Komer is an honorary of the congregation on the occasion Pinchot, millionaire conservationist ally every center, the reports made while awaiting the delayed transmis- and radical; Lincoln Steffens, per- by the local committees are that the sion of funds from America. purpose was to win for Germany the charter member and organizer of the of the formal opening of the Talmud sonal friend of Leon '1 . rotzky; Prof. "Cable messages from Palestine sympathy of jewry in neutral as well Jewish Lodge of :Masons of Detroit, quotas allotted to the local organiza- Torah on Sunday, February 24. at Scott Nt•aring, who was expeller) as hostile countries, particularly those as well as a Thirty-second degree tions will be oversubscribed anywhere just forwarded by the British For- 2 p. in. from the University of Pennsylvania eign Office state that work has com- whim, Were citizens or alien residents member of Zion Lodge. this success from 25 to 50%. The Talmud Torah Association is and Toledo Universit y for radical ut- menced with a view to the recon- of the Enited States. has no doubt proven an inspiration to one of the utmost important adjuncts 'flue success that has crowned terances; and 1.ouis l'. Lochner, sec- "Since his arrival in this country, other Jewish young Melt of Detroit struction of Petach-Tikwah, the larg- of the congregation and has been their efforts thus far is a striking retary of Henry Ford's famous Peace some two years ago. in the company to aspire to higher office. est of the Jewish colonies in Pales- built up to its present high standard demonstration of the efficiency of the Expedition. of Dr. Dernburg, the official German tine, and the neighboring colony of mainly through the efforts of its Zionist organizations of America, as agent. it has been persistently ru- Ain-Gannim, both of which suffered The conference was called for the B'NAI MOSHE SYNAGOGUE president, Sigmund Gunsburg. who well as a demonstration of the tn- mored," the article in The American purpose of co-operating with the Rus- severe damage in the Turkish retreat. has been an indefatigable worker in memlons impression which the Brit- DEDICATION MARCH 3 Debi, is of Feb. 2. 1917, reads. "that sian Bolsheriki for an immediate Work has also begun to rehabilitate this department. l'eter \'ass, one of ish Declaration, in favor of the estab- Dr. I. Straus was sent here as a rep- peace on the basis of "no annexa- Jewish educational agencies in Jeru- the utmost prominent members of the lishment of a Jewish homeland in Pal- The dedication of the new syna- resentative of the German Govern- salem. tions, no indemnities, and the self- congregations, is the treasurer of the estine, has made upon the Jews of ment. to make propaganda for the gogue building of the Moshe det•rmination of all subject national- "In addition to the $41101010 destined association, and has contributed his this country. The thorough-going I;erman cause among the Jewish Congregation, the first Hungarian ities." and also for the purpose of for the Anglo-Palestine Bank to be efficient organizing ability to the fur- canvass ■ Ii the country, which the masses and to influence the Yiddish Hebrew Congregation of Detroit, will spreading the propaganda of revolu- used by it primarily for loans to the therance of the school. Joseph Ro- during the press to that end. • • • :Meanwhile take place on Sunday, March 3, at I tion among the German people and Zionists have liven making returning colonists, the Provisional senthal another prominent member, past five weeks, has developed thou- 1/r. Straus has increased his activities p. in. in the completed beautiful edi- soldiers. Zionist Committee has voted $400,000 is secretary. Rev. Joseph Loewy is sands of new adherents tO the move- by the establishment of The Amt•ri- fice corner licaubien and Garfield of the Palestine Fund for the uses of the superintendent of the schools. to he in quarters where it was Streets. The speakers at the dedica- „,,.„, 1 can Jewish Chronicle. and under the isa „,. r . („,,,„ has been „,,,„,74,. the commission soon to lie sent to Over 100 children will take part in strongest opposition t Npt tit it Or disguise of independent Jewish jour- tion services will include Rabbi Leo Palestine to survey the entire situa- the program tinder the direct charge an assistant corporation counsel at nalism, now leads a systematic cam- NI. Franklin, Rabbi A. Nf. Hershman, of the members of the Ladies' Auxil- $4.500 a lean, and limn] I., , n ,id,,,,., n , would Iii. found. One of the latest to tion and to determine the needs and I kris ,d Join the Zionist Organization is paign of propaganda fur the Central Rabbi Judah ,L. Levin, and Rabbi J. to plan for the development of the iary of the congregation, who will secretary to the County Emile Berliner of NVashington, I). C.. Empires. irrespective of its incompat- Fisher of Chicago. new Jewish homeland." Kings County, an assistant iorpura• Alexander Stein, chairman of the serve refreshments to the little ones. iin moor of the loose transmitter of ibility with real Jewish interests" . bon counsel at $3,000 Committee on Arrangements, stated Addresss will be made by Miirris the telephone, and the that recording American and Zionist. _ _ _ _ Tried to Purchase Yiddish Daily. that the services will harmonize with Gutislw•rg, the "grand old man' of disk of the gramaphon•. \Vitli the Judge Mack in his speech, pointed the congregation, Anton Kaufman MEET ALL YOUR FRIENDS. The article also charged that Straus the patriotic spirit of the day, and ex- I. tier in which he describes it as his out that the purpose of the gathering and Samuel Jaulus, Samuel Gunsberg tried to buy one of the Yiddish dailies, tends a cordial invitation to all ele- 'iirst installment," Mr. Berliner has K. OF P. PURIM BALL. was i to place before those who were will act as chairman of the meeting. but that he W3S unable to conclude ments of Detroit Jewry to be present. sent the Palestine Restoration Fund Remember. '26. Arcadia, February not I dentified with the Zionist :Stove- The public is invited to attend the bargain, and it was then that he Mr. Committee a check for $10,(KX). ment, a statement of what that move- started The Jewish Chronicle. Then of the Albert II. Loeb, \ . ice-president . whi, h moil means and what it has in con- follows a translation of a document sociates, of course, pointed openly at Sears.Roebuck Company, of . templation. issued in Berlin early in November, Dr. Straus as the American represen- Mr. Julius Rosenwald is the head, Every Jew should realize what 1915, by the Committee for the East. tative of that committee. It is, how- i ontributed $25000 to the Restora- , the movement means," he added, "and in which it is stated that a member of ever, quite unnecessary for Dr. Straus j,,,, i:intlil,,,im\dngain,:lis,apit,..csitliiicia..11st....fionrie.,us ever should become a member the committee "who is in close con- to make the disclosure, as the fact is at ! ) , of the Zionist organization, and nection with the Imperial German obvious from the membership lists of he banquet given recently by the having joined he should, not, as char- Ambassador Count Iternstorff, and the committee. Among the members Mr. Jacob H. . t hicagit Zionists. N but as a part of himself and the State Secretary, Dr. Dernburg," of the committee who are in the ser- one of the first to make a Schiff a Jewish Jewish duty, give of his means to fur- was sent to the United States to vice of the German Government in ' ( outribution of $25.000. thee the cause of Zionism. When win over the Ghetto masses, who various quarters is mentioned 'Dr. I. ter addressed to .U.101 Lewisohn, in and in a let ., some arc approached they ask how it come mainly front Russia, and their Straus. 220 West Seventieth Street, response to an invitation to attend, C New York City.' As the membership s possible ate a good American press." the banquet at the home of the tat- itizen and a Zionist at the same time. The statement issued by the Com- list does not contain any other name he is in I ter. Mr. Schiff wrote that Small to ask, because you'll never miss a f They fear that their fellow citizens mittee for the East. which was issued with an American address. it is obvi- with the object of the ban- .viiipathy w may upon them as persons of a from Berlin. throws much interesting ous that this one of our gentlemen' quarter now and then for a Thrift Stamp. q uo, which w as held for the purpose to which the document refers is none id divided allegiance. light on the scheme adopted by the There is no of "di sc ussing the restoration of Pal - I other than 'Dr. I. Straus, 226 \Vest German official propagandists to ground for any such fear, and there s tine. " swing Jewish sentiment throughout Seventieth Strict. New York City,' A big thing to do because every quarter is no reason why a Jew cannot be a President of The American Jewish The Lewisohn Banquet. the world in favor of Germany. true and loyal American citizen and that you and your neighbor loan to Uncle a Zionist at the same time. The ores- The article in The American He- Chronicle. prospective buyer of the 1 he banquet at Mr. Lewisohn's I ident does not consider it in that light, bre• then makes reference to the of- Yiddish dailies, weeklies, etc." Sam brings the end of the war just that much home was a notable event in New ficial thanks extended the Committee a statement proved by the fact that York Jewish life. The invitation indi- for the East by General Ludendorff, a i inong his closest advisers is a great rated its purpose clearly. Among ex-Foreign Minister von Jagow, and coder . of the Zionist 'movement. those who participated in this ban- other prominent Germans, "for its A citizen oyes political allegiance, publisher quet are Adolph S. Ochs, activities among the Jews in the in- and this is an allegiance which can- Special Communication Wednesday, terest of Germany." of the New York Times; Simeon not he divided. A man cannot be a Strunsky, editor of the New York February 27th, 1:30 p. m. sharp, M. citizen of America and of the new "One of Our Gentlemen." Evening Post; William Salomon, AL degree. Dinner at Palestine lodo', Palestine State at the same time. The Referring to "one of our gentle- banquet hall 610 p. tn. Visiting broth- Maximilian Loch, Prof. I. L. Kan- Jew is absolutely undivided in his men" who was sent to America, an ers welcome. dell, Dr. Wolff Freudenthal, Louis loyalty to the United States, But at article in "fhe American Hebrew read: CHARLES K. SANDORF, Sec'y. Wiley, Judges Nathan Itijur and Sam- the same time the Jew is a member "Dr Straus has never disclosed in For all meetings of Perfection lodge uel Greenbaum of the New York Su- his paper that he is the gentleman consult the Jewish Chronicle. preme Court, Dr. Lee K. Frankel, A. of his Church, of his family and of the people from whom he and his 'who has been—and is—active in close A. Hausman, N. Taylor Philips, Jo- connection with the Imperial German seph M. Proskauer, Eugene Meyer, ancestors sprang. He is a Jew, and A DODGE BROTHERS' he shares with all the other Jews of Ambassador, Count Bernstorff, • • • Jr., Judge Julian W. Mack, Ely Ber- buy. Grand 4700, to win over the Ghetto masses • • • ased car Is a safe B. Rosen, Norburt Light, the world a common tradition, and nays. II. and their press' for 'interests of the Thomas J. Doyle, 850 W000dward (Continued On Page 2.) 0' Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Cecil Ruskay, Central Powers' His friends and as- avenue. - .1, B'Nai Moshe Talmud Torah Formally Opent on Sunday, February, 24 It's a small thing to ask its a big thing to do! t ■ Perfection Lodge, U. D. F. & A. M. closer. Will YOU Buy Thrift Stamps Regularly? ,