PAGE TWO THE JEWISH CHRONICLE WIIIIKIVAIK/4/41/41/41/411 WW1/4/411r4/41/4/4/41/4 Palestine Restoration Fund TO DETROIT FAMILIES OF OUR BOYS IN THE 11. MILITARY SERVICE The War Insurance Measure passed by the last Con- gress provides that any soldier in the armies of the United States may procure Government Insurance to the extent of $10,000. The rate is $8.00 per thousand and may be paid in monthly instalments. For the purpose of spreading the Gospel of Government Insurance throughout the country, the National Life Un- derwriters' Association, ' composed of expert in- surance men, has vol- unteered its services to the nation and is now co-operating with the Hon. Wm. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treas- ury, to explain to the people the LOCAL ACTIVITIES L'1 L -4 Dr. Louis Grossmann Vaughan Glaser Players in to Preach at Temple Benefit Performance for Beth El March 3 Restoratio n Fund On Sunday morning, March 3, Dr. Louis Grossmann of Cincinnati will A large audience will fill the Ad- ams Theatre on Wednesday evening, occupy the pulpit of Temple Beth El. Feb. 27, when the Vaughan Glaser This will be interesting news to the players will present a very fine cony members of the Congregation which edy, "The Alan From Mexico." The he served for a period of fourteen proceeds from this benefit will be years prior to Rabbi Franklin's coin- used by Hadassah to swell the Mil- i ng here. lion Dollar Fund, which is being rais- Dr. Grossmann will stop at De- ed throughout the country for the re- troit on his way to Ann Arbor where habilitation of Palestine. he has accepted an invitation to Speak 'I his performance is being given before t he Jewish Student Congrega- under the auspices of the Drama tion. The subject of his sermon will League. Mrs. Frank W. Rose is chair- be announced in our next issue. man of all benefit relief work of this organization. 1 desire to announce that my services are at the disposal of anyone interested in Govern- ment Insurance on be- half of the men in our military forces and will be pleased to furnish information and details in regard to the plan without any charge or obligation on your part. Address or phone Maurice L. Chertok. M. L CHERTOK LIFE INSURANCE SERVICE 316 Penobscot Bldg. PHONE MAIN 4720 Member Detroit Life Underwriters' Ass'n. r my colleagues in the Commons, Hill ll b e guided to a great extent in reaching the answer to the problem we have in mind by the views of the majority of the Jewish race. If that Arrangements are being made to be so, it will be well, if I may offer bring Pinchos Jassinowsky, famous such a suggestion, that the Zionist Jewish tenor, singer of Jewish Folk and kindred organizations should set Songs, and composer, who has but themselves to the forminc , r, ‘ recently come to this country from unite policy. Russia, to this city, in a recital -' Jewish Folk Sono. ". MEMBERS OF KADIMAH FAMOUS JEWISH SOCIETY TO AID RES- FOLK SINGER WILL T ORATION CAMPAIGN APPEAR IN DETROIT The meeting of the Kadimall Zion- ist Society which was scheduled to take place on Monday, February 25, has been postponed indefinitely in order to allow the members of Kadi- mall to take active part in the Pales- tine Restoration Fund Committee meeting which will be held at the now Shaarey Zedek Como,— '• Monday .,, ward, 3, at the Opera House. Many mem- bers of Hadassah will act as ushers and co-operate in other ways to make the meeting a great success. MONSTER CROWD WILL ATTEND PURIM BALL K. of P. Annual Event at Arcadia Auditorium Next Tuesday Greatest Social Event of Season. Reports from members of the com- mittees indicate that the Jewish pub- lic of Detroit is greatly enthused over the twenty-eighth annual Purim Ball to be held by the Knights of Pythias, No. 55, at the Arcadia auditorium next Tuesday, February 26th. Added interest attaches to the affair inas- much as the proceeds will be contrib- uted to patriotic purposes, for the benefit of our own soldiers and sail- ors in the service. The committee on arrangements has spared no pains or expense in making this big ball the greatest social event in the history of this city. The entertainment includes Schuck's augmented dance orchestra with spe- cially arranged features for dance numbers, the popular ;Inc! talented local singer Samuel Mandell, who has taken Detroit by storm recently by his very able rendition of the popular patriotic song hits; Emmons and Col- vin, and others of national repute. The Uniform Rank of the lodge will add to the entertainment features with an exhibition drill. Tickets are being sold at an un- precedented rate and a monster crowd that will fill the large auditor- ium is assured. MUNICIPAL COURTS RESTAURANT OPENED BY DAVID DE YOUNG For Northeast Detroit REAL ESTATE Call Peter F. Kehoe Ridge 435-i. -J ,Canilisi .CIGAR 1Ckt STRAIGHT Washington Notes By H. N. SRAGAN THE MATZOS QUESTION. rabbis may be trusted to find a solu- tion that will not make Jews appear AVashington, D. C.—The matzos to be seeking the right to consume question may by this time be settled. luxuries denied to their fellow citi- That is to say we probably shall zees. know by the time this is printed whether the food administration has A NEW FORM OF LOBBYING. decided to put any unusual restric- tions on the baking of matzos, such that our passover supply may be dam_ The AVashington citizen has one gerously Unpaired. It may be inter- privilege denied to residents of other esting to discuss in a few paragraphs cities. Whenever questions arise the reason why difficulties have that must be settled by congress and arisen in the manufacture of this that demand the passage of certain most important of passover acres- legislation, the supporters and oppo- Judge Nlack closed with a reference sorics. These difliculties have been menus of proposed bills ml,, all the per- to the great progress made by the such that the largest of bakers has sonal lobbying they can. But they Jews of Palestine in the quarter of a been seriously alarmed and wires in- a.so put their arguments into form century that preceded the present to and out of Washington have been wi fficre it is hoped they will reach war and begged of all present to stand jammed with petitions, of which the congressmen and senators, and also behind the movement which has for daily press has printed a part. It is all the people who come in contact JEWISH WOMEN'S CLUB. Mrs. It. 0. Habrin is general chair- its purpose the restoration of the Jew- a peculiar backfire of the war and nthem . Jenn i ngs man of the benefit; Mrs. M. Fried- ish people on their ancient soil. and of war necessities that threatens Bry an iai ( (or ha us laig a advertise- - Under the direction of the musical berg, chairman of boxes; Miss Jennie to Col. Murray Speaks. to interfere with what to orthodox ment in favor of prohibition on the committee, a delightful program was F. Gordon, chairman of publicity. The Colonel Murray in the course of his Jews is one of the most binding in- day when the national prohibition bill given last Monday afternoon, in the following names completes the list of talk called attention to the fact that junctions of the ritual. was to be decided. This was expect- vestry rooms of Temple Beth El. boxholders: Dr. and Mrs. It. 0. he was a member of the House of Reduction is General. ed to bring before congress and be- Miss Sara Weinberg presided. Miss Harris, Dr. and Mrs. N. E. Aron- Commons as well as a British Nl Briefly, the wheat shortage of the fore all the congressmen's associates ili- Nora Wetmore, contralto, a newcom- stain, Dr. and Mrs. M. Ben moschc, tary Attache in Washington. Ile said world is one of the most vital prob. in summary form all the points which er to Detroit, who has already found Dr. and NIrs. I,. Hallstein, Ale. and that the full meaning and the corn- has which the food administration would lead a man to make a first- a place in musical circles, sang two Mrs. S. S. Fishbaine , M r. and M rs. plcte story of the campaigns of the has had to consider. The statistics minute decision. Similar full-page ad- songs in a very pleasing manner. Miss M. 11. Back heim, NI r. and M rs. British in Palestine have not yet in Mr. Hoover's possession show vertisements appeared against prohi- Helen Herstein gave two most inter- Wolf Kaplan, NIL and Mrs. Fred reached the world, not because of any that the world suffers terribly, and bition, and on both sides of the suf- esting readings, and Mr. David Mu- Schram, Mr. and M rs. Leo Zucker- suppression but because it was swat- that this condition will exist in the frage question. Last week a thought sicus played the always acceptable man, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Koffman, Mr. lowed up in the magnitude of the future to such an extent that conse- provoking statement occupied a full- "Meditation" from "Thais." About and Mrs. David Blumenthal, NIr. and problem which is in course of solu- quences of the most serious nature page of the Washington Times at the sixty ladies knitted busily throughout Mrs. Jack Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Rob- Lion on the western battle front. will result if hundreds and hundreds expense of Mosher A Co., the maim- the program. Wool was distributed, ert Marvel, Mr. and Mrs. Oppenheim, "It so happens," said Col. Murray, of millions of bushels are not re- facturers of Pompeian. Olive Oil. Mr. as usual, by Mrs. M. Frank. 1)r. and Mrs. Jos. Beisman, Mr. and "that I on also a member of the leased for export by America. In Nathan Mustier, the head of this Bal. At the meeting next Monday, Mr. Mrs. H. I'. Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. House of Commons, and when this view of this all the industries using timore concern, makes his home in Fred M. Butzel will speak on "The Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Jacobson, Mr. war ends and I take off my uniform wheat have been put under license Washington and is one of its most Restoration Movement in Palestine." and Mrs. M. Stet'n and Mrs. Rosen- and go back to the Commons, there by the government and now, under prominent citizens. He has been ac- The book-review by Mrs. Leo M. Zweig. Tickets may be obtained from will be a multitude of perplexing penalty of losing their license, must the in the affairs of its orthodox Franklin, which was announced for members or by calling Market 6650. problems to solve, and among them reduce their consumption in propor- community, and of the Zionist sock- this meeting, has been postponed un- 'rickets bought at box office will will be the future of the Palestine tions made necessary by the world ties, and having risen to his present til further notice. not benefit this fund, State. I venture to say that I, as well situation. Bread bakers, cracker position from small beginnings, is a • service to acquaint them with the unprecedented offer of our government to fur- nish insurance at a most nominal cost. (Continued From Page 1.) he shares it with them, not as a polit- ical, but as a cultural people. "No one expects or ever thought that all the Jews would go back to l'alestine. We don't expect that to happen. What we wish to restore is a nucleus of that Jewish people, to re- store them on their own soil, and to give them an opportunity, in free- dom, to develop as a people. People like Mr. Schiff—I will cite no other now—wish to see Palestine restored, and when this restoration is accom- plished those principles social justice, enunciated by our prophets, will be renewed as in the days of old for the benefit not only of the Jews, but of all mankind." ...sstine will . systematic reconstruc- tient• Already, in advance of the Com- . , ,.,..nere greeted with en- mission's arrival, this work has begun ...itistasm. His concerts have attracted In solgie• of the colonies, notably in the greatest musical critics of Eu- Petah- rikvah, the oldest and largest rope and America, who at some places of the colonies, in the upper Jordan heralded him the most prominent mis- valley, which suffered severe damage sionary for Jewish music, and at oth- in the Turkish retreat. A co-opera- ers the sweetest Jewish tenor of to- tive wheat purchase scheme has been day, the Jewish singer-interpreter of instituted for the colonists and the the great masses of Jewish democ- British Government has arranged to racy. The date of his local appear- send in seeds for the new crops. The ance will be announced later. British authorities are giving their full support and co-operation to the Jewish organization in Palestine. Ad- First Annual Get-Together vices received by the Zionist organ- of Young Peoples of Shaarey Zedek is Big Success ization here indicate that much re- building will be necessary in the col- Members of Shaarey Zedek Young onies. l'eople's Auxiliary enjoyed their First Annual Get-Together, Wednes- day evening Feb. 20111, in the Aux- iliary Rooms. This was a compli- mentary affair fur paid members only and was largely attended by a jolly crowd of young folks. A t•o-course supper at seven-thirty was the begin- ning of a most enjoyable evening. Flowers and patriotic decorations in the form of tiny flags and hatchets, and table appointments in red, white and blue, made an artistic dining- room. .,,ese remain then for .., Jewish people of the country two alternatives, either to accept matzos, 30 per cent of which is barley, pota- toes, or some such substitutes, or for passover week to limit themselves to 70 per cent of the amount that they are accustomed to eat. It is for our rabbinical authorities to decide what variation in the usual procedure is allowable on account of special con- ditions resulting from the war. It is for them to decide whether it is at all necessary to overturn the cus- tom of centuries in order that we may eat the same quantity that we have been accustomed to consume in the past. No particular law occurs to the lay mind that insists that we must cat not less than we have al- ways eaten. A certain minimum is necessary for seder nights, but even a reduction of 30 per cent during the week would not necessarily interfere with breaking off the afikoment for the child of the house to surreptiti- ously remove. We might, perhaps, manage to eke out the week on other permitted foods. At any rate the All Come. ...s year 1917, ac- .... is to Mr. Mustier, and yet today an American merchant trading in Spain finds that the Spanish peseta containing 19.30 cents in gold is bring- ing 24.50 cents in American motley. In his opinion this depreciation of the American dollar abroad is due to reckless exportation of credits, and he urges that the senate be asked to draw up appropriate legislation for the control of credits. Such methods of reaching the public and of influ- encing congress as this full-page ad- vertisement of Mr. Mustier's, are a novelty, far different than some form- er ways of influencing legislation. They are parallel to the open diplo- macy which see hope will be one of the results of the great war. APPOINTED CHAPLAIN AT LARGE. who found concealment at nearby The office of the Adjutant-General points in the interior until the Turkish of the War Department announces retreat had passed, have already re- the appointment I Tannen- turned. The others must be rectal'. bauin as chaplain * large, United erect by the commission and restored States Army, with to•dc of first lieu- to their homes. tenant, from January 29, 1918. Chap- Hadassah to Rescue, lain Tannenbaum has been ordered to Disease, star\ ation and expulsions report to the commanding general at have reduced the Jewish population Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., for as- of Jerusalem about 40 per cent and signment to duty. This appointment today there are only 33,000 Jews left was made at the recommendation of in the Holy City. The great mass of the Committee on Chaplains of the the population are in rags, for no new Jewish Board for Welfare Work, clothing, or even the means for mak- Rabbi Tannenbaum was born in ing it, has been available in Jerusalem Denver, Colo., May, 1895. He is a since the war began. The commis- graduate of the Rabbinical College sion will take with it several tons of of America and is a member of the garments, provided by liadassah, the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of Amer- Women's Zionist Organization, which ica. He is a resident of Brooklyn, for the past two months has been col- N. Y. Following supper, the members took part in numerous charades, orig- inal stunts, hilarious contests, and jolly games Especially entertaining were the actors in the charades, who proved true if unconscious comedians. Ilelasco lost some rare talent by miss- ing his connections at Buffalo on his way to the party. Not the least inter- esting and exciting part of the even- ing was the distribution of prizes to the prize winners, who were com- pelled to open their packages and show the trophies of victory. After ten-thirty, music and dancing was en- joyed. Rabbi and Mrs A NI Hershman and Mr. and Mrs. Wolf Kaplan acted lecting clothing fin' this purpose in as chaperones. Credit is due the committee in fifty American cities. A medical unit, with nurses and sup- charge, Miss Sarah Westman, chair- man; Sadie Keith!), Ruth Blumenthal, plies, will also go with the commis- Fannie Wetsman, }tarry Sato•sky, sion to attend to immediate needs. Barney Sollenger, Mrs. E. II. Saul- A hospital will be established in Jeru- son, Lillian Schiller and Theresa Mei- salem, where disease has become en- ster. demic under war conditions. It is planned to set up dispensaries in other cities. A new restaurant in the Municipal Courts Building was opened last Mon- day by David De Young, who is one of the best known and successful man- agers in that business in the city, having introduced a number of inno- JEWISH MINISTRY vations in cafeteria service here. Ile OF AGRICULTURE has been appointed by Ray Mahon, IN POLAND superintendent of the building, to serve the prisoners and jurors, and A central Jewish agricultural min- the restaurant will also fill a long-felt want in serving the public, for whom istry has been established in Warsaw to collect material concerning the ef- there is a special entrance on Macomb fects of the war upon the agricultural Street. life of Polish Jewry. The intention of Adolf Wolf, one of the widely the Zionist Actions Comite, which has known pioneers of Oregon and at one established this bureau, is to furnish time mayor of Siherton, died there the executive bodies of the Jewish last week, at the age of 80. Congress in America and Russia with a comprehensive plan for the eco- nomic reconstruction of Polish Jew- The Jewish community at Kieff is ish being enriched with another excellent institution, namely, an institute for the training of teachers for Jewish TO HELP THE SOLDIERS secondary and higher elementary K. 0. P. Purim Ball, Arcadia, Feb. 26. schools. In many of the cities the condition of the Jewish population is even worse than in the colonies. \Vith the advance of the British armies the Turks indulged in wholesale deporta- tions of Jews from the seaport towns. From Jaffa, the port of Jerusalem, some 10,000 Jews fled the Turkish power or were driven out. Of these 1,000 went to Galilee, 1,500 to Samaria, 1,500 to Nobles. Several thousand, bakers, and macaroni manufacturers good example of the successful and have all agreed to reduce by 30 per philanthropic manufacturer. c ent their consumption of wheat. 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