THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
VOL III. NO. 16.
Soldier-Student
Day at Temple
Beth El Sunday
Young People's Society to
Give Banquet and Enter-
tainment in Evening—
Plana for "Big Time."
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1918.
Per Year, $1.50; Copy, 5 Cents.
O Ye of Hapless Hour and HOOVER SETS PRICE
CHIEF RABBI OF SERBIA
NEW YORK JEWS AID
I BRITISH OFFICIALS
ON MISSION IN U. S.
FOR MATZOTL-I CATHOLIC FUND DRIVE
Day.*
ENCOURAGE WORK OF
JEWISH COMMISSION
By J. DE CH EV ETT E.
Stops Attempts at Profiteering
ye of hapless hour and day,
Whose path hest with fears,
Undaunted fought your people's fray
And shared its joys and tears.
0, ye w ho stt mined the crushing tide
With seething streams of blood.
And never swerve] from duty's side
Through storms and surging flood.
by
$15,000 Contributed at Meeting
Bakers—Fixes Maximum Price at
Called by Will,.,,, Fos —Rabbi
I4c per Pound.
Joseph Silverman Takes Part.
The United States Food Ahminietra-
tion has announced that time .price of
matzoth for the country had been fixed
by agreement with the trade at from 13
New York.—The Catholic drive to
raise $2,500,000 in the Archdiocese
here for the New. York Catholic War
build received an earnest support in
the shape of a substantial contribu-
tion and a promise of further support
from the Jews of New York City at a
meeting at the Vv'aldorf-Astoria last
week. A total of $15,350 was con-
tributed by those present and further
promises of aid given.
The meeting was called by Mr.
William Fox, who did such wonderful
Work in the Jewish 11'ar Relief cam-
paign last December Among tlo
pledges which were received at this
meeting were the following: 1Villiam
Fox, $5,000; Louis Marshall, $1,000;
Jacob Wertheini, $2,000; Franklin Si-
mon, $500; Henry Ittleson, $500;
Judge NI. H. Grossman, $1,000; S.
Kamport & Co., $1,000; Colonel II. A.
Guiniburg. $500; Henry Vugelstein,
$500; L. I,. Firuski, $500; Schland &
Co., $250; Harry Alexander, $100; 11
Itorgenicht, $100; G. A. and S. E.
Rogers, $504); Hyman Cohen A Suns,
$250; Commercial Investment Trust
Company, $250; S. R. Travis, $1,000;
Andor & Sun, $100; Alfred Kohn,
$100; M. Lindner. $100; B. II. Schnur
& (fo., $100.
'I' he IMO-Sectarian character of the
drive will be demonstrated in the
opening meeting, not only by the of-
ficial participation of the Secretary of
the Navy, but by the inclusion,
among the speakers of the Rev. Dr,
'William T. Manning, rector of Trin-
ity Church, and Dr. Joseph Silverman,
rabbi of the Temple Emanu-El. Car-
dinal Farley will be Honorary Chair-
man.
to 14 cents a pound. This scale NAM
apply to matzoth sold in plain cartons.
ye
walked through blighting When fancy cartons are used the priivs
will apply also to packages containing
tire,
from ten to twelve ounces. This state-
.Aml filled your chalice brim
\Vali endless sorrows, bleak and dire, ment concerning the decisions has been
issued:
And torments gaunt and grim.
What promises to be the most im-
"During the Passover festival, which
portant patriotic event of the local Jess -
o
ye',
behold
the
hour
Brans
nigh
is ushered in on the evening of March
ish community held su far is the special
\Alien
life
lieginsr=swiew;
27
and lasts until the evening of April
service and entertainment for Soldiers
4, orthodox Jews are permitted to .eat
and Students at the Temple lied' El on Amidst a sob, a tear, a sigh,
our hopes shall soon come true.
no bread whatever except matzoth, an
Sunday, March 24. The entire day will
unleavened bread made of water and
be devoted to the young men in our'
armies and navies and in the colleges Your dream -the East—the heart's wheat flour. On receipt of complaint,
desire,
that makers and sellers of matzoth were
and universities. The hitherto annual
The prolipbets' lay and lore
planning to take advantage of the ritual
Student Day of Temple Beth El has
Is
your
domain,
you
may
aspire
requirements by demanding unheard-Of
this year been changed to include the
prices for the prescribed bread, the Food
As
in
the
days
of
yore.
hundreds of young men who formerly
Administration requested the Federal
came as students and who will come on
Sunday attired in the uniform of the .\ star Mains forth, the word ring, Food Board of New York to investi-
gate costs of manufacture.
(rile.
-
U. S. military forces.
The past calls you again;
"As a result of its investigation the
Besides a large delegation of Jewish
So raise the banner white and blue-- Federal Food Board recommended that
soldiers who will come to the city from
Yon have not fought in vain.
the maximum retail price of matzoth
Camp Custer, there will he many men
should not be greater than 13 to 14 cents
at present stationed at Selfridge Field
l'nfild your banner white and blue,
per pound, the range of price depend-
and Fort Wayne, as well as several
A flag of hope and rest:
ing
on quantity purchased, and whether
hundred Jewish students front the Uni
the bread is baked in square ur circular
versity of Michigan and the Michigan Proclaim the dawn of Freedom true.
A home fur the oppressed.
form, the latter costing slightly more to
Agricultural College.
'Head before the latd anniversary of the handle'. This price includes the price of
Special Services.
flask:dal, Zit ))) i ) t Society.
ordinary containers or carton. The
A varied and interesting program has.
board found that matzoth are also
been carefully worked out beginning
packed in expensive boxes for fancy
with a special service at the Temple in INTER-ALLIED LABOR
trade. Such cartons contain ten to
the morning at which Rabbi Leo MI
twelve ounces, and it has recommended
CONFERENCE FAVORS
Franklin will preach a patriotic sermon!
PALESTINE FOR JEWS that they be sold at a price not exceed-
to the young people under the title of j
ing that asked for a pound of matzoth
Each To Ills Own Standard.". The
in ordinary pasteboard cartons.
Last month the litter-Allied Labor
splendid choir of the congregation has
arranged an appropriate musical pro- Conference which met at London to fge.:C.OX•X • X•X•X•X•D X KOX•X•X• X eMsX.X.X.• X •X•X•:•::::C o MsZer/4;.
gram for the occasion. Following the formulate the terms which would be ac-
services the soldiers and students from ceptable to labor as a basis for conclud-
out-of-town will be entertained at din- ing peace. adopted the following point
p
ner at the homes of the members of the concerning the Jewish people and
A PASSOVER STORY
Palestine:
cong regal ion.
SPECIAL SERVICE AND
SERMON IN MORNING
King George Grants Audience to Dr.
Chaim Weitzman. — Gen. Smuts and
Balfour Co -operate.— Start
tation of Palestine on Pesuch.
His Majesty, King George of Lug-
laud, m ail audience which he granted
recently to Dr. tilaiin Weitzman, presi-
dent of the English Zionist Federation,
expressed his gratitude to the Zionists
for the useful work which they have
been doing during the war, especially
with regard to the rehabilitation of
Palestine.
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lieu by Underwood and Cutler.
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RABBI ISAAC ALCALAY.
The audience was granted on the eve
of the departure from London on March
7, of the Jewish Commission which will
have full charge of the reconstruction
of the !Icily Land in the laying of the
foundation of the new Jewish State.
This Commission, the first Jewish ad-
ministration of Palestine in 2,000 years,
will be functioning nut later than March
27, the eve of the Passover, which is the
festival in celebration of JeWISII
from Egyptian bondage. The
audience lasted over one half an hour,
and King George expressed his full
Rabbi Isaac Alcalay, vvitti occupies
the distinguished position of Chief
sympathy with the Zionist Movement,
Rabbi of the Serbian Jews, is at pres-
ent on a political mission to America and his best wishes for the complete
success of all of the plans of the Jewish
on behalf of his government. lie was
born in Belgrade in 1882 and is de- Commission, with which he is thoroughly
fam iliar.
scended from a family of Sephardic
The Jewish Commission was also re-
Rabbonim, being a grandson of Rabbi
Zchor Le Abraham, of Safed, and ceived by Gen. Smuts, of the British
Rabbi Muses David Alcalay, of Bel- Afar Cabinet, who had just returned
from Palestine. lie gave the (:onimis-
Rabbi Akalay attended the Normal sion a most encouraging report about
and Middle Schools and received his conditions, and informed it that he had
early Hebrew training in Belgrade prepared the way for its activities. Gen.
under Rabbi Israel II. Jaranow. Later Smuts expressed himself in most en-
he went to \lemma, received the de- thusiastic terms about the country and
gree of 1'11. I). in 1906 and in 1908 the its Jewish future. It goes armed with
degree of Rabbi from the 1'ienna credentials from the Rt. lion. Arthur
Rabbinical College, at that time un- J. Balfour, and other members of the
der the direction of Rabbis Schwartz cabinet, and with complete sanction of
and Sholoin. The same year he was its plans for beginning the construction
elected Rabbi at Belgrade where lie of the great Hebrew university, which
has continued ever since. Ile suc- will be One of the first works under-
ceeded Rabbi Berenfeld as Chief taken by the Commission. It is being
Rabbi of Belgrade, a position WIIICII accompanied by Aaron Aaronsolin, the
was It-ft open for a period of 20 years discoverer of dry wheat, who is charged
until a successor could be found from with the responsibility of developing the
the Alcalay family. In 1910 he was agricultural resources of the country.
already—and in this one Joey, Manteic elected Chief Rabbi of all the Jews of James de Rothschild is
a member of the
sends a kiss. She don't say nothing, Serbia.
Commission.
but I know she knows how my heart
hurts for you — and in this one l'a gives
you a good shake by the hand. 'Come PALESTINE FUND MAY
back already and be my /lidos,: he says,
REACH $1,500,000.
'I should have ten daughters fur ten
Aideists like you'—and in this one, Joey,
With the Jewish Governmental Com-
is a little piece of bread if you're hun-
mission functioning in Palestine by the
gry, and in this some water when your
end of this month, the Zionists are
mouth is burning like my eyes are now
planning to carry the Restoration Fund Over $160,000 Contributed by Memo.
—and in this—and this—and this," she
of $1,000,000 well over the top during
bees of Garment Trade Unions—
knitted furiously, "a piece of my heart."
the Passover holidays which begin. um
Set Aside Washington's Birth.
But it's hard to knit when your back
!starch 28, Sermons will Ile preached
aches :out your fingers are cramped with
day a. "Relief Day."
in nearly every synagogue in the United
guiding an endless mass of white stuff
States emphasizing the fact that the age
through a whirring machine the long
long hope of the Jewish people for a
New York. -First reports from the
day through; harder, too, when all un-
speedy restoration to its homeland is International Ladies' Garment Work-
(miring hand disappeared within the
near realization. The Zionist societies ers' Union show that over $150,000
bag and (bragged forth an unfinished
throughout the country are arranging was contributed by the
members of
sock. "Am I different from every-
mass-meetings and celebrations in honor the union 01) Washington's
birthday,
body?" the needles clicked loudly and
of the first Jewish administration of the when every member
of the union
negatively. "Is it my Jase's fault that,
Holy Land in- 7,000-zsais.
pledged
his
day's
wages
to
a man sits in a big of and tears up
the Jew-
The List financial statement issued by ish War Relief Fund. 'this union
my Joe's letters because maybe he don't
veil good? Could Joe help if he's the Palestine Restoration Fund C011i• alone has enrolled 62,000 members,
here only five years and couldn't go to !flitter reported that $950,000 have al- and equal amounts are expected from
school like all itneriemierst Anyhow, ready been pledged, and it is anticipated other needle trades unions.
he don't write on the 'Questions' he got that the special drive during the Pass-
When the campaign for $5,900,00)
four people living on him when his over holidays will easily rake the total for Jew ish war relief was on in New
of $1,500000.
),I6eros are dead already."
York City in December, the Jewish
working men and women contributed
The that chest expanded, grey eyes
flashed indignation and pride, slim
more than their share to the, fund,
Lingers worked the shapeless wool with
but they did not stop at that. They
a speed and accuracy that amazed 4,11-
declared they would designate a day
lookers.
on which all the workers would COO-
"In this here stitch, Joey," she whis•
tribute the entire wage for that day.
perell under her breath, "is a big, big
February 22 was the date chosen. The
kiss from Laudie. You remember the
Fuel Administration bad already is-
baby Joe, You know always you take
sued its "landless and workless" days
him on your lap when you come. You
for holidays as a matter of furl con-
should see hint now; five teeth he's got
servation, but at the request of the
bidden eyes blur with unshed tears and
garment workers, Dr. Garfield, the
frenzied imagination transforms the
Fuel Administrator, granted a special
hall of yarn to a bomb being hurled at
diapensation to the Jewish workers
your loved one and every needle a bay-
in recognition of their magnanimous
onet ready to pierce the heart of one
act of humanity,
dearer to you than life,
This noble act of the working class
Rosalie dropped her knitting.
This
of New York has been set down as
was the hardest hour of the day when,
the most notable incident of the en.
weary with the day's toil, completely
lire campaign for $10,000,000 for the
alone amidst a humanity that surged
"The Goblet Quaffed"
Banquet by Young People.
"The conference demands for the
Jews in all countries the same elemen-
tary rights of freedom. religion, edu-
cation, residence and trade, and equal
citizenship that ought to be extended to
all the inhabitants of every nation. It
further expresses the opinion that Pal-
estine should be set free from the harsh
and impressive government of the Turk
in order that this country may form a
free state under international guarantee,
to which such of the Jewish people as
desired to do so, may return and work
out their own salvation free from in-
terference by those of alien race or re-
ligion."
The afternoon will he devoted to mo-
tor drives or visits to points of interest
in the city. In the evening the young
men will be the exclusive guests of the
Young People's Society of Temple Beth
El, and a most enjoyable evening is in
store for them. At 6 p in. a supper will
he served in the Banquet Hall of the
Temple, all arrangements for which are
in the hands of the young women of the
Young People's under the direction of
Miss Dorothy Weinstein, chairman. The
supper will serve to make the strangers
personally acquainted with the young
people in the city and is only a prelude
to the wonderful entertainment that will
take place in the large auditorium of the JEWISH WOMEN SEND
HELP TO RUSSIAN
Temple at 8 o'clock, to which the public
is cordially invited.
PRISONERS IN GERMANY
The evening meeting will be a cheer-
ful and rousing one such as to make
the most fastidious student appreciator
of "a good time" feel content and en-
thusiastic. A patriotic note will per-
meate every feature. The guests of the
evening will file into the auditorium led
by Mr. Emanuel Wodic, an honored
member of the congregation, and one
Of the oldest veterans of the civil war
in Detroit. Despite his more than 80
years of age, Mr. Wmlic can be relied
on to inspire contemporary youth with
his martial spirit and bearing.
Varied Entertainment.
In order to make the meeting enliven-
ing and "snappy," the committee in
charge will exercise a strict censorship
on long speeches, promising the audi-
ence that they will not be required to
concentrate their attention on any liter-
:try feature longer than five minutes.
In addition to three short addresses, the
entertainment will, consist of a group
of numbers by members of the Young
People's Society, the Student Congrega-
tion at Ann Arbor, and the delegation
from Camp Custer. The latter promise
to create a sensation with their quar-
tette organized by Rev. E. J. Drachmae,
representative of the Jewish Welfare
!board at Camp Custer,
Among the many interesting numbers
by local talent will be a rendition of
patriotic songs by Sam Mandell, the
"singing sailor," who has become fam-
ous in Detroit among young and old,
and who is said to have put the "riot"
in a patriotic meeting at the Elk's Tem-
ple last week by causing his audience
of several thousand men to go wild
with enthusiasm. Besides his many
song successes, Sam will sing a new
song written by Miss Phyllis Zuckerman,
a member of the Young People's, en-
titled "My Sailor Man." Other enter-
tainers include Mr. Maurice Wolner,
violinist; Miss Tillie Garvett, pianists;
Mrs. Pearl Lowenthal, vocalist, The
meeting will close with a Liberty
Pageant, the nature of which is not dis-
closed.
The committee in charge urges all
patriotic Jewish citizens of Detroit to
co-operate to the best of their ability
and resources in making the first Sol-
diers and Students Day of Temple Beth
FA
„
By MISS KATE FRIEDMANN
DRAB little figure with a big
slitting bag and an innate a•pt-
ess at dodging crowds darted
hrough streams of tired human-
ity homeward bound. Grey eyes dis-
tended, hat awry, jostled by unkindly'
elbows, she wormed her way through
the crowdedjnorm, dropped her
sacrifice in the gaping, pay-as-you-enter
and breathlessly, pounced upon the bit
of remaining space.
Sitting rigidly upright in the cramped
space that was her portion Rosalie
Morris unbuttoned the imitation fox at
her throat and heaved a little sigh of
thankfulness. She wouldn't have to
wait then until she reached home. A
little hand delved into a big bag and
brought out a latest edition still damp
from the press.
Petrograd.—Within the past half
This was a daily ritual she had gone
year Jewish women in l'etrograd have
sent large sums of money to Russian through for two months now. (here
prisoners in Germany. Reports fol-
low one another stating the terrible
need and loneliness of the prisoners.
The women are exerting all their
powers to alleviate as much as pos-
It
sible the suffering of these men in-
terned in the various districts of
1.
Germany.
WITH THE COLORS.
WITH THE COLORS.
Mile Nate Friedmann.
always that sharp intaking of
breath, a convulsive working of the free
hand, a moment when her heats stood
still while anxious eyes scanned glaring
headlines that, finding no mention of
Him amongst the heroes of the world-
war would focus unwillingly , and fear- and swayed about her in unending num-
fully on the censored column fraught bers, she battled with the print spectres,
Times there were when a little self-
with pain and sorrow for loved ones.
admonishing would Luny up her lagging
If there'd only be a word of assur-
spirits, but somehow today, though she
ance, of hope, or the other--but this
reminded herself sharply and repeat-
dread uncertainty', the feeling that per-
edly of Faimie's hired hall and of
haps that very minute lie was lying,
Celia's shell-splintered Dave, it was of
mortally wounded on a foreign battle-
no avail. She succumbed weakly to
field, alone, forgotten. She could see
memories, bitter-sweet
the parched lips shape then•elves to
It seemed but yesterday, a rarely
murmur her name. And then reason
beautiful December day. It was Satur-
would return, the paper drop to the
day, the .lay that was still .S.Imbes (or
floor, the clenched fist relax.
them. Liberalism had found no re-
"Ach, what a big fool you are," she sponse in the heart of her father. Israel
would admonish herself sternly with a Morris was a "Franc e'' l'ehude of the
smile of self-assurance that didn't old-world Orthodoxy, A Russian
reach her eyes at all. "Look at Fannie, .Yrhoteider he haul emigrated to this
didn't she get a ring already and hire blessed land, penniless, with five hungry
a hall, and then—goof I he vvas drafted mouths to feed. Friends' help enabled
away. And Celia, didn't she see in the him to open a tiny tailor•shop in a side-
paper with her own eyes that Dave got street of the Ghetto. this inherent
a shot from a shell. And what? Noth- courtesy, his honesty, his word that was
ing! Didn't she come to the shop like never broken kept him off the rocks.
always with her head stuck higher and His little shop grew and prospered. The
a red nose?" The little head tossed
wolf was far from the door, yet as from
oils
LIEUT. HAROLD ROSENFIELD.
NEW YORK WORKERS
GIVE DAY'S WAGES
TO RELIEF FUND
Mr. Rosenfield recently won his
commission as second lieutenant in
the aviation section of the signal
corps. He enlisted as a private and
won promotion through competitive
examination and by force of his na-
tive and technical ability. He is now
stationed at San Antonio, Texas, and
expects to leave•for France soon. Mr.
Rosenfield is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Monroe Rosenfield, 995 Second ave-
nue. He is a graduate of the Depart-
ment of Engineering of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, class of 1912, and defiantly. A heavy black ringlet shyly
El an event that will live long in the
memory of the young men who will
soon be at the front in the great Cause was engaged with several prominent protesting was brushed impatiently un-
der the close-fitting turban, An en-
of Democracy, Liberty and Humanity. local firma in engineering work.
the begnning, every Friday evening at
(Continued on Page 1.)
relief of the stricken Jews in the war-
devastated counties of Europe, and
has done more than anything else to
solidify a fraternal Jewish conscious-
ness among the MUSICS amt Classy',
Itenjamin Schlesinger, Preaident
the garment union, states that money
is still pouring In, and that a final
HENRY S. LOVE.
report of the entire amount will not
be issued for some little
Mr, Line enlisted in the army sev-
eral months ago and was assigned to A CONFERENCE OP THE
the ordnance division of the army by
POALE-ZION IN AUSTRIA
reason of his technical knowledge ac-
quire,' from his wide experience in the
Copenhagen. --Through
leather industry as purchasing agent
Lemberg
of the Pingree Shoe Co. Me, Love
is the brother of David I). Love and
Rose Love, who reside at 430 l'in•
rue avenue. Ile is stationed at Camp
Merritt, New Jersey.
comes the news that the Austrian
Poale-Zionist organisation has decid-
ed to call a general party conference
of all Poste - lionist societies in Aus-
tria and Galicia—the conference
which is to
fie
held these
days In
Mr. I. R. Michael died at Shang. Krakau will be of vital Interest, he•
hai, China, last month, where he had cause this will be the first Pottle.
resided many years, at the age of 6 2. Zionist gathering of Austrian 11114
lie was one of the founders of the Galician Poale-Zionlsts since the
Shanghai Stock Exchange.
commencement of the wee.