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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

VOL III. NO. 17.

PATRIOTIC YOUNG
PEOPLE HONORED
BY TEMPLE BETH EL

Soldiers and Students From
Camp and Campus Spend
Enjoyable Day As Guests
of Congregation.

SPECIAL SERVICE AND
ENTERTAINMENT HELD

Testifying to their whole-hearted al-
legiance to the principle of free govern-
ment and the dedication of their full
energy and devotion to the call of their
country. several hundred young people
were honored and entertained as the
guests of Temple Beth El last Sunday
sin the occasion of the first annual Stu-
dent and Soldier Day held under the
auspices of all organizations of the con-
gregation. The event in past years was
held for the young people as students
for the war had not yet affected
is, but this year many of the young
men who formerly came yearly to the
service as students of the university and
colleges near by, attended the service
on Sunday as members of the unlit:sr;
forces of the nation.
the young men and women of camp
and campus who were honored on Sun-
day are representative of the vast r u m-,
her of Jewish boys and girls who ex-
emptily the spirit of the Jewish youth
of the nation in the present national
emergency. Nlany of the boys could
not be present in person, being scattered
in the various camps and cantonments
in the country and performing active
service at the front "somewhere over
there," but their self-sacrificing spirit
dominated the services and inspired
their elders and friends who filled the
auditorium of Temple Beth both at the
morning services and the evening enter-
tainment.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1918.

Trotzky, Being An Internationalist,
Jews in Petrograd Will Eat

Two Distinguished Diplomats

Per Year, $1.50; Copy, 5 Cents.

No Matzos.

Rabbi Mayerberg Plays Role of "Cu-

Petrograd Jews will probably cele-
brate Pesach without matzos this
year owing to the food shortage In
the former Russian capital, and also
because of the internationalism and
universalism of Leon 'Trotzky, Rus-
sia's most noted Jewish figure, for-
mer Nlinister of Foreign .5tTairs, Su-
preme Agitator for a world mole-
tarian resolution, and at present beau
of the Commune of Petrograd, and
incidentally chief of the commis-
sariate.
A report is current in the Ameri-
can Jewish press that a delegation or
rabbis and prominent Jewish leaders
waited on the Arch-Bolshevik and
appealed' to him to permit them the
use of flour for the baking of matzos
for the Passover. Mr. Tr eotzky
called their attention to the shortage
of flour in the city, but the delega-
tion requested that an exception be
made in favor of the Jews on this
occasion. Trotzky is said to have re-
ceived t h is request eery coolly With
these words: "I am an internation-
alist. I am neither Jew nor Russian.
Nly concern is for the people, and I
will grant no privilege to any re-
ligion or particular group. The
shortage of food in Petrograd is se-
rious, therefore I refused to fulfill
your request."

pid" ot Wednesday lifeetings of
Young Peopttes Society.

JEWISH SOCIALISTS
ASK SUPPORT OF WAR

Declare All Should Unite to Save Rua.
sian Revolution—Call National
Conference in New York.

New York.—A call for Socialists to
back the national war aims has been
issued by the Jewish Socialistic League
of America. The appeal was made I ll
the form of a summons for, a national
conference of loyal Socialists to be held
Inspiring Sermon by 1>r. Franklin.
here April 14. Pointing to the fate of
Rabbi Leo NI. Franklin preached an
Russia, the league asks Socialists and
inspiring patriotic sermon in the mottl-
radicals to join in upholding the Allies
ing in which he stated that the aims of
the governments opposed to the rule of in the war against Germany. Now is
autocracy found its exact counterpart in the time, the league declares. when all 1
the program of Israel through the ages. parties and all beliefs should he united
Justice, Freedom, Humanity, and the with a common purpose in the defense
Rights of Man, the great principles un- of the world against an autocracy that
derlying the great world conflict, arc the has trampled on the Russian
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fundamental ideals of the Jewish people
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for which they have sacrificed their lives President of the league, and these mem-
and their treasures in every country in bers of the Executive Committee: Ben-
which they lived, and for the attain- jamin Saphir, limy L. Sloliodin, Mor-
ment of which they are now prepared to ris Finn. Leon Savage, Benjamin Isaac-
sacrifice their all for the Great Cause or
itz. Samuel Menakcr, N. Zvirin, H.
Human Liberty.
Caesar, Joseph Chykin, Morris Kass.
"And so when to you. and to me the and Dr. Nathan Syrkin.
call comes, as spoken in other (hog to
"The terrible calamity that has be-
Israel's hosts by the greatest of all Law- fallen Russia imposes a new duty upon
Givers. 'Each to his own standard,' we us," the call asserts "This duty means
go forth as Americans and we e0 forth that we must all forget the differences
as Jews I hie cause is one and the same. of opinion that have existed in the So-
And so it seems to me that to the Jew cialists ranks America concerning
taking his part in the great world-stir- the war, and that we must with united
ring events of our time there comes a effort take an active part in the great
two-fold inspiration. The patriotic fer- and sacred work of safeguarding our
vor, the devout love and loyalty for liberties and of helping to secure lib-
country that drives on every true-heart- erty for our brethren across the ocean.
ed American patriot combines with the "A t t hi s time when a ll small nation-
urge of a faith that has dared to stand alities of the world are calling to us
for humanitarian purposes to which for help and putting all their hopes on
modern men are butt awakening, to spur the chivalry and generosity of our great
the Jew on to deeds of valiant her"l"' • I and pin erful Republic. we Jew ish So-
The choir sang several patriotic songs cialists sad working men cannot remain
e. Now. when
in which the entire congregation took indifferent an d stan d as id
hart. A feature of the service which our own children are fighting in the
was profoundly impressive was the mitt• trenches besides the Belgians, the Eng-
ing i iithe patriotic mines of the children fish, and the French. shedding their
of the Sabbath school who filled the hap- blood in their struggle against the most
Collies. of the Temple. I brutal military power that ever infested
At the conclusion of the sem' jee the the world, it is time that me unite and
soldiers and students were introduced emp l oy the hest means in combat the
to the m•nthers of the congreg"ti°" "it" elle111% and help those who are safe-
acted as hosts to the young people :it guarding our liberties.
their homes for the afternoon.
"Brothers, there is much that can be
and for America.
done both for
Ladies Auxiliary Luterlains
enter- It were a crime to be i n differen t now ,
In the evening the visiti.rs Were
tained at supper at the 'Frode under to hold aloof from the struggle. Your
the auspices of the Ladies Auxiliary of country. your people. your class is call-
the congregation. The college spirit ing you. Your highest ideals call for
here expressed Itself m its most ex • - action now. The whole world is on
orating vehicle. Songs and yells filled fire, and we cannot put out the flame
the air during die supper, and congenial by shutting our ryes and ignoring the
good fellowship reingned supreme. lin- conflagration. \\e must help, and we
prompto speeches and "stunts" com- Call help if we will only unite and realize
prised the "program" and the leather- that now is the time to forget old preju-
hinged boy scouts, led by Scout William dices."
Greenberg. troop 23, supplied sufficient
noise With their yells to serve admir- OSCAR STRAUS REAPPOINTED
ably as proper approbation from the en-
CHAIRMAN OF SERVICE
tire assemblage. The crowd "went
COMMISSION.
wild" when Abraham Gornetzky, com -
poser of U. of M. operas, played the
The renomination of ()scar S. Straus,
"Victors" and the "Yellow and Blue" on
of New York. as chairman of the Public
the piano. .\ lid Sam Nfandell was pres-
Service Commission for the First Dis-
ent ako with the best in his extensive
trict. for a term of five years, was sent
repertoire of stirring popular melodies.
to the Senate by Governor Whitman
Short and "snappp" talks were given by
today and was confirmed immediately.
Bernard Ginsburg. Ilavir A. Brown.
Senators G. E. Thompson and Robert
Milton Alexander. Prof. I. Leo Scharf-
R. Lawson were excused from voting
man, Emanuel \\*odic, Miss Dorothy
after NIr. Law son had expressed oppo-
Weinstein chairman of arrngements for
sition to NIr. Straus on account of his
the Young People's Society and Dr. R.
age. 69 years. and NI r. Thompson had
R. Goldstone.
declared that the Public Service Com-
Young People's Society's "Pig Night.'
mission as an organization was "un-
The Yonne People's Society took
necessary, unjustified. and of no benefit
charge of the day's program after the
supper. They conducted the evening to the State."
Governor Whitman also sent to the
patriotic entertainment in the main
Senate the nominations of Henry Solo-
auditorium in a manner most commend-
mon, of Ness York. as is member of the
able to the officers and members who
State Commission on Prisons. As Mr.
had the event in charge. Headed by
Emmanuel \Yoffie, civil war veteran and Solomon is president of the commis-
venerable warden of the temple. attired skin. his nomination was confirmed im-
mediately.
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READING PLEDGES
AID IN PALESTINE
RESTORATION

PRETTY ROMANCE AT
TEMPLE BETH EL

II, iiiinolitturtilciit this week of the

,•inent of Miss E.va \Verb•, d+ugh-
Barnet \Vedic, of \Vest•
ism ler .11e, to NV I larsild Braude. son
of NIr and Sirs. Louis Braude, of Rus-
ton. Nlass., brings to light an interesting
loin:inc• in which Rabbi Samuel S.
Nlayerberg, assistant rabbi of Temple
Beth El, unC011sCionsly played the role
of Cupid.
\Vheti the Dramatic Club of the Young
People's Ssx:iety of Temple Beth El was
organized last September by Rabbi
Mulyerberg,dittle did he know that these
\Vednesday night meetings would bring
together t WO Of the most popular mem-
bers of the society and that their meet-
ing won'd culminate in the betrothal
just made public.
An active member of the Young Peo-
ple's Society of Temple Beth El, an
honorary member of the Yon) Literary
Society, Nliss \Vedic figures prominent-
ly in all social activities. She has de-
lighted Illally with her lovely soprano
voice, having studied with ()scar F.:ten-
ger of New York, and her winning per-
sonality has endeared her many friends.
Mr. Braude is a chemical engineer, a
graduate of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He is at present sta-
tioned at Rochester, N. \'., where he is
in the Ordnance Department of the Bu-
reau of Inspection.

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Secretary of State Robert Lansing and Lord Reading (Rufus Isaacs(,
British Ambassador to the United States, leaving the White House after a
call on President Wilson.

LEAVES MILLION TO
JEWISH CHARITIES

Should Palestine Be Our Goal?

Ludwig Dreyfus, New York Banker,
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$500,000 as Loan Fund
For Needy Jews.

BY HENRY L. FRANK.

New York.—Gifts of more than $1,-
Having been asked to enroll under I of the United States and Western
the banner of Zionism I have not re- Europe are desirous of becoming citt- 001,001 to Jewish charities are made in
the will of Ludwig Dreyfus, member of
sponded, and may, on that account, be zens of Palestine. Take our ardent
the banking firm of Goldman, Sachs &
characterized a slacker. An Eastern Zionists in this country who are en-
Co., who died here on Nlarch 6 last.
authority has declared that every Jew deavoring to guard against the impend-
Judaism, will they The largest bequests were made by Mr.
ought to be a Zionist. I cannot suit- ing dissolution of
emigrate and help in a practical way to Dreyfus in giving three-fourths of the
scribe to this categorical imperative.)
residuary estate, more than $500,000, to
On the contrary, I would reverse the establish the Palestinian commonwealth?
the Limed Hebrew Charities to estab-
dictum by averring that every Zionist They leave this to the organizing talent
lish a fund to advance money to persons
ought to he a Jew—that is to say not of the eastern European and ,Asiatic
to enable them to heroine self-support-
only by birth, but imbued with Je visit Jew's, Things regulate themselves when
ing. The remaining fourth is left to
ideals and aspirations, and not shrink they are fore-ordained. The only prac- the Federation for the Support of Jew-
from revealing his Je•ishness at the tical steps towards furthering the cause
ish Philanthropic Societies for the gen-
proper time. It seems to us that ion- of Zionism, I read in the newspaper the eral purposes of the organization.
ists evince more sentiment than poll,tal other day, were taken by 100 Jews of
Other bequests to organizations, to be
yam. York, „„Tlyv wt.
41.
tlan-Vm)tstrele stAelRla ( 1, •• F. tailijdP of
IL Tani eiittilgrt but eltiefrifier the 'death
mirror of the Holy Land, has promised fight for Zion and report at Jerusalem of the widow, Mrs. Rebecca Dreyfus,
to view with favor the establishment in or elsewhere to—probably—General Al- are $37,500 to Nit. Sinai Hospital and
that land of a national home for the lenby. A writer in the February At- $37,000 to the Montefiore Hoine. The
newish people our Zionist friends go lantic on "The Military Geography of Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum
into ecstasies. All that needs to be Palestine." points out the sidneralde gets $27,510), and $25,000 goes to the
done now is to colonize. But will Eng- parts of the land. In defense of one Town of Mannheim, Germany. The
land tutu the land over to the Jewish of the defiles a brave little band can llome for Aged and Infirm Hebrews
people in fee simple without any con- furnish us the counterpart of Thermo- receives $17,000 and Beth Israel Hos-
sideration? If so, what is the form of pylae. knights of Zion are also in the pital $12,500. Gifts of $10.000 each go
government to be? Self-determination, field. \\Isere there are to be stationed to the Nletropolitan NIusenni of Art,
presumably, will settle this. Undoubt- I can only surmise. Maybe they are American, Museum of Natural History•,
edly a scion of the house of I)arid will to function as recruiting officers, or as the Hebrew Free Loan Association, and
Kaye the preference as ruler. Ashkena- arrangers of parades. My fancy por- the Nlarcus Goldman Fund.
zim. Sephardim, Yeminites, Persians.' trays of them panoplied in khaki, a
The following beneficiaries get $6.(X)0
Moroccans. etc., before they are welded' mezuzah in their helmets, an arbor kali- each: Hebrew Technical Institute. Ed-
into a homogenous conmionwealth, feth over their shoulders, and a chalef ucational Alliance, Hebrew Sheltering
would have to decide whether it is to as a weapon to smite the enemy at close Guardian Society-, and Lebanon Hos-
he a kingdom or a republic. And the range.
pital. The Hebrew Technical School
.5 Jewish university. f notice, • is
Jews, en masse. are cordially invited
for Girls receives $7,500, and $5,50) each
already
on
the
lapis.
Before
thinking
to take up claims in the promised land.
goes to the Young Women's Hebrew
of
the
higher
education
elementary
uuld I object to have the hunstdess,
Association, l'oung Men's Hebrew As-
Mimi% eddied Jews of eastern Europe schooling ought to he first considered. sociation, and the German Hospital. The
and the near East transferred to a Solid foundations must precede the Hebrew Infant Asylum receives $$,000,
country where they will be sheltered superstructure. \\e hear of training and $3.500 each goes to the National
and cared for? fly no means. Bust I and trade schools in various cities. These Jewish Hospital at 1)enver, the Recre-
am dealing chiefly with the common- I certainly approve of ; but we hear very anon Rooms and Settlement, Crippled
wealth Palestine is to be. Zionists lay.; little of other schools whether attend- ( hffilren s, East Side Free School, and
great stress on this. The Holy Lane once is voluntary or compulsory. It Jewish protectory. The Hospital for
alhe se. 1,1)7lisnlgs
urT
a e liethoa‘t er is.gorkiceiiiilt
n,m
has approximately the area of Belgium.1
Deformities and Hip Diseases, the Skin
Before the outbreak of the war Belgium ought not
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and Cancer Hospital, Tubercular Pre-
had a population of about 6 millions people must be made acquatittee wdh ventorium for Children, Hebrew Shel-
:mil was considered the most densely what a farmer-and fruit-grower ought tering Home. and New York Eye and
populated country in Europe. Suppose to know, \Vailing before the wall will Ear Infirmary get $2,500 each. 'flue
all the Jews of our habitable globe not overcome natdral laws. In this con- New York Kindergarten Association re•
would take into their heads to enter the nection I am rerainded of an old coun• ceiv es $2,750, and the Charity Organ-
promised land, and to the number of 10 try story. A parstin, the owner of a ization Society and the Ematm-EI Sis-
to 12 millions engage passage. w hat us barren strip of land, was kneeling In terhood for Personal Service $3,000
scramble there would lie Pal e stine in devotion, imploring heaven to vouch-
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its paliniest days had probably not more safe him a bountiful crop. A peasant,
Ke"eeea DreYfus.
" le "
than 2f- millions of inhabitants. If we passing, shouted to the parson: "Your receives $25,000 in cash, all the personal
are all transplanted to the promised prayers won ' t av ail )4 M. but manure effects, and the income from the residu-
\s soon as a Commendable edu-
land what shall become of the schnorr
ary estate. Many personal bequests to
letters, and whom shall they be di- cational system for the young has been
friends and relatives were made. The
rected to? I remember one of a 22- introduced higher educational institu-
Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn gets $1,000
year old orphan girl who solicited con- tions can be entertained.
Another problem which, in all likeli- :mil bequest s of $5t1( and $250 are made
tributions towards her trousseau She
hood will confront the Zionists, is the , to a number of other organizations.
may be weaned of her propensity by
this time At all events I wish her status of the missionaries. The Jew ish , Catherine Flaherty, a servant, receives
state once organized. will these with- gluon
health and prosperity.
from Palestine or be expelled. To I
\Vc are, however, not far wrong in draw-
: GEORG BRANDES AND HENRI
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assuming that comparatively few Jews
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BERGSON FAVOR JEWISH
HOMELAND.

Jewish Books for Jewish Soldiers

The Detroit Public I ,ibrary, in ciumni ∎ ti with librarie-
throughout the country, is collecting books for the camp librarie , -
which have been established at all the artily camps and nasal
training stations. In all of these cantos are thousands' of Jewish
their assn
men. anal from them are coming requests for bo,.k.
to Ftiglish
language — both Yiddish :Ind liehrew--in addit
books which they are using.
special request for several tint

dred books has conic from ('alm) Gordon, .\ tlanta. Ga., w here
there are 1,000 Jews and no books in Yiddish or I 'clime.

\Vill the readers of the Chronicle pick slit from their supply

as many good books in these languages as they can spare, for

the use of their fellow-Jews in military service, and bring them
to the Main Library, the Ginsburg Branch library, 91 Brewster
Street, or any other library agency ? The library will call for
books if you cannot bring them. Phone Nlain

British High Ambassador
Felicitates American Zionists
and Praises Patriotism
of All Jews.

PALESTINE COMMISSION
BEGINS ACTIVE WORK

Lord Reading, ambassador and high
commissioner for Great Britain to the
United States, made the following state-
ment on behalf of the declaration of his
ernment in favor of Palestine to the
Jews. It is addressed to the Provisional
Zionist Committee:
"You ask me for is message to Amer-
ican Jew ry especially regarding the
declaration of Ili.: Slajesty's government
in favor of the establishment in Pales-
tine of a National Home for the Jewish
people "I need not say that I warmly
support that declaration in both my pub-
lic and private capacity. I have, more-
over, been profoundly impressed by the
splendid energy of the American Zion-
ists and by the whole-hearted way lit
which, to no small extent, under their
leadership, the Jewish people of the
United States have thrown themselves
into the war. Though I feel that the
many thousands of Jews who have en-
listed individually in the armies of the
United States and of the Allies are serv-
ing the cause of humanity as usefully as
man can; I out particularly interested In
the Jewish units which are being re-
cruited on both sides of the Atlantic.
It would be magnificent if sore of them
could . strike a blow for the freedom of
the world in the land of our ancestors.
"In the meantime I am glad to think
that Palestine is being rehabilitated,
even while the war continues, largely.
by Jewish money and Jewish energy
and am especially pleased to be in the
country which has provided so large a
part of that money and no small amount
of that energy. My good wishes are
with the Zionists of the United States
in the great work that is before them in
giving effect to the declaration of the
British Government and I shall esteem
anything that I may" be called upon to
(kiln connection whit ar
the least important or the least satis-
factory part of my duties as British am,
11aSSailor in Washington."

(icon; Brandes, the distinguished Dan-
ish author, at a banquet recently held
at Copenhagen, told how If erzl had tried
twenty years ago to interest him in
Zionism and how he had rejected his
mertures With the progress of time,
he said, he has come to the realization
that this "impractical scheme" is the
only solution of the Jewish problem.
Ile greeted the opportunity that has
presented itself for the creation of a
Jewish home in Palestine and said that
he regards the British declaration as
, one of the few rays of sunshine that
have penetrated the world's gloom dur-
ing the past three years.
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, It is reported from Paris that Pro-
I lessor Henri Bergson, the famous phil-
osopher, is advocating the movement for
the establishment of a Jewish Uni-
lversity in Jerusalem and even offered
his personal serN ices in connection
with it.

Palestine Commission Arrive,.

The First Day of Pesach was the day
set for the arrival, in the Holy Land, of
the Administrative Commission, which
after having been received in audience
by King George departed from London
on March 7th. It was organized by the
International Zionist Organization fol-
lowing the declaration by Great Britain.
on November 2nd, that "hl is Majesty's
Government view with favor the estab-
lishment of Palestine, as a National
Home for the Jewish people, and will
use their best endeavors to facilitate
this object," and the official approval,
last month, of this declaration by France
and Italy, and is fully- sanctioned by the
interested powers.
The commission that is now on its
way to Palestine is constituted as fol-
lows: Dr. Ilayim Weitzman, president
of the Zionist Federation of England ;
Mr. Joseph Cowen, director of the Jew-
Colonial Bank ; Leon Simon, Dr. M.
I). Eder, of the Territorialists; 7.. D.
Ley ontin, manager of the Anglo-Pales-
tine Rank; Professor Sylvan I.evi, of
the Paris Sorbonne; M Roenack. rep-
resenting Baron Edmund she Rothschild
of l'aris. Captain \Villiam Ormsby
Gore, a brother-in-law of Lord Robert
Cecil, accompanied the commission as
military advisor.
It will find a country wrecked by the
war, which, at its outbreak of the war
was blooming like the rose, with over
50 prosperous Jewish argricidtural col-
onies, modern villages. an educational
system ranging from the kindergarten
to the high-school, a banking system, and
an ever-expanding commerce. Sir Mark
Sykes, British tinder-secretary for for-
eign affairs, declared several months
ago that it is the mission of Zionism to
hue us bridge between Asia and Europe,
to bring the spirituality of Asia to Eu-
rope and the vitality of Europe to Asia.

Great SUMS Raised.

The Zionist organizations throughout
the world have been engaged during the
past two tnonths in raising an adequate
fund for the operations of the Admin-
istrative Commission. For this purpose
the American Zionists have already
raised one million five hundred thousand
dollars; E:ngland has raised a million;
Australia, $100,010; Canada, $100,000;
from Rossi another million is expected;
Shanghai has raised $100,(X)0. The to-
tal will be further swelled by contribu-
tions from Italy, France, Greece, Ar-
gentine and other countries where there
are Zionist Federations. Later, when
the work in Palestine has made tangible
progress, a Jewish Liberty Loan of prob-
ably one hundred millions and even
more will be floated:

According to the Vossiche Zeitung,
Dr. Moses Silberfarb has been ap-
pointed minister for Jewish Affairs in
the Ukraine.

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