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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE'

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

VOL. III. NO. 18.

CHARLES H, HECHT
DIES IN PRIME OF
LIFE LAST SUNDAY

Was Resident of Detroit for
14 Years — President of
Summerfield & Hecht.

LEAVES LARGE SUMS
TO LOCAL CHARITIES

One of the most distinguished Jew-
ish citizens of Detroit and a success-
ful business man who was respected
and esteemed by his employes and all
his business and social associates,
Charles H. Ifecht, president of the
firm of Sumniertield & Hecht, depart-
ed this life last Sunday morning at
the Harper Hospital. Mr. Hecht was
in the prime of life, being 55 years of
age. The announcement of his death
came to his friends unexpectedly and
caused great sorrow for he was a
most genial and sincere type of mod-
ern executive who exercised a great
friendly influence in this community.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1918.

B'Nai Brith Affiliates With
Jewish Welfare Board

cohwei

Harry Cutler, Chairman of
the Jewish IVelfare Board, recently
announced that the negotiations for
affiliation with the Board of the Inde-
pendent Order It'nai Brith have
' tenably been successfully concluded.
.\t a meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee of the Jewish \Velfare Board
it was resolved that the Board notify
the I. O. B. It that for the con.
venience of account Ile and as a mat-
ter of definite management this Boar . 1
would urge that the new relation-
ship take effect as Of April I, and
that. with this in %iew the I. O. It II
continue to meet its financial obliga-
tions until such date, and that corre-,
spondingly its financial statements .
close as of such date, and that be-
gMning April I, this Board receive
from the I. 0. B. It. all cash and
other assets and assume therewith all
obligations and liabilities in relation
to welfare work.

"FILL THE FLAG" IS
SLOGAN OF DETROIT
PATRIOTIC FUND

Campaign to Raise Money for All
Patriotic Funds Including Jewish
War Fund Begins May 1st.

Buried in Cincinnati.
As typifying the spirit of patriotic
Ifrief services were conducted by giving, the adtt rtising committee of
Rabbi Leo M. Franklin at Hamil- the Detroit Patriotic Fund, through
tun's mortuary on Monday morning, which tit , • lewklt War Funds of 1 91 8
alter which the body was taken to will be raised. with the approval of
Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was bur- the executive committee, has adopted
led on Tuesday, Rabbi Louis Gross- as the emblem of the big May drive
man of Temple ll'nai Yeshurun Dili- the Stars and Stripes and a shower of
dating. Th e fo ll ow i ng d ose f r i en d, . gold, with the slogan, "Fill the flag,"
of Mr. Hecht acted as pallbearers: underneath and the words, "Detroit
Samuel Suntan nicht, of Detroit; Jul- . Patriotic Fund." displayed conspicu-
ins Strauss, of Danville, III.; Morris 0,1, 4%
Weiler, of Portland, Ind.; Milton Sil-
The design will be selected in open
berman, of Detroit; Hugh Miller, conMetition , in which all the leading
manager of the Detroit store of Stmt. , artists in the city have been invited
merfield & Hecht, an d A . V a lli.. to take part. Each artist will be giv-
queue, manager of the Delray store en a free hand in working out the
of the firm. The following also ac- idea, with the single limitation that
companied the body from Detroit to no money must touch the flag as this
Cincinnati: Mrs. Rose Levitt, of is contrary to law. The design se-
Cleveland; Adolph Sondheim, of lected will be used on posters, ban-
Jackson, Mich., and Louis Siegel, of ners, placards, etc., and will appear
Detroit. The funeral in Cincinnati also on the buttons to be worn by the
was attended by many friends of Mr. workers and contributors to the fund.
Emblem Will Unite All.
Hecht from all points of the east and
In selecting :in emblem the com-
middle west, his relatives coating
from Cincinnati. Louiscille, Ky., Chil- mittee considered many suggestions
licothe, O., and dive t an d.
and finally discarded them all in fav-
or of the flag and the shower of gold.
Great Influence in Detroit,
Mr. Hecht stablished himself in The ",war chest" idea adopted by so
Detroit 14 years ago. associating fit . many cities in connection with patri-
the furniture business with his broth.' otic fund raising did not appeal.
cr, Alfred II. Hecht and Samuel Surat-' There is nothing about a chest to
merheid. Beginning „„ an „„ pre t,.„..! commend it from an artistic s90(1-
thins scale, Mr. nicht as president of point, it was contended, and another
the concern saw it grow to a Point objection was that the idea has' been
where it is today considered one of worked to death.
On a number of occasions the flag
the most notable commercial sue-
cesses of its kind in the country. Mr. I has been used locally in the coffee-
eeht always had time for other ac- tion of funds for patriotic purposes.
ticities in life besides his b us i ne „ . Boy Scouts and others have carried
Ile always retained his membership it in parades for that purpose and its
in the Temple hound Yeshurun of CM- use in an emblem, in connection with
cinnati where lie spent much of his the shower of gold, will cisualize inn
early life. Ile was a member of the the minds of citizens the whole pur-
Temple Beth El here, the Phoenix , pose of the patriotic fund drive, in
Club. Chamber of Commerce and I the opinion of the committee.
Elks' order. Ile wa , known by his . The slogan. "Fill the flag," will be-
immediate friend. to have performed come the watchword of the campaign.
many charitable acts of a private na- It will appear in the advertising !nat-
ture in his characteristic unassuming ter. on posters and billsboards. It
maner, besides contrilititing gener- w-ill greet the citizen at every turn,
reminding 'JIM of his duty to the boys
ousl• to charitable institutions.
"over there." The workers will take
Business Career.
NIT-. Hecht was born in lffiillicothe, up the cry at their noonday meetings
and
may even turn it into a campaign
Ohio, in 1863, the son of Herman
Hecht who emigrated to the L'ilited song.
Judge Conoll's speakers' bureau
States from Ilessen-Darmstadt, tic r-
many, in 1849, becoming naturalized w ill co-operate with the advertising
■ , 1111iiittC1 . b y explaining
the pur-
as a citizen in Nlaryland in 1855.
Aftdr a schooling iti his home town poses of the drive. The loin au al-
11r. Hecht began his business career ready has listed many ,..11inteer
at the age of 19 in Portland, Ind., speaker. and is preparing to launch
with the firm of Kirchbaum Co. It an intensive campaign about May I

Esteemed Citizen Has Passed Away

Per Year; $1.50; Copy, 5 Cenci.

JEWS IN GERMANY UNITE
TO PROTECT LEGAL RIGHTS

ELLMAN ELECTED
ASSOCIATE JUDGE
IN HIGHLAND PARK

German newspaper. recently re-
ceived in London report the amalga-
mation of all the Jewish associations
of the empire fur the protection of
the "legal rights of German Jews."
The program adopted is described as
their "irreducible minimum." The
president is James Simon, a Berlin
merchant prince contemptuously
known in looker circles as the
"Court Jew" because of the Kaiser's
professed personal friendship for hint.
The main demands of the new or-
ganization, as set forth in the
ossische Zeitung. are "legal and gen-
uine" ninahty of rights and oppor-
tuniti,'s with other citizens ''iti all
States," including the unrestricted
By his election to the office of As-
right of emigration into the Turkish
sociate Justice of Highland Park.
Empire, especially Palestine. Similar
J ;OM'S I. Ellmann, a well-known
centralization of Jewish associations,
local attorney, hold, the distinction
it is stated, is imminent in Austria-
of being the youngest city Judge in
Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria.
the state of Michigan, and also one
of the were few Jews who have been
JEWISH WELFARE BOARD
honored with judicial (Mice in this
APPEALS FOR BOOKS state. 'Hole are eery few men in
the entire
W110 have mutton!
Unbend office so early in life, for Mr.
The Jewish \Velfare Board announces
the conviction of plans for supplying Ellinanit is only thirty years of age.
The Highland Park elections were
suitable reading matter to Jewish
closely contested, Mr. 1,11maint win-
soldier.
and sailors, reading matter
which will meet the needs the men have ning over his opponent 45 votes.
...pressed, mill will form a valuable ad- In the primaries held early in March
Mr. Ellmatin ran 95 votes behind his
lifidni to the library facilities alread
competitor, who had the advantage
pioditled through the American Libra
of being an officeholder of long ex•
ssociation.
perience. ND. Ellmann's success is
The Jewish \Velfare Board is ;olive!
therefore a decided tribute to the es-
co-operating with the American Librar
Association and makes an appeal ti teem in which he is held by his many
the Jewish Wilk to contribute books ot friends and admirers in the thriving
Jewish subjects in liberal quantity, bull community, and is remarkable in view
new books and those which can he of the fact that he was the only
spared front private libraries and from successful candidate of his ticket at
the polls.
institutions.
A Comparative Newcomer Here.
It is anthainced that especially useful
The success of \I r. I•:Illusion demon-
to the cattse Will he copies of the Jessishu
Encyclopedia, liraetis History of the strates to what heights a young Mall
may 'attain despite all obstacles. Ile
Jews, together with essays and address('
on )(mist( subjects, particularly those Was 1101'11 R011111:11113 ill 1/3117 and
defiling with religion, Bible history, inini'grated to this country at the
economics and nationalism. Only nun age of lb. Ile obtained employment
plete individual volumes and eels ill as export clerk in the New York
offices of the .American Express Com-
gotsl condition can be used.
BY SHOLOM ALE1CHEM.
It is announced that the Jewish Pub pany. 11'ith characteristic Jewish cii.
(Translated by Marie Trononem
ergy and ambition he attended the
lication Society has placed sets of it
high school in the millings, and at
and night, long trains I
Ile was born, and grew up there. It publication at the disposal of the Board
the completion of his preliminary aca-
run over the railroad. was there that he left his father, and similar generosity has been shown
demie course enrolled as a ,student
One after the other they, toothier, sisters and brothers, rela- by both Jewish and non-Jewish publish
in the night classes of the I.aw Col•
ers.
speed by and announce tires and friends. \Vital are they do-
.\ model collection of volumes is now lege of the New York Cniversity. He
their advent with whistling and clat-1 ing now? They must be sitting at
received his degree of Ilachelor of
tering. The locomotives are hitched the Passover table and thinking, of being gotten together and is to be ex-
Laws in 19111 cisuccessfully quali•
to carriages full of men, horses, am- course, about hint. They must be hibited at the National F..xecutit e Office
of the Board. 19 \Vest 44th Street, New lied as a member of the New York
munition, and food for the men and. saying to themselves: "Oh, woe, God
Bar.
.1fter practicing there for two
York City, to which address donations
the horses. alone knows where our poor Leib is
of books should be sent by either ex years, \I r. Ellinami decided to enter
Night. The tirst night of Passover, now
press or parcel post. George Alexan- fields that gave more promise than
Let its peep into one of the car- 'Go ahead! AVIty aren't you pray-'der Kohut is chairman of the Jewish the
ercrowiled metropolis, atol in
riages. It is jammed with 'soldiers. Mg, you milksop, you?" the middle- Welfare Board's Library Campaign 1912 he tame to Detroit.
Ile was
Exhausted with the long journey, aged soldier nudges hint and con- Committee, and other members are admitted to the Michigan Thar and
they are resting. One squats on the Stones chanting: Harry I.. Gluckman, I George 1)olise- began the practice of his profession
floor and puffs at a piece of paper,
- AVIty are we eating moror?" (hit- rage, A.
Robinsoti, \. S. Freidus, in the city. In 1914 he opened up an
simulating a cigarette; another lies 'ter food.) Charles E. Bloch. The chairman of the office in Highland Park and his suc-
prone on the bench, face upward, and
At least, some inoror!" exclaims Committee will be glad to give any cess was meteoric. His ability 'as a
softly whistles is tune, and in his
further information in relation to the linguist in six important languages
Leib with a sad smile and glances at
whistling there are heard sorrow, his older comrade, Rachmiel by campaign to any persons who may ad- soon brought him a large clientele
and a great host of friends.
grief and a greeting to his distant .
dress hint.
A Real Public•Spirited Citizen,
home, to the far-off eillage, where name. And Rachmiel replies, again
more than half in Russian: "Non-
NIr. Ellin:um not toil) devotes hint-
the snow must have already melted, , sense , Nyh at
eon want moror JEWISH BATTALION
faithfully to his growing prac-
and the odor of yi idiot. is felt every- - for?"
and goes 0 11 with the prayer:
TO BE FIGHTING SOON tice but is a potent influence in the
where, and voices are heard from
,
"For bitter was our forefathers' life
afar—the village maids are singing ,
• development of the civic and com-
in Egypt!'
London .Announcement by the Gov- munal life of his community without
their melodious songs.

Local Attorney Becomes
Youngest City Judge in
Michigan in Close Contest.'

REMARKABLE SUCCESS
IN 14 YEARS IN U. S.

Charles H. Hecht

The First Seder at the Front

Not in Egypt is the mind of kart- ernment that the Jewish regiment being
It seems to him he actually hears
them singing—and he keeps time with nth!' HOW, but at home( somewhere recruited by the British Army will tight
his Whistling.
in the Ckraine. in Malopereshchepena, in Pale,tine, is considered as a visible
Apart from the rest, on the bench with his wife and children. And he et idence of the determination of the
under the lamp, two soldiers are sit- recalls the farewell scene, when he flovertitnent to restore the Jews to Pal-
ting--one middle-aged with a trim- tried his hest to reassure e , •iY 1991Y , estine. News of the recruiting for the
toed. black beard, the other consid- to tell them what big cowards they regiment in the United States has
erably younger with a small red all were; that the war Wai; 110t as caused much pleasure among the Jews
heard; and in spite of their heavy As- black as it was painted. for "just in England.
The first contingent of the Jewish
trakhan hats, one can read in their as the enemy may kill me, SO 110 I
pale faces, in their white hands and stand a chance of killing him; that is regiment, which was formed a few.
months ago, has left fur the East. A
(lark eyes, that they are of our bred)y first of all. And secondly. I am a
feu days ago these men marched
rem, of the sons of Israel. soldier who has served the country.
through Cairo, Egypt. They were re-
Both of them are looking into a faithfully for Me 3( ars, and since the
ceived enthusiastically, and a large num-
little prayer book. They are reading cnemY has attacked our land, I must
ber of recruit, were gained.
attentively, and, bending to and fro. tight to the but drol , of blood,"
A arge
I
number of men for the regi-
are chanting something in subdued
But when he began to kis. his chil-
mem are in training in England and the
was here that he met and became firm -
tones. They • pray, and pray, and dren farewell, and the little ones regiment's headquarters in London and
friends and business associates with SHANGHAI JEWS TO BUILD
pause every 110V1• and then, and speak burst out crying, and the youngest, training camp in West England are the
Morris Weil, r of Portland and Julius COTTAGES IN PALESTINE to each other in a low voice, and then Isaac, wound around him like a ser-
centers of great interest to Jews and
Strauss, now cif the Strauss-Louis Co.
pent. and began to yell: "Pas no go to non-Jeu s. Recently the Jewish recruits
again resume their chanting.
Tilt. 11:Wish C01111111111i1) of Shang-
of Danville, III. \\*till Mr. Strauss he
It is the Ilagadah, the Passover war h" and his wife "v"°"cd — Rach - marched through London and were re- JUDGE-ELECT JAMES I. ELLMANN.
hai, China, has voted to erect 100 c o t-
upend a store in Hicksville, Ohio,
prayer book they are reading; they nnet could no longer contain himself, I v iewed by t h e Lor d mayor and Icy the
tages at a cost of 50 pounds sterling,
becoming imokedl in any political
where he remained for five years.
are performing the rites of the cut himself loose from them and ran municipal authorities of Stepney, a Jew-
each, to house 100 Jewish families in
controvers es, haying newer contested
After a short residence in Toledo.
Seder.
out of the house, and as soon as he ish section.
Palestine, as its contribution toward
for public office before. His activi-
Ohio, he removed to Danville,
entered the railroad carriage together
"Why are we eating matzolis?"
the Restoration Fund. The Jewish
ty as a public-spirited citizen is in-
where together with Julius Strauss lie
with the other soldiers he tried to for- POLISH PRIME MINISTER
"Oh,
if
1
only
had
a
piece
of
mat-
communities of flung Kong and
Ilit iitell iu 111 appointment as arbi•
bought out the business of Gimbel
get his wife and children, tor he was
zoh!"
exclaims
the
younger
one,
with
WISHES TO BECOME A
Singapore have been asked to co-op-
trator in the difficulties that arose
Bros. which concern was the founda-
going to fight for his cou ntr y.
erate in the interests of the Fund, and a sigh, and the older one replies, half
FRIEND OF THE JEWS some time ago between the peoples
tion of the 'famous Gimbel Bros. of
in Russian:
'rhos he proudly winds up his tale,
NIr. N. E. It Ezra has reason to
Relief Committee and the Central
New York and Philadelphia. Ile was
'Fool! In war one is free from re- and his dark, g beaming eyes light up
believe that these two far-distant
Polish p r i nt , Relief Committee. Mr. Ellmann was
Commliage„. The
very successful here, but after eight
with a str ange fire which his chu m
. '
Jewish centers will rise to the great ligious observation, free—under-
1111111S1en, .10211. hucharzewsky, who associated in this arbitration with
years decided to enlarge his activi- occasion.
stand?"
Leib does not like to see. Not that
nes is famed as the ProdItutzel and David Goldman.
from tonne.. t i mes
ties in greater fields. After selling
lie hates it—he simply does not tin-
"Why, then, are we praying?"
.A strong effort is being made to
had invited •\ II three gentlemen devoted much oi
out the Danville business Mr. Hecht secure the official approval of Japan
"Lest sve forget that they are hav- derstand it. Rachtniel is an experi- rl " t elrseseatinttal-t
,
Sise.enitt
the representatives sl o . 'f the J ew i s h, their time to this case in the interest
'need
soldier
from
the
reserves,
and
came to Detroit.
ing
Passover
over
there,
at
home."
and
addressed
em
in a speec h of the entire community and suc-
and China. of the British declaration
th
Charitable Bequests.
The younger soldier becomes lost he, Leib, from Holonesliti, is a raw,
in favor of a Jewish National ho•e-
in which he declaryd that he was not ceeded' in solving a most delicate mat-
The high esteem and honor in land in Palestine. NIr. David San- in thought. The sweet, dear . words: untrained recruit, who came here at
any time so much against the ter to the satisfaction of both parties
which Nfr. Hecht is held by the resi- delso. of Isinglao. Japan, has sue. "Passover," "Over them . ' ''at home," with a whole party of "greenies.'
He took sick on the way'. spent al- Jews as what they pictured him to be and the public. ND. Ellinann's public
dents of Danville. III.. is demonstrat- leeiled in interesting Viscount Inouye, penetrate into his heart, flow through
—ail now, he further asserted, that interest has not been confined to his
ed to the highest degree in the action a member of the Japanese House of his being, till him with grief and' most a month in the hospital, and
recovered they placed him the time is altogether different, and city. A few years ago he tiled a rig-
Inc
homesickness,
and
his
soul
breaks
the
when
of the four newspapers of that city Peers, and reports that all the Chi-
the situation greatly altered. and he orous protest with the Federal au-
fetters of the body—and flies there, in the carriage where he met Rach-
issuing special memorial editions on nese statesmen are sympathetic.
is now out to have the Jews get all thorities against the anti-seinitic ad-
there to a small town in Bessarabia. micl, and the two Jews soon got ac-
learning of his death. Danville is
a national newspaper
citizenship rights and even national tivities in
famous as the home of Hon. "Uncle of 88 years. and his mother died last The town is very small, and is called (maimed with each other, became
printed iti the Roumanian language.
privileges in the Polish state,
Joe" Cannon, former speakers of the year. By his will tiled in probate this Holonesliti. and the mud in the streets chummy, told each other of their
This
protest
was
instrumental in put-
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House of Representatives. Mr. Can- week. Mr. Ifecht made a bequest of would surely reach up to one's waist-, troubles, and ended in becoming in-
ting a stop to a HU/St unfortunate and
BOARD NAME IS CHANGED,
non and Mr. Hecht became very good $1.000 to the United Jewish Charities line, and the town is full of poverty- timate friends. Leib boastfully told
scurrilous series of attacks cm th.
---
friends despite Mr. Ifeches afliliation and 55(K) to the Jewish Fresh Air SO- stricken people. Oh, the poor peoplell Rachmiel that he had been given by
The Jewish Board for Welfare Jewish people, for which hi r. Ellinann
With the Democratic party. ciety. The rest of the estate is di- And the congestion, and the filth, and his folks a little prayer book and lVork will in the (more be known as received the thanks of many of the
Mr. Hecht is stirs iced by his sis- sided between his brother and sister, the lack of fresh air—may God have phylacteries, small, diminutive phylac- the Jewish Welfare Board—U. S. nation's leading citizens.
Prominent in Jewish Life.
ter, Rose, and his brother, Alfred II. except bequests of $1010 to Harry pity! But how dear it all is to him! teries. Rachmiel looked at the book Army and Nagy. The (hailer in
Hecht. His father, Herman Hecht. and Philip Epstine and small be- This very small, poor, dirty, congest- and phylacteries, and said that the name was decided upon because of
The office of Associate Justice of
ed, filthy town of Holoneshti!
its simplicity and brevity.
(Contiriinil on Page Four)
died about two years ago at the age quests to relative , .
(Continued on Page 8.)

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