A merican
periodical Cuter
CLIFTON ARNIM • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
VOL. III. NO. 19.
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1918.
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Fired First American Shot
Dr. B. 0. Harris
Dies, a Victim
Against Germany—Wounded
of Pneumonia
Brilliant Career of Honored
Young Physician Ends in
Twenty-fourth Year of
Active Life.
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Per Year, $1.50; Copy, 5 Cents.
Jewish Commission in Tel-Aviv.
Help Win The War
Buy Liberty Bonds
MARCUS LANDAU
Headquarters of the Jewish Ad-
ministrative Commission for Pales-
tine have been established in Tel-
Avis, where it has already begun its
labors.
Max Madison,
Our First Jewish
War Casualty
Its first task is organizing and
administering all the relief funds fur
Jewish and non-Jewish population of
Palestine. It has entered upon this
work with the authority of the British
Government and has taken over the
duties hitherto performed by the spe-
cial relief committee in Cairo.
in its arrival in Palestine, the Jew-
The Detroit Jewish community suf-
ish Administrative Commission paid fered its first war casualty last week
Enlisted in Marines Last April
—Helped Convoy Our
Troops to France
Four Tunes.
Stricken by death at the very
threshold of a most promising and
brilliant professional and public ca-
reer, Dr. Benjamin O. Harris fell a
respects to General Allenby, at in the death of young Max Madison,
victim to pneumonia at his home, 102
BY DR. GOTTHARD DEUTSCH
military headquarters. It was re- a soldier of the Marines, who fell a
Farnsworth Avenue, on Tuesday
Written for The Jewish Chronicle
veleta] by the Duke of Connaught and victim to pneumonia at an Atlantic
morning. The young physician had
t t (1.1eagl:.ri t;iistc. 11 A:11 ;1(10f Atiti,ieeriitt- ra ii ti killi it
ils941,4o
HE interruption of our l or the Russian province by that nane
his
been ill only a few days and the an-
s sneal shipped
front to
mail service with the great-
which
-leaving the territorial changes ere-
nouncement of his death was a dis-
thorities
are
in
full
sympathy
with
I ;tied by the present war out of
place funeral services were conducted
tinct shock to hundreds of people
er part of the European
colt-
the Commission and are giving
)".. RAabbimA
ilitahrly.
sideration. His family name indicates
who knew and loved hint in this city.
cry assistance.
it cr.
oaffif tetiarit'i°n(g
continent is responsible for that his ancestors belonged to the
No other young man in Detroit was
During
its
stay
in
Cairo,
Dr.
IVeitz-
guard
of
honor attended in the form
so well known and respected for his FIRST LIEUTENANT HAROLD M. the hare and indefinite notice that numerous German families who in the
man, head of the CtillItlItSS11.11, and Of
Marcus Landau, a celebrated author fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were
a squad of soldiers from Fort
noble character and achievements as
HIRSH.
on comparative literature, died in \'i- compelled by persecutions and ecii- the other members, were rewired by Wayne. The guard accompanied the
was Dr. Harris, whose useful life was
mina in his eighty-first year. Under nomic oppression to seek new homes the British High Commissioner, who foods , to its tinal resting place at the
taken in his twenty-fourth year.
Lieutenant Hirsh is the "American normal conditions
we would lust. in the yet sparsely settled kingit3iT spoke of the favorable impression Smith Avenue cemetery where the
Dr. Harris was practically a life- lieutenant" who tans mentioned in dis-
made upon him by the Jew ish col- formal three volleys were fired over
long resident in Detroit, having come patches from France last December as been able to read exhaustive appreci- of Poland, where a middle class, con•
units in Palestine and expressed his his grave and the bugle •sounded taps.
here with his parents when he way having been in command of the ',at- ations of the work which this remark- necting the land holding lord and the
deep sympathy 15 ith the Zionist aims. NIr. Madison was only 20 years of
one year of age. Ile was one of the tery that fired the first American shot able man did in the field of history toiling peasant had not yet developed.
and literature, e'
11
age at his death. Ile enlisted with
s. • I here the Jewish immigrant boon
most conscientious students in the o tt the war against the German lines.
I
a
the Marines the day following dec-
grade schools and graduated from the 'The shot was fired from a big field to Italy. From a strictly Jewish . field of economic activity as mechat ic
viewpoint, this would only be inter-' an occupation denied him in west&
laration of war with Germany, being
Central High School in 1910 with high , piece and the shell is
said to have cre- esting insofar, as it shows, hots we Europe by the guild system, as in rut
one of the first to offer his services.
scholastic honors. lle enrolled as a ated hatoe in the Hun trenches.
-
er-
have
in
the
course
of
a
century
enact-
•
chant
in
his
old
home,
hedged
in
student in the Detroit College of Sew- was received last week by
Its. Prominent Attorney Announces Candi• Ile underwent an intensive training
1 1 • .
. u amit i and guard- th e many restrictions that
at Park Island, and was in the same
and Mrs. Alfred Curtin •
dacy for Place on Bench. Is First
Nledicine and Surgery and displayed ' . parents. Mr
they prae-
'
' —
group with Lieut. Edwin Denby, who
ed the vineyards of otht•rs,
for
Mar-
tically
amounted
to
a
prohiliitiMi
and
Hirsh, of Philadelphia, that the young cue
.
Jew
Elected
to
State
Senate.
Land
au tote sr r) at e
his earnest purpose by supporting arti llery otticer hail hem wounded in
Jew- a, Imancier, chiefly a sums farmer, for
had enlisted as a private. He was
of Jew-
himself through his entire course. Ile action during a recent raid. [dent Hirsh i di interest. Met, as a specimen 1.f ti
Inch owing to the Polish constitip
flu' mans friends of Joseph NI. given special training and was pro-
earned the reputation among his fel- seed on the Mexican border with : th
served
e ti growing' secularization of Jewish lion which made every noble an auto• ‘Vek.s. a prominent attorney and pub- moted to the rank of petty officer as
low students as the most brilliant
f life
doeoectino
ofe alarcus Landau, ow- crat on his estates,
a pharmacist's mate. It was his priv-
student of his class. Ile graduated . Itattery A, of East Orange, N. J. He itug
offered optimum- lic sertant. are pleased to learn that
to his faintly connections, is an
received his
'f irs far superior to those of Germany , Ice has decided to contest for a Judge- ilege to cross the seas in the face of
in 1914 at the age of 20 with honors
. commission at the Officers'
•
•
T r aining amp at host Meyer, Pa., on impressive
t t %ti mom
of
min i m.„ J itt ht i t, tti.
he Landau family was for three cell- ship on dn. l iienit Court Bench at the 1.1-boat menace four times with-
In the practice of his profession
August 10, 1917, the date of his 26th
lurks very prominent and furnished the fall elections to fill four new seats out any serious mayhap, aiding in the
Dr. Harris early attained a recogni- birthday. lie was among the first of
many Talmudic scholars, in those on the bent ii cre;tt,d by the last legis- convoy of American troops "over
Native of Poland.
lion as a skillful and learned physi- the American continents to go "over
days the indis jo iisahle title to social lature to lake care of the growing liti- there." Ile visited in Detroit on a
n os „ i„ iti.od " . the old
clan, contributing several able paters there" and has 1,e '
furlough about six weeks at which
active
t. 0 distinction in Jew ry.
Ezekiel Lan- gation in \Vaylie Comity. NI r. \\'•iss
r
to medical journals and contributing ' since lie landed in France and fired the Jewish life in 1837, as geat
grandson ,1„ q ' s father . Jud a
h, w as on e of t hr intends to rnndnrl Ili. campaign time he was ecry enthusiastic about
I o
much in the field of medical research. famous first shot.
f Ezekiel Landau. who together with members of the "Council of the Fu
the service and was in excellent
Not only was he a thorough student ,
ur mainly through the support of his
Elijah of \Vilna, was the strongest L a „d s. a as
th e Jewi s h (h e t of Isl a ,
nuint•rons friends and acquaintances, health. He was one of the best ath-
in his chosen profession, but he also
ul
representative
of
old-fashioned
rah-
JEWISH LEGION NOW
ryas called, an d hi s and, Hirsch, is as inasmuch as he cannot afford to cm- lutes in the city, having a splendid
took an intense and very active part
bi nie Judaism, struggling in th e
physique, being 5 feet 11 inches tall
latter rabbi of Cracow. Ezekiel had at il it , ploy a manager and maintain expert-
NUMBERS 1,000 halt of the eighteenth century' against
in the cultural fields of art and liter-
_
and weighing 180 pounds.
;,ge or forty already acquired a rep ti.. sive headquarters.
at tire. heir one 0f the F art
eading thick-
the 00.0,1, "0"1, on ideals by Imiilt
He was a student of the Detroit
-
\VIM the departuri of the third ca l „„1,,-,,,,,,,
• \I . r \\Siss was horn ill Detroit :mil
as erne of tlo. leading Tallinn 1-
acs in the city. Ile A,11,.. an ardent
gt i n the conditi on of , lacier
s , o f t h e snt . w hi e
was the nest Js•wisli boy to graduate College of Law before he enlisted and
}, meant a gin;
Jewish nationalist and Zionist, and contillto III Of the jr,, it.11 legion for the It ,s front with ou t and by the
( 1,...,1
training quarters in Canada, on \k i
, . .,,
. ., . i i i , . "-i i ,.,, ,,,, ;m i .' ' , at from the l nicest High School. Hi- was a protege of Judge Lacy, Ile
contributed many original articles be- „,...d it ,.. A pr il
ed- yearning for secular education from
mlelltt, li i.s. I the
I isin,s men Talmudic scholars an d studied law in the 1411:1 . 1 , i the fa- made a host of friends by his hale
fore the Haskallah Zionist Society. ,
life
lew i-.11 :young
and hearty and congenial personality.
ult have ":-Ii):1- r i s t t.'•itfl l'Ivti, twi.
consisting of a group of link easily ,
II il mans NI ichigati laws•er, Alfred Rui-
1 i fic .o 1 il tal vr t.t1.11; it .hai's' (I haul,
v
:
t'.1 .1, . ia :Al:: ‘,s.,‘,
He was a leading member of the
in -snit rtca
to light und e
r"r1.111.1111;'111';1..1i1"1,rr out i II" nt (1::•niii:LI.(tffithat i n sell, receiting a thorough trailing( in
recce, of which he was one of the .
r the British lost in the course 1.1 a eciiiiir,. •'''. I
.
Philmathic Debating Club. His death
Jewish
.
I
founders and leading members.
lie . reached
ass in Palestine has etas originally intended for a i san• the Imioris coninocr s ) between chit the law that has been one of the is a sad blow to all who knew hint
the thousand mark. The
rabbi, Jonathan I f.y115 , 51met/ of A
greatest influence, in his many .stie-
was a member of the NVayne Comity „hi s s t.,, i ,„„ gi., itt
uti•reial career. and lt•ft his native it)
and serves to bring the sear home to
cesses through life. In 1887 is was
'"d"'" 4151 w ho des f o r Vicnna, where lie engaged in 'isi- toms and hi, implac,11,1, opponent.),
aleilical Society. the .Miterican Nled- iso . t „1 is
its most vividly. Two brothers who
ssn N ew
cob Ilii.cb, I. es-rabbi of Linden. an 1 elected President of the I ligh School
ie al Association, the Phi Rho Sigma
York ('icy: 50 from ors.. but abandoned it for lit, raltirt .
stirs is e him are in the army, another
5. \ hinini .kssociation, a fact that evi-
resident
of
Altona.
Ezekii
I
1..o.idit
fr aternity Ian honorary scholastic si,,
Poston:
73 Iowa.
from Chici,go, and 4 from His specialty, as :dreads stated. was
n , i.„,..
brother is a student in the University
dences his universal popularity.
m edical oriel. . and Detroit L o d es
ult. a rabbi of the little town of 1.0i
\\ „ , i , thi ittiii‘ii ki.i , iiiiiii,g. Ntis. latter
Italian tit.
literatio,
and
history,
for the
„hid, .\
of Michigan and he leaves one sis-
ti.triat
thrttiigh
it.. pal in Podolia, was
His first public tollice was that of
N o. 2. E. & A. NI.
among th.oe it is
ter.
„ t ircuit Court Commissioner in 1881.
Ur • Ilarri , wa` f erried
soon
l''''"
its
ailivii"
in
•\"'"'"•
long
conni
ction
xvith
Italian
politics,
1
two roan it sent the r arly, recruits to Canada
ago to Miss Ida Moskowitz of NIt. •
k)
.
.
realizing how tt Inch lasted until 18ori, was a fertile
s
1.. .a i r. rea
hcsc hurt/. Landau was prudent, Ili
t lemens, his home life being -a most the idea of
deniers,
fighting f or d u. menst. of 141,1. One of Landau's hest known
happy one. Ile leaves to stirs is., him
is a book 1111 E.I.CraCC1.1 . : answer reads like Ileine's fainou s I
Palestils sin s gripping the imagina- worts:
,
Rt'Cilt flat ton 14'11 Itsid, II {lCI , s
Ills \\ 1110W and an infant son, Cyril ti ,„, ,,. 11,...4„.iitii youth,
et,t,sic - Dtcamerime" with its stories.
began
depurated cowl- over
Manton, t•ight months old.
Ills semi s , s ,,,,,, rnits
Judge Meek Says It Produces "Mongrel•
sai laSCii itIII,. 111:1i the EI1g111 , 11 trans-
in large
sit.,
in
Israel, aml condemn, ■ 1
km , ral seestc , s were held Irani h i'
lations are even today compelled to
ism"—Speaks at Menorah Banquet
met t- '
sending them off with fit-
cabalistic
1,111
k,
which
I
I,
late residence on Thursday afternoon. tin
With Judge Lehman ■ ad Strauss.
tiny.
, molly. Over 150 Were sent onot ono' of the
111a1111,1 r11.1
aithaut
, ,i111
,i11
■
This one fact vividly m•esents to
to !Ls,. , emu') before the new plan our
1111
the
author,
simp—sd
the
1,,
is
tettst,
i
„ t i„.
gulf h
1 ) ,Iwlief in ills -
was
operation. Since then
pmt " tlIC-
Thi.
pawl
..
Is
Ire.
LORD READING CRITICIZED. 1 ,„., •• fete
hincnt ,
gone:
four gencr,itions ty pthed by Ezekiel
y of American lift. and institutions
the
him to 1111,111C chief rabbi id haws
Landau, 1713-1703. and Marcus Lan-
as
advanced
originally
by
Israel
Hs the second. 175; and now
a position ti hich then ranked anions
dau, 1837-1918 The presentation of
Is Charged With "Culpable Neglect" of Hos.
, oii
/wigs% ill, was expressed by Judge
•
the first rabbinic chairs in Judaism. In
Jewish Law for Attending Dinner on
Julian W. Slack of the United States
"flu •• ss- are limited to those this historic de, elopment is the ob- t his communits Es beschentz had an
ject of this sketch.
First Seder Night.
who ass
District Court and Loafs Marshall at
•slijt•ct to the American
influential family and many warm ad-
draft. This ere either below th e age
Ancestors Were German Exiles.
the dinner of the Intercollegiate Nfe-
mirers from Ilia' time. tt hru he teas
nio all Association at the Hotel Bilt-
"r they are "-"."1
Ina letter to the II, Mew Standard of 21 'se
Landatt wa.; born in Po- preacher there. but also strong en-
of Ni',, - YOrk, OW Earl of Reading. inunigranl ,
11, have not
more, last Sunday. The dinner was
here dolia in the part
JOSE1'11 M. WEISS.
hiCh is nowt :di, Ia
tcontinued
on
Page
8.1
given tti J1111gl. Hack and Irving Leh•
Itriti.li Ambassador and High Cunt- 100 g enough to entitle Ow in to (le- . _
Ile
was
is
-elected
for
four
years,
be-
inis , ioner to the United States, is hit- dare their
e c o me
man. Supreme Court Justice, by the
Mt•"timi is b ""\
m"
ing the only Republican elected at association.
it'd) assailed for attending and ka" citizens.
that
time.
In
11451
he
was
honored
"Israel Zangwill was guilty of a
speaking at a dinner given in his hon-
with the distinction of being the tints' great mischief when. he -spoke of the
or by the Lotus Club of New York A BIBLE FOR EVERY
Repiddican to be elected to the State melting pot, and indicated that in it
on the first night of Passioer. The
JEWISH SOLDIER
Senate from \Vasil,. County and the he found the solution of this' Jewish
speech made by Lord Reading on this
AND SAILOR
st J,s, III Nlichigan honort.d. He limbic-1m" said Nit.. Marshall. "It seas
occasion was given wide publicity
The Jewish Publication Society of
!trued to the Senate 111 1892, clear that Zangwill is not a metallur-
(An Appreciation)
throughout the country. It related
America, whose headquarters are in
In 19041 he Was chef.' to the It•gis- gist or else he would know that in the
only to the War. The writer says:
Philadelphia. has just issued. for Jew-
• Jaime again and had the privilege of art of metallurgy the great effort
"I want to ask the Earl of Read-
He left a better, richer world
ish s.ddiers and sailors in the service
5.itin t., for Charles E. Townsend for
made by those concerned in it, by
ing , in all seriousness, whether he,
Than that which here he found,
of the United States, a handy volume
I Hon d States Senator.
In 1902 he electrolytic posers, is that the vari-
as a Jew, feels he casts credit upon
entitled "Readings from the Holy
oa• appointed I . . S. Appraiser and ous elements composing the melting
With
better
men
and
better
homes
his people by attending a dinner
Scripture."
- 'i se4 III 111 . 1 , otiirc 41 ill great dis-
in his honor by the Lotus Club on
pot shall be separated into their con-
And better thoughts around.
It consists of 276 pages and con-
t... tom Ile lass. taken a leading part stituent tints, so that the copper shall
the first eve of the Passover: whether
He left no mate to share his 'state,
tains considerable portions from near-
in the 141,111,1M:in organization in the be fused with the copper, the silver
the Gentile world will not see in his
ly every hook of the Bible, each selet.
No child to bear his name;
county. and in 1904 w'as elected Chair- with the silver, and the gold with the
course of severance from the people
tion being complete in itself.
111.115
of the Republican committts.
gold.
But he left a hundred thousand friends,
among %Omni he was horn and reared,
The text used is that of the New
lk'eis, is active in Jewish
and whetlit•r many won't turn back to Translation of the Bible issued by
"'Hie melting pot, as advocated
When his day of Judgment came.
anaii,,
being
a
member
of
the
Temple
the annals of Jew ry iti Great Britain. the Society. 'Phe book measures 3!,x
by Zangwill, produces mongrelism,
Beth
El
and
the
Hirai
!Frith.
lie
is
particularly since the era of complete 5 inches, is bound in flexible cloth,
whereas the electrolyptic process pro-
A kindly heart, a noble soul,
also a member of the Elks and several
emancipation in 1858, the anniversary printed on Bible paper, weighs less
duces virility. And so our struggle
other
social
and
fraternal
organiza-
An
out-stretched,
helping
hand—
of which is to be celebrated this very than two ounces, and will admirably
should be not to create a hybrid civil-
tinns. If elected NI r. Weiss promises ization, but to preserve
year, and find cause to point to him suet the requirements of Jews iti
A mind that strove, above all else,
the best ele-
to pay especial attention to the field
with a finger of scorn. I want to ask the service.
ments
that constitute the civilization
To ever understand—
of domestic relations, believing that
Rufus Isaacs, who the day before his
we
are
all
seeking,
the
civilization
of
These Bibles are being distributed
A sturdy champion of the frail,
much can he done to prevent crime universal brotherhood."
attendance at a non-Jewish affair, on by the Society free of charge through
in
the
correction
of
the
prevalent
un-
And all in sorry plight,
a Jewishly-consecrated night, declar- the Jewish Board for NVelfare Work
The other speakers were Nathan
fortunate social ills of the modern
ed himself in harmony with the spirit The Jewish Publication Society of
He knew no party, cause or claim,
Strauss, Justice Lehman, Henry Hur-
I home.
of Palestine restoration and wrote of America will be glad to supply this
witz. Chancellor of the Association.
Except the cause of right.
the Holy Land as the home of "our volume to any Jew in the service.
and Joseph Prospkauer, toastmaster.
Jewish Battalion to Sarre in Palestine.
ancestors," whether his course the
The Society has also issued and dis-
Justice Lehman, referred to by the
I./r. Chaim IVeitzman, president of
He made no boast of pomp or caste;
next day was not practically a be- tributed 40,000 copies of the Abridged
the English Zionist Federation, has toastmaster as "The Father of the
trayal of Jewish interests, and a cul- Prayer Book without charge to Jew-
No show of vapid state;
given his personal assurance that the Menorah Movement," said that this
pable neglect of the law of his peo- ish soldiers and sailors. It is expected
He loved alike, sincere and just,
Jewish battalion now being organized was not time to further any move-
ple. I want to ask him if be feels that about 120.000 copies of these
in this country will serve on the Pal- ment or sect that could not be made
The humble and the great.
worthy of association with the great books, 60,000 of each, will be required
estine front. According to the latest of service at the present time to the
A simple task to tell his worth,
men of his clime and country, that
reports about 100 Jewish young men, country.
made Jewish equality possible and a ored British men, whom the crown
His virtues to define;
Both Justice Lehman and Mr. Mar-
most of whom had been exempted
reality in face of a tremendous oppo- itself honored. I want to ask hint just
from the draft, have enlisted in the shall said that the Menorah move-
He lived a life that blessed the earth;
sition, to which they did not. yield these very few questions for hint to
Jewish battalion which will leave for ment would be of aid when the war
And he was a friend of mine.
even in battle. I want to ask him, if pause and consider before he again
was over, and when the reconstruc-
Palestine soon.
he does not feel abashed and ashamed reflects discredit upon the Jewish
—M. M. A.
tion period had begun, because it
if he calls to mind a Moses Monte- name he bears, and the Jewish na-
KOSHER COOKING
would aid in developing the Jewish
fibre, a Lionel de Rothschild, a David tionality from whose midst he has
for wed lines, parties or private din leaders of the next generation, who
Salomons, and a Samuel Montagu, as sprung, and to which he subscribes
ners. Hungarian or Polish style. would be true to their race and at
Write o; call Haas 250 Mt. Vernon.---
champions of the Jews, and as lion- himself by words, yet not by deeds."
the same time would be absolute in
Ads .
their Americanism
A Specimen of the Evolution of Modern Judaism.
Jos. M. Weiss Out
For Circuit Judge
"MELTING POT" THEORY
OF ZANGWILL ASSAILED
I
CHARLES II. HECII7'
p.