A merican periodical Cuter CLIFTON ARNIM • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO THE JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION VOL. III. NO. 19. - - - DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1918. ----- 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. - - - 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.