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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

VOL. III. NO. 22.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1918.

Per Year, $1.50; Copy, 5 Gift
CALLS ON GOVERNMENT Isadore Levin Honored
Jewish Welfare Beard in U. S. Army and Navy
Greatest Contemporary Jew-
TO RESTRICT JEWISH
By Staff Appointment
ish Philosopher Dies ALL CLASSES WELCOME
Will
Care
for
Men
Through
Local
Branches
IMMIGRATION'
JEWISH COMMISSION
Prof. Hermann Cohen Was Only Jew-
IN JERUSALEM
ish
Professor
in
Germany
and
German Paper Wants Frontiers Closed

to Jews of East Europe—Favor.
Palestine Settlement and "Equal
Right." for Jews Elsewhere.

Dr. Horace J. Wolf Outlines Organization Plan Through Which all
Needs of Jewish Soldiers and Sailors will be Provided. Detroit
Branch of Jewish Welfare Board Completes Organization.

Head-
quarters to be Established Here. $1,500,000 Necessary to Carry

Decidedly Anti-Prussian.

A dispatch from Berlin announces
the death of Professor Hermann Co-
hen at the age Of 7o. Professor CO -
I 1 ICS 111 . :1111 will come as a shock to
the many admirers and followers that
he had in this country., as well as in
many other lands. Born in 1842 in a
small town in Germany, Cohen pur-
sued his studies in Dessau, Berlin,
I I alle and Breslau. His Jewish train-
ing he received at the Breslau Semi-
nary, but his inclination to philo-
sophic studies made him give up his
desire to become a rabbi and he ac-
cepted, in 11473, an offer to become
instructor in philosophy at the Uni-
versity of hiarburg. In 1875 he was
appointed assistant profes-sor and in
the following year was made a full
professor at the same university. Co-
hen was for a time the only Jew who
was given that honor in Germany.
During his occupancy of the chair
of philosophy at M•rburg., that town
became the Mecca for thousands of

Fearful that the "Vaterland" may
Out Work for 1918.
be overrun by a horde of foreigners,
morally inferior to the Teutons and
inspired only by the brute instinct of
self-preservation, tleheimen-Regier-
DETROIT'S QUOTA WILL BE RAISED THROUGH
ungsrat, George Fritz calls upon the
PATRIOTIC FUND.
German government to close its fron-
tiers against the free immigration of
eastern Jews. Otherwise, he says, the
Following soon after the visit or in the pt•rsonnel of the Board, and
national and economic life of the em-
Rabbi Horace J. W'olf, Field Secre- are co-operating with it, A National
pire is threatened with great danger.
tart' of the Jewish \Velfare Board in • \ dvisory Council of One Hundred is
In an article which he publishes in
the C. S. .\rilly and Navy, the local now being named, with repr•senta-
the Deutsche Zeitung, Fritz says that
brach of the J.W.B. perfected its or- tives from all parts of the country.
Germany's attitude toward the Jewish
ganization, and will proceed to co-, For the purpose of organization on
problem must be considered only front
operate actively' with the national the nation-wide basis, the United
the viewpoint of expediency. lie
body in the welfare of over 60,01)) States is divided into four grand sec-
Jewish b oys now i n
urges, on the other hand, that Ger-
service. A De- tions or departments, with a Field
many should support the attempts
trait headquarters will soon be open- Secretary assigned to each depart-
made to secure civic equality for the
, ed and a definite program will be fol- meat, 'These field representatives are
Jew, in other lands, and is willing,
lowed. stationed at the various camps and
also from the standpoint of what is
The officers of the Detroit ltrancli naval bases where Jewish men are
expedient for his country, that it
of the Board are: President, Fred NI. mobilized. At the present time the
should further Jewish Palestinian
!hazel; vice-president, Rabbi A. 11. JAV.B. employ's over 100 such men,
aspirations. This last, however, pro-
Hershman; Treasurer, Rabbi Leo M. but the number is rapidly growing by
vided Jewish Palestine should be tin-
Franklin; Secretary, I. \V, Jacobs. the accession to the ranks of about
der Turkish suzerainty and under the
The directors are I), \V. Simons, 20 additional men each month.
Bernard Ginsberg, Charles C. Simons,
control of the Central Powers. Oth-
Local Branches.
erwise he is opposed to it, for then it
Milton M. Alexander, Jacob Nathan,
m es. I . G o ldb erg. at, w o lf Kapl
would become a center of opposition
an .
In addition to the national organi-
to German "world and commercial -
\N'olf addressed a large zither- zation, local branches are being es-
political interest S. "
ing at a luncheon at the Phoenix club tablislied in virtually every Jewish
fi 1' does not blame the Jews, he
on Thursday, April 25, and delivered community, to which the I Femples,
says, our can anyone else blame them
an address at the Temple Beth El last Synagogues, lodges, V. M. II. A., the
First
Lieut.
Isadore
Levin
Sunday morning. In these two talks Sisterhoods and auxiliaries elect stele-
for having entered into negotiations
with the British government, and for
Lieu' Dr. Wolf clearly set forth the par- gates. The local branches organize
Word has been
received that Mrs. pose and method of organization of committees which take care of all
frank manifestation of affection for tenant Levin, son of
Rabbi and
England and America. But, he points Judah L. Levin, has been appointed i the Jewish Welfare Board, and he matters relating to drafted men, re-
out, for Palestine to remain in control as an instructor of artillery , in the , a so related Ins own experiences in ligious activities, personal service, en-
of the Entente means the failure of military college of the General Staff camp in the working out of all prob. tertainment and hospitality, publicity
Germany's plans in - Mesopotamia con- in France. Lieutenant Levin will ' lents confronting the Jewish soldier. and information, statistics and finance.
Organized Last Spring,
fleeted with the Bagdad railway and also co-operate with other staff otli-
The Detroit branch of the JAV.II. will
Dr. Wolf stated that the Jewish soon make public the personnel of
the renunciation of her commercial cers of the school in revising the ,
and colonial policy not only in east- military manual of the American army. Welfare Board is a national organiza- committees to undertake the details
•
•
ern Asia but also in Africa.
lion ministering to the needs of the of the various divisions of this work,
lie will contribute to the artillery thousands of Jewish men
Coming back to hik major thesis, branch of the manual.
lt now en-
The local boards will aid the na-
Fritz says: "Austria, and especially Levin is in excellent health and
Lieutenant
rolled in the Army and Navy and tional organization in distributing
spirits.
Vienna, is already overcrowded by
The honor that has come to him is such future increments as may be bibles and prayer hooks to the men
Galatians who understand how to a recognition by the officers of the called to the colors. The Board was l in its community or in camps nearby,
evade being sent back whence they
created in the spring of 1917 by joint they will make all necessary arrange-
igehr command in his scholastic soil- action of a number of national Jewish : pietas to entertain the soldiers dm-
came. The German empire is now ity.
Before enlisting in the Officers ,
PROF. HERMANN COHEN.
threatened with the same fate by Pol- Training School at Fort Sheridan last organizations, which are represented.
(Continued On Page 6.)
ish and Russian Jews. • • a Our na- summer, Lieutenant Levin was the
students who Hocked there to sit at
tive Jewry would be significantly youngest professor of law in the coon
- SECOND CONTINGENT
tiou of Mr. Miller an organization has the feet of the great savant. Ile was
strengthened by these added numbers, try. He taught in the Detroit Col-.
FOR JEWISH BATTALION been built up in the city for the pur- the recognized authority 1111 Kantian
but their assimilatory efforts would lege of Law.
se of stimulating recruiting among philosophy and his works are consid-
be hindered by a mortifying relation-
TO LEAVE SOON ' 1 , (1 ;,,,
J ew i s h
ered standard works in the domain
young men who for
ship, A revival of anti-semitism would
of modern philosophic thought.
David A. Brown Will Tell
some reason are not subject to the
be a natural consequence, and it
Local Committee Headed by J. Miller American draft law. The
Cohen was one of the few great
Grand Rapids Citizens
officers of
would endanger the civic equalization
Is Congratulated by Capt. Bea-
About Patriotic Fund
this committee are: J. Miller, Chair- Jews of the present time who also
of the native element."
ter for Recruiting Work.
took a deep interest Jewish af-
man; Benj. Robinson. Secretary; Nlax
For these reasons, says Fritz, the
—
David A. Brown, one
Lieberman. Treasurer. 'The members fairs. Ile was one of the founders of
native Jewish element sides with his
of the ‘ice-1
the
German Society for the spread of
presidents of the Detroit Patriotic
Since Detroit's first contingent of 'of the committee are: Rabbi A. NI.
point of view, and hopes that meas-
fund, has accepted an invitation to Jewish boys left the city to join the Hershman, Fred M. Butzel. George Jewish learning and wrote a number
ures will be taken to prevent the ins
speak in Grand Rapids, Sunday, on I l• idaean Battalions of the British Avrtinin, Morris Zackheim, Nlax Lie- of important works on Jewish theol-
tending mass-immigration he fears. the purposes of the fund and its plans '\ slily fighting in Palestine, recruiting berman, Eli Lightstone, Capt. Her- ogy and ethics. Ill 1912, on the oc-
Iherehire, he proposes that an effec- for the big drive, May
211-27, when at the local station at 303 Hasings man IVaiss, E. Rabinowitz. Joseph casion of his seventieth birthday an-
tire defence against this Detroit
menace
Street,
has
received
an added impetus
niversary, the Jewish scholars of the
will raise
more than
$7 000
-
Ehrlich, Joseph Chaggi, M. Margolis,
should at once be set up, by the ins-
000 for war relief and local charities and it will not be long until the see- I. Shetzer, Louis Stoll, Benj. Robin- world issued a %ohmic of essays in
mediate issue of an immigration law
his
honor.
The Knights of Columbus of Grand 'end contingent goes forward
The son, J. Miller, Mrs. II. Weinstein,
which, without the least fear of "Jew-
Rapids are about to stage a drive for last group that marched off tinder the Miss Sara IVetsinan.
Was Anti-Prussian,
ish sensitiveness" should close Ger-
$50,000 and Mr. Brown will address !tanners of the United States and
parmesan
ohen spoke
Capt. E. B. Baxter of the British-
loudly
man frontiers against foreign Jews.
the opening rally. The men back of Great Britain. and the blue and white Canadian Recruiting Mission congrat- against Prussianism and spoke in such
In the enforcement of that law, the
standard of the Zionist organization Mated Mr. Miller and the committee bitter terms against the Prussian sys-
this
campaign
arc
eager
to
know
more
test should not be religious conform-
about Detroit's federated plan of col- contained over 31) men, but in the (in their efforts in obtaining such a tensfor more than thirty years that
ance alone, but descent from Jewish
letting war funds with a view to ;minion of Mr. J. Miller, Chairman of splendid lot of fellows that have al- everyone in Germany could hear it.
ancestry of foreign nationality.
adopting it later, it is understood. he Detroit Committee for the Juda- ready enlisted. He declared that the At times, when waves of •nti-Semi-
Several cities have sent representa- can Battalions, the next contingent send-off mass meeting at the Hannah tism ran high Hermann Cohen had the
POPULAR YOUNG BUSINESS
will make a much more formidable Schloss building was one of the most courage not only to go out and de-
MAN TO HELP MAKE MUNITIONS fives to Detroit to secure information
on the Detroit federation, which has ishowing. successful and enthusiastic Inc has ever fend his people against one of the
Under the efficient and able direr- attended.
most infamous conspiracies ever di-
\Viten the next Detroit quota of men . been called the most comprehensive
rected against us, but even had the
leave for camp next week it will include fund-collecting plan ever conceived.
courage to attack our aggressors bit-
—
-
Nathan E. Rosenberg, one of the
terly; still the Gov ern anent did 1101
most popular and successful young MARSHALL DENIES
dare to touch him because he was the
t.-ST TO BAKER
business men who have contributed to
greatest philosopher of his tulle and
make this city famous as the "young
public
opinion in Europe would not
New York—Louis Marshall denied
luau's town." \I r. Rosenberg is en-
stand for the punishment of a man
listed through his local board in the last Monday that he had ,mionitted to
like liermann Cohen, just as public
production department of the ord- Secretary Baker a protest against al-
opinion in Europe did not stand for
nance MY j•ion, and he will leave for !eget! "continuous unjust, unfair and
the punishment of a Gorky by the
the 1. s rmy training camp at Co- discriminatory treatment" of the Jews
liomatioffs. Just as Gorky was the
in the army, as reported recently in a
most
admired and recognized Rus-
dispatch from \Vashington.
Mar-
sian
poet and writer and could not be
shall declared there was absolutely no
punished by the Romanoff regime, so
tustilication fur the report and that
could nut the representatives of the
he did not contemplate making any
Prussian Government punish Her-
such protest.
mann Cohen in spite of his revolu-
tionary ideas because he was, in the
DELEGATES TO CONVENTION.
estimation of all those who have an
opinion of philosophy, the greatest
Messrs. Max Rosinsky, J. Levin.
philosopher of his time. The fact that
president of the Detroit NI izrachi. and
the Prussian Government had to tol-
I. Lichtenstein, have been elected del,
erate Hermann Cohen in its midst
-gates from the local Mizrachi to the
proves best the position Hermann
national C0111 colon of the order in
Cohen held in the philosophic world.
New. York, which takes place this
week-end. They left the city on
Laming Declares Stories of Turkish
Thursday..
FFECTIVE June I, PITS, the subscription price of The
Atrocities Against Jews Incorrect.

Catholic and Mohammedan Dignitaries
of Jerusalem Enthusiastically
Welcome Zionist Palestine
Commission,

The epoch-making character of the
Jewish administra-
tive commission sent to Palestine by
the Zionist organization, on its ar-
rival in Jerusalem on April 10th, is
clearly set forth in a description of
the event which has been cabled to
the Provisional Zionist Committee
from Jerusalem. Dignitaries of the
world's dominant religions, Christian-
ity, Mohammedanism and Judaism,
including the Francisciatt Custode,
the Greek Archimandrite, the Arch-
bishops of the Armenian Church, Or-
thodox Rabbis representing the Ash-
kenasic and Sephardic wings, leaders
of the 'Yemenite Jews and Dr. J.
Thon, resident representative of the
Zionist movement, united with the
president of the Jerusalem . municipal-
ity, and the British military governor,
Col. Storrs, in welcoming Dr. Weitz-
man and his associates in the com-
mission.

reception to the

l'he same dignitaries participated
in the great meeting held the follow-
ing (lay 011 t h e Mount Of Olives,
at
the site of the projected Ilebrew Uni-
versity, Dr. Chaim Weitzman, head
of the Jewish Administrative Com-
mission, spoke first in Hebrew, de-
claring his firm belief that from this
site a new moral force would go forth
for the uplifting of the whole Jewish
people. 'Own, speaking in English,
he gave voice to the gratitude of the
whole of Jewry to the British govern-
ment for its declaration in favor of
establishing it Jewish National home-
land in Palestine, and said that the
Jewish people would always remem-
ber this act of humane statesmanship.
For the deed of liberating the Jews
of Palestine, he thanked Lloyd George
and General Allenby, The 4,000 par-
ticipants ill the demonstration made
the mountain-side resound with their
cheers.

Major Ormsby-Gore, the non-Jew-
ish member of the administrative
commission, who is serving as liaison
officer between the commission and
the British cabinet, replied on behalf
of the British government. Only the
Jew ish people, working in harmony
with the Arabs and Armenians, he
said, could build up a free, prosperous
and contented Palestine. James Roths-
child, another member of the Jewish
Commission, delivered an address, in
which hw hailed the new era of hope
and fulfillment for the Jewish people.
The Mufti expressed his gratification
over the utterances of Dr. Weitzman.
At the conclusion of the enthusiastic
demonstration, the audience joined in
singing "II atikvab," the Jewish na-
tional hymn. and "( iod Save the
King."

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Local Boy Write. How It Feel

s to
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"Over There"

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Announcement

The increased cost of
paper and other items

compels us to increase the
subscription price of "The
.-. Jewish Chronicle."

NATHAN E. ROSENBERG.

lumbus for intensive instruction in the
technical branches. Mr. Rosenberg.
with his characteristic ambition and
energy, has completed a mechanical
course in one of the local schools
and when he enters the army his ac-
quired knowledge and skill will no
doubt provide greater opportunities
for rapid promotion.
Mr. Rosenberg is one of the or-
ganizers of the uniformed rank of the

Detroit Lodge N. 55, Knights of
Pythias. and has been one of the most
active members in that order. lie is
also a member of the Young People's
Society of Temple Beth El and the
Young People's Auxiliary of Shaarey
Zedek and has a host of friends in
both organizations.
Mr. Rosenberg came to Detroit in
1912 so that he is justly entitled to a
seat among those who have "helped
to make the Dynamic City." His en-
gagement to Miss Madeline It. Cohen,
of this city, was recently announced,
therefore Mr. Rosenberg may be de-
pended on to do his best to "get the
Kaiser over there" as soon as possi-
ble. During his absence Mr. Rosen- 1
berg's insurance business will be taken
care of by Mr. Nathan Simmons, 1926]
Penobscot building.

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Wishington.--A letter front Secre-
tary. of State Lansing to Congress-
man Siegel. states that the reports in
the press regarding the Turkish atroc-
ities against the Jews, after the re-
treat from Jerusalem, were entirely
inaccurate. This news confirms all
of the statements made by our cot.-
respondent a week ago. Alter Levine
and Vigdales hail been imprisoned,
but were freed by court-martial. The
U. S. Government is taking great in-
terest in all matters concerning the
Jews. A report has also been made
regarding other Jews who were im-
prisoned in Turkey.

HARRY E. LIVINGSTONE.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Lampke,
293 Kirby E., who is in active service
on the battlefields in France with an
Ambulance Company. The above pho-
tograph was received last week by
his parents along with an interest-
ing letter detailing his experiences at
the front. Mr. Livingstone carries two
gas masks, the one on his right being
the French mask, and the mask on
his left is the type used by the Eng-
lish. Extracts from his letter follow:
"During the past week we have
'been building a road, first we dug the
bed, filled it with rocks, made lots of
FOR A GOOD KOSHER MEAL
little ones out of big ones and now we
you should try LIEBERMAN'S are putting on the finishing touches,
KOSHER RESTAURANT, (Home covering it with gravel.
Cooking) 36 Monroe Ave.,
Second " e take time to watch all air bat-
Floor.—Adv.
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