Americam Plash Periodical Carter CLIFTON AMU{ - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO THE JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION VOL III. NO. 25. PRES. WILSON APPOINTS FELIX FRANKFURTER LABOR ADMINISTRATOR Young Jewish Professor of Law at Harvard Heads Vital Government Bureau. HAS DONE VALUABLE WAR WORK FOR U. S. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1918. All Jewish Contributions Will Be Published. - Owing to the fact that this issue of The Jewish Chronicle goes to press early in the week, we are un- able to give a full account of the -- PROMINENT DETROITER HONORED LAST WEEK Jewish activities and contributions in the Detroit Patriotic Fund. In YOU HAVEN'T CONTRIB- UTED, DO SO AT ONCE. FELIX M. WARBURG SOUNDS KEYNOTE One of the most responsible posi- tions in the government that is crucial to the successful prosecution of the P RESIDENT PROCLAIMS war has been assumed by a Jewish MAY 30 AS DAY OF young man. Prof. 1:elx Frankfurter. FASTING AND PRAYER through his appointment recent13 as national labor administrator by Tres- A ITALIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY FAVORS Detroit Patriotic Fund Creates PALESTINE FOR JEWS Comment Among Delegates —Other Social Topics Loudon.—'Through its ambassador Discussed. at the Court of St. James, the Italian Proclamation by the President of the United States. \Vhcreas, the Congress id the United States, on the second day of .\ mil last, passed the following' res- olution: PROF. FELIX FRANKFURTER ident 'Wilson. The appointment is a remarkable one In that Mr. Frankfur- ter is but 35 years of age. Prior to the war he Was the youngest profes- sor of law in Harvard L'iliversity. The appointment of Mr. Frankfur• ter is one of the tirst acts of the pres- ident following the authority placed in his hands under the terms of the Overman bill which allows hint free reign in co-ordinating the war work of ;ill departments of the government. Mr. Frankforter will co-ordinate the industrial sections of the war and navy departments, the shipping board, the department of agriculture and the war industries board. Heretofore all of these departments have acted inde- pendently in obtaining their labor sup- ply and in making wage awards. Mr. Frankfurter's department will act as a clearing house for the supply of l- I or and will result in the elimination of competition for workers among the various governmental departments. ' Acted as Couniellor to Baker. Mr. Frankfurter, despite his youth, is exceptionally fitted fur the vital work he has undertaken. In the first week of the war he was called to \\. ashington to act as Secretary Bak- er's industrial counsellor. lie •was se nt to Europe by the government set soon after, and he came back with United States to be affixed. Done in the District of eolumbia able reports of the methods by which foreign nations were handling t h e i r i n . this eleventh day of May. in the year dustrial problems, \\Ink in England of our Lord Nineteen hundred and he earned the admiration and respect eighteen and of the independence of of Sir Stevenson Kent, head of the la- the United States the one hundred bor department of the British hlinistry and forty-second. of hlunitions from whom he learned W'OODRO\V \VILSON. valuable information that will aid him By the President: considerably in America. Before the ROBERT LANSING, war he had years of experience in Secretary of State. handEng complicated industrial litiga- tion for the federal government. Dur- the epinloyers who sent hundreds of ing the administrations of Uresidents striking miners of Bisbee into the des- leoosm eh and Taft, he prosecuted the ( rt to start r. and as a result the railroad rebate cases, the Morse- United States government has started Heinze bank case, the sugar fraud and criminal prosecutions on his recom- cotton pool cases. At different times mendations. He reported that the he appeared for the state of Oregon Mooney case of California was per- before the United States Supreme meated with fraud and malfeasance Court and sustained the constitution- and President Vt'ilson wired the gov- ality of the Oregon ten-hour law for ernor of California to pardon Mooney. men and minimum wage lave for wo- men. In these cases he was inli- Born in Galicia. mately associated with Louis D. Ilran- For this and his radical attitude on (leis whose elevation to the Supreme labor problems in general he was re- Court of the United States left the cently denounced in the senate as a cases in Mr. Frankfurter's hands. The "liolshevik." But inasmuch as Secre- young Harvard professor won all tart Baker and even President Wilson these cases before the Supreme Court. himself have been accorded similar Secretary of Mediation Commission. attention by opposition leaders in He came into unusual prominence congress, Mr. Frankfurter is in no recently as secretary of the president's way discredited. The press and mag- . Mediation Commission, of which Sec- azine comment on his appointment is rotary of Labor Wilson was chair - !favorable and gives evidence of the man. This 1,4(4 was sent to obtain universal regard for his great learning first hand information on the many and experience. He was born in .1ustrian Galicia of labor troubles that had convulsed the lie Muni- western country and brought the I. poor Orthodox parents. W. NV. into the newspapers all last grated to America in 1894 at the age summer The infamous Bisbee de-!of 12. He was graduated from the portation incident. the copper mine New York City. College with the high- strikes. the Pacific coast telephone la-lest honors. He studied law at Har- bor trouble, the stock yards of Chi- vard and was so remarkably brilliant caw). and the internationally familiar int his work that upon his graduation Mooney case became the objects of , was appointed a member of the fac- study of Frankfurter, and his reports ulty as professor of administrative on these industrially historic matters law. He is now on leave of absence are classic. He bitterly denounced from the Harvard law school. Problems Feature Discus- sions at Biennial Meet of Social Workers At Kansas City. The Austrian authorities have for. 1War hidden correspondence in I I ehrew characters, and according to the Judische l'resse of Berlin, the pro• tests of representative Jewish organ. izations are without avail. Minor gut ernment oftic'als have on many occasions arbitrarily extended this restriction even in localities Where censorship does not apply. matters of Jewish interest in con• nection with the fund. We will also publish a complete list of every Jewish contributor including his full name, address, and amount. IF And whereas. it has always been the reverent habit of the people of the United States to turn in humble ap- peal to .11inighty God for His guid- ance in the affairs of their COMMOO life; Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil- son, President of the United States of .America, do hereby proclaim Thursday, the thirtieth day of May, a (lay already freighted with sacred and stimulating memories, a day of public humiliation, prayer, and fast- ing, and do exhort my fellow citizens of all faiths and creeds to assemble on that day in their several places of worship and there, as well as in their homes, to pray Almighty God that Ile may forgive our sins and shortcom- ings as a people and purify our hearts to see and love the truth, to accept and defend all things that are just and right, and to purpose only those righteous acts and judgments which are in conformity with His will; be- seeching Him that He will give vic- tory to our armies as they tight for freedom. wisdom to those who take counsel on our behalf in these (lays of (lark struggle and perplexity, and steadfastness to our people to make sacrifice to the, utmost in support of what is just and true, bringing us at last the peace in which imen's hearts can he at rest because it is founded 111)011 mercy, justice;and good will. In witness whereof I have hereunto 'my hand and caused the seal of the Fred M. Butzel Is Elected President of The National ConferenceofJewishCharities AUSTRIA FORBIDS HEBREW. our next issue we will report all Resolved, by the Senate idle House of Representatives concur- ring). That, it being a duty pecu- liarly incumbent in a time of war humbly and ile ■ outly to acknowl- edge our dependence on Almighty God and to implore His aid and protection, t he President of the United States be, and he is II, reby. respectfully requested to recom- mend a (lay of public humiliation, prayer, and fasting, to be observed by the people of the United States with religions solemnity and the of- fering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of our cause. His blessings on our arms, and a speedy restora- tion of an honorable and lasting peace to the nations of the earth; Per Year, $1.50; Copy, 5 Colts• FRED M. BUTZEL. Elected Pres.dent of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, •••44.40441..A.A 4N0 Shall the Finger of Scorn Be Pointed at Us? BY DAVID A. BROWN, Vice-President Detroit Patriotic Fund. The lews of Detroit wall take out of the Detroit Patriotic Fund for local and national Jewish purposes the sum of $12.),000, In order to raise this amount, we resolved to follow (an previous slogans, "Give lore than Your Share," and "kite Until It Hurts." \Ve decided we would give to the Fund 110RE than we would TAKE ou-r. .\ re you satisfied that the JI•AVS OF DETROIT have so far lived up to expectations? Are YOU satisfied 'that VOI: have given YOl'R SII.1RE and .NIORE than your share? Are you content with the showing thus far made by the Jews of Detroit as evidenced by the list of contributions pub- lished from day to day? Are you satisfied that ihe Jews of Detroit have given their SHARE to the Patriotic Fund and are content to accept $425,000 for Jewish purposes out of that Fund? If so, you admit that the Jews of Detroit have FAILED. You admit that the Jews of Detroit are not able to raise sufficient money to cover their own quota for Jewish \Var Relief and for the support of their own charities. Ifave you read the list of contributions from our Jewish leaders in the commercial and professional life of Detroit! .Many of them are splendid and show proper appreciation of the worthiness of the Cause—but others are so small that the government has officially signified its approval of the English and French Declarations in favor of the 'Zionist movement and of a Jewish National Homeland in Palestnie. Mr, Nahum Sokolov. representa- tile in London of the Zionist Inter:. national Political Committee, has re- cei eil from .\ mbassador Imperiali, the following formal statement of attitude of these questions: "On the instructions of His Excel- lency Baron Sonnino, His Nlajesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs, I lime the honour to inform you that H.N1. Government is pleased to confirm the declarations already made through their representatives in ‘Vashiligton, the Hague and Salonica, to the effect that they will use their best endeav- ors to facilitate, the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish National centre, it being understood that this shall not prejudice the legal or political status enjoyed by Jews in any other coun- try." The British Declaration in favor of a Jewish National Homeland in Pales- tine was made on November 21111, 1917. The French statement was made on February 12th, 19114. On February 250 of this year a dispatch appeared in the daily newspapers to the effect that the Italian Government had no- tified its Ambassadors that it ap- proved of the stand on Palestine taken by its allies. This, however, is the first authorized announcement. Early in .tpril M. Jacobus Kann, president of the Dutch Zionist Federation. an- nounced that he had been authorized by the Government of Holland to an- nounce that it also approves of the establishment of a Jewish National Homeland in Palestine. --- JEWISH DOCTOR IS GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR YOUNG finger of scorn should be pointed at the men who fail to do their duty. Frankly, our contributions as a whole are disappointing. The Jew in overalls who toils in the shops and factories is an exception. Ile, together with his fellow worker of other faith:, has done INIORE THAN HIS SHAFZE. His patriotism is 100')1 pure. Ile is placing - the badge of shame on some our wealthier citizens. The good name of the Jew in Detroit is at stake. NVe cannot afford to have our deficiencies made up by our Christian neighbors. WI- :1111.3ST 1)0 OUR 0\1•N DUTY. If YOU haven't given NIORE than pair share, then f,a - God's sake, give your SII.1RE. And give it NO \V. Double it Treble it. Then get your frien d s to do likewise. 1)0 THIS AT ONCE. 'LET IT BE RN() \\*N WIT' OUT 1)OUIVI"I'llAT JE \VS OF DETIO HT I lA\T DONE FULL. DUTY. Other officers elected are Felix NI. Warburg, New fork, First Vice-Pres• ident ; Bernard Greensfelder, St. Louis, Second Vice-President; Alfred Benjamin, Kansas City, Third Vice- President; Sidney l'ritz, Cincinnati, Treasurer; Boris D. Bogen, Secretary. I Mr. Bogen was elevated to the posi- tion of Executive Director of the Field Bureau in recognition of his re- markable work in placing the bureau on all efficient basis.) . • Felix M. Warburg Stirs Convention. Over 175 delegates were in attstid- ance at the opening session on Sunday night. The meeting was featured by an address from Felix M. Warburg who had traveled from New York es- pecially to give this talk. Ile made an eloquent appeal for recognition of the communal work of the social worker on the part of the Jewish com- munities in tires of the increasing im- portance of social work during and after this war. Ile pleaded for a raised status of the social worker in remuneration and position in the coin- ninnity, stating that the support ken to the social worker was entirely' disproportionate to his service in every community. Ile Pointed to the necessity of greater inducements to young people of training to cutter the field of social service view of the depletion in the ranks because of the war and urged the utilizing of train- ing schools and the establishing of all insurance system .for social workers. Mr. \Varliiirg spoke with singular feel- ing and at the conclusion of his ad- dress the audience arose en masse and gate him a hearty ovation. Mr. :1arfni Cohen, Pittsburgh, re• tiring president, gave his presidential message, reporting on the progress of the conference and its work during the mist two years. Ile emphasized the desirability of changing the name of the conference thus following the lead of the parent organization, the National Conference of Social work- ers. If necessary to give up to schedule, 1NCIZEASE YOUR CONTRIliUTION. The fifth biennial meeting of the National Conference of Jewish Char• ivies which took place this year at Kansas (.'ity. Nlo., un Nlay 13-15, takes on added interest to the local com- munity ill the election of Fred M. Itutzel as President of the Conference for the ensuing term. 1111-. Hazel held the office of \'ice-President dur- ing the last term. His elevation to the head of the organization is a fit- ting recognition of his many years td actia ity in social service in the coun- try, for he was one of the pioneers in the idea of forming a national organ- ization of JC•Itiii social workers, His wide experience in local charitable and social . service agencies together with his progressive leadership in the field of social science and his intense de- votion to the work tit him admirably for the high office he has been hon- ored with. First Lieut, William Gordon. Child Caring of Dependent Children. ('hill caring of dependent children Letters recently ret rived from the front state that Lieut. William Gor- was the topic at one of the sessions. The current of opinion in the discus- . don, formerly house physician of the s . ons was strongly in favor of the University of hlichii.tan hospital at :\ nu Arbor, has been taken prisoner placing of the children in private by the Germans and is now languish- homes instead of in institutions. It ing at the great prison camp at Karls• was pointed out that the fancily en- time, Germany. lir. Gordon is well vironment was more desirable than known to many in Detroit through the orphanage, and that the institu- his university connections and as a non was to be resorted to only when frequent t isitor in the city. Ile is the nephew Of Mr. J Wiener, of Meilliury avenue. Lieut. Gordon enlisted in the Med. ical Reserve Officers Corps immedi• ately following our declaration of war and he was one of the first of the Michigan boys who went across. His capture came about through his volun- teer act in taking charge of a first aid station in one of the hottest sections of the trenches. On the night of April 13th, the bodies made a big raid and he was captured along with sev- eral other Americans. His home is in Lima, Ohio. He graduated from the U. of M. in 1843 other facilities did not present thetn- setcex. The tuberculosis question occupied another session. Dr. Max Iliesenthal. Chicago, deplored the tendency of sending tuberculosis patients to Den- ver, stating that great hardships were thus occasioned especially in the case of the poor. 13r. C. D. Spivak, Den- ver, stated that Denver should be the last resort in the case of either rich Or poor. A banquet of the delegates was • held on Monday evening at which Mr. Fred NI. Hazel acted as toastmaster. 13r. Lee K. Frankel, New York, spoke on the problems in social service as conditioned on the war. Henry L. Mayer spoke on i'acitic coast prob. FOR A GOOD KOSHER MEAL should try LIEBERMAN'S kiss as related to the Jew. Boris D. you KOSHER RESTAURANT, (Home Bogen related his experiences on be- Cooking) 36 Monroe Ave., Second half of Jewish war relief abroad in the Floor.—Adv. (Continued On Page Seven.) 1