A merica's 'elvish Periodical Cotter CLIFTON ATINUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO THE JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION VOL IV. NO. 1. MASONIC CHARTER IS GRANTED PERFECTION LODGE IN DETROIT Local Organization Founded One Year Ago with 12 Members now Contains 110. Public Installa- to Take Place Soon. Of great interest in fraternal circles and to the Jewish community of De- troit is the announcement that the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Michigan has granted a charter to Perfection Lode: of Detroit. Messrs. Louis Danto, Meyer Berg. C. K. Sandorft,, and Samuel Schnabel, representing the lodge, attended the meeting of the Grand Lodge which convened at Grand Rapids on Tuesday. May 27th, and obtained the dispensation. In a letter to Louis Danto accom- panying the charter. Louis H. Fead, Grand Master of Michigan, said. "I am issuing this dispensation because of the high character of the brethren who will form the charter members and because I am convinced that the lodge will maintain a high standard of membership. There is a splendid opportunity for much good opened to this lodge and I shall watch it with interest all my life, with the hope and expectation that its results will amply support my judgment in granting a SAMUEL B. KAHN, Worshipful Master of Perfection . • , dispensation." .\t a meeting of l'erfection Lodge held on \Vednesday evening, June 5th, at the Masonic Termite, the following were elected as the first officers of the Lodge under its charter: Samuel Kahn, \Vorshipful Master; Louis Danto, Senior 1Varelen; Meyer Berg, Junior Warden; H. G. Illumenan, Senior Deacon; Max \Veinlierg. Jun- ior Deacon; Samuel Schnabel, Treas• urea; Charles R. Satolorff. Secretary; A. J. Kahn and Ilarry Fleishman, Stewards; George Epstein, Marshal. The formation of Perfection Lodge, F. & A. Ms is the result of the efforts of Louis Danto and Samuel Schnabel, Who saw the need sof .k kcal masonic organization in which a worthy Jew- ish citizen could feel at home in the congenial atmosphere of his personal friends and acquaintances. In June, 1917, a nierfng was called at which 50 \taster Masons of the community were present. Sentiment for a new lodge was soon crystalized, and in July. 1917, the consent of three Ma- sotti: lodges was obtained to its for- mation as required by the laws of the order. 'The lodges standing sponsor for the new lodge were .1shlar Lodge No. 91, Oriental Lodge No. 240, Cor- inthian Lodge No. 241. these being the principal lodges in Detroit. ()it October 23, 1917. the Grand Lodge of the State issued its dispen- sation for the formation of l'erfec- tion Lodge, C. D. There were 12 members in the lodge at that time, but this small number has now been in- creased tie 110 members. The first officers elected were Sam- uel Ii. Kahn, W. NE; Louis Danto, S. W.; Meyer lierg, J. \V.; C. K. San- dorff, S. D.; Max II. \\:einberg, J. D., and Moe L. \\ • einbrattett. Sec. It is planned to hold a public instal• lation of the Lodge in the near future, and the suasion will mark one of the nicest important and significant events in the history of the Jewish cony minify of Detroit. Prominent Russian Jew in Washing• ton Passes Away. washington.--11yman Dodek, one of the most prominent Russian Jews in Washington, died this week at Gar-, field Hospital after an illness of three weeks. Mr. Dodek was 51 years old. He came to this city 25 years ago. being. one of the pioneers of the Russian Jewish colony. He was identified! with practically every Jewish institu- tion in the city, religious. social and i charitable. He leaves a wife, ■ son, who is in the army, and three laugh-i tern. The funeral services took place at the Orthodox Synagogue. where al-1 most every Russian Jew of promil nence was present. Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents. DETROIT, MICHIGAN. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1918. Just American. Less Than 150 Jewish Contributions to Patriotic Fund Total 011cl-4200,000 By Edward Menkin. "Just today we chanced to meet:- Down upon the crowded street. And I wondered whence he came, What was once his Nation's name." f The list of contributors printed below represents only those subscrip- tions of $500.00 and over. Owing to the several hundred th ousands ce individual contributions to the fund. the committee has bawd that it wonid take several weeks to prepare a full list of even the contributors of fl004S , and over. , Li you Imownit lam rossel ty a Pat: i=r Fame salent= c w set too late to send Tram to the Frind beadgrx ■ -r_1. rdrr CCs weld St. Whale the me' Leine is over said the i7.1/M= es =ca oversInscrise... * the Gc=as are =1 pomading assay we It Iffle="X in= =id every proxy artA-osaL Crow tar ire tae'_' b the the Jewish Was Rae Criennthee and the other sou Iliad leganza- tors. Al! overnithscr'meces gs tea the war hoofs sad use to dal: Caw- =marry Emma. w w.Y roe =EY warts has ash foe_ If yon and that your =viva: etc- :sat= is Net adevrace cc co■ sciacesie INCREASE ic rev. Many thensetiams arc ccarited "adatt...- tionsal" Bat tenneatef. rye war as ate over yet. The witee ran eve new. the *waves .0 you tale ;ws m the pea.x oe.eUse ...gcm! So I asked! him, "Tell me true. Are you Pole or Russian Jew, Sind up from Jewish There are many hundreds of contributions of Jews ranging fret' citizens and probably 15,000 individual contribul English, Irish, German, Prussian, any. $1.00 to $100.00, representing the great working she French, Italian. Scotch or Russian. The estimate of $1,000.000 (row the Jews of Deir it is therefore not at Belgian, Spanish, Swiss. Moravian. exaggeration. It is probably an se,derestimation. Dutch, Greek or Scandinavian." The following list has been prepared from the latest records at Paitriton Then he raise d his head on high, Fund headquarters. Errors and -umissions are very kkely. The Jewisf Chronicle will greatly appreciate any information that will correctly. eves me As he gate his &etc the list of Jewish contributions over $500.00. We will make a spetsa! "What I was is naught to me effort to obtain the list of Jewist, «attributions of Sl00.09 and over, and In this land of Liberty. ask the indulgence of our readers mull such time as it may be available. ft In my soul as NI an to NI an, lets • David A. Brown . ........ ....$12,0 1, III-bilk S. Mei! I atn just AMERICAN." 4,A, .:: N1r. and Mrs. Louis Mendota- Mr. and Mrs. Sus. A. Braus.... 7-ste sohn ,lirkt , Mr. and Mrs. Jacob k"ii NO GUARANTEE OF JEWISH Joseph Sillman 7;0 Sol E Sallan EQUALITY IN ROUMA- Leopold \\*airman ........... ;00 Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Goldberg. -- -7-st qi, 1 I ir Joseph Beisanan tie' Benj. Siegel NIAN TREATY. Vie P. Ettlirger Perfection Lodge. F. & A 111 - • - •• Sr , , Max Ettlinger Mrs. Hannah Goldberg The treaty of peace between Ron. W. to Samuel Ewell:eau lir. and Mrs. A. Mendelson W . mania and Germany is a subject of t ti J. Fried berg Finsterwald Clothing Co severe criticism in a reeent issue of Goldlcrg Bros . . tat' Albert Kahn the Berlin "Ta g t.blatt," especially the 4 I , Joseph Grosslight 1. Shiffman provision which pretends to protect John A. Ilesommidi Mr. & Mrs. Henry M. Fecheimer VIC Jewish interests in the former coun- Samuel Heas enrich Hems A. Krolik &Ali) try. The “•ageblatt" points out that 1. M. Jacobson la Son!, CO IIIII Jacob Siegel •.000 Mrs Henri- A Kroll Clause VII. which purports to estab- OP Henry Ye ineman, Jr 300 lish Nitta! rights for all religious de- OW H. W. leilowitr We nominations in Roumania and which , Item").NI. Butael Max Lieberman Lao tag has been trumpeted as the guarantee i 11'0' and Samuel Frank Max Redelsliciiner 1 Fred NI. B utze l Z." I. Rosenberg . that the position of the Jews in that 2,919 Fred Rosenfield . country will be vastly improved is a ' Julien F reed Z590 ilr and Mrs. Igsuis Rosenthal . 0,1* 4"'' 444 fraud. The "Tagehlatt" denounces Herman and Peen Marks 2.91' ran Telmo Cigar M ig 4 c. OW this clause as being so framed that it Day Krolik Jos. N. Krolik 1,500 Mrs. Ilso id Schein . . ... lege can fee easily circumvented and con- eals r LW Se lik Bros. ..... .. tains many loopholes for chicanery David id ...sieyer Se' WO Andrew Wineman 2.01 Eugene Siegel and evasion. OW Hinielhoch Bros Z41.10 Aaron Simon 2,100 Eugene H. Sloinsn 'MAO FEDERATION OF RUSSIAN Mr. and Mrs, I) \V, Simon. lid) Mrs. I.. 1Vintritan A. Jacobs Orb POLISH JEWS HOLD WOO' bat ■ M. H. Zacharias ............. Leo NI. Butzel CONVENTION. Cohn ........... .... *I Ilec Richard Isaac eioldlerg Net Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Grant__ 21100 Dr. and Mrs. Charles D. "Leos Nile 2.0.10 Milton M. Alexander ..... .. Nett' York.--The tenth annual con- Mr. and Mrs. Sul E. Heineman 54111I 2000 Mr. and Sirs. H H. Berger.... vention of the Federation of Russian- Julian II. Krolik 511111 Polish Jews sac held here on May Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Rosenberger, Z,090 Maurice Black . ..... 509 ' ZOO Israel C. Itrown 26th and 27th. Mr. Jacob Garlimger. Albert \V. Schloss ' 000 Robett S. Brown ... . . 54 , the president of the Federation, S. A. Sloman Breitentach ......... ?r , ' SOO Harry P. showed in his report that the organ- Louis \Velt .51.. ization comprises 40,(00 members. A Mr. and Mrs. M. Friedberg...l• ; OW Mr._ Henrietta Butzel . 90.• . .e.10 I_ Duscoff session was devoted to a discussion M C. \Veil RIO! 10 Id r. and Mrs. A. W. Ehrinan of the Beth David Hospital, which I). Robinson & Sons ... ;00 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ely.- 5001 is being maintained by the Federation. B. Babcock •O tt Maurice A. Enggass ...... Mr. Apfel reported that there were Sam T. Goldberg 5(It 50. : sj1GADzF2 Gamut/. alums ;Igoe Ur. and Urn. Leo M. Franklin 50 patients in the hospital and that Hugo Parshall Hugo A. Freund f H . LACCIPPIERICER. ...... during the vear 1.500 patients had re- Jerore S. Freud BALTIMORE JEW IS BRIGADIER GENERAL 4", IN U. S. MARINE CORPS 2 . 4, . . 'Pi a • PALESTINE CAN ABSORB Ohl.Y 300,000 MORE SAYS VISCOUNT JAMES BRYCE It Is Mg Tost Late- Nowa- chownes, Maw I. &virile,. and H..? Lama, With Amp Nook Capital Sawn* as Mahe Como, a.Fnitivi. • F'ssessm e , which atew bas a Port- sanewhat less Oran 650.103, cart wesseulture aft adtfITIO11.21 ie jilitt tastier present ssurferents and a second addition of 'eissii00.. after Trigs:nue dams and .,esehes sonsreerraon works have been sizzle. se the tifp•rl&crt of Viscount James aryee. .:ornter British Ambassador to the C i who sinus an the June is- wit oi the Menorah Journal. • - Upon rSe potiercal aspects of the miestuset of Jewish settlement in l'ar- ewerte I canner attempt to enter.' sale Virwoons F-ryce.. "'for they in- sofee &shear quesenns. on some of which ton soeus to speak with fflalliftelee Bat there are economic seeshlerns on which attention may now at ogee hiezin hi be fixed. lAhat Field the country now present for co/- se:sateen. and how eau its reentries developed. - ft is a small' conntry. The area ea; ' the K in g dom or solomon was about as farle. as that of the State of ,M.s•agferserts. fiat Palestine had not then. and never has ha& and has not sow, any well defined 'sonestary ex- cept the sea on the west. But in is take us as understood today. at ahout [onto square miles. Much of this area its too dry and rocky foe tillage: brae parts are too dry even foe cattle or sheep. Some large tracts nig!ir he irrqrate,t • and wou ld rhea yield! rich crops. hot to con- struct rtunzation works would require considerable capital expenditure •There its no water power, except in Ore Jordan. which has a rapid fall om the tea of gahlee to the De-a4 sera and it is also the only important +refrain from which water could be drawn free irrigation. So far as is in, am. no minerals exist in quantities that would repay working. Its pop- nfatirirs must therefore depend on •agriculture. This was estimated he- fore The war at about rt..54000.. Bart as marry have died or want, or' been • kilted by the Turks, within the last three years, the anther Mast he ssa smaller. Aboott two-thirds are bI i C , fr teinessletriMAlcalwealfe(es2Wili•glitietlle.•Ni l * Yar...,-' ... . .. ..-1 .. -•-• -'''". - ' _ - weinemor-madrawgiensair i tm I/C - ", 'Fes:s.• stetinorr- Itrirsesem‘ e. • eite je-- received treatment at the dispensary. Srere 'Bros. s • • .0-•" ltstij m Freud_ ........ Leonard F. Wineman• • • ..( . r` ... ,I.:101"-, Ler N? Marisa Carp - k fanatiall No ant would - propos The old officers remained in office. Fuchs .. ... .. ... , to Frank & Davidson... .... , . .... Lotto elect them trots their Lands, lIt„ Hwy an, Sion tlefieOn the • !. ....'.-erfir IOW. - NIA* present mewing/ L 0. B. A. HOLDS CONVEN - Frank & Steinherg !Maurice Goldenberg For how natty 1.0001 C. Freud ss a/egret's' , sinmarants ran rosins he fonrid?• lop , H. L. Goldman ..... s•s-s • - • essss.s.. was terra A. Jacob Irrigation Will Help. Low :Emil Hein , :•'e. ar Ben B. land, -T..king the eountry as it *taw's, woo Jesse F. Hirschinan New York.-The largest Jewish M. Jacobs & Son s • 4 1. - fisstliding the snolvahre parts " too Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hopp. of the fraternal order, the I. 1). B. A., Mrs. Albert Kahn r",- * - Idistrict cast of the Jordaot. probably Lou) Mrs. Hugo Hill held its thirty-second annual con - Louis Kahn „- : ."•, ice's mart robe more than awn* .3fAiirt). If, how- I go ' Jew ish Woman's Chile .. - vention here from May 26th to Joseph and I ta ■ id Nerlerlander.. re,uaeng oCer ni the nto , fie and user organ May 28th. •1 ± The report of the Sarasolin & Shelter Co 1 .,n 1. Kaplan oar avin'tete 4 , Valley were irrigated • if reservoirs of i goo A. Klein ..... ......... Credential Committee showed that \I r. si rs . Jos. Is Selling... sial Ara tg a %aaagc. ns •ater from the Winter and Sprin g tom Daisy Z. Krolik ....... , 710 lodges Were represented by 131)5 Mr and Mrs. Bernard Selling... s'Ure salesess 4iI4 14..- 64 4 rrams weft provided, if the anci ent cis- Loon J. B. Issiskey delegates. The opening session Sun- Mrs. Sophia (Benjamin) Siegel. ' •II-aottaat" If- ,grads terns litre repaired. if the terrace cut- clay morning was consumed With the Louis Skeet logo Mr. an , 1 Mrs. H. H. Lobenstiew s .1541 was r "E-gtted ' trsation ors the stove, of the hills reading of Grand Master Shelinsky's Joseph Siegel Logo Mark Market Co. •, s if. %Katie ..r..24,41.. weer replanted with trees, for the land report. Jacob and Samuel Singer 1 ,000 Isadore NI ant • ' -"" years of **nit." It cc- is wow terrif,f... hare, it would be pos- A set of resolutions was 'adopted Adolph Sloman 10 00 David Rosenthal _ ...... .,.. s's.. turned as• lerernre4 a coamaim.iims as silsk to premiere work and sustenance to support the President in all his I.ouis Sinilansky 1.0110 Sarah Hiff.rfltalte,g 400 ...eons! "sesteessarn 04' Mantle for many more, perhaps for another undertakings as well as the various Max Sumer . 1,041 Maurice Mentes . ...... .. As ••••‘••• ■4 10,211, "1". 4 ssrfa 6/ 4" Inn.feet or art teen larger number. war funds and organizations. Mello!. Jos. M. Melt 1.000 Simon Lachman loenenw • a , ,IV/621, k`I A ga " "" .01-her improvements which Pales- tug the Jewish Board; to contribute - a •-, 111'. . -1 : r ‘,..etk and 11•4 - one sorely needs are better roads and 525,00000 to Jewish \\'ar Relief. .1 ••411,2 c • 2114 4i1104C 4111111, more or them. Some few light nar- resolution, pledging the support of row-gauge railways might also be the order tee the Zionist Cause, and and better ports provided the funds being collected by the Zion • 'consteneted. s' MasInee , '"- u Hada is at present the only fairly ist Organization, as well as calling ' . 1," • J*44` Atf ''''ate rr,ad owe. Jaffa, the next best, might, upon the lodges of the order to pay I • • .•al • ' "f 'ran ' hostler, I, rendered more secure. the shekel to the Zionist organization, ?tub improserrients would he so bene- was unanimously passed by the dele- By HON. WALTER M. CHANDLER • s trial to the •lisonr inhabitants as to gates. WI' If • ...NSW U. S. Representative of New York City reconcile them to any regime that Judge Leon Sanders was elected GM- might be established; and I believe Grand Master and Max I.. Hollander 4141. tfregj what I could learn when I vis- was elected Grand Secretary. &cows a Lawyer. I ited the country in 1')141 that they Governor \VIiitman addressed the . 11hde in the Judge tilsoaate Gen• ,nreu eek f kli.h seekom rhe ayk now any change delegates before the convention ad- from omike from JEW AS A SOLDIER eral's ceffa.t he stc4:-.4 law, wa, grad- Ink -they journed. and was greeted by Judge r has been often remark['. that ' prophetic( of tlie Jew ish seers are sited from C"Ittn , le a I nisrrr ,rs and example of F:gy pt. and they Hartman, who has until now been have been the Jews have product no fulfilled and nation no longer raises admitted to Op bar A. senvm assist- assured of it try the proclamations First Deputy Grand Master. Judge nation, when i h,„.. ant to t'ue Judge ,Adsorse, g„,wrat which General Allenby issued when Caesars, no Napoleons: that ' 1 "- sword Otto Rosalsky and Samuel Koenig stead of the laurel adorns 911 h , Nat y, he sotsd as fudge Advs.- he entered Jerusalem, that a Jewish history is devoid of mail sl in- °hie leaf instead accompanied Governor 1Vhitman. Euro- t he i the brow of thse great, and the rate of "U" . '"- , us flf4Kei.1144 "sum, pean administration would act with The next Contention will be held at terest; and that. individualf. and pared a la,AL ..4 are j,, forms. which to Jews are lacki: g in personal csisage. achievements of dohle minds Atlantic City. rustire and consideration to all the There is a grain of truth in thy- con- miliar to the dwellers in cottages and is '4 ' 11 in use en nasal Procedure. and inhabitants assuring religious equal- "America Forging the Happiness of tent ion. but only a grain. War, o. is Palaces ailks, thin th e history of the also 1 .4101, 4 at the Nasal 11',„,r cot. ity and freedom to all alike, what- I. gr on 11 . 10 aO Lass. In len. the of- France." abhorrent to the Hebrew ten ,„ ta ., world will lase the same character as eser their former faith," i sh history. On its pages a ill be '"C "' \ "'''''''" - H "lutar" and I"' ment. The voice- of prophecy. not . Jewish -- - Corps aa• cue. NEW YORK JEWS OFFER TO Washington.-1'resident \Vilson has the roar of ea1111011• the triumplis of inscribed not the a arum's 140.(,. •P• tor'.' tb. Marine r se ;sp . ! be recee, rd the !, , •and his victories, nor diplomats_ aired an ERECT GOVT. HOSPITAL been invited S. M. Solomon of the the spirit, not the victories of the Vl.atlut, w t, --efM behalf of flesh, are the signs and symbols, t h e ; schemes and triumphs, but the prs ' Poultment fro, " Presideut Mehl/del Belgian Art Galleries to inspect the Beth titian, heutenant- Israel Hospital of New York, flowers and fruitage. of litho., life gress of ciliure and its practical ap In our es ason 1,c statue group entitled - .America Forg- Con- colonel. ass! 11(11 .aloud and adjutant gressman Isaac The Jews cheerfully admit that they ploation in real life." ing the Happiness of Frances" now 14 Siegel offered to v, hether the ifitlititia j ea, i t. cog , and Mega-,Nor that being the bights , hi erect a hospital rusting $1250.000A0, no Caesars or Napo]. on exhibition at the Corcoran Art base produced 'auk In 17, , Asbutant and it a ,err". foe either the War Those conquerors were the archly or courageous depends oven the - Galleries. The Group is the work eons. or Navy Depart- of the Jewish artist Alexander Zeit- scourges of humanity, the imperial viewpoint taken. T,Iall is a gent of .1).1.'g t"" Ill .""" 1 1916 aben the office ment, on the block at Second Avenue 2 1 t ••'n•-( a as Cr. ate& and and "Stadisr 1 Eaat bOth lin, famous for his statue of King Ed- butchers of mankind. Caesar sl , w a' many facets, and the angle of %loon " Street, New York. Ac- Sas appointed to that afire by cording to the plan outlined by Con- ward of England, and has been do- million of Gauls and sent into slasery determines the amount and quality of lit supplied and exile still another million. .1 Mee nated to the .\mericati nation. It is '10fler the 1 "a"'• '1. "-"' "'a") ih. , ; i4" iiits Wil"'" a h" ii 'AI "' ha "di gressman the hospital would " "' P"''"'"" '" II, Marne Lie equipped with 500 beds. The Gov- hoped that the statue will be perma. millions of Frenchmen paid thee last People mistake coarstiless for courage ''" 4 debt due to nature and to God while and brutality for strength. Some men 1 " r l''''."1"'"dt ''' that of ti" Ad- ernment would hate VAC OK of the nently placed at Washington. pie) ., a11). jutant tie fltfdh and 1114.4,tor t o n ecal institution for the period of the war following the standard of the Corsi- are sensitive. spiritual. and army. t o"""al Latadelleinier is a. still as can. As many foreigners died while delicate. Others are muscular, brutal.' " f the subsequent to the war, Additional Pogroms in Besarabia. uninarrierel. and a fide his ote,s, tt rest. congresaman Siegel'a r phlegmatic. The Jew belongs to opposing hes despotic, imperial de- offer was taken n . the former rattier than to the latter ' de '" 15 Wa ' llint‘ t. ' li • I)4. • he stu " under advisor/tent 1y both depart- signs. The pious Israelite just!) re- and Petrograd.-Reports concerning the garde these men as monsters and hence his aversion, from a Waft i Baltimore, Maryland as ha real Loner ments. condition of the Jews in Besarabia thanks his God that the pages of his of inequality, to physical sumbat __ _ ■ are more disheartening than ever. Po- history have not been cursed with Isesertheless, after all iti3O10)Cle, Ssiossi Noy Honore& groms are occurring most frequently. the imprint of such deeds. have been offered and CA, ubte made. ! "MX Pr $1.." Washington,-A local Jeriab pub- The Jewish population of Kantrat, as u ,-..... In whool lid , Hebrew repugnance to military the fact rem " that the Jewsatel Hawke Nualiolts, has well as of the city of Belgrad, have glory and Hebrew pride isc•nic ""t lacking in military genius or III W,,,I i i,,,t,,,, .1 ha. Lim,. J r . ,o, recto ■ Ad a sljthal honor lit was been looted and robbed. In both of achievement are clearly reflected in personal courage when the loftier sex- t,,,i • chosen from aloofly . ipter " Jo" Dwiselosen, so 4.4111p1tifig 11411, contestants these towns fire was set to the stores the following lines from a great Jew- l"lienu of religion and Plair"-41‘"' call IA bag of tlX tortilla' htatAke, W deliver the arcuseq.1 address at "CliCte" a and houses after they had been pil- ish historian: them to the field of battle The Old i •J in WatallilimItill St to westing for Mot Vt' A S. diffe, laged. , if ever the time comes when the th‘ (Cfollitaid on Nis 4.) ; calkd 'Jse by Jo" Trainims TION. _.... ' I. The Jew as Soldier, Citizen, Patriot, Orator and Statesman THE i4.0, bc11. at