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PAGE SEVEN

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

PRESIDENT ISSUES
W.S.S. PROCLAMATION

THE PRESIDENT BRINGS SOME
PERTINENT FACTS TO THE

ATTENTION OF MICHIGAN

PEOPLE.

NATIONAL WAR SAYINGS DAT IS SET

Michigan's Full Quota of $70,000,000

Must Be Pledged By June 28-The

Government's Thrift Plan Is

Explained.

(The Michigan War Savings Com•
zulttee urges all clergymen to read this
proclamation to their congregations
before June 28th.)

Message.

This atir Ii. one td notions, not of .11•
puce, a n d all of our one hundred million
people must he ee0310tal.•ally and ado.-
wail adjusted to war conditions, If this
nation W to play its full part In the con-
diet. The problem before u ■ is not pri-
marily a ananels1 problem but rattla•r
problem of Ineleased production of war
tasentlit.., and the saving of the materials
and the labor necessary for the support
and equipment of our army and racy.
Thoughtless expenditure of motley for
owl-essentiale uses all the Iabur Or
the products of the fame, mines and fa,
buries and overburdens transportation, all
of which must be used to the utmost
and at their best for war purposes.
The great reaults which Hp seek can
be obtained only by the partlelpatioil
of every member of the nation, young and
old. in at tuitional conceited thrift move•
merit. l therefore urge that our people
everywhere pledge themselves as rug-
gented by the Secretory of the 'Treasury
to the practice of thrift to eery° the gov-
ernment to their uttnoet ha Increasing
production In all fields necestiary to the
winning of the war to conserve food and
fuel and useful tnaterlals of every kind to
devote their labor only to the most nec•
•seary tasks and to buy only those things
which are essential to Individual lomith
and efficiency and that the people as
evidence of their loyalty Invest all that
they can !Jaye In Liberty Bondi. and War
Savings Stamps. The securities issued
by the Treariany Depattment are so many
of them within the reach of "everyone
that the door of opportunity in this mat-
ter la wide open to all of us. To prac-
tice thrift In peace times In a virtue and
brings great benefit to the Individual at
all times, with the denpe.ate need of the
civilised world today for materials and
labor with which to end the war the
practice of Individual thrift Is a patriotic
duty and a necessity.
"I appeal to all who now own either
Liberty Bolide or War Savings Stamps,
to continue to practice economy and
thrift and to appeal to au who do not
own government securities to do Ilkewie
and purchase them to the extent of theta .
means. The man who buys government
necurities transfers the purehtteleg power
of his money to the rotted Staten lbw-
ermnent until after this war and to that
same degree tines not buy In competition
with the got erninrnt
"I earnestly appeal to every man,
Woman and child to pledge themselves
on or before the twenty-eighth of June to
nave constantly and to buy as regularly
an posolnle the scion itien of the govern-
ment f11111 to do this an for as possible
through member...hip In War Pavlov; So-
cieties. The twenty-eighth of June ends
this epeeist! period of enlistment In the
great volunteer ionic of production end
saying here at home May there be none
unenlieted on that da y.
signed •

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Why Felix Adler Renounced Judaism

traced to the authorship of Moses.
\Vas I to repeat these words? It was
impossible. I waS certain that they
would stick in my throat. On these
grounds the separation was decided
on by me, and became irremediable.'
"Rut let me foray state with some•
what greater particularity the reasons
that compelled me to depart from the
faith of Israel. and to leave my early
religious home. cherishing pions mem-
ories of it, but nevertheless firmly set
in my course towards new horizons.
The difficulty created by the claim
that Israel is an elect people, that
stands in at peculiar relation to the
Deity, this claim, at the time when
.t was pin forth, was neither arrogant
nor unfounded. It was lilt arrogant
larause the mission was understood
to be a mica limilen not a privilege,
or if a prix 'lege at all, then the tragic
priv legs of martyrdom. a niartyrilob•
continued through generations. And
e claim was not unfounded or pre-
posterous at the time when it was put
forth because the Hebrew's were in
realty the only people who conceived
of morality in terms of holiness. It
cision he formed notwithstanding the ass not absurd for them to assert
their mission to be the teachers of
brought
upon
him
nit
to
pressure
separate himself from the religion of mankind in respect to the spiritual
his fathers and to emanate as a min - , interpretation of morality, since there
was something and that something
inter to his own people:
At the early stage of my career it infinitely important, which they. ac-
was urgently put to Illy that With all, tually had to teach. Moral thinking
flue changes that had taken place in and moral practices of course had ex-
d from immemorial titnes every-
my inner life, I need not separate ,
myself from the religion of the Fa- where, but the conception of morality
tilers, that I might remain a servant •Is di, Me in its source. as spiritual in
and teacher of religion within the its 1111111,1 essence-this immense idea
Jewish fold. gratInally weaning away • was the offspring of the Hebrew
from the beliefs which held those mind. I In the other hand, I asked
whom I 'night contrive to influence, myself, has not the task of Israel in
and drawing them up such was the this respect been accomplished? Have
phrase used-to my own 'higher and its Scriptures become the com-
mon property of the civilized nations?
level'
- Btu this advice was repelled by \rid .Lies not that teacher mistake
every inmost fibre Of Illy being, and • his office who atempts to maintain his
cool(' not but be utterly rejected. It magisterial authority after his pupils
was to publicly represent a certain be-, hake come to manna estate. and are
lief with the purpose of undermining capahle of original contributions? The
it. I was to trade upon the simplicity nations are not to lie looked upon in
of my hearers in order to rub them the light of mere pupils. The ethical
of what they, crudely and mistakenly message of Israel so far as it is sane
perhaps, considered their most sacred is universalistic. It is founded on the
truth. by feigning provisionally, until' conviction that there is a moral na-
I could alter their views, to he in ture in every human being, and that
agreement with them. \\. ould this be the moral nature is spiritual nature.
fair to them or to myself? \Vas I to .1m1 if this be stt, then the utterances.
Me insights, the new visions With
act an lie in order to teach the truth
'fl iere teas specially one passage in whirl the spiritual nature is preg-
the Sabbath saris' which brought me nant, cannot be supposed to be re-
to the point of resolution: I mean stricted to members of the Jewish
If the teaching function is
the w ords spoken by the officiating people.
minister as he holds up the Penta- to he maintained it must be exercised
teuch scroll, ".\11.1 this is the Law by all who have the gift. If there is
which Moses set before the people of to be an elect body (a dangerous con-
Israel.' I had lately returned from ception, the meaning of which is to be
abroad where I had a fairly thorough carefully defined), it must consist of
course in Biblical exegesis, and had gentiles and Jews, of men of every
become COTIVIIICell that the Mosaic re- race and condition in whom the spit-
ligion is so to speak a religious mo- itual is more awakened than in others
saic, and there is hardly a single stone peculiarly vivid, pressing towards tit-
in it which Call tcith certainty Le terante."

Leaders of American
Zionists for Radical
Change in Organization
Voobrow Wason

DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HE-
BREW AND COGNATE
LEARNING SHOWS
GAIN.

The animal meeting of the Board
of Governors of the 1)ropsie College
was held on May 27.

The

President's report showed that

were in attendance during
the Year, that is from the Summer
Term, Ild7. up to and including the
Spring Term, 1915, of whom 37 were
men and 13 women, representing 22

SO students

IMPORTANT NOTICE'

\ hook has recently appeared

unusual niterest to the Jew oh public
called "An Lthical
Life." hy Dr. Felix Adler. Jews are
little concerned with the philosophic
theories of 1)r. :\ tiler, but the book
throws a light on the frame of mind
of its writer. Educated for the rab-
'dilate, himself the Son of a rabbi, Dr.
..\ tiler left the synagogue to found the
Ethical Culture Nlovement, This i.
the first time that Dr. Adler tries to •
explain to the public w hy he left Ju-
daism.
Dr. .1.11er went to tiermany to pre-
pare himself for the Jewish ministry
and entered the Unk ersity of Heide!-;
here. Finding upon his return to
New York that the attitude he had
reached a ith regard to Jewish rtH
ligions beliefs made it impossible for
hint to enter the acti1e ministry, Inc,
accepted the chair of Hebrew and
oriental literature established for hint'
by some of his friends at Cornell I • iii-
versity. In 1876 he founded the ethi-
cal culture movement.
Dr. .\ filer gives the billowing rea-
sons for leaving the synagog, a de-

The twenty-first annual comention
of the Federation of American Zion-
ists, will, it is no doubt, see American
Zionism reorganized on a compre-
hensive and efficient basis, so as to I
meet the tremendous tasks which have'
devolved main it as at result of thej
recognition of the Zionist aspirations'
by the Allied Powers. The responsi-i
bilities of the American Zionists are
indeed great. Upon them lies the
brunt of the work of rebuilding Pales-
tine. The .\merican Zionist organiza-
tion, which has for the past three
years 'so successfully carried on the
Zionist work. made infinitely more
difficnit by the inability of the Zion-
ists in the warring countries to do
their foil share of the work, must now
also take the lead When the aim is
nearing realization. It must, there-
fore. be thoroughly equipped to cope
with the increased tasks and labors.

Four former students are now in
the Syr\ ire: Lieutenant flurry S. Da-
vidowitz, chaplain-at-large; Corporal
Barnett Cohen, Isadore Schwarzmaii
Isaac E. Fein-
and Philip Lamtlitt.
stein, who had been Library Clerk for
To Combine Societies.
several years, resigned to become one
of the Field 11'orkers of the Jewish
In the first place, it is proposed to
unify the organization. .\ t present
\Velfare Board.
organizations,
Reverend Powell H. Horton was there are a number of
teappointed Fellow in the Biblical the Pro\ isional Zionist Committee,
Department. and Deborah M. Mo- the Federation of American Zionists.
lam•d, Fellow in the Department of the Order Sons of Zion, Hadassah
and the reiterated Zionist societies of
Cognate Languages.
the Middle \Vest. The relations be-
Louis Gerstley and .k. S. \V. Rosen-
tween these organizations are ill de-
limit were re-elected Governors for a
fined, and while working generally to-
period of three years. The following
wards the same end, they often cross
(Miters were re-elected for one year:
each ...tiler's path with disagreeable
Pre•ident. Cyrus .\ tiler; Vice-Presi-
results. The remedy proposed is very
dent, Mayer Sulzberger; Treasurer,
simple: One Zionist organization of
()scar B. Teller; Secretary, Ephraim
America in which the politicai ident-
Lederer.
ity of all the existing organizations
The Summer term will extend from shall he merged, reserving at the sante
July . 9 tin August 23. Among the time the complete freedom for all of
courses given will he one in Hebrew these organizations to discharge their
Conversation by Prof. Matter and in specific functions. if they have any, in
the Historical Geography of Mesopo- a manner suited to themselves with-
tamia in the light of the present cam- out hindrance front any other organ-
paign by Dr. Lioschatuler.
ization. This plan, though absurdly
simple, will probably meet with con-
siderable opposition from the ranks
CONVENTION OF DENVER SANI- of the organizations v.ith specific
functions, which have been accus-
TARIUM.
tomed to consider themselves politi-
cally independent, although being only
Chicago-The 14th annual conven- an offspring of the general organiza-
tion of the Denver Sanitarium was tion, But the Zion't leaders, includ-
held here from the 24th to the 26th ing Justice Brandeis, have placed
of May in the presence of 350 dele- their approval upon the plan. and one
gates. The president of the Sanitar- may, therefore, assume that it will re-
ium. Mr. Philip Hilkowich, and the ceive strong support.
Secretary Dr. Ch. Spivack, rendered
Advocate "District Plan."
encouraging reports concerning the
In the next place, it is proposed to
activities of the institution. There
reorganize the movement within. The
are in the sanitarium 164 patients, in-
than tinder consideration will, if
volving an expense of SI75, 1100 .00
adopted, revolutionize the entire form
yearly. An appeal for funds was lib-
of organization. under which the
erally answered.

% ionist work has been carried

HON. WILLIAM G. McADOO, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PROCLAIMS

FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1918

AS NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS DAY

GOVERNORS AND MAYORS MAKE SIMILAR PROCLAMATIONS

MEETINGS WILL BE HELD IN EVERY COMMUNITY TO SECURE SUBSCRIP-
TIONS FOR WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

Pursuant to the call of the Treaaury Department of the United States and the proclamation of the Gov-
ernor of this State, 1, War Ravinga Director for Michigan, acting under the authority of the United States Treas-
ury Department, have called all tax-payers and wage-earners to meet on Friday, June 28th, to give their nub•
scriptions Inc War Savings Stamps. In rural communities and the smaller towns and cities, meetings will be
held In the school houses at 2 p. n1.

The school olficerit will conduct the meeting In each school house, keeping a record of the proceedings and
reporting the names of all persons present and the amount of War Savings Stanips subscribed for by them.
The names of absent persons, and of those who refuse or neglect to subscribe, with their reagent' for so doing,
will also be reported.

War Savings Stamps (which are United States Government Bonds the same as Liberty Donde) can be paid
for during any month in the year 1918, but it is intended that subscriptions will be signed for them on June 28.
The price of catch War Savings Stamp depends upon the month during which it is bought. During June
each Stamp will cost $4.17. In July each Stamp will coat $4.18, and so on, one cent more each month during
1918. On January 1, 1923, the Government of the United States will redeem all War Savings Stamps at $5.00
each, no matter during which month in 1918 they were bought. They cost less during the early months in 1918
than clueing the later months because the person who buys earlier has !muted his money to the Government
for a longer time than if he should buy Inter.
By way of Illustration, note the following table:

COST OF WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

DURING JUNE, JULY, AND AUGUST, 1918

Cost in
Juno
$4.17
83.40
208.50
417.00
834.00

1 Stamp
20 Stamps
60 Stumps
100 Stamp
200 Stamps

Cost In
July
$4.18
83.60
209.00
418.00
536.00

Cost in
August
$4.19
83.80
209.60
419.00
839.00

And are Worth
on Jan. 1, 1923
$5.00
100.00
250.00
500.00
1,000.00

The law provides that no person can hold in his own name War Savings Stamps exceeding $1,000 maturity
value. War Savings Stamps, however, may he purchased for other members of the family, including minor
children.

The money invested in War Savings Stamps is not a gift, or a donation, but Is a loan to the Government.
It will all be paid bank with 4''v compound Interest. If, because of some serious financial reverses, or calam-
Ity, it should be necessary to get your money before January 1, 1923, you may to so by giving ten days'
notice to any Money Order postmaster, in which case you can get what you paid for the Stamps, with Interest
to date of payment. The Stamps are free from all State and local taxes; when registered at the postoffice they
are Insured against loss; they are backed by all the property In the United States; they cannot fall in value
below the price you pay; they are ate convenient and as well paying an Investment as has ever been offered
by our Government.

A definite quota of War Savings Stamps has been assigned each school district and community, which will
be announced at each meeting on June 28th. The Government of the United States expects all the citizens of
every school district and county to subscribe for its quota and to pledge themselves to save and economize to
help win the war.

It is to be hoped that the subscriptions taken at the meetings III your comfy will show you and your
neighbors to be loyal Americans to whom our Government, in this hour of need, does not call In van,

011 ever

sully the movement was begun. This
is ',vomit as the "District Plan" of
organization.
Under this plan, a city will be M-
I bled into at number of districts and
there will be . only one central Zionist
each district, the
organization in
membership of which will he e0111-
po,cd of all Zionists residing in that
district.
\Vith the em u-mous growth of the
Zionist organization and the spread of
the Zionist sentiment among the
masses of Jews, the inadequacy of the
society form of organization became
apparent. A Zionist society is to a
great extent a social unit. Each so-
ciety has a distinct grouping, some
young. some old, some men, some
women, etc, But no matter how great
the number of societies are, there are
not enough to cover all the grouping's
in Jew ish life, and therefore thou-
sands of Jews are unable to fit thi
selves into any particular society, and
as a result remain outside of the Zion-
ist organization.

A Democratic Plan.
The District plan of organization is
the proposed remedy. The city being
divided into districts, there ‘Nou ' .•1 be
only one Zionist organization in each
district. That means that et My JeW
:Ind Jewess in a given district who
is a %ionist, teould not have ill look
for some Zionist society which to
: join. and finding none, remain outside
the Zionist fold, but would become a
member of the district where he or
she resides. .\ II the Zionists residing
in a district would be members of
the district organization and there
would he no distinction between
member and member, just as there is
none in the organization of any po-
litical party. when a given assembly
district includes as members the po-
liccal leader of the district, the 1.1w-
yer, the physician, the laborer, etc.
't'he benefits that will accrue to the
Zionist organization under this plan
are obvious. All the shekel payers
wo uld be approached and asked to
become members of their respective
districts. Moreover, if at a propa-
ganda meeting,, a certain number Gi
people express the desire to heCollle
Zi011isis, the question will not arise
where and which society they should
join. They would be certified as
members of the district where they
live.
This plan does not imply the aboli-
tion of the existing societies. Funny
would, of course, cease to function in
the sense that they are doing now,
because the work which the societies
are now doing would to a large :x-
tent be taken over by the districts.
But a number of societies will con-
tinue to exist because of social rea-

SIGN ED

&La.t.t.4

Michigan War Savings Director appointed
and acting under the autherity of the Sec-
retary of the United Stets Treasury.

ontonisausuansurneneaninsitinatineinsintahmeramantatistalsoisiassitotansiatainiatuaanimosausinusuclusuumi

sons, and moreover, the district or

will give both moral and
financial support to the societies
within its district no as to enable
them to do certain specific /Mins.
work.
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RABBI APPOINTED CHAPLAIN AT
SING SING.

The Rev. Jacob Katz, who is rabbi
of the Kensington synagogue in
Brooklyn, has been appointed chap-
lain at Sing Sing to succeed Rabbi
Samuel Buehler, win is now deputy
commissioner of charities of New
York city. In his new office, Rabbi
Katz will act as spiritual adviser to
four condemned Jewish prisoners in
Sing Sing's death house awaiting exe-
cution. These are: Jacob Cohen,
convicted of the murder of Barnet
Ball: Abraham Stransky, who killed
a woman in New York; Joseph
Cohen. who slew the Jewish police-
Mall, Rosenfeld, in the eastern dis-
trict of Brooklyn, and Jnhn Kush-
nieruck, whin killed an farmer at Eliza-
bethtown, N. Stransky and Kush-
nieruck arc scheduled to die within

a month.

Anniversary of the Battle Cruiser

Yosemite in Spanish-American War

on mimic

ilain glum Ini

iniumin

nu ilm in it Immo! ic

On Friday, June 28, will be observed
In numerous Michigan homes the an-
niversary of an event which looms
large in the memorlea of many people
In the state. The day marks the pass-
age at twenty years since that twenty-
eighth of June, 1898, when the nine
officers and 260 men of Michigan's
I Naval Militia marked the climax of
their service In the United States navy
by destroying the "Antonio Lopez," a
steamer that was bringing war meal.
' dons from Europe for the aid and
comfort of the Spanish armies In Cuba
and Porto Rico.
The history of this Important episode
of the Spanish.Ainerican war la con-
tained in the book, "The Log Of The
Yosemite," written by Truman New.
I berry, Newberry was then a Houten-
ant on the cruiser Yosemite. engaged

PROMOTED TO RANK OF GEN-
ERAL IN BRITISH ARMY.

San Francisco.-Bernard Frey berg
formerly a resident of this city and a
student of the Uni ersity of Califor-1
nia, is now a general in command of
one of the British armies in France.
His promotion to his present office
has occurred after three years of serv-
ice in the British army. His rapid
advancement is said to be without a
parallel in the history of the British
army. It was immediately after the
outbreak of the war that he left San
Francisco and traveled to England.
There he joined the naval reserve.
Newspapers have repeatedly told of
his deeds of daring while in the sm.

tee.

The Jewish Chronicle
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DRAWING IlY' TOM MAY FROM ORIG.
.

Spanish Steamer "Antonio Lopes"
Driven Ashore by Gunfire of "Yosemite,"
Truman II. Newberry, Lieutenant, in
Spantsh-American War.

In blockade service off the port of San
Juan de Porto Rico. Since then, and
mainly because of the splendid show-
log be made In this service, he has
Nerved as secretary of the navy under
President Roosevelt and Is now a cony
mender of the Third Naval District
and candidate for the United States
senate. The following excerpts are ta-

n it mum iiitzum munw

no1111 in.

ken from the report of Commander W.
II. Emory, who was In charge of the
Yosemite during the fight, as it ap-
pears in the book:
"I have the honor to report that
about 5:30 o'clock on the morning of
Tuesday, June 28, we sighted a steam-
er to the westward, about two miles
distant. • • • • • The Yosemite was
headed for the stranger. • • • • See-
ing our intention, the steamer was in-
stantly headed for the shore and
beached on the reef, al: miles to the
westward of Morro Castle. • • • • The
Yosemite remained in the vicinity of
this position for some time, during
which shell and shrapnel were dis-
charged at the Spaniard. When it was
deemed that the steamer was suffici-
ently disabled the Yosemite steamed
for a Spanish cruiser and gunboat
which had come to the relief of the
beached steamer. During this period,
was much surprised to find that the
guns of Morro and the water battery
below it had the exact range of the
Yosemite's position and were effective
at that distance. • • • • Many pro-
jet:Olen of large calibre passed over
the Yosemite • • • • and although the
enemy node excellent line shots, some
very near to the ship, she was not
struck once. • • • • Our fire seemed to
be very effective and made the Span-
ish cruller join her consort, the gun-
boat, in seeking shelter under the
Runs of Morro. • •• • The spirit and
behavior of the officers and crow was
In every way highly commendable."
With Commander Newberry and
many others of the old crew of the
"Yosemite" again serving their coun-
try, there will be no official celebra-
tion of the anniversary this year. How-
ever, all of the survivors of the battle
of twenty years ago and their families
will livethe stirring day over again
in memory.