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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

DEVELOPMENT OF LAND
IN PALESTINE DEPENDS
ON JEWISH LABOR HERE

Walter E. Meyer, Commission-
er, Just Returned, Says Ameri-
canized Immigrant Jew Is
Needed to Build Up County.

REPORT ARABS WOULD
CO.OPER4TE WITH JEWS

Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1918.

VOL IV. NO. 10.

HUNGARIAN JEW IS MADE

ACTUAL PRIVY COUNCILLOR

A WORKINGMAN.

POGROMS AND ANTI-SEMITISM

FORBIDDEN BY SOVIET

London.—The Soviet Government
at Moscow has issued a decree against
anti-Semitism, a Russian wireless
message announces. There is no
place in the Russian scheme for the
oppression of nationalities, the decree
declares, The Jewish bourgeoisie "is
our enemy not as Jews but as bour-
geoisie," it continues. The decree in-
vites the working classes to tight
against pogroms. All instigators of
pogroms and all anti-Semitic agitators
will be regarded as outlaws, it is de-
clared.

Ilinlaff),t, Iva London).—A report
has just been received from official
sources that Dr. \Villiani \'azsoityi,
the retiring Hungarian Minister of
Justice, has been Aranted the title of
\ ctual 'Privy Councillor. lie thus be-
comes the first Jew of Hungary who
has been so signally honored by the
Hungarian government. Dr. Vazson•
yi is one of the most powerful inti•
ences in his country in furthering
democratic reforms. He is greatly
responsible for the franchise reforms
w hich have been recently inaugurated.

EXCELLENT HOMES IN
DETROIT FOR ORPHAN
CHILDREN IS CLAIM

Fred M. Butzel Says United
Jewish Charities Has No Dif-
ficulty in Placing Homeless
Children in Proper Care.

FLAYS UNDEMOCRATIC
INFLUENCE OF ASYLUM

MANY ASK WILSON TO SEND
August 5th, 1918.
JUSTICE BRANDEIS TO RUSSIA Editor Jewish Chronicle,
The first to bring official messages JACOB H. SCHIFF GIVES 825,000
TO
HEBREW
UNIVERSITY
Detroit,
Mich.
from Jewish Palestine to the Jews of
Washington. — Officials from all Dear Sir:
—
America is Walter E. Meyers, who was
ov er the country are urging l'resi•
In the friendly controversy between
attached to the Zionist Administrative
The Zionist Organization of Amer-
dent Wilson to appoint Justice Louis Nit.. Freund and myself no new points
Commissi°", as financial adviser of ica announces that Mr. Jacob H.
D. Brandeis plenipotentiary to 'tar' occurred in Mr. Frieund's last letter to
Dr. Chaim Weitzman. Schiff has donated 5,1)00 shares of the
torn Russia and to vest in hint power warrant a further extension of the
Mr. Meyers was in Palestine for ten Jewish Colonial Trust, Ltd., to the
to put into effect such plans as the discussion at the present time.
weeks, and made a close study of the Hebrew University, the corner-stones
Government sees fit to carry out to- Mr. Freund is mistaken when he
political, economic and sociological of which were laid July 30th, on the
wards the end of restoring the mum says that we cannot find homes for
conditions of the land. It his opinion Mount of Olives in l'alestine. The
try. That the appointment will loon infants in the city of Detroit. The
the great need for the upbuilding of Hebrew University was among the
be announced publicly by the l'resi- United Jewish Charities not only find
the Jewish National Homeland is Am- first of the projects for the reconstruc-
dent, seems now to be an assured homes for infants but excellent ones,
erican-Jewish man power. He has in tion of Jewish Palestine proposed by
fact rather than a possibility. and the standard of care is such all to
mind, as the desired human material the Zionist Administrative Commis-
The following telegram, commend- command the respect of all child tar-
to meet this demand for man-power, sion, which is now functioning in
ing Justice Brandeis as the man best ing agencies in the city of Detroit.
the Americanized immigrant Jew, Jerusalem. and which is operating
lit for this important position, was The time may come when we cannot
especially those who have come here with the sanction of the British Gov-
sent by George W. Neysmuth of lios- find such homes but I doubt it. 1
from Russia, Roumania, Austria and eminent.
ton, member of the Committee on sincerely wish that my feelings eon-
The Jewish Colonial Trust, Ltd., is
have absorbed American methods and
Public Information to l'resident Wil- terming the monumental nature of the
principles without the loss of their the financial instrument of the •ion-
orphan asylum were flippant. If that
son:
Jewish idealism. "l'alestine needs ist Organization for the developMent
were true I feel that the orphan asy-
"No action would better con-
just such men of affairs as these," says of Palestine. Its capital stock is $10,-
"LABORER" STEPHEN S. WISE.
tuts managements themselves would
vince the democratic forces of
Mr. Meyers, "who will go into the 000,00(1 and it has already established,
use their utmost efforts to get their
Russia that their permanent in-
This photograph, one of many taken of the famous New York Rabbi
land with their ability and their in Palestine, a series of financial in-
children where possible into private
-
terests arc identical with those
within the past two weeks, shows him In the conventional dress of the $18
money, and having the Jewish national stitutions. including the Anglo-Pales- per-week "hand" in the Luders shipbuilding plant at Stamford, Conn. The
homes and would develop home plac-
of the allied democracies than
purpose in mind while doing so, will tine Bank. The shares sell at $5.01) sledge hammer In the hands of "worker" Wise is a tool that he has used
ing departments to supplement the in-
the appointment of Justice Bran-
make investments, launch commercial and before the war paid dividends of figuratively to the pulpit and on platform In a manner most effective in the
stitutional needs. In some very good
deis as American representative
past,
and
he
Is
now
learning
Its
actual
use.
In
spite
of
the
"kidding"
of
his
enterprises, develop industries and af- about 3%. The British Government
institutions the home placing depart-
to Russia with plenipotentiary
ford means of employment to the recently authorized a stock-issue by friends and the press, "worker" •ise is popular with his "fellow-workers"
menu and the parent assisting de-
powers. The appointment would
populatio'n. The Jewish population the Jewish Colonial Trust, and among who take his resolve to do his bit for his country seriously. He may yet be
partments are very well developed, •
strengthen the morals of the al-
invited to join the union. Dr. Wise will resume his duties as Rabbl of the
In a fine democracy we will not ex-
of the country and the British author- the recent subscribers are l'eter J.
lies and go far toward making
Free Synagogue of New York on September 1st.
pect orphans and half orphans to be
ities are agreed that this is Palestine's Schweitzer, of ltrooklyn, eighteen
Russia a decisive factor in win-
more virtuous, better educated and
prime need if it is to develop along thousand shares, Mrs. Mary Fels. of
ring the war."
finer mannered and permanently
the lines laid out by the Zionist or- New York, 1,250 shares, and Sol J.
grateful than the other childen. The
ganization in consonance with the Rosenbloom, Pittsburgh, 2,000 shares.
DICTATOR CONTINUES
JEWISH
OUTRAGES
most
tragic moment in the history of
British declaration. Later, and espe- The allotment for America was 70,000
BY
the Cleveland Orphan Asylum occur-
cially if there is to be a mass-emigra• shares, of which over 50,000 have al-
red when its very able and fine feel-
Member of the French Academy
tion from Russia and Poland, there ready been taken tip.
The dictator of Ukraine, General
will be great need for men of special
ing superintendent begge the Board
(The article here presented for the first lime in* an English translation is Skaroposki, appointed by the German for
permission to withdraw the older
training, experts in various branches, PROFESSOR HEINRICH GRAF DEAD. notable not only because it comes from the pen of a member of the French
authorities, continues his policy of children from the public schools and
including teachers, For cultural rea-
Academy and one of the foremost European litterateurs of the day, but because extortion and murder among the Jews reconstitute classes within the orphan
Berne.,-Professor Heinrich Graf,
the glowing tribute paid to the Jewish people has been written by one who in the of his province. The Jews of Rains- asylum because the orphan children
sons, it will be desirable that these
the well known mathematician of
past had stood on the side of the enemies of the race, having lent his influence to
teachers shall be proficient in Eng-
Berne University, died here suddenly. the unenlightened activities of the anti-Semites. Ills new realization of the intrinsic dam, near Tchernigov, were ordered were better educated, better man-
lish and French as well as Hebrew.
Lately Professor Graf worked day worth of the Jews as a people and off the immense services which the Jews have to bring in to the Ukrainian treasury nered and more sensitive than the
night at writing a book on mathe- rendered to the cause of France a' S her Allies in the great struggle for the free- a large sum of money, which was inn- other children, The board refused
Arabs Appear Friendly.
As a re, his requeit:
-rnatiet. It-is- -presuntedi-that over- done of the world, constitutes et e. snore conversion 01 striking significance and Po'sgilltenrtheitetti collect.
— Mr. Nieyeis left Palestiiii • on'jnne
illustrates (ItICw one of the remarkable effects of the great attukening brought stilt, many Jews were killed and their
Thanking you for your courtesy, I
work caused his death.
refer
to
his
change
of
to
10th, just after Dr. Weitzman had re-
hesitate
bodies left on the roads as a warning am,
forth by the war. The author himself does not
views and in reviewing the correspondence of Robert Ilert:, he say's, "On various to their brethren.
turned from Akaba where he and Ma-
Very truly yours,
RECEIVES COMMISSION.
occasions my own name, 110w condemned, now praised, recurs under his pen, and
jor Ormsby-Gore, the liaison member
(Signed) FRED H. BUTZEL.
I listen to our agreements arid disagreements with the greatest attention, for the
of the commission, had participated in
pm..
ARRIVES
SAFELY
OVERSEAS
war leaves as nothing which we Should refuse to revise." The article consists
a very satisfactory interview with Fie-
Cornerstones of Hebrew
of a chapter front "Les Diverses Families Spirituelles de la France" ( The l'orious
sol, the son of the King of the lied-
University Are
Spiritual Families of France), a book by .11. liarres, just issued, in which the dis-
jaz. with whom they discussed Great
tinguished author describes how the diverse population of France has been welded
Britain's project of a Near-East En-
In the presence of General Allenby,
into one whole by the struggle against a common enemy, and pays enthusiastic
tribute to the different classes of people living in the country, which have attested
tente, composed of the Jews, the
the conqueror of Palestine, General
their loyalty by sacrifice. ...Marcel Knecht, it member of the French High Com-
Storrs, British M ilitary Governor of
Arabs and the Armenians. In con-
mission to this country, who recently wrote in the Jewish press on the important
Jerusalem, their staffs, the Moham-
nection with the negotiations with the
role which the French Jews /Ian' played and are still playing in the present
medan Grand Mufti, and a vast con-
Arabs, NI r. Meyers said that one of
struggle, paid particular attention to the new book of M. Rams, asking for it the
course of the Jewish, Christian and
the most significant features of the
special consideration of the len'S in this country "because this book contains the
Mohammedan population of the Holy
commission's arrival in l'alestine was
greatest praise for the Jewish attitude in the our." He said further, "This book
City, the corner-stone of the Hebrew
the reception tendered to it by Gen.
tots written by a ;Han who, during the Dreyfus affair. and who since has always
writer,
University was laid on the Mount of
been on the other side of the barrier. He is a Lorrainer, a great French
Storrs, the military governor of Jer-
Of
Olives on July 30th.
usalem at which Dr. Weitzman!' gave
a member of the French ..1 earl Oily, II 'Mill di C IltSillg d great official position
The descr:ption of this impressive
the Nationalist party of France. 1/aurice Barn's, who tots not particularly con-
such a lucid and satisfying explanation
sidered a friend of the Jews. Ile has written in this book a great chapter on the
and unique ceremony which has been
of the Zionist aims, that the Grand
cabled
to the Zionist organization of
Jews, praising their heroir•v")
Mufti. Nlusa Kasin Pasha, declared to
America states that Dr. Weizman'',
him: "We—the Jews and the Arabs—
Jewish
Student
Enthuses,
)R Israel in his eternal wan-I
head of the Jewish Administrative
must love each other like brothers."
.
Bering, choosing a country is
Lager
young men, intellectuals it
Commission, set t welve stones in
Mr. Meyers says that it is impossible
a matter of great importance 1 seems, questioned, informed, exhorted,
place, each representing one of the
to exaggerate the political importance
,
His country is not always a and registered these motley recruits.
tribes of Israel.
of this event. It clearly indicated to
heritage from his ancestors: he ac- The most zealous was a twenty-two
Among the guests of honor were
the non-Jewish population the bond
the diplomatic represeinatives in Je-
quires it then by an act of his free rear old Jew, a student of the engi-
that has been established between the
will. and he assumes his citizenship neering school, small, frail, with
rusalem of France and Italy, and Mil-
Zionists and. the British government.
itary squads from the troops of both
as a finality of which he is anxious to gleaming. almost feverish eyes, with a
It served the purpose of allaying the
of these countries and Gre'at Britain.
prove himself worthy.
strong and aggressive spirit. This
fear that had been stimulated in sonic
Thousands of Jews carne from every
Many. Jews, settled in our midst for young enthusiast dreamed of creating
Arab circles that the British declara-
part of the liberated sections of Pales-
SERG. SAUL ROTHENBERG.
natural
h eritable Jewish legion. Rothstein
generations
and
centuries.
are
natal
a
tion meant nothing short of turning
tine to participate in the ceremony
First Lieut. R. R. Goldstone.
members
of
the
national
body,
but
was
a
Zionist.
By
this
act
of
devo-
the land over to the Jews without re-
\Void has been received by Mr. and and were joined by delegations from
Dr. If It. Goldstone has been lion- they are concerned that their newly- tion to France, Ile was sure that he Mrs. M. Rothenberg, of 326 E. Ferry Arthur J. Balfour, British Secretary
gard to the rights of the rest of the
tired with a commission as First Lieu- arrived co-religionists should prove was serving the cause of Israel,
avenue, that their son, Sergt. Saul Cairo and Alexandria. The Rt. Hon
population.
this did he understand it? Did he
tenant in the United States Army their loyalty. In the early days of
Rothenberg, has arrived safely over- of State for foreign affairs, sent a
Palestine Crops Successful.
Niedical Reserve Corps. Ile is a re- the war, when a hostile feeling rose up expect to obtain from the victory of seas. Ile enlisted in the Nledical congratulator• cablegram.
cent volunteer, answering the urgent in the ancient Parisian Ghetto (in the the Allies the realization of the curi- Corps last September. and was given
Dr. Weizmann announced in the
The population has borne up won-.
...my moment call for physicians to fourth Arrondissement) against the om plans. which are not without an intensive training at ramp Sher- course of his address that the univer-
derfully well. in spite of war condi-
offer their services to their country. Jews from Russia, Poland, Roumania grandeur, of Doctor Herz!, or did he. man, Ohio. Before joining the army, sity would have faculties covering
tions," says Mr. Meyers. "That is. all
He leaves for active duty on Septets- and Turkey, a meeting was (held in store simply and with more certainty, Sergt. Rothenberg was a druggist in every branch of art and science and
except the population of Jerusalem.
her 1st. Dr. Goldstone is one of the the home of one of the editors of the desire to increase through sacrifice
special faculties for the Arabic lan-
Detroit. lie is 25 years of age, and
which has been reduced from between
best known young men of the Jewish newspaper. "The Jewish People" "Le the moral force and prestige of Is- well known among the younger peo- guage and sciences.
seventy and seventy-five thousand to
One
word
which
he
uttered
community of this city. Ile is a for- l'euple juil,") of which it publishes a rad!
ple of the city.
twenty-five thousand. In the colon-
slier President of the Young Peoples report. "Do you not think," said one, leaves no doubt of the strength and
JEWISH MOTHER LOSES SON
ies, the morale is wonderful. The
Society of Temple Beth El and has „ that it is necessary, to organize a direction of his thought. lie told his ARK IS CONSECRATED
IN FRANCE, GIVES 825 TO J. W. B.
colonists are looking forward to the
—
been in the fore front of every Jew- ' special service for 'enlisted foreign friends he would meet them after the
AT CAMP UPTON, N. Y.
future hopefully. Cut off from the
ish communal movement in the city Jews in order that it may become war in Palestine.
New York.—The patriotic spirit of
European markets, the orange-grow-
When all had enlisted, he himself
Camp Upton, L. I.—The biggest cele- a Jewish mother is shown in a letter
known, that the Yews have also
ers have carved out a new market in
signed the sheet.
bration ever held by the Jews in this which Mrs. Mary Wittstein of Cincin-
Syria, which is a great asset for the hat the typhoid and other epidemics brought forward their contingents"
I laving departed as a simple soldier,
camp took place here recently. An nati, has sent to the Jewish Welfare
The sane day an appeal in French
future. Last season's crops, except prevailing in the Holy City.
and Yiddish was addressed to the tin. Amedee Rothstein was promoted sec- ark, donated by Supreme Court Justice Board. Mrs. Wittstein has just lost a
almonds. were way above the average
Anzacs Would Colonize.
"You can get some idea of whatm igrant Jews inviting them to come and lieutenant. then mentioned in an Irving Lehman, was consecrated in the son who was killed while fighting
and commanded market prices two
and re ister in the rooms of the Jew- army order "for hating displayed re• new interdenominational chapel, and a with the American Expeditionary
and three times above normal. In
.
.
.
scroll. the gift of Samuel Gottschall, Forces, and in his memory, she sent a
sort of a
country Palestine
really
" a. ish register
. Meyers.
"when I tell
you is,
that
People s University,
Untversity, No. 8 Rue de markable vigor and coolness to the
Jerusalem, one of the factors in reduc-
placed within it. Rabbi Nathan B. contribution to the Board, with the
Mr
a number
of Anzacs front Australia Jarente. It was received with entliu- admiration of the infantry officers and
ing the population, aside from expul- said
joiysh
antti
h actoni it iom
r tigtho t otahider ibn oysriin
b ngig
tnhe
Lechman, the tamp rabbi, presided at w
sions and emigrations, is malnutrition. told me that they intended to settle siasm, and, says the Jewish People, of his mem" and finally made a Knight
isre ism..
This is, in reality, a local problem. in Palestine permanently when the "Not one Jewish tradesman in the of the Legion of Honor, "for having them ea x j oerrcG
J. F. Bell opened the ark service. Her letter follows:
a particularly distinguished himself on
It is not due to poverty, but to inabil-
fighting is over, because, they said. Jewish quarter failed to display
"Enclosed please find check for $25,
and lit the "ner Tomid" or perpetual
ity to bring food supplies into the Palestine is a finer country than Aus- copy of it in his show window very the 25th of September, 1915, by being
light; Rabbi H. Pereira Nfendes and a contribution from Mrs. Wittstein,
city. This condition, however, will tralia. And talking of fighting re- prominently." On the very next day, the first to leave 'the trenches, and
Dr. Cyrus Adler spoke, and prayers 1028 Wesley avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio,
be remedied by the double-track rail- minds me that the Jewish young men all enormous crowd thronged the vigorously carrying his men along
were offered by Chaplain John H. Kerr, in memory of her beloved son, Eli
road which the British army has built of Palestine are clamoring to lie ac- rooms of the "Jewish People's Univer- with him, which helped to give superb
Father Lawrence Bracken, and Dr. \Vittstein, killed in action April 21st,
all the way from Egypt to Jaffa. An- cepted as volunteers in the British city." Each one wished to he cegis- dash to our first wave of assault."
Mendes. Private Bernard Oxenhandler 1918, abroad. I hope that this letter
other thing that is going to improve army. Over 800 had already enlisted tered as soon as possible, and to be We should like to be familiar with
was the cantor and sacred solos were will bring lots of joy and comfort to
conditions in Jerusalem is the water when I left, and the girls were organ- in possession of the card certifying the thought. the wonderments, the
given by Mrs. Bertha Hirsch. General many other Jewish boys since my dear
works which the army has con- izing to render whatever co-operation to his enlistment, the magic card sympathies, the hopes of this young
Bell led the procession when the scroll beloved son joined before this wonder-
structed, primarily to supply its own they could, either as nurses. or as which opened the ranks of police- hero of Israel amid the soldiers and
was carried from the headquarters of ful organization started and died be-
needs, but ultimately to bring fresh typists or clerks.—anything at all, so officers, and calmed the wrath of jan- landscape of France, in a moral at-
the Jewish Board for Welfare Work fore he could come iu contact with
water from the mountain tops into that they, too, could have a hand in itors and over-zealous neighbors. (Le mosphere so different from his own
any of his faith."
to the chapel.
every house. This will do more than the liberation of their native land. People juif, October, 1916). (Continued On Page Four.)
anything else I can think of to coin-

THE JEWS OF FRANCE AND THE WAR

MAURICE BARRES

t.aid