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Misguided Patriotism
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friend, Stephen S. Wise, had temporarily forsaken the cloth to do
manual labor for Uncle Sam. \\'e have no doubt that Dr. \Vise had
the highest motives in undertaking work in such an humble position.
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tion of the Jews, especially of the
recently arrived German Jews, which
was dubious and irregular, clande-
pondence of Robert Hertz, student of
the Normal College, professor of philo-
sophy in the College of Douai, foun-
It waS with a mixture of emotions that we learned our h o nored der of the Socialist Memoranda, the
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of his idle congregants. Surely he had nu premonition that his act
would be commented upon by the daily press inn- that the unpleasant
spotlight of publicity would be turned upon hitn. But however sin-
cere the motives, we cannot congratulate Dr. Wise upon the sphere
he has chosen in which to aid ur country. It is certain that an
eighteen-dollar-a-week man could do the job held by Dr. Wise much
The Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence on subjects of nterest to the better than he can, and in the meanwhile he is wasting talents which
Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the views few men possess and which could be used to much greater advantage
expressed by the writers.
Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit,
in other branches of the service. 1\'e would suggest that if he has no
one dependent upon him to a greater extent that eighteen dollars a
Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
week, it would be a wonderfully tine opportunity for him to enter
the army as a chaplain. here his dominant personality, his zeal and
Rabbi Franklin Tours Eastern Cantonments
his brilliant oratory might affect and inspire the lives of our intrepid
warriors. \Ve must not become hysterical in our desire to serve the
The writer of these articles assumes his duties with a full realiza- Government each man is of greatest patriotic use just now who
tion of his own inability to adequately till the place of contributing does those things he is especially fitted to do with all the power 01
editor even for a short time. But in relieving Rabbi Franklin of his soul.
his editorial duties he feels that he has somewhat lightened his tasks
while he is speaking at the Eastern cantonments.
Play Fair, Mr. Hornaday
It is truly characteristic of Rabbi Franklin that instead of spend-
. ing his vacation-weeks in leisure, and obtaining a much-needed and
In a recent issue of "The Detroit Free Press," Mr. \V. 'I'.
I lornaday, Writing under the heading, "America, Wake Up," casts
Board.
a slur upon the Jewish name which should not lie allowed to pass
Rabbi Franklin is too well known throughout the country to need unnoticed. lornaday baldly announces by implication that all
any words of praise, but we feel that the men in the cantonments Russian-Jews are Bidsheviki and that they be classed among Amer-
well-earned rest, he has given his services to the Jewish Welfare
will welcome him as he is \velccmed wherever he may go. Ile will ica's "cobras." Ile mentions the name of Trotsky and others and
bring to them the same deep message of hope, courage and inspira- would lead the public to believe that all Russian-Jews belong to the
tion that is constantly spread by this leader of American Israel in same ilk.
his own community.
The Workers Are Few—the Need Great
A statement of that sort can hardly be calculated to appeal to
fair-minded people and it is manifestly unfair to stir up unjust preju-
dice toward a large class of people, the majority of whom are giving
full and undivided allegiance to America and are sparing no efforts
.\n appeal has come from the headquarters of the Red Cross to see it triumph over Prussianism.
urging the people of the community to give of their time and labors
to the much-needed work of the organization. The workers are
asked to maintain their ((inner standard of efficiency expressed in
stine and spurious. 1 consider this
war as a welcome opportunity to 're-
gularize the situation' for ourselves
and for our children. Afterwards,
• be able to work, if they so
they oil
please, for the super and international
ideal, but, first of all, one must dem-
onstrate by deeds that one is not be-
neath the national ideal."
The author of this testament signed
it with his blood. certified it with his
death. Robert Hertz was killed on
the 13th of April, 1915, at Marche-
ville, at the time second lieutenant
in the 330th infantry. I do not think
it would be possible to find a text
revealing with greater strength and
feeling the passionate desire of Israel
to lose himself in the French soul.
Spiritual Patriotism.
Such are the Jews recently arivcd
among us and in whom the unreason-
ing almost animal part which there
is in our love fur our fatherland does
not exist. Their patriotism is wholly
spiritual, an act of the will, a de-
cision, a choice of the spirit. "Flier
prefer France; that country present.
itself to them as a freely const:tmeil
association. Moreover, they are able
to find in this very condition a reason
for devotion, and Robert Ili rtz. the
son of a German, shows us in ad-
mirable manner that. knowin4
to have been adopted, he isi.imi to
conduct himself in such a way a. to
"My dearest, I recall my dreams be worthy of his adoption. But there
when I was very little, and later a are other Jews in large numbers, root-
ed for centuries and generations in
student, down there in my room near
the soil of France, and intimately
the kitchen, in de d'Alma Avenue. identified with the joys and sorrows
\l'ith all my being, I wanted to be a of the national life. I ask myself what
Frenchman, to deserve to be one, to patriotic support do they find in their
prove that I was one, and I dreamed religion? \Vhat remains in them of
of glorious deeds in the war against pious Israel of old, and what aid does
the latter offer to its sons engaged in
\Villiani. Then this desire for "inte-
the war.
gration" took another form, for ivy so-
The Chief Rabbi of the Central
cialism proceeded largely from it.
Consistory of France, in a letter
"Now the old boyish dream lives which I have before me, answers:
again in lime, more ardent than ever. "My chaplain and myself have since
I am grateful to my chiefs who ac- the beginning of the war established
the fact ,that there has been a great
cept me as their subordinate, to the
return of faith among the Jewish sol-
men whom I ant proud to command, diers which fuses with their patriotic
to them, the children of a people enthusiasm." Nevertheless, I have no
truly elect.
\'es, I am tilled with documents in my possess:on. I point
gratitude to the fatherland which re- out in simple good faith the gaps in
ceives me and crowns me. Nothing my investigation. The documents
which I posess on the moral elite
will be too much to pay for that, so
among the Jews introduce me only
my little lad can always walk with
to such spirits as appear to be devoid
head erect, and, in the France re- of their religious tradition. They are
stored, be free from the torment which all free thinkers. (Subsequently, NI.
poisoned many hours of our childhood Barres received a number of commit-
and youth. 'Ant I a Frenchman? Do &cations, revealing the fact that with
I deserve to be one?' No, little one. many of the Jewish soldiers lighting
d d•ing for France, their religion is
you will have a country and you will
be able to walk proudly mm the earth, a great element in the sum of their
moral strength.)
nourishing yourself with this assur-
The free thinkers who emerge from
ance: 'My daddy was there, and he
Catholicism or Protestantism subsist
rase everything to France.' As for
large measure on the ancient Chris-
me, if I need any, this thought is the tian foundation; for centuries they
sweetest rewatd.
have been prepared in the little vil-
"There was something in the posi-
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son of a German Jew. And it is this
last circumstance which constitutes
the tragedy of his position and of
his psychology. His letters to his
wife are admirable in their fulness
and warmth. 1 should not be fair to
him, if I did not mention his love
for his hearthstone, his vigorous in-
tellectual curiosity which operates in
the most original manner even in the
course of the war, his entire satis-
faction with that military discipline
where he satisfies what he calls his
"nostalgia for the absent cathedral"
and finally his indomitable and deli!).
crate will to go "to the limit." On
various occasions my own name, now
condemned, now praised, recurs under
his pen, and I listen to our agree-
ments and disagreements with the
greatest attention, for the war leaves
its nothing which we should refuse
to revise. But I shall not stop; I
hurry on almost brutally, for the very
honor of this Robert Hertz, to his
naked and quivering thought, 'If I
fall," he writes to his wife, "I shall
have discharged only a very small
part of my debt to my country."
And on this point, this splendid
passage:
Hospitality to Soldiers
terms of quality and quantity of their work. The impression scents
The Entertainment Committee of the local \Velfare Board has
to have become prevalent that the war will soon be over and there assumed the task of providing homes for soldiers when they come
will no longer be a need for materials turned out in such great to its from nearby camps for the High Holydays. Undoubtedly
quantity a short time ago. Dptimism over our recent magnificent many men will avail themselves of furloughs to attend services in
drives on the western front should not make its close our eyes to our respective Synagogues and while they are in our community it
the present need for such materials of mercy which we can con- is highly fitting that we do all in our power to make them comfort-
tribute toward the winning of the war.
able and to let them share our homes with us. It is a tine oppor-
Let not your sense of security lull your energies to sleep.
tunity for the Jewry of Detroit to show the tender regard they hold
All the workrooms are open with their full quotas to he done for the men in service and an overabundance of buttes will surely be
and your boys are calling to you to aid in the work. It is undoubt- placed at the disposal of the committee.
edly difficult to work when the weather is oppressive, but you must
be willing to sacrifice something for those heroic young men who
take no vacations and who have to endure the summer heat along
vith their other hardships. Long after the war is over and the
necessity for surgical dressings shall have passed there will still be
work to be done. Authorities estineite that a year after the tear
there will still be a great call for garments to clothe the refugees
THE JEWS OF FRANCE AND THE WAR
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FOR MAYOR
\ witness assures me that they were
who have lost their all. Go to any workroom and give all the time spirit. but with which he was intoxi- heard to exclaim , "We will throw
you can spare, and some that you can't spare, to this work of mercy. cared, and wished to enrich himself. ourselves on the Bodies, and we will
I have read his analysis of the bury our bayonets in their bodies with
treatise by Pines on "1 oldish latent- the battle cry of the Eternal.'
The cry is superb, and carries our
min," an analysis 'quite brief and un-
adorned, which makes us regret a imagination hack to old Biblical times
more considerable work, "too subject- and to the Maccalmean epic. One ail-
Campaigns have begun for the election of our next Mayor.
ive, too personal." we are told, which thorized to speak in this manner
modesty with which many of the candidates entered the field borders he had devoted to the same subject writes me as follows:
"'They are serving for the most part
upon the ludicrous. Some of them feel that the call to oilier has Such as they are, these ten pages.
been forced upon than by' the long-suffering populace. The tight where he hears the Jewish People in the Zonaves , and were there (until
speak, reveal his fixed idea, his obses- recently) in the proportion of one to
is on in earnest. 'Fite public is now treated to a view of the long
sion oil the sufferings and hopes o f four. They have fought in the battle
hidden political skeletons of some of the aspirants. There will be Israel, his gaze towards Palestine. He of Belgium, of the Marne (particular.
much more "mud-slinging" before the affray is brought to an end seems to place over eierything the IY at Chambry) before Soissons. in
Our Next Mayor
feeling of national pride. which li,. Arras, on the Vser, in Champagne. at
endeavors to reconcile with the id-al \'erduu, on the Somme, at the Darda•
Indies, in Servia. It is especially du
of humanity.
1st, 2nd, 3rd. 4th, and 801 Zouaves.
Meets Death on Battlefield.
\\'e h a „, his u l t i mo verb,. in a let- which included them in the beginning
The 45th division, formed in Oran of
ter
addressed
mo- reservists and territorials, is the om
Leon
Solltiller. to
"At his
the chaplain.
present Mr.
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hold my life as which fw
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September,
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which
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wholly sacrificed, but if fate should
be days
the
firs:
kind C:1111101 to spare me after the immediately sent by tialilee to the
I .hall consider me a , no neighborhood of Nleatix, there to de-
energies of men incorruptible, men who will not seek the favor of tzar
lom.,er belonging to me, and, after live r theblowwhich was decisive."
Passing on to another portion of
special interests and 111(11 who Will not build political fences for the having done ills- duty towards France,
nch con-
future at the expense of the honor and progress of Detroit. Surely I shall devote myself to the great unit t c at the,gmr: tv (,), sa do,p ilood n eFsr who
among such a great number of candidates men or right calibre can and unhappy Jewish people from d uc
in 'order to pay for and justify their
he found who shall administer our affairs properly and courageously. whom I am descended. Nly dear Chap- adoption, I advance positive ex i- I
lain. in case I should die. I should
The growth and the decent government of our city depends upon
dente, which brings us before a nabl,
:err much like to sleep under the
you, voter. Elect the men whom ycn believe are really seeking Shield of David. .\ Nlog ■ m David and ardent soul, and introduces us
the mAst of the intimate <uffsmu,
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the office for the good they can put into it and not for what they. can would rock me with a last thrill and
of Gallicizeil
my. soul would be happy in the
get nut of it.
Case of Robert Hertz.
thought of sleeping my eternal sleep
by time and the voice of the people. It is hoped that the minds of
the people shall not become clouded \vith obscure political issues.
Und e r th e new c h a rter, with its provisions fur greatly centralized
dower in one man and the small council, it becomes all the more
imperative to elect men who shall not abuse that power, and w ho,
after their inauguration, shall never forget for a moment that the%
are the representatives and servants of the people. \•arious mum-
ciral problems need heroic treatment and their solving requires the
Justice Brandeis—Plenipotentiary
"The New Republic" in its issue of July V, th urges that Justice
Brandeis be named Plenipotentiary. to Russia. It proclaims him as
the best man in merica possessing ability to wield the full moral
and immaterial powers of the United States. At this critical hour in
Russia's history, especially in those phases of it affecting th e Alli e d
cause, it seems to us that no stronger man can be found to c onvey
to that troubled nation the message of hope and courage that \I r.
NVilson would send to them. Mr. Brandeis is eminently tilted for
the task and We may yet witness a lew appearing as the saviour of
that land which for centuries has spent its fury and its hatred upon
his co-religionists.
A New Magazine
Antunmeement has just been made that the first volume of a new
magazine, edited by Dr. David Neumark, Professor of Philosophy
of the Ilebrew Union College, will soon make its appearance. The
prospectus states that the magazine will be devoted to the impartial
consideration of Jewish thought. philosophy and literature. Its
appeal will be to the educated in our Jewish communities: it seeks
to bring to them a scholarly presentation of things Jewish. Any
article from the pen of this internationally known scholar will he
read with avidity and we wish our contemporary-to-be a very suc-
cessful future.
under the shadow of the emblem of
Zion."
(In the 18th of August, 1516, Lieu-
tenant Rothstein fell at the head of
his men, struck by a bullet in the
forehead.
There is something painful and M-
iming in this destiny of a young spirit
who regards the world exclusively
through the Jewish nation. and who
dies in the service of those he love
most, but from whom he insists on
being distinguished. It is one of the
innumerable trials of wandering Is
rad.
Let us now come a little nearer, and
from this friend from the outside let
us proceed to our adopted ones.
The Algerian Jews
The .Algerian Jews, during the war,
show us Israel just united to French
Civilization, and ardently eager to
partake of our rights, our duties and
our sentiments. Forty-five years ago
they had not a smgle right. Cremieux
suddenly granted them a privilege
which greatly upset the Arabs. He
decreed them French citizens. The
nobility of this milk, the prerogative
attached to it, and our education seem
to have' transformed them into pa-
triots. Their fathers were only fam-
iliar with commerce, but they thrilled
with the call of arms, They depart-
ed, I am told, with great enthusiasm.
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