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CLIFTON AMU/ • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
FOREMOST RUSSIAN
JEWISH LAWYER IS
SHOT IN PETROGRAD
Henry Sliosberg is Assassinated in
Bitter Struggle Between Bolshe-
viki and Counter-Revolutionists.
REPRESENTED FOREIGN
INTERESTS UNDER CZAR
Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918.
VOL. IV. NO. 12.
LOCAL J. W. B. MOVES TO
KNIGHTS OF
PYTHIAS HALL
A Jewish Soldier's Grave in France
RABBI
KOPALD OF BUFFALO I ALL JEWISH BOYS IN
UNIFORM OF J. W. B.
DONS
Rabbi Louis J. Kopald, of Buffalo,
N. Y., one of the foremost Rabbis in
the United States, is donning the
uniform of the Jewish Welfare Work-
er. He has volunteered his services
to the Jewish Welfare Board, U. S.
Army and Navy, and has been as-
signed to Camp Dix, N. J.
Dr. Kopald will do general welfare
work. He will help to arrange
classes, religious services, and enter-
tainments; visit the men in the hos-
pital and guardhouse, do personal
service work among the men in camp
and act as their counsellor and guide.
Through his ability as a religious
leader, Dr. Kopald has acquired a na-
tion wide reputation. Ile is a na-
tive of Omaha, Nebr., and has been
Rabbi of Temple Israel, Stockton,
Cal., and is now spiritual leader of
Temple Zion, Buffalo.
The headquarters of the lactroit
branch of the Jewish \Velfare Board
has been removed from the Farwell
Building to the Knights of Pythias
building at 5,13 Cass Ave. 'Flue of-
ficers of the K, of P. lodge have gra-
ciously and patriotically given the
freedom of their well equipped home
to the local hoard in their endeavor
to provide wholesome recreation for
all Jewish service men who come to
Detroit. I. \V. Jacobs, Secretary of the
local board, requests the public to
acquaint their soldier friends with the
new location of the headquarters. Ile
ammunces that plans for the enter-
tainment of all Jewish boys who come
to Detroit to worship during the high
holydays have been completed. All
congregations have made seat accom-
modations for the boys and local fam-
ilies will entertain them in their
homes.
SERVICE TO RECEIVE
HOLYDAY FURLOUGHS
War Department Grants Time Off
to All Who Desire to Worship
During Rosh Hishonah and Yom
Kippur.
•
60-HOUR LEAVE ALLOWED
TO CAMP CUSTER BOYS
Furloughs for the Ifolydays will be
granted to men of Jewish faith, ac-
cording to a letter which Col. Harry
Cutler, Chairman of the Jewish Wel-
fare Board, has received front the
Third Assistant Secretary of War.
mission in Russia.
The following order has been sent to
all Department and Division Com-
Story of Career.
manders and Commanding Generals
Although belonging to a faith that
of the Philippines, l'orto Rico, Pan-
had no rights under the Czar's regime
ama, and also to the Commanding
Henry Sliosberg, before the revolu-
NORTH CAROLINA HAS
General, American Expeditionary
tion, achieved distinction as one of RABBI WISE QUITS JOB
JEWISH RELIEF DAY Force:
the foremost of Russian jurists. Prac-
AT SHIPBUILDING PLANT
"The Secretary of War desires
ticing during most of his career in
All Citizens in State Asked to Aid in that furloughs be granted to mein;
Petrograd, it was there that he be- Donates $76.13 to Red Cross—Says
hers
of the Jewish faith for the New
$100,000 Drive for War Funds.
came famous, not only as an ardent
Year front noon September 6th to
He Respects Workingmen
champion of Jewish liberties, but also
the morning of September 9th, and
The governor of North Carolina for the Day of Atonement front noon
as a defender of Social Revolutionists
Stamford.—Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
set aside by proclamation, Monday, September 14th to the morning of
charged with political crimes.
rabbi of the Free Synagogue in New
August 19th, as Jewish War Relief September 17, if it does not inter-
Himself a strong sympathizer and York City, ceased his work as a la-
worker with the Socialist revolution-
Our illus ration is that of the grave or a fallen Jewish soldier—a mem- and Welfare Work Day, and called fere with the public service. If mil-
borer in the I.uders Shipyards here
ary movement, he readily offered his
last week and returned to his home. ber of the French Army, who died for his country. Observe that the grave upon all citizens of the state of North itary necessity prevents the granting
services for the defense of comrades He spent his four weeks' vacation is market wit n the tablets of the Law, while the graves of his companions Carolina to aid in the raising of the of furloughs, provision should be
who had come under the ban of the
lucre, giving his wages to the Red who fell arou id him are marked with a cross. In response to the request of one hundred thousand dollar quota made fur them to hold divine serv-
the Jewish Welfare Board, the United States Government has decided to for Jewish relief work.
Imperial Government. He saved many
ices wherever possible on the days
Cross. The workers gathered at the
of them from Siberia, both by his gates to bid him farewell, and upon mark the gra •es of American soldiers who fall in battle with a six-pointed
Some of the leading non-Jews of mentioned.
star.
ability as a lawyer and his eloquence
the state have been enlisted on behalf
(Signed) F. P. KEPPEL,
their insistence that lie make a speech,
as a pleader. When appearing in court
of the cause, among the most prom-
Third Assistant Secretary of War."
said:
on behalf of such a client lie never
inent being Judge W. R. Allen of the
Special services will be held for
"Boys, may I not feel in all the
charged any fees, regarding his ef- years to come that you will think
State Supreme Court. In an open the men in the hospitals or guard-
forts as a personal contribution to the of me as your friend? We cannot tell
letter to the press he said in part:
house, who are unable to leave camp
"The Jews have been foremost in by the Jewish Welfare Board
cause of the defendant.
what is going to happen to any of
repre..
giving
of
their
tunic
and
money
for
sentatives and local branches of the' '
Legal Advisor to N. Y. Life Ins. Co. us, so if ever the occasion should
H. Suvorin was a rabid anti-Semite. while the boys are the guests of the the upbuilding and improvement of Jewish Welfare Board are arranging
Regarded throughout Russia as a arise and you think you need a friend, Ile was editor of the "Novoye Vrein- Society, which was founded by the
our city and county.
to entertain visiting soldiers and sail-
jurist of great distinction, he com- won't you conic to me and let one feel ya," published in Petrograd; and in very Jews their grandfather so bit-
"They gave more than a third of ors for the lioly Days.
manded this appreciation of his tal- that you have come to regard 'No. every' issue he most violently at- terly assailed. Thus good is returned
the cost of our public hospital, have
It is announced that Jewish boys
ents especially by his complete mas- 180' as your friend?"
tacked Jews. He was responsible for for evil, a truly Jewish trait.
bought liberally of Liberty Bonds, in service at Camp Custer will be
The workmen interrupted Dr. Wise
tery of the intricacies of Russian law.
Mr. Samuel Mason, who for the War Savings Stamps, and have been
many a pogrom, being one of the . or-
Ile was the legal adviser in Russia frequently to applaud him. He told ganizers of the Black Hundreds. • His past nine months has been in Japan generous contributors to the Red given a 60-hour furlough for the holy
(lays. This will effect over 400 it is
of the New York Life Insurance them Ile went to work in the ship- two grandchildren, two little boys re- and Russia organizing the work for
Cross and the Y. M. C. A.
estimated, many of whom will come
CMupany, and was a man touch yards to be with his son, whom he spectively ten and eight, are now be- the Jewish refugees stranded there,
"Shall we be less generous and lib- to Detroit to worship.
sought for by many other foreign en- had advised to spend his vacation at ing sheltered in the Yokohama Home has just returned to New York.
eral than they?
work
and
also
because
lie
wanted
to
terprises, whose interests in Russia
In response to an appeal made to
of the Hebrew Sheltering and liami-
"Our President has said, 'Give un-
brought them into constant contact know the workmen. He said lie had grant Aid Society. of America. Mr. Jacob 1 - 1. Schiff by leading Jews
til it hurts.' 1 ant not sure beUllat
hoped
other
men
would
follow
his
with the peculiar demands of Res-.1n
The boys were left by their tnother, of Yokohama the Hebrew Sheltering Nathan Straus has expressed tneTuty
example, and give their vacations to
legal technicalities.
Mine. Suvorin, in care of a governess and Immigrant Aid Society of Amer- better when he says, 'Give until it
His work as a defender of Jewish the Government.
New York—The Rev. Dr. Mark
at Kobe, Japan. The governess died ica, and after the State Department feels good.'
"I have always respected men who
rights and Jewish liberties in Russia,
and the youngsters found themselves has confirmed the terrible condition
"I regard this as an exceptional op- A. Matthews of Seattle, speaking last
made his name known to Judaism work with their hands," he said. "I
of
the
refugees.
commissioned
Mr.
Sunday
afternoon in the Fifth Ave;
portunity to express our appreciation
in a strange land without funds and
throughout the world. With the rec- respect them more than ever today."
helpless. The Russian Consul at Mason, a member of its Board of to the Jews for what they have done. nue Presbyterian Church, declared
Dr.
Wise
then
made
a
patriotic
ad-
ognition he received from the Rus-
Kobe appealed to hl r. Samuel Mason, Directors, to proceed to Japan, in- If I had it in my power as chairman there seems to be at this time an ef-
sian courts, lie was in a position dress. His check for the four weeks'
representing the Hebrew Sheltering vestigate conditions and take such of the Goldsboro Jewish Relief Com- fort, fully organized; to bring about
Where he could make a powerful and labor amounted to $76.13. Displaying and Immigrant Aid Society of Amer- measures as he would find necessary mittee, I should prevent the accept- union of Church and State. lie men-
influential plea for the oppressed peo- this, he asked the men to decide ica in the Far East, to befriend them for the relief of the situation. As a ance of any contribution front the tioned no one religious body, and in-
ples of his race. lie was a communal whether he should give it to the Red and, without a moment's hesitation, result of his work, about two thou- Jewish citizens of this community, so timated that the effort comes, not so
worker among the Jews for more Cross or to the workshop fund. The the grandsons of the anti-Semitic ed - sand refugees, mostly women and that we, the non-Jews, might have the touch from one source, but as a re-
than twenty-eight years, and was vote was unanimously for the Red itor were transferred to the Home children, have been able to join their pleasure of raising the entire quota sult of the union of big business with
among those who organized their de- Cross, and he handed the check to at Yokohama where they now are. relatives in this country. Besides
the government, the shipping, the
ourselves."
fense at the time of the Kishineff Mrs. Wise, and asked her to forward
In the meantime the Yokohama systematizing the work at Yokohama,
railroads, and food.
massacres. After the massacres he it to the local chapter of the organ- office of Cook's Tourist Agency had Mr. Mason visited Vladivostok and FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR
He warned that when private bur-
redoubled his efforts to secure liberty ization. Dr. Wise's son James also received an order from Los Angeles Harbin, opening in those cities
CONFERRED ON OTTO KAHN dens are shifted to governments it is
and protection for the Jews, reveal- left to re-enter Princeton.
difficult to get private people to as-
to send the children on to the l'inted branches of the Society. At Yoko-
ing by his plea to Jewish sympathiz-
States. However, the Ann icon Con- hatna a Home for the refugees was
sume them again. The Church, its
New York.—The French Govern-
ers all over the world a determined JULIUS ROSENWALD
conduct, and its progress is a big
sill at Yokohama refusul to vise the opened.
ment
has
conferred
upon
Otto
H.
effort to bring such foreign pressure
Mr. Mason estimates that there are
GOES OVER FOR J. W. B. passports until the correct address of
task, and the danger is, he said, that
Kahn,
American
banker,
the
deco-
to bear upon the Russian government
the mother was furnished and proper tens of thousands of refugees still
the Church will be thrown upon the
ration of Chevalier of the Legion of
as to make the repetition of the Kish-
Julius Rosenwald, Chicago philan- guarantees for their future welfare waiting to be helped.
State along with a lot of other in-
Honor in recognition of his services
ineff massacres impossible.
Mr.
John
L.
Bernstein,
the
Presi-
thropist, and one of the most promi- were given.
terests.
on behalf of the Allied cause both
nent
members
of
the
Committee
on
The Hebrew Sheltering, and Immi- dent of the Society, has called a spe-
The warning, and the declaration
Said War Would Liberate Jews.
before and since America entered
National Defense, has arrived over- grant Aid Society of America is now cial meeting of the Board of Direc-
that it must be heeded, were warmly
After the war broke out he became
seas, where he will represent the seeking the whereabouts of Mme. tors for the purpose of taking ins- the war.
applauded. It was said after the
chairman of the Jewish Relief Com-
This is regarded as an unusual dis-
Jewish Welfare Board. Mr. Rosen- Suvorin who, it is believed, is travel- mediate action upon Mr. Mason's
service that handclapping, while in-
mittee in Petrograd, and it was in
tinction for the reason that few civil-
wald. who sailed for France at the ing under an assumed name. earning recommendations which are of a far-
creasingly common in some Protes-
that capacity that he wrote a striking
ian appointments to the I.egion of
request of the Secretary of 1Var, has her livelihood as an actress. Mean- reaching character.
tant church in New York, is rare in
letter to l'rofessor Samuel Harper of
Honor are being made in war time.
been appointed one of the overseas
the Fifth Avenue church. The ap-
the University of Chicago, in which
commissioners of the Jewish Welfare
plause at this meeting was repeated
DAVID A. BROWN SUPPORTS
he depicted the reaction of the Rus-
MASON RETURNS FROM
Board, and will join the commission
several times, and not frowned upon
IN
CHARGE
OF
INSURANCE
CONNOLLY FOR MAYOR
sian Jews to the war in general and
JAPAN AND RUSSIA
in l'aris.
by the few regular members present.
AND
ALLOTMENTS
IN
NAVY
the possible fate that the future had
Although he went abroad at the
Most of those in the pews were
in store for them. In this letter he
David
A.
Brown,
who
directed
the
request of the Secretary of War, Mr.
strangers.
deplored the forcible expulsion of
Samuel
Mason,
who
for
the
past
Iktroit
Jewish
War
Relief
drive
suc-
Rosenwald will, as far as his other
The professor used the epithet
Jews that took place during the first
duties permit. work with the Jewish nine months has been in Japan and cessfully, and who helped De-
"infamous cults" several times, and
years of the war and the oppressions
Welfare Commission in establishing Russia organizing the work for the 'trim Patriotic Fund far over the
was applauded when he did so. He
which followed, but he expressed a
the organization on foreign soil. The Jewish refugees stranded there, has top as Vice-President,' is one of the
said there were growing numbers of
great hope that the war would be
other members of the commission, just returned to New York. In re- leaders in the local mayoralty fight.
them, and that most of them were
succeeded by a wave of liberalism
sponse
to
an
appeal
made
to
Mr.
He is Chairman of the Finance Com-
Congressman Isaac Siegel, Rabbi
made in Germany. He said there is
which would free the Jew from the
Schiff
by
leading
Jews
of
mittee
and
a
member
of
the
Execu-
IL
H. G. Endow and Rabbi Jacob Jacob
steady increase in numbers of men
yoke. Ile wrote in part at that time:
Yokohama,
the
Hebrew
Sheltering
tive
Committee
of
the
William
F.
Kohn, have already set up headquar-
in America who make business prom-
"Thinking Jews have always recog-
ters in Paris. are studying conditions and Immigrant Aid Society of Amer- Connolly-for-Mayor campaign. Mr.
ises and fail to keep them. They
nized that Germany is the home of
among Jewish soldiers and are pay- ica, and after the State Department Brown's high esteem for Mr. Con-
let down the bars little by little, as
anti-Semitism, and that the most re-
ing the way for extensive Jewish wel- has confirmed the terrible condition nolly as an able and conscientious
the Germans have (lone, and grad-
actionary elements in Russia have
fare work abroad. The commission of the refugees, commissioned Mr. public servant was developed by
ally lies come to be not very serious
been the officials of German origin.
constant
association
with
hint
dur-
is visiting training camps, hospitals, Mason, a member of its Board of
things. He said that unless such
Thinking Jews believe that the more
rest billets and allied battle fronts, Directors, to proceed to Japan, inves- the great Patriotic Fund campaign.
tendency were checked it would ruin
decisive the victory the quicker will
and is conferring with chaplains, mil- tigate conditions and take such meas- when Mr. Connolly was chairman of
America, as it has made the German
Russia proceed along the road of pro-
Rory officials, and with the prominent tires as he would find necessary for the speakers' bureau.
name loathed throughout the world.
gress in her internal life.
laymen in France and England. the relief of the situation. As a re-
"Victory in this war will not be a
Upon its recommendations, the board suit of his work, about two thousand Jewish School Children in
20
GRANDSONS OF JEWISH
i rtory of the government, but a vic-
will organize its efforts for the Jew- refugees, mostly women and children,
Poland to Observe Saturdays.
WOMAN ARE ARMY OFFICERS
tory of the people, a victory of the
ish soldiers with the American ex- have been able to join their relatives
social forces, and, in view of the con-
London—The Polish Government
in this country. Besides .7,ystematiz-
petitionary forces.
stant opposition of government to so-
Cambridge
Springs, Pa.—Twenty
ing the work at Yokohama, Mr. Ma- granted the petition of the Union of
ciety, the coming victory will mean
grandsons of Mrs. Liba Goldstein,
radical "reds" and turned all his ef- son visited Vladivostok and Harbin, Polish Rabbis, that Jewish school
into serious conflict with the dominant
of Cambridge Springs, are officers
forts towards organizing all other opening in those cities branches of the children should be permitted to oh-
the victory of these same social
in the armies of the Allied nations.
forces in Russia against them. His society. At Yokohama a home for serve Saturdays and Jewish national
forces. The social forces of Russia
Mrs. Goldstein is eighty-four years
activities in all probability led him the refugees was opened. holidays.
have always been opposed to reac-
of age. She was born in Russia and
element in the Soviets, and in the
ALFRED ROSENZWEIG.
tion, and by this same fact, opposed
came to this country thirty years ago.
excitement of the revolutionary
to the main flag of reaction—anti-
Mr. Rosenzweig, who is a second Ten of her grandsons are officers
changes now going on in Petrograd,
Semitisni."
class
petty
officer
in
the
U.
S.
Navy,
in
the English army and eight are of-
he forfeited his life at the hands of
is in charge of the Insurance and Al-I ficers in the United States army. Two
Leader of Counter-Revolution Move- some enthusiast of the Bolsheviki
lotment Department of the Navy Re-I are with the army in Palestine.
who marked him as an "enemy of the
ment.
crttiting Station, St. Louis, Mo. Since In a demonstration at Pittsburg
.Following the overthrow of czarism Russian proletariat." His death at
the first of this year he has written recently, Mrs. Goldstein marched
in these days of conservation of materials and labor power it Is
Sliosberg took an active part in for- the hands of the Bolsheviki thus dis-
wasteful for you to send individual greeting cards to your friends.
in excess of ..$60,000,000 of govern- five miles beside a Service Flag bear-
mulating the program of liberation proves the claim that the Jews as a
The postofnces of the country are greatly overtaxed with the de-
meat insurance. Mr. Rosenzweig is ing twenty stars.
which •was•extended to the Jewish class are supporters of the radical
pleted forces at their disposal. Why not take the added burden of
a graduate of the Detroit Central
people by the first Provisional Gov- regime. Many Jews are the bitter
the vast business of New Year's cards off their hands, and help the
High School and attended the Uni-
Prussian Hooligans Attack a
ernment—the Lvoff-Milukoff govern- enemies of the Bolsheviki; they are
situation?
versity of Michigan. Prior to his en-
Synagogue.
ment.
Your greeting card in TIIE JEWISII CHRONICLE will reach all
A Socialist-Revolutionist in split in their allegiance according to
listment he was employed at the Max-
London—A Prussian mob attacked
your relatives and friends. It will save you a great deal of expense
his sympathies, he threw his support "economic class lines." Whatever
well Motor Co. He is the son of Mr. the synagogue in Vitkova at the time
and bother In mailing individual cards and will reach considerably
their attitude may be on the issue of
to the coalition.
and Mrs. N. Rosenzweig, of 154 Col- of prayer services. The mob threw
more of your friends. The charge is $1.00. The cards will be pub-
After the Bolsheviki, led by Le- capital and labor, there is no doubt
lished
in
our
Rosh
Hashonah
number
to
be
issued
September
6th.
1 °rad() Ave., and is spending a ten- stones at the praying Jews and
nine and Trotsky, ousted the Pro- that Sliosberg's statement is correct'
Fill
out
coupon
elsewhere
in
this
issue
and
mail
to
our
office
at
once.
day furlough with his parents before wounded a number of them. None
I
visional government, Sliosberg be- that all Jews in Russia are anti-Ger-
going overseas.
of the hooligans was arrested.
came a bitter opponent of the more man.
London—A Copenhagen telegram
reports the assassination in Petrograd
of the famous lawyer and Jewish
leader, Henry Sliosberg, who was
chairman of the Jewish Relief Com-
GRANDCHILDREN OF ANTI-SEMITE
SAVED BY JEWS HE PERSECUTED
WARNS AGAINST UNION
OF CHURCH AND STATE
How Are You Going to Send New Year's
Greetings to Your Friends This Year?
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