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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
VOL. IV. NO. 14.
20,000 SIBERIAN
JEWISH REFUGEES
IN DIREST NEED
MICHAEL FRIEDSAM
BECOMES COLONEL
The efficiency of the services per-
formed as Quartermaster-General of
the New York State Guard by Major
Michael Friedsam prompted Gov.
Special Investigator Reports on Whitman to promote Major Friedsam
Sad Conditions Among Peace- to a ColoneIcy and the appointment
was announced recently.
able People Ruined by War and It was in October, 1917, that Col.
Revolution.
1Friedsam, who is president of. 13.
!man & Co., received his commission
in the guard after having announced
AID GIVEN TO 2,000,
his eagerness to serve. He considered
INCLUDING NON-JEWS that the work offered an exceptional
opportunity for service.
Previously Col. Friedsam had been
ism YORK—The story of the
plight of Jewish war refugees strand- serving as representative of the New
ed in Harbin. Vladivostok and Japan York state merchants in the admin-
is described in a report by Samuel istration of the food control law, and
Mason, who went to the Far East in this capacity Col. Friedsam devised
as a special commissioner of the He- and put forward plans for meatless,
brew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid wheatless and fireless days.
lie has been actively interested in
Society.
More than 20.000 Jewish war refu- the work of the American Red Cross
gees are scattered east of the Urals, and provided for the use of the Red
Cross the old Astor Trust building at
Mr. Mason says.
Fifth avenue and Thirty-sixth street,
The society relieved 1,706 refugees,
of whom 624 were women and 910 a contribution amounting, to $75,000 a
year.
children under 16.
Of these 1,551 were sent to the
United States and have been reunited ALFRED SUTRO, NOTED
DRAMATIST, KNIGHTED
with their relatives; 103 went to Can-
ada, 15 to South.Africa, 11 to Hawaii,
FOR PATRIOTIC WORK
10 to Argentina, 4 to China, 1 to
British India, and 11 back to Si- Brother-in-Law of Lord Reading Has
beria. The latter were not allowed
Had Brilliant C in Letters, After
to proceed as they could not meet the
Winning Success in Business.
requirements of the United States
Sir Alfred, with Sir Arthur Pinero and
Immigration laws.
the Late Stephen Phillips, Make ■
Mr. Mason said that 400 were still
Trio of Famous Playwrights.
at Harbin and Vladivostok in charge
of the bureaus there, so that the total
England has now two titled Jewish
of refugees taken care of is more
than 2,00. Among those cared for playwrights—Alfred Sutro, who was
were 106 non-Jewish Poles, Slays, Ar- knighted by King George a few weeks
ago, and Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, who
menians, Syrians and Persians.
The condition of refugees at Vladi- has borne a title for some years. Mr .
vostok Mr. Mason said was most de- Sutro has been the head of the cen-
plorable. They sleep in any shed sorship section of the war trade intel-
they may find along the railroad and ligence department. The newly-creat-
ed knight is a brother-in-law of Lord
arc reduced to picking up crumbs.
Reading, British Ambassador to
At Harbin there are thousands of
America, his wife having been a Miss
refugees sleeping in court yards and
Isaacs, sister of lord Reading.
sheds. "These Jews are not Ifolshe-
Mr. Sutro was born in 1863 and was
viki," Mr. Mason said. They are
educated at the City of London school
peace-loving, law-abiding people who
and in Brussels. Originally, he was in
under the old regime went about their
the wholesale tea business, and, there-
business. More than 20,000 Jewish
fore, besides being a man of letters,
war refugees are scattered east of
is a man of business. He has been ex-
the Urals. These must claim our at- tremely successful in his seiy difficult
tention as did those who succeeded in censorship post.
reaching China and Japan. They too
Sir Alfred began his literary
are stranded. but their position is career with a series of translations of
made more precarious by a hostile Maeterlinck's works, all of which, ex-
regime, augmented by the setting cept the dramas, he has translated
loose of thousands of German sear front the French. Afterward turning
prisoners who look upon the Jewish his attention to the drama, he at first
victims as the easiest prey for their collaborated with Arthur Bouchier in
ill-concealed desire for vengeance producing "The Chili Widow," then
upon their enemies.
wrote in rapid succession "'The Cave
The most urgent need of all the of Illusion," "Arethusa," "A Mar-
Jewish refugees in Siberia is to enable riage Has Been Arranged." He
them. with the consent of the United finally made a great success with "The
States Government, if necessary, to Walls of Jericho," produced in Lon-
establish communications with their don. It was produced by William
kin who reside in the United States." Faversham in Chicago.
One of the first things Mr. Mason
Sir Arthur Pinero was born in Lon-
did after his arrival itt Yokohama seas don in 1855, the son of John Daniel
to open a home for the refugees. Ile Pinero, and is a descendant from a
obtained the old Royal Hotel and Saphardic family. Among his success-
formally opened it as Yokohama ful works are "The Amazons," "Lady
Home on Feb. 11. He also opened Bountiful," "The Second Mrs. Tan-
bureaus at Vladivostok and Harbin queray," "The Notorious Mrs. Ebb-
and stationed correspondents at smith," "The Princess and the Butter-
Tokio, Kobe. and Nagasaki to meet fly," "Trelawny of the \Veils," "The
refugees. The Vladivostok bureau is Gay Lord Quex," "Iris," etc.
in direct communication with the
Stephen Phillips, the gifted English
Jewish communities in Siberia. The dramatist, whose "Herod" was pro-
purpose of the one at Harbin is to duced at the Garrick theater five years
meet the urgent needs of the war ago, was also a Jew. He died three
refugees in Manchuria.
years ago at the early age of 39.
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GOV. SLEEPER ISSUES
MORE TEUTON
ANTI-SEMITISM
DRAFT PROCLAMATION
LONDON—Mr. Houston Stewart
Chamberlain, the well-known rene-
gade Englishman and German au-
thor, has received from the Kaiser a
letter of thanks and approval of his
leaflet entitled "The Will to Victory,"
in which he •describes the qualities of
the British and Jews as those of "low
and repulsive shopkeepers."
In the budget debate in the Austrian
Reichsrat the Christian Socialist
deputy Jerzabek said that the rumors
REVIVAL OF ZIONISM NOW
against the Imperial House were
DISCERNIBLE IN FRANCE spread by people who spoke "a Yid-
dish jargon of German," and appealed
to the Emperor to preserve Christian
PARIS—A conference of the French
people from the grip of the Jkws who
Zionist Federation took place on July
ruled the country.
7 at Paris and was attended by thirty-
one delegates.
JEWS STARVE IN MINSK.
The Secretary in his report stated
London.—Hundreds of Jews in
that there was unquestionably a re-
Minsk died from starvation within the
vival of Zionism in France. The Fed-
eration has installed itself in new last few weeks, according to recent
premises at 80 Rue de Rivoli, where dispatches. Those who still are
one room is used as a clubroom for strong enough to work cannot find
the Zionist soldiers of the American any profitable work to do. No less
than 1,800 starved children were sent
army spending their leave at Paris.
away to children's asylums within the
THE RUSSIAN POGROMS. past few weeks.
In addition to starving; the Jewish
STOCKHOLM—The.Moscow com- inhabitants are compelled by the Ger-
mittee for suppressing the counter- man authorities to do hard work for
revolution has issued a warning the government. Over six thousand
against anti-Semitic propaganda, Jews were sent away to Germany for
threatening with prison and confisca- hard labor. Now the authorities
tion for instigation to pogroms and threaten to send to Germany for the
with death for participation in them. same purposes, about two thousand
The Social Democratic party and the Jewish women. The new Jewish
Mensheviks, together with all the President of Justice of Minsk sent a
Jewish Socialist parties in Petrograd, vigorous protest to the German gov-
have formed an alliance for fighting ernment against the mistreatment of
against anti-Semitism.
the Jews.
LANSING—Gov. Sleeper has is-
sued orders to all draft boards and
other officials to hold themselves in
readiness to carry out the registration
of all males required to register un-
der the new draft law. The procla-
mation also calls upon all eligible for
registration to obey the provisions
of the law, which requires registering
on September 12.
Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1918.
COL. ROOSEVELT GIVES $4,000 TO J. W. B.
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Ex-President's Check Donating Part of Nobel Prize,
NEW YORK—Four thousand dollars from the $40,000 Nobel l'eace
l'rize awarded to Theodore Roosevelt has been donated by him to the
Jewish Welfare Board.
Colonel Roosevelt has distributed the entire $40,000 award among the
different war agencies. Thg J. W. 13., the Y. M. C. A., the K. of C., the
Salvation Army each received $4,000.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Colonel Roosevelt while he
was President of the United States, for his services in aiding the peace
negotiations which ended the Russo-Japanese war.
Colonel Roosevelt sent his check with the following letter to Walter
E. Sachs, treasurer of the Jewish W'elfare Board:
"I enclose herewith my check No. 117 on Oyster Bay Bank
for $4,000, covering my contribution from the Nobel Peace
Prize to the Jewish Welfare Board for use in its war activities.
"Faithfully,
(Signed) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
" EXEMPTION WAIVED "
A Story of Today.
By KATE FRIEDMANN.
its TOP it, Nate, stop it please," the
take you into the bloody trenches and
woman's voice, shrill and dis- be brought back to me without a leg,
cordant, rang through the tiny flat.
without an arm, blind, mad."
The man did not hear. He was
She strained the man to her heart
shaving and whistling as a man does with all her young strength. "I can't
When he is young, :leo ly married and have them take you, we deserve this
the tantalizing odors of good things happiness. Didn't we slave and work
to cat assail his nostrils.
and save for five long years just for
"We're coming over," he sang loud- this? Didn't see hope and plan and
ly, out of tune, "I'd be coming over, pray for this? And then, when our
if it were not for my little exempt—" dream was nearly realized, came
"Stop it, Nate, I say, stop it, I rumors of the sear." Her breath came
can't stand it." There was a hyster- in short, uneven gasps.
ical note in the cry.
"Was it a sin to have hurried our
The man wheeled suddenly from wedding a month? \Vas it a sin to
the mirror and ran into the dining snatch the hit of happiness God had
room. The left side of his counte- surely meant for us. Tell me, lover,"
nance was denuded of soaped bristles, she pleaded, "was it a sin for me
but lather foamed on the opposite to urge it?"
high-boned cheek, under the long
For answer he bent and kissed her
straight nose and on the s' tat
lightly, tenderly, reassuringly, as a
„44'
A dressing gown of uts•s7.0
woman wants to be kissed by the man
gift variety, girt at the waist-line by she loves.
a white cord with tassels, encased
"No, Fan," he said as he released
the tall, broad-shouldered form. Slip- her. "It was not a sin. It was com-
pers, lovingly knit of red yarn, blazed ing to us. I'll go, and willingly when
on his bare feet. He looked ridicul- they call me, but not before they call
ous, but Nathan Sanders did not know me. I'm not a pious Jew, I know,
it. He knew nothing except that his sweetheart, but I'm Jew enough not
wife, the best, the dearest, the bravest to be a coward." lie squared his
little woman in the world, was cry- shoulders unconsciously. "And I'm
ing, silently, harrowingly, as a man not afraid of passing a physical ex-
cries, her head pillowed in her arms, amination either. But I won't go un-
her hands twisting and untwisting the til I'm called. I don't think my coun-
immaculate white cloth temptingly try needs me more than you. There
set for their supper.
are thousands who have no Fannies
In a bound he was at her side. He to live for. Let them go first. "I'll
raised her head with its glorious go when I'm called," he repeated as
crown of brown hair and forced her if to convince himself, "not before."
to stand facing him. Her eyes, the
And Fannie walked slowly back to
eyes that always made him think of the tiny kitchenette the flat boasted
pansies,—the wild kind, were raised to heat the cooling dinner, half reas-
bravely, unflinchingly to his. He sured, half disappointed.
shook her gently by the shoulders.
They began their meal in silence.
"Why, Fan, what's the matter, lit- She busied herself with the service,
tle woman) Did you find a blond hair not trusting to meet his eyes, while
on daddy's coat?"
he followed the nimble fingers mov-
The brown eyes drooped. A red lip ing deftly about, slender tapering
sets caught and imprisoned by a row fingers, unadorned save for the
new
of small, white teeth.
shiny band on the fourth linger of her
"I can't bear you're calling me left hand, the endless chain of
gold
that," she began breathlessly, "I can't that had made them one.
stand it. Over and over again you
Then, as is the habit of man who
sing it until I go mad. 'Your little
exeinption.'" her voice broke. "I has wooed and won the only woman
don't want you to call me your little in the world, he took his evening
exemption," she sobbed into the fussi- paper from his coat pocket and prop-
ness of his robe, "1 don't want to feel ped it up against the aluminum] per-
colator. Glaring headlines of war
that I'm a slacker, that I'm keeping
you back. I don't want to feel that news stared him accusingly in the
my husband is hiding behind my face. The exploits of a daring ace
skirts." Two hardened little fists were chronicled in two columns, the
beat her breast with impotent fury. bravery of that single Yankee who
"I don't want to feel that I'm keep- held at bay fifty Bodies filled an-
other 011e; the sufferings of the Bel.
ing you, I— I—"
glans • the heroism of the French, the
A large hand, damp and soapy.,
silenced the red mouth. Ile drew her tirelessness of the British, all were set
nearer and raised her head until her forth as only priceless war corre-
eyes net his. Even less than Ile seas spondents can set them forth .
Confused, disturbing thoughts filled
she conscious of his ludicrous appear-
the man's mind. A poignant longing
ance.
"Pan, darling," he said. "what's the to be in it all, to be part of it, strug-
matter with you? \\'here did you get gled in his heart for expression. fie
those ideas in your head? \Vho has threw the paper away impatiently.
been calling the best little girl in the War! War! Nothing but war! It was
world a slacker? \Veren't we mar- everywhere. Lisping kiddies sold
ried fully two weeks before registra- War Savings Stamps, women can-
tion day and doesn't that exempt me vassed for Liberty Bonds; Hoover
honorably? Weren't see engaged for pledges dangled from every green
five years before? Was 1 lying in window shade; swarthy foreigners not
my questionnaire, tell one Fan, did I yet simmering in the great melting
pot, proudly displayed Red Cross but-
lie? Am I a slacker?"
"No! No! I don't mean that. I tons on their greasy lapels.
And the war-posters) Those stab-
know, I feel that you'd never be the
flat-footed, short-sighted kind of a bing reminders! Was there no evad-
slacker. I know you'd go if you're ing the gaunt, haggard-eyed woman
called and go willingly. And dear, with starving babes at their breasts
,
that's why it hurts me so much nere.' who cried out to your mercy? Was
She touched her heart. "That's why there no evading the soldiers, crip-
I'm the slacker. I know l'in keeping pled, blinded, fighting for you, who
reached out groping hands to taunt
you, I'm the one."
Her voice rose passionately. One the shirker? Was there no evading
free arm crept up and wound itself the pictures of outraged womanhood
about her husband's neck until his with stricken eyes upraised to an un-
lathered check was brought close to heeding Heaven? Was there no evad-
her own soft white one. "And I ing those deep, searching eyes of
don't want them to take you," she Uncle Sam, the eyes that probed the
; sobbed again, "I don't want them to
(Continued on Page 8.)
FIRST JEW IN BULGAR
CABINET IS PRO-ALLY
SOFIA—Nathan Faulenhecht, who
holds the portfolio of justice in the
new pro-Ally cabinet of Bulgaria, is
the first Jew to occupy a cabinet seat
this country.
M. Eadenhecht, like his colleagues
in the new cabinet, was bitterly op-
posed to Bulgaria entering the war on
the side of the Central empires.
Ile is a noted writer and orator and
recognized even by political opponents
as a !carted and far-sighted jurist.
With M. Kastourkoff, he represents
the Radical I)emocratic party in the
new cabinet.
Both NI. Fadenhecht and M. Kas-
tourkoff exerted powerful influence in
preserving amicable relations between
Bulgaria and the United States, both
before and after the entry of America
into the war,
JEWS IN THREE ARMIES
FAR EXCEED PROPORTION
'1'he number of Jews serving in the
British army is known to be dispro-
portionately high, and in numerous
cases members of the same family are
serving both in the British and Amer-
ican forces.
The record of the descendants of
Mrs. Goldston of Pittsburgh itt this
respect is perhaps a unique one. This
lady was formerly a resident of
Stockton-on-Tees, and claims to have
more descendants in the war than any
other woman, namely, ten grandsons
and one great-grandson in the Brit-
ish army, and eight grandsons and
one great-grandson in the United
States army and navy.
Australian Jews possess a record
of which they may well be proud.
The Jewish population of Australia
is a little over 17,000, or one-third of
one per cent of the total population.
The number of Jews who have en-
listed in the army is 4,000, or one per
cent of the total number of enlist-
ments. In other words, the number
of Jewish soldiers as compared with
the Jewish population is three times
as large as that of the general popu-
lation of Australia.
This contribution is all the more
remarrable in view of the fact that
there is no conscription in Australia,
the entire army of 400,000 men being
mad^ op ex-o'rutivelr - nf-Tolintteert:
JOSEPH DUVEEN FOUNDS
GALLERY FOR FOREIGN
ART WORKS IN LONDON
Son of Immigrant From Germany,
Knighted by Edward VII., Adds
to Record of Patriotic Gifts.
LONDON JEWISH PAPER
SEES LESSON TO NATION
LONDON—Mr. Joseph Duveen has
offered to the Trustees of the National
Gallery to provide the funds for
building a National Gallery for Mod-
ern Foreign Art. The offer has been
accepted by the Trustees and the First
Commissioner of Works, and the gal-
lery will be erected on a portion of
the vacant site reserved for extensions
behind the Tate Gallery, at Millbank,
as soon as circumstances permit.
The London Jewish Chronicle reviews
this new beneficence of Mr. Duveen,
and his past philanthropies as, fol-
lows:
A fellow-Jew, and not in his case
for the first time, has placed the
British nation under a deep debt of
gratitude.,
Mr. Joseph Duveen who, a year or
two ago, subscribed the sum of
.£10,000 to establish a fund for the
wounded and stricken Territorial sol-
diers of the County of London, has
now given the necesary means for
building a National Gallery for Mod-
ern Foreign Art. It is to he erected
as an annex of the 'Tate Gallery, to
which Mr. Duveen's father contrib•
uteri the Turner Galleries.
The firm to which Mr. Duveen be-
longs, it will be recollected, pur-
chased for the nation some years ago .
the Rokeby Velasquez,
.The importance of Mr. Duveen's
noble act lies not only in the act
itself but in the great lack which
exists of representation in London of
modern foreign art and which it will
do so much to modify. There are
the Barbizon Pictures in the Salting
Bequest; there are Sir Hugh Lane's
French Impressionist Pictures, and a
few other pieces presented mainly
through the National Art Collection's
u d, ..„,kttt41] ere i szot, m
fiat Mr. DuveAii
encourage
great educative influence, up till
B'NAI MOSHE BEGINS
now virtually absent, in the Metrop-
YEAR WITH NEW BOARD olis.
a
SAM GUNSBERG.
May we add that in addition to his
being a Jew—a fact we feel bound to
record, because that proud distinction
to which Mr. Duveen was born we
have seen nowhere else recorded--
he belongs to a family which, to put
it not too strongly, did not arrive
on these shores with the Conqueror,
nor come in the train of 8,1enasseh
ben Israel to plead for re-entry with
the Great Protector.
Duveen's great-grandfather was
a contractor for the army, who lived
in Saxony. The son emigrated to
Holland, and his son, Joseph, who
was knighted by King Edward, came
to this country in 1866 and founded
some years afterwards the famous
Old Bond street firm.
Mr. Joseph Duveen is therefore the
son of an alient immigrant. The fact
is worth noting in these days, when
snarl, whirling anti-alienism is abroad
throughout the land, and when pre-
sumably sane and sober newspapers
suggest that this country would profit
if it were purged from all but "British
blood" and if none but "British
blood" were allowed within its
borders.
In the election of new officers of
exceptional capacity for the new year.
FORMER CLEVELANDER
Congregation B'Nai Moshe looks for-
IS TWICE'DECOFtATED
ward hopefully to a promising future.
The congregation, now worshipping
in its beautiful new synagogue at PARIS—Louis Cohn, of Brooklyn,
Garfield avenue and Beatibien street, formerly of Cleveland, who was
feels greatly encouraged at the op- previously decorated, has again been
port unities opening before it. cited for bravery and the citation will
The new officers are: Sam Guns- add a second star to the War Cross
berg, president; Jacob Farkas, vice- previously awarded him.
Cohn participated with the French
president; I'eter Vass, treasurer; Ber-
nerd Schwartz. financial secretary; artillery in the recent drive which
Samuel Jaulus, secretary; Jacob Du- cleared the Germans from the Marne
schinsky, Philip Rosenberg and lien salient.
Feldman, trustees.
Thewas conferred by an in-
fantry colonel, which is regarded as
the highest distinction an artilleryman
POLISH JEWS BARRED
receive. The citation teads:
FROM EAST GERMANY can
"Cohn, Louis Henri, with splendid
bravery, constantly searched for oh-
LONDON—The Berlin "Judische jectives which hindered the infantry's
Rundschau" states that there can no progress. He maintained perfect
longer be any question that the east- contact between the two arms, giving
ern frontier of Germany has been defi-
nitely closed to Jewish immigrant proof of untiring energy during the
workmen from Poland and Lithuania. attack between July 20 and 25, despite
the violent reaction of the hostile ar-
It remains open to those of other na-
tillery and machine guns."
tionalities. The Rundschau ascribes
Cohn's brigade cleared the enemy
this regulation to the Prussian Min-
along the Ourcq, taking 11 villages.
istry of the Interior, which has always
been notoriously Anti-Semitic in its
attitude. Whatever may he the os- Nordin' Pays Tribute to Tseblenow.
tensible grounds for thus discriminat-
ing against the Jews, the paper says
that there is only one real ground.
namely, Jew-hatred, and only one real
explanation, namely, medieval preju-
dice.
"Though directed nominally against
East European Jews, this measure,"
declares the Rundschau, "if persisted
in, must he regarded by the German
Jews as a declaration of war against
themselves."
Dr. Max Nordau was the principal
speaker at a meeting in Madrid in
memory of the late Dr. Yechiel
Tschlenow. The meeting was par-
ticipated in by the entire Jewish corn-
munity, as well as by hundreds of oth-
ers driven there by the war. Dr. Nor-
dau's eloquent description of the man
and his work moved many, who for
the first time in their lives heard any-
thing at all about Zionism, to affiliate
with the movement.