A merica ffewish Perkxlical eater CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO THE JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S. JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION VOL. IV. NO. 16. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918. Messrs. Schiff and Straus Jewish Soldiers Win Protest Plan to Summon Undying Glory in And-Zionist Conference Every French Fight ALBERT STRAUSS TO SUCCEED WARBURG ON RESERVE BOARD Movement Fostered by Rabbi "The Hospitals Show It—Their Philipson of Cincinnati Courte- ously but Plainly Disapproved by Both Philanthropists. Comrades Declare It," Says Congressman Siegel of New York. NATHAN A. KOMER IS YOUNGEST MAJOR Detroiter, Highest Ranked Jewish (MG. Able Banker Likely to Be Named for cer, Appointed Commander of Full Term of Four Years. First Battalion. \\ it ■, n hile no coll. i s availabl e. ewiiig to tilt ab. !secretary- Mc.\floo . , titre is ,triers ; , xdtt tation that the ha, been made to ill the vacancy' on the Federal Iteserse Board caused by \ \\ 1 IIIlis -Cougres•mau Isaac the retirement it the end of his term NE. \\ OR k•M j - r• -lab en jj, . tste,te l. ot New York City. member „j ser,ics. of p at ,' NI . kVarb urg. th• authorized the /moist jj oft ' (It j,,,,jas Si hill Hie place made vacant by the re- cnnizanou of America to publish. his \Vellare F nosed, has just re- tirentent of Mr. \Varltiirg probably reply to an imitation to patio:mate ranc , with mats , or will be filled by the appointment of Capt. N. \. Kouur, son of NIrs. R. I.. Konier, of 21,1 East \Varren ave- nue, has been promoted from the rank of Captain to that of Nlajor in the U. S. .\ riny. But twenty-five years old. Nlajor Korner' is one of the youngest nom of his rank in the service. Ile has been assigned as instructor at Camp Gordon. Central Officers' Training Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents. Co-Operation Against Offensive "Jewish Comedy" Pledged to Detroit Committee By Famous Players-Lasky Corporation Picture Soon to Be Shown to 8,000,000 Spectators Throughout Country Found Objectionable by Anti-Defamation League, but Protest Brings Immediate Elimination of Objectionable Portions. "We Are In Entire Accord and Sympathy With Yciur Work," De- clares Official of Corporation, Issuing Order for Correction of Film Throughout Country. VIENNA JEWS CRY OUT AGAINST PLOT OF ANTI-SEMITES Strong support of the work of the Anti-Defamation League of the IFItai Itrith is avowed by C. C. Burr, of the Camp, and is commander of the in a conference which (Trial!' reform IN. courage told accomplishments of \lbert Strauss Of the banking tine of rabbis. including Dr. David Philipson. . hors . , Famous-Players Lasky Corporation, First Itattalion, a unit comprising t ss is won the %liftman J . ,,,„f \\.• & ( . 0 j o f N ew ,• many Michigan youths training for in ordering changes in a recent com- of Cinci n nati. hate planned to can r xpeoitionary Forcer:. York. order to organize an opposition to the commissions. Action Taken In Parliament on Cen• edy release after a protest front the baltIe ironts, hospitals and NI, Straits, will tene fur t h e i nn Zionist movement. Detroit committee of the league. Major Koster was a member of the sorship of Report of Persecution. trainin g ' mi n i '. Cini gr e".1 "an 'iegel term of four ,-ar. His selection is In his letter Mr. Schiff announces first class graduating at Fort Sheri- In their protest. the Detroit com- that he has ceased his opposition to met thousands of American fighters due to his standing as a banker and dan, where he received his commis- mittee had the warm support of I passed through a variety of inter- \ '1 EN NA.—The growing uneasi- man of administrative ability. the Zionist movement, the success of sion as First Lieutenant. Ile was Gleichman, managing director of the csting experiences. \\'itli Itablii Hess of the Jewish population of Aus- If. Federal Reserve act provides that of promoted to a Captaincy which, he says, will Moe the most ,• ,• , in six Broadway-Strand theater. Milton 11, e.nelow. Jacob K o h n and the the members appointed by the trig with regard to their position is h ealthv and re fres hing effect upon months. resiiiniinn Alexander is chairman of the coin- Julius • he shown In the following "" eon'i- President at least too shall be per- He describes the plan entire Israel. , inittee . and his associates are Rabbi tions aitimeg the Jewish members of sons experienced in banking or which ha. been miaminmhly a d opte d to oppose it as nothing less than pre- Leo NI. Franklin and \ ttorney Louis JEWISH ATTORNEY the .\amen Expeditionary Forces fi nance. by the Council of the Jewish Conn- posterous. His letter follmvs: with a Niew of itstahltshing the work i RAISED TO BENCH munity of Vienna, and to which over James Rosenberg. It is expected that the announce- Bar Harbor, Me., Sept. 5, 1918. The comedy lihn which caused the of the Jewish \Velfar• Board over - mein of the new appointments to the NI ENI I'll IS.—Judge Israel II. Peres 400 communities in .Mistria hate sig- on: NIr Dear Dr. seas. protest is entitled "She Loved Him Rosette It.,ard will be made soon has been elected Chancellor of C han, " 'hell their assent: Replying to your cominunica• Plenty: " In the course , of it too .\ report of the Commission work after the return of Secretary Mc:\ cloo eery Court No 2 of Shelby t °mar . l It the name of all the Jews repre- lion of August 311th, I regret I abroad has been submitted by Con- front his tour of inspection of the rail- Tennessee. lie is the first Jew to be seated by it, the Council of the Jew- coineffians are area setting fire to a , aljnot s e e Illy Way to give per- gresstnan Siegel to the Executive rnad, of the milt (?I clothing, while the "Jewish" elected to the bench of Shelby County. ish Community records its most sot- mission for my name to be used Committee of the Jew ish \Velfare emit protest against the laxity of the proprietor hovers in the background. in connection with the call of the Board. Mr. Alexander wrote a letter to the authorities in tolerating during a conference in opposition to the The Commission organized Rosh number of months past the carrying film corporation, in which he pointed Zionist movement. Hashanah services and arranged for on in Vienna and throughout Austria out that the type of low comedy which I believe I hate already hereto- receptions for the Jewish fighters in of a systematic agitation the avowed has been slowly driven from the legiti- fore explained to you the reasons French homes and synagogues on object of which is to inflame the mate and vaudeville stage should not which, scum after the outbreak of their MI% day f lirl, 'u g h, Christian population and provoke be permitted to get a foothold in the the 'Russian revolution. have in- In a statement giving his general motion picture indusry. them to excesses against the Jews. duced me to change my former impressions acquired during hits stay NIr. .11exander then suggested the attitude toward the Zionist tome- - The Anti•Seinitic agitation has in Franc,. he said: nient and I hate since become reached its climax in \Vest Germany diminution of certain sections of the \ fter a tits-week tour of the more and more convinced that it and in the so-called 'German Conven- camps iii France. and having met The reply of the corporation offi- was in the best interests of our tions' (Deutsche Volk-tagel, in the thonsands of boys of all faiths, and Joseph L. Tepper Discusses Amusing Blunder by Which Creel people that I did this. course of which the assembled crowds cials was prompt and frank and cor- after receiving opinions of men in Was Coupled with Baruch, and Mistake Was Repeated— dial. C. C. Burr, who wrote to Mr. Greatly more than I did when I were directly incited to pogroms command, including General Pershing, Creel is Broad Irishman, Friend of Jewish People. first ceased my opposition to the against the Jews—a proceeding which, Alexander, declared: it gives tile great pleasure to be able We are in entire accord and Zionist movement. do I feel now in view of the heated state of the pub- to say that tom buy , have performed sympathy with your work, and that the creation of a Jewish lic mind, might easily have led to remarkable and most extraordinary Necessity for Clear Information ton ic laws. thereby insinuating that deplore the carelessness which Home Land in Palestine is 'nos) serious consequences." deeds in every battle which has taken a menace to society and in Public Mind and Press Dis- ,J ew might give offense to anyone. desirable. The resolution goes on to declare ought not to be tolerated. place s o far One has to isit the The eliminations recommended have I am very much afraid that con- patches Pointed Out as Best hospitals, and there learn from the The writer of the article instanced that the Jews of Austria have done been ordered in all the releases of the • ditions in Itissia. Poland, Rou- for Interests of All Faiths— NI orris Ilillqiiit and Rose Pastor their full share in hearing the burdens boys of every faith what our boys film throughout the country. mania, Austria, perhaps even Ger- have done under fire. The morale is Jewish Anti-Bolshevik Mar- Stokes as such types. Forthwith. a of the war, and that all the charges .1s the result of the prompt action many and elsewhere, are such that brought against them . by the .1nti- extremely high, and the one spirit very strong retort was made to that of the company in response to the De- tyre Praised. the outlook for the Jews there— which dominates them is that-of ob- charge by !sir. Loins Nlarshall of Semitic agitators are groundless. troit protest, audiences estimated at and these form a vast majority of taining quick and certain victory. The following interpellation was in- 8,000.000 Nett' York. Then the writer of that will see a picture freed from the Jewish population of the - For the high flolydays twelve of ASflINC;10N- From tinot. jute. .'irature, realizing that he wrist a little troduced by 1)r. Straucher (supported *Imre:Oral& allusionN'annuggeitioilsJjj world—b, far from being a favor- the synagogues in Paris opened their memorial nations displayed a tend- too far even for the anti-Semitic by a number of non-Jewish deputies) calculated to inspire prejudice in the able one and that for reasons doors, and in all the camps and cities rimy to claim credit for giving to the "Life," tried to make amends by in the .Austrian 1,ower House regard- minds of the unthinking. which would lead to far to it in France the boys attended ser, ices. world great men and for their ser- pointing out the constructive genius ing the suppression by the censorship The committee feels that this action j into here, but which by all those The Jewish Chaplains of the .11neri. vices to humanity and, thus, for pro- of the Jewish character, and, strange of an account in the "Joilische Zei- on the part of the Famous-Players- i who want to use their et c , , can can, Itritish and French forces con- nutting the growth Of civilization. enough, for his types picked George tong" of July 14th of it serious .Anti- Lasky Corporation sets an admirable j be well seen, considerable unhap- ducted set- % ices, and Dr. Jacob Kohn This excessive zeal on the part of Creel, head of the Bureau of Public Jewish outbreak in Jaroslav, Galicia: example for other producing compan- piness. if not suffering, k likely in onftiated at the headquarters of the different peoples gave rise to amusing Information, and Bernard Baruch, " \Ve venture to ask whether Your ies to follow. store, in the countries I have . \ inerican Expeditionary Forces and disputes relative to the descent of Chairman of the \Var Industries Excellency is aware that the censor- named. for the Jewish population. Dr. IL G. Endow at a point near the some notables. .111 instant-, is that Board. ship proceeds in the most arbitrary .\ merican Israel alone, in co- DR. D. WEINGARDEN front. of Henry Hudson. the discoverer of and irrational fashion, withholding operation with its English and True to "Life." " \Ve have much to be proud of in the river that bears his name. Ile is ENTERS U. S. ARMY harmless passages the prohibition of French co-religionists. is in a po- what has been achieved and accom- variously claimed by England and It is not altogether clear where the which does much more injury to the sition to effectually help this pro- AS A LIEUTENANT plished. and the boys 'Over There' Holland. enlightened writer of "Life" got the public inten.l than would their pub- posed creation of a center when look to a united .1merican Jewry to This tendency is probably more informatio n that (t ee d was a inem b,,, lication. the Jew, forced out by impossible help the Jewish \Velfare Board in pronounced in the case of the Jewish of the t. -hose!' Race inasmuch as '711e article in question is an a•- conditions under which he may - what it is about to do for them, both people than others. Perhaps it is everybody. including Creel, knows count .4 Anti-Je•ish excesses which, have lived in the diaspora, shall be abroad and here." perfectly natural. for we have so that lie is fine a specimen of an in spite of all measures of the Aus- able to go with the -assurance that often been put on our defensive. In Irishman as the Emerald Isle ever trian censorship, are known every- he shall Mid very sympathetic sur- RABBI ADMITTED fact it seems to me that our inborn proilticed. wh•re in Austria and abroad also. roundings and conditions under daily attitude towards all things and n tit presuma bl e t h e TO NEW YORK BAR • which he and his posterity shall "The procedure of the .\ ttorney- all peoples is always apologetic. orator got this information from the General creates the imiiression that N F. \V A It It K — Rabbi Samuel be willing to live. XVII. of Its has not had the nlortif - same, reliable source where "Life" Commissioner of pu ty There can he no doubt that the Buehler, De lu the \ tistrian authorities by suppress- ing experience to he condescendingly : scribblers usually get their informa- Charities, and former Chaplain to success of these endeavors will ing flu, news desired to show its ap- told by some of our well-im•aning , limn concerningj, , „. ,. Sing Simi prison, has been admitted hate the most healthy and re- pro, al of or 111 screen these incidents Lentil, friends that "some of their freshing effect upon entire Israel. to practice law in the State of Nets Hardly had the ink been dry on —a course eminently calculated to in- hest York. Ile recently completed his triumis were wherever in the world its mem- "" ti that - Life's" apologetic rejoinder when jure seriously the reputation of the "some cif the nicest people they not course in the New Voids Viiiversity. bers may be located and the prop- one of our enterprising albeit reliable Austrian State for just dealing were likewise Jews." os•tion which you bring forward murnalists seized the opportunity of towards all its stiMucls .. The clear implication, of course, be- harmful. In %kw of the fact that 111;:t American Israel combine to , initiation of Creel into the ing that this is the exception to the Great Britain, France and the oppose these efforts, is in my Israel to write him up a- mi rule and that the narrator wishes to RAYMOND FOSDICK other Hied nations through their opinion, nothing less than prepos- miracle him as a great Jewish-Eng- flatter you by dispelling the general f high officials. hate given assur- terous. PRAISES JEWISH luh journalist it roujuuch"n with impression that Jews are unworthy of ances for the welfare of the Jew, Your imposition. in the nature other eminent let, ish journalists. WELFARE WORKERS friendship or confidence. in Palestine, regardless of the fact of things as these have developed Oi cour,w "Life's" statement con- whether one is a Zionist or not. cannot lie successful and will siderably extenuates the cart lessuess to oppose such a beneficent pur- only bring forth bitterness. re- 11 ,, ver resent sne h ireti er. of the wriler and his falling into error New Group of Chaplains and pose on the part of a section of crimination and marked division Other Aides Soon to Cross the hon. We accept it as perfectly and would he partially excusable if our people can only be hurtful among the Jewish people of this uatura l J ews s h ou ld a l was, s h e it did not disclose a too ready willing,- Sea. and show a lack not only of country, which I am sure, is regarded with suspicion and SIII11111nil Hess to accept error for the purpose unanimity but of apprec . ation for greatly to be deprecated. LIEUT. DAVID WEINGARDEN. ew i s h of exploiting a great personality as to our aid a catalogue of J these welcome assurances which Ray mond Fostlick. Director of the Relieve Inc. dear Doctor Philip- Dr. David 1Veingarden• who some celebrities of all times from Moses a Jew. should recei‘e the gratitude not \Var Department Commission on son. that I continue to have the time ago had been commissioned as Incidentally, the matter came to the down to prove that it is within the only of Jews as such, but as highest esteem for you and I am Training Camp Activities, who re- realm of possibility for some Jews to attention of Creel and has occasioned cently returned from France. ex- first lieutenant t Medical Corps) in Americans. for this first signili- unhappy to feel that you are about hate been great and virtuous and him some amusement. It is known plained the problem of overseas work the U. S. arniy. left last week to take- cant and concrete move on the to place yourself at the head of a thereby lay the foundation for justi- and Creel was heard to say that as at a recent meeting of the •xectiti%e up his active ditties at Fort Ogle- :tart of the .\ Hied nations to as- movement which is certain to fail, fication for the existence of the rest a broadminded man he is as staunch Committee of the Jewish \Velfare thorpe, Ga. Mire freedom of iletelopinent for as it should fail, and bring more- Lieut. Weingarden is a son of Mr. a friend of the Jews as the Jews ever Board. of us. subject nationalities. over, hurt to the cause which you He complimented the hoard This, our friends the Zionists, per- had anywhere. But the only affilia- on its work in this country and paid a and Mrs. I. Weingarden. of Windsor, "I do hope that Your commit- represent in your ministry and to (hit., and has been practicing in De- haps. justly claim to be the natural tion he is known to have ever had tribute to Colonel Cutler. tee will recall its proposed action, which, as you know, I feel per- troit for the past five years. result of our life in the Diaspora. with the Jews was having done some which to the extent it may enroll sonally much attached. •A report from the Overseas Com- Two brothers of Dr. Weingarden Pot as long as we still have an appre- publicity work in connection with a protest, can only do harm. I Faithfully yours, mission w'as read at the same meet- have been in service since the early raising relief fonds about two years ciable period to abide in the Diaspora. make this suggestion. yes, request. (Signed) JACOB II. SCHIFF. ing. Following the reading of the re- stages of the war. One is with the it is well to call attention to solve of ago. lint that is far from being a not as a Zionist, as I ant not affili- P. S.—With you I deplore the port. plans were made for the depar- Royal Air Force stationed at Toronto, the humiliating, even though amusing. Jew bintsclf. ated with that organization, but grevions error the Zionist organ- ture 14 a representative contingent of Ont.. and the other with the Jewish positions we arc often put in by our as au .Nmerican and as a lover of ization, of which I am not a mem- Jewish welfare workers. The Jewish Non-Jewish Rumor. Battalion in Palestine. hankering after celebrities. our people. ber, had made in its question- representatives will consist of chap- In fairness. it should be stated that None of us should he backward in "In every crisis of our history. naire—sent to members of Con- lains and lay workers, who will act in in this instance at least. the rumor of glorying in the good work of a Jew. from the clesteuction of Jerusalem, gress, hut it would be a mistake close co-operation with the other BLACK HUNDREDS" especially if he cheerfully and openly Creel being a Jew or descending from there has always developed a fac- - to endeavor the pouring out of agencies. Jews originated from a non-Jewish MASS IN UKRAINE avows his Jewishness to the world; tional few who have prevented the child with the bath. nor of acquainting the world with source. The only criticism that can that solidarity so necessary to Former United States Secretary of be directed against the Jewish pub- U. S. HOLDS $1,200 Jewish talent and Jewish genius. achieve beneficent results. LENI BERG.— The Black Hun- Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus, But that is not the same as trying licist who accepted this as a matter of "Do you wish Palestine to re- who was also Ambassador to Turkey LEFT TO SYNAGOGUE dreds in Ukraine have formed a to force Jewish descent upon one who fact is that he did not verify that as- main under the tyranny of Ger- league. knowti as the People's Re- and until recently Chairman of the is not known to the world as a Jew sertion when he must have known venge. which is directed against mans, or. what is equivalent New York State Public Service Com- the NF:W VORK --The $1.200 left the and who himself disclaims it merely Jews in the first instance and also that Creel was not generally known thereto. under the subjection of mission, has authorized the publica- Jewish congregation of Levi-1, Uer- because he happens to attain either to he a Jew. their brutalized tools, the Turks? tion of his reply to an invitation to against the Bolshesiki. many, by the late Morris Loewen- temporary or permanent fame. The purpose of your committee. be one of the callers of a conference There are, however, more culpable The league has issued a manifesto stein, has been taken over by A. here is a case in point. could it be successful. would hat e to organize an opposition to the Zion- instances of Jewish newspapers and to its branches and supporters to True to form, the weekly pi.l.lica• Jewish publicists. purely in the in- Mitchel Palmer. custodian of enemy no other result than to further ist movement. It is as follows: keep a register of all Jews and their alien property. Lion "Life." some weeks ago made terest of newspaper sensation have this most deplorable end. "I beg to acknowledge receipt Mr. Loewenstein made small he- friends: to intercept all telephone con- an invidious attack upon Jews by made themselves ludicrous by at- write you thus frankly and of your favor of August 30. versations between Jews; to record all making the charge that the Jewish tempting to ascribe Jewish descent to guests to Temple Israel and the Ro- emphatically because of my high "Permit me to say that I regard Jewish actions and to hold them- mind, psychology and general tem- some of the most eminent Americans, man Catholic Hospital of this city, the holding of a conference to respect for you with the hope selves in readiness for a day that and left a very large estate to rela- perament is very critical and destruc- counteract the activities of Zion- that you and your colleagues will would be fixed for a wholesale mas- ktives. (Continued On Page Four.) ists as distinctively unwise and tive of constituted social and eco- reconsider your proposed action." ■ George Creel, Roosevelt, and Other Non-Jews Have Been Called Israel- ites, While Famous Jews Have Been Widely Regarded as Gentiles Jewish Meekness. sacre of our co-religionists. I