, mericam lavish Periodical Carter CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 1 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, NI& VOL. IV. NO. 18. Daniels Praises Jewish Service to Human Race In New York Celebration Two Million Raised for Liberty EIGHT GENERALS OF JEWISH BLOOD IN FRENCH ARMY - — Nearly 1,000 Jewish Soldiers Have Been Decorated With Medals or Crosses. Named on American Bst Association Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents. Council. LONDON RELIEVES FIRE DISTRESS OF SALONIKI'S JEWS Chief Rabbi of Greek-Jewish City Sends Message of Gratitude to Lord Mayor. Loan at Meeting to Celebrate Wilson's Zionism Letter Praised by Detroit Lawyer Replying to Dr. Grossman Statesmanship Itself Demanded Pronouncement on Future Status of Palestine and Its Inhabitants, Declares Max N. Freedman, Michigan's Honor Graduate of Harvard. ATHENS—The city of London. in wAsiiINGToN_ -Speaking at a spite of its having to cope with the British Victories in Deliver- reception to one of the departing con- hardships growing out of the war. is tingents of American Jewish soldiers ance of Palestine. not unmindful of the needs of dis- for Paledine, Lieut. Pierre Geismar, tressed people in other parts of the a representative of the French Em- world. A great fire devastated the WILSON LAUDED BY bassy in ' \Vashington, said that be- city of Saloniki in Greece. JUDGE JULIAN MACK fore the war there were eight Jewish Since Saloniki is largely a Jewish "ISSUE NOT RELIGIOUS Generals, 14 Colonels, 21 Lieutenant- city, the Jews suffered more than the Colonels and 68 Majors in the French BUT ULTRA PRACTICAL" NI.: \V YORK—The destruction of army, rest of the population; and the lord the 'Turkish armies in Palestine by mayor of London sent live hundred These numbers had considerably in- the forces under General Allenby, and creased during the sear. Great attention was attracted by pounds from the Mansion House the assurance of the re-establishment Lieut. Geismar mentioned that the Fund for the relief of the sufferers. Rabbi Louis Grossmann's open ',letter of a Jewish State based on the ap- company which he had under his or- to President Wilson protesting The Chief Rabbi of Saloniki thank- proval by President Wilson and Sec- ders on the battle front at the end ing the Lord Mayor wrote as follows: against Mr. \Vilson's Zionistic mes- retary Balfour of the Zionist move- of 1915 contained a large number of "On behalf of thousands of persons sage to Rabbi Wise. The letter of Dr. ment were the subjects of a great Russian Jews resident in Paris, and who had to be succored and on my Grossmann emphasized the religious demonstration at Carnegie Hall last that considerable numbers were in- own behalf, I beg . to tender to you issues involved in Zionism. night. where a celebration was held cluded in various regiments. Dr. Grossmann's letter has brought my profound gratitude. The mag- by the Zionist organization of The valor and gallantry of these nificent outburst of generosity by to the editor's desk the following pre- sentation of a different view of the merica. Jewish soldiers were shown by the your country, which always stands at The enthusiasm took practical fact that up to April 15, 1916, 139 Jew's the head of the nations in endeavor- President's letter and of the whole shape in that subscriptions of more had gained the Legion of Honor, 120 ing to assure the triumph in the world Zionistic question, front Max N. than $1M00,000 to the Liberty Loan the Military Medal and 700 the Cross of the reign of goodness and justice, Freedman, of Detroit. Mr. Freedman has just completed were announced at the meeting. of War for service on the field. will contribute to assuage the intense In recognition of the services of misery occasioned by last year's his law course at Harvard, having The mention of General Allenby completed eight years of university catastrophe." :Ind of President Wilson's promise these foreign Jews, the French au- work in six. He has passed the state for small nations brought the audi- thorities had decided to remove them bar examination and is now a member front the Foreign Legion and to place APPEAL TO RABBIS ence again and again to its feet. of the bar, but has prepared to go into The guest of honor at the meeting them in ordinary French regiments. TO ENTER SERVICE the army to serve for the duration of was Secretary of the Navy josephus AS ARMY CHAPLAINS the war, before commencing the.prac- Daniels, who was frequently lauded COL. ALFRED ALOE tire of his professiqn. for his work in relieving the Jews in THIRD OF THAT RANK Mr. Freedman's comments on the Palestine by sending warships loaded United Synagogues Ask Spiritual Aid IN THE U. S. ARMY international situation involved are of ADOLPH SLOMAN. with food and by carrying thousands for 100,000 Jewish Boys Soon special interest because of his distinc- away to places of safety. To Be in Khaki. Adolph Sloman, for nearly 40 years association and the American Bar as- tion as a student. He won the Har- PHILADELPHIA—Lieutenant Col- Mr. Daniels' Speech. vard scholarship by his work at the onel Alfred Aloe has just been pro- a well-known member of the Detroit sociation. He served as president of the Michigan Bar association in 1902- bar. has been elected a member of the "Let my presence here tonight," moted to a full colonelcy, and has NEW N'ORK—The following let- Cass Technical high school. He his Michigan local council of the Atneri- 1903. He was appointed a delegate to won debating trophies, additional lie said, "testify to my great pleasure been ordered to Camp Fremont, Cal. ters were sent out this week by the the national congress on divorce United Synagogue of America to offi- scholarships and cunt laude distinc- that President Wilson had filially ut- Colonel Aloe is one of the three can Bar association. The only other members of the problems, held in Philadelphia No- cers and rabbis of affiliated congre- tions during his college course. tered the word that you have been Jewish colonels in the United States Mr. Freedman's letter, which is pub- waiting for so long, so eagerly, to army. Ile has been in the service for Michigan local council are Attorneys vember 13 to 16, 1906. He was norni- gations: lished in order to give different views hear, the word which by your sacri- 23 years, having been appointed by Fred A. Maynard, of Battle Creek; sated for the circuit bench in 1906. Letter to Officers. of the same question, is as follows: fices, by your devotion to your his- President McKinley as second lieu- F. L. Dodge, of Lansing, and A. H. He is now associated with his son, Dear Sir—We beg to call your at- Editor The Jewish Chronicle— Attorney Edmund H. Sloman, in the tory and to your traditions, by your tenant during the Spanish-American Ryall, of Escanaba. tention to the fact that there is a In your issue dated September 27, Sloman is a native of Detroit, law firm of Sloman & Sloman. staunchness in the cause of humanity, war. He also served on the Mexican great need for Jewish chaplains in the 1918, you published an open letter by Mr. Sloman has served as a member where he was horn in 1859. He was by your surpassing loyalty to the border. United States army. A great per- Rabbi Louis Grossmann to President first educated in the Detroit grammar of the Board of Trustees of Tetnple cause of America and that of its as- centage of the Jewish men in active Wilson, protesting against his recent and high schools, and graduated from Beth-El, and has also been chairman sociates in this war, you have so well MLLE. STERN NOW service are orthodox and conservative public statement regarding the Zion- Ile the University of Michigan law de- of the Sabbath School Board. deserved to hear. SWISS PROFESSOR partment in 1879. served on the historical committee Jews, and it is encumbent upon the ist movement. "President Wilson, in his letter to congregations affiliated with the Unit- As this protest questions the con- hlr. Sloman has been for many with Rabbi Leo hi. Franklin and that splendid American, Rabbi \Vise, ed Synagogue to take every step in stitutional right of the President to spoke for the whole American people, One of Four Jewesses Holding Learned years a member of the Michigan Bar Adolph Freund. their power to facilitate the securing speak or act in the matter, and as when he expressed his satisfaction Chairs in European of the necessary number of rabbis for your editorial columns do- not missile with the progress of the Zion:0 Universities. the honor of their synagogue and his attack but rather warmly approve movement in American and Allied their country. it, and as The Jewish Chronicle is a countries. GENEVA—Mlle. S. Stern, of Lilian, We urge that in the •event of your non-partisan forum for the free dis- "It was quite in acocrd with the a Jewess, has been appointed rabbi desiring to enlist as a chaplain, cussion of such matters, I wish to lofty conceptions that underlie the professor at the University of Ge- leave of absence should be granted to submit the following criticism of Zionist movement as a whole that neva. There are now four Jew- him during the period of the war, and Rabbi Grossman's case. you. the American contingent, at your esses who are professors in Euro- if your contract with him sltould ter- On August 31, 1918, the President recent convention should have laid it pean universities, namely. Dr. Tu- minate during that period, the congre- sent the following message to Rabbi down as one of the fundamental prin- markin in Berne, Dr. Lydia Rabin- gation should feel in honor bound to Wise: ciples of the future government of owitch in the Bacteriological Institute "I have watched with deep and Palestine, that the fullest measure of in Berlin, and Dr. Hirsch (grand- Despite the Roman Ghetto, Triumphant Over Enemies, Italian renew the contract. The chaplains enlisting in the army sincere interest the reconstructive religious liberty for all the inhabitants daughter of the famous leader of Jews Have Won Honors in Every Century, Since the are appointed in rank of first lieuten- work which the Weizmann Com- of the land should prevail, Jew and Neo-Orthodoxy, Dr. Samson Raphael Talmud Recorded the Visits of Rabbis to Rome. ant, at a salary of $2.000 per annum, mission has done in Palestine at non-Jo'v alike. Hirsch) in Berlin. and it behooves each congregation to the instance of the British Gov- "As one who has some little knowl- Today Only 40,000 Remain in Italy, But They Have Won make such financial changes as to in- ernment, and 1 welcotne an oppor- edge of the genius of Israel, I feel RUSSIAN JEWISH sure the rabbi from suffering from that I have the right to proclaim Distinction in Every Business, Profession and Art, REFUGEES FIND any financial difficulties, or his family here my innermost conviction that the in War, and Statesmanship, and Philanthropy. 7/ from being deprived of their custo- HOMES IN JAPAN National Jewish Homeland will be mar• way of living. the model land of which your im- The l•rited By Rabbi H. G. Endow Synagogue stands mortal leader, Theodore Ilerzl Synagogue in Kobe and Yokohama Col- ready to arrange a schedule so that (Temple Emanu-el, New York) decanted and wrote. And by the very ony Mark First Settelement congregations whose rabbis have be.- wording of his letter to Dr. Wise, I in Nippon. Within the last few months our at- genre, but also to the good-will of come chaplains, may from time to feel that I have the right to say that tention has been focused upon Italy, some of the emperors. this, too, is the conviction of Presi- T. o K I 0—Owing to conditions because of the reverses which have tt hen Caesar died, it is said, the time have visiting rabbis deliver ser- mons in the pulpits thus made vacant dent Wilson." growing out of the war Japan has for befallen her army, so soon after its Jews kept vigil at his tomb for three temporarily. the first time considerable Jewish Judge Mack's Address. nights. \Vt. must not fall behind our quota notable heroic achievements. settlements. Judge Julian \V. Mack, who pre- But the history of the Jews in Italy in this important matter. In days to Knowing the innate courage and The Jews of Russia, endeavoring to sided at the meeting last night, after thee from their stricken homes, found heroism of the Italians. we must hope is remarkable not only for its aott- come, our young men will judge the referring to men in British uniform, congregational institutions in tli• usual western route across Eu- that their military misfortunes are t q utl i i t n vt. e . ml,tptiesd rg el t o n r a lrkaail:,l i emaal g so nitf i, o .e rnc it: soldiers of the Jewish Legion, who America by the response they made rope closed to them. and consequent- only temporary. were on the platform with him, and to the army. ly 'natty thousands of them crossed .Meantime, this situation serves to Italy, it has been said, is the one con- other leaders of the Zion'st move- Yours very sincerely, the whole continent to Asia and came increase our interest in the relation ment, said: ELIAS L. SOLOMON. atrYtagIvia'i'sliatJhte.w7ishhaspenresveecrultieoctin sorb "Shall we ever forget the thrill of to Japan, where they expected to ob- that has existed between Italy a President large scale. In England and in France joy that electrified every Jewish soul, tain passage to the United States. the Jews—a question which our assn- large Letter to Rabbis. The Jewish Immigrant Aid Society were periods when the Jews here in America, and there punier dation with her in the present world- w Dear Rabbi''—'I he inclosed letter. were banished. In Italy they were where the night of oppression has not of America has brought many of them ctruggle has brought to the fore. which has been sent to the presidents a wholesale calamity. spar ed is yet ended for our people shall Wt . ever to .America, and a large number are It is well to remember that the now detained in New York awaiting This not to m s a a n ye . d that i t It et of of congregations affiliated with the forget the thrill that lifted tic to the Jewish community of Italy is the old- Italy United Synagogue explains itself. ti m e heights of exaltation when we read word from their American relatives. of Russian Jews are still in est Jewish community Hundred s No doubt, the situation with regard E uro p e. again to face hardshitT aitlid " leisea rny that wonderful message from the Japan. In Yokohama quite a large This is not to say that tidy: and 'theft to the need of Jewish chaplains for great leader of humanity in which lie in mist. tehe cv ou.nitfri er l'1 Ierer ° countries d in st. one city or another did not try to doing the necessary welfare work for MAX N. FREEDMAN expressed his satisfaction with the Jewish community has been formed, ot1° progress of Zionism in the United attached to which is an emigrant aid this is not the case here. The full expel them. Nor is this meant to our young men in the United States utility to express the satisfaction light of history illumines the earliest cover up the fact that in Rome. front army has received your earnest atten- States and allied countries since the society. I have felt in the progress of the In Kobe a synagogue has been period of Jewish life in hal), the year 1555 to the year 1848, the tion, as it has of all of us. British declaration in favor of estab- Zionist movement in the United l There will soon be a hundred thou- ghetto, lishing in Palestine a national home built and the community has abOut In Talmudic literature we read of ehu,-; h were r dt e d States, and in the Allied coun- 7(1 members. who have also founded tobey ond sand Jewish men in active service. A for the Jewish people. the journeys of famous rabbis to tries since the declaration by Mr. their material and spiritual degrada- great opportunity is thus presented to "For all time, for so long as mem- a literary and Zionist society. Rome and of their activities there. In Balfour on behalf of the British lion. In Italy. as everywhere else, the us for bringing the message of Juda- ory endures, for so long a time as it the New Testament we hear of the Jews hall Government, of Great Britain's mo re than their share of ism to our young men who are now shall be given to Israel to have a CHICAGO ELECTS approval of the establishment in Jews of Italy. and of their svnagogues• misery r, y of to p endure, r e, a no owing d h in a more receptive mood than ever place in the world, the gratitude of JEWISH JUDGES Palestine of a national home for which formed the scene of activity for to the fanaticism anat before. It would be nothing short of the Jewish people will go out to him AND CONGRESSMEN the founders of the new faith. In vacillation of the masses. I llut one thing a tragedy if we failed them in the the Jewish people, and his promise who has made the beginning of this that the British Government Philo, the great Jewish writer of the that never did occur was a wholesale present crisis. For this reason year so glorious for us, shall go out would use its best endeavors to CHICAGO—In the primaries held first century, we have a description of expulsion of the Jews from all her earnestly hope that you may find it to our great President, Mr. Woodrow facilitate the achievement of that at Chicago, Ill.. last week Judges the 1ewish community of Rome in domain, similar to the one from Eng- possible to do your share of this all- Wilson." object, with the understanding Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who was de- Henry Horner, of the Probate Court, the days of Augtistus, with reference land in 1290, from France in 1393, and important work by offering your ser- that nothing would be done to vices in this emergency. scribed by Secretary Daniels as "the and Harry J. Fisher, of the Municipal to their communal life and religious from Spain in 1492. prejudice the civil and religious huskiest shipbuilder in America," Court, were renominated with an observances. Similarly. there is an Please write or wire to Dr. Cyrus Twenty Centuries. rights of non-Jewish people in made a stirring appeal for the pur- overwhelming majority. Adler, chairman of the Committee on allusion to the Jews. their i number As a result, the history of the Jews Palestine, or the rights and polit- Others nominated were Messrs. chase of Liberty Bonds, and blanks and their influence, at Rome, n one of of Italy affords today a record of un- Chaplaincy, 531 \Vest One hundred ical status enjoyed by Jews in were pased among the audience. Sidney Lyon, Leo Le Boskey, George Cicero's famous orations. and Twenty-third street. interrupted activity and glory, extend- other countries." Hundreds of subscriptions' were re- Mayer, Sol I'. Roderick, Jacob Ep- Yours very faithfully, ing over more than the entire period The substance of Rabbi Gross- ceived. The following large subscrip- stein and A. J. Sabath for Congress. Friends of Caesar. ELIAS L. SOLOMON. of Christian history. mann's case may be fairly summarized tions, totaling $1,000,000, were an All this teaches us in unmistakable In every century of Italian Jewish in the following quotations from his flounced: The Chicago Zionist Com- 000; nary Friedenwald. $5,000; J. W. GOV. BAMBERGER ON language that even before the begin- history, we find men and movements letter: mittee, $500,000; Jacob H. Schiff, $100,- Mack and family, $4,000; B. A. Rosen- Jews in of importance, bearing witness to the R. R. HOME BOARD "The subject of Zionism is a re- 000; Peter Schweitzer, $100,000; the blatt, $1,000; Mr. Sauber, $1,000. ning of the Christian era, considerable numbers established energy of the Jew and to the oppor- ligious subject. • • • It is entitled, Pittsburgh Zionist Committee, $100,- Other subscriptions brought the total themselves in the capital of the Ro- tunities for its exercise. therefore, to the immunity and the 000; Nathan Straus, $50,000; the New considerably over $1,000,000. SALT LAKE CITY—Governor Si- And this long period of the past is guarantees which the Constitution Orleans Zionist Committee, $50,000; Other speakers were Jacob de Hass, man empire, and that before long mon Bomberger, of Utah, has been worthily crowned by the position that affords to all in matters of relig- Mrs. loseph Fels, $40,000; L. Maurice Dr. B. Z. Mossinsohn, Rabbi Morde- they attained to a position of marked chosen a member of the Board of the Jews occupy in the Italy of today. and Morris Rothern- ion and conscience, and may not Fechheimer, $25,000; Louis Robinson cal, M. Kaplan j nrosorritv and power, thanks not only Governors of the Railroad Men's to their own industry and intelli- and brothers, $15,000; Ben May, $10,- berg. (Continued On Page Four.) Mountain Horne Association. (Continued On Page Mr) Marvelous History of Italian Jews, Oldest of European C4onies, Holds Records of Soldiers, Merchants, Scholars and Seers from the Days of Julius Caesar ■ i •