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SPANISH
INFLUENZA

Successful Year and Brilliant Prospects
Shown in Yearly Reports Heard at An-
nual Meeting of United Jewish Charities

Union With Patriotic Fund Lifts Financial Worry and Permits
Concentration on Real Work—Jewish Girls' Home, New COMMITTEE OF •
RABBIS ON ZIONISM
Medical Station and Oakland Branch Station Planned.

NCINNATI.—A meeting of

The disease is present in Detroit, but the condition is not yet serious and may not
become so. There is not yet any reason for alarm or excitement, but every possible
precaution should be taken to prevent the spread of the epidemic, and to that end
the following statement concerning influenza and its prevention is issued by the
Detroit Department of Health, and the public is earnestly requested to co-operate in
carrying out and enforcing all precautionary measures:

The first symptoms may vary widely,
but the one most commonly present is
the severe aching—it may be only of
the head and particularly in the eye
sockets, or it may be of the entire body
and particularly of the joints. There is
often a chill or chilly sensation, followed
by fever. The patient feels thoroughly
sick—much more so than with an ordi-
nary cold. The symptoms of an ordi-
nary cold are generally present, but
may not be marked. In severe cases
there is often a marked suffusion of the
skin on the face and chest, and there
may be severe nose bleeding.

What to Do When Attacked.

Don't get excited or frightened. If
you are otherwise in good health, the
chances are over 200 to I that you will
get well and be all right again in a short
time. Quit work and go to bed in a
warm, well-ventilated room—that is the
big thing to do. Don't be foolish and
try to fight the attack through at work
or on your feet— that is absolutely the
surest way to bring on pneumonia,
which so often complicates the disease
and causes nine-tenths of all the deaths
that follow it. Take laxative to keep
the bowels open, but all other medicines
only on the advice of a physician, as
what may do good in one case may do
harm in another. If the patient has
been in poor health, or is over 60 years
of age, call a physician at once, as in-
fluenza is always serious in such cases.

How to Avoid Catching It.

A conference held in Chicago last
week, between army, navy, city and
state physicians, gave out the following
code of precautions:

Cover your mouth and nose with a
handkerchief or cloth when sneezing or
coughing, and compel everybody else
in your presence to obey the Health De-
partment order to do so.

When convenient, walk to and from
work instead of riding in street cars.
When crowding is unavoidable, as in
street cars, keep your face turned as
not to inhale the air breathed out by
any person.

Keep your feet dry and your body
warm.

Don't sit near a sneezing or cough-
ing person in movie or other theatres or
assemblages, and do not accept food in
a serve-self restaurant that is so placed
that other people may have sneezed or
coughed over it.

Finally—don't worry or get fright-
ened. There is no other preventive of
disease that is so potent as good health
and a contented mind. Fear, worry and
over-fatigue or exhaustion all lower
resistance to disease and render us more
liable to attack.

"In guarding against disease it is im-
portant that the body be kept strong and
able to fight off disease germs. This
can be done by having a proper propor-
tion of work, play and rest; by keeping
the body well clothed and by eating suf-
ficient wholesome and properly selected
food. -

The children in all public schools will
be closely inspected every morning, and
all with suspicious colds will be excluded
from school. The excluded children
will be visited in their homes by Depart-
ment nurses and kept under observa-
tion. All school childresn will take to
their homes small circulars giving direc-
tions and advice as to care and precau-
tions.

All cafes and eating houses will he
inspected and all employes in dining
rooms or kitchens who have suspicious
colds will be excluded from work for the
proper time. Regulations are being is-
sued under which all food ready to eat
must be screened or kept where it can-
not be sneezed or coughed upon.

Detroit is giving a larger percentage of its industries to war work than any
other city in the country. All our great plants are on war contracts. A great part
of the aircraft, Eagles and motor trucks which will win the war depend on Detroit
for all or a portion of their parts. It is the patriotic duty of every citizen to make
a special effort to keep well and free from colds of any kind and to use all possi-
ble influence on others to prevent the spread of an epidemic which has already crip-
pled a part of the country.

The Department of Health can do only a small portion of the work. If the
general public co-operates as it should, Detroit may pass through the epidemic
without going through the experience of eastern cities, and almost surely without
serious interference with our war work.

JAMES W. INCHES

Commissioner of Health

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the

Work of President Selling and Colleagues Rewarded by Unani- Committee of Rabbis which has un-
mous Re-Election—Some Changes in Board of Directors.
der consideration plans for the for-

The epidemic of influenza, which has been prevalent in many military encamp-
ments for some time past, has spread over the Atlantic states and is now slowly
reaching out in the middle west. A serious condition exists in New England,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and other eastern states. The condition in Chicago and
Illinois is becoming serious. In the entire states of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, District of Columbia and many eastern cities, schools, theaters and all pub-
lic places have been closed and business seriously interfered with. Chicago is report-
ed to have 80,000 cases.

How Does Influenza Appear?

PERFECTION LODGE,
No. 486. F. & A M.
Special Communication WednesdaY,
October 16th, 1:35 p, m., M. M. Degree,
Niasonic Temple. Visitors welcome.
CHARLES K. SANDORF,
Secretary,

JOSEPH L. SELLING.

problem seems to be acute in other
The ;withal meeting of the United communities also and there is now a
Jewish Charities on Wednesday proposition before the national con-
evening. October 9, at the Hannah ference of Jewish Charities for a na-
Schloss Memorial building, marked tional institution at \‘'oodbine.
the nineteenth year of communal ac-
" \Ve, as all other organizations,
tivity of the organization. Reports of hat e felt the stress of war, and where
the officers and heads of the various it has touched us most is in the lack
departments disclosed a most satis- of physicians to properly maintain
factory progress in social service.
our clinics and care for the sick in
The reports also emphasized three their homes and hospitals. The ex-
great needs:
treme high cost of living, the desper-
An enlarged medical bureau.
ate fuel situation; lack of leaders in
.\ station in the Oakland street dis- our recreational and educational work,
trict where most of the clients have and the increase in delinquency have
moved since the increase of Negro been some of the new problems that
residents in the Hastings Street dis- confront us.
trict.
Home For Girls.
.-k Jewish working girls' home for
" \Vitt] the hundreds of unanchored
those unanchored girls who have
docked by hundreds into this city girls coming to Detroit, lured by
plenty of work and good wages, we
within the last year.
All officers were re-elected unani- greatly feel the need of a Jewish
mously for the ensuing year, and few \Vorking Girls' I tome, hotel or V. \\'.
changes were made in the Board of H. A. where the girl can be assured of
clean, wholesome surroundings, the
Directors.
Two changes in the constitution right kind of recreation and good
were made by motion of Fred M. kosher food at a minimum charge.
Such a home should be self-support-
Butzel.
The first provides that member- ing exclusive of rent, taxes and the
ship in the Jewish Charities hereafter possible salary of a resident worker."
The work of the Fresh Air Society
shall consist of those persons who
have contributed for the fiscal years of was reported by Miss Edith eaven-
191b-1917 and 1917-1918, and those rich, who summed up the work of the
who shall hereafter contribute, and society in a very interesting report.
Harry J. \Veinstein told of the man-
those contributors to the Patriotic
Fund who desire to be members. Mr. ner in which the Legal Aid Bureau.
Butzel's second amendment provided conducted by Joseph Burak and
Harry Cohen, adjusted the marital
that the tiscal year be changed from
the second Wednesday in October to and business difficulties of its many
the second \Vednesday in January, clients.
Milton Alexander spoke of the ac-
beginning 1920.
tivities of the Educating and Recrea-
President Selling's Message.
tion department, of which he is chair-
President Joseph L. Selling deliv- man.
ered an interesting report in wheth he
In the absence of I). \V. Simons.
pointed out the obvious advantages of treasurer, his report was read by the
the grouping of all philanthropies of president. The Sinking Fund report
all races and creeds.
was read by II en ry NI. Butzel, and the
"One of the hardest tasks of our auditor's report by Fred M. Butzel.
executive board, in the past," said
Rabbi Leo NI. Franklin and Rabbi
President Selling, has been the .k. NI. Hershman delivered short
financing of this institution.
talks. commending the members of
The amount of effort required to the Jewish Charities for the
collect monies for our support has good deeds done in the past year, and
been considerable, and if I were to expressing the hope that the excel-
tell you of the time consumed and the lent work continue with greater ac-
salesmanship employed you would be tit ity and force the coming year
astonished.
The following nominees. submitted
"Therefore, you can imagine how by Henry A. Krolik, chairman of the
welcome was the proposition of the Nomination Committee, were unan-
Detroit Community Union to merge imously elected to office for the en-
our budgetary requirements With suing year:
those of most of the worthy charita-
President. Joseph L. Selling; First
ble and civic organizations of our
Julian II. Krolik;
city, and make one short. sharp cam- Second Vice-Presil
paign for all.
zel: Irca•ti re r. D. \V. Simons.
"Of the successful financial cant-
Directors Milton . \l exan d er• A.
paign of the fund, I need not tell you. Barit. II. Buchalter. Henry NI. Butzel.
but I do wish to say that relieved of C. II. Enggass, Rabbi Leo NI. Frank-
our collection worries, our board has li n. Nviiii am Friedman. ‘v a it er
been enabled to give more time, more A . rilisterwald. harry Frank, Dr.
thought, and more money to much Hugo A. Freund. Bernard Ginsburg,
needed relief work.
John .\. Ileavenrich, Samuel Heaven-
rich, Nliss Edith Ileayenrich, Rabbi
Generous Bequests.
"We have been remembered sub- A. 'M. Herschnian. Mrs. M C. \Veil,
stantially during the past year The \\'allace Itosenheini, Nloses Ilimel-
late Charles II. Hecht bequeathed trs hoch. Aaron Klein. Anton Kaufman,
$1,000. The family of the late Rosalie NIrs. Sarah E. Krolik. Rabbi J. L.
Siegel, in her memory, gave us a Levin. Dat id J. Levy, Rabbi Samuel
house and It on Holbrook avenue, to S. Mayerberg, Joseph Siegel, Albert
be used as a temporary home for Simnel-, Alb e rt \‘'. Schloss, M r s A
children. Also, during this year, we Schlesinger, Milford Stern. A. Slid-
begin to enjoy the income of $5,00(1 man. Nlax Stutter, Henry \Vineniam
which was provided in the will of the Harry \Veinstein.
late Seligman Schloss for the upkeep
of our building. The late Oscar Ro-
senberger bequeathed us $2.500. For CZECHO-SLOVAKS TO
all of the above we are duly grateful."
GIVE FULL RIGHTS
Nliss Blanche Ifart, superintendent,
TO ALL RELIGIONS
reviewed the communal work of the
year which showed progress in all de-
Dr. Thomas G. NI azary k. speaking
partments. The third Children's Re-
ceiving }Ionic, which is to be dedicat- for the National Council of the
ed soon. has been cited by the inves- Czecho-Slovaks, made the definite
tigator of the Child Welfare depart- statement that the Czecho-Slovaks
ment of State Board of Charities and will abolish the Austrian system of
Corrections as the model solution of state churches, and that the national
the child-placing problem.
minorities will be granted equal po-
"The question that still confronts litical and cultural rights with the ma-
us, however," said Miss Ilart. "is the jority. This policy, Dr. Mararyk de-
placing of feeble-minded children, the clares, will apply to the Jews in Bo-
State institution being entirely inade- hemia and Slovakia. as well as to the
quate to handle the situation. The other races.

mation of an organization of Ameri-
can Jews whose platform is "Amer-
mans in nationality and Jew s in re-
ligion," was held at Cincinnati on
NI on Clay evening, September 30, and
Wednesday evening, October 2, 1918.
There were present Rabbi David
Philipson, Cincinnati, Chairman, and
Rabbis Henry Collett, of Galveston;
Fitt, ard N. Calisch, of Richmond, and
Leo M. Franklin, of 1)etroit; Samuel
H. tioldenson, of Pittsburgh; Louis
Grossman, of Cincinnati; William
Rosman, of Baltimore; Louis 1,Volsey,
of CIO. eland, and Ephraim Frisch, of
Nett York, Secretary. Excuses for
non-attendance were received from
Rabbis Berkowitz, of Philadelphia;
Foster. of Newark, N. J.; Schanfar-
ber, of Chicago, and Schulman, of
New l'ork. Mr. J. Walter Freiberg
and Judge Ilarry M. Iloffheinter, of
Cincinnati, were present by invitation.
The subject of holding a confer-
ence of rabbis and laymen in October
was considered. Anumber of letters
from prominent Jewish laymen favor-
able and unfavorable to the Itordim.;
of such a conference were read. After
a full discussion it was decided to
postpone for the time being the con-
vening of the conference owing to a
[mother of unlooked for Occurrences
which have taken place since- steps
towards issuing a call for such.a -con-
ference were begun.
DAVID P1111.1_IPSON, Chairtnati:
EPHRAIM 1, Ft I SCH, Secretary.
The following minute 'tieas unan-
imously adopted by'the meMber's 'res-
.... • •
•
ent:
Owing to the unjust and 'un-
warranted attacks made recently
upon our colleague, Rabbi Eph-
raim Frisch. for sending a• tele-
gram to President 'Wilson 'in
which he respectfully urged that
the President reconsider his' en-
dorsement of political Zionism,
we, the members of a committee
of which Rabbi Frisch' had been
acting as secretary since July 2,
desire to make known the follow-
ing facts:
That on July 2, 1918, a meet-
ing was held at Chicago by 30
rabbis for the purpose of :consid-
ering ways and means of giving
effectual expression to our •cony
victions on the subject, of poli-
tical Zionism.
That a committee of seven, later
enlarged to thirteen, was appoint-
ed before the time when Presi-
dent Wilson wrote his letter on
Zionism.
'That Rabbi Frisch had been
acting as secretary of this com-
mittee.
That many of us and thousands
of other American Jews practi-
cally share the opinions that
Rabbi Frisch expressed in his
telegram to the President, though
that communication was personal
and was not sent by him as sec-
retary of this committee.
That we believe that in tele-
graphing to the President, Rabbi
Frisch was animated by the pur-
est motives, by loyalty to his
country and by deep love for his
faith and his co-religionists.
That we deplore the fact that
a man whose integrity and whose
lionlur hate never been questioned
and in whom his colleagues have
the utmost confidence should have
been so unfairly assailed.
DAVID PH ILLIPSON,
Chairman.
\VNI. ROSEN.W.
WM, N. CALISCH.
S M l' El. II. GOLDENSON.
NI. FRANKLIN.
Lol'IS GROSSMANN.
1CIS \VOLSEN.
HENRY COHEN.

BICUR CHOLEM, JUNIORS.

The Bicur Cholent Juniors held
their first meeting of the season
Thursday melting, October 3, in the
Knights of Pythias hall.
The following officers were unani-
mously re-elected:
President, Aaron A. Silberblatt;
Vice-President, Miss Sadie Schubot:
Secretary, Miss Mary Rosen; Treas-
urer, Nliss Ida Gordon.
The members are anticipating an in-
teresting and enjoyable year
Miss Golda Rosenthal delighted the
members with renditions of several
dramatic pieces. Miss Sylvia Weis-
man also contributed to the enti•r-
tainment and proved herself a pian-
ist of merit.
The Bicur Cholera Juniors is one of
the three clubs working in connection
with the Jewish Welfare Board, pro-
tiding entertainment for soldiers and
sailors.

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