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CLIFTON AVINU1 • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
B'nai Brith Club Formed
By Pisgah Lodge Members
During Jubilee of Order
New Club Rooms at 64 Broadway
Opened for Luncheons, Social
Entertainments and Patriotic
Activities.
DOWNTOWN CENTER
FILLS REAL NEED
Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918.
VOL. IV. NO. 20.
MA GYAR POLICE
RAID SYNAGOGUES
Heads New B'nai Brith Club.
RELIGIOUS LINES
DRAWN IN AUSTRIA
VI EN N.A —.The " .1 nil ische Zeit ung"
reports that in the Price-
Testing Commission. in smiting appli-
cants for certain vacant posts, stated
that applicants would be required to
produce a certificate of baptism. The
announcement was published as an
advertisement in Polish papers. The
"Judische Zeitung" characterizes this
step as a flagrant breach of the law
on the part of an official body, and
calls for all energetic protest.
1:CD.\ PEST—Taking adsantage of
fact that all the Jews of the
town were assembled at divine wor-
ship, the police of Maramoros Szigot
surrounded the synagogues and ar-
rested all person, whose papers were
nut in order. \\lien the chief rabbi
and representatives of the Jewish
community went to the Prefectm• to
protest they were driven off at the
point of the bayonet.
Cases similar to that 1■ 1 Nlaramoros
Sziget have repeatedly occurred re-
otly. At Satoralja l'jhely and Vase
..,•%eral Jews have lo.en arrested in
the synagogues during divine service.
J. W. B. CIVILIAN
t olio- oleo with the celebration of
the diamond jubilee of the Independ-
en t (Irder of Irnai Brith in l'hicago.
t he IVitai Brith Club ha, been form(
in Detroit by a group of member, ot j CHINESE JEWS, "LOST
Pis,:alt Lodge, the Detroit unit ef the
COLONY," GIVE NEW
order.
PRESIDENT TO CHINA
Plans for such a club have In en
under discussion for two years. Meni-
linderstood Oho
the P/e7• ', resident
1.1 , ham , felt that a downtown center
11., 11
for luncheons, recreation and social
d,
1.•zeish blood.
claimed r,..
he is descended from
activities would he of great lament to
r.
l
one
the
ui.vn find 010. St eriMIS
themselves. and heroine a new center
trOV-
for ,mice to the community. flow-
"
/
,,summed in
evil- , it was not until this week that
I hula for
,enturies.
the plans were tls`linitely matured.
Club rooms have been selected, 14.1.0W.01/1/10NeW../Y
furnished and opened in the building
at No, IA Broadway, on the second ONE-FOURTH OF
floor. The Club rooms are placed so
AUSTRALIAN JEWS
that they can be enlarged as need
ARE IN UNIFORM
requires. Luncheons can be served
to members and guests, and arrange-
ments can be made for entertain-
Australian Jews must surely hold
ments, social gatherings, and patri- the record for voluntary enlistments.
Adolph Freund, who has been elected as the tirst president of the new
otic activities.
rt total Jewish population of little 'Vital Brith Club, composed of I)etroit members of the Independent Order
lenibership in the club still open over 17,11(1(1 has produced 4.000 Com-
of Iniai Brith, has been a member of the order for 50 years. Ile joined
to all members of the Independent monwealth soldiers.
Pisgah Lodge No. 34 in IfinS. In all those years—in years which showed a
of
Wind
Brith.
It
is
thought
Order
Enlistments for all Australia num- wide and varied interest in progressive Jewish •activities, Mr. Freund has
That !natty Detroit members of the ber 4011,00(1, which means that one been recognized as a constroctive leader of the !Coal Brith order.
order will eagerly enter the club
Mr. Freund has been many times. elected president of Pisgah Lodge.
every hundred is a Jew, or three
movement. It has been felt fur some times as many as the proportion to 11e has also served as president of the Grand Lodge. For 40 years he has
time that the formation of a club the total population would warrant.
been a member of the national constitutional convention of the order. He
would n i t only be of great benefit to
But then in all branches of public was the'Detroit representative at the recent celebration of the diamond jubi-
the club members, but would add to life in .\ ustralia Jews play a big part. lee of the !frith Order at Chicago.
Mr. Freund has been a trustee and a director of the Hebrew Orphan
the growth and usefulness of the At times their numbers in the Federal
Asylum at Cleveland since 1878. This institution is maintained by the In-
B'nai Britt order in all ways.
and State Parliaments have been as
dependent Order of B'nai Brith. Mr. Freund is the oldest member of the
The club elected the veteran Wind high as 12 per cent.
board in point of continuous service. He is one of the two Michigan direc-
Brith member, Adolph Freund, as
torate. The other Michigan director is Adolph Finsterwald. of Detroit, who
President.
has just been elected the first treasurer of the B'nai Brith
"MOGEN DAVID" FOR
The other officers chicted were:
Simon D. Rosensweig, Vice-Presi-
JEWISH WAR GRAVES
dent.
Maurice liarvett, Secretary.
\V.\
\
double tri-
Adolph Finst•rwald, Treasurer.
angle C'Ilogen David," Shield of Da-
To carry on the social and other
vid), will be plseed above the graves
activities of the club standing coin-
of soldiers of Jewish faith who fall in
nutters were named, with the fol-
France, instead of the cross, as the
lowing chairmen:
result of areangenlents liv The Jewish
L. J. Leopold, Purchasing Commit-
\Velfare Board with the
Depart
tee.
inent.
Milton Alexander, Publicity Com-
Third .\ssistalit Secretary of \Var
nettve.
Kennet states that the recommenda- Israel Cohen Tells How Religious Prejudice and Commercial Greed
J. Miller, House Committee.
tion has been adopted and that Gen.
Louis James Rosenberg. Laws
United With Political Machinations to Bring Upon Germany the
Pershing had been informed by cable
Committee.
Shame and Blight of a Sinister Medieval Reactionism.
to make the substitution of the in-
Though the Independent Order of
signia for the Jews and to notify the
(Vital Brith has existed for 75 years
American graves registration serving
in the nation, and for 60 years in
Noble Protests of Greatest Gentiles Brought Only Indignity to Them
in France of this order.
Detroit, this is the first time members
and No Justice to Oppressed—Lessing, Mommsen, Virchow, Sie-
The other Allied nations are now
have entered upon club activities. It
using the double triangle.
mens, Suffered for Pleading for Justice.
not expected, of course. that all
members of the order will feel
obliged to unite themselves with the $170,500,000 WILL BE
B y ISRAEL COHEN B A
club. But all members of the club
RAISED FOR WELFARE
will have the additional bond of
fhr
most
sinister
phenomenon
in the Catholic Church, %stitch sought
WORK FOR SOLDIERS
previous membership in the national
the history of modern jeN% ry is tilt' to increase its authority; and as the
order.
hostile movement generally know n by leaders of the latter body were unable
Nloreover, it is evident to all that Seven Organisations of Varied Faiths
the name of Anti-Setnitism.
to make any headway in the struggle
the club can fill a useful niche in the
Unite in One Cause—J. VV. B.
The Jew, havt s throughout their they represented the Kulturkampf as
life if the city. Titc need of such
Youngest of Federation.
dispersion, been exposed to a succes- a war of Jewry against Christendom,
a d , wntown center, easily accessible.
sion of attacks on the part o f the as an 'onslaught on the part of the
democratic and progressive, has long
N\V
1 i iSIS
Plaits are being States or the peoples in whose mid s t "alien" Jewish element against Ger-
been felt. This is why the ori,taniza-
the Coked \\'ar \Vork they dwelt. But from the 1,1 quar- manism.
ti n t was so readily formed and Perfected
The Catholic organs, especially the
encouraged by men engaged in d
- Campaign , luring the week of NOV, ter of the nineteenth centre, these
II-I8 to
a l, $170,500,000 f or th e attacks tissunted a Ilt - W
a n d war, - . Germania and the Kolnisehe Volk-
town business and professional life.
Thus, on the whole,' a bright future seven mg...rations. Protestant. Cath- therefore, distinguished by a new zeitting, indulged in the most unbrid-
led abuse of the Jews. The former
of u se f u l acti v ity opens before the olio and Jewish, that are cooperating name.
In
former ages. the prejudice demanded that all the offenses of
organization. A great deal of interest for the welfare and morale of Allier-
since i,a's fighting forces.
against the Jew Was 11:1S1•11 1111011 Ins individual Jews should be carefully
ha, been displayed in its
The Jewish VV(.1fare Board. the religion and disappeared w lieu he recorded, so that they might be at-
i t became generally known that the
had
m„"
d
e
h
o
it,• ‘..inigest of the war work organila- abandoned the faith of his fathers. tributed to the whole of Jewry, and
club
plans fur the future remain to he all- 11,,,,., formed particularly to look al- In modern Min's it has developed into also that the Jews should be boy-
Thc catholic, were soon
flounced later. But the members and t ■ r Or happiness and spiritual guid- something wider and deeper. The cotted.
friends of the organization feel that :ince of the 125,0011 Jews in the arms prejudice is directed against the Jews joined in their unholy warfare by the
it ministers to I as a race and manifests itself in all Protestants, and having succeeded in
A bri ght f u tu re o f growth and activity and navy, though
i.., opening before it. Jews and f ielltiles alike• is taking a • phases of human activity. It seeks making the Jew s appear as the
prominent part in the nation-wide ar
its justification in all that the Jews enemies of the State and society, they
rangements for the campaign.
stay say, do, or think; it feeds upon were content to leave the leadership
HOLY LAND TAXES
Mr. Fred II. Smith, the V.
popular •uperstitions, exploded myths. to the sister-Church.
NOT PAID TURKEY
.A. leader, who recently rettirned to • and Illicultitr.11:thle rumors; and it ex-
"Big Business."
OFFERED BRITISH New York from conferences to per- presses itself in a variety of acts of
feet plans for the drive 011 the PaCihe , int o l e ranc e sugges ti ve o f th t • age o f
The religious attack was soon rein-
forced by assaults from the commer-
I HIZI..S:11,EM. — One of the sorest coast, told leaders of th e 1. \V. 11. in medieval barbarism.
of the revival of Southern New York that the Jewish people
Anti-Semitism knows uI 110 redeem- cial, political and even scientific
Palestine is the fact that since March were assuming the leadership of the ing mutiny in the Jew. It regards domains. 'Elie material prosperity
1st the authorities have found it nossi- drke on the coast. with Mr. Jesse him as a perennial source of evil and that followed the conclusion of the
He to levy the ordinary taxes which Lilienthal as chairman of the \Vari danger to the State, and demands his Franco-German war led to the forma-
tion of hosts of companies, and a
were in force under the Ottoman re- \York Campaign fur that district. Ac- expulsion or his extermination.
gime — exclusive of those which were cording to Mr. Smith. Mr. Nathan
great deal of reckless speculation.
Of German Origin.
impo se d purely for war purposes. Eckstein, of S ea ttl e , ma d e such a pow- The "spiritual home" of this fanat-
Despite repeated warnings, espe-
\\lien the British first entered the erful appeal in con f e renc e ther e that ;cal movement is Germany, whence it cially the exposures the Reichstag
country they found the inhabitants he was taken to many other confer- has penettated to other countries; and by the leading Jewish politicians,
a brief SIO'Vry Of the course it has Lasker and Bamberger, the riot of
too exhausted to be able to contrib- ences to arouse enthusiasm.
The spirit of co-operation among run in Germany since the establish- commercial gamhling continued until.
use any-thing to the revenue. and not
agencies
was
work
meat o f th e E mp i re tr ill show what in 1873, the great bubble burst.
only did they not collect anything, the seven war
hut they remitted all arrears up to strikingly illustrated this week, when indignity, suffering, and injustice the
Hundreds of companies were ruined,
March 1st last. fifty-eight held workers, representing Jews have had to endure in a laud and hundreds 61 thousands of IIIVCSt-
Since that (late however. the in- the Tenth Chas , of the J. W. B. Train- that never ceases to boast of its Kul- MS were despoiled, either of a big
habitants have been called upon to ing School, left for their posts at the tor.
part or of the whole of their for-
Anti-Semitism began to manifest tune.
hear at least a part of the louden or sartmis camps and naval training sta-
itself
against
the
Jews
in
Germany
the civil administration of the coon- lions.
At once the entire blame was
The principal speaker at the gradua- very S11011 after the victorious cam-
try.
fastened upon the Jews, who were
They do this all the more cheerfully tion exercises was Col. \Vilfiarn S. paign against France. although they denounced as
exploiters, usurers and
as they know that the money thus Barker, of the Salvation Army, who bore their full share in the efforts of swindlers. That Jews
were largely
raised is not sent out of the coup- has had charge of the Salvationists the Fatherland.
represented among the Stock Ex-
The movement against the Jews
try. as under the old regime, but is field forces overseas ever since the
change speculators was true, but it
used for their own benefit. Of tins first contingents of the American arose from a variety of motives, and was also inevitable, since for more
they have visible proof in the great army arrived in France. Col. Bar- the multiplicity of its origin largely
than a thousand years the State had
improvements which have been ef- kcr's visit here lasted only seven contributed to its strength and bitter-
confined the economic activities of
fected in communications, sanitation, days, but he gave a whole evening of ness.
the Jew to commerce. But they repre-
In the first place, the State was
water supply, and other departments his time to give the Jewish field work-
of public utility. ers the benefit of his ripe experience. engaged in a stubborn tight against
(Continued On Page Four.)
ADOLPH FREUND.
Anti-Seinitism, a Monster Made in
Germany, Was Aided by Bismarck, by.
Treitschke, by 411 Chaplains, in
Years of Unrelenting Persections
RELIEF WORK TO
REACH ALL CASES
N l'AV YOR IX
Jew is \Velfare
Board is organizing New York City
block by Ido,k to car, foi the de•
pendent, of its men in uniform.
The New York Pity Branch, of
which .\ brain I. Elkus, is clmirman,
has a plan that trill make sure that
no one is left out.
The Jewish \Velfare Board plans
to form committees On each block,
chiefly composed of men in deferred
classification.
The block committee will ascertain
front the draft board the names and
addresses of all men subject to call.
As far as possible all effort will be
made to determine the home condi-
tions, and the need for future assist-
ance. Even though there is no press-
ing need for immediate aid, the neigh-
borhood committee trill see that the
families of the men who are serving
their country are not in troll.
JEWISH COUNCIL IN
UKRAINE DISBANDED
KIEV.—The Jewish National Coun-
cil in Ukraine was prevented from
holding its sessions by a detachment
of police. The council had been fre-
quently interferred with by the police
before. It required the bold assertion
of Rabbi Kissin that the council in-
tends to continue its activities to in-
duce the police to close their sessions
daily.
A strong protest to the Ukraine
Government lipthe members of the
council and the leaders of the Jewish
community, of Kieff against the action
of the police thus far net with little
success.
Detroiter, New Major,
in France 17 Months
Dr. I.. J. Hirschman's promotion
from captain to major ill the Ameri-
can medical service in France w-as an-
DR. L. J. HIRSCHMAN.
flounced in 'Illy Jew ish Chronicle last
Dr. Hirschman has been ill
week.
the field and at the base hospitals
for 17 months.
Faithfulness and "Sense"
Explain Marvelous Career
of "Ochs, of the Times"
– –
Knoxville Printers' Devil Be-
came Newspaper Owner at 20
—Later Bought "Doomed"
Paper Up to Annual Income
of $7,000,000.
HOW J. P. MORGAN
WAS SEEN AND WON
Adolph S. Ochs does not take much
stock in genius, says "Current Opin-
Lt fact, lie does not regard it as
at all neiessary to success in build-
ing and conducting what is consid-
d by many to be the greatest news-
11 1 1 ill him
ered
paper
the United States, and lie re-
i
s
elf as an illustration in
Not only is he shy of genius, but on
his ow it admission he possesses no ex-
traordinary talent, has introduced no
new methods in newspaper making,
and he asserts the New. York Times
is not an extraordinary newspaper.
All that is required to conduct the
Times. Ochs is reported as saying itt
Forbes' Nt•gazine, is ordinary busi-
ness and news and editorial COMMOT1
sense, plus a sense of responsibility.
Ile "imagines," however, that it
"does take genies, of a kind, to run
papers which are constantly thinking
up circus stunts and other sensations,
which are no part of the day's news."
Ochs as "Devil."
Forty-eight years ago this proprie-
tor of a newspaper which has the
largest income ($7,000,000) of any
daily paper in the world, was a prin-
ter's devil in Knoxville, Tenn.
Ile had to sweep floors, rescue
dropped type from the sweepings,
distribute the "pi," clean ink rollers,
and fetch and carry for the printers.
Ile learned how to feed presses,
how to fold book forms, how to set
type, how to "make up," how, in short,
to attend to the mechanical processes
of getting out a small newspaper—the
Knoxville Chronicle,
At 17 he became ambitious and went
to Louisville. Ky., as a job printer in
the Courier-Journal plant; then, re-
turning to Knoxville as assistant fore-
man of the composing room, reporter
finally as assistant- tol the !mai-
mess manager of the Knoxville Trib-
;me.
lie forthwith began to shine and
went to Chattanooga to help estab-
lish the Daily Dispatch, which, how-
ever, failed. Young Ochs was made
receiver, liquidated its debts, ar-
ranged a consolidation with the Chat-
tanooga Times and gained control-
•ith no capital stock save brains, in-
dustry and enterprise.
All this at 20. And he still owns
it. The fortieth anniversary of his
ownership seas July 1.
New York Calls.
In 1893 ()ells became ambitious
again on hearing that the "once
mighty and prosperous New York
Times was almost in death throes and
that no New York newspaper man of
recognized ability could be induced to
tackle its resiiscitation." Otherwise,
of course, an out-and-out outsider
would not hate• been thought of in
connection with its control. This, lie
says, is what happened:
"1 organized a company under a
new charter the present New York
'limes Company -with 10,000 shares
capital stock (par value $1001 and
$5011,000 5 per cent bonds; took up
the $1,000,000 of stock of the old com-
pany by giving in exchange 2,000
shares of the new company; paid the
debts of the old company dollar for
d o llar with $300,000 of the 5 per cent
bonds; and With some difficulty the
remaining $200,000 of bonds I sold at
par fur cash by giving to every pur-
chaser of a $1,0)0 bond 15 shares of
stock as a bonus.
"1 subscribed fur $75,000 of the
hoods and received 1,125 shares of
stock as a bonus. and as was stipulat-
ed in the articles of the organization
—1
received 3,876 shares of the capi-
NS.—The Sisterhood
NE \V Olt
of Temple Sinai, co-operating with tal stock as a compensation when,
the Council of Jewish Women and three years after its.organization, the
other Sisterhoods of New Orleans, company was placed on a paying
constitutes Unit No, 7 of Red Cross of
k lie value placed on the shares
bas ''T
New Orleans.
During the May 11v- is e ior member- shortly after I assumed the manage-
ment
was indicated by a sale of some
ship this unit procured 6.300 new
menffiers and thus won the flag of dis- of them at ten cents 011 the dollar "
To sell $200.000 of 5 per cent bonds
tinction for this meritorious work.
Mrs. Max Ileller was chairman of the resting on a property bankrupt and
discredited as the Times had become
campaign committee.
was no mean feat.
'The paper was losing thousands o f
SISTERHOOD WINS
RED CROSS BANNER
RUSSIAN JEWISH
COLONIES UNITE
dollars every week; its circulation had
dwindled to 10,000 a day; it did not
own its linotypes, and the presses on
NIOSCCAV.—A conference of repre- which it was printed were ancient and
sentatives of Jewish Communities
from all sections of Russia took place val h 'le ilite lisssbers laughed up their sleeves
here and a Union of Community at the temerity of the iniFrloper who
"would find that it was one thing to
Councils organized.
of Communi- run a paper in a small country town
The aim of the
ties. as proclaimed in the preamble and another thing to revive a metro-
politan dairy, losing money hand over
of its constitution, is "to create co-
operation and union in the cultural,
' t;" i discoveredthat the decline
economic and social activtics of Jew- fis "Ochs
ish Community Councils throughout of the Times had been brought about
. Russia."
(('ontinued On Page Eight.)