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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
JEWISH CHAPLAINS
IN ARMY AND NAVY
Ope Billion Dollars Now
INCREASED TO 30
Needed for Five Million
Jewish Sufferers of War
DR. WEIZMANN'S ARRIVAL IN PALESTINE.
MADISON C. PETERS,
AUTHOR OF "JUSTICE
TO THE JEW," DIES
History of American Jewish Women
Seventeen More Rabbis Join Spiritual
Left Unfinished — Influenza-Pneu-
Forces to Care for 200,000 Fighter..
monia Caused Death.
Julius Rosenwald Becomes
"Rosy" to Admiring Boys
In Y. M. C. A. War Huts
New Jersey Aviator Tells of
NEW YORK—Thirteen Jewish
Stormy Enthusiasm for Demo-
NEW YURI: —The Rev. Dr. Madi-
chaplains have been appointed by the
cratic Millionaire Now "Mix-
son Clinton l'eters, widely-known
War and Navy departments to minis-
Baptist clergyman, lecturer and au-
Philanthropic Task, Must Be ter to the spiritual needs of men of
ing" With Soldiers on the
thor, died last Saturday at his home,
Achieved by Gifts and Loans. Jewish faith with the American light-
Lines of Danger.
314
West
Ninety-ninth
street.
.
have
ing forces. Seventeen rabbis
Dr. l'eters was stricken with Span-
been recommended by the Jewish
ish influenza. The attack turned to CHEERS RAISED BY
STAGGERING FACTS OF
Welfare Board and will shortly be
pneumonia and death was due to that
RUIN IN WAR ZONES commissioned.
SILENT BATTALIONS
cause. He us as 58 years old.
Rabbi Abraham Nowak, of Boston,
Dr. l'eters was born in Lehigh coun-
Mass., Rabbi Elias N. Rabinowitz, of
This photograph shows Dr. Chaim Weizman, head of the Zionist Admin-
NEW YORK—Plans for the recon- Baltimore, Mel., and Rabbi Ilarry S.
NEW YORK—A description of the
istrative Commission, upon his arrival at British General Headquarters in ty, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1859.
struction of the Jewry of the world, Richmond, of Trinidad, Colo. (the Palestine. The second figure from the right is Major James Rothschild, of Ile obtained his degree as doctor of work of Julius Rosenwald, of Chica-
and involving in their scope the rais- latter had volunteered and had served the Rothschild Banking House in Paris, who is a Major with the Jewish divinity at the Heidelberg Theological go, who was sent overseas by the War
ing a sum of money likely to reach six months as a private) have been Legion in Palestine.
Seminary. He was ordained to the Department as an officer without rank
a billion dollars, have been announced, commissioned and assigned to camps.
ministry of the Reformed Church in on the special mission of mixing with
following a meeting held last week in Chaplain Benjamin Friedman. of Ni-
1880 and later became the pastor of the American soldiers, was written by
the First Presbyterian Church, Phila- Lieutenant Russell C. Gates, of the
the office of Felix M. Warburg, of agara Falls, and Chaplain Israel Bet-
delphia. He remained there for five Aviation Section, to his father, F.
Kuhn, Loeb & Company, Chairman tan, of Charleston, W. Va., have been
years and was afterward placed in Gates, of Montclair, N. J.
of the Joint Distribution Committee ordered overseas.
charge of the Bloomingdale Reformed
"After luncheon I dropped into the
of the American Funds for Jewish
Five Jewish chaplains, Rabbis El-
Church and the Madison Avenue Bap- Y. M.," says the letter. "There was a
War Sufferers.
kan Voorsanger, Louis I. Egelson,
The money necessary to the carry- Lee J. Levinger, David Tannenbaum,
lecture going on and the place was
tist Church here.
Dr. Peters had held no charge for packed. The enthusiastic cheering,
ing out of the largest purely humani- and Ilarry S. Davidowitz, are already
several years and devoted his time whistling, and clapping aroused my
tarian project in history attempted by overseas. Rabbi Israel Sarasohn and
principally to lecturing and writing. curiosity, and I knew it must be some-
individual effort, will not be sought Rabbi Jacob B. Khrongold, Army
He was the author of a number of thing worth while to stir the fellows
alone through contributions. It will chaplains, and Rabbi David Goldberg.
embrace the fields of lending and in- Navy chaplain, are awaiting overseas Israel Cohen Discloses Startling Recent Demonstrations of Jew- books cleating with Jews and Jewish up so. I wedged in at the back of
the hall.
vestment and will be accepted from assignments.
Baiting, Legal Injustice, Ritual Murder, Pious Persecutions, problems. His many hooks included
—7—Jewish CHRON .. weaver
"The speaker was a short, heavy
non-Jewish as well as Jewish sources.
The following have been recom-
Outrages
on
Civic
Rights,
Deprivations
of
Scholarships
and
"Justice
to
the
Jew,"
"The
Jew
as
a
man of middle age, and he was in of-
The steps to be undertaken are the mended for appointment: Rabbis Wil-
ficer's. uniform. He had iron-gray
Patriot,"
"The
Wit
and
Wisdom
of
result of months of study of reports liam Ackerman, of Pensacola, Fla.;
Professorships.
the Talmud," "The Jews in America," hair, a ruddy face, a little flushed be-
received from every country in which Nathan E. Barad', of Asheville, N.
and "The Jews Who Stood by Wash- cause of the effort to make himself
Jews have been made to suffer C.; Hyman G. Enelow, of New York;
Disgraced
Preacher,
Cashiered
Schoolmaster
and
Demented
heard over the whole assembly, and
through the war, and include the Samuel Fredman, of Philadelphia;
ington."
At the time of his death Dr. Peters perhaps due also in part to the en-
sending of commissions of American Solomon B. Freehof, of Cincinnati;
Noble Sway National Persecution, While Renowned Dr.
was engaged in writing the story of thusiasm with which his remarks were
Jews, experts in philanthropy, social Raphael Goldenstein, of Pine Bluff,
Ehrlich Is Denied Recognition.
received by the boys.
the Jewish women in America.
service, education and business, to Ark.; James G. Heller, of Philadel-
"As I listened I was soon deeply
Russia, Roumania, Poland, Palestine, phia; Abram Hirschberg, of Chicago;
By
ISRAEL
COHEN,
B.
A.
impressed by what he was saying. He
Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria and other Morris Lazaron, of Baltimore; Julius
SIAM GREETS HOMELAND;
was an artist in touching just the right
lands as soon as the international situ- A. Leibert, of South Bend, Ind.; Jer-
JAPAN AND CHINA NEXT chord in the fellows, and he talked in
ation permits.
ome Rosen, of Spokane; Leonard J.
In an article in last week s CHRONI- fected under the name of "Deutscher
such a personal way and so whole-
Six Million Souls.
Rothstein, of Alexandria, La.; Joseph CLE Dr. Cohen described the growth of Antisemitischer Verein," but in June
It is estimated from the reports in Sarachek and Louis D. Gross, of Anti-Semitism in its "spiritual home,' 1889, the Christian Socialists under
BANGKOK—A statement issued by heartedly mixing in a few good stor-
the hands of the committee from its Brooklyn; George Solomon, of Sa- Germany. Ile told how this movement, Stocker seceded again.
the Siamese government expressed ies now and then that he took the
Not content with his success in Ger- its approval of the plan to establish boys by storm.
representatives abroad, that of the vannah; Harry W. Ettelson, of Hart- a sinister product of religious prejudice,
Call Him "Rosy."
9,000,000 to 12,000,(X)0 Jews constitut- ford, Conn., and Emil W. Leipziger, of commercial greed and political schem- many, Stocker resolved to propagate in Palestine a national homeland for
ings, was fostered by Bismarck, Treit- his sinister gospel in England.
"I turned to a mechanic next to me
ing the Jewish population of the New Orleans.
the Jewish people. The statement
schke, and other Fathers of Prussian-
He came to London in 1883 and was issued to Mr. E. S. Kadoorie, one and said, 'Who is he?' Damn fino, the
world outside of the 3,000,000 in the
ism, and how great Gentiles like ill 0M111-
wished to hold a meeting in the Man- of the leading bankers of China and fellows call him Rosy, he is a big gun
United States, a quarter are destitute, B'NAI BRITH CLUB
501. l'irchow and Lessing suffered ,for
sion
House, but the Lord Mayor de- president of the Shanghai Zionist As- from Chicago on the National De-
starving and homeless.
ADDS NEW MEMBERS taking the part of the persecuted peo-
Fully one-half will be in need of
ple. This week Dr. Cohen tells the ex- clined the honor. Thereupon he or- sociation, by H. R. H. Prince Deva- fense. lie certainly is good.' I stay-
some measure of assistance to enable
A number of members of Pisgah traordinary recent history of the move- ganized a public meeting at the Me- wongse Varopakar, Siamese minister ed through to the end and joined in
the three big cheers that were given
them, at the conclusion of peace, to Lodge, Independent Order of B'nai ment in Germany, down to the very morial Hall (November Ilth, 1883), for foreign affairs.
Mr. Kadoorie, together with N. E. him. It is the first time a speaker
again become self-supporting.
Brith, have added their names to the beginning of the conflict which is to but the opposition was so strong that
B. Ezra. secretary of the Shanghai has been cheered in this catnp since
The commissions to be sent from membership of the new B'nai Brith destroy the tyrannical power which has the meeting had to lie abandoned.
so long dominated in Germany. —Editor
Upon his return to the Fatherland, Zionist Society, is actively engaged I've been here.
America will render American assist- club..
JEWISH CHRONICLE.
"A long. Lue..formed to shake hands
Stocker
continued
.his
slanderous.
cam-.
ance through the representative Jews
in cha campaign. to secure.-p 1V-CP'
The founders of the club are grati-
paigi% vcith'the result that he Was de- dorsements of the Zionist program with him. I couldn't resist the temp-
of Ole nations_and localities to i•bie/i. .661 - at this sign bf "rpifteciatioh of
they will be assigned. This will fol- the movement. The officers announce
The agitation was not by any means clared a perjurer by one of the courts by the governments of China and tation to fall in line with the rest, and
as I stepped up I said: 'You just
low out the policy of the Joint Dis- that all B'nai Brith members are wel- confined to the capital, it spread to all in which he was prosecuted. But his Japan.
touched the spot.' Where do you
tribution Committee, in its work of come to use the club rooms and are parts of Germany, and was particu- followers were so lost to all sense of
conic from?' he said. 'Montclair, N. J.,'
shame that they presented hint with
disbursing the more than $20,000,000 cordially invited to the daily lunch- larly violent in Saxony.
H. P. BREITENBACH
I answered. 'And your name?'—'Is
a
consolation
prize
of
60,000
marks
raised by American Jewry for war re- eons.
At a church conference in Thurin-
HEADS DETROIT WAR
Gates,' I answered. 'What Gates?
lief since 1914, which has been actual-
gia a pastor declared that 'the Jews and an Orthodox Church Conference
ly expended by the direct representa- BLOOMFIELD-ZEISLER'S
must be rooted out with iron hooks." actually addressed hint in the words:
ADVERTISING BOARD Gates—Are you Russell Gates? Well,
well, I have been sending all over
tives of the populations benefited.
SON WINS FINE POST Military officers, civil officials, "God Himself will heal the wound
camp for you.'
judges, university professors, all work- that you have sustained."
The Great Plan.
for
Former
Ann
Arbor
Teacher
Named
"Ile gave me a big ling and turning
Yet, although Stocker was publicly
WASHINGTON—Leonard Zeisler, ed assiduously for the exclusion of
It is planned to give reconstruction
to the assembled group, he said: 'I
Important Task by Adcraft
Jews from their particular professions. discredited, the Government took no
of
Chicago,
Ill.,
son
of
the
famous
work the benefit of American system,
know this boy's had and mother, his
Anti-Semitic outbreaks were treated steps to repress the agitation that he
Club of Detroit.
energy and resourcefulness, reinforced pianist, Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler,
sister and his kid brother. I tell you
by the police with a leniency that con- had brought into being.
by American millions and the scope of has been appointed private secretary
there is no finer stuff in the world
On the contrary, in all the German
trasted strangely with their attitude
H. P. Breitenbach, manager of flue
the undertaking in its broad outlines to Chief Justice White of the United
than this right here under my arm.' I
towards Socialist demonstrations. states the Jews were gradually ex-
J. Walter Thompson Advertising Co., was a trifle embarrassed, but not
States Supreme Court.
embraces:
I awyers regarded the prevalent feel- cluded from all branches of the civil
1. Immediate and temporary as-
has
been
appointed
chairman
of
the
much so, because they all knew he
ing as a mitigating circumstance in service, from a military career, and
sistance necessary to pave the way for sist, and opportunity will be provided
anti-Jewish attacks, whilst the courts from the teaching profession. Peti- enlarged War Advertising Board of was a trifle optimistic after the dem-
for
all
to
have
a
part
in
this
great
permanent reconstruction, viz.., the
did not allow any Jewish body to tions were also addressed to the gov- Detroit. The duties of this board are onstration he had just received.
supplying of food, clothing, shelter effort.
"We had a pleasant chat, and I soon
prosecute in the name of the Jewish ernment to prohibit all Jewish immi- the centralization and co-ordination of
Summons to All.
and medical attention.
gration from Russia, and, although patriotic advertising, outside of the found him to be Mr. Rosenwald,
"There is available in American people.
2. Scientific study upon the ground
Life became so uncertain that many they were not directly granted, th,e Patriotic Fund and the Liberty Loan. whom father knows and told us so
of the various forms reconstruction Jewry every factor necessary to the
much about in connection with his
Jews left Berlin and Frankfort for government agreed to exercise strict
shall take, according to the needs of successful carrying out of this pro-
great gifts to the university and Bel-
supervision over the Russian refugees
safer districts.
ject.
The
Joint
Distribution
Commit-
the several populations.
gian Relief.
Riots broke out in the east of Bran- who arrived in large numbers in Ger-
3, Employment of labor, through tee will seek to enroll in the under-
"I was keen to take him for an air-
denburg, in Pomerania, and \Vest many.
the planning and carrying out of pro- taking not only the thousands who
plane ride, he was such a good sport.
The government discovered a long-
Prussia. In- Neustettin many Jews
jects by which workers may be most have contributed in the past to the
I went to see the officer in charge of
were assaulted and damage was done forgotten law, from which it deduced
advantageously and economically War Relief Funds, but in fact every
training. to get permission, but when
to houses and furniture; in Hammer- the right to expel all foreigners em-
made self-supporting and the public Jewish man and woman and child in
he
learned he was a civilian he said
stein the synagogue was damaged ployed by a Jewish community (Oc-
Amercia."
welfare furthest advanced.
that Pershing had issued orders for-
three Ones; and violent disturbances tober, 1884); and an edict issued in
The
members
of
the
Joint
Distribu-
4. Repatriation of refugees and the
bidding it. I was very much disap-
occurred in a number of other places 1885 for the expulsion of all foreign
re-establishment of the family and tion Committee include, besides Felix
pointed, but as I had not mentioned
M. Warburg. who is chairman, Arthur —Bublitz, Jastrow, Konitz, Falketp Poles front the eastern provinces of
home,
it to Mr. Rosenwald, I did not get
burg, Rummelsburg. Lauetiburg, Pol- Germany was undoubtedly aimed at
5. Supplying of raw materials need- Lehman, of Lehman Bros., and Paul zin, Pollnow, Baldenburg, Schivelbein the Russian Jews domiciled in those
myself into a jam."
ed for the industrial life of the com- Baerwald, of Lazard Freres, treasur-
ers, and Albert Lucas, secretary; Jacob and Stolp—causing hundreds of fam- parts.
munity.
HUNDRED LAYMEN
ilies to flee for refuge.
Medievalism.
6. Vocational and technical schools H. Schiff, Louis Marshall, Julius Ro-
The Anti-Semites, rczlizing their in-
SOUGHT FOR W. B.
senwald,
Rabbi
Stephen
S.
Wise,
Ja-
Moreover,
various
attempts
were
for the training of the young.
cob Wertheim, Col. llarry Cutler, Os- creasing strength, held their first "In- made to deprive the Jews of their con-
LABOR OVERSEAS
7. Gemiluth Chasodim—the exten-
ternational
Congress"
in
1881
at
Dres-
sion of free loans—loans without in- car S. Straits, Nathan Straus, Henry den. It was attended by 300 mem- stitutional rights, and motions were
Morgenthau,
Abram
I.
Elkus,
Dr.
Ju-
terest—to the deserving, for the pur-
bers, including Austrians, Hungarians, repeatedly brought forward, not only
NEW YORK—The Jewish Welfare
pose of engaging in useful business dah L. Magnes, Harriet B. Lowen-
in the reichstag, but in the diets of
and Russians, and it resolved to issue
Board wants 100 men for field work
stein,
Jacob
Billikopf,
Stanley
Bero,
the Federal States, to appoint com-
and occupations.
a
"Manifesto
to
the
Governments
and
overseas
and 200 for service in Amer-
Dr. Cyrus Adler, Baruch Zuckerman,
missions for the investigation and the
8. Provision for the spiritual and
Peoples of the Christian States endan-
ran camps and naval training stations.
moral welfare, through assistance to Harry B. Simman, A. C. Wurmser, gered by Judaism." But the congress translation of the Talmud and the
There will be 200,000 of our boys
the Rabbis, Yeshivoth (Jewish Theo- Peter Wiernik, Col. Harris Wein- and its manifesto had no effect, lie- "Shulchan Aruch" ,at the expense of
i n the army and navy under the new
stock, A. Leo \Veil, Col. Isaac M. Ull-
the
government,
and
to
cause
the
pro-
logical Universities), Talmud Torahs
drafts. Men of the highest caliber
man, Marion M. Travis, Louis Topkis, cause the pogroms in Russia had just
(Religious Schools) and other relig-
hibition of "Shechita"—the Jewish
are needed to extend to them help,
Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, Mayer Sulz- broken out. That the origin of these
ious and higher educational factors
ritual method of slaughtering.
massacres
was
to
be
traced
to
civilized
guidance and encouragement.
berger, of Philadelphia, Cyrus L.
These proposals, which were all so
essential to the Jewish faith.
H. P. BREITENBACH.
Germany
is
admitted
by
even
so
cau-
If hostilities should end suddenly
Sulzberger, Nat Stone, Abram Simon,
reminiscent
of
the
Middle
Ages,
had
9. The return to the United States
the problems of various war work
Max Senior, Moses Schoenberg, Jo- tious and dispassionate a historian as
Mr. Breitenbach succeeds Charles
of American citizens, exiled through
the
support
of
many
leading
scholars
seph H. Schanfeld, Leon Sanders, Professor Philippson, for he writes:
Voclker, who expects shortly to enter agencies would be intensified for a
the war in enemy and neutral coun-
"Even Germany, characterized by and scientists.
l ong period,
Morris Rothenberg, Otto A. Rosalsky,
The historian Treitschke and the the United States navy.
tries, reuniting them to their families.
the
whole
world
as
the
home
of
Anti-
In any event it will take fully a
Samuel E. Rauh, Samuel Phillipson,
Mr. Breitenbach is a native of De-
economist Adolf Wagner were joined
Felix M. Warburg, in a formal
Semitistn,
did
not
remain
unmoved
by
year and a half to get the army home
Joseph Michaels, Rabbi M. S. Mar-
in 1886 by the Orientalist Paul de La- troit, and a member of a well-known
statement accompanying the an-
the
horror
aroused
by
these
atrocities,
and
fully demobilized. This tedious
golies, Julian W. Mack, Meyer Lon-
garde, who emphatically demanded the Jewish family. After his graduation
nouncement of these plans of the Joint
period would be a test for the utmost
don, Jacob D. Lit, E. W. Lewin-Ep- for it indeed bore a good share of re-
complete
absorption
of
the
Jews
in
Distribution Committee, said:
from the University of Michigan he effort of the war welfare worker.
stein, Julius Levy, Capt. Herbert H. sponsibility for their occurrence."
"There is no doubt that a large
the German state, or their wholesale served for some time on the university
Anti-Semitea Split.
Men for overseas work must be
Lehman, Rabbi Nathan Krass, Rabbi
number of the money required to car-
exodus.
Owing
partly
to
the
reaction
caused
faculty. Ile has won recognition in over 37 years. For domestic service
Louis J. Kopald, Louis E. Kirstein,
From 1887 Anti-Semitism entered
ry out the program for Jewish recon-
by
the
Russian
pogroms,
and
partly
to
they
must be in the third draft classi-
Leon Kamaiky, Alexander Kahn, J.
the sphere of business since his entry
upon a new and worse period of villi-
struction will he obtained through
G. Joseph, Louis Isaacs, Reg. Dr. the differences among the Anti-Sem-
into the Detroit advertising world. fication, preferably over 30.
loans. These will repay not only the
fication.
Emil C. Ilirseh, Isidore Hirshfield, ites themselves, the Jews enjoyed a
The reichstag resounded with anti- He has been prominent in the affairs
original principal advanced, but the
Mrs. Janet Simmons Harris, Rabbi brief respite.
of the Adcraft Club of Detroit, by LORD READING'S SON
dividends will be the gratitude of the
The racial views of Mart. and Jewish denunciations from Stocker
Moses Gries, Meyer Gillis, Felix Fuld,
WINS SECOND CROSS
Jewish people and the boom to the
and his coadjutors, Bockel and Lieber- which the War Advertising Board is
Treitschke,
which
were
also
adopted
Dr. Harry Friedenwald, Prof. Israel
nmann von Sonnenberg. Anti-Semitic appointed. Mr. Breitenbach is a
individual conscience which conies
Friedlander, J. Walter Frieberg, Dr. by Nietzsche, were unacceptable to
from noble deeds. The opportunity
social
gatherings
were
arranged,
at
brother of Miss Helene Breitenbach,
LONDON.—Viscount Erleigh, only
Lee K. Frankel, Mortimer Fleish- Stocker and his Christian Socialists,
will be given to enable as large a
which music was provided by military superintendent of Temple Beth-El son of Lord Reading, British Ambas-
becker, Harry Fischel, Boris Finger- and hence, in March, 1881, two rival
were
not
al-
number as possible to lie self-sup-
although
these
bands,
sador to the United States, has been
Sabbath school.
hood, Morris Engelman, Samuel Dorf, bodies were created, the "Deutscher
porting. In this way the principal
lowed to play at Radical meetings.
Dr. Edward N. Calisch, Fulton Bry- Volksverein" and the "Sozialer Reichs-
David A. Brown is also one of the awarded the Croix de Guerre by the
Newspapers were founded for purely
will be amply secured.
verein."
lawski, David A. Brown, David M.
members of the War Advertising French Government for gallantry in
"The Joint Distribution Committee Bressler, Dr. Boris D. Bogen, Rabbi
Five years later, at an Anti-Semitic
action.
Board.
Page
Fenn)
plans to call to its aid every element
(Continued
From
congress at Cassel, a reunion was'ef-
Meyer Berlin, Sholem Asch.
of Jewry both here and abroad to as-
R e construction of World's
History's Greatest
Jewry,
Anti-Semitism in German Courts,
Camps, Churches, Colleges, Raged
Amid Cruel, Medieval Superstitions
Down to the. Eve of the World War
J
Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1918.
VOL. IV. NO. 21.