Amen- cam lavish Periodical eater CLIPTON AVINU1 - CINCINNATI 30, OHIO 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.