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CLIFTON ATENUI • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

VOI. IV. NO. 21.

One Billion Dollars Now
Needed for Five Million
Jewish Sufferers of War

Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1918.

JEWISH CHAPLAINS
IN ARMY AND NAVY
INCREASED TO 30

DR. WEIZMANN'S ARRIVAL IN PALESTINE.

■ MADISON

C. PETERS,
AUTHOR OF "JUSTICE
TO THE JEW," DIES

History of American Jewish Women
Left Unfinished — Inlluensa•Pneu-
monis Caused Death.

Seventeen More Rabbis Join Spiritual
Force. to Care for 200,000 Fighters.

IRK—Thirteen Jewish
N E \
Reconstruction of World's
chaplains have been appointed by the
Jewry, History's Greatest War and Navy departments to minis-

NEW YORK.—The Rev. Dr. Nfatli-
son Clinton l'eters, widely-known

Julius Rosenwald Becomes
"Rosy" to Admiring Boys
In Y. M. C. A. War Huts

New Jersey Aviator Tells of

Stormy Enthusiasm for Demo-
cratic Millionaire Now "Mix-
ing" With Soldiers on the
Lines of Danger.

Baptist clergyman, lecturer and au-
thor, died last Saturday at his home,
314 \Vest Ninety-ninth street.
Dr. l'eters was stricken with Span-
been recommended by the Jewish
ish influenza. The attack turned to CHEERS RAISED BY
Welfare Board and will shortly be
STAGGERING FACTS OF
pneumonia and death was due to that
SILENT BATTALIONS
cause. Ile was 58 years old.
RUIN IN WAR ZONES commissioned.
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- ty, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1859.
NEW Vu II2K—A description of the
NEW YORK—Plans for the recon- Baltimore, Md., and Rabbi Ilarry S. istrative Commission, upon his arrival at British General Headquarters in
Ile obtained his degree as doctor of work of Julius Rosenwald, of Chica-
of
struction of the Jewry of the world, Richmond, of Trinidad, Colo. (the Palstine.
The second figure from the right is Major James Rothschild,
e
divinity at the Heidelberg Theological go, who was sent overseas by the War
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 Seminary. He was ordained to the Department as an officer without rank
ing a sum of money likely to reach six months as a private) have been Legion in Palestine.
ministry of the Reformed Church in on the special mission of mixing with
a billion dollars, have been announced, commissioned and assigned to camps.
1880 and later became the pastor of the American soldiers, was written by
following a meeting held last week in Chaplain Benjamin Friedman, of Ni-
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. 11e 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.
"After luncheon I dropped into the
charge of the Bloomingdale Reformed
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
kan Voorsanger, Louis I. Egelson,
1Var Sufferers.
lecture going on and the place was
tist Church lucre.
The motley necessary to the carry- I.ee J. Levinger, David Tannenbaum,
Dr. l'eters had held no charge for packed. The enthusiastic cheering,
ing out of the largest purely humani- and Harry 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 lie sought Rabbi Jacob B. Khrongold. Army
He was the author of a number of thing worth while to stir the fellows
alone through contiibutions. It will chaplains, and Rabbi David Goldberg,
hooks dealing with Jews and Jewish up so. I wedged in at the back of
Israel
Cohen
Discloses
Startling
Recent
Demonstrations
of
Jew.
embrace the fields of lending and in- Navy chaplain, are awaiting overseas
problems. His many books included the hall.
vestment and will be accepted front assignments.
Baiting, Legal Injustice, Ritual Murder, Pious Persecutions, —7—Jewish CHRON .. weaver "The speaker was a short, heavy
The following have been recom-
non-Jewish as well as Jewish sources.
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 he undertaken are the mended for appointment: Rabbis \Va-
Patriot," "The Wit and Wisdom of ficer's. uniform. Ile had iron-gray
result of months of study of reports liant Ackerman, of Pensacola, Fla.;
Professorships.
the Talmud," "The Jews in America," hair, a ruddy face, a little flushed he-
received from every country in which Nathan E. Baruch, 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
ington.'
Samuel
Fredman,
of
Philadelphia;
through the war, and include the
At the time of his death Dr. Peters perhaps due also in part to the en-
Noble Sway National Persecution, While Renowned Dr. was
sending of commissions of American Solomon B. Freehof, of Cincinnati;
engaged in writing the story of thusiasm with which his remarks were
Jews, experts in philanthropy, social Raphael Goldenstein, of Pine Bluff,
received by the boys.
Ehrlich Is Denied Recognition.
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;
impressed by what he was saying. He
By ISRAEL COHEN, B. A.
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
CHRONI- fected under the name of "Deutscher
s
in
fact
week
an
article
In
ome
Rosen,
of
Spokane;
Leonard
J.
ation permits.
such a personal way and so whole-
Antisemitischer Verein," but in June
Rothstein, of Alexandria, La.; Joseph CLE Dr. Cohen described the growth of
Six Million Souls.
BANGKOK—A statement issued by heartedly mixing in a few good stor-
"spiritual home,' 1889, the Christian Socialists under
It is estimated front the reports in Sarachek and Louis D. Gross, of Anti-Semitism in its
the Siamese government expressed ies now and then that he took the
Germany. Jul told how this movement, Stocker seceded again.
the hands of the comtnittee from its Brooklyn; George Solomon, of Sa-
a sinister product of religious prejudice,
Not content with his success in Ger- its approval of the plan to establish boys by storm.
representatives abroad, that of the vannah; Ilarry \V. Ettelson, of Hart- commercial greed and political schem-
Call Him "Rosy."
many, Stocker resolved to propagate in Palestine a national homeland for
9,000,0(1) to 12,000,001) Jews constitut- ford, Conn., and Emil W. Leipziger, of ings, was fostered by Bismarck, Treit-
"I turned to a mechanic next to me
the Jewish people. The statement
his sinister gospel in England.
ing the Jewish population of the New Orleans.
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 Mown- wished to hold a meeting in the Man- of the leading bankers of China and fellows call him Rosy, lie is a big gun
United States, a quarter are destitute, B'NAI BRITH CLUB
sen, rirchoze and Lessing suffered lor
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- clined the honor. Thereupon he or- sociation. by H. R. H. I'rince Deva- fense. He certainly is good.' I stay-
Fully one-half will lie in need of
ple. This week Dr. Cohen tells the ex-
ganized a public meeting at the Me- wongse Varopakar, Siamese minister ed through to the end and joined in
some measure of assistance to enable
A number of members of Pisgah traordinary recent history of the move- morial Hall (November 11th, 1883), for foreign affairs.
the three big cheers that were given
very
writ
in
Germany,
down
to
the
them, at the conclusion of peace, to Lodge, Independent Order of B'nai
Mr. Kadoorie, together with N. E. him. It is the first time a speaker
but the opposition was so strong that
beginning
of
the
conflict
which
is
to
the
again become self-supporting.
Brith, have added their names to
B. Ezra, secretary of the Shanghai has been cheered in this camp since
power which has the meeting had to be abandoned.
The commissions to be sent from membership of the new B'nai Brith destroy the tyrannical
Upon his return to the Fatherland, Zionist Society, is actively engaged I've been here.
so long dominated in Germany.—Editor
America will render American assist- club
"A loug.line formed. to shake hand& ea.r
JEWISH CHRONICLE.
Stocker continued his slanderous..can-, in tht. canwaigu. to secnre-elifilliP -
ance through the representative Jews The founders of the club are gratt-
The result that Be was de- dorsements of the Zionist program with him. I couldn't resist the temp-
Vith
of the, nations. and localities to),
tation to fall in line with the rest, and
"`• '' - ‘ ,•tied at this sign of Ilifrtciatioh of
The agitation was not by any means clared a perjurer by one of the courts by the governments of China and as I stepped tip I said: 'You just
they will lie assigned. This will fol- the movement. The officers announce
in which Ile was prosecuted. But his Japan.
all
confined
to
the
capital,
it
spread
to
low out the policy of the Joint Dis- that all B'nai Brith members are wel-
touched the spot.' Where do you
followers were so lost to all sense of
tribution Committee, in its work of come to use the club rooms and are parts of Germany, and was particu-
come from?' he said. 'Montclair, N. J.,'
shame that they presented him with
P. BREITENBACH
disbursing the more than $20,000,000 cordially invited to the daily lunch- larly violent in Saxony.
I answered. 'And your name?'—'Is
H.
At a church conference in Thurin- a consolation prize of 60,000 marks
raised by American Jewry for war re- eons.
Gates,' I answered. 'What Gates?
HEADS DETROIT WAR
and
an
Orthodox
Church
Conference
gia a pastor declared that "the Jews
lief since 1914, which has been actual-
Gates—Are you Russell Gates? Well,
actually addressed him in the words:
ADVERTISING
BOARD
must
be
rooted
out
with
iron
hooks."
ly expended by the direct representa- BLOOMFIELD-ZEISLER'S
well, I have been sending all over
"God Himself will heal the wound
,
Military
officers,
civil
officials
tives of the populations benefited,
camp for you.'
SON WINS FINE POST judges, university professors, all work- that you have sustained."
for
Named
"lie gave me a big hug and turning
The Great Plan.
Yet, although Stocker was publicly Former Ann Arbor Teacher
to the assembled group, he said: 'I
Important Task by Adcraft
WASHINGTON—Leonard Zeisler, ed assiduously for the exclusion of discredited, the Government took no
It is planned to give reconstruction
Jew's from their particular professions.
know
this boy's (lad and mother, his
Club of Detroit.
work the benefit of American system, of Chicago, Ill., son of the famous
Anti-Semitic outbreaks were treated steps to repress the agitation that lie
sister and his kid brother. I tell you
energy and resourcefulness, reinforced pianist, Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, by the police with a leniency that con- had brought into lacing.
there is no finer stuff in the world
On the contrary, in all the German
by American millions and the scope of has been appointed private secretary trasted strangely with their attitude
11. P. Breitenbach, manager of the than this right here under my arm.' I
the undertaking in its broad outlines to Chief Justice White of the United 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 has been appointed chairman of the much so, because they all knew he
1. Immediate and temporary as-
ing as a mitigating circumstance in service, from a military career, and enlarged \\'ar Advertising Board of was a trifle optimistic after the dem-
sistance necessary to pave the way for sist, and opportunity will be provided anti-Jewish attacks, whilst the courts from the teaching profession. Peti-
Detroit. The duties of this board are onstration he had just received.
permanent reconstruction, viz., the for all to have a part in this great did not allow any Jewish body to tions were also addressed to the gov-
"We had a pleasant chat, and I soon
the centralization and co-ordination of
supplying of food, clothing, shelter effort.
prosecute in the name of the Jewish ernment to prohibit all Jewish immi-
found him to be Mr. Rosenwald,
Summons to All.
gration from Russia, and, although patriotic advertising, outside of the
and medical attention.
people.
L0/111. whom father knows and told us so
"There is available in American
2. Scientific study upon the ground
Life became so uncertain that many they were not directly granted, the Patriotic Fund and the Liberty
much about in connection with his
of the various forms reconstruction Jewry every factor necessary to the Jews left Berlin and Fra"kfort for government agreed to exercise strict
great gifts to the university and Bel-
supervision over the Russian refugees
shall take, according to the needs of successful carrying out of this pro- safer districts.
gian Relief.
ject. The Joint Distribution Commit-
the several populations.
Riots broke out in the east of Bran- who arrived in large numbers in Ger-
"I was keen to take him for an air-
3. Employment of labor, through tee will seek to enroll in the under- denburg, in Pomerania, and \Vest many,
plane ride, he was such a good sport.
taking
not
only
the
thousands
who
The government discovered a long-
the planning and carrying out of pro-
Prussia. In. Neustettin many Jews
I went to see the officer in charge of
jects by which workers may be most have contributed in the past to the were assaulted and damage was done forgotten law, from which it deduced
training, to get permission, but when
economically War Relief Funds, but in fact every to houses and furniture ; in H aflutter- the right to expel all foreigners em-
and
advantageously
he learned he was a civilian he said
made self-supporting and the public Jewish man and woman and child in st ein the synagogue was damaged ployed by a Jewish community (Oc-
that Pershing had issued orders for-
Amercia."
welfare furthest advanced.
three times; and violent disturbances tober, 1884); and an edict issued in
bidding it. I was very much disap-
The
members
of
the
Joint
Distribu-
1885 for the expulsion of all foreign
4. Repatriation of refugees and the
occurred
in
a
number
of
other
places
pointed, but as I had not mentioned
re-establishment of the family and tion Committee inchtde, besides Felix
Jastrow, Konitz, Falken- Poles from the eastern provinces of
it to Mr. Rosenwald, I did not get
M. Warburg, who is chairman, Arthur
Germany was undoubtedly aimed at
home.
burg,
Rummelsburg,
'Altenburg,
Pol-
Lehman, of Lehman Bros., and I'aul
myself into a jam."
the Russian Jews domiciled in those
5. Supplying of raw materials need-
zin,
l'ollnow,
Baldenburg,
Schivelbein
ed for the industrial life of the com- Baerwald. of Lazard Freres, treasur- and Stolp—causing hundreds of fam- parts.
ers, and Albert Lucas, secretary; Jacob
HUNDRED LAYMEN
munity.
Medievalism.
H. Schiff, Louis Marshall, Julius Ro- ilies to flee for refuge.
SOUGHT FOR W. B.
6. Vocational and technical schools
The Anti-Semites, realizing their in-
senwald, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Ja-
Moreover,
various
attempts
were
for the training of the young.
creasing strength, held their first "In- made to deprive the Jews of their con-
LABOR OVERSEAS
cob
Wertheim,
Col.
Ilarry
Cutler,
Os-
7. Genfiluth Chasodim—the exten- car S. Stratus, Nathan Straus, Henry ternational Congress" in 1881 at Dres-
stitutional
rights,
and
motions
were
sion of free loans—loans without in-
den. It was attended by 300 mem-
not only
NEW YORK—The Jewish Welfare
terest—to the deserving, for the pur- Morgenthau, Abram I. Elkus, Dr. Ju- bers, including Austrians, Hungarians, repeatedly brought forward,
Board wants 100 men for field work
pose of engaging in useful business dah L. Magnes, Ilarriet B. Lowen- and Russians, and it resolved to issue in the reichstag, but in the diets of
stein, Jacob Billikopf, Stanley Bero,
the Federal States, to appoint com-
overseas and 200 for service in Amer-
and occupations.
Dr. Cyrus Adler, Baruch Zuckerman, a "Manifesto to the Governments and missions for the investigation and the
ican camps and naval training stations.
8. Provision for the spiritual and Harry B. Simman, A. C. Wurrnser, Peoples of the Christian States endan-
translation of the Talmud and the
There will be 200,000 of our boys
moral welfare, through assistance to
l'eter Wiernik, Col. Harris Wein- gered by Judaism." But the congress "Shulchan Arnett" ,at the expense of
in the army and navy under the new
the Rabbis, Yeshivoth (Jewish Theo-
and
its
manifesto
had
no
effect,
be-
stock, A. Leo Weil, Col. Isaac M. Ull-
the government, and to cause the pro-
drafts. Men of the highest caliber
logical Universities), Talmud Torahs
man, Marion M. Travis, Louis Topkis, cause the pogroms in Russia had just hibition of "Shechita"—the Jewish
are needed to extend to them. help,
(Religious Schools) and other relig-
Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, Mayer Sulz- broken out. That the origin of these ritual method of slaughtering.
guidance and encouragement.
ious and higher educational factors
H. P. BREITENBACH.
berger, of Philadelphia, Cyrus L. massacres was to be traced to civilized
These proposals, which were all so
If hostilities should end suddenly
essential to the Jewish faith.
even so cau-
Sulzberger, Nat Stone, Abram Simon, Germany is admitted by
of
the
Middle
Ages,
had
various war work
reminiscent
9. The return to the United States Max Senior, Moses Schoenberg, Jo- tious and dispassionate a historian as
Breitenbach succeeds Charles the problems of
Mr.
the support of many leading scholars
agencies would be intensified for a
of American citizens, exiled through
Professor
Philippson,
for
he
writes:
Voclker,
who
expects
shortly
to
enter
seph H. Schanfeld, Leon Sanders,
long period.
the war in enemy and neutral coun-
"Even Germany, characterized by and scientists.
Morris Rothenberg, Otto A. Rosalsky,
The historian Treitschke and the the United States navy.
In any event it will take fully a
tries, reuniting them to their families.
Mr. Breitenbach is a native of De- year and a half to get the army home
Samuel E. Rauh, Samuel Phillipson, the whole world as the home of Anti- economist Adolf Wagner were joined
Felix M. Warburg, in a formal
Joseph Michaels, Rabbi M. S. Mar- Semitism, did not remain unmoved by in 1886 by the Orientalist Paul de La- troit, and a member of a well-known and fully demobilized. This tedious
statement accompanying the an-
golies, Julian W. Mack, Meyer Lon- the horror aroused by these atrocities, garde, who emphatically demanded the Jewish family. After his graduation period would be a test for the utmost
nouncement of these plans of the Joint
don, Jacob D. Lit, E. W. Lewin-Ep- for it indeed bore a good share of re- complete absorption of the Jews in front the University of Michigan he effort of the war welfare worker.
Distribution Committee, said:
occurrence."
stein, Julius Levy, Capt. Herbert H. sponsibility for their
the German state, or their wholesale served for some time on the university
large
that
a
Men for overseas work must be
"There is no doubt
Anti-Semites Split.
Lehman, Rabbi Nathan Krass, Rabbi
faculty. Ile has won recognition in over 37 years. For domestic service
number of the money required to car- Louis J. Kopald, Louis E. Kirstein,
Owing partly to the reaction caused exodus.
From
1887
Anti-Semitism
entered
ry out the program for Jewish recon-
the sphere of business since his entry they must be in the third draft classi-
Leon Kamaiky, Alexander Kahn, J. by the Russian pogroms, and partly to upon a new and worse period of villi-
into the Detroit advertising world. fication, preferably over 30.
struction will he obtained through G. Joseph, Louis Isaacs, Reg. Dr. the differences among the Anti-Sem-
fication.
only
the
a
loans. These will repay not
Ile has been prominent in the affairs
Emil C. Hirsch, Isidore Hirshfield, ites themselves, the Jews enjoyed
The reichstag resounded with anti-
LORD READING'S SON
original principal advanced, but the Mrs. Janet Simmons Harris, Rabbi brief respite.
Jewish denunciations from Stocker of the Adcraft Club of Detroit, by
dividends will be the gratitude of the Moses Grits, Meyer Gillis, Felix Fuld,
The racial views of Marr and
WINS SECOND CROSS
which the War Advertising Board is
and
his
coadjutors,
Bockel
and
Lieber-
Jewish people and the boom to the Dr. Harry Friedenwald, Prof. Israel Treitschke, which were also adopted
mann von 'Sonnenberg. Anti-Semitic appointed. Mr. Breitenbach is a
individual conscience which comes Friedlander, J. Walter Frieberg, Dr. by Nietzsche, were unacceptable to
social gatherings were arranged, at brother of Miss Helene Breitenbach,
LONDON.—Viscount Erleigh, only
from noble deeds. The opportunity
Lee K. Frankel, Mortimer Fleish- Stocker and his Christian Socialists, which music was provided by military superintendent of Temple Beth-El son of Lord Reading, British Ambas-
will be given to enable as large a
and hence, in March, 1881, two rival
becker,
Harry
Fischel,
Boris
Finger-
al-
were not
sador to the United States, has been
Sabbath school.
number as possible to be self-sup- hood, Morris Engelman, Samuel Dorf, Bodies were created, the "Deutscher bands, although these
lowed to play at Radical meetings.
David A. Brown is also one of the awarded the Croix de Guerre by the
porting. In this way the principal Dr. Edward N. Calisch, Fulton Bry- Volksverein" and the "Sozialer Reichs-
Newspapers were founded for purely members of the War Advertising French Government for gallantry in
will be amply secured.
lawski, David A. Brown, David M. verein."
action.
Five years later, at an Anti-Semitic
"The Joint Distribution Committee Bressler, Dr. Boris D. Bogen, Rabbi
Board.
(Continued From Page Four.)
element
every
plans to call to its aid
congress at Cassel, a reunion was ef-
Meyer Berlin, Sholem Asch.
here
and
abroad
to
as-
of Jewry both

Philanthropic Task, Must Be ter to the spiritual needs of men of
Jewish faith with the American fight-
Achieved by Gifts and Loans. ing forces. Seventeen rabbis have

Anti-Semitism in German Courts,
Camps, Churches, Colleges, Raged
Amid Cruel, Medieval Superstitions
Down to the Eve of the World War