PAGE SIX

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

Edward Davis Killed in
Battle—Helped Organize
The Temple Young People

Supreme Sacrifice Made by Young
Man Whose Letters Breathe Ex-
pectation to Return.

"I AM TAKING MY
PART," HE WROTE

Edward Davis, brother of J. II.
Davis of the Davis Coal & Coke Co.,
has been killed in action in France.
His name appeared in the lists of
casualties during the past week.

Mr. Davis formerly lived in De-
troit. He was one of the organizers
of the Young People's Society of
Temple Beth-El, and was as popular
as he was active. Ile entered the coal
business in Toledo a short time be-
fore he entered the army, and left a
promising business to respond to the
call of his country.
llis last letter from France to his
brother, J. II. Davis, breathes a beau-
taut spirit of devotion to democracy.
This last message from a neighbor
and friend who has made the su-
preme sacrifice will be valued and
preserved by many of his friends, so
a portion is here printed. lie says:
It all seems so peaceful here as
I am writing and enveloped as I
am at the present moment by an •
atmosphere of happy reminis-
ence it is difficult to realize that
just over the next ridge and only
several miles away huge shells
are scattering death or plowing
up the ground and our own big
guns are sputtering and doing
likewise.
It is indeed difficult to realize
that just ahead those several
miles men are at each others'
throats, spurred on on the
one side by a sense of justice, by

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and the brotherhood of man, and
on the other side by the narrow
vision of a vain and conceited
people desirous of world domina-
tion.
It scents strange to me here
that in this enlightened age there
should be a clash over this and it
does not surprise me that the
world rise up in arms against
such a nation as the Huns. I ant
more than glad that I ant here
taking even my small part in
crushing Germany for I know
that WC shall whip her to a stand-
still,

In Peril.

These are great experiences
that we are going through, and
it is strange how happy we can
keep in the trenches or while on

Jewish Welfare Board Has
165 Branches, Fifty Huts,
Extends Army Work to Navy

Youngest of Seven War Agencies
Which Unite in State and Na-
tional Drive for $170,500,000.

BY COL. HARRY CUTLER.

New York—The Jewish ,Welfare
Board is an organization commis-
sioned to carry out, in harmony with
other agencies, policies of the War
Department relating to the welfare
and morale of our fighting men.
It aims to write a record of service
which will win the commendation of
our 100,000,000 citizens.
While functioning primarily for
I25,0110 men of Jewish faith, six per
cent of our Army and Navy, it con-
tributes its energies to all men in
uniform, regardless of faith and
creed, on the broadest principles of
humanity.

They're Proud of Them

Three and a half million American
..,tizens are banded together through
the clearing house of the Jewish Wel-
fare Board, which coordinates all
their agencies interested in war work.
It contributes to the winning of the
war as a Jewish institution, but save
in the matter of religious ministration,
it is non-sectarian in all ifs activities.

—are the parents of these two youngsters,
sister and brother. And well they may be.
Strong, robust, with sparkling, laughing eyes
and rosy cheeks, they are the incarnation of
healthy, happy, babyhood at its best. Their
home is at 362 Louise Ave., Highland Park,
and both are strictly

All Are One.

EDWARD DAVIS.

rest, dug in the side of a hill, or
(lug down into the ground.
I know that We are going to
bore you to death with our
stories when we get back—of
course, most of its will get back.
I never will forget the first
bomb a "Jerry" plane dropped,
and how it took us off our feet.
We don't mind them now, for
when we hear them we simply
dig our heads deeper into our
dugout and wait for the show to
be over. This first time "Jerry"
was after some airplane shed but
he was a poor shot and landed
near enough to scatter shrapnel
over our hotel, said hotel being
a huge stable belonging to a kind
French farmer.
Our airplanes are always on
the job and "Fritz" scooted off
in a hurry. Airplanes are about
as common here as autos are at
home, and they sure do some
good work.
I wish I kneW just how far the
censor would permit time writing
about our activities, about our
turns in the trenches, about the
last time in the trenches front
which the Germans had just been
driven.
This was a sight not to be for-
gotten with the dead lying about
or legs protruding where they
had been hurriedly buried, with
everything conceivable lying
about dropped in the flight and
chase.
There are abandoned villages
to tell about and villages all in
ruins from shell tire. Then there
are our comrades to tell about
the English, Canadians, Austral-
ians and French. There is much
to narrate about these fellows and
I have made some wonderful
friends amongst them. Nly little
French has helped me a lot till
now I can carry on a fair con-
versaCon with the natives. All
of this I shall try to tell you in
another letter soon.
I have written what we • sol-
diers consider a very long letter
and I hope that I may expect
many such from you. Nly ad-
dress is the same, NI, G. Co.,
130th Infantry, American E. F.

The Jess ish Welfare Board recog-
nizes that there is no separatism when
the men are ordered to go over the
top and into No Man's Land. Jew,
Protestant and Catholic obey the
command with equal fervor.
A perfect spirit of co-operation pre-
vails between the Jewish Welfare
Board and other agencies, both itt
this country and at the front.
The
recreational,
spiritual
and
moral equipment which this and other
agencies provide for the men in the
Army and Navy are just as much an
asset as the furnishing of rifles and
munitions.
Because of this equipment which
the Government has allowed us to
extend, and because of the ideals of
world democracy for which our men
are consciously fighting, this country
has been able to send forth the
cleanest army, morally, mentally and
spiritually, ever assembled in the
history of the world.
Two hundred and seventy-five
specially trained field workers are
doing the work of the Jewish Welfare
Board
every camp and naval train-
ing station in this country.
These men arrange entertainments,
classes and study groups for the
soldier and sailor. They provide and
often personally conduct daily, Fri-
day evening and holyday religious
services.

They undertake to teach the Eng-
lish language and principles of Ameri-
can citizenship to the men in the
service who have recently conic to
this country.
The fifty Jewish Welfare Board
"huts," erected at the various camps
and naval training stations, form cen-
ters for their activities.
Has 165 Branches.
Th rough one hundred and sixty-
five community branches of the Jew-
ish Welfare Board, men and women
in every large city in the country are
co-operating with the camp repre-
sentatives and are bringing their f ull-
est resources to the comfort of the
soldier and sailor.

:,tar' Beatrice O'Bryan, at the left,
is two years old; was raised from infancy on
Towar Milk and now enjoys a quart of this
pure, safe food every day.

William O'Bryan, Jr., on the right, is only
six months old, but is being raised on Towar's,
as is his sister, and has never had a sick day
in his short life,

What more could any parent wish than such results as
shown in these two little ones front the use of Towar Milk
for "Baby First"—and every home purpose?

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Growth of J. W. B. Work
Brings Tribute From Lady
Studying All Seven Groups

or sailors and their friends . A co
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mission of prominent Jews a nd an ad-

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in the belief that the boys they serve

" Better M,
en Better Americans,
Better J ews
" Will Come from
Training of Six-Pointed Star

The Jewish Welfare Board is or- Workers.
ganizing :in extensive program of
work in the (las y —both at naval
ALL AGENCIES AID
training stations and on board l'nited
CAUS
E OF OUR
States warships.

BOYS

Young People's Society
of Temple Beth-El Now
Resumes Winter Program

Will emerge from the war "better

m en, better Americans and better
Now that the ban which prohibited
Jews."
gatherings has been removed, the
The seven or g anizations which will Young People's Society of I einide
start a drive for $170,500,000 on No- Beth-El announces the Inginno,. , i
t ember 1 Ith—the Y. M. C. A., the its customary activities for the ■ ,
Y. rv. C. A., the National Catholic
Th e w e d n ,,,t ay evening study ,

War Council, including the Knights which proved so popular last - -

of Columbus. the Jewish Wc)fare are to be resumed. The fin; , ..
Board, the War Camp C'ommunity ' ization meetings of these el.. , -
The 1 "" is now , extrntlin g its
Jewish
praise
of
the
six
non-Jewish
Service. the American Library Asso- called for 1Vednesday evening. \ o-
work overseas. One nundred work-
ers, 111C11 and women of high qualifi- war agencies which are joining with elation, and the Salvation Army—are vember 13th, at 7:45 p. in.
Jewish Welfare Board work are all striving to strengthen the morale
cations, are being recruited to go the
common.
Last year tht clubs formed stn' . 1
Quite as fre
h
frequent, tough
of our armies to give to the soldier
overseas and carry the work of the
I
hoard right t the front lint . tr,„ches. by
not so often noted, is commendation facMg east a happy mind and faith in Conversational French, Jewis
It
tory,
"pl the Bible :In d the Drama
non-Jewish
ohs( rvers of the work his God when he "goes over the top." is
Early in the oe summer, a commission of the
J ewish Nycifare
Board. Amaii-
planned to commence this se a-
was sent to France to study "ndi"
with the sante subjects. expanding
Josephine Hall, after studying
ng all MAJ. HIRSHMAN TO
lions and to ascertain how the Jew- s• (la
the war work
di scusses
extending the work, forming
ish Welfare Board could hest
"MILITARY
serve conclu
clubs and increasing the activiti , ..1
conclusionthe youngest of the seven
the overseas fighter.
t heir repo t
r
thos c formed as the need require
which are grouped in next week's
SURGERY IN U. S. th
helped us to understand the best way drive.
RUSSIAN ZIONISTS
—
It
is customary to have ■
to direct our energies "over there."
AND ANTIS UNITE
-
Miss Hall's comments are ( mote( 1 Rectoration of Wounded One of Great evening of study concluded by .1
Although the Jewish Welfare Board
ON TRADE POLICIES is little more than a Yvar old. nd is concerning
"get-together," at which the
rning the Jewish Welfare Board Restorative Tasks of War Doctors.
a
on k because
tire membership of the society ..
because ,,
it is the work
the youngest of the war welfare or- work
• k most t
l 'i
tends a brief addrt ss of current icy -
, ( t y re ea(e
ganizations, it has made marked pro- readily understood
I'
o f
Maj. Louis J. Hirshman 1\1.1).1, tends
Enterprises in Palestine to be Under- gross.
Chronicle. But it cannot be too often of Detroit, whose promotion from a est by some speaker (if pennon'
taken After Important Conference of
It has merged and co-ordinated the repeated that neither the Jewish \\'el- captain's rank was recently an- itt the community.
I efforts of fifteen Jewish organizations fare Board nor any other agency con- nounced in 1 he Jewish Chronicle,
Last year the speakers w i no
Facti,ns at Moscow.
into one body, administered by an tines its work to people of one re- has been ordered back to France to under the auspices of the study , ■ ,, ,
The
executive committee that has as its igion.
N. NI. l. :V, the Knights teach military surgery for the train- of the society included some of I. , -
troit's best known and most popul t .
— An important confer- : directorate e a representative group of of Columbus. and all the others treat mg of army medical workers.
NI OSCONV
-
lill
soldiers
and
sailors alike. That i
Nice was held in Nloscow of a number '-, dnerican Jews'
Military surgery is a branch devel- figures. The program of speaker;
No Separation.
of Jewish companies that have heel]
I why Jew and Gentile next .week give oped in war, in which the efforts of for this year has not yet been cru••.•
It has successfully combatted the " lollev
formed in Russia for the economic
- not to one but to all.
the surgeon are to save the wounded plated, but it is to be one of nme
development of Palestine, some with bugaboo of segregation of the Jew
Nliss Hall says:
or injured man for some future use- interest to the young people oi I.
•
. front his Gentile brother-in-arms, It
very large capital.
And lastly a word of another and ful occupation, though perhaps his M- Temple.
Every from
member of
the Young ,..
I'' -
The purpose of the conference was has won the recognition of the Unit- similar activity, that of the Jewish juri es ma y prevent him
return-
to secure coordination among .,„
1 in eil States Government as the author- \Vilfare Board of the United States ing to his fortner means of liveli- pie's Society is eligible for member-
various societies (which include non- iced Jewish body for war welfare :am and
ship in such of the educational elm , :
). navy. a Hebrew association horid.

Zionists and est!!! anti-Zioni.ts among work. And greater than all else, the outreaching to the needs of 75,000
their members), and to determine devoted ministrations of its field Jewish sailors and soldiers in train-
their relation to the Zioulst organiza- workers have earned the sincere ap- mg or abroad. Already the oliv e-

tion. ' preciation of 125,000 Jewish soldiers !drab uniform with a six-pointed star
As a result of the deliberations it and saihirs•
ll l A. :on the sleeve is familiar to es ery
was decided to form a union of 1, a 1,.
.There is no duplication or over- camp or naval training station, one
estinian companies in Russia With a lapping in
the functions of the Y. NI. of a hundred field re sres • taut• .
.
central sou nel ed
ca
, .
, 1 . 11 . C. A., Catholic War,
in Hebre w
, ('lasses in English, American h ti ast cotircys,
"Tchiath Ile-arez," which should act Council 11:. of C.
J. W. It., War ' civics, French and military

Dr. Ilirshman has spent 17 months as appears of most interest to Ii'
in the trenches of France, and has individual.

seen some extraordinary cases of
men badly injured who have never- SUDDEN DEATH OF
theles's been trained for new- and use-
M RS. WM. ROSENTHAL
ful occupations.
Ily such methods'
the partly injured men may be saved
Ju3t as we go to press the sad news
to practically a maximum of useful-
emOollrIni
e:s n g t o . 1.f
Fyroiii i ta.g
IA Os
of a tr haeh dcit a n tl s i,;n early , Friday'
ness and happiness.

as a connecting link between the vari. Camp Community Service, American have been established at practically
onus companies a n d prom o t e
co-opera- 1 Library Association and Salvation all camps. In the large camps they
, wire of William Rosenthal, at the
tion he ,
,
ween the them without inter- Army. In all activities, save in its base huts of their own and religious
I nG irwanee Hospital, after ithinto attack
L i n:
pt na cci
faring with their i
ndividual autonomy. °WU particular
HEBREW SCHOOL
the
sphere of religious I services are held under the direction
It was further decid e d t o w ork i n
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ministrations the Jew'l
IV
cl
of a resident rabbi
Warsaw—The Polish g overnmen't
ose conjunction with the Zionist or- Board enjoys the fullest co-operation
w datil-14.15iteIrVionfia'N'IrsR. ° IleanctIliTiel isKo '1.13:;
Nor is its scope limited to study decided to open•in Warsaw a I lehre '
ganization, though the union itself is with these other organizations in
She leaves a son,
20 3 Warren
e
and religion. It has its own program theological seminary where modern , Edmund
strictly non-party and
Ipretni ah. aged three.
eschews all po- building for a finer American citizen- of entertainment and lectures and i
litic
n
rabbis for the Jewish communities in ; Interment will take place Edda)" ar -
,d activity,
devoting
itself purely ship and working for the common New York a home office of informs- Poland will be trained at the govern-
to matters
of economic
interest.
welfare of all.
eteiart nogn, Rabbi A. M. Iler.ihman Of t-
nio
Sion for the convenience of soldiers menu's expense,