THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

SOCIETY

(CmitInued From Page Seven.)

Mrs. Herman Saxon, of To-
ledo, O., is visiting with Mrs.
Fannie Halbstein, of Michigan
avenue.

Estyr Coleman, of New
York City, spent a few (lays in
Detroit en route to Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. Abe Srere spent
Tuesd ay an d \ ednesday in the
city.

On :\ londay, November lth,
Rabbi Len M. Franklin will be-
gin Ins third annual course of lec-
tures on the "Literary Study of
the Old Testament," before the
Twentieth Century Club. Ills
lectures this year will deal with

the philosophy of the Books or

and Ecclesia,te., to each of
which books six lecture. will be
devoted. The lectures will he
given on alternate Monday morn-
ing.. at I I o'clock.

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LOCAL NOTES.

War Has Advanced America Hundred
Years, Era of Social Justice Dawns,
Is Declaration of Samuel Untermyer

COL D NI A

In the Provinces of Kiev and I'odo-
lie many Jewish dwellings were put
to the torch and hundreds of Jewish
amities rendered homeless. The darn-
age done by the tires amounts to over
$2,000,000. The people whose homes
Striking Prediction of Better Era 'longer regarded as a mere salable were burned are in a desperate condi-
WOODWARD AND SIBLEY
tion.
Made Before Liberty Loan Rally commodity.'There will be compul-
sory arbitration.
in Chicago.
The anti-Jewish calls to pogroms in
"Third—The reserves that are made
Wook
Noun to II P. It
by conservative business by way of the form of posters which at the be-
ginning
of
July
appeared
in
Warsaw
Chicago—A social revolution which depreciation' from wear and tear on
will establish an aristocracy based on buildings, plant, machinery and tools and Lodz, were recently the subject
service and not on wealth, the aboli- as part of the cost of doing business of a question put to the German
islim•nt of great fortunes and an era before calculating profits will be Chancellor by the Socialist Deputies,
of justice for labor and capital alike made to apply to and include the hu- Cohen and Notko.
were predicted by Samuel Untermyer
H 5,000 People
wcii.
nnac hi ne
Mr. Felix Vorenberg is chairman of
A Vrittable
of New York in a speech on "What
3, 000 Horses
the board of trustees of Boston's offi-
No Unemployment.
the \\'ar %Yin Do for America," be- •
KalriJoscop e
cial Army and Navy canteen.
fore a meeting of Liberty Loan work-
5, 1300'Scenes
"Fourth—So far as possible un-
ers at Chicago.
employment will be guarded against
T he Most
The Jewish deaf and dumb women
"For America the war will usher b y government undertakings, in times
W onderful
in the era of social justice and will of industrial and agricultural depres- at the New York City center have
formed their own Red Cross and have
It Deals
put its forward as one hundred years 'j o u.
P atriotic
been
working
like
the
proverbial
of peace could not have accom-
With Big
"Fifth—Vast land grants still held beaver to send many knitted gar-
Picture
'dished," he said "It will bring about by the railroads will be opened to
ments, bandages and hospital gar-
T1 mein
Ever Made
almost without a struggle and by a settlement, and monopolies and cont- ments to the• boys at the front. Al-
a M g W ay
peaceful revolution the changes Intuitions will be punished and sup• though a number of the parents are
that could not have been wrought pressed and ruinous competition will deaf and (1111111), they have speaking
without civil revolutions. It will ac- be prohibited.
and hearing boys wilt) are battling for ISuggested by Thos. Dixon's "The Clansman"
complish:
"The country will be divided into the flag.
The Extraordinary Spectacular Effects—the Breadth of Conception
"First--"the public domain, the just two classes when this war is
Differentiates From All Previous Attempts at Photo Dr..,
public utilities, and the natural re- over--into those who (lid their duty
Ruth Green Harris, daughter of
sources of the country will revert ;ind those who (lid not. And woe be liabbi 11 . II. Harris, of New York
City, left for France last week with
to thepeople. to those who did not!"
"Second—Child labor will be con- Nit-. l'itterinyer said world disarm- a reconstructed unit to teach crafts
All Seats 25c. A Few at 35c.
traband throughout the land. The ;intent might be One of the outcomes to maimed soldiers. She has been
siEs-_
mows...msammszsa
law- will not permit of labor being of the war.
appointed one of the two head ;tides
of the unit

Starting Sunday, Nov. 10.

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On Monday morning next, Nov. II,
Rabbi Leo M. Franklin will begin his
third course of lectures on the Liter-
ature of the Old Testament, at the
Twentieth Century Club. The spe-
cial subject of study this season will
be the Books of Job and Ecclesiastes. Great Britain, Australia, America, Vieing in Recognition of Eminent
Lectures take place on Monday morn-
Members.of Jewish Faith.
ings at 11 o'clock and are open at
small admission cost to members and
non-members of the Twentieth Cen- In Armies and Courts, in Embassies and on Home War Boards,
tury Club.
Distinguished Service is Acclaimed.

LIEUT. GREEN GOES
TO GEORGIA CAMP

11FI-BOl'RNE—iflax Nordatt once direct all the purchases and determine
observed that "a Jew must be three priority as to minerals, manufacture
tittles as clever as any other man to and transport of .supplies for the
Detroit Surgeon Will Serve in Army
win equal success in the battle of life." United States. Mr. Baruch will vir-1
Cantonments in South.
However, when the Jew steadily tually control the world's supply of
forges his way to the forefront, over- essential raw materials as well as
Lieutenant Simpson William Green
coming all obstacles, his position be- many primary commodities.
(M. D.), son of Mrs. Bertha Green,
comes more strongly assured, for his
"It is a remarkable position," says
of 1119 Edmund Place, has left De-
services to his country become in-
the Jewish Chronicle, "for any man
troit fur Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., where
valuable, and to degrade hint would
to
occupy, and it provides no little
he is stationed as an army surgeon.
be hurtful to its 'commonwealth.
food for thought that it should be a
This is the comment of the Niel-
Jew who is invested with such colos-
bourne Jewish Herald on recent his-
sal and far-reaching powers." Mr.
ory. The Herald continues:
Baruch is, however, only one of many
In British communities we have of
Jews in America who have been se-
late years seen brilliant examples of
lected for their expert intelligence to
the hew in high places in his coun-
control important and responsible po-
try's service. England today has a
sitions in the United States.
noble example of this d'stinction of
Apart from the office of High Court
worth resolutely_ overcoming appar-
ently insuperable obstacles in the per- Judge in the Judiciary of the Com-
son of the Earl of Reading (Sir Rufus monwealth of Australia, ma , ntained
Isaacs), whose career is phenomenal. with dignity by the lion. I. A. Isaacs,
and who holds at this moment a com- K. C., and the positions held by the
mission •that is probably unequaled Hon. J. C. Cohen and 'Mr. Daniel Levy
mounted every opposition, his creed in the Parliament of New South
\\'ales, all of which are peace-time
and caste notwithstanding.
But the lengthy roll of Jewish hold- appointments, but, none the less, evi-
ers of high office in the various de- dences of the triumph of worth over
partments of State in the Ilr:tish Eln - mediocrity, we hase just had an in-
pire is solid evidence' of the good stance of the elevation to a high mili-
services performed. and the outcome tary position, which , s the result of
of intelligence far above the normal sheer audacity of genius, in the person
range. Merit wins in spite of person- of Sir John Monas:i. K. C.
has been promoted to the supreme
ality.
The developments of g o vernmental :•(,,,ttnanel of the Australian troops in
LIEUT. S. W. GREEN.
for responsibility of any in His Maj- the fighting lines. 'The promotion, to-
Lkutenant Green was born in esty's Dominions. Sheer worth in the gether with that of Major-General Ro-
Springfield, Illinois. When he was Earl of Reading's promotion stir- senthal, another Australian. is con-
an infant his parents came to De- work arising out of the exigencies of crete prof of the harrier of caste be-
troit, so he has lived here practically war have been the means of bringing ing an insigniticaut obstacle to ad-
all his life. He is a member of the natty men—and womendoo—of higher vancement when ability and grit are
Elks and of the Knights of Pythias. intelligence, who in ordinary circum- the predominating influences.
stances would have passed into the
All portents show that the war
obscurity of the commonplace through which has convulsed the world for the
sheer want of opportunity, out into last four years is reaching its end, and
the limelight of public life. In this that militarism • with its attendant bar-
sifting process•if it may be so termed barism, which has dominated during
—the Jew has certainly come in for that period of horror, will give place
his own. In America, as in Great to a peace that will make for freedom
. — --
Britain, where democracy brings to for all nations, great and small. With
Spirit of War Heroes for Whom the level all that is worthy and scraps this peace will come to the people of
Welfare Fund Drive Is Intended all the useless, we have undoubted the "weary breast" that surcease of
proof of the worth of the Jew to the sorrow which for ages it has yearned,
Shown by Abe Fleahner.
Commonwealth.
and prayed, and hoped. The pogrom
President Wilson, shrewd in all his --that awful word—is destined to be-
An Atlantic Port. —Abe Flesliner's
actions,
and
far-seeing,
fair
and
prac-
come a mere dictionary term with ob-
spirit goes marching on. It took Ap-
remota Wood, conquered at Chateau tical in dealing with all his appoint- solete significance.
Thierry, and smashed through to vie ments for the welfare of his country. The dawn of this new era will see
tory at St. Mihiel. It is the spirit' that at a critical period in its history, has the Jew in his rightful place in the
animates Jew, Catholic and l'rotes- appointed Mr. Baruch, a prominent world's machinery of government. His
financier of New l'ork, as head of the energy, his enterprise, and his abilities
tant.
In the United States it has found \Vat- Industries Board. This, as the will not he thwarted by the handica p
its expression in the union of seven IN'ashington correspondent of the of race; he will toe the line, and in
London Tittles states, virtually the r u n to the goal, whether he is a
welfare agencies—the V. Si. C. A., Y.
amounts to appointing him comman- winner, or whether he is a loser, he
W. C. A., Catholic War Council,
der-in-chief of the industrial army. will have the satisfaction of knowing
Knights of Columbus, 'War Camp
!dr. Baruch has already acteii as the that the result of his effort was com-
Community Service. Jewish Welfare bnying representative of all the En- mensurate with the amount of mental
Board, Salvation Army, and Ameri-
tente Governments. and he will now vigor he brings to the starting point.
can Library Association—whose busi-
ness is to foster the spirit of Abe
Flusher.
Abe was recruited in the first
draft, and teas sent to France. He
was in the thieke•t Of the fighting at
Apremont NVood. A few weeks
afterward his parents in Springfield,
Nlass , received' a letter from him
telling them that be had lost his
right arm and left eve.
"But I'm 0. K. just the same!"
Abe coot-1'1(1,d.
S. A. AGREE, Mgr.
M, was im.ilided bona. lie ar-
Call us when in trou-
rived on the Jewish New Year. An
ble. Expert repairing.
immense crowd met hint at the
Day and Night Service.
.
station. TM y cheered him and
•.s.....ttomtozrr•
Vulcanizing and Acces.
praised Mtn. at the same time pity-
sories.
ing his empty sleeve. Abe met their
•
questi.ms with a laughing response.
"I'm the luckiest Jew in the army!
If another snail had been in my place,
he'd hose been killed. But I only
lost an arm and an eye, so I'm glad
I was there! It's a shame I can't
gd back to the boys, isn't it?"

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