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that it was described—not without justice—as being a city without a
soul. However, this was but a passing phase and new and better stand-
ards have been constantly establfshed here.

Albert Bailin Genius of .
"Wailing Place of Jews",
Hamburg-American Line Deserted in Jerusalem
As New Era Is Dawning

(Continued From Page One.)

The reorganization of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the velopmcnt of the port and of co-or-
dination of industries was started.
bringing to the city of its distinguished leader are signs of this change in

Peones Cherry 3381.

RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN,

time, its material prosperity was so great that in the process of physical

expansion, its spiritual life became so dulled and its civic ideals so low,

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civic spirit. There is every likelihood that from now on Detroit will

gradually develop into one of the great cultural as well as one of the
great commercial centers of our country.

The citizens of the city should feel pride and privilege in doing their
part to make the term "musical Detroit" far-famed. In this connection,

it is gratifying to know that among those most responsible for bringing
Mr. Gabrilowitsch to Detroit was our friend and co-religionist --Mr.
David A. Ilrown.

Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the ['onoMee at Detroit,
Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Dubnow's New Book.

GOD HAS TRIUMPHED MIGHTILY !

The Jewish Publication Society. of .\merica has just distributed
among its members the second volume of S.
Dubnow's "I listory of

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
The glorious news has come that the cause
of righteousness has triumphed. May God give
us wisdom to meet the opportunities which Peace
shall bring as He has given us strength 'to crush
the foes of justice and of right.
Verily in this hour of our triumph may the
nations exclaim, "Not unto us, not unto us, but
unto Thy name, 0 God, be the glory!"

is translated from the Russian by Prof. I. Friedlaender, covers the years

the Jews in Russia and Poland." This ‘ohnne which—like the first—

I5tri - 159 i. c., from the death of .\lexander I until the death of Alex-

ander III.

There is perhaps no period of Jew ish history. more interesting and
yet in part more revolting than this, fur it includes all the horrors of
Russian persecution, the repeated expulsion if the Jews from their

Its harbor development and general
development was greater than has
ever taken place in any city in the
same space of time. For years before
the war commisisons were sent from
cities all over the world to study the
model of harbor building at Hamburg.
and the course gof peaceful maritime
development all over the world re-
,eiyed a stimulus from Bailin.
All this was accomplished without
arousing animosity in other countries.
\Vhen Bailin recovered after a severe
operation in 1911, telegrams of con-
gratulation were sent him by the
heads of shipping companies in Eng-
land, France, Italy. America, and else-
where, where Bailin enjoyed many
close personal friendships. Ile was
ie close contact personally with the
leading shipping men iii other coun-
tries through his efforts in 1908 and
later to bring about international co-
operation among steamship lines to
avert cut-throat competition.

Modern Life Courses Through
Ancient Streetss as People
Build Future on Allies, Pledg
e
of Protection.

AMERICAN CALLS
CITY "LIVE TOWN"

BL BECKLES WILSON.

IN'ithin, Jerusalem is a seethin g
,,il•
fruit of speculation. \1'hat is
going os
happen? IVItat is to be its lutists
, s!,
social, economic, industrial and
tectural future?

Phut' inhabitants are dimly

hat conferences arc going on in
the Commander - in - Chief, 1Ssineral
the Nlilitary hoe, non .

Chief Administrator of Occupied
:•
tiny Territory. the hi a■ ors ol
lent, the Mufti. the Chief Rabbi
American Commissioner. and ilie
English bishop, and perhaps otters
are taking part.

Among the more ignorant strange
Declined Noble Rank,
rumors are afloat.
Bailin, though a Jew, was generally
Wailing Place Empty.
recognized in tiermany before the war
ists lost their lives without even a chance to light hack.
it is difficult to say who Is Ili,
as herrn:lily's greatest private citizen.
;,.
"'he next volume in this series which no doubt will appear shortly Frederic \V. \Vile. in his book "Men exercised—the Jews, who numb e r
more
than
half
the
populatio
n;
will, however, he even Ithire interesting because with all the revolting Around the Kaiser," said that Bailin
stood in the same relation to the Nloslents, or the Syrian st u d Armenian
and horrible details that it will have to tell of Jewish life in Russia (lur- Kaiser as did those counsellors of an Christians.
But there is little di
ing the past two decades, it will yet contain some foreshadowing of the earlier generation to their sovereiLis that the Ivtvs. ever since Mr. Pennies
and gov,rnments._Rotsciiiid Paris pronouncement conc
erning Ptl, sone,
brighter and happier lot which, pray God, lies before the afflicted Jews, of
to Napoleon II I. and Illeischroeder of have the most confidence in their des•
'he greatest day in history has dawned. What July ith by meant Russia and Poland.
Berlin to Emperor 1Villiam I. and tiny.
to the American people, November 1 I th will henceforth mean to the peo-
Dubnow's books written with clarity and precision and withal in I ti . s.(n)t uah r,,iki „
.
l ie
is astonishing the elect which
ples of the earth. It spells the liberation of a race of into from the bond- most delightful literary style, are
tel's ': I vi ii :tur
si n c ' as I To°„ks. the Balfourian declaration has mo-
always worth reading, but his latest
when the Kaiser sought to saddle a heed. You hear the name of the
age of tyranny and of autocracy. It symbolizes not only the breaking volume will 110 doubt hold the reader's ;Mention especially because of
Ilinistership on Bailin, or tack 'Von' English statesman on the lips of
of fetters from the limbs of men, but also the liberation of their souls. the interesting and important chapter in Jewish life which it so well por- to his plebian name, or give hint her• Jewry as if he were one of the ancient
trays.
It marks the birth hour of a new era for humanity.
editary membership in the Prussian prophets and deliverer of their race.
House of Peers, Bailin compromised The Jew , are t" have Jerusalem at
Henceforth, we shall never again be able to think in the old terms
I.) accepting his Majesty's photo- last; they are no longer to be here on
or to live our lives in the old way. New standards for es ;dilating
.iraph. The Kaiser inscribed it qo sufferance of the Nloslem.
the
fhe \Vailing Place is deserted. No
the far-seeing and tireless pioneer of
meaning of individual and national life will inevitably be evolved. In a
our commerce an d export trade.'
one comes there now.
For the lust
sense, a new social democracy will be established the world over. That
"Bailin is a thoroughly self - made t' Me in et:Mutes the speetaele of the
the world will be better than it has been, that righteousness will be the
matt. The son of an humble Ilant- crouching Hebrew lifting up his voice
foundation of national and international relations, and that individual life
burg emigrant, he followed the gran- in lamentations at the lost glories of
i lice (still in vogue among >unit( and Israel has wholly ceased. There is
will be guided by more altruistic standards, there can be little doubt.
ambit ions herrn:ins ), of coming to nothing to lament about. The sun
(Continued From Pgge One.)
And if all this comes to pass, who shall hold that all the sacrifices and all
Fagla nd as a lad to set\ e his co:tuner. shines on Zion.
on
,
t
he
restorati
of
d
ec
ency
and
order
•
the suffering of these four tragic years shall not have been fully coin -
vial apprenticeship. The irrepressible
A handsome new motor car con-
and who are patriotically striving to
pensated ?
..aineurg 'yclunteer' went in to mas- taining a single swarthy tigers. is fa-
deliver Russia from its present un-
ter
the
most
infinitessinal
details
of
miliar in the streets. This is Dr.
To
be sure, the transformation of the world will not be accomplished baopy condition."
.
navigation and specialized in emigrant \Veigniann. the British Zionist Com-
sstititiiteir:oiti a Inodr
either by the signing of the truce, or by the conditions that
New York.--John R. Mott, director traffic. the gold mine from the Trans- missioner, who is believed to he en-
sh all he made curl it tvwiollf I ttloati Jheew
the re g e" eral " i the United \k'ar W " rk Driv es atlan 'c lines
t extract their richest gaged on au ernichonaking report to
at the Peace Table. 'The process of perceptible change will no doubt be
port says, if the Allies. in establishing expresses his appreciation of the efforts gains.
the Foreign Office.
comparatively slow. But for that reason, it will be the more assured. the sovere•gn State, "merely make sib the
"f America i " the following
• On his return to (-will-laity his gen-
Of course, there is another side of
It would be sad commentary' indeed upon the moral sensitiveness of men stipulations
letter to Jacob Billikopf, representative ins immediately commanded attention.
equality of
the picture. 41' is not an exaggeration
all in. of the Jewish \Velfare Board in the It was not long before the Hamburg-
habitants,
in
a
treaty
or
protocol."
and nations that they could have passed through this period of pain and
to say that the Moslems and Syrians
The report adds that smile effectual campa ign cabinet :
American Line began to take notice and .Annenian Christians are nervous,
I wi
it were possible for me in
sorrow and remain upon no higher place of moral and spiritual aspira- guarantee 'mist be added to the Stilm-
that
for
some
reason
the
Carr
Line,
Many of them will tell \ on frankly
sOille Wile to convey to the Jewish com-
tion than they were before.
lations of the Polish charter. It con-
munity -throughout our country' my on which Bailin was first engaged, that they will be obliged to emigrate.
tinues:
was
extracting
the
cream
of
the
emi•
The new spirit conceived (luring four years of tragedy and brought
Nleanwhile, the Nloslem is lying
sense of profound appreciation of the
Poland's Problem.
to birth On November llth, PSIS, will touch life
wonderful way in which they have grant trallic, It was discovered that low; as low as Beer Rabbit or the
from ewers side. Eco-
" \Vitt the new Poland lie controlled thrown themselves into the preparations Bailin was the mil irit. The only way Dead sea.
nomically, there will come a readjustment of relationships between
cap- by enlightened and broadminded m e n for the United \\ar \Vork Campaign- to suppress hint, it appeared, was to
The Mayor, a brother of the late
ital and labor, btween the men who work with their Israini.
WIM will administer it as a great eivi.
the competition, and to an- Ilussrin Iltisseini, who surrendered
herever I have gone in these re- , annihilate
;old those
,
I
m
uta
sized
State
upon
the
basis
ut thte the competition was to buy Jerusalem an tidied three weeks later,
lei,' rerog- cent weeks of almost incessant travel, I
who labor with their bands which shall imply not only material rewards
nizcd to he the foundation Of all mod- have had most gratifying evidences of o
e Carr Line bodily." " *
is shorn of nearly all his powers, the
commensurate with each man's contritnition to the
sum of the common ern civilized nations. or will the nets their ■ vhole-hearted and highly enwient
He is a devout but not a bigoted city being still under martial law. He
good. hut also an actual respect born of ;in appreciation of the dignity of State be the victim of those extreint cry-Operation.
Jew. None of his co-legiionists has 3 is an amiable. enlightened man. ,,nil
position of consequence in his organi• honesty desirous of promoting the
every kind of work that is honestly done.
hauviMsts whose motto has been
"Let me also express my deep grati- poSitio
publicity proclaimed as 'Poland for tude to you personally for your unfail- zation. He has resolutely refused to welfare of the community.
Socially, it will be inevitable that the artificial barriers of caste and
the Poles,' and who propose to arrive ing support in promoting all of the folow the fashion of plutorractic
The Mufti views the infidel's in-
class that even in democratic .1inerica have been budded up shall be cast .0 this ideal by
mime half of the policies which have been initiated be brethren who embrave Christaiiity for vasion philosophically, and he, like the
down. 'rite aristocracy of wealth .shall lose its
Irws of Pol:u:d to \
revenue. It annoys Malty Ger• Sheik of the Mosque of Omar, tads
the
National
Campaign
Cabinet.
'
social
and hall
standing sold the only
"It has been most gratifYing to me man aristocrats that the Kaiser eon- comfort in the assurance given then)
aristocracy that shall gain the
recognition of decent men twill be that if
\ pa rallel of the possible status of to observe the w ale range of the sym- sorts so freely with a man who is by the British authorities that in the
character. Such cant phrases as "the old families" will lose their mean- the Jew in Poland is found in Ril pathy and co-operation of yourself and proud of his uriAiii."
town-planning scheme now afoot the
ing.
man of Mayllower stock will be no liett• in
of the Jewish inemleir• of the national,
Knew Americans.
ancient city within the walls is to he
.1inerica than the ii
nii ' i 'laiie
t Runic ortmsa
ni
:';i.il
ii .i ,r i , r''
'
departmental, state and local commit-
latest immigrant who comes with his heart full (.4 the !me of liberty and no
In an intercepted letter written by untouched.
ditliculty
s
circluinveiilTilir witsliii:;!ilro.. Rtes.
Bailin to \Vatter Rathenan in Decem
ready to live for it and to (lie for it if need be ,
The Town Plan.
vision i the treaty of Berlin gilaran-
"Yon have all shown yllorSelVeS to be
ber, 1917, Bailin said:
Perini', this same town-planning
• Politically, we believe great changes shall come ewes in our ow
teeing sit d ;end political equa'V
to ail quite as keenly interested in the suc-
n
"Our people have little or no know]• scheme is rather a fly in the ointment
country,
cess of the other societies associated
I 'artisan po.,t,cs
I
save as they represent great fundamental ',cent
edge of the .\ merican character. l'ou of the local Jews' is licity. For the
heat) ni Bucharest provide Inr is itil you in this great CO - Operative pa-
principles twill he-despised by mot wh o
and I pace made a most careful study Jew, with all his artistic temperament,
have in world ieditics sensed the the naturalization of Jews born in
triotic endeavor as in the particular or-
ltu
of it. What stuff our publicists and is not very studious of architectural
waning of that internationalism toward which
ailization which you respectively repre-
we are striving.
report
Char - ",:;Vidaiih"t
tt
journalists write about their Mammon symmetry.
asi' et.." that the sent.
The Germans and the
f n tine
acter and ability., loyalty to the best interests not of part iular gr o
worship, their greed, their envy of Russians have been in their tray but
up s Inn w'
"If
this
as . tha)tr r'eaglilsnWitlignts"
spirit
becomes
general other nations. their lack of discipline
of all the people, will
'
little better. One measure of Turkish
be the test to be applied to men seeking political
throughout our entire' organization
before 18(i'i and
—(
i,
- N tied
blessed word discipline' official taste is the breach in the wall
preferment. The holding of public office will lie a public trust not only
t wo •
ew were irregu- which I am itirsirid d
lar
nntil
18
on and I know that . the ..\ ineeicans made by the Jaffa Gate on the occa-
,
8
,
0'
n
that
J
sn's"
th
t
"" to he the case, theici a sgkre"at'"vi:4( i i ry Vs ar
s., ■ ears o ld whose parents were
for campaign purposes but in reality.
c probably the err
bore
ideallst c nation sion of the Kaiser's famous cisit in
'
e.•uress. I ••
the country could not claim privi.
on the earth's surface. \Ve know that 189e.
Perhaps nowhere, however,
and the erection of that c ■ esole,
shall the new spirit Manifest itself more eges ll citizenship
they would not have entered the lists the Kaiser's Clock Tower .
strikingly. than in the domain of religion. It is simply unthinkable ;after
.The probable addition to Rtimanie CARICATURING IN
of our foes had they any doubt as to
This latter. at all events, on, is
the tremendous experiences through which the nations have passed ;s11
ht parrrtories of Bessarabia Iran-
,t I` the
WAR CAMPS STOPS
ti Iis e saj tyistbi lcu eey of their cause Nonsense
11 ,
juiced to hear, is to come dorm,
which have touched all classes and all creeds, that men
and Itukowinti will increase
have
been
influenced
b
AFTER
PROTESTS
sho u ld ei sin Mat he difficulties.
e breach to be tilled tip. and the lei!
and the report adds
Britain, We are mail not to see where Gate restored. The plans for the nee.
--
to think along the narrow lines laid (low ii by dogmatic tlit4shigiam.. - H i ,. . The
Rumanian Jewish question is Y. M. C. A. and
, I N c aria
• kaotil . whitli terd wiet, ad res driving. city
K.
of
C.
Co-Operate
have been drawn liy \Ir. \I,
contact of men of all races and creeds in
i t.:,. 1 . .1i ,i, t oki,i,s.issiihtnev: It e i ii a gnit,it its
the refs e, (if the battlefield, in
tle
the
With Anti-Defamation League.
the chief eMgineer of Alesan li
.1,7,, aenld,:ntl.,7 ni.i stti.' ;nis t h i‘ ng: t : tets
the base hospiuds, in the tnches.
ques ti on,
and even i
re
hi ‘I';'gv
sol
o
-
was responsible for the Khali,
n the c.. imps and canton- lion n both cases Must he the.f
(inc.\ ,;(). zc he 7\nti _ Dthniati,,,,
..tti
wili eh will throw its cold shadow , on provements.
ments most have served to
num(' or at least to weaken many of their ' real ). stipulations and guarantees of League
l.,
i
nor
economic
life
for
a
of tilt. ll'iiiii Brith in its cant -
generation."
Among their chief feature-
inherited or cultivated prejudices and to bring them
heir
face to face w ith the ' cir °I ' srevance
timign against the caricaturing of the hys:
1"..a'al reported
Louis Marshall was re-elected
i.
. t" has e lust splendid boulevard running II..
fact that a mart's a titan fur a' that."
President of the committee, with Dr. Jew on tin vaudeville stuile found it
southwest towards the old eit ■
It seems
fit(en.eincias,aHr.,y.i, tia,t ii‘rr, uts
i uit sagc:aii, :it si,tiisnt,iciiht,per- h'is inoteluer'atte levvar nisijeeivi s()sr, orRc
1 h'il susw
likely' as a result of such contact that while men will coil_ Cyrus ..\
e
wish
sected by an arboressus
dier and Julius Rosenwald as
..
for an early peace, lint the truth of containing the British \Var Nlemorial.
time to be true to the inmost convictions of their souls, th
i
e e w ill still lay
.Csram I. Ilkus and
ne resdents.
In each case, a promise was received this report has not been established
In future, all buildings are to he in
far less emphasis than has been their custom upon creed and more upon elected
Mbert D Lasker of Chicago were that the offense would not be repeate I Bailin south to avert war with the
keeping with the local character: 11 '
Members of the Exec
Executive V. m. (... A.. the Knights f (Amid:, United States early in 1917 by pro-
conduct ; less upon sectarianism and more upon serViee.
more red roofs, no store daunting
III a w iird. fine ' .
"minittee. on which are De Cyrus and the Jewish \\'ellar tes Board to clot:- posing a comprom i se under which
theological distinctions will cease to iippeal and
true religion as it was 1,11er, Judge Mayer Sulzberger. Louis operate in stopping such caricaturingEngland was to allow non-contraband gilded domes and other N•n Byzan-
tine atrocities. The Holy City is herd
defined by 1srael's prophets will come into its it
Marshall. Jacob H. Schiff. Ascar S.
\1 n.
The League also appealed to the cargoes to go to Germany and to ells after to tires( rye her architectural s ort
Strauss, Cyrus
\Vith these
Sulzberger, Samuel in all cantonments. Each of said or- arm merchant ships, while Germany
gnat changes in human attitude that to us appear to' Dorf, Professor I,.
secure front outside violation,
Jacob II. Hollander,
he inevitable as a result of the spiritual struggle that found its culmina
promptly expressed its was to refrain from sinking ships with this security may become one
ksidlor Sobsl, Colonel
- l
I tarry Cutler, w illingness to do all in its power to f(,irtl triiiit swifartning or without provisions the most beautiful, as it is the
lion in the triumph of last Monday. who shall
doltht Or deny that we e i . • .
e° \Veil and Julies 16""Pwaid. prevent such caricaturing in the fu- He wags.releztof passengers and crew. the most ancient, and the most inter-
.shall live in a new and better world ?.- Tnily, November
tiler.
ed to have inspired sev esting city in the world.
I 1 tit will o
JEWISH COLLEGE IS
real movements toward peace through
down through the ages as a day unparalleled in glory.
On the industrial and educational
Verily. the
neutral agents, which were without
THREE
MILLIONS
nations of the earth' will say 44 it in Psalmist's words. "T
sale, Mr. Ashbee, the English artist
PLANNED IN BERLIN
result,
his is the day
__
metal worker, is here giving his ad-
FOR PALESTINE
which God bath made. Ixt us be glad and rejoice in it."
Early in the spring of this year.
vice as t nibs various artistic activities
Berlin.—Jewkh circles at Berlin arc
ZIONISTS' PLAN Bailin is said to have called together which are shortly to he set afoot, of
...-.' ' ,
____
busy with a scheme for the establish-
the directors of the Hamburg-Amer-
which the Bezalel Workshops and
mem of a Jewish Popular University
N I:NV 12)1( K.—The Zionist organ- ican Line and told them that he felt
those of the American colony are
in that city.
zation is encouraged to take up the himself too old to undertake the gi-
pioneers.
The Communal Organization,
Iii The City of Detroit is to lie heartily congratulated upon the acquisi- Zionists,
the i next feature of the work that was de- gamic task of seeking to rebuild the
On the whole, my impressions ni
ionists, and the Jewish literary and termined upon at the Pittsburgh con- German mercantile marine after the
tion of so notable a figure in the musical world as Mr. Ossip Gabrilo-
historical associations held a conference `'notion. This is the task of raising war was over, and that he intended to Jerticatem are of a "live" town, full
witsch, and upon the reorganization under his dignified and authoritative to consider the plan, and a committee $3,000000 for the purposes of recon- resign his post as soon as hostiEties of newly awakened interests and spe-
was formed to further it.
cial problems which will be watched
• leadership of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
struction and rehabilitation of the were at an end.
In accordanc e
absorbingly by the whole world. It
with the decisions ar- Jewish colonies in Palestine.
Detroit—during the past decade or more—has won its place in the rived at, the curriculum
will he framed
is hardly likely that British guardian -
When the Maimonides Hospital ship and oversight will be relaxed
sun as the foremost industrial city in America. Its progress in a ma- with a view to spreading the knowl-
Lieutenant Samuel W. Arnheitn, opens September I in Chicago, a train-
even on the conclusion of peace and
terial way has been without precedent among the cities of the land. brew
edge of Judaism. Jewish history, Ile- ' who died in Texas in an aviation ing school for nurses
and sociology
w ill also be
ology so as to prepare a traiMng camp on March 21 last, left opened in connection with it. Young the formal announcement to the Jews
The growth of its population has been phenomenal. Indeed for a long generation "fit
for the struggle with , sn
of Palestine that their destiny is
e s tate
appraised
recently at girls between the ages of 18 and 25
the growing anti-Semitism in Germany." $392.291
henceforward in their own hands.—
are eligible to join the classes.
N. Evening Post.

homes; the pogroms in which uncounted thousands of our co - religion-

November 1 1 th, 1918.

200,000 Jews Enrolled

A Great Achievement.

Dr. John R. Mott Praises
Jewish Plans and Effort ,
•
In Unitear
•W ork
W Dnve'

