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CLIPTON ATINOI • CINCINNATI 20. OHIO
THE JEWISH 'CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
VOL. V. NO. 2.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN,
"Biggest and Best Dollar
Is One Given Red Cross,"
Sa ys Dr. L. J. Hirshman
RIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1R18.
JEWISH CONGRESS
PRESIDENT CALLS ON ALL AMERICANS r
. TO MEET DEC. 15
TO ENROLL IN RED CROSS NEXT WEEK'
Per year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents.
PHILADELPHIA—The American
Jewish Congress, consisting of four
I hundred delegates will tom cite at
Philadelphia on December IS, 1918, to
Detroit Surgeon Shows How
deliberate Upon the tasks confronting
Detroit Mobilizes 10,000 Red Cross
Workers to Add 500,000 Members Here
Next Week in Thrilling Response to
President Wilson's Appeal to Nation
Workers Follow Every Sol- the Jewish people.
dier Through Every Peril, I During the world war, after much
David A. Brown is Campaign Manager; Emory W. Clark, General
• Never Neglecting or Forget- negotiation, a Congress was agreed
upon on October 2,
Chairman; Mrs. Russell A. Alger, Women's Chairman, Rallying
101u, and the
ting Him or His Loved Ones. final date for the convening of the
t
' Congress was set for N ovemb er
,
i ' 1917.
CHATEAU-THIERRY
l wat
N ylieti the United Sul entered the
Support to Red Cross Peace Tasks by "Christmas Roll Call."
Campaign to be Carried on Three Days in 700 Booths in Prominent
Places—Then Army of Workers Under 22 Majors and Sectional
SAW THE TESTING
it immediately became apparent
.that it behooved the Jews of Alfieri-
part of i rth,eff(American
"Ever since -I gave that dollar to I ca, :lies, (1,:he
rtst otht
i.w ,,ii
people,
op, li.;.
their
the Red Cross last year I've been 'to
io, o f i l o
. war. This patriotic re-
anxious to know what was don e
with
i vi),:dcatis eil such finis resstli,:e
,,1\ii,ie
it." said one of Detroit's thousands of is:ol
tt;ro asc,
t-.
Red Cross members. "A dollar is a neoik until
gotiations
will
be
in
sight."
lot of money to waste or misspend.
After the signing of the armistice,
"I don't care if I have been accused
-...)
of keeping a nickel locked up until the at a meeting held November 21m, the
Indian died of suffocation, money Administrative Committee decided to
i,
comes too hard to be squandered on hold the Congress at Philadelphia ..be-
things we don't know anything about. ginning Sunday, December 15.
At the saute time that the date was
"I wanted to know what had been
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done with that dollar, the only one 1 decided upon, due action was taken
c
1,
I
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ev•r gave away, so I asked Major with reference to the program of the
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Louis J. Hirschman, who was surgi- Congress in view of the altered con-
cal director of Harper Jtase Hospital ditions brought about by the war.
nn
. The sessions will be marked by no
!''nit that went to France.
"I wouldn't ask the Red Cross pee.- demonstrations o (any kind. The
/
1dministrative Committee has decid-
ple, because they are prejudiced.
"Major Hirschman was in the army ed expressly to do away with the
and not a Red Cross man. I asked mass meetings and - banquets that
him if he ever saw the Red Cross do usually accompany large Jewish gath-
anything and if he ever heard what erings so as to distinguish this first
American Jewish Congress by the
it thd with my dollar."
solemnity of its ,sittings.
"This is what he told me:
Mr. Nathan Straus, the venerable
"'Spend Another Dollar.'"
"'That's the biggest and best dollar Jewish philanthropist and president
you ever spent. Cm spend another in of tho•Executive Comntittee, will de-
-.
the same way. I'll tell you a few ,fiver the opening address of the Con-
/4
,s,
gross
at
the
first
session
in
Masonic
things that your dollar helped to do,
Building.
National
Jewish
organiza-
things that I saw myself.
"'Soldiers may escape from the en- tions such as the American Jewish
emy, they may escape death, but they Committee. Zionist Organization of
can't escape froth the Red Cross. It %merica, Independent Order Intai
comes to them when they assemble at [frith and all other Jewish fraternal
WOODROW WILSON .
the recruiting stations or tuft boards. and religious organizations will be
resented. The Jewish labor organ-
It follows them fit the train. It
bids film farewell at the depot with izations which had formerly' seceded
from CongreSs activities, re-entered
a sandwich and a cigaret.
To the .4 merican People:
"'It goes to camp, barracks or can- the movement and will be represent-
One year ago 22.000,000 Americans, by enrolling as members of the Red
•d by 2(1 delegates allotted to them
Cross
tonment with them, precedes them to
at Christmas time, sent to the men who were fighting our battles overseas ix
tl‘e train, rides with them to the Imo by the Administrative Committee,
vs:mutating message of cha•r and good will.
Philadelphia will certainly prove an
of embarkation, sails with them.
7'hey made it clear That our people were of th•ir own free choice nailed with
meets them on the foreign dock. goes excellent' host to this memorable Jew- their government in the determination sot only to wage war with the instruments
Ws assembly. Besides the excellent of destruction, but also by every meats in their power to repair the ravages ol
to camp, does guard hit
them.
work being done by the local ar- the :ander and sustain sad reltfiA' :I. spirit of' the army and Me ;mutes whir
answers sick calls with them.
they represented. The friends of the American Red Cro.“
Italy, Belgium and
"'It entertains them win II they are rangements committee, the municipal France have told and will tell again, the story of low the in
Red Cross workers
idle, consoles thein when they are authorities of the city are doing every- restored morale in the hospitals, in the camps ,end at tie cantonments, and we
worried, gives them medicine and thing possibly to make the congress ought to be very proud that we have been permio•d to be of service to those
welcome.
whose sufferings and whose glory are the heritage of fiuncliaity.
wraps them up when they arc cold.
Now, by Cod's grace, the Red from Christmas message of 1918, is to be a
"'When they leat• home the Red
message of peace as well as a message of good will. Rut prune does not mean
Cross goes to see the mother, the ZIONIST
that we can fold our hands. It means further sacrifice . We must prove con.
ENVOYS
Wile, children and sisters. It goes to
elusively to an attentive world that America is permanently aroused to the ;weds
SENT TO EUROPE of the new era, our old indifference gone forever.
German prison camps with them and
The exact nature of the future service of the Red Cross w;11 depend upon
gives them food when slow •tarvation
the program of the associated governments. but there is immediate need Inlay
is the enemy's intention towards
The 'Zionist Organization of Aineri- for
every heartening word and for every helpful service. We must
no t foret
g
them.
ca has decided t send representation
that our soldiers and our sailors are still under orders and still have ditties to
— The Red Cross writes letters for to Europe to deal with many gates- perform of the highest consequence, and that the Red Cross Christmas
member-
that, settles financial troubles and (ions arising at this time. The na- ship menus a great deal to [gem. tin, people of ,the saddened lands, moreover,
attends the lonely wifes0 confine- tional executive conimittce has select- returning home today where there are no homes, must have the assurance that
ment. So much' for what I know the ted as the first group Dr. Stephen S. the hearts of our people are with them in the dark and doubtful days ahead. Let
W'ise as chairman, Mrs. Joseph Fels us, so far as we ran, help mem back to faith in merry and in future happiness.
Red Cross does in a general _way.
As president of the Red Cross, conscious in this great hour of the value of
"'Base Hos pit al N. 17 hat a very of New York, Mr. Louis Robison of such
a message from the American people, I should be glad if every American
happy Christinas in France one year New York, Dr. Shinarya Levin, mem- would join the Red Cross for 1919, and thus send forth to the whole human
ago and the Red Cross made it pos- her of the Inner Actions Committee, family the Christmas greeting for whirls it waits and for whirl; it stands in
and Bernard Flexner of Chicago, legal greatest 'need.
sible.
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
"'We iver€ then fairly well estab- consultant.
Captains Will Call at Every Home That Does Not Show a Red
Cross Flag.
_
I
monyou.
th e ■ court d es hip
THE PRESIDENT'S APPEAL.
lished anif WC had about 81111 sick and
wounded soldiers in our beds besides
300 Medical Corps officers, 100 norses
and 35 administration officers. We
wanted the boys to have a Christmas.
\Ve didn't have mucli ht nake
Christmas with,,hnt we thought that
ey we could do
with a little mon
something.
The Red Cross workers served doc-
tors and nurses and sometimes the
only meal we had was what the Red
Cross workers got for us. Through
the same agency we got newspapers
and magazines. The wounded came
in so fast that we did.not have beds
.
GaLb—JEWISII CHRON
lg
Camp Collections.
enough, and When Capt. Bradford saw
"'So we took tip' a collection. Capt. the need and from somewhere 1,800
Coleman, Red/Cross ;service, heard beds appeared in three days.
about what .,Ze were doing and lie
Saving Gassed Men.
communicated with Red Cross head-
"'Great numbers if men were be-
quarters in Paris.
"'Soon after there came a check ing gassed and to save a man from
for 1.000 francs and 2,00 Christmas death or permanent disablement by
comfort bags for general distribution. gas burns the hospital 'Must have the
\\'e' had our' tree, presents for every most Modem equipment for immedi-,
man. and a fine time. I was Santa ate use. The Red Cross provided this
Claus, but all the costume I could get portable bathing outfit and also dis-
was the robe and cowl of a friar and infectant baths.
"'I consider one of the greatest
a home made set of whiskers.
"'A short time before the battle of acIllevements bf the Red Cross organ-
Chateau-Thierry a surgical unit from ization was the provisions made for
our hospital was sent up to the front a monthly meeting of representatives
to prepare for the battle we knew was from the nildical forces of all the al-
due. I found fairly good hospital lied armies so that the latest methods
equipment at the field station, but no- of medical and surgical treatment
where supplies enough for the casual- could be discussed and ideas ex-
ties we expected. I made known the changed.
"'It was largely through the work
situation to Capt. Bradford bf Los
\ ngeles, Red Cross officer with the of the Red Cross that the American
Third regular army division, because army medical service was able to
I knew it would take several days to solve the problems of trench fever.
get supplies through the army chan- The Red Cross provided the means
for experimentation and the labora-
nels.
"'Within 12 hours after I had spok- tory ,equipment. It issued a medical
en to Capt. Bradford we had several magazine. for use of army doctors so
camion-loads of supplies at the hos- that we could all know the latest dis-
pital post and were ready for the big
battle. People may know about the
battle of Chateau-Thierry, but they
don't know about how the Detroit
physicians and nurses worked for
several days without sleep; how the
Red Cross men and women worked
with them.
"'Every soldier received hot choco-
late or cake chocolate and 'cigarettes.
BIG CLASS WILL -
Lieut. N. M. Lerner
BE INITIATED BY
Gains Captaincy
*
Word has been received by Mr.
William' Friedman that Lieut. Na-
thaniel M. Lerner, with the Aero sir`-'
vice in France, has been promoted to
a captaincy,
The letter carrying the •news was
written by Capt. Lerner on Novem-
ber 8, three days before the armis-
tice with Germany was signed.
He writes: "Life here is one capi-
tulation after another. Germany
ought to come down on.her knees in
about a few hours. But'we have not
stopped working yet. You may rest
assured that we will not stop until
Germany says 'Finis.'"
'-•Pisgali Lodge of the Independent
Order of Iritai Britt will initiate a
large class of candidates early in
January. Fully 31)0 applicants are
awaiting the cereapolly of regular in-
troduction to the order.
Hiram I). Frank!, a well-known at-
torney in his own city of St. Paul.
Minn., and president of the District
Grand Lodge, will officiate at the
initiation. The members are looking
forward to a distinctive celebration of
the addition of so large a number to
the rolls of l'isgah lodge.
"FLAG DAY" FOR
CHAS. D. CAMERON
NATIONAL FUND IS
SPEAKS TO TEMPLE
SUNDAY, DEC. 15
Y. P. S. DEC. 18
"Interesting Interviews" will be the
subject of an address by Charles 1).
Cameron, of the Detroit' Journal, be-
fore the Young People's Society of
Temple Beth El, Wednesday evening,
December 18.
Mr. Cameron will relate from his
newspaper experience his meetings
with many famous men and women
of varied types and kinds. Included
in the list „are such varied personali-
ties as Lord Northcliffe, Gen. Sir Sam
Hughes, Irvin S. Cobb, 'Sir NVilfrid
Laurier, Theodore Roosevelt, Amelita
Galli-Curei, Cardinal Gibbons, Mary
coveries. •
Antis,
and many' others.
"'So you can see what your dollar
and the other dollars did for the Red
Cross and what the Red Cross did
Henry Wollman, the prominent
with the dollar.
"'It is not only the money, but the
moral force that universal member-
ship in the Red Cross gives that has
made this organization so wonderful,
so helpful and so efficient.'"
B'NAI BRITH HERE
The Fifth Annual Zion Flag Day
for the National Fund will be ob-
served Sunday, Dec. 15.
The Jewish National Fund buys
land in Palestine. This land can
never be sold to any one, it is only
rented or leased to Jewi who wish
to till the soil.
It establishes model colonies for.
Jewish workmen with no capital of
their own. In these colonies farming
is done according to a scientifically
elaborated cooperative system.
The National Fund becomes an im-
portant factor, first, to the national-
ization of the soil, and secondly, in
creating the possibilities for settling
in Palestine on a large scale Jews
without capital.
Responding to the appeal of IN'ood- itnakv
I
orkers, Jewish and non-Jewish, of Cross service flag for his window, a
all races and faiths, determined to button, and a package of Christmas
add 500,(I00 men and women and chil- seals.
teen to the Red Cross roster of t h e
patriotic Fund Jnembe r s may enroll
county.
members of their families without
The Detroit• campaign has been charge. And in those big Patriotic
planned in big mass movements and Fund "families," the factories, these
in detailed 'neighborhood campaigns Red Cross memberships will lie clis-
and house-to-house canvasses. David tributed to all employes who have
A. Brown, whose brilliant successes become Members of the Patriotic
in many other patriotic drives has led Fund.
to his appointment as campaign man.
Work by Booths.
age)', has been co-operating in his
The
entire
campaign will be car-
plans. with Iles. Russell A. Alger,
Tied on without any ordinary solicit-
chairman of the women's work. The
ins in streets or public places.
publicity work has been handled by
Sevell hundred booths will be set
Harry Breitembach, chairman of the up under the direction of Mr. Brown,
War .\ dverfi ' in g Ifuard o f the 1)°- Mrs. Alger and their co
- workers, in
trait Adcraft Club.
hotels, banks, drug stores, and other
Jews D,o Their Part. •
places. Three workers will bepresent
Just as Jewish fellow-citizens have at each.
responsible posts in the leadership
Members of the Patriotic Fund
of the campaign next week, so Jew- will come to these bdoths for their
ish workers will be counted on to membership cards. New members of
do their full share .aril more in the the Red Cross will be Enrolled. here.
campaign of the 10,000 svolunte•rs Red Cross service flags will be distrib-
who are expecte to coven the city it•d at these booths.
and the county
The work dune at these booths will
The work f the Red Cross has K. the only work attempted during
been for all iumanity. before and Monday, 'Tuesday and Wednesday of
during the war, therefore it can
text week. In those three days the
appeal to all humanity. Any person, great mass of the
new memberships
whatever his faith, can appeal to any will h
ave eagerly joined themselves
other person in the name of this ,
to the great organization.
mighty organization of benevolence.
How- ever, after 1Vedreselay,
The labors ant ; the co-operation
of canvassing . tilt entire city
gime!' by 0 - .11- Jewish men and wont- work
,
,.!
en in the past is an assurance of aim caning at every house witere a
the aid they will give this movement Red Cross service flag is not ills-
s
played, will be undertaken by the
this year,
10,000 worleers.
This will be the
Before the war, the Red Cross had
.,
swiftest
test and greatest
canvassing
a membership
a few' hundred
thousands, but even then Jewish lov• campaign ever attempted here.
Every race and' nationality is rep-
ens o f humanity were among its sup-
port ers.
The outbreak
Or War resented in this organization of 10,-
brought an immediate increase in 000. Thus every corner and every
membership, Until one year ago the house in the city can be reached.
Each worker will have a special
enormous number of 22,000,000 ad-
ult.; and 8,000.04111 children were . arm band to identify her. She will
found enrolled after the "Christmas endeavor to make not fewer than 30
calls each day. She will canvass each
Roll Call" Jr--1917.
street, looking for every house which
Great Peace Tasks. •
does nut disPlay a Red Cross. service
One year ago we all knew that a tfug.
grim work on the field and in the
Where the !lag is not displayed she
camp, and indeed a - work which
will take it for granted membership
touched the soldier's life'
from the has not been secured as yet, and she
day he left home until he returned. will make her effort for a 100 per
was upon the shoulders of the Red cent membership from that house-
Cross. 'Today we ale rejoicing in the hold.
return(of peace, and this means, of
Majors and Captains.
course, a great lessening in anxiety,
There is nothing
"hit - or - miss"
and a cessation of .many "war activ-
about the work assigned to these vol-
ities."
But this verycessation of war ac- unteers.. The city is divided into 22,
tivity has meant not a lessening but districts, each in charge of a major.
an actual increase. of work of the Each zone will be in charge of a
American Red Cross. In 'fact, with captain. Each worker will report the'
im- progress she has made to her captain
time order to "cease tiring" nail
•
plied urgent calls to all the armies at the close of each day.
It is naturally expected that there
of humanitarianism to move forward,
to increase all their efforts of restor- will be great rivalry among neigh-
an on• r ,„„„,i niet i on , a ll th e i r work: bors throughout butte Jewish and
Gentile neighborhoods and in mixed
of healing and helping.
The Jewidx Chronicle has regret- neighborhoods, to be able to 'hang
fully pro...
tittle to time re- up the Red Cross service flag in the
or clothing or window, as an evidence that the
ports of lack of
medicine among u,. '"wish kindred household is enrolled.
in different' sc ar-stricken lands. We
So it is expected that there will be
have seen, in the secular.. press, re- a great rush of eager, people to the
ports of dire need of food and cloth- booths duringt he first three days, to
ing among litany different kinds of place their names un the register of
people . in many different countries.
the Red Cross.
These are reports to--stir humanity,
The work of the Red Cross during
to move us with sympathy and sor- time next year will be partly support.
row even while we rejoice in the gift ed, of course, by the contributions for
of peace. :And these things rouse us memberships made next week.
all to demand "What can we do to
But, as the Reel Cross itself says,
help:"
in its official announcements:
One of the things we can do is to
We Want YOUI
join the American Red Cross, to aid
"It is the greater gift of the pub-
its great work, - which never waits or
pauses because of race or creed, to lic's faith and loyalty that is sought.
aid it with our contribution and the It is a call to every man, woman and
child in the United States to au-
moral support of our membershjp.
swer, 'Present,' that the men in the
One Fund for All.
The Jewish workers and the Jew-
ish donors will act in this matter
as they have acted jn all other cam-
paigns. All that is given will go into
one fund, and all who need aid or
comfort, whether civilians or sol-
diers, will receive what they need
from the one fund.
The workers. under David A.
The National Fund has always been
a popular Jewish Fund. Now when Brown's direction, have masterfully
Jewish National hopes are being re- planned the Detroit campaign so that
alized, Jews will probably contribute every family will tie reached.
with greater joy and enthusiasm than
Members of the Detroit Patriotic
New York attorney, has been appoint.
ed chairman of the Administrative
Committee of the Legal Advisory
Board of the greater city of New York
and not chairman of the board as pre-
viously 'Announced.
ever.
a separate contribution for
row 1Vilson as president of the Am- , membership in the Red \Cross, as
erican National Red Cross, urging: tnemberShip in the Patriotic Fund
our 100,000,0011 people to be enrolled makes one a member of the Red
in the organization during the "Red Cross. .
Cross Christmas Roll Call" next
Each member of the Patriotic Fund,
week, Detroit has mustered PLOW on signing a card, will receive a Red
Fund, of course, will not be asked to
United States still in service 'over
there' and millions of helpless refu-
gees in the war-scourged countries
may know we are standing by, faith-
ful to our trust over here even
though hostilities are ended."
The Jewish people of Detroit will
naturally see in this a new and joy-
MI5 opportunity to prove their own
patriotism, and to prove again the
co-operation of all faiths The ap-
peals of the president and of the Red
Cross and of the Detroit committee
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