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MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
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GALICIAN
WILSON, FOCH, PERSHING EISNER,
JEW, DOMINATES
ANGERED BAVARIA
GREET JEWISH WELFARE
BOARD ANNUAL MEETING
Jewish Woman Joins Attack on Ob-
scure Foreign Dictator.
Raymond Fosdick and Father
Burke Bring Fraternal Greet-
ings of Appreciation to New
York Conference — Eminent
Jewish Leaders Are Present.
BIG RECONSTRUCTION
WORK IS NOW PLANNED
N EW YORK—A message of en-
couragement from President Wilson,
cablegrams of appreciation from
Marshal Foch and General Pershing,
inspiring addresses by Raymond B
Fosdick, chairman of the War De-
partment Commission on Training
Camp Activities, Jacob Schiff, Rev.
Dr. J. J. Burke and others were fea-
tures of the first annual meeting of
the Jewish Welfare Board.
The meeting marked the comple-
tion of the first year's work of the
Jewish Welfare Board—the youngest
of the seven war welfare agencies.
The keynote of the sessions was
'struck in Mr. Schiff's speech: "De-
mobilization Should Not Mean De-
moralization."
The following cablegram from
Marshal Foch, commander-in-chief of
the Allied armies, was read:
"Deeply touched by the feelings
that inspired you telegram, I thus
tender to your adherents my sincere
thanks in the name of the Allied
armies.
Per Year, 52.00; Copy, 5 Cents.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1918.
VOL V. NO. 4
M UN IC11.—A queer state of affairs
has developed in Bavaria in regard to
Kurt Eisner, who appears to be the
ruling power at present.
He was born in Galicia and there is
some doubt about his German citizen-
ship. Ile is said to be of Jewish par-
entage.
Bavarian Catholics oppose him and
there is also opposition in certain
radical circles. Rachel Rabinowitz, a
Jewess, writes...to:the Bavarian Cour-
ier as follows:
"Eisner is neither a German nor a
Bavarian, but a Jew and a foreigner.
It is a thoroughly sound feeling which
makes the Bavarians object to being
ruled by a foreigner. We Jews would
object greatly if compelled to accept
a non-Jewish head for a Jewish con-
gregation."
All the newspapers, except those of
the extremist left, declare that Eis-
ner's attitude creates an intolerable
situation, but give no indication of
the manner in which to deal with
"ItIARECHAL FOCH."
Raymond B Fosdick brought greet-
ings from the President and from
Secretary Baker. He brought the
following letter from !'resident Wil-
son to Colonel Ilarry Cutler:
My Dear Colonel Cutler: The
annual meeting of the Jewish
Welfare Board affords me an op-
portunity to express my personal
appreciation of the admirable
work which this organization has
been carrying on with our troops
at home and abroad. It has pro-
vided generously for soldiers and
sailors of all faiths, and Secre-
tary Baker and Mr. Fosdick have
both spoken of the value of its
work in maintaining the morale
M hiirfighting forcet
May I not, therefore. express
in this brief note my wish for its
continued success? .
Cordially and sincerely yours,
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
Fosdick's Address.
M r. Fosdick's address was inter-
spersed with many interesting human
interest stories of personal experience
011 his visit to the front, which exemp-
lified the morale-building work of the
Jewish Welfare Board and other
h i m.
POGROMS REPORTED
FROM ALL HUNGARY
BUDAPEST. —A new wave of anti-
Jewish excesses has broken over Hun-
gary, regbIting in the ruin of much
property belonging to Jews.
Several places inhabited in the main
by Jews have been practically destroy-
ed. There appears to be no power or
authority which can take it upon it-
self to protect them.
In one city all Jewish houses and
stores without exception were looted.
It is estimated that the value of the
property which was stolen or destroy-
ed is upwards of 1(1,000,000 florins.
The rioters left nothing of the least
value.
In several places in the Pressburg
district the same thing happened and
most of the Jews have been left ab-
solutely destitute. In Glagatz, Kpi-
over, Tchornia and other Hungarian
cities the same wholesale looting oc-
curred. In the districts of Pesth,
Banat, Komaron and Weissenberg the
Jewish population forsook their
PrPoerly and, flcd.. in order to save
BRIG. GEN. ROSENTHAL
NEW MAJOR GENERAL IN
AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY
Thoughts in Religions.
By Edgar A. Guest.
(sty Permission Edgar A. Guest.)
I reckon when this life is through
About the first thing God will do
Is call together all the creeds
W'hich men have shaped to serve their
needs,
And talk it over, pro and con,
And then make all religions one.
Universal Demand for Investigation
of Galician Pogroms Brings Action
in Paris, London, New York, Warsaw
MELBOURNE.—Brig.-Gen. C. Ro-
senthal, C. B., C. M. G., who was ap-
pointed to the command of the Sec-
ond Division of the Australian Infan-
try forces, in the changes that follow-
ed upon Sir John NIonash's elevation
to the chief command of the A. I. F.
in the field, has been promoted to the
rank of major-general.
"He'll take the best of each and say:
A cording to the Melbourne Jewish
"We'll throw the minor frills away,
Herald, the new major-general held
N E\\' YORK—Universal demand these reports and set at rest the alle-
And as I take your creeds apart
that pogroms have occurred.
You'll find you're all the same at the rank of major of the field artillery for investigation by competent in- gations
in the Australian military forces when
The reply of Messrs. Mack and
heart,
of the pogroms reported from
quirers
la
Marshall is as follows:
he was appointed
So one religion ought to do
August, 1914. He reached the rank of Galicia has brought results in many
"The American representatives
For Catholic, Protestant and Jew."
different
quarters.
of the Polish National Commit-
brigadier-general on Feb. 2, 1916, and
Julian
Mack
and
Louis
Marshall
was appointed to command the Ninth
tee and of the Polish National
He'll tell us in that happy land:
have issued a strong reply to the de-
Department have issued a state-
Infantry Brigade.
"Now here you see and understand,
mand of American l'olish leaders for
From
this
command
he
was
pro-
ment in which they insinuate that
You've passed across the vale of doubt
a joint inquiry. Mr. Mack and Mr.
moted
to
take
charge
of
the
Second
the Jews are inimical to Polish
And learned the truth you fought
Division of the A. I. F. on July 15. :Marshall accept the joint inquiry pro-
independence and that ground-
about.
posal. But whilst the Polish leaders
He is 43 years of age.
less charges have been circulated
Your desination was the same,
have rather cast doubt on the prob-
by them to the effect that Jewish
Although by different routes yot
ability of the reports, Messrs. Mack
massacres
came.
and Marshall point out the strength
These organisations
Poland.
of the dispatches from Copenhagen.
state that a joint demind bas been
"Behold the good you labeled bad,
In
addition,
nevi
dispatches
have
made by them "for the appoint-
su had.
The false among the truth
been received by Jewish organizations
ment of an inter-allied and
Of all the creeds which mortals wrote
At the New York office of the Zion- in New York, tending to confirm the
American commission to be
Not one caught true perfection's note
ist Organization of America 350 ap- first reports.
into Poland to investigate exist-
Nor was there one, however despised,
plications have been received from
At the same time, discussion is in-
ing conditions and thus set at
But what had truth if good it
persons who are prepared to leave for tensified by the fact that the corre-
rest the allegations that Jewish
prized."
Palestine at once to become perma- spondent of the London Times and
pogroms have been carried Out
nent settlers there.
Philadelphia Public Ledger, and some
there."
I neither hate • nor love a man
Forty trades and professions are other correspondents, have denied
The American Jewish Commit-
According to religion's plan;
represented by the applicants. The the reports of deliberately planned
tee and the Zionist Organization
If he be good of word and deed,
most pressing demand, according to massacres. They ascribe the wrongs
of America welcome the appoint-
I never ask about his creed.
the officers of the organization, is for committed to criminals newly re-
ment of such a commission most
I fancy God will later on
Hebrew teachers as the school system
leased from jails.
heartily and stand ready to co-
Make all religions into one
of Palestine is to be reorgamzed.
Guest,)
A
All
these
things
make
certain
an
(Copyright. 1918. by Edgar
operate with the Polish organiza-
exhaustive inquiry into the whole
tions in bringing about the im-
question by many different authori-
mediate designation of such a
ties. A French , investigation has
commission. They take this op-
already been started by direction of
portunity to deny that the Jews
Marechal Foch. M. Zalevski, the
are in any way unfriendly to
Polish leader now in Switzerland, an-
Polish independence. Their sole
nounces that the Warsaw govern-
desire has been to secure for the
ment has already punished a number
Jews of Poland equal civil, polit-
of ringleaders, and is carrying on fur-
ical and religious rights and to
ther investigation. Jewish and Gen-
safeguard the rights of all minori-
tile forces in many lands are conduct-
ties.
ing investigations.
Direct Reports.
Marechal Foch Leads,French Inquiry—Louis Marshall, Julian
Mack and New York Meeting Express American Protest
Against Persecution.
Polish Leaders Report Punishment of Rioters, Deny Blame—
New Reports Confirm First News of Outrages.
c
to the A. I. F.
r
are occurring in
N. Y. SEES RUSH
OF "PALESTINIAN
SETTLERS" GROW
sent
Jews in Dilapidated AUstria, After
Centuries of Persecution and Petty
Tyranny, Now Ground Between Racial
Strife of Pole and Little Russian
Dr. Gotthard Deutsch Sheds Light on Recent and Current
Events by Citing Grimly Fascinating History of Jewries
in Galicia and Ukrainia.
Austrian Government Given Some Credit for Partial Efforts to
Ameliorate Condition' , of Jewish People in
Farming Districts.
By DR. GOTTRAP DEUTSCH.
f
r? -
•
Hague Confirms.
The Joint Distribution Committee
has received cablegrams from Mr.
Jacobus Kann, the well-known banker
at the Hague, and from correspon-
dents at The Hague and Zurich to
the effect that the massacres of Jews
in Poland rod Galicia are not only
They have received from ou-
t It orita five and unprejudiced
sources, in Copenhagen, Amster-
dam, London and The Hague, ex-
plicit cablegrams showing that
pogroms are taking place Ga-
licia and various parts of Poland
UnformuattlyciL,
, 11,0, lionntatlik
"flijte'fir l'eatCrTof treb effctegt ,
m 'T
to time
1 he latter staged froime
Peter the - Great Tradi it to his sf
much more serious than the first re-
reports, particularly in regard to
their lives.
censors two political aims; "to open a "ritual murder" and "Host desecra- ports tended to show.
Poland, since a most virulent
According to later reports the
tion"
stories
by
which
the
masses
and
to
gain
a
.
window to the west"
The following cables have just been
economic boycott has been waged
pogroms took the form of attacks
could be aroused to fanaticism. The received by the Joint Distribution
free exit to the Meditetranean.
there against the Jews continu-
upon the Jews even in the synagogues.
Both aims were taken up by Cath- former utilized the thrift and the pov- Committee:
ously since 1912.
In Marmoros the rioters formed their
erine II., the wife of his imbecile erty of the Jew s to make them the in-
"Receiving daily calls for help
Mr. Dmowski, the President of
entry into the synagogue during
grandson, Peter III. In the move- struments of exploiting the peasantry
from Galician Jews. Pogroms
the Polish National Committee,
prayers and threw bombs which killed meat towards the south she won only by distilling monopolies and oppres-
raging in many places. Militia
whose representative in the
three w orshipers.
moderate success. But she succeeded sive methods of tax farming. ••
joins mob. Jewish soldietc and
United States at this time is Mr.
In Stamfo the hoodlums ordered all
The Austrian government at the
completely with the aid of fanatic
population
first
disarmed
so
that
John F. Smulski, has publicly
the Jews to board a train and they
Jesuits, of selfish nobles, and by un- time of the annexation of Galicia at-
cannot
defend
themselves.
Are
admitted his responsibility for the
pillaged all the houses of the Jews.
scrupulous employment of corruption, tempted to improve both the econo-
at mercy of infuriated masses. In
boycott, and he and his party
In Kishkunherletaza the pogrom as-
in dismembering the kingdom of mic and the cultural condition of her
some villages not a single Jewish
associates have thus far declined
sumed the magnitude of a battle and
new subjects, but was in some re-
l'oland.
home left unplundered. What can-
to take any action looking to its
'nanny Jews were killed,
agencies.
Her neighbors, Austria and l'rus- spects unsuccessful, in others too suc-
not be taken destroyed. Legion-
termination. He and Mr. Pad-
In Alsokalenfala two Jews 'Were
"The work of the Jewish Welfare
ia, could not allow Russia to get away cessful.
aires and police either passive or
erewski, although informed of the
Board is just beginning," Mr. Fosdick shot.
The first aim of the humane Em-
with the whole bag. They made the
join
mob.
Jews
not
admitted
to
alarming reports which have come
All Jews in Sheleslonka were or-
said, "that is, as far as its importance
customary "gentlemen's agreenfent," peror Joseph, who was an admirer of
notorious
thieves
where
militia.
to us front Poland, when re-
is concerned. Our men are being de- dered to leave the town and their
which the ghetto slang expresses in a Rousseau's theory, was to introduce
and criminals are welcomed as
mobilized. It is a very trying period. property seas seized by the mob.
quested to protest against these
somewhat altered Talmudic phrase: secular education. He was in this re-
Roswadow Jews
members.
In
Many
Jews
were
killed
during
the
reported outrages, likewise de-
The incentive that kept them fit to
"You take one half and I'll take the spect as in many others unfortunate
murdered. Jewish war widow
fight is gone. The battle is won and disorders in the following cities:
clined to do so.
in the selection of his officials.
other."
both arms broken and
maltreated,
In these circumstances the im-
they want to come home. And the Foksh, Koshkersh, Shampek, Barsha.
Herz Homberg, a disciple of
Austria's Weakness.
In
killed. Five hundred Jewish
mediate appointment and func-
welfare organizations have got to Shaltvadkert and Nedshekata.
I'russia, with her staff of capable Mendelssohn, in whose house he was
leave
families in danger. Cannot
tioning of such a commission as
come in to breach the gap, to give most of these places the population officials, made considerable headway tutor, was appointed superintendent of
home as no means of transit. At
has been suggested is undoubt-
them plenty to do, to fill up all their consists of Slays and Roumanians.
in :Germanizing the acquired sections the Jewish schools in 1878.
mercy of ninth Jews all disarmed
lei-use time, so that they will conic
edly desirable, so that the world
Three years previously compulsory
of Poland, aided by the cities which
before
pogrom.
Poles
retain
home in as fit morale, with as un-
may know all the facts.
even under Polish dominion had a con- school education had been ordered.
weapons.
LOUIS MARSHALL,
Iroken a spirit as they had when they
The Jews, led by Yakevka Landau.
siderable German population.
KANN."
President American Jewish
went over."
She did not succeed, however, in the son of the famous Rabbi Ezekiel
"Pogroms
in
free
Poland
inde-
Appealing to all Jewish young men,
The Emperor
Committee.
overcoming the resistance of the Landau. protested.
scribable. Jews in many villages
especially teachers, rabbis and enter-
JULIAN W. MACK,
• would not receive them, and the con-
ToPEK.k.—Lauding the work riff Polish landlords and peasantry.
and
cities
completely
ruined.
tainers, to answer the call for Jewish Jews in the war, Major-General Leon-
!'resident
Zionist Organization
Austria had no such dIsciplined sequence was that they bought the
Many families maltreated. Left
Welfare Board field workers, Jacob ard Wood, commaner of the 10th Di- corps of officials as Prussia. In addi- officials,. including Herz II omberg.
of America.
Schiff, vividly set forth the im- vision, spoke at the dedication of the tion Maria Theresa, under whose The law remained a dead letter and
w ithout shelter, food, clothing.
Eight Thousand Protest.
Mobs take or destroy everything,
portance of after-the-war work. "DE- I ewish Welfare Board building at reign the annexation of Galicia took was abrogated in 180o,
To the hearty applause of 8,000
where nothing left in homes,
MOBILIZATIVN SHOULD, NOT. Camp Funston, Kansas, recently. He place, was a bigoted Roman Catholic,
What autocracy could not accom-
Jewish workers assembled in Madi-
doors and window frames taken.
M FAN DEMORALIZATION," he said:
a devotee of the Jesuits. The Jesuits plish, came as a matter of course with
son Square Garden "to weep in sym-
limbers with new-born babies
"When the call came for men to vere the cause of Poland's fall, as they the progress of modern ideas, propa-
said.
pathy" with the persecuted Jews in
taken
from
bed
and
laid
on
bare
Rev. Fr. John J, Burke, chairman tight the battle for democracy, the Jere also the instrument of torture for gated to some extent by the Hebrew
Galicia and Poland, and to demand of
earth. Bed and linen taken by
of the Committee of Six, representing Jews were among the first to annoyer her Jews.
Haskalah authors. Of these Galicia
the civilized nations of the world that
mob.
prominent
rep-
the Catholic War Council, told of the the call, their service being giVen
had
some
of
the
most
The latest development in Galicia of
they call a halt to the pogroms now
KAHN.
effective co-operation of the Jewish cheerfully and freely. Their work has which we read with a feeling of hor- resentatives, Joseph Perl and Isaac
taking place, both conservative and
Front The Hague:
Welfare Board with the other welfare been done well and they have made ror, and which we hope will prove Erter. They awakened in the hearts
radical leaders of the race united in
"Pogrom situation grows more
exaggerated as regards the number of the young men, languishing in the
agencies. He, as well as Charles R. good soldiers.
"declaring war upon the forces of op-
Begs Allied
The home of the Jewish Welfare of victims, are the logical sequel to "Klaus." an ardent desire fora the
dangerous daily.
Watson, associate secretary of the Y.
pression that have been denying the
people and government to enforce
M. C. A., who represented Dr John Board fills a long felt need at Camp the policy inaugurated by the Jesuits higher aims of life. So great was their
fundamental rights of human liberty
their warning which Poland dis-
R. Mott, emphasized the importance Funston and adds greatly to the facil- when they were called into the coun- success that in 1912 the gymnasiums
to the Jews." Jacob II. Schiff, the
of demobilization work and urged ities for welfare work on a wider and try under Sigismund II. in the six- showed an attendance of 23 per cent
regards. Help quickly. Also im-
hanker, and Justice Jacob I'anken, the
financial
assistance
for
of
Jews,
the
Realschulen
(science
teenth century.
that the Jews of America to take care greater scale."
mediate
Socialist, stood upon the same plat-
shelterless,
pillaged
Jewish
The
Jesuit
needed
fanaticism
to
high
schools)
19,
and
the
girls'
high
of them throughout their whole ex-
form.
Nathan Straus, Jacob H. Schiff and check the progress of the Protestant schools even 37 per cent, though the
masses urgently needed."
perience from beginning to end, from
Mr. Schiff denounced Dmowski, the,.
Mortimer L. Schiff, Walter E. Sachs, movement and to counterbalance the 871,895 Jews of Galicia form only 10.86
the time they leave home till they get
From Zurich:
heda of the Paris Committee, recog-
Rabbi David Phillipson of Cincin- "heretics," as the members of the per cent of the population.
"Authentic telegram beyond all
hack again to their homes
nized by the United States Govern-
nati, Judge Samuel Greenbaum, Rabbi Greek Catholic church were called.
Aims of Justice.
doubt informs that thousands of
Following the luncheon tendered to
ment as the official representative of
Henry K. Cohen of Galveston, Texas;
In the same way as Joseph II.
Everything else was indifferent. Let
Galician Jewish soldiers' families
the out-of-town delegates, reports of
l'oland, saying that "he should never
Hon. Abram I. Elkus, Judge A. K. the peasant live under one roof with looked for the intellectual advance-
Colonel Harry Cutler, chairman of
foreign countries are threatened
have been tolerated upon the shores
Cohen of Boston, Dr. Cyrus Adler his cattle in the vermin-ridden mud ment of the Jews, he tried to improve
starvation because penniless and
the Jewish Welfare Board, Chester
of America, for he has shown that he
of Philadelphia, Dr. Louis Grossman huts, let the noble enslave him worse their economic status.
Jacob Teller, Mortimer L. Schiff and
'their nationality scents still unde-
and his crowd have instigated and
of Cincinnati, Leon Sanders, Jacob than did the slave holder of our south-
The
great
mass
of
the
impoverished
other officials were heard.
cided.
have been responsible for the boycott
Billikupf, Simon Miller• of Philadel- ern states, let them die by the hun- Jews continued, as was the case in the
Mack, Marshall.
Recommendations embodied in
of the Jews in Poland."
phia, Charles Hartman, Rabbi dreds of thousands in epidemics, as days of Polish independence, to eke
Colonel Cutler's and Mr. Teller's re-
Julian W. Mack, President of the
Resolutions were passed by a stand-
Maurice Harris, Rabbi David de Sola long as the dominion of the church re- out a miserable existence.
ports outlined a program of
and
Zionist Organization of America,
ing vote calling upon the peace con-
Pool and•Rabbi Rudolph: Grossman. mains unshaken.
Many of them were innkeepers in
demobilization work that includes
Louis
Marshall,
President
of
the
ference "on behalf of the Jewish peo-
Col. Cutler and his associates were
villages. This was prohibited. They
Jewry Suffers.
vocational training for wounded,
American Jewish Committee, joined ple, for protection, for security, for
tendered the thanks of American
The Jews were the worst sufferers must turn to agriculture, manual labor
educational and industrial training of
in
a
reply
to
the
statement
that
ap-
justice, freedom, a right to live and
Jewry for their excellent work, fol- from these conditions. It is an old and other "productive occupations."
men about to be mustered out of the
the a right to develop." Meyer London,
in peared in the press issued by
lowing a motion by Jacob H. Schiff.
well
expressed
It
is
easy
to
give
such
an
advice
experience,
wonderfully
army and navy and rehabilitation
The following directors were in Koheleth, that the oppression of the comfortable council rooms to penni- Polish National Committee and the the Socialist Congressman, read a
work in war-ridden countries.
denying resolution of protest which he will in-
elected for three years: Col. Harry poor and the perversion of justice is less untrained people, but in the Polish National Department
Mr. Schiff, in his financial report,
of the reports that troduce in Congress. The other
problem solved It- the authenticity
stated that the Jewish Welf,re Board Cutler, Dr. Cyrus Adler, Abram propped up by the victims of oppres- course of time the
have come to this country recently speakers were Scholem Asch and M.
off self to some extent.
had received $2,000,000 in contribu- Elkus, Judge Irving Lehman, Rabbi sion who see others still worse
Statistics of the last census show concerning pogroms against the Jews Olgin, the Jewish writers, who spoke
M. S. Margolies, Louis Marshall and than they are.
tions to carry on its work, and had
in Yiddish. Justice Panken presided.
This was the policy of the political that 533 Jews own rural property, in Poland, and demanding the
Mortimer L. Schiff. Carl Dreyfus Of
disbursed approximately $1,250,000.
of an inter-allied and
combine
engineered by the wealthy aggregating about 750.000 acres. This
Boston,
Mass.,
was
elected
director
Among the prominent men in IF
(Continued Oa Page Matt)
American
commission
to
investigate
(Continued On Page Four.)
Polish landholders. and the Jesuits.
tendance were: Hon. Louis Marshall, for one year.
Mr.
GEN. WOOD EXTOLS
JEWS IN THE WAR
pointment
ap-