givit#r ""'"•"W AVISNOI • CINCINNATI 10, OHIO THE JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1919. VOL V. NO. 5 Jewish Interests Have Involved All Big Peace Congresses Since 1797, and Have Helped Destroy Secret Diplomacy By Constant Insistence on Direct Acts Israel Goldberg Fascinatingly Traces Records of Peace Talbes from Rastatt, 1797, to Berlin and to Versailles—Christians First Advocates for Jews. Definite Policy of Jewish Diplomacy Developed in International Co-operation and Growing Consciousness of Powers that Jewish Cause is All-important. BY ISRAEL GOLDBERG. AMERICA! • • • A Noble Tribute by Rabbi Abbah Hillel Silver, War Chaplain, of Cleveland. God built a continent of glory and filled it with treasures untold. He studded it with sweet flowing fountains and traced it with long winding streams. He carpeted it with soft rolling plains and columned it with thundering mountains. He planted it with deep shadowed forests and filled them with song. T hen He called unto a thousand people and summoned the bravest among them. They came from the ends of the earth, each bearing a gift and a hope. The glow of adventure was in their eyes and in their hearts the glory of hope. And out of the bounty of earth and the labor •,, Per Year, $2.00; CoPY, 5 Cents 1 Rt. Hon. H. L. Samuels Detroit Will Raise Wins Right For Women to $60,000 of National Fund for Palestine Hold Seats in Parliament Full Statement on Aims and Last Crushing Blow to Anti- Objects of $3,000,000 Cam- Suffragists Delivered by Bril- paign Made by Jacob De tient Commoner—Record Is Full of Honors and Distinc- Haas, Executive Secretary of ' lions. National Movement. --- -- - -- PASSED BIG BILL EDUCATION, BUILDING IN 78 MINUTES NOW ARE CHIEF AIMS _ •_— LONDON The Right Honorable The sum of $60,000 will be raised by Louis Samuels, a ' Jewish Detroit Zionists as this city's quota of Herbert the new $3,000,000 fund which is being member of Parliament. who moved raised for restoration work in Pales- the resolution in the House of Com- mons last week expressing the desir- tine. This fund of $3,000,000 to be raised ability of the immediate promotion of eligible for throughout the country' will carry fur- a bill making woven Cher the work of reconstruction start- members of Parliament. This resolution was passed by an ell with the aid of the $1,000,000 fund raised last year. overwhelming majority in the House lia•kstairs diplomacy, which is now presented to the congress. This nie- so generally and justly discredited, morial invoked us behalf of the Jews was, nevertheless, the only recourse the claim that they had purchased of a weak people under circum- equal rights for a large sum and that The Detroit committee consists of of Commons and marks the absolute stances when public opinion had no they•had patriotically participated in Rabbi A. M. Hershman, Fred M. But- finish of the anti-suffrage movement force. At a time when princes and the liberation of Germany. zel, J. 1I. Ehrlich, J. \Vetsman, E. in England. rulers could gather around the green At the same time, the Jews of The bill contained only seventy- Rabitiovvitz, 1). Robinson, J. Miller, table and secretly dispose of the three Hanseatic cities, against whom ). Friedberg, A. J. Koffman, A. Klein. eight words, and the time taken in fates of provinces and peoples with hostile sentiment had appeared, sent S. Sarasohn, D. Stocker, I.. Duscoff, passing through the three stages of impunity, the just claims of the weak to Vienna a Christian lawyer by the the House of Commons was little NI, Leibernian, L. L. ficheinman. could only be presented indirectly mime of Buchholz, who had anade Jacob 1>e Haas, executive secretary over seventy-eight minutes. and furtively. Autocracy and secrecy himself known through a' pamphlet Women have already secured the of the Zionist Organization of Amer- are not obliged to reckon with the in favor of the emancipation of the vote, and to the number of over six During his stay in Vienna. Ica, made the following statements: demands of justice, for the reason Jews. "Three millions is not a large million they will use this parliamen- that an autocratic regime is not Buchholz published several main- amount, judging by the demands made tary franchise at the next general festos and also presented a memorial. amenable to public opinion. fur other causes at this time. It may election, which is due shortly. It is In spite of the fact. however, that 4 It is only with the rise of democ• not prove an adequate amount for the however, necessary to pass another Bill of Rights. racy and the effective public opinion both Metternich and von Harden- secure and safeguard the civil and bill to allow them to sit in Parlia-1 The nit:mortal as finally adopted by on which it is founded that back- burg were favorably disposed to the political rights of their fellow•Jews "One almost hopes that it will prove menu. Herbert Samuels took charge of stairs diplomacy becomes obsolete claims of the Jews and that the con- in the Balkan principalities. An in- the Congress may be summarized as needs of 1919. insufficient. Its failure to suffice will the proposal, and it is understood that and indefensible. gress itself occupied itself with the ternational Jewish Congress, repre- follows: he will pilot the measure through the • he memorialists set forth that they imply greater Zionist achievement. A study of the various attempts oil question several times; in spite also smiting the principal Jewish organi- Of the $3,000,000 only a small sum House of Commons. It should be law the part of •jews to secure their of the fact that the constitution of zations of the world, was convened are delegated by the Jews in various secure to will go directly' for relief of the type vithiu the next fortnight. to request to the confer- rights from national diplomatic .ineet- Germany, drawn up by'William von in Paris and held sessions from De- free countries tantinople Mr. Samuels, who is a member of . of alms-giving and charity. cove at Cons- ings proves that the Jews were not Humboldt, promised the Jews equal- cember 11 to 15, 1876. too "The betsevolence in this Midget is one of the best known families in An- The initiative was taken by the the Jews the same rights as may be committed to the backstairs or ity, the tide of Teutoniania ran glo-Jewish life, was born in Liverpool e shtedhenuth method. They used the strong, mad in the final disposition of w hich, on wratited to the general population of - in 1870. Immediately after leaving Anglo-Jewish Association, the disturbed provinces of the Turkish $Z4lioili>;i1) s1 . ( t0,tildet:Isili-.):tileutunitt7 au th e method which circumstances indi- the question the matter was left for November 16, 1876, passed the fol- Sad experience had shown in the polite sanitary improvement. provide Oxford, where he took first-class lion- .. Empire. cated would be likely to prove the each German state to settle for itself. hospital service, dispensary aid and ors, and even before, he threw himself In consequence the Jews were de- lowing resolutions: most efficacious. changes tieing imminent iii whole-heartedly into politics. privet of the rights they had ac- Danubian principalities the danger of public health work in Palestine. the East, likely to alert large co111111011i• Direct Action. the inequality of rights caused by the Ile entered Parliament in 1902, after "Let me emphasize the fact that the A steady progression toward the gaited from the French conquerors. tie. of , "hoolved. That it he proposril to the Aix-la-Chappelle, 1818. Treaty of 1856 an the Convention of Zionist organization in sending the two unsuccessful attempts, and in lit- Alliance Israelite l'itiverarlle to convene method of dignity and publicity is , ,.,- by took the the more than three years held govern- Two memorials on behalf of the the latter of which contains a s, early as possible at a place to '" 38, traceable, becoming more and more named hereafter. in conjunction v. ith this Four years later Mr. which, by the construction put first medical step unit toward to Palestine socializing medical meat office. clan se it, open and democratic and keeping Jews were presented in this Congress association. the Alliance in Vienna. aftd enables the Rumanian, to eter- rights enjoyed by work in Palesti ne, and has begun to Samuels entered the Cabinet. He has a{ ,on f Abe/ similarly constituted bodies in hu• steady pace with the general diffusion which met for the purpose of d teach the people a new standard of been successively Parliamentary' Un- mining upon the conditions for 'the : x' ' t..:I" ltde los n (ram ,r,';'):IpngdmAer,,(ilki. c.V11. ■ !.. 1 11. ::,'".■■ ‘. :■ " rr ■ : t . their , ,, of democracy. adopt sin h 1111,1,11111, der - Secretary for the Horne Depart- cou n trym en. &liberate limo!, rein hygienic life. 'the manner in which Jews reacted 'thdrawal of the army of occupa- .1 s tui,y .111 hrit calculated to ..cure to ial .'7 1.' l ' IC 'egr ° e‘a v te ratI t e: l tlle memor ".A quarter oi a million dollars is to ment, Chancellor of the Duchy of to the occasions when the potentates tion from France. The first was pre- the .1 tots in tile provinces affected by the o f the griev• and be devoted to education. Palestine„ancaster (with a scat in the Cabinet), of the earth net to dispose of inter- senteal- through the Emperor Alexan- "" n'' ."'"' "i' h " ''' may l' : °I"i"..1 i consists of a sta tement for the Christians. whatever else it lacks, has now an ed. Postmaster General, i'resident of the a tices of the Jews in 8111113111a, national affairs. is a true gauge of the der of Russia. by a Christian minis- "R e wired, That such contemn , .han• ! 1 , , of I Ile Various exclusive laws and this- twational governing body which sub- Local Government Board, and Home ,I it he deemed di sirable, enter 111.011 the extent of the democratic sentiment ter, Louis Way, an English mystic ,,,,,,I,..,,,,,,„, „I w,' ,,,,,,,,,„, „f „moo, all the secular schools and all Secretary. the nations at the time and and religious enthusiast, who quoted iwioirsny and the enra,. ■ for 1 11 ' . " , abilities created by successive goy- Iii Although no longer. in pflice. Mr, - - pervading in support tting Ili untestricte4 enjoyment in those the religions achools, , or., idtal Ile- ernments against them. muting of their readiness to recognize the prophecy and apocalypsey countries in which it is at present h..** instruction. Samuel occupies one of the most I: u' of his contention that the Jews i The memorialists urged that brew is the medium Id recognized." claims of justice. e can no longer be silent on the The board does not interfere with the prominent positions m the House of And this much may be stated with should he emancipated. This memo- Paris was finally designated as the r op snore whether at a roo _ of with COUrtly, but ask e d and whether when political equal- surriculum of the religious schools, Commons, and a future even proper place for the holding of this subject, and social assurance: That the readiness of the rial was disposed but it is responsible for what is brilliant than his past is expected by\ world to recognize the claims of jus• evasive phrases. the conference, which was convened for The second memorial Asa S in is unanimously demanded for can the taught in the secular schools. But it those qualified to judge, who have !Christians in the East, Europe December 11, 1876, and continued un- .icy ti•c is in direct proportion to the demands: He- watched his career. makes these 1111111111t1111 extent and power of the spirit of shape of a special appeal issued by lit December 15, 1876. i permit in Rumania . population of brew and hygienic and sanitary school mocracy. From the Congress at alichael Barr. son of Barr Isaac at Paris. Jews - de W. G. M'ADOO MAY ' 250,IWH1 souls to remain subjected to buildings. Rastatt in 1797, when the first Jewish Barr, who was a member of Napo- es This' conference. which was Per- unexampled JOIN WITH JEWISH attempts were made, up to our own letin's assembly of J ewGish notbl Naps as close in approximation of a I unexamnled anhe- for investment "One million oil times, Jewish diplomacy, as it may and secretary of the rand S Bar r Jewish galthering which the times ' . Protecting the Jews in Rumania. LEGAL PARTNERS this appeal like the non-Nlussultuans in Turkey. n urope should proclaim that it could in the Zionist financial institutions. delegates. s consisted of o be rightly termed, has become more drin. I of the Permitted, "The Jewish Colonial 'Trust needs is demand ed the rein flat dignified and (men. at Court. Jews in their civil and political rights. of whom 22 esvere members of toe sustain religious liberty elsewhere. )N :Legal, financial \V .1.S111 NGTC---- iitiotis ire money for its oldest child, the .\ nglo- Friends Central Committee of the Alliance at Palestine Company, that efficient I'al- and railroad circles were interested following The t The first Jewish diplomats, it seems, 'file Italian Jews also combined. to The delegates representing estine bank which weathered all the this week in the announcement, which submitted: , were not even Jews. At this interna- send ,I petition to this Congress, Paris. America came from a Board of Dele- • was not denied by an interested party, storms and stresses of war. tional conference of Rastatt. 1797. which. however, was never delivered. f7:: r4i,`,?iii'itr's it.'f'1'-'„,s`,Tn,,..sil„';:. ii,„„gsiliii Messrs. J. M. Law- ' „„j dim, retiring "We can be proud of this first Jew- that \Villiani G. McAdoo, gates and wens . . ' „ tie pi Ihtlanitted to the deliberatio !It th e which was convened for the purpose Paris, '56 and '58. 11114111 .. e - and ss Lew !It the Chit fut., and 1.0 irtti A in ish bank. It is an excellent business Secretary of the Treasury. will be- ,the first of these international rence, Arthur of rearranging the map of Germany igman, all of New 'York. never forgets that it come a partner in the law firm of Un- Psii'il.'olitr'r4 - ',,V i:O,,, i,i sie the cony's, i nstitution W1111:11 by providing compensation for these diplomatic gatherings resulted in the 1 uot of Paris in. IliSis ina afar as slower. of developing termeyer & Marshall, the present situ• N the first session of this confer. exists for the tin r'pose Jews of oumania. in order to in• princes whose lands (""he heft bank Treaty of ' Paris tin March 30, 1856, R 0s. President of ,,i „ ),,ms , of plus an ell,' to tilt. WM. of the Palestine and for aiding Jews there. car members of which are Samuel ace Adolph Crentieux., i:ii:i fifii,,iihio.i iiii ii ir„, ,giiiit,!7,, , 21 0 (the Rhine had been seized by which ' Universelly. And they need much aid. Not charity lint enneyer and Louis Marshall. the Alliance Israelite France, the lerws were represented by .Crimea. British Action. was elected president. and Ilarim 1 . _______ iii merely—but business aid. Loans to resting to note t h at Bs- the terms of this treaty Russia Henry de \Vorms, president of the It is interesting two Christians. One of them, Christopher Grand, ceded part of Ilesarrabia which was Angle-Jewish Association, was elect- England three large public meetings colonies for new stock, seeds and ma JEWISH GENERAL championed the cause of the Jews united with Moldavia. Wiallachia and cd vice-president. 'the other vicetvere held where the delegates to chinery; loans to buy up loans model MEDALS ,i a, were an , by private money lenders at usurious militae i a. as well as sers with great ability, urging "the aim- M. Astruo. Chief these conferences repor t e d, In 'm OF THREE NATIONS presidents were: lition of those distinctions under confirmed in their rights and Mouton- Rabbi of Belgium; Dr. S. Kristeller, chester, Liverpool and Birmingham. interest during the war; loans for the hich they live and the granting of ties and placed under the protection Dr. Perlin and Mr. \Villiam Selig- These facts afford another indication cn-p.0"ative societies, luaus that mean • t hi s reconstruction ill every sense of the l'AR1S—The decorations, Croix de greater rights." In this connection, of the Powers. of the democratic tendency o f . The second conference resulted in man. of New York. Guerre tErtich) with Palm; Grand it seems he was working in harmony goes . movement on behalf of the East Euro. term. "Now the second million. At this first sessimi also the the Convention of Paris on August Officer of the Crown, •and the Croix with the Dutch J ews, who even then About half will be needed for the lion as to whether the conference pean Jews. de Guerre (Belgian), have been con- endeavored to influence public opin- 19. 1858, for the organization of the The only Jewish organization of si Zionist epart be open, that is to agree that Commison's further opera ferret on Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Mo• ion on behalf of the Jews who found principalities of 51oldavia and Wal- should all representatiives of the press consequence which did not participate lions. The rudi ments of governmeut nash, K. C. It., commanding the Aus• themselves under the unbenign sway lachia and included the electoral hould be admitted to the session, in this conference was the British Board of Deputies, which even went administration are ahead of us: Jodi- tralian in Expeditionary Forces stipmations. of the German princelings. The cat- ! , ition ',o- an immigration - Article Ni. 46 of this l'aris Colleen- wns discussed. France. Franc to the extent of writing to the For. ciary dnieut. ter unfortunately remained quite un- realm, a commerce and labor burean. The English delegates favored this i non reads as follows: affected by the eloquence and logic of• action as the most effectual means reign sinister. Earl Derby, and in. the governing body of the relief de- al "All Motility ians•Wallacluans are equ ib Christopher Grunts for preventing misconceptions, and forming him of the fact that it had partment, the hoard of education. a WILSON WILL THINK bthffe the law and are mioall. admissle The Indemnification Congress of 1802. at the sessions held the following declined to take part in it. OF RUMANIAN JEWS ' he department. siliV,:•liii1J'r'.:14 t7iii'tistliti".:,i•Irs'g'ili This action on the part of the health Christopher Grand figures again as The en- ' "A quarter of a million will be need- moos politii a l rights equally. day. representatives of the press British Board of Deputies is strongly AT PEACE — CONGRESS „ i g , hit, s5 Launi,di,e,,,,e: t ,c,n‘ Zi I r As;i,,r e champion of the Jews at the in- i r 1, y ;111,7,i:it to, th condemned by the London Jewish ed for special loans to cmmunities. .,tree were finally admitted. Congress of 1802, which , ilettInification Another interesting question came Clronicle. Stress was laid on the fact mer chants and individuals. Character was composed of the ambassadors of 1 aissts." It was this clause which left the WASHINGTON — President Wil- he the only collateral, but the This was the up at this session. that, apart from other considerations, ma) . right t Cerman princes. who, after the settlement of the Jewish question to question as to the malhier in which loans are needed—$100, 000 will be re- son will give full consideration at the the holding of the conference was of dismemberment of the Holy Roman the discretion of the Roumanians our Palestine Supplies and peace conference to the question of the memorial to be addressed to the w hic h it (mired by value the influence Empire, assembled at Random for and fielded them to deprive the e great exerted on in public opinion. compelling our Palestine Service and Information the rights of the Jews in Rumania, Conference sh ould h the purpose of bringing their dig- Jewsof their civil and political Constantina mle Confe etropolitan Press departments—the latter the machines Y according to a letter from him to Reu- for preventing misconceptions, na united members into some sort of rights. It seems that in conjunction ally be ben Fink, Washington, correspondent - rennet's expressed the European and M the p roblem of by which people will newt' submitted. M. ( order and of deciding upon the in- with these two diplomatic gatherings aided to go from "over here” to "over of The American Hebrew. himself of the opinion that the Con- to give attention to the Jews of eastern Europe. the Jews made no attempts to safe- demnity of the damage suffered. The letter is in response to one stantinople Conference should be ad- This conference was hailed as one there." Grund presented a petition, which _ guard the rights of their fellow Jews "We spent $25,000 organizing the which Mr. Fink wrote to Mr. Wilson. directly in a joint memorial dressed of the most remarkable events in the ' 6 probably originated from the Vratik 8, 1878. and in which he said, representing :igned by the delegates present. Ica- Jewish annals of the century. It was Jewish 1-egfoff — lifal floe hodY of Jew - fort Jews, requesting civil rights for in Roumania. On March f ish soldiers who have been mentioned the American Union of Rumanian -on 'Henry de Worms, on the other o the Jews and citing the example of Jewish Chronicle "A memorial to says: either of these conk, . regarded as is pledge of the unity all over the world for their participa- J ew s; hand, was apprehensive that diplo ense•, Isom the Hosea of Deflialies. then France and the Netherlands, which Israel. "The 'American representatives at the only Jewish organiratinn in the world. es of the Pales- might prevent the ette n the name of the 'Jewish math: etiqu It seems. nioreover. that the stand. tion in the final stag sent to speak i had already emancipated their Jewish In strumentalitY of tine cam tai g n, and we shall have to the coming peace conference will par- olenipotentiaries in Constantinople people. through the spite of the support from the British Government, would probably from accepting oliciallY the me- mg of the British _Jews with their own subjects. I it g for the de-I i ticipate in. the treaty. or treaties That . government was not only not im- spend $50,(100 in carin have autlicr4 to prevent the ;merman in e fu t ure of Rumania. the Ambassador of the electorate of claosc foo etwent families of these Jewish sal-I w ill a ffe c t th the nowt ions on He suggested that applies- I this . P "buried the se treaties d i f oum iorial. t n their participation in was o set ania t paired by therefore appeal to you to use your Austria, the petition h ich enable R diets. 'ion should be made by the various • the too well•know II perocutions of her conference, but was even strength- under a pile of state papers." good offices it protecting the rights to their several govern- Jewish subjects." melds to the effect that the latter cued, as is evidenced by the response , "The balance we will spend in the Vienna, 1814. f Earl Derby to a defoliation of the United States and elsewhere for the and privileges-. of the Jews in Ru- Constantinople, 1877. . At this epoch-making congress. mania." This c onference was called for the g ive suitable instructions to their Anglo-Jewish Association which came Purposes of t le organization. Mr. Wilson's letter follow s : which was convened for the purpose "\\'e are spending $60,000. this year relative to the pur- of making disposition of all countries purpose of solving the problems ere- plenipotentiariYs The White House, ',net of the memorial, as otherwise the i to the bespeak his good offices on behalf memorial. In his.restionse the on our education department; $12.000 d by the aspirations of the Ch which the fall oh Napoleon had freed ate of Washington, Nov. 18, 1918. made the following on Hebrew education and probably a s subjected to Ottoman rule and nbiect of the delegates might fail. On ; ws ap- tian Je I Foreign Minister 1 third more of that sum on propagan- My Dear Mr. Fink: from French Suzerainty, the following resohitions geared for the first time as represen- to prevent, if possible. war between this ilig. II c very significant statement: I appreciate the gravity of the Hebrew language. We are were finally adopted: "I cannot advise you homer than to am ' da for the Russia and Turkey. ; questions to which you allude In tatives for their own people. t"" 'fall a+ touch with 1.800 to 2,000 places in dieg ,. in to On January 18, 1877, the Council gfi nr , V II ,f P" I. The meeting rflP.I'PtlY and I I ' P." at h II of the conferenc rum. to that which you In 1814 the Jews of Frankfort, who ' your letter of November 16, and, the United States, alone. It takes 200 dress ■ uo,u06.1 to stronger sunport than that which any goy• were threatened with the loss of i of the Sultan rejected the proposi- roni•antinnple. beg you to believe that I shall have „.,,,, nt rift vise you. vit . the IIIIRPOtt persons to carry on our work at 55 ad • . 2, • The delegate. a.sendiled sa ropes„, ,,,,,,m 1 „ 0 . 1i , „pinion... their privileges, sent two of their', Bons of this conference as to reform to their those questions very much in mind Fifth Avenue, and we require about .1,e., special applications • i rial prepared by this In - i tire governments. that tress ghoul ,' la. memo community to Vienna. namely: Ja- in Turkey, and Russia 'declared war h n e in the work which lies before us in enucial Intended Inc I T , 1877. •' h Conference was i $1,0 00 a day to keep all this complex rald receive the mom,-rat urn ' • I cob Baruch. father of Ludwig Borne. on Turkey on April rence. th e ma ki ng of peace. Sincerely voe conytantin human machinery going, building up. t h this confer- i t 4h i wi Inlitraniewtit the diplomatic confer- In conni•ction moreovr. all I ' Submitted to J. Thatr and Oppenheim or Uffenheim. ence at Constantinople by Charles; developing. systematizing, planningl yours, represented Si the Cone intinnole confer. These two delegates delivered to ; ence, however, the most thorough- fa. 1 - NVOODROW \VILSON. ence should he requested to take into I for over there. It's worth while.” I going atmpt, as yet recorded. was te VorMble consideration the memorial in ac• (ContInuod on page 4.) the Prussian plenipotentiary, von I the Jews of the world to cordance with resolution No. I. a memorial which was I made by Hardenburg,• of men; out of the longing of hearts and the prayers of souls; out of the memory of ages and the hopes of the world, God fashioned a Nation of love; blessed it with purpose sublime and called it--AMERICA. t■,■ 1