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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1919.

VOL. V. NO. 5

AMERICA!

Jewish Interests Have Involved All

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War Chaplain,
Big Peace Congresses Since 1797, and
A Noble Tribute by Rabbi Abbah Hillel Silver,
of Cleveland.
Have Helped Destroy Secret Diplomacy God built a continent of glory and filled it
By Constant Insistence on Direct Acts with treasures untold.

Israel Goldberg Fascinatingly Traces Records of Peace Ta!bell
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.

Backstairs diplomacy, whirl,' is now presented to the congress. This me-
so generally and justly discredited, morial invoked 1111 behalf of the Jews
was, nevertheless, the only recourse the claim that they had purchased

of a weak people under circum- equal rights fur a large sum and that
stances when public opinion had no they had patriotically participated in
force. At a tiine when princes and the liberation of Germany'.

rulers could gather around the green At the same time, the Jews nit
table and secretly dispose of the three Hanseatic cities. against whom
fates of provinces and peoples with hostile sentiment had appeared, sent
impunity, the just claims of the weak to Vienna a Christian lawyer by the

could only be presented indirectly name of Buchholz, who had made
and furtively. Autocracy and secrecy himself known through a pamphlet
are not obliged to reckon with the in favor of the emancipation of the
demands of justice, for the reason Jews. During his stay in Vienna,
that an autocratic regime is not Buchholz published several mani-
lesion and also presented a memorial.
amenable to public opinion.

It is only with the rise of democ• 1n spite of the fact, however, that
and von Harden-
racy and the effective public opinion both Metternich
on which it is founded that back- burg were favorably disposed to the
stairs diplomacy becomes obsolete claims of the Jews and that the con-
and indefensible. gress itself occupied itself with the

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 glor'Y of hope.
And out of the bounty of earth and the labor
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.

I Rt. Hon. H. L. Samuels
Detroit Will Raise
Wins Right For Women to
560,000 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 liant Commoner—Record Is
Full of Honors and Distinc-
Haas, Executive Secretary of
tions.
National Movement.
— -
PASSED BIG BILL •-•
EDUCATION, BUILDING
IN 78 MINUTES
NOW ARE CHIEF AIMS

Th e ,„„,

,110,001 fund which is being
the new $30

raised for restoration work in Pales-
tine.
This fund of $3,000,000 to be raised
throughout the country will carry fur-
ther the work of reconstruction start-
ed with the aid of the $1.041,000 fund
raised last year

Bill of Rights.

secure and safeguard the civil and
political rights of their fellow-Jews

$6,1,0110 will be raised by

Detroit Zionists as this city's quota of

The memorial as tinally adopted by

in the Balkan principalities. An in. the Congress may be summarized as

The Detroit committee consists of
Rabbi A. M. Hershman, Fred M. But-
zel, J. Ehrlich, J. Wetsman, E.

Rabinowitz, I). Robinson, J. Miller,
J. Friedberg, A. J. Koffman, A. Klein.
S. Sarasolm, I). Stocker, I.. Duscoff,
M. Leiberman, I.. L. Scheinman.
Jacob 1)e Ilaas, executive secretary
of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica. made the following statements:
"Three millions is not a large
amount, judging by the demands made
for other causes at this time. It may
not prove an adequate amount for the

needs of 1919,
"One almost hopes that it will -prove

insufficient. Its failure to suffice will
ternational Jewish Congress, retire- follows:
A study of the various attempts oil question several times; in spite also
1 he memorialists set forth that they imply greater Zionist achievement.
settling the principal Jewish orgatii-
secure
their
of
the
fact
that
the
constitution
of
the part of Jews to
zations of the world, was convened are delegated by the Jews in various
Of the $3.1100,000 only a small sum
rights from national diplomatic 'sect- Germane, drawn up by William von in Paris and held sessions from De- free countries to request the confer-
will go directly for relief of the type
togs proves that the Jews were not Humboldt, promised the Jews equal-
ence
at
Constantinople
to
secure
to
f alins-giying and charity.
cember II to 15, 1876.
committed to the backstairs or ity, the tide of Teutumailia ran too
The initiative was taken by the the Jews the same rights as may be
"The benevolence in this budget is
shtedlenuth method. They used the strong, tad in the final disposition of
granted to the general population of $400,000, devoted to the American
was left for Anglo-Jewish 'Association, which, on
method which circumstances indi- the question the matter
disturbed provinces of the Turkish Zionist medical unit, au effort to ex-
rated would be likely to prove the each German state to settle for itself. November 16, 1876, passed the fol- Empire.
pedite sanitary improvement, provide
In consequence the Jew's were de- lowing resolutions:
most efficacious.
Sad experience had shown in the hospital service, dispensary aid and
prived of the rights they had ac-
Direct Action.
Danubian principalities the danger of public health work in Palestine.
A steady progression toward the quired front the French conquerors.
tics of Jews:
! the inequality of rights caused by the
"Let me emphasize the fact that the
Aix-la-Chappelle, 1818.
- kesolvea, That it he prnpo.rd to d„
method of dignity and publicity is
Treaty of 1856 and the Consention of Zionist organization in
the
traceable, becoming more and more Two memorials on behalf of the
''58, the latter of whirl,' COntains a medical unit to Palestine
ok the
Ail'
ens' i7Y
this
Congress,
named hrrealter, m conjunction win,
open and democratic and keeping Jews were presented in

■ aber ai nilarly

The manner in which Jews reacted withdrawal of the army of occupa-
to the occasions when the potentates tion from France. The tirst was pre-
of the• earth met to dispose of inter- sented through the Emperor Alexan-
national affairs. is a true gauge of the der of Russia, by a Christian minis-
stem of the democratic sentiment ter, Louis Way, an English mystic
pervading the nations at the time and and religious enthusiast, who quoted
. in support
of their readiness to recognize the prophecy and apocalypse)
claims of justice. of his contention that the Jews

dcliberate upon and adopt ouch measures
at may seem liekt calculated to secure to
the Jews in the provinces affected by the
war the some rights a. may he obtained

of democracy. mining upon the conditions for'the

And this much may be stated with should he emancipated. This memo-
assurance: That the readiness of the vial was disposed oi with courtly, but

world to recognize the claims of jus- evasive phrases.
The s econd memorial was in the
tier is itt direct proportion to the

rah

1t 1"i "'

liberty generally and the

by the construction put
upon it, enables the litinanians to
exclude Jews front rights enjoyed by
ine.ii irw iegorienav tecrolii:aurrtynoiii,..
n flie memorial

tainl clause which,

steady pace with the general diffusion which met for the purpose' of deter-

""

first step toward socializing medical
work in Palestine, and has begun to
teach the people a new standard of

hygienic life.
"A quarter of a million dollars is to

of a statement of the griev•
anCes of the Jew's in Rumania, and
urieligiit)liTs 1 of the various exclusive laws and (lis-
mean. for ta).- ; abilities created by successive goy-

!consists

thrum'

uunu,e. in which
imperfectly recognized."

LONDON -The Right Honorable
Herbert Louis Samuels, a Jewish
member of Parliament, who moved
the resolution in the House of C0111 -
I11011X last week expressing the desir-
ability of the immediate promotion of
a bill making women eligible for
members of Parliament.
This resolution was passed by an
overwhelming majority in the House
of Commons and marks the absolute
finish of the anti-suffrage movement
in England.
The bill contained only seventy-
eight words, and the time taken in
passing through the three stages of
the Hod* of Commons was little
over seventy-eight minutes.
Women have, already secured the
vote, and to the number of over six
million they will use this parliamen-
tary franchise at the 'next general
election, which is due shortly. It is
however, necessary to pass another
bill to allow them to sit in Parlia-
ment. Ilerbert Samuels took charge of
the proposal, and it is understood that
he will pilot the measure through the
House of Commons. It should he law

be devoted to education. Palestine ,
whateser else it lacks, has now an ed-

ucational gm erning body which sub-

sidizes all the secular schools and all
u. riaiktth,
them.
e nint
h yen tus eagainst
.
,
the religious schoolsgrosided
Ile-
Eu- brew is the medium of instruction.
urged that En-

l'aris was finally designated as the rope can no longer lie silent on the The board does not interfere with the

proper place for the holding of this subject, and asked whether at a mu-
conference, which was convened for ❑ ent when social and political equal-

December 11, 1876, and continued un- '.ity -is ananimously demanded for the
extent and power of the spirit of shape of a special appeal issued by nil December 13, 1876.
1 Christians in the East, Europe can
a
. ac
democracy. From the Congress at Nliehael Barr. son of Barr Is
I permit in Rumania a population of
Jews at Paris.
Rastatt in 1797, when the first Jewish Barr, who was a member of Napo-
250.000 souls to remain subjected to
This conference, which was per-
attempts were made, up to our own leon's assembly of Jewish notables
,
hays as close in approximation of a unexampled
persecution.
times, Jewish diplomacy, as it may and secretary of the Grand Sanhe-
Protecting the Jews in Rumania,
y.
timel
be rightly termed, has become more drin. In this appeal Michael Barr Jewish g:4thering which the ega
t e ,. like the non- NIussulmans in Turkey,
el
65
d
f
o
the
permitted, consisted
tettlitlitleli the reinstatement of
Europe should proclaim that it could
dignified and 1111:11.
Jews in their civil and political rights. of %%how 22 Were members of the sustain religious liberty elsewhere.
Friends at Court.
Central Committee of the Alliance at
The first Jewish diplomats, it seems, 'Flit. Italian Jews also combined to
The two following propositions are
l'aris. The delegates representing
were not even Jews. At this interna- send a petition to this Congress,
submitted:
,•
America came from a Board of Dele-
qualify to ali
Religious
I.
dotal conference of Rastatt, 1797, which, however, was never delivered.
autumns in the Brovince of Turkey whose
gates and were Itlessrs. J. M. Law-
Paris, '56 and '58.
which was convened for the purpose
i!ondition is submitted to the deliberation
of the confer., and Jews in the
- yhe first of these international rence, .‘rtlitir Lewy and \Villiam Sel-
of rearranging the map of Germany
Prins.ipality of Scrota.
igman, all of New York.
by providing compensation Inc these diplomatic gatherings resulted in the

princes whose lands on the left hank Treaty of Paris on March 30, 1856.
end tin t h e „. ar of the
0 Me Rhine had been seized by which put an

France, the Jew s were represented by Crimea.
Iii the terms of this treaty Russia
two Christians.
One of them, Christopher Grund• ceded part of Besarrabia which was
united
with middat . ia. wathwhia and
championed the cause of the Jews
as s ety i nin were
with great ability. urging "the alio- middayia, as well
iii the i r rights and ithinti„i.
lition of those distinctions under eiiiitieme d
which they live and the granting of ties and' placed under the protection

At the first session of this collier.
cnce Adolph Cre.t.ieux, president of
the Alliance Israelite l'uiverselle,

2. To revise and complete the Conven•
n o o n of Paris in 1858 inasfar ao concern.
the Jews of Roumania. in order to in•
sue to them the complete enjoymoit of
civil and political rights. 121

, urriculunt of the religious schools,

but it is responsible for what is
taught in the secular schools. But it
makes these minimum demands: He-
brew and hygienic and sanitary school
building , .

vithio the next fortnight.
Mr. Samuels. who is a member of
one of the best known families in An-

glo-Jewish life, was horn in Liverpool
in 1871). Immediately after leaving
Oxford, where he took first-class hon-
ors, and even before, he threw himself
whole-heartedly into polities.
Ile entered l'arliament in 1902, after
two unsuccessful attempts, and in lit-
tle more than three years held govern-
ment office. Four years later Mr.
Samuels entered the Cabinet. He has
been successively Parliamentary Un-
der-Secretary for the Hoene Depart-
ment, Chancellor of the Duchy of
.ancaster (with a scat in the Cabinet),
Postmaster General, President of the
Loral Government Board, and Home
Secretary.
Although no longer,
plfice. Mr.--
Samuel occupies one of the most
prominent positions in the House of
Commons, and a future even more
brilliant than his past is expected by
those qualified to judge, who have
watched his career,

Finance.

'One million wilt go fur investment
in the Zionist financial institutions.
"The Jewish Colonial 'Trust needs
money for its oldest child, the .\ ugh,
Palestine Company, that efficient Pal-
estine bank which weathered all the

W. G. M'ADOO MAY
JOIN WITH JEWISH
LEGAL PARTNERS

storms and stresses of war.
"We can be proud of this first Jew-
ish bank. It is aii excellent business
institution which never forgets that it

exists for the purpose of developing
Palestine and for aiding Jews there.
And they need much ant Not charity
merely—but business aid. Loans to

British Action.
was elected president. and Baron
Henry de Worms. president of the It is interesting to note that in
colonies
were held where the delegates to colonies
for new stock, seeds and ma-
Angle-Jewish AssoCiation, was elect- England three large public meetings
chinery; loans to buy up loans made
vice-president. The other en e•
by private money lenders :it usurious
a
presidents were: NI. Astruo, Chief these conferences reported: In Mn-
interest during, the war: loans for the
Birmi
ngham.
indic
Rabbi of Belgium; Dr. S. Kristeller, cheater, Liverpool and er
loans that mean
ation
1)r. Perlin and Mr. William Selig- Tkese facts afford anoth
"cry sense of
greater rights." In this connection, of the powe,
of the democratic tendency of this co-operative societies,
man.
of
New
York.
•
•Fhe second conference resulted in
it seems he was working in harmony
the
movement on behalf of the East Fort., tree e7s7tructi'm
At this first session also the ques-
"Now the second million.
with the 1)utcli Jews, who even then the Convention of Paris on August
peals J ews.
tion
as
to
whether
the
conference
1858,
for
the
organization
of
the
endeavored to influence public spin: 19,
only Jewish organization of About half will be needed for the
The
an d w a l. should be open, that is to agree that
ion on behalf of the Jews who found pr j uc i p alitirs of Moldavia
consequence which did not participate Zionist Commission's further opera-
themselves under the unlienign sway lachia and included the electoral all represematiives of the press nt this conference was the British lions. The rudiments of government
should be admitted to the session,
of the German princelings. The lat- stipulations.
w hi c h even ,ven t administration are ahead of us: Judi-

ter unfortunately remained quite un-
affected by the eloquence and logic of

Christopher Grund

The Indemnification Congress of 1802.

Article No. 46 id this Paris Conven-

tion reads as follows:

"All 111oldasions - Wallachme. are equal
I
the low and an'

but or

financial
WASHINGTON—Legal,
and railroad circles were interested
this week in the announcement, which
was not denied by an interested party,
that William (I. McAdoo, retiring
Secretary of the Treasury, will be-
come a partner in the law firm of Un-
termeyer & :Marshall, the present titu-
lar members of which are Samuel
l'uterineyer and Louis Marshall.

JEWISH GENERAL
RECEIVES MEDALS
OF THREE NATIONS

I'ARIS—The decorations, Croix de
Guerre (FrCnch) with Palm; Grand
Officer of the Crown, and the Croix
de Guerre (Belgian), have been con-
ferred on Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Mo-
nash, K. C. II., commanding the Aus-
Board o) Deputies,
tralian Expeditionary Forces in
department, an immigration Ini-
was discussed.
For-
vine).
to the extent of writing to the
France.
The English delegates favored this

eign Minister, Earl Derby, and in- reau, a commerce and labor bureau,
the governing body of the relief de-
forming him of the fact that it Fad
partment, the board of education, a
declined to take part in it.
at the Si ssions held the following
This action On the part of the health department.
day. representatives of the press
"A quarter of a million will be need-
British Board of Deputies is strongly
h ed for special loans to communities.
were finally admitted.
the London J ew i s
condemned
I haracter
Another interesting question came
merchants and

action as the most effectual means
fur preventing misconceptions, annul

se

Christopher Grund figures again as
squally. The en
enjoy pol itual rights
the champion of the Jews at the in-
tile.sv ei right, can be extended
rme rn i t. i s4f, r
0IS by legislative ended
ri
,leninification Congress of 1802, which
was composed of the ambassadors of forms."
It was this clause which left the
eight German princes. who, after the settlement of the Jewish question to
dismemberment of the Holy Roman the discretion of the Roumanians
1•:inpire, assembled at Ratishon fur and eikabled them to deprive the
the purpose of bringing their dis- Jews of their civil and political
united members into some sort of rights. It seems that in conjunct881
order and of deciding upon the in- with these two diplomatic gatherings
demnity of the damage suffered.
the .1c s made no attempts to safe-

Grund presented a petition, which

probably originated from the brank- guard the rights of their fellow Jew,

in Roumania. On March 8, 1878. the

fort Jews, requesting civil rights for Jewish Chronicle says:
"A memorial to either of thole oink,
the Jews and citing the example of
mux.s, from the Board of Deputies. then
France and the Netherlands, which
the only Jewish organisation in the world,
had already emancipated their Jewish
sent to speak in the name n( the Jewish
the Instromentality
people, through
subjects. In spite of the support from
the British Government. would probably
the Ambassador of the electorate of
have suflis. ed to prevent the Insertion in
these treatit • f the nobolosis clause
Austria, the petition was "buried
which enabled Rounlanta bi set on Imo

under a pile of state papers."

the too well.knowit persecutions of her
Jewish subjects"

up at this session. This was the
question as to the mai?ner in which
the memorial to be addressed to the
Constantin'ople Conference should he
for preventing misconceptions, mad
submitted. M. Cremieux expressed

Chronicle. Stress was laid on the fact

that. apart from other considerations. , maY

WILSON WILL THINK

the only e°11ateral, hurt the

holding of the conference was of , loans are needed—$100,000 will be re-
great value in the influence which it quire,' by slur Palestine Supplies and
g our Palestine Sersiee and Information
exerted on public opinion, com p e lli n
latter the machinery
the European and :Metropolitan Press departments—the
hiCh people wil l e' CUM"). be
to Rise attention to the problem of ICY
that
the
on-
himself of the opinion
she Jews of eastern Europe. aided to go from "over here" to "over
statitinople Conference should was
be
ail.
there
.
a s one
hailed
This conference
"We spent $25,000 organizing the
dressed directly in a joint memorial of the most remarkable events in the
present.
t
es
l
ega
Bs-
e
he d
body of Jew-
signed b e t
on the other Jewish annals of the century. It was! Jewish Legion--that fine

OF RUMANIAN JEWS
AT PEACE CONGRESS

WASH I NGTON — President Wil-
son will give full consideration at' the
peact conference to the question. of
the rights of the Jews in Rumania,
according to a letter front him to Reu-
ben Fink, Washington correspondent

of The American Hebrew.
The letter is in response to one
which Mr. Fink wrote to Mr. Wilson,

and in which Ile said, representing,

U1110I1 of Rumanian
f ish soldiers who have been mentioned the American
-.on II enry de NV0 r A,
regarded as a pledge of the unity o
hand. was apprehensive that dint°.
, all over the world for their participa- Jews: , ;
the Israel.
"The American representatives at
cum in the final stages of the Pales-
61enip
mat ic etiquette might p revent
It seen's. moreover. that the s t a nd: , .
otentiaries in Consta ntinople
and we shall h • e to the coming peace conference will par-
ing of the British
from accepting officially the me-
1". in caring for the de- ticipate in, the treaty or treaties that
with
ly tit' (;w rn .n ... s h p neeloc l ai $ "57,000
government was Jews
not on
morial. He suggested that applica-
participation in this pendent families of these Jewish sol- will affect the future of Rumania. We
paired by their
tion should be made by the various
therefore appeal to you to use your
conference, but was even strength- diets

delegates to their several govern-
"The balance we will spend in the good
erred, as is evidenced by the response
ments to the effect that the latter
the United States and elsewhere for the and
of Earl Derby to a deputation of
This conference was called for the give suitable instructions to their
e f the or anizatjon.
which was convened fur the purpose
gln-Jewish Association which came purposes
purpose of solving the problems cre- plenipotentiaries relative to the pur- An
"We are spending $60,000 this year
of making disposition of all countries
good offices on behalf
the
memorial,
as
otherwise
the
to
bespeak
his
ated by the aspirations of the Chris- ❑ oe t o f
the on our education department: $12.000

Vienna, 1814.

At this epoch-making congress.

which the fall of Napoleon had freed
from French Suzerainty, Jews ap-

peared for the first time as represen-

tatives for their own people.

;

Constantinople, 1877.

tians subjected to Ottoman rule and
to prevent. if possible, war between

object of the delegates might fail. On

Russia and Turkey.

were finally adopted:

On January 18. 1877, the Council
o
In 1814 the Jews of Frankfort,
rejected the propost-
were threatened with the loss of of the Sultan

their privileges. sent two of their tions of this conference as to reform
declared war
Ja- in Turkey, and Russia -
April 4, 1877.
Baruch,
father
of
Ludwig
Borne,
on
Turkey
on
cob
In connection with this confer-
and Oppcnheim or Uffenheim.

community to Vienna, namely:

These two delegates delivered to ence, however, the most thorough-
the Prussian plenipotentiary, von I going attempt, as )et recorded, was
Iiardenburg,• a memorial which was made by the Jews of the world to

this issue the following

resolutions Foreign Minister made the following on II ehrevv education and probably a
, , third more of that sum on propagan-
very significant statement:
5.e are
"I cannot advise You better thon to so-' de, for the Hebrew language. \

I. The meeting of delegates shall ad
memorial to the conference Si
Ion...6,100e .
2. • The detente. oheniblol shall ad'
dress special a plication• to their respee•
eve governments, that these .hold fa.
vorably receive the menu.r!al Intended for
I
the l'or•tantinotil e oinmence.
3. That. moreover, all governments
represented at the Conotintolotile confer.
enre should be :.•;uested to take int. h• '
able consideration the memorial on ac'
cordons's. with reelllution -No. Z.

drew .

co

of the memorial. In his.resnonse

fr i aLsotn osta t;tal:i wsrtiili.hnyno,,Il w
id i ::"Lr% !

n , simport than that which any vv.
ronger
'storm
ll• ottI tlf.• Ill, soliPort
,d tt,,,,,,..1"1"5,0.,17,..4ilti
p

in touch with 1.1)00 to 2,000 places in
the United States, alone. It takes 200

1 persons to carry on our work at 55
The memorial prepared by this In - , Fifth Avenue, and we require about
ternational Jewish Conference was 1 $1,000 a day to keep all this complex
human machinery going, building up.
submitted to the diplomatic confer -
cote at Constantinople by Charles developing, systematizing, planning
I for over there. It's worth while."
(Continued on page 4.)

others

in protecting the rights
of the Jews in Ru-

Wilson's letter follows:
The White House,
NVashington, Nov. 18, 1918,
My Dear Mr. Fink:
I appreciate the gravity of the
questions to which you allude In
your letter of November 16, and,
beg you to believe that I shill have'
those questions very much in mind
in the work which lies before us in
the making of peace. Sincerely
yours,
WOODROW WILSON.