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weekly Forum. This has undoubtedly been a suc h in the right direc-
tion, as events hZve clearly shown. But a word of warning should
be sounded. Even such an organization as the Wind Writh Club,
bringing new life and energy' into the organization, does not sound
the deePestskaoses of the I trdcr unless it give to its members the

throughout the world.
IVrith Day, which is to be celebrated
It is our belief that
All Nrrespondence to insure Publication must be sent in so as to reach this
(in Sunday of this week, when the•members of the lienertrt••ommit-
office Tu e sday evening of each week.
tee will be our guests, will go far to impress the real significance of
$2.00 per year
t'ffiii Irrithdom upon the members of the Order, and that as a result
Subscription in Advance
Pisgah Lodge will not only be restored to a place of leadership in

Editorial Contributor

RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN

The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of Interest to the
Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an Indorsement of the views
expressed by the writers. •

the district because of its numbers, but as well because of its achieve-
ments and its aspirations.

Entered as secombelass matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit,
Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

A Type of the Polish Attitudefoward the Jew

Our New City Administration

"FOUR VITAL ACTS OF B'NAI BRITH"
SET IN NEW AND FASCINATING LIGHT

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BY MYER S. FINK•

The four vital acts of the order are I her and light financially, they real-
known to every member of the ll'itai iced that there were children who by
Brith. I the loss of one or both of their par-
t shall tell you nothing new, but I . rots, or through unfortunate en•iron-
shall place them before you in a new meat, were liable to die in childhood,
light. The deep interest which the , or, what is still worse, grow tit, to a
Jewish people of our community are living death.
They decided that if parents by na-
showing in Pisgah Lodge makes this
tore could not or would not take
subject timely and appropriate.
If I were asked to point out the care of their own children. the order
noblest example of a human being, would become parents of grace. hey
without hesitation I would say,•""1 hat reared some of the noblest and
person w ho does a kind and chard- grandest institutions ever built • by
able at without wanting or expecting man - so-called orphan asylums, "To-
any return. Ile its it because he day there are thousands—yes, tens of
feels that it is noble to be good." ' thousands - of good inen and women
King Solomon, in his Ecclesiastes, who would have perished but for the
has written nine words, which should Order of Ilrith.
\\lien their attention was called to
be printed in letters of gold and
thousands of men and women all
placed in every Jewish home:
"Cast your bread upon the surface over the country who were suffering
of...the waters, and in many clays you from that dread disease, tuberculosis.
will find it." and Is llo Were too poor and helpless

The City of Detroit is to be highly congratulated upon the new
city' administration which entered upon the discharge of its duties
Despite the strenuous and vehement denial , of Jewish pogroms
On Tuesday of the past week. Under the efficient leadership of so
in Poland and the request for a commission to investigate the situa-
virile and courageous a man as Mayor James Couzens, with an
tion, there is good reason to believe that the reported massacres of
'This is the literal translation; the to site themselves, they endowed a
body whose personnel is on the whole UtinSually repre-
significance I shall explain as I go on. hospital at Denver, Cid°. Today
Jews in Poland are only too well founded. That the Pole hates the aldermanic
sentative of high citizenship ideals and whose number is sufficiently
All of you who have read Sir \\'al- there are hundreds—yes, thousands—
JOS' with an insatiable hatred, recurring incidents in Polish history
•
limited to make the fixing of responsibility comparatively easy and ter Scott's great novel, "The Ileart of men and woolen united with their
prove beyond a doubt.
of Nlid-Lothian," will remember the • families, who would have died in the
best of all, with the new and improved charter under which to work, sublime and pathetic passage where utmost agony but for the Order of
At this time, when Poland is seeking her complete independence—
Detroit should henceforward be one of the best governed cities in Jeanie Deans travels all the way by Brith.
and none grudges that to any nation that is Just and fair-minded in
\Viten white-slavery ran rampant
foot from Edinburgh to London.
America, if not in the whole world.
its dealings with others,—she is seeking, especially through the
Through the influence of the 1)uke of through this country, especially in
Up to this time, while Detriiit has borne an enviable reputation
Argyll she is introduced at Richmond the large cities, unfortunately too
English-language press, to win for her cause the sympathy and the
among the cities of the land for its commercial prosperity and fOr l'ark to Queen Caroline, consort of many so-called "Jews" were engaged
support of the civilized world. Indeed, to this end, someone is
its industrial progressiveness, it has been a byword in the mouths Georgt. IL, king of England, to plead' in that awful traffic, until it was ere-
spending vast sums of money, as witness the whole page advertise-
for the life of her sister, who had acing a scandal. The ITnai Brith did
of many, not, indeed, as some would have it, for its politihl corny ,
ments of "The Free Poland" that have appeared day by day in one
been convicted oil circumstantial evi- not hesitate. The). had Itepresenta-
tion, but certainly for its political .stupidity. There has been less deuce of child murder. Ignorant as tie,. Louis Mann, of Illinois, intro-
of our local newspapers. Nor has editorial appeal for sympathy
graft than there has been inefficiency in our governmental affairs in the pour girl is of court eitquette, duce a bill called the Mann act,
with "stricken Poland" — as she has been described—been half-
%%nch was passed 1.y t °ogress. By
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Detroit. We fully believe that henceforward our municipal affairs still she can realize that she is mak
hearted or scanty.
ing no impression on the queen, who its. rigid enforcement it practically
will be Raided with the satire discretion and With the the same regard isteseicnosurd uned
to let the law take te il,leinii,iolant,e,rd ,t)ihst‘ hwellite slave. trathic. , and
etern
It is because of her treatment of the Jews I•ho form a large per-
for economy and efficiency as are the affairs of a private corporation
centage of the inhabitants of Poland, and because of her insane
When anti - semitrsn' t '; as thsaatm terrible
While her heart is breaking. she
under proper leadership.
hatred of them, which seems in no wise to have diminished in these
makes a slum me effort for her six- importation from across the Atlantic,
However, that the best city administration may show results of ter's life and this is the substance of reached our shores and gradually be-
last times, that the Jews of the world must demand that before
which the people may lie proud, all of our citizens must rally to the her plea: gars to spread over the country, es-
Poland be given her complete independence, or before the proposed
"If it please you, illy gracious lady, pecially on the cheap vaudeville
moral support of the men whom we have chosen for places of respon-
League of Nations shall receive her into fellowship, sonic definite
it is not when our hearts are light stage and in the sensational journal , .
sibility and power. To be a citizen of Detroit must be a source of and we hold our heads up high that the Ifnaf Brith by its prompt action
and enforceable guarantee of the citizenship rights of Jews in her
honest pride to us, but that pride must translate itself into the terms we think of the sufferings of others. m a d e every manager eliminate all ob •
borders must be given.
"But when the last hour is come jectionable acts reflecting upon Jests,
of incessant eagerness to serve the common cause of our city, our
That the attitude of Poland toward the Jew is utterly malicious;
—and it must come to the high as and made the owners of papers apol-
state and our country. The eyes of all America are upon Detroit well as the lo•—then the thoughts ! ogize for the past and promise that
that it is dictated by jealousy and hatred, and that it is as vicious
today. Let what men see here be to them a sinirc• of if iy and we like best are not of what we have in the future the name of the Jew
t o day as it has ever been, finds proof in the editorial columns of the
done for ourselves, but the good we. would not he taken in vain. Today
inspiration.
'Polish Daily News, published in this city, and front which we repub-
have done to others. the Jew is honored more than ever

lish in this issue certain,extracts typical of the editorial policy of that

paper.
It is suggestive that these attacks upon the Jew, which are suffi-
ciently virulent to arouse race riots even in this country, are printed
in Polish and so for the most part are unavailable to-the readers of
the English-language press in which constant appeals are made for
sympathy with Poland. To anyone who knows the truth, even a
surface reading of the editorial extracts which we republish on
another page of this paper, will indicate their malicious, lying

Liberalism Run to Seed

The news from New York that the Unitarian Church of the
Messiah, following the heard of its pastor, the Rev. Dr. I laynes
Holmes, is about to sever its connection with the Unitarian fellow-

ship and to found a new church to be known either as the "Clnirch
of the New Democracy" or the "Church of the Free Spirit," sug-
gests that there is a danger in these times of liberalism running to

seed.
character. however, circulating as the paper does among a class of
Rev. Haynes I !ohms has long been known in America n u t only
readers who are characteristically ignorant, such wicked fabrications
as a tine speaker but also as a man of liberal thought. As a matter
• may arouse passions that will lead to race hatreds so Intense and
of fact, on occasion he has certainly gone to extremes, as. for
bitter that from them even bloodshed may result.
instance, when—if report be true—because of his support of the
Still, even this is not the essential consideration in the matter in
doctrine of internationalism, he refused to have the American flag
hand. What needs to be emphasized is the fact that it is altogether
unfurled in his church. However, one Would illiaginq that the
likely that the writer of these editorials in the Polish Daily News
Unitarian creed was about as liberal and as all-embracing in its
simply reflects the thought of the Polish people here and in their
sympathies and its ideals as an creed could possibly be.
home land. If such-is the case, Poland is not ready for her inde-
But even Were this not the Case, it does seem a little puerile to
pendence, and to grant it to her would be to endanger the property
establish another cult which at the most can only i)vei'lap in its
and the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews in her borders who
functions. such all institution as Dr. Felix Adler's Ethical Society.
have always been loyal and law-abiding.
.A erectness church, as a matter of fact, is bound by the very law of
If the editor in question does not reflect the thought of Poland,
necessity to be weak and spineless. It necessarily centers about
it is the immediate duty of responsible Polish leaders to put an end
some over-towering perstinality,•and once that person, through death
to his wretched fabrications and to use all the influence that they
or other cause, lays down his task, the organization builded round
may possibly exert to have their motherland give the necessary
him is almost stir(' to crumble. 'ibis has proved itself true time and
guarantee that not only the life and the property but as well the
time again in regard to movements in which the personality of the
citizenship rights of the Jews in Poland will he definitely and fully
leader was a dominant factor. Because of our great admiration for
safeguarded.
Dr. I lolmes and our knowledge of his unquestioned sincerity, we
trust that his new movement may meet with a better fate than most
similar movements. But, in the light of history, we hardly believe

B'nai B'rith Day

The Jewish community of Detroit extends hearty welcome to the
gentlemen representing the General Committee of District No. lb
I. 0. 11. B., who are to come to our city this week for the transaction
of important business relating to the Order. Their coming here
should be an epoch-making event in ,the history of the local lodge,
which, in recent times, has gone far to regain the place of honor

which at one time it held in this district.
Writh was not a
It is no secret that fur many years the
telling factor in the religious or the community life of our city.
The reasons fur its decline and for its loss of influence need not here
be recited, since they are pretty well known to all interested parties.
The, fact stands out, however, that within recent times, not only has

"Save an honest family from shame, before throughout this country.
and a poor, suffering, innocent child In conclusion 1 shall say, just as
from a violent death! Then let the I have begun, that the Order of Wilai
last hour come when it may, these Brith is built upon a magnificent and
thoughts will lie very sweet to you, beautiful monument, not of bronze or
my clear lady." of marble, but of life everlasting. Let
'Chic queen turns to the Duke of us by harm o nious co-operation assist
Argyll and says: "This is eloquence in making the beautiful structure
suldime." higher and higher until it reaches
Over 80 years ago a few good and heaven.
noble Jews organized an association
idivered at the Forum
dInnei!h• iiTme rsel urea chin. .1. 1.1.1tifl). ,
and called it the Order of the
Ih•eaulid of ttpollhithlifeol
Jaeuitry 7. 1918.
Brith.
onilenions In our hod lemur, the whole of till.
While they were yet few in num-. ya l ua sh• add,ea is now reprinted.

that such can be the case.

The Word "Jew"

Tile attention of our

local reporters and headline writers is

respectfully called to the fact that the word "JEW" is a mum and
not an adjective. It is thoroughly disgusting to read, as frequently

%et; are compelled to in the columns of the Detroit press, about "1 eW
peddlers" or "JeW laborers" or "Jew worshipers," etc. he adjec-
tive corresponding to the nifun is "Jewish." Will the writers in 'our

'addle press kindly take notice?

the Lodge grown in point of numbers but it has undertaken a con-
siderable amount of serious and important work, and it stands ready

—so its leathers aver—to sponsor any new community work, to carry
on which it has the necessary machinery available.
%aid
It is rather unfortunate that because—as stated above—the local
Monitor--larch Miller.
lodge for many years failed to live up to the high standards of the
(Continued From Page 1.)
Assistant Monitor—Leon Gold-
smith.
Order, the whole organization came to be rather lightly thought of
of !tertian' Ginsburg. chairman; Jul-
Treasurer—lferman Finsterwald.
by many of the people of our community. Whatever 'One may think ius Freud, Jacob Siegel, Rabbi leo M.
Secretary—Charles Rosenthal.
as to the future of secret organizations in general and of the li'nai Franklin. Samuel 1 lea%enrich, Z. Sell-
Warden—David Marymont.
ing. Adolph Freund, Morris Garvett,
Guardan—henry A. Marks.
B'rith in particular, he- cannot be blind to the fact that the organiza-

B'nai Brith Members and

tion has served, and no dou b t Will hereafter

serve,

really purposeful

ends in Jewry.
Aside from philanthropic institutions which the Order has called
into being, it has offepid to Jews divided from each other by partisan

religious differences, a common platform whereon Orthodox and
Reformer, Zionist and non-Zionist, may meet as brother Jews. This
in itself is no small achievement and one that stands greatly to the

credit of the Order.
Nor are the services which the Order at this time may render,
few or difficult to find. What is needed is wise, discreet, courageous
leadership. Problems must not be created, as to confess the truth
has. sometimes been the case, merely for the sake of keeping the
machinery of the lodge at work, but conditions as they exist today
must be fairly and frankly studied and means must be devised of

meeting the problems that arise out of such study.
Locally, what has contributed perhaps most largely to the revival
of the lodge has been the creation of the B'nai B'rith Club with its

Louis Duscoff, S. D. Rosenzweiz,
Dr. Hugo .\. Freund. Rabbi A. M.
Hershman. Z. Himelhoch, A. Jacob,
Henry A. Krolik, Jacob Miller. Louis
Welt. Silberman.

Trustees—Herman Weiss, Adolph
Freutql. and 1.. J. Leopold.

The will of Frank Russek who died
when the United States transport
The Entertainment Committee con- when
was sunk. has been filed at
sists of Louis 1. Frank, chairman:
New York. The Montetiore Home
Leonard Braun, A. Lapin Cohen, Hy-
and New York 1.'niversity are each
man Keidan, Sylvan S. Grosncr.
left $5,000 and several other institu-
The Publicity Committee members tions are left bequests of $1.500 and
are: Milton Alexander. chairman:
$1,000 each.
Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg, Morris
Friedberg.

The officers of Pisgah Lodge, In-

Baron Emanuel Herczel

dependent Order of B'nai lirith, which
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will see its membership augmented
by this extraordinary class of more of the intestines. kidneys and of the
than 31)0, in a ceremonial which has larynx.
attracted the keenest interstate at-
lie leases a widow--the sister of
tention. are as follows:
the author Andreas I.atzk, author of
"Men
in War"—a daughter and a
President—Morris Garvett.
Vice-President — Adolph Finsier- Soli.

TEMPLE BETH EL NOTES. I the Temple last Sunday with a large

Sabbath Services.

Sabbath services are held every Sat-
urday morning at 111:30. The sermon
this week will be preached by Rabbi
Nlayerberg.

Sunday Services.

increase in membership. After adop-
lion of the constitution a social meet-
ing was held to the enjoyment and
satisfaction of all present. The next
meeting of the society will he held on
the fourth Sunday afternoon of the
month. All those who are not mem-
bers 01 the so ciety are most cordially
incited to attend every meeting.

Sunday services are held every Sun-
day morning at II:00. The sermon
Girls' Patriotic League.
will he preached by Rabbi Franklin.
The Girls' Patriotic League of Tem-
In conjunction with B'nai itrith Day,
ple Beth El held a social meeting
Rabbi Franklin will speak upon the
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock and a
topic, "New Responsibilities and New
low program was presented. The
Duties:" The officers and general
League meets e ■ cry 'Tuesday at 4
committee of the Grand Lodge will
under the direction of Miss Ella Still-
be present.
man.

Confirmation Class.
The Confirmation Class meets as

Boy Scouts.

"The Boy Scouts are busily prepar-
usual on Saturday morning at 9:30 ing for their Basket Ball game which
is soon to be played with one of the
under Rabbi Franklin.
strongest young teams in the city.
Hebrew Class.
The Ilehrew Class meets with Rab- The Scouts meet every Thursday
bi Mayerberg every Saturday morn- evening at 7:30 under the direction of
Mr. Milton Aronheim, their splendid
ing at 0:30
Scoutmaster. All boys in the city
Red Cross.
above
the age of 12 are cordially in-
The especial attention of all mem-
bers is directed to the fact that the vited to join this troop.
Junior Scouts.
Red Cross t•nit of Temple Ileth El is
The Junior Scouts have been meet-
badly in need of workers. It cannot
be urged too strongly that it is just ing under the leadership of Mr. Eman-
as necessary to if the work of this uel Neugarten in the absence of their
orgfinization. as it was when the war Captain. Louis Weitzman. The Troop
was in progress. The Unit has much shows a steady growth and the
material on hand and it is incumbent amount of pleasure and fun obtained
upon all the members to do full share at each meeting is unbounded. The
in converting those materials into Troop !Tye numbers nearly fifty but
needed articles. The Unit meets every candidates are still welcome. All boys
Tuesday and Friday and it is hoped 10 to 12 are welcome. The Troop
that the next meeting wilt show a meets every Tuesday at 4 in the
goodly number of enthusiastic and Gym.

capable workers.
Young People's Society.
Mayor James Colin:as gave his fir,t
speech as Nlayor of Detroit, at Tem-
ple Beth El, under the auspices of the
Young People's Society on the 15th
of January. .\ very large audience
greeted the ,Nlayor and judging from
his talk the city is (lac to receive an
administration of unprecedented mer-
it. Mr. •Abram Ray Tyler, of the
Temple Beth El Choir, gave a thirty-
minute organ recital preceding the
address of the Mayor. Mr. William
Howland, director of the Choir, ren-
dered a beautiful solo.
Beginning with Wednesday of the
coming week, the Classes of the
Young People's Society will resume
their work. All members of the So-
ciety are most urgently reque4ted to
take an active interest in these class-
es, and to participate in them. The
selection of class wbrk is large enough
to give every person a choice which
will prove interesting.
The Sunday evening entertainment
seas a grim success and the large au-
dience enjoyed Rabbi Franklin's talk
on "What Young l'eople Can Do to
l'rotnote Religion in the Community."

Wireless Class.
The Class in Wireless Telegraphy

was started last Friday with a large
number of Scouts attending. The
class is under the direction of Lieut.
Abraham Pilkington, formerly of the
Royal Flying Corps, tut now with
the Recreation Commission of De-
troit. Scouts from all Troops in the
city are invited to take advantage of
this class. It meets every Monday,
\Vednesday and Friday afternoons at
4 o'clock in the Gym.

Uniongrams.

Several very large affairs will short-
ly take place in the community and
the members are urged to send their
congratulatory messages upon Union-
grams. They are always on sale at
the Temple. Leave your order and
the message will be written and sent
for you.

BERGSON WILL NOT GO
TO PALESTINE COLLEGE
Henri Bergson, the French philoso-
pher, has denied the rumor that he is
to leave the University of Paris and
assume a post at the Hebrew Univer-
sity at Jerusalem. Bergson asserted
that he would never leave the Univer-
Junior Young People's Society.
sity of Paris, and that he hopes to end
The Junior Young People met at his days in its service.

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