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J. WALTER FRIEDBERG Jewish WelfareeinfBonnat n Bureau
TEMPLE BETH EL
Of Cincinnati.
Twentieth Anniversary of Rabbi Franklin's Ministry.
On..iunday of this week—January 26-at 10:30, special services 70111 be
held in honor of Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, who celebrates his Twentieth .Inni-
versary as minister of Temple Beth El.
Rabbi Franklin will preach his inaugural sermon of twenty years ago,
Rabbi Mayerburg will read the ritual.
8:00 promptly.
-Special evening services will be held beginning at
.The program for both services is as follows:
MORNING SERVICE.
Organ, "Prelude in C Major"
J. 5, Bach
Anthem, "]'raise the Lord) • -
12andegger
Ritual-Rabbi Samuel S. Mayer-
berg.
'larger
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....Sparger
Stn. Yisrhel.......
Mho is IA, Unto Thee...Rogers
SOICker
Kerlusha (Festival/
Adolph Finsterwald,
Rev. Dr. Lee S. McCollester,
ILER
entity
twenty years of fine service, the Rab-! mindedness of the congregation have
bi has proven himself completely. He I enabled hint to serve widely and well
radiates a force felt everywhere, and many departments of the city. He
always directed to the better things. has been an organizer of charitable
Above all, Ile has seen Detroit rise institutions for both Temple and city.
overnight, as it were. from the status In the Boys' Home and Farm he was
of a genial country town to its pees- a vital fact or. He stood by it in the
cut perilous—because as yet unsold- days when the whole program seemed
ful—place in the column of great doomed and helped to make it a sue-
cities. Thus, he understands the Items cess. I think of him with especial
problems; he realizes the difficulties appreciation in the struggle to estab-
and dangers; he is so situated as to lisp "The Citizens' Thanksgiving
be able to grapple them And, to give Service" in the Opera House. When
hint his bare due, he has grasped the some wanted to give up he stood
problem and given it full voice. Ile steady, and in this institution the city
stands forth, not simply as the owes him more than it knows for
spokesman of his people, but what is without him it would not have lasted
far more important, as the representa- to this time when its last celebration
tire of their distinctive contribution w as its best.
I)r. Franklin has also been a good
to our mutual citizenship.
servant of the city along educational
lines, and I well remember in some
of the tights, real fights, too, how
steadfastly lie stood for higher ideals
Treasurer of Temple Beth El, Presi-
of education, and better standards
dent B'Nai Brith Club.
and compensation for teachers. Any
"I deem it a privilege to express, in appeal that asked a defeeider of ills-
a small measure my deep appreciation tice, of educational standards, of fair
of the noble and telling services Rab- dealing among men, or better haus-
Isi Franklin has rendered to Temple ing for the poor, always found in hint
Beth El and to the community. Jewry a wise and tireless champion.
Nor can I forget how he has en-
may well be proud of Rabbi Leo M.
tered into the social and club life of
Franklin.
"During the many campaigns which Detroit. He was ever ready to pro-
have occupied our minds during the pose a paper, make an address, or
past few years, no man has played a deliver a series of lectures on worth-
more important part in firing the while themes, and in a manner that
hearts of our people with the supreme showed he was student as well as
desire to serve and to sacritice—and preacher. I shall always appreciate
he has ever practiced what he has the aid he gave me in the years when
preached. Church of Our Father had its
lie
Ext , scion Courses.
"Let us pray to God that he may be
, -operate with
spared to us for litany, many years."
• own
asisin..e; a, I.4,
lectures.
A gentleman, a student, i'"ia(tfiel;
a civic leader Ire is, but to me he
President Tufts College, Many Years bulks largest as a friend. Many and
Pastor Church of Our Father,
varied are the places where we have
Detroit.
met and the subjects over which we
have exchanged opinions, and ex-
On the occasion of Dr. Franklin's
rounding out twenty years of service ceedingly' close have been our rela-
in the city of Detroit, I salute hint as tions as pastors of two city congre-
gations. Dr. Franklin was always
one of Detroit's foremost citizens and
welcomed by my church, and with
as my well beloved personal friend.
Twenty years is a long period for a tender feelings I recall the many in-
timate favors and honors done me by
m a n to stand before the public. In it
are both privilege and responsibility. hint and Temple Beth El. And as
'I', be a leader of the thought and often as I visit Detroit, I never feel
progress of a great community is one my visit quite complete if it wholly
of the highest honors allowed a man. misses a sight of hint or a chat in
To be a real leader, and while feel- the study of the good doctor. Genial
ing the responsibility to keep a level he always is, and cheery and social,
head, to pursue always a constructive a man's Mall and liked by men of all
path, to subordinate personal pref- faiths. A friend is he whose friend-
erences for community welfare, is to ship is not strained by distance nor
add greatness of manhood to leader- cooled by time—twenty years a
ship of power. In a marked degree friend and still a friend till we die—
Dr. Franklin has been a leader who and then—we both are men of broad
has exalted sane thinking, public and deep religious faith—and we have
good, and the betterment of society expectations beyond even death.
Good friend, Dr. Leo M. Franklin—
above personal gretification and self-
ish gain, and he comes to the sum- once more I salute you.
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Duet—"The Lord is My Light"
Dudley Buck
Mrs. Fit zge rald and 01r. Ilowlaml
Sermon....Rabbi Leo M. Franklin
Soprano Solo and Chorus
Gounod
Jerusalem"
(‘'iolin, Harp and Organ),
"Extase"
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Address.. Rev. Chester It. Emerson
Address ... Rabbi David . \ lexander
Tenor Solo—"King All Glorious"
Ilarnby
Mr. George Iltokm
Rabbi kVilliain Rosenau
.\ ddress
Response..Rabbi Leo M. Franklin
"Star Spangled Banner," Choir and
Congregation.
Benediction.
Reception for Rabbi and Mrs.
Franklin under the auspices of
NVotnan's Auxiliary and Young
People's Society.
CHOIR
Solo ly Sliss Phyllis Zuckerman
Choir
I y mit
Benediction.
Organ, "Triumphal March"
Dudley Buck
Anthem, "Awake L'p, My Glory"
Chadwick
Invocation, Rabbi Samuel S. May-
erherg.
Violin Solos: Larghetto...Handel
Meditation (Thais).. Massenet
Mr. I.. Wolff
''marks
'smart Ginsburg
Prs. ,
d J. Murphy
Address-. JudAt. .
Alto Solo—Eili Eili Vcraditionall
Arranged by Schindler
I nit 0.
bliss Mirah Helen Cohen
Address... Rabbi Isaac I.. Rypins
rector.
Abram Ray Tyler, organist.
ASSISTED BY
Miss Phyllis Zuckerman, so-
prano.
Mrs. A. Lapin Cohen, soprano.
Miss Mirah Helen Cohen, alto.
Mrs. Andrew Wineman, alto.
George Ilecker, tenor.
Nicholas Davies, tenor.
Joseph A. Krolik, bass.
R. A. Shappell, bass.
Mrs. Helen Burr-Brand, harpist
of Detroit Symphony Orchestra).
Mr. L. Wolff, violinist (of De-
troit Symphony Orchestra).
771e public is m.11 cordially invited to attend both services std
lion to be given for Rabbi and .firs. Franklin at the conelusion
services.
The Jewish Welfare Board, of this \
city, with offices at 533 Cass avenue, \
wishes to inform the readers of the
Jewish Chronicle that it is ready and
anxious to offer its services for all
purposes of information pertainitig to
the welfare of Jewish men in the U.
S. service.
The office of the Welfare Board is
open every (lay in the week, and all
facilities of the office are at the com-
mand of the Jewish public. The tele-
phone number is Glendale 1062.
The Jewish elfare Board is doing
its utmost to place discharged men
in satisfactory positions, and it takes
this opportunity of asking Jewish em-
ployers who are in a position to em-
ploy men without Saturday work to
leave their names at the office, 533
Cass avenue. Tlicee' are many such
Of Cincinnati.
positions eagerly sought for by Jew-
ish soldiers of orthodox faith. Any
It would be futile for me to refer courtesy exti•iled to the Welfare
to what Rabbi Franklin has done for Board by employers will be greatly
his congregation, for the Jewish com- appreciated.
munity, and for the city of Detroit.
Suffice to say that the growth of your
city has been one of the marvels of
American national life of the last two
decades. But at least commensurate
with, if not even surpassing the Famous Fiction Writer Seeks
growth of your city has been the re-
Material in Remote Land.
markable growth of this congregation
and the wide expansion of its activ-
Miss Fanny Hurst, short story
ities and constructive service. The writer, will leave shortly for Russia.
greater part of this growth is unques- She plans to go to Siberia, if possible,
tionably due to Rabbi Franklin, to his in search of material for her work.
clearness of vision, loftiness of ideals, Difficulties in obtaining passports
soundness Of principles, wisdom of upon this side she expects to sur-
leadership and genius for organiza- mount. The chief difficulty she 117.''
tion.
ticipates is finding in chaotic Russia,
Of Rabbi Franklin as a friend I authorities who will recognize her
can say only that among all my col- credentials and allow her to travel
leagues there is none whose friend- there.
ship I treasure more. This friend- TAXICAB GENIUS
ship has been tested again and again,
AIDS GOVERNMENT
and has never failed; nay, each new
test has but revealed his true, inner
Hertz,
of Chicago, originator
John
self more and more clearly, and of the Black and White and Yellow
bound us ever closer in sincere affec- taxicab systems, has been summoned
tion. It is one of the rare joys of to Washington to aid the government
life to have a friend like him.
in the creation of a taxicab system
And most heartily rho I congratu- which will permit of ready transfer
l a t e Congregation Beth El on having of army officers, who in the course of
Olin as its Rabbi, and their official duties are forced to visit
L eo
having Beth El each day many of the various war de-
Rabbi Fri
as hi s et.„4,,.. ,
! "g may they partments located in widely separated
' grow in sections of the city.
live and work togethe •
JULIAN MORGENSTERN
FANNY HURST WILL
TOUR IN SIBERIA
Miss Louise Allen Lyon, soprano.
Mrs. Frederick Fitzgerald, alto.
Cyril Tyler, tenor.
William Howland, bass and di -
EVENING SERVICE.
Organ, Andante and Allegro
Bolted:
The completion by Rabbi Leu
Franklin of twenty' years of service
with Temple Beth El is cause for
congratulation, not only to Rabbi
Franklin, but to the congregation and
the Detroit community.
With native ability, high courage
and religious zeal, Rabbi Franklin
has Served his congregation and the
cause of Judaism, bringing results
that have won the admiration and re-
spect of all those who have had the
privilege of observing them. For-
tunately, Rabbi Franklin has had the
co-operation of a living progressive
congregation.
the et ‘'.1bIg
to admit that people, reared in dif-
and conscience into living realities.
He possesses the rare gift of liar- ferent environment and used to find
monizing effectively the yearnings of all entirely different ideal in congre-
gational life, were not entirely guided
a great soul and the demands of a
by personal motives. They simply the future as in the pax, ter the
turbulent world. The stuff of the
had to become acclimated to new con- honor and blessing of Detroit, :4
dreamer finds in hint a sympathetic
JULIUS ROSENWALD
America and of Judaism.
explorer, and the most lowly task a ditions.
AND WIFE ARE ILL
While
not
aspiring
to
a
rabbinical
conscientious toiler. His lofty ideals
IN BALTIMORE, MD.
position,
I
had
some
difficulties
to
find useful expression in a vigorous
JEWISH COMPOSER
Ns..us,sochae
daily routine, and from his daily rou- overcome when I took hold of a po-
DELIGHTS AUDIENCE
Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago, and
tine a progressively vital and refitted sition which, owing to codditions
AT ARTS AND CRAFTS his wife are patients at johns Hop-
which delicacy requires not to lie de-
idealism is ever emerging.
kins Hospital, Baltimore. Both are
Nor is this intelligent and whole- scribed in detail, was not so easy to
That the modern Jewish poet is taking the rest cure and undergoing
hearted service confined to his local fill.
creating a body of literature that is treatment for weakened nerves.
community. Countless individuals and
I was the first teacher of the col-
an interpretation of modern Jewish
Mr. Rosenwald returned a few
groups throughout our great com- lege who was called directly from
life, that sings present joys and woes months ago from a special mis-
mit of these twenty years of service
monwealth are constant beneficiaries Europe', and came without any knowl-
in
a
modern
spirit,
and
that
to
wrap
in France, in connection with
sion
trusted by all, listened to by all, and
of his unusual capacity and unbound- edge of American Jewish life except
these emotions in the traditional welfare work. Previously he had
followed by all who set the common
ed good-will. Here at Ann Arbor that derived from the scant informa-
melodies would be folly, was demon- served as a dollar-a-year man in
good above personal profit.
Vice-President United Jewish Charities. hundreds of students, in that trying tion furnished by European papers. strated by Solomon Golub, Jewish Washington. The Johns Hopkins
I had the privilege of greeting Dr.
period of youthful growth when doubt My task would naturally be especially
composer. in a concert at the Arts physicians say Mr. Rosenwald's con-
Franklin when lie came to Detroit
What Rabbi Franklin has definitely and perplexity disturb the mind and difficult with the more advanced stu-
dition is already improved.
twenty years ago. He brought to us accomplished in this comnumity trouble the soul, are finding in Rab- dents to whom my unfamiliarity with and Crafts Theatre recently.
The musical settings provided by
the esteem already won by excel- speaks much more forcibly than any bi Franklin a genuine inspiration to American conditions and my indiffer-
Jew-
poems
by
modern
51r.
Golub
to
lent service in Deliver, and he showed words of praise from his friends.
GOMPERS TO BE
renewed consecration and loyalty to ent English would give some right
ish poets—in several instances, where
at once his genius of leadership by
AT PARIS WORLD
It seems to me that the most sig- the highest and the best.
to refuse me respect.
the Yiddish literature has failed to
telling us no new thing we ought to nificant things in which he has led
LABOR CONGRESS
And he is the more widely esteemed
The only member of the senior
do, but by first studying us and the are the preaching of a live, virile because he is so refreshingly free class in 1891 and the only graduate of furnish the intimate and homely sub-
jects he chooses, he has written the
Detroit problems, and when he did Judaism; the harmonious co-opera- from all manner of self-seeking.
WASHINGTON.
— Samuel Gom-
1892 was Leo M. Franklin. lie is
words as well as the music—aim to
begin to advise, he spoke an one who tion of all elements in the work of
pers, President of the American Fed-
almost a veteran in the pulpit now,
retain
the
spirit
of
traditional
Yid-
knew the problems and his words had the congregation; the joining of
eration of Labor, will head its dele-
having served for 27 years, twenty
dish music without embodying them
weight.
gation to the international labor con-
peculiarly Jewish interests with those
of which were spent in one congre-
in the traditional sighings and !amen-
From the first, my friendship with of the entire city, as in the Inter-de-
ference to he held at Paris while the
gation. It is a privilege today when
hint has been of a close personal nominational Thanksgiving service, Professor of History, Hebrew UsiiMn his congregation celebrates this cations of exile. This self-imposed great peace conference is in session.
task does not, as Might be supposed,
College,
character, and the fourteen years of and the Sunday afternoon Quiet
The conference proposes to make
event to testify to my joy at having
result in monotony. Mr. Golub pos-
'fellowship cemented this friendship
its information and views available to
seen—to use a Talmudic phrase—the
Hours of Isfusic.
sesses
a
strong
dramatic
sense
and
\Vhen 1 entered upon the duties of
in a way that distance in no wise
the peace delegates who may, if they
In the early years of his Detroit
Iamb grow into a rani.
treats his texts with a freedom that
breaks. Without disparaging other ministry Ile was one of the leaders in my present position as professor of
see fit, consult unofficially with the
I can not claim to have materially
allows
full
play
to
this
quality.
history
at
the
Hebrew'
Union
College
good religious fellowships, I can federating the numerous Jewish char-
conference, or with the individual
contributed to his spiritual individual-
A sketch by the poet Yeohash,
truly say that Dr. Franklin was my itable institutions into the United oil December 2, 1891, this institution ity in the few months that he attend-
delegations composing it, on matters
had already conquered for itself a ed my classes, but I may confess that "Orn Immigranten Shiff" of a typic- in which labor is vitally concerned.
most confidential co-worker and my Jewish Charities.
ally Jewish tragedy on an immigrant
strong
position
ill
the
American
Jew-
best "Christian brother." I can not
But probably in the minds and
his attitude during the time con-
ship, was the foundation of one of the
express how deeply I regret that I hearts of all of us what stands out ish community.
tributed to my satisfaction at having
Phnomathie Debating Club.
Though its oldest graduates were cast my lot ill "the land of unlimited most vivid of the new compositions.
am not with you all personally in the even more than the record of his
Another
was
the
serio-comic
lament
happy celebrations of these days.
accomplishments is the personality not more than eight years in the pul- opportunity" and, consequently, to
With a good Jewish program and
ife who had no beets for
I)r. Franklin has performed a var- of a dearly beloved friend, association pit. a number of them occupied posi- whatever service I may have ren- of a housew
a highly interesting and instructive
Pesach.
tions
in
the
leading
congregation's
of
ied service in these years. Temple
dered in helping to equip the Amer-
talk by one of its most illustrious ex-
With whom is at all times a joy and
Contrasted with these, "Tanchum"
the country. While the lay world ican rabbinate with the armor which
Beth El will always look upon hint as an inspiration.
speakers, Mr. Harry Miller, now hon-
was sympathetic, appreciative and it needs "to fight the battles of the affords a very concrete picture of a orary member of the Philomathic De-
the one who established it on Wood-
phase of Jewish life that may become
perhaps sometimes inclined to be
ward avenue and put it and the archi-
concluded the last of the
Torah."
a source of inspiration and an essence bating Club,
over-entlitisiatic, the sentiment in the
tecture of Mr. Albert Kahn where
I remember distinctly my surprise
regular programs of the present term
for
the
creation
of
pregnant
musical
rabbinate of the older generation was at seeing an undergraduate solicited
they belonged in the full view of the
in historical style. The never-failing
themes. The "Cradle Song," though
whole city. As the "Shaper" of the Department of Economics, University not too friendly.
interest of Philomathic members in
with importunity, 011• might say
of Michigan.
Granting that the feeling so im- "wooed" by two prominent congre- it varies.little from the general famil- the doings of the club after they
destinies of Temple Beth El he has
pressively described in Ecclesiastes, gations. a real Hatan Torah. I felt iar theme. yet possesses something leave the active ranks of the organ-
done good things. As the teacher of
A keen student of social, economic
4:15, and presented as the psycholog- some misgivings at the danger lurk- of a distinctly Jewish atmosphere.
the youth and the comforter of the
and political conditions and tenden-
Though Mr. Golub's voice is inade- ization was exemplified by Mr. Mil-
ical motive in Ibsen's "The Master- ing for a young man who found the
troubled he has won the gratitude and
cies, as well as of the spiritual con-
quate
to bring out the beauty of his ler's attitude.
builder," was the first impulse of such road to success to easy. I remember
love of all.
The speakers on the program with
flicts and aspirations of his fellows,
music, he is a very sympathetic inter-
sentiment
which
looks
upon
"youth"
Dr. Franklin has first of all be-
also his inaugural sermon, delivered
their respective subjects were: P.
he is ever alert and untiring in trans-
as fashion hero and intruder, we have in Omaha, on the text: "Do not say. preter and his own voice served to Goldstein, "Spinoza," 0. Skolnek,
longed to his congregation, but the
lating the high protnptings of duty
prove that he has written some music
genius of the man and the broad-
and but a lad,' but to whomsoever
Herzel;" L. Kaltman,
of charm and distinction. The signifi• "Dr. Then.
Bessman,
I shall send thee thou shalt go."
canoe of this pioneer work can hardly "Herman Weitzman," J.
He has kept his promise, and many
"Jewish
Music
Composers;" R. Le-
be overestimated. Solomon Golub
things clone in his congregation, the
Rog-
has been aptly called the apostle of vine, "Bible in the Schools;" J.
magnificent temple of which it has
voy, "Jewish Reconstruction Fund."
modern Jewish music.
been said some years ago already:
Speaker Rogvoy's passionate plea for
"Enlarge the space of thy tent,"
a whole-hearted response of Amer-
proves it as does his activity in Amer- FAMOUS WRITER
ican Jewry to the Reconstruction
OF SONGS DEAD Fund campaign for l'alestine drew
ican Israel, his successful advocacy
of the free synagog and of religious
considerable applause. At the next
NEW YORK.—Monroe H. Rosen- meeting of the club Sunday evening.
work in the universities.
feld,
song
writer,
died
of
acute
indi-
I have another personal note to
January 26th, the semi-annual elec-
contribute. Having been close to his gestion at his home, 64 West 107th tion of officers will be held.
IVARD ST.ei5N14AGO 6 , 4
56
years.
Born
age
of
at
the
street,
grandfather•
family, having known his
Richmond, Va., he had made his
a strictly orthodox Jew, having in
BICOR CHOLEM SRS.
8
known his father, who honored me home in this city for the last thirty
JULIAN H. KROLIK
Dr. Gotthard Deutsch,
PROF. I. LEO SHARFMAN
TEMPLE BETH EL, 1861.
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ea
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4
6 7.1./
ork on tl"
V in
easlg
Street Synagogue, was the first home of the
This Place of Worship, then known as the Rivard
institution of today.
Congregation, and the foundation of the grand and flourishing
by his friendship in leaving the re-
quest that I should officiate at his
funeral, and knowing his aged moth-
er, whose feeling on this occasion
justifies the fine psychology of the
Talmud that puts the appreciation of
a teacher of Israel in the few words:
"Happy she who has borne him," I
express my ardent hope that Leo M.
Franklin be spared for many years to
come to his blissful ministration in
Israel and in the commun-
Americanetroit.
ity of D
years.
Ile was at one time a reporter on
the World and later New York rep-
resentative of several Chicago papers.
For the last twenty years he had di-
rected the Rosenfeld Musical Press
Bureau at 1547 Broadway. Among
the popular songs he composed are
"Johnnie Get Your Gun," "With All
Her Faults I Love Her Still," "Hush ,
Little Baby, Don't You Cry," and
"I'm the Man that Broke the Bank at
Monte Carlo."
TO MEET SUNDAY AT
SHAAREY ZEDEK
The Bicor Cholera, Srs., announce
that their meeting place has been
changed from Congregation Beth
Jacob, Niontealm street, to the Shaar-
ey Zedek Synagogue. Willis and
Brush.
The next meeting of the Rigor
Cholent will take place Sunday. Jan-
uary 26, at 2 p. in. All member( are
urged to attend.
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