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considerable number—whom the description which Mrs. Frank gives
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endure the disadvantages which Judaism brings to them without cons-
plaint and if they be Reform Jews, and not mere assimilationists who
Editorial Contributor
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
for social reasons wish to break into society where they are not wanted,
All correspondence to insure publication must be sent in so us to reach this they also understand the "cause" for which, now and then, they are
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office Tuesday evening of each week.
compelled to endure humiliation and discrimination.
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imagine.
difficu
Freund,
Fifty
Years
in
Order—Messages
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to the comes to her, should not be so
Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the views Certainly, s hr cannot entertain thee thou ht that it were better id urge
el Popkin.
expressed by the writers.
by Mrs. Samuierg e
m
them, or kindlier, to
him to forget his religious origins than to remember
The record-breaking initiation cere- accompanied
a ed
other wac cos tu painitluNents wer
the
induction
of
more
than
I
All
in
Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit,
:r
cm
i
, 0Inii,eeswft
is s ara
enc ourage him to break The chain that binds him to the past than to 1310t
L dge
o, pl y
into l 'tsgah
Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
mi
ain
of
iron
that
ch
own
artistic
manner.
more
strongly
on
the
ground
that
it
is
a
,I
her
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weld it
Phone:
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Noble Solemnity, Bright Festivity,
Brotherhood and Unity, Marti Great
and Banquet of
Initiation Service
In de p endent Order of B'nai Brith
Cherry 3381.
Order of 11'Nai
Independentnibus
took place Sunday, January 19, at the I The Entertainment Committee, to
the su ccess of
o untiring s e ffortsare
Hotel Statler. The delightful banquet whse
a s foll ows:
d by I the prograni i due,
In giving her answer, she must frankly face the question as to
the initiation, attende noted
Louis I. Fran k , chairman; I. Leonard
Dr. Franklin, as editorial contributor to The Jewish Chronicle, will whether the acceptance of Judaism by the fathers of todav for the following
600 guests and a dd ressed by
0-
eaders of the Order, was the splen- Braun, A. Lapin Cohen, Hyman
be surprised to see this leading space in his own column usurped by an children of tomorrow will mean for them chiefly unrequited hardship. l
hen, Sylvan S. (,rosner.
did culmination of one of the great-
Program Perfect.
article from another hand.
Were that the case, I am convinced that there are very few Jewish est lodge initiations in the city.
Due to the perfect arrangenliiit
Yet the universal tribute of gratitude to hint for manifold activities parents, however dear their Jewish faiths may be to them, who would
Beginning with a special service at
that , characterized the activities
in the Jewish community and the city would not be complete without ask their children to share it, and this despite the fact that through all Temple Beth El in the morning, at throughout the day, this delightful
some heartfelt expression of appreciation for his extraordinary services the ages of his history, the Jew has learned as perhaps no other people which members of sister lodges entertainment for the ladies and the
throughout Michigan and other states more solemn and impressive initiation
has learned. to suffer without complaining, for his faith.
in this newspaper.
were the guests, and ending with ceremonies for the men concluded
the strains of "Home Sweet Home"
The place where a warm and earnest expression of this apprecia-
To its loyal supporters, Judaism has always meant willingness to in the Statler ballroom at midnight, promptly at 6 o'clock.
A pleasing informal reception Rd :
tion should be made,is in the very place where he has done this helpful face privation and persecution and wrong and injustice for its sake. It
the day of festivities will ever be a lowed, lasting until the opening of
and inspiring work. In the place where readers of The Chronicle have
has meant the ability to maintain a staunch soul even in a brokt'm body memorable one for B'Nai Brith.
the banquet c • doors at 7:30. Hun-
been accustomed to look for his message, they should find today smite and the gift of seeing the skies even out of the darkness of the Ghetto
'rhe spirit of the 11'Nai Brith, the
failed to make ad-
dreds
feeble utterance of gratitude, which will voice not only our own deep or amid the miseries of a dungeon cell. Nor can we forget even though unifying spirit of fellowship, of fra-
I, clamored for tick-
ternity, of good-will, emanated from
, iditional guests as
feelings but theirs.
we shrug our shoulders at the fact that even here, where the Nessings the faces of the happy throe
commodated, but
Dr. Franklin's religious leadership has been eloquently praised by of liberty and fraternity are on their native soil, there are vth petty shook hands, laughed
way at the doors.
:
yr,
each
other
id with the stir-
other religious leaders, who know the voices of the prophets. Ills discriminations against the best of us.. We close our eyes to it but we
rooms
erica," the 600
secular learning has been profoundly eulogized by other learned men, do sometimes feel a pang of hurt when it happens to strike home that
.iging the noble
who can estimate the riches of a scholarly mind.
the Jew, because lie is ;t Jew, and more particularly his children
S.
„eel Mayerberg, as-
1.aubi of Temple Beth El, oi-
The quality of his citizenship, which has made him a real civic barred from advantages of one kind and another to which s' ,
.
.ied the invocation.
—leader without civic office, has been publicly applauded by our most acter and their abilities entitle them.
Dinner was then served. Finzers
• the
honored private citizens and by officials in the highest public posts.
And so we must face the question vc-
ensplaying orchestra played at intervals through-
However, each of us who has known some phase of Dr. Franklin's
...late" on his lapel, out the banquet.
Mrs. Frank's article as to wheffie,
Mr. Freund Greeted.
universal usefulness must speak for himself. Only the workers on The
oite-haired matron whose
•
whom we love, to consecr
M orris Garrett, the young and ei -
proudly followed the footsteps
Jewish Chronicle can fully approciate the full value of Dr. Franklin's
fective president of the Detroit
responsibility art'
of her husband, a happy, jovial be-
Public service in the writing of these noble and inspiring editorials.
,en ribboned "Committee" tnatt—to the Lodge, heartily welcomed the guests
its nieet;••.
Thought as a weekly task this may scent a small part of a life like
referred golden-haired lisping tot who had and members.
)'resident Garvett then introduced
his, crowded with momentous duties, yet we know how these editorial
soul that though he come to see her daddy initiated—all Adolph Freund, past president of the
were
united
by
a
common
bond.
have aided the Chronicle to carry out its own ideals of the tt
.,1 him would urge him back
Gustavus Loewinger, of Chicago, District Grand Lodge, as toastmaster.
strongest service. Like every other part of Dr. Ft—
. tne God of his fathers also the God chairman of the propaganda in the The audience rose to its feet as a
standing tribute to M r. Freund fur
is well done—so well done that it is a cot ,'' •
,,,e can escape the psychology of its own his- District Grand Lodge, sounded the his splendid work in that high office
spirit of the 11'Nai Brith Order in a
all departments, a constant stimuli ,
and for his golden-jubilee record of
. ,,tiarlv is that true its the case of the Jew.
stirrins.•address front the pulpit of
Ile 50 years of service in the I. 0. li. It
Dr. Franklin's editor . '
Temple
Beth
El
Sunday
morning.
..1dt granting for a moment that the Jew could escape the cons- told how in the 75 years of its exist- Spontaneously the entire banquet
,11 1
best Jewish thott7'.
pelting influence of his past, are there no other reasons that would hold
bacdn e , d , e , II: r o , c t 1, - , audience burst forth in singing "For
to the id ,- '•
Ile's a Jolly Good Fellow."
his
father's
faith?
We
analyze
the
content
of
our
faith
and
we
esit‘ticilet'etitiwits"'S\:haiigini:r"„hf
h
him
to
•:ghost man-
Dr. Hershman Speaks.
I through the language of deeds.
find
that
there
is
nothing
that
is
worth
while
in
any
other
system
of
Rabbi A. M. Hershman, the first
. mat „`the Ideal is
"Wherever the cry of Israel went
much
of
religious thought which is not also in our own. \\ e hear
up, the hand of 11'Nai Brith was the speaker, powerfully emphasized the
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Christian charity but the Jets' taught the Christian the meaning of char- first to be extended to their suffer- importance of united action.
"The Iffilai Brith," said Rabbi
t oar time are discussed in this spirit,
ity. NVe hear much of Christian love butt it was the Jew who first pro- ing brethren," said Mr. Loewinger. Hershman, "has done a great deal to
:focussedin their.deeper and more permanent
"Whenever our attention was Called
claimed the Golden Rule. We go into the Christian church and it is to a great wrong perpetrated in any bring the Jew nearer to his fello•-
,,,s tale.
our Psalms that are sung and the words of our prophets that are spoken land against our brothers, the B'Nai Jew. It has created a common plat-
fc. Franklin's thoughts arc set forth with a lucid eloquence which by the preacher for the inspiration of his people and it is our Law that Brith promptly brought the force of form upon which all Jews can stand.
"The great problem will never be
public • opinion upon the offending
alone would lie sufficient to attract. Ills thought has stood the tests of is quoted for the guidance of men today.
government until the wrong had solved unless all Jews and all Jewries
are going to work together. The
all these recent times, in which all thoughts have been tested and all
The Jew then has been the giver and to belong to the people That been righted.
B'nai Brith has taught us to drop
hearts tried.
Eternal Duties.
has given to the world is surely more a privilege than to be of those
our provincialism."
Not only have we felt proud that representative Jewish thought can
"The B'nai Brith helped American
Secretary Seelenfreund.
who have received. gain, when we look to our past, with its persecu- Jewry bear its just burden of winning
' be voiced with eloquence and power, and sustained by manifest re-
A. B. Seelenfreund, of Chicago, first
tions, its trials, its sufferings, we remember that the Jew has not been the war. Its Americanization Bureau
out of the outside guests to be called
sources of learning and culture. We have been ever prouder that rep-
the aggressor. It.was his blood that stained the soil. And would we is a power for good in assimilating upon, secretary of the Grand Lodge,
resentative Jewish thought has consistently proved true to the great
the
foreign
population.
paid impressive tribute to the absent
have our children link themselves with the persecuted or the perse-
"So long as the path which human-
principles of our American democracy, to the principles of universal
cutor? \Vould we have them be of those who have been wronged by ity traverses is stony, so long as hu- president of the Grand Lodge, Adolph
Kraus, who has been identified with
humanity.
manity must wound itself on the jour- the Order for 35 years and has served
The written word of Dr. Franklin, like his spoken worth, is a con- their fellows?
ney through life, so long will there be as president for 13 years.
In the light. of all his history, therefore, it would be stupid fin the need of an institution like the 'Vital
tinual demonstration that the best sentiment of Judaism is in harmony
"Brother Kraus," said Mr. Scelen-
Jew
to
seek to break the bond that binds him to his heroic past. Above Brith."
freund, "has become a blessing and
with the strongest and surest Americanism. Here he has displayed, in
'Rabbi Leo M. Franklin in his ser- will continue to be a blessing to Jews.
the discussion of all problems, 11w same force of personal conviction all else, lie has the advantage of having Iteell the spiritual teacher of mon spoke with pride of the achieve-
He has solved the intricate questions
with the broadest tolerance of individuals, which has won him so highs 111C11. I)espite all the unpleasant tokens of snan's inhumanity to man; ments of the Order in the 75 years which have confronted the Order and
of
its
existence,
of
its
unifying
force,
a place in the Jewish community and in the non-Jewish portion of our despite all the signs of bigotry and fanaticism that here and there raise
has brought the B'nai Brith to the
their unholy heads, the world is moving to ever better things. But in of its ability to reach men of all attention of the world."
beloved city.
classes and call each, "my brother."
Dr. Harry Kraus, first. vice-presi-
"It shall become," said Dr. Frank- dent of the District Grand I.odge
It is hard indeed for words to express all that Dr. Franklin's every phase of progress that the times record, there is traceable the
influence
of
that
people
to
whose
fathers
there
seas
revealed
fifty'
cen-
lin,•
"one
spokesman
for
American
service has meant to those who have sought to see the Chronicle attain
and son of President Adolph Kfaus,
Jewry, for world-Jewry."
spoke interestingly of the Order's
a high place of usefulness. Already in these editorials the Nights have turies ago amid the lightnings and thunders of Sinai, that moral law
The Bond of Unity.
educational activities.
been attained. But we feel, too, that his service here has been but upon which civilization is builded.
"Today Israel is not one. There
World of Schools.
another phase of his work for the whole community of Detroit, and
Gradually but surely, the world is coming to realize to the full the are social strata, there are religious
"The Order maintains institutions
the Chronicle gratefully rejoices that it has been the printed meditun worth of those teachings. The very ideals for which lee laid our lives differences that cannot be easily of learning all over the world," he
abridged, there is a difference in spir-
of such a service. Rejoicing with Dr. Franklin's congregation and his and ottr treasures upon the altar of the war-god during these past four it, The Brith can bridge these said. ''It has in Palestine an institu-
city and his church throughout the land in Dr. Franklin's triumphant and one-half years, were Jewish ideals. And so it happens that though differences. It can stand forth as a tion for the blind. It has schools for
nurses, schools in Denver for victims
life work, we rejoice further in this happy union of works and purposes. the world has persecuted tl;c Jew, it has sat at the feet of the Jew as a great unifying spirit."
of tuberculosis. We maintain night
The Hotel Statler ballroom floor
learner. Though it has kicked and cuffed him, it has been compelled was overflowing with members and schools and manual training schools.
Anton Kaufman
Service is the key-word of the Irnai
to recognize in him its spiritual master. To our teachings, the world is friends of the Order, with Detroit Brith."
unconsciously converting itself today, and, although the time may never hosts and outside visitors, befOre the
A Reverend Brother.
afternoon program of initiation be-
Judge Philip Stein, of Chicago, a •
come when the great majority will call thernselvesby our name, the gan.
man grown white in service, a mem-
, Concluding a rather cynical and somewhat pessimistic article on tipie is practically here when to our ideals. to our truths, to our (yid,
While the 300 candidates were be-
ber of the 11'nai Brith since 1868,
for
January
l
I
th,
Florence
piper
ing
initiated
into
the
Order
before
a
N
Republic
the modern Jew in the
the world is giving reverence.. It is the distinct advantage of the Jew
after a rousing meeting, told of the
great
crowd
of
enthusiastic
brethren,
Frank asks "What when he comes again to me am I to say to him?" that he stands in the van of spiritual culture and civilization and relig-
philanthropic activities of the Order.
a charming and varied musical enter- Ile described its Jewish Orphan Asy-
In the body of her article, she has painted a rather tragic picture ious leadership—an advantage that is more than sufficient to compen- tainment was presented in the smaller
lum of Cleveland, which houses and
of the Jew who feels himself more or less out of place in the modern sate for the petty annoyances to which at the hands of the ignorant banquet room for the ladies who ac- educates 500 children.
companied members and prospective
world, the Jew who by character and education is fitted for any com- and the prejudiced the Jew is sometimes subjected.
He cited dazzling instances where
members to the hotel.
hundreds of "charity orphans," grad-
pany but whose Jewish origin closes against him and his children, the
Myra
Finsterwald,
a
dainty
little
We hold that - the friend of the •ritei• of the,,New Republic article, 4irite, appeared in graceful solo uates of the asylum, have been
doors of many an attractive place; the Jew who is not thrilled with the
trained so as to achieve pOsitions of
mission idea of Judaism and who is yet repelled by the Zionism that typical as he is of a certain class of Jews in America, finds himself at dances to the music•of Sousa's "Stars moor and•irust. Similar noble insti-
and Stripes Forever," and Leonard tutions are maintained at New Or-
sea
as
to
his
own
place
and
part
in
the
modern
world,
chiefly
because
denies the mission; the Jew who is entirely convinced that the progeny
Gautier's "Le Secret." 'Joseph Levy,
of mixed marriages is more likely to be the superman than that of of his ignorance of what the Jew has stood for in the past, and of the a singer of promise, sang "La donna leans, Yonkers, I'hiladelphia and in
other parts of this country.
place
that
it
is
his
to
fill
in
the
life
of
today.
\Then
he
conies
to
her
e mobile" from "Rigoletto," and
Jewish intra-marriage, but who yet ironically enough has married a
The Anti-Defamation League, of
"Dear
Old
l'al
of
Mine."
Mr.
Levy
again,
her
answer
to
him
should
be,
"Go
and
study
;
forget
those
petty
Jewess and is more happy with her than he could possibly have been
which Judge Stein is chairman, is a
sang
at
intervals
throughout
the
even-
pin-pricks,of which you complain and find glory and pride and inspira-
new undertaking. The League meets
with one of another faiths.
ing, at the banquet and in the ball- every week to act upon cases of anti-
In a word, she deals with that Jew with whom one conies fre- tion in that great epic which the Jew has written with his life-blood and room. Miss Sadie Jacobson, violin- Jewish agitation or of misrepresenta-
quently enough into contact ; who would, if he could, forget his religious by which the men and women of today cannot fail to lie inspired and ist, played "Gypsy Melodies," by tion cases sent to them from all over
Sarasate and, when recalled for an the country.
origin but in whom the psychological forces of history are ever at work exalted. Cultivate that decent pride which conies front self-respect encore she rendered "Ave Maria."
"The B'nai Brith has been raised
to remind him of his Jcwishness even if his neighbors did not keep him and you will find as the inevitable result of doing so, that the respect of
Miss Esther Nadel, a charming
to a height of usefulness that it never
other
men
will
come
to
you
in
a
way
that
you
could
not
achieve
it
by
newcomer
to
the
city,
delighted
her
well in mind of the fact. She says of him, "His problem is not at all
attained beforc," said the Judge in
audience with artistic readings. The closing.
knocking at doors where you are tolerated but not welcomed."
a problem of tragedy. It is a problem of a sophisticated, satirical com-
first "Zingarella" was a story of a
Prayer and Action.'
gypsy flower-girl. "The Soul of the
edy, a species of comedy perhaps not comprehensible to the average
Rabbi David Alexander, of Coiling'
Violin" depicts a master's struggle
mind of America. If he were suffering for a 'cause,' they could under-
between the gnawing pangs of hun- wood Temple, Toledo, discussed "The
stand him. If he were suffering for a 'cause,' he could perhaps under-
ger and the passion for an old violin. Order and the Synagogue."
suffering
is
"The B'nai Brith," said Dr. Alex-
stand himself and reconcile himself with himself. But he
Mrs. A. Lapin Cohen, through an
He is suffering from pin
inadvertence unannounced on the ander, "stands for the application of
"OUR JUBILARIAN."
enslaves and not a chain of gold that glorifies.
The Answer.
for something that to him has lost meaning.
pricks; perhaps that is his tragedy."
program, sang three delightful songs,
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On Page Seven.)