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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S KW FUME

LICATION

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, ' > UARY 31, 1919.

VOL V. 140. 9

S IMON ROSENBAUM
Detroit Zionists Collect $50,000 of $60,000
LITHUANIAN ENVOY
Quota of the Zion Restoration Fund Paris—Lithua -tdO has sent a delega-

.,00SEVELT MOURNED

BY N: Y. ZIONISTS

Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents

City, State and Nation, Leaders of
Faith, Education, Philanthropy, Are
One in Honoring Dr. Leo M. Franklin
on Twentieth Anniversary in Detroit

tion of four persons to the l'eace New York—The Administrative
Conference to lay before that body Committee of the Zionist Organize-
the claim of Lithuania to independent
Temple Beth El Sees Greatest
sovereignty. This delegation is cons- tion of America adopted the follow-
ing resolution, a copy of which was LORD READING WILL
Crowd in History Where Mer
prised of two Lithuanians, one Jew
ADVISE BRITAIN AT
forwarded to Mrs. Roosevelt:
and one White Russian.
PEACE CONFERENCE and Women of Many Faiths
$1,000,000 IS FOR SINGLE LOAN FUND
ish
member
of
the
commit-
The Jew,
"Resolved: that we learn with the
Mingle—Tokens, Flowers,Con-
tee is Simon Rosenbaum, at present
profoundest regret of the death of
gratulations From Far and
Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Theodore Roosevelt, former presi- Minister Montague Will Represent ,
Detroit Zionists have raked $50,000
and well-known as a member of the
Near.
Indian Empire.
dent of the United States and a
of their $60,000 quota for the $3,000,-
First Duma from Minsk and is now
commanding figure in American
000 Zion Restoration Fund.
of
chairman of the Relief Committee
public life. Colonel Roosevelt has
London—Lord Reading has been Morning Solemnity With Dr.
This means that the Detroit Work-
Lithuania.
with splendid courage championed appointed extraordinary legal adviser
Franklin Repeating Inaugura.
Mr.
Rosenbaum
states
that
the
ers are further ahead with their fund
the cause of the oppressed nations to the English delegation to the
movement for the independence of
raking than any other city band of
Sermon, Followed by Interde-
and their right to self-determina- Peace Conference on all matters re-
Lithuania is very strong, although the
workers in the country.
nominational Service in Even-
tion. He has advocated the claim quiring expert judicial opinion.
Famous Displays of Rare Art traditional language of the Lithuanian
The incessant laImrs and unfailing
of the Jewish people to Palestine,
ing.
It is generally understood . that
people is very little used. The Jews
Works,
Bronzes,
Curios,
Statues,
devotion of the workers has produced
and in his death the Jewish people Lloyd. George had wished to have
speak, syrite and read Yiddish.
•
suffer the loss of a loyal and cour- Reading as a delegate, but bitter at-
Paintings, Stamps, Made Re- Throughout the whole country there
a result which is gratifying to them,
The city of Detroit made a civic - 1
and insures that the Detroit organiza-
nown of Man Knighted by is now going on an intense activity, ageous friend, I,•ho by virtue of the tacks against the Lord Chief Justice and religious observance of the twen-
dignity of his position as well as influenced the Prime Minister not to
tion will pass its quota.
and the economic situation has im-
tieth anniversary of Rabbi Leo Al.
F rance.
by his personal courage and world make the appointment.
The agitatioff for this fund in De-
proved. Almost all the synagogues
Franklin's ministry its Temple Beth
---
-
influence
was
able
to
lend
great
',aurally
aroused
a
keener
Edwin
S.
Montague,
the
Minister
in the small towns have been burnt
troit has
El.
strength to their cause"
universal interest in the total pur- BROTHER WAS MADE
for
India,
is
to
be
a
delegate
to
the
down.
The jubilee occasion was marked
poses or which the $3,000,000 fund is
l'eace Conference as the representa-
KNIGHT BY EDWARD
by every token and demonstration of
tive for India.
to be raised.
high approval from Dr. Franklin's
"Build the Jewish Homeland Now!"
colleagues in the ministry of many
NE \V YORK—Henry J. IDuvects.
is the slogan of the Zionists in the senior member of the firm of Duveen
faiths, from eminent citizens with
RUMANIAN
LAWS
STORY
BY
E.
C.
EHRLICH.
A MODERN
campaign. 'This slogan will convey to Brothers, international art dealers,
whom lie has served on public boards,
STILL
UNCHANGED
the minds of the people the fact that with houses in New York and Paris.
from the unanimous press Of 1)etroit,
the dream and hope of the Jewish and also in London until 1914, died
— •
ile had died on the transport, "cons- if the mother lives," he objected, "or
which joined in the strongest praises
has
transpired
that
the
people during the past two thousand at Isis home, 907 Fifth Avenue, after ing home." That was the bitterest the father comes hack. We don't
London—It
of his work, and from leaders, Jew-
years, a Jewish commonwealth. is an illness of some time. Mr, Duveen. part of the tragedy to the man who want to get attached to the little fel- news circulated by the Ilayas Agency ish and Gentile, in the city, state
being fulfilled even before their very who was in the sixty-fifth year of his had called the dead lad his son, low just to lose him."
that Rumania has granted full rilsts and nation.
Mrs. Marston shook her head. "'Ilse
to the Jews, was premature. The
age, was one of the leading art critics Somehow there world have been less
eyes.
The tokens and offerings came in
sting in the tragic telegram lying mother told the matron she would error resisted from the acceptance of
The Allies, with the approval . of in the world.
telegrams, letters, flowers. books and
upon
Marston's
desk,
if
it
had
told
give
up
all
claims
to
the
boy,
and
a promise as an accomplished fact.
President Wilson. have pledged them-
other offerings. In the history of
The firm was started in the '70s in
WOW( live long even
The fact is that l'remicr Bratiati Detroit such a personal tribute to a
selves that Palestine will be returned London by Joel Joseph Duveen, his of the boy's death upon the field of poor thing, she
But dead. not from -heroic in Denver. And the father will never informed the Rumanian Minister in
to the Jewish people. The Zionist brother, who kept a small shop in honor.
man has been seldom seen except at ,
organization expresses confidence Oxford street, where he sold Dutch wounds but it short and tragic ill- know who has Min, will he? It's not l'aris that the government had prom. the first inauguration of some ex-
after deserting his family
ised to emancipate the Jews. 'There- tremely popular mayor, or at the first
that the peace conference will sanc- potteries and later dealt in period mess—hlarston's ,mouth set in bitter likely that
tion the establishment of the Jewish furniture. Before his death in 19(18 lines as his eyes sought the picture he'll ever try to find them again. upon the Rumanian Minister con- reception of an incoming governor.
commonwealth under the trusteeship he was knighted by K,lllg Edward as of a bright-faced boy in khaki laugh- Anyhow, please promise to come to veyed to Baron Rothschild the in-
Temple Beth El witnessed on this
of Great Britain, acting for the league Sir Joseph Din'een.,ii recognition of ing at him from its silver frame. He the House tomorrow iust to see him," formation that the Premier had (lay some of the most remarkable
had felt so secure since the armistice she entreated craftily. "I want you promised that he would forthwith, is-
his generosity ill building a gallery
of nations.
scents in its history. The Temple
been signed; now the longed-for to see David."
sue a decree, conferring full rights
The preliminary steps have already for the pictures 'Turner. the great had
was crowded at morning and evening
A few, months later a tired Jewish upon Jews horn in Rumania. The
vessel
brought
hint
back
nothing
but
been taken. The Zionist Administra- artist, had left to the nation.
services. ('he crowd that came was
body and his own dead hopes. consumptive died in Denver and matter has not progressed any fur-
David's
composed of friends and admirers of
tive Commission. the tirst Jewish
Henry J. Duveen. the youngest
‘11earily, he folded the yellow Ines- Philip hlarston took out legal adop- ther than this.
government of Palestine in 2(0)0 years. brother, came to New York City
Dr. Franklin and his work, not of
sage; not daring to look again at tion papers for the little curly-haired
has established friendly relations with about forty years ago and opened a
mere onlookers at public events. The
ss hi m w h en h e
the pictured face. he closed his desk b oy w h o rail t o ki
the Arabian kingdom of the Hedjaz, small art shop in John street, where
evening service was especially marked
returned from his office every night POLES OF POSEN
and started toward the door.
by the presence of earliest religious
and with Armenia, the neighbors of he handled antique silverware, ivory
NT
EQUALITY
Out in the hall A Marston encotm- and called him "Daddy."
GR
Palestine, the rudiments of a Jewish carvings. rare porcelains, period fur-
workers, m ho are seldom found in
father's lucky," Marston
—
—
"Ills
own
tered
Adolph
Cohen.
Ile
remembered
any house of worship but their own,
government have been created.
niture, and Oriental rugs. Ile was
Datitzig—lt is reported that the
dully- that he had. an appointment thought with a great bitterness, "lie
but whose esteem for Dr. Franklin
The educational sestet's of he land very successful from the start, and
with his client: but he tried to pass. doesn't even know the boy's dead." Ilochrath or Supreme Polish Council transcended ordinary bounds.
has been co-ordinated. A health de- soon entered partnership with the
of
Posen
has
decided
to
confer
equal
"Not today." he muttered. huskily,
A week later, standing beside the
The public services and the recep-
partment has been created by the elder brother under the name of
but Cohen detained him. flag-covered casket. Marston raised rights upon the Jews and to endeavor tion which followed were a public
Medical
Duveen Brothers.
Zionist
American
of
Adolph
se
o
to
bring
about
improved
relations
meet
th
o
yes
t
s
e
demonstration of the significance of
"Yuri re not looking wen," he told hi
Mr. Duveen became closely identi-
Financial instrumentalities for devel-
lawyer. Cohen was a well set Cohen. it was a gracious thing, he with them. It has also expressed Dr. Franklin's work Isere in the eyes
oping the agricultural, industrial and fied with the formation of Most of the his
atneli
itself
in
favor
of
legislation
to
dully,
for
his
client
to
attend
thought
of Isis
economic resources of the country celebrated art collections in America, up individual, inclined to stoutness,
oral,. *the com;ition, of Pe ' Jew i -ils
tr"iTblic tettimonV, there
a little too noisy, a little. ton '‘,14 f - thr funeraL He looked stow-
have been set in ipution.
sucbem those belong'Ig.J1
pour. The pogroms have been con-
confident,
perhaps,
and
not
noted
again
upon
the
great
masses
of
flow-
were many other communications and
mentucts uPthe t,arland. J. v rierponT
demned
and
such
persons
as
have
'
for his tact. Now lie blundered on. ers, the red roses, the white carna.
expressions of congratulation.
Jewish Legion who volunteered to Altman. Nit-. Gould. hlr. \Videner.
"Saw by the papers that the 4211i1 is lions. gazing beyond them to the been convicted of inciting anti-Jewish
Hundreds of letters. uniongrams
The
tight for the liberation of Palestine Henry C. Frick, NIrs. Hamilton Rice,
attacks
are
being
punished.
the
boy's
simple
headstone
that
marked
his
That's
nd John I). Rockefeller, Jr. Cary- expected in any day.
Jews have been asked to refrain from and telegrams poured in upon Rabbi
are being transformed into a Jew lh 1
division,
isn't
it?"
A
strangely
in-
wife's
last
resting
place.
Lost
iti
lugs, bronzes, hangings, alibi all man-
hoe: spreading further reports of pogroms. Franklin from Jews and Christians
military police.
crept into his 1 ""e , thought, hlarston did not reflect
throughout Detroit, throughout Mich-
Expert s in every branch of human ner of adornments were combined by tens ,' interest had
heavy
ag"y
did
whitely
haggard
Cohen
had
looked
to
' t he firm in remarkable decorations.
igan, throughout the United States.
but Marst"" in his
endeavor are being moist ize ■ .
not perceive it. him in that one. slow glance, more PALESTINE LIMITS
In 1909, Doreen Brothers devoted
Messages came from city and state
are being perfected for the regulation
"Ves, in a few days." he answered like a mourner than a sympathetic
themselves exclusively to the selling
CLEARLY OUTLINED officials, from rabbis, from Jewish
of the mass immigration into the
casual spectator. Nor did he hear
of the extremely tine art works. with difficulty. "But I iust received' but
congregations, from Christian min-
land, which will set in as soon as
r abbi' s e ul o gy over the soldier
About this time the km made some word that David died of pneumonia the
isters and Christian churches.
peace is declared.
turned swift- who restee, beneath his country's flag.
Jerusalem---"Palestine," the official
purchases, which startled the art en the way across." Ile
The District Grand Lodge of the
It is for these operations and their world, They purchased the art col- iv and staggered blindly down the Like a men in a stupor, the bereaved organ of the British Palestine Com-
expansion that the Zionist Organiza- ic, tion of 1211(10110w K.Llin for $5,0011.- hall, "NI y God." he repeated help- foster father heard the dull falling mittee, points out the incorrectness Independent Order of 13'nai Brith
tion of America is asking for $3,00(1,- MM. which works were passed into the lessly :wain and again , " David ' s Of the clod': of earth. heard the first of the boundary line which limits the and local lodges of Flint, Saginaw
and Bay City sent greetings and con-
100.
American collections like those dead!" deep and s1,, periods of the Kaddish territory of the new Jewish Palestine
great
gratulations.
to the Jordan Valley.
The largest single item, $1,000.000, of the late J. P. hlorgaii. Mrs. C. P.
Sitting beside his desk in his own prayer.
seemed to it naturally
'Two outside congregations found-
And
"The idea that the eastern boundary
has been earmarked fur the lewish Huntington, and M rs. Archer h1. lonely study that evening, Phil Nlar-
ed by'llr. Franklin, ll'ini Yeshttrun,
Colonial 'Trust and the Anglo-Pales- Huntington. and a short time later stem mused drearily' of the dead hopes into this fantastic dream of sorrow of a Jewish Palestine should be the
of Lincoln, Neb., and Congregation
tine Company. These are in effect they purchased the hlaurice Kahn he would bury with his boy. Per• and loss -Adolph Cohen's voilerang Jordan Valley must be rejected off-
haps, if his Wife had been at his side above the immemorial words, high hand," says Palestine. "The Pales- Beth El, of Saginaw, sent their con-
one institution, the Anglo-Palestine collection, valued at $2,500,000.
The
raisin
and hysteric in his-grrel.
tine of history, of economics, of gratulations.
Company, being the bank through
Henry J. Duvet:Ws name will be to comfort hint, while he sought to
In addition to these. and to the
which the Jewish Colonial Trust oper- especially remembered because of his lighten her grief, his agony might tried to go on, ignoring the outburst: geography, and of politics, should
iirnpece stretch as far as the great many offerings of flowers, came other
the formation of the late have been Icss crushing, his future those about him sought to lead hien
ates in Palestine.
efforts in
presents.
less empty. Ilut Reba Marston had quietly away, but he shook off their Syrian .tlesert.
Through it money is loaned to the J. Pierpont hlorgan's collection. part
Immediately after the morning
eastern
huge . "The desert is its natural
(: " then '
not fur the
Jesvish farmers. merchants. manufac- of which was later purchased by his died when the buy sins still in high "' training hand '
tintnidary,
and
were
it
service a group of friends gathered
organ school, IIe and his father nail been bode shank with sobs; Isis hands tore
turers and artisans its order to enable firm. 'rh' purchased the M
with
Dr. Franklin in the vestry room
throat
as
though
the
words
consideration that there with,
is coming
110 chums. rather than father and son. at his
exteii.
theist to conduct their various opera- collection of porcelains for $3.00.0
of the Temple and presented him with
Nlar., choked him. 'Theis he found speeds into being an Arab State
A series of pictures rose before
and
Were
the
agents
through
whom
tions.
ii„Syria ' and with the necessity a seal wallet containing $5,500.
Fragon- ston's tired eyes—David in his mi- and he cried out in his agony ni no
n
Henry C. Frick bought the
Congregation Beth El itself pre-
It will tiOlk• be empowered to make
comfortably new uniform itist before those who had recited the Kaddish of a corridor communicating between
ard
panels
out
of
the
Morgan
collec-
larger and more extensive loans. to
flag draped casket Were zkrabia and Syria, the Jewish Pales- sented him a noble de luxe edition
he sailed, David the night he gratin- above the
,
00
tion
for
$1,425,0
of
books, which made a line addition
repair the ravages of scar, so as to
a sturdy hushed into outraged silence.
title to be created by the l'eace Con-
NI any years aszei'llenry J. Duveen ated from college, David,
create new colonies, construct roads.
"I can't . to away from here and
W011111 stretch to the borders to his library.
,
six-year-old
with
apple
cheeks
and
establish power-works and develop ,vas decorated with the Order of the
The 'Young People's Society pre-
lie stopped know . y011 re going to keep 011 think- ill the Syrian desert.
a mark of appre- neve r qu i e t
„
the industrial and commercial re- Legion of honor as
sented hint with a Bible and a prayer
there, for he could not remember the mg of hum as yours when he s mine,
Out of deference to the Aral, State
sources of the country. The suns of ciation hy the French Co, rnment of boy as a babe. I can't do it." cried Cohen, great
, and tub the existence of the Iledjaz book specially bound in morocco. ac-
,
with, special resolutions.
$1110,000 has been set aside for re- his many artistic endeavors.
drops of sweet appearing upon nis ritiiwa , i the
creation of Moslem piety, companied
as he re-sorted and laid aw ay
Now
)
there.
NI r. Duveen's hobby, formed in
The NVomen's Auxiliary Society
pairs to institutions damaged during
tortured face. "You stand up
proper boundaries of the Jewish
David's
letters
scrawled
in
training
ng postage
o
llecti
right
at
the
1
the
presented
Dr.
Franklin with a beau-
c
fat
her.
t he military campaigns.
early youth. was
Palestine should be contracted, but
camp and trench. every on begin- Nlarston, like his
About $25,000 will go toward the re- stamps and his collection ranked ning "Dear father." NI arst on recalled head of the grave and say the Katl• it . I iey should, as we 'we indicated be- ' idol etching as a token of their es-
complete
dish. and people are sorry for you 1 I fore in Palestine, be rontracted only teens.
lief of the refugees who fled from among the tilkest and most
all too clearly the day his wife had
the Turkish in existence. Ile won the grand prize
(Continued On Page Seven.)
Palestine to Egypt When
is necessary to gib C the I
come to him in that very room. her 'cause you lost your son. But he s 1 so inucit as its
Diana
after
corridor.
Davie belongs to , Arai,
oppression because unendurable, and trophy, a bronze figure of
pity. She had mine. I tell you,
State
October. 1913, for the gentle eyes filled with
for the maintenance of orphan asy- St. Gaudens. in
," "A Jewish Palestine reaching with.
seated herself beside him. her words nte:'
exhibit of the greatest merit displayed
Again they tried to silence him. but i three miles of the Iledjaz railway , SOLOMON GOLOB'S
lums, homes for the aged, etc.
almost incoherent in her breathless
by one exhibitor at the International
SECOND RECITAL
he rushed on. Marston raised dreary —that is the proper eastern 1,011ml:try '
.
I.'nder the heading of "American
eagerness.
„
,. i t .
Philatelic Exhibition. Ile also W011
-•-
"l'hil dear," he could still hear her eyes in a sort of vague wonder, but of 1
Organization," are included:
many other prizes.
saying across the years, "Phil dear, said nothing. He did not seem to
a result of Mr. Solomon Go.
The expenses of the delegation
As
NI
r.
Dto
elm
gave
ilea.1
last summer
I want to take him. 1 -nut heard hear the man m ho claimed the
lob's Recital at the Arts and Crafts
which the Zionists are sending
made r
" trlia t's
to the British Red Cross, the
:50,00 0
about it at the Rome for the Friend- boy for his own.
lit'ig1 g 1. ( t ) Theater, Sunday afternoon, January
a(7;4 ■ 71 "e tli o
to the peace conference.
y‘Uit' 13. t III e
gift being announced in London at
"I've got a right to him now," to see
less. His mother is dying and there's
at
a banquet in honor of the Jewish
ruse
12.
The maintenance of a bureau to
Cohen went (in. "As soon as I got oil maybe you heard." His voice
the close of a Red Cross sale
take care of the child. She
was given by a number of
and received great ap- 110 one to
assemble data on the industrial,
my feet, I traced him and his mother. i high and wailing. "You had him all composer
Christie's,
came over front Russia last year She was dead and I heard you had these years for yours. But now it lovers of Jewish art. It was decided
commercial and economic re-
has
plause.
ed ;ou for won't hurt him to say I'm his father. that a second recital be arranged to
is. survived by his wife with the little boy; her husband
sources of Palestine and place it
.. ' why I hired
Mr. 1)u,een
here for some time. Maybe he t he That's
give an opportunity' for the Jewish
at the disposal of inquirers in
and son, Lieutenant Goeffrey Duyeen. been
my lawyer, that's why I got you to He's mine and I want him now.
was too Americanized for her. the
Then Phil hlarston spoke at last. masses of Detroit to enjoy h1 r. Go-
of the' army, vclio is at ',resent
America.
invite me to your house once in a
matron at the Home says. And then
more,
Cohen,"
i lob's significant composition.
a passenger on the steamer Lapland,
I wanted to see how you "lie isn't yours any
The making, gathering and
have been so hard; perhaps, while.
know ' he said very quietly. "If he could , In order to snake this second recital
due here next Sunday oil leave to times
shipping of clothing to the thou-
treated
him.
I
saw
lie
didn't
'ellen he lost his position in the fac-
speak slow he would call site 'Father.' a great success the committee has
sands who were deported, de-
visit his relatives.
any different, that he thought he be-'
tory he didn't see how he could sup- longed there. I heard him call you You don't deserve to have such a ;decided to interest as many Influen-
spoiled and left naked and pen-
port them. Anyhow, he deserted her
'Daddy' and it was like a knife stick- , son. You gave up your right years tial and prominent Hebrews in De-
niless by the retreating Turks.
and the child. She's dying of con-
pity sparkled troit to form a group of patrons who
HOUSE TO HOUSE CANVASS
ing me, but I didn't say anything. I ., ago." Something like
HEBREW
ORPHANS'
HOME
Classes designed to give a
sumption.
they
can't
keep
her
at
the
FOR
knew you would do everything for for a moment in his hopeless eyes. will cheerfully support this concert.
working knowledge of Hebrew to
Home, of course: but they can't per- him and I didn't want people to say "I'm sorry for you," he said gently, The Elks' Temple has been secured
those who intend to go to Pales-
A committee of the Detroit He- suade her to go to Denver unless the when he grew up that he was adopted, "sorrier than for myself. I have a for Sunday evening, February 16. The
tine.
brew Orphans' Home will make a boy is cared for. lie's such a won- that I ran away from him and his son to mourn for—a son who has group of patrons are trying to raise
In the campaign to raise the $3.000.- house to house canvass. beginning derful little fellow, Phil. great dark mother. So I iust kept following done isle honor, even if he did not a substantial sum to present to Mr.
apprecia-
000 l'alestine restoration fund the February 9, for the benefit of the in- eyes and curly hair—and just the
him up and when he was over there live to say Kaddish for me when I Golob as a testimonial of
Zionist Organization of America has stitution. Members will have badges age our Max would he if he'd lived. I read every bit the papers said about die." He turned abruptly to the tion. The names of the patrons for
had the co-operation of the 450 dis- and credentials and will give regular Phil. I want to take him."
his regiment and didn't let a day go rabbi, "Pease go on with the service," this concert will appear on a Special
ite
Although he realized the mother
trict organizations in the Unaf
receipts. The organization has al-
he said, and again his eyes sought Program that will be distributed at
ter
their tiny son's death had left without going over the casualty lists.
s grave. the , Elks' Temples
States. The sum asked for may, d ready established a home for Jewish Iche
her heart, Marston hesitated. But 'But I was sure he was coming back. the low headstone at his wife'
,,.... s .
street.
n
all, not be sufficient, and for that rea- children at 25 Rowena
,
son an over-subscription is hoped for.

Three Millions to be Raised for Great Task of Immediate Rebuilding
of Homeland—Budget Shows Fascinating Projects Ahead.

Henry J. Duveen, Morgan's
Art Collector, Dies After
Extraordinary Life Career

THE CHILDLESS FATHER