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B'NAI BRITH SUPPLEMENT
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
VOL. V. NO. 11.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1919.
Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents
Pioneers, Fathers and Leaders of the
Pisgah Lodge, I. O. B. B. of Detroit
LOCAL AND NATIONAL LEADER
Rejoicing in Recent Successes, Sure
of Future Growth and Advancement in
Usefulness, Pisgah Lodge Marches to
the Goal of "1,000 Members and More"
A LEADER OF PROGRESS
Striking Series of Recent Events Inaugurate Great March of B'nai
Brith to Fulfil Noble Purposes of Venerated Founders.
ADOLPH FREUND
Seventy years of useful life, with half a century of membership
in the Irma Brith, find Adolph Freund still full of the enthusiasm of
youth for the Order and for humanity. He has had the great honors
which belong to great merits, for he has served as president of the
District Grand Lodge. His fresh outlook on new enterprises is
shown by his deep interest in the B'nai Brith Club, of which he is
the honorary president, and in which he originated the very sue;
eessful Forum Luncheons which are held weekly. Ile was for 40
years a trustee of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum conducted by the
Order, and is a trustee of Temple Beth F.I.
VENERABLE PIONEER
Z. SELLING
Almost a charter member of Pisgah Lodge is Z. Selling, who
entered the active ranks of the membership 50 years ago, and is still
active, still helpful, still genial and sunny, in these quieter and more
reposeful years. lie stands nearest to the revered and departed men
whose memory we recall as the Founders of Pisgah Lodge. He
represents their simple, devoted, Jewish spirit. He was one of the
early Presidents of the Lodge, but in whatever post he was placed
he has been an honor to the Order: A'ot even the youngest enthu-
.siast of the Order is more deeply interested in the present expansion,
or :none firmly convinced that the Lodge will soon have more than
1,000 members, than Z. Selling.
PUBLICITY CHAIRMAN
ANTON KAUFMAN
Mr, Kaufman has been honored with election as a Director of
the B'nai Brith Club and as member of the B'nai Brith Council. He
had charge of publicity in the recent big membership drive. Ile is a
director of the United Jewish Charities. He seas the founder and
publisher of the Jewish Chronicle, from which post he is now re-
tiring.
This Page Contributed to the Welfare of the
B'nai Brith by
Morris Friedberg
The
long-established
lode- dream, but a sensible and rett-
penitent Order of Irnai Brith, simable hope, because of the stir
founded in former generations by that has been made in the com-
our elders of venerated memory, munity by the recent events.
has suddenly shown in Detroit a
The Independent Order of
new and startling capacity for Irnai Brith needs only to be
growth, as if this were a new or- known, and immediately scores
ganization, rallying net' mem- and hundreds of line Jewish men
bers by its original novelty.
will flock to its doors and seek
A series of successful enter- admission to its co-operative
prises, following one after an- work.
other, has quickened every fiber
For many years it did its work
of the organization into new and with modest efficiency, and seem-
stirring life during the past few ed in danger of occupying a re-
months.
spectable but not a shining place
Today the members of Pisgah among rather old-fashioned in-
Lodge, I. 0. B. B., look back al- stitutions.
most breathless at the recent
New Ideas.
records of success and advance-
Then came this series of recent
ment. But now they look ahead
for still greater triumphs to developments, which made the
which the zealous leaders of the general Jewish community talk
Order call them, to the task of about the It'nai Brith club. They
raising the membership of the talked about it more and more
as new events took place.
Lodge to at least 1,000,
As they talked they inquired
These plans has been fully
authorized and made the definite more into its work. As they
policy of the organization, by the looked into its work they caught
indorsement of the entire official sight of certain central Jewish
staff. The officers of Pisgah principles Willett appealed to them
Lodge are as follows: President, as men and as Jest's, not as Or-
Morris Garrett; vice president, thodox or Reformed Church mem-
Adolph Finsterwald; monitor, bers, but on broader lines.
And as they looked further into
Jacob Miller; assistant monitor,
Leon Goldsmith; treasurer, Her- his work, they saw the results of
man Finsterwald; secretary, the order. They saw it is not an
Charles
Rosenthal;
warden, institution for self-seeking, but
David Marymont ; gursdian, for serving. They saw its great
Henry A. Marks; trustees, Her- achievement of love in the He-
man Weiss, Adolph Freund, and brew Orphan asylum. They saw
its great task of social defense in
I.. J. Leopold.
The IlMai Brith Council, or the Anti-Defamation League.
Let but the Independent Order
ways and means committee of
the Lodge, organized to further of Wolff Brith be known, and its
the order, has given the full growth is assured, to 1,000 mem-
strength of its authority to this bers and beyond, in this coin-
movement. The council consists munity. :\nd Pisgah Lodge re-
of Myer S. Fink, chairman; S. S. juices particularly that recent
Mayerberg, :Stilton M. Alexander, events in this city have enabled
Simon D. Rosenzweig, Charles the work of the Order to become
Rosenthal, Anton Kaufman, better known. and thus to extend
Bernard Ginsburg, Louis James. its own usefulness.
The first of the more recent
Rosenberg.
events was the formation of the
Fathers and Sons.
B'nai Brith Club. Another club
It is happy to note that this
in Detroit might have seemed to
spirit is at its climax during the
some a superfluous institution.
period which this great city has
Soother
organization among
given over to the thoughts of . .
Jewish people might have seem-
Fathers and Sons. For we, the. ,
eft a superfluous institution. Yet
sons, arc in this fulfilling what;
the charter members felt that
would have been one of the dear-!
there was nowhere a club quite
est wishes of our departed lath-
!like this would be.
So they
ens, by joining in this swift ad-.
,created the club—with the result
vance of the 11'nai 13rith army to ,
that within a few weeks it had
new achievements of influence
ou tkro w n i its first quarters and
and usefulness.
!was forced to seek new ones, and
'The events which have led to
at 25 Broadway it has taken pos-!
the present state of rejoicing en-
session of four floors.
thusiasm have all been recorded
Charter List.
as they occurred by The Jewish;
Chronicle. The Chronicle ex- The charter members of the
pests to record other and finer 11'nai .Brith Club were as fol-
achievements in the weeks to lows: Adolph Finsterwald„
come, to present to the wider Adolph Freund, Milton M. Alex-
public new proofs that the grand ander, Simon I). Rosenzweig,
old spirit of the nai Brit!: has Louis James Rosenberg, L. J.
as much power to inspire and to Leopold, Morris Garrett, Anton
urge men to labor and build as Kaufman, Myer S. Fink, Charles
in the days of 1857. Rosenthal.
'rite growth of Pisgah Lodge Shortly after the formation of
to 1,000 members is now no mere
(continum On Page Two.)
MYER S. FINK
That Myer. S. Fink is one of many honored Past Presidents of
the Pisgah Lodge is only one of innumerable evidences of his lead-
ership. Ile has been a leader among leaders, whether he sat in the
chair or in the body of the Lodge. Today he serves as Chairman of
the 1!'nai Brith Council, as Treasurer of the B'nai Brith Club and
Chairman of the House Committee. An old Detroiter, proud of his
city, devoted to its interests, faking a lively part always in the great
movements of his home town, Mr. Fink is a tireless, active worker
for the good of his Jewish fellow citiz.ens, and for the general noble
principles of the B'nai Britt,. He has made a special study of the
principles of the Order, anti his own life faithfully mirrors his pro-
fession of those principles. .1 broad and tolerant and kindly man,
never unkind or uncharitable in his utterances, always eager to be-
lieve the best of every man, Mr. Fink has naturally brought out the
best qualities in every man who deals with him, and has surrounded
himself in his advancing years with a mighty host of friends. Sanely
progressive, sincere and earnest, Myer S. Fink is one of the stable
leaders upon whom the Order must depend for its future growth,
and for its lasting success. He has been a notable worker among
those who have brought Pisgah Lodge to its present strength. In
this battle he has been what tifurat Tens to Napoleon, "The Bravest
of the Brave," and he is one of those who realizes that this strength
is only the beginning of what that strength shall be.
STATE AND NATIONAL WAR-WORKER
MILTON M. ALEXANDER
Mr. Alexander, for his known energy and success in his profes-
sion, was named Chairman of the .State Commission on Patriotic
Advertising. He has also done Teork for the country at large as an
executive member of the National Association of Four Minute Men.
He is also the effective Chairman of the Educational Committee of
the I 7 nited Jewish Charities. Ilis services are manifold and every-
where efficient and telling, as Chair-rum of the Anti-Defamation
League, as Director of the B'nai Brith Club, as member of the B'nai
Brith Council. He has served with equal effectiveness as vice-pres-
ident of Pisgah Lodge and as President of the Young People's
Society of Temple Beth El. His inspiring direction and original
suggestive force had a powerful influence in bringing the Young
People's Society to success. He is universally recognized as leader
in his profession and an outstanding figure among the younger busi-
ness men of the state of Michigan.