l avish Periodical &ter CLIFTON AMUR • CINCINNATI 10, OHIO 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.