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The Passing of a Great Scientist

The scientific world today mourns the passing of one of its great
leaders. In the death of Aaron Aaronsohn, who was recently killed in
an aeroplane accident while flying from London to Paris, the world has
.
-
President lost a man than whom perhaps none other has done more for the cause
•
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
Secretary-Treasurer of scientific agriculture. It was he who discovered the possibility of
NATHAN J. GOULD -
growing so-called "winter wheat" in Palestine and his discoveries along
second-class
matter
March
3,
1916,
at
the
Postoffice
at Detroit, this and other lines were of such great importance that the Department
Entered as
Mich., under the Act of March 3. 1879.
of Agriculture of the United States sent a delegation to Palestine to
study them and printed a series of special bulletins bearing upon Mr.
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This great man is but one of a large and ever-growing number of
Jews who stand at the forefront in various departments of scientific
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RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
persists in many quarters, that the Jew is not essentially a producer but
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MIZRACHI CONVENTION Young Peoples' Society
Of Temple Beth El
AT CINCINNATI
Elect New Officers

Cincinnati, 0.—An intensive pro-
gram for the furtherance of Palestine
colonization on an Orthodox basis
was decided upon at the annual meet-
ing of the Mizrachi Organization of
America, held in this city May 25th,
26th and 27th. It is planned to estab-
lish Mizrachi groups of colonists on
Palestinian soil, and to co-operate for
this purpose with the Orthodox Jew-
ish organizations in the Holy Land.
The American Mizrachi will agitate
for a five-day week in the predomin-

One of the most successful years
in the annals of the Young People's
Society of Temple Beth El was

brought to a close at the last meeting

of the society, Sunday evening, M ay
25. Despite the many obstacles
brought on by the war and the ab-
sence of many members who had an-

swered their country's call, the soci-
ety, under the guidance of their pres-
ident, Sylvan S. Grosner, enjoyed a
season of worthy achievement. Chief
antly Jewish industries in this coun- among these was a series of splendid
try, according to a resolution adopted musical concerts by eminent artists,
by this convention. The organization
also decided to support the Rabbi Is-
aac Elchanaais Yeshivah as an im-
portant bulwark of Orthodoxy in this
country.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: Honorary Pres-
the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the
ident, Rabbi Leeser, Cincinnati; Pres-
views expressed by the writers.
ident, Rabbi Meyer Berlin; Treasurer,
II. Schor; General Secretary, Gedalia
• Bublik; Educational Secretary, Dr.
Meyer Waxman. Executive Commit-
tee, Mr. A. Garfield, Rabbi B. J. Lev-
by
the
latest
pronouncement
of
Ignace
Jan
Paderewski,
inthal, Mr. I. Borgenicht, Rabbi M.
Judging
Ulshinsky, Rabbi Silver, E. Kaplan,
Premier of the new Polish republic, as given through the Associated
Press on Monday of this week, that gentleman has heard the voice of
CONVENTION OF JEWISH Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, Rabbi Kap-
lan, Rabbi Braver, Rabbi Levin, Is-
America and is at last awake to the fact that the pogroms in the land
CONSUMPTIVES RELIEF
aac Allen, Rabbi Mushkin, Rabbi
whose destinies arc largely in his hands, must cease. We would not
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL.
SOCIETY AT ST. LOUIS Somehow, Rabbi Inselbuch, Rabbi
question the integrity of his motives in asking for an American Com-
Kiel, Rabbi Sadowsky, Samuel Roth-
The Religious School will close its
eniturg, Rabbi Abramowitz and Rab-
mittee to investigate the situation of the Jew in Poland, though we sessions on Sunday morning, June
ST. LOUIS—Exceeding all expec- bi Pelowitz.
9:30.
All
parents
are
invited
at
15th,
cannot escape the feeling that it conies pretty late in the day.
tations both of the national officers
to attend the closing exercises.
and of the St. Louis Convention Com-
His denial of the massacres and the outrages that have moved the Sabbath Services:
mittee, the Fifteenth Annual Conven-
conscience of the civilized world to protest against them is, however, not
Sabbath services will be held unin-
tion of the Jewish Consumptives Re-
to be taken seriously. He might, like sonic apologists for Polish in- terruptedly throughout the summer lief Society of Denver, Colo., held at
BUDAPEST.—The first martyr in
humanity, attempt to explain them away or even to justify them. But months.
the Hotel Statler in St. Louis Satur-
Robert Yanover.
the ranks of the Hungarian Com-
day evening, Sunday and Monday,
to hold, as he does, that the Jew has been treated as well as the non-Jew Sunday Services:
munists is a Jew by name of Feiner.
The list Sunday service of the
in Poland since the birth of the new republic and to deny the reliability season will be held on Sunday, June Ivlay 17th to 19th, was from every Ile was chosen by the garrison lo- bi-monthly dances for members and
point of view the most successful in
of the detailed evidence of massacres that has been gathered by Herman 8th, beginning at the usual hour. All the history of the J. C. R. S.
cated in Arav, Hungary, to be the their friends, student and soldier thty,
and Wednesday evening classes, speake
Bernstein and others, can only be branded as a brazen attempt to blind members of the congregation are
The accomplishments of the con- arbitrator between the soldiers
ac- of note, and many other activities.
urged to be present for this final vention were numerous and varied, the government officials. Feiner
the eyes of thinking men and women.
Society Thanks Mr. Groaner.
cepted the post and guaranteed the
meeting.
chief among them being:
In recognition of his services to the
government that the soldiers would
Paderewski is at last awake to the fact that the civilized world will Rabbi's Vacation:
One—the voluntary and spontane-
society, a rising vote of thanks on-,
Rabbi and Mrs. Mayerberg wil l ors subscription of approximately maintain the necessary revolutionary
not countenance a continuance of these outrages and he is trying with
accorded Mr. Grosner and he v.:,
others of his countrymen here and abroad, to make propaganda in behalf leave for Goldsboro, N. C., on June 5 $10,000 at the banquet closing the discipline.
o t
Later on, however, the garrison re- appointed a member of the board
of Poland so that by no possible chance it may fail to attain that com- to spend their vacation with Rabbi convention as the nucleus of a fund fused to obey Felner's command to directors. The election of officer:
Mayerberg's parents. Rabbi Frank- for an additional building at the
plete freedom which it has been seeking. The evidence that has been lin will not leave the city until Rabbi Sanatorium in Denver;
advance. Felner made a speech to the which took place at the last meeting
resulted in the following selections:
brought as to the treatment accorded her Jews by the new Polish state Mayerberg's return.
Two—the election of a Temporary soldiers in which he pleaded with Robert Yawner, President; Frances
Building Committee to complete the them that they obey the order be- Netzorg, Vice-President; Rose Ed-
has been so detailed and so definite that it is foolhardy—not to say un-
fund that will provide the proposed cause he had guaranteed for their loff, Corresponding Secretary; How-
statesmanlike—on the part of the Premier to deny existing conditions
discipline. When the soldiers still
"St. Louis Building."
ard Freundlich, Treasurer; Hilda
and to brand the words of such men as Jacob I I. Schiff and others who
Three—the passing of a resolution would not obey, Felner committed Aronheim, Recording Secretary; Eva
(Editorial in Chic:ion "Herald-
spoke at the great protest meeting in New York, as lies.
calling attention to the fact that great suicide before the eyes of the assem- \Vedic, Financial Secretary. On the
Examiner.")
suffering and increased mortality bled soldiers.
However, there is a grain of comfort even in Paderewski's denials.
The official records of the War and among the 160 patients of the J. C. R .
The garrison then realized what a board of directors are Sylvan S.
They indicate that whether or not his conscience has been touched by Navy departments disclose the fact S. Sanatorium are resulting front the martyr Feiner had been, and a great Grosner, Dorothy NVeinstein, Ruth
the sufferings of the Jews, at least he knows that the civilized world will that more than 200,000 American protracted absence of Superintendent military funeral was arranged for Fink, Golda Brown, Milton Alexan-
der, Milton Aronheim, Max Kohen,
Jews saw service in our army and
not longer brook the terrorism which he seeks to explain away. By this navy during the war. This is 5 per M. I. Marshak, who is now in the him. The Hungarian War Minister Arthur Mansbach and Joe Borah.
and the chairman of the Soldiers'
ranch, a better fate for the Jew in Poland is assured. And for that—at cent of the total number of American service as a Lieutenant in the United Council attended the funeral and de- Rabbi and Mrs. Samuel S. Mayerberg
States Army, and calling upon the
• soldiers and sailors in the service.
were voted honorary members of the
least—we are grateful.
Surgeon General of the Army to re- livered eulogies. All work in the
NOW, the Jewish population of the lease Lieut. Marshak as speedily as Budapest ministries was stopped for society.
Robert Yanover, financial secretary
L'ilited States is only 3 per cent of the
five minutes during the funeral. The
possible;
during the past year, who was unan-
total population of the country.
Four—the adoption of another res- government has ordered all regi-
Therefore, to have supplied 60 per olution protesting to the President of ments to be in mourning, and will imously elected president, is a gradu-
ate of Central High School and has
Alert as it always is to the needs of Jewish womanhood, the Jewish cent more than their quota to our the United States, the United States soon erect a monument to Feiner.
attended the University of Michigan.
Woman's Club of Detroit is about to undertake in a modest way the army and navy its time of war is a Congress and the world generally
He is a senior student at the Detroit
credit
to
the
Jews
which
cannot
be
furnishing of a recreational program for sonic of the Jewish young
against the recent pogroms against
College of 'Medicine and Surgery. In
Jews inoland.
women in Detroit who are without family or intimate friends here. It passed unnoticed.
his
inaugural address, President Van-
The contribution which the Amer-
is altogether likely that this work about to begin in a small way will ican Jews have made to our victory
over announced some of the society's
New York—After being separated plans for the following term. He
grow to great proportions in the not distant future. Fortunate arc we ought to make their voice decisively I.
for exactly six years, two brothers said in part:
that a group of women as earliest and as intelligent as those of the heard when it is raised in protest
"The 'Young People's Society shall
who had enlisted in the U. S. army
against
the
persecution
and
slaughter
Jewish Woman's Club is about to undertake this important work.
met at Brest last month, and talked endeavor in its future work to carry
of the Jews in the countries which
on
the ideals of the past administra-
Not less insistent, perhaps even more so, is the demand for sonic sort border upon the territory controlled
Atlantic City, N. J.—Judge Gus- together for almost half an hour be-
tion, and to improve upon the results
tave Hartman of New York City was fore discovering their relationship.
of a center for the Jewish young men in this city. Any one familiar by Bolshevik Russia.
Six years ago, Louis Snyder left if possible. Hampered by war activi-
A prominent Jew, who is trying to chosen Grandmaster of the Indepen-
with the existing situation in our city knows that hundreds of young
New 'York for Chicago, and decided ties• and the absence of a large part
alleviate the suffering of his race in
Jews are traveling the downward path just as fast as they can for no the Baltic provinces and in Poland, dent Order Brith Abraham at its 33rd to make his home there. Shortly of its membership in the service, the
annual convention held last week in
other reason than that there is no inviting center with proper social and reports that the persecutions of the this city. Grandmaster Leon Sand- after Uncle Sam entered the war, organization has suffered as has
recreational facilities to receive them and bid them welcome. In view Jews continue unabated wherever the ers was defeated for re-election by Snyder enlisted, and after a year's every other social body during the
period of the war. Now, however,
of this fact, a group of earnest men in the community is seriously study- reactionary interests, the great land- a vote of 437 against 315. It was the training in Texas went overseas with with the advent of peace and the re-
lords or the capitalistic party gets consensus of opinion among the dele i, the Prairie Division, the 33rd. Ile
ing the problem of the young Jew in Detroit with the hope of finding
control of the community inhabited gates that Judge Sanders' defeat was has seen active service and taken part turn of our members, the is a
a solution for it.
by Jews.
aloe solely to the favorable attitude in the St. Mihiel and Argonne-Meuse greater and more happy prospect in
view.
Guarantees of freedom of religion he took toward the matter of adopt- drives.
Detroit is the one city of metropolitan size and character in America
"Sufficient thanks cannot be given
l'rivate Snyder's younger brother,
that has not some sort of a Young Men's lIebrew Association adequately everywhere would be one of the very ing fraternal rates in the order. Judge
to President Grosner under whose
David,
whom
he
had
last
seen
when
first clauses American peace dele- Sanders, however, was given a vote
equipped to meet the needs of its young manhood. The time has defi- gates would dictate in any treaty of thanks by the convention for the he left New York as a chap of four- guidance, despite the many obstacles,
nitely conic when the community must awake to its obligation in this creating new republics to which they services he had rendered the order teen, had enlisted meanwhile, and the society enjoyed a prosperous
matter. A Young Men's Hebrew Association Building, or better, a subscribed.
during his long period of office. and was sent to England with a casual of year. He leaves the society in splen-
did condition to resume the work
This is impossible at Paris, how- war elected a member of the execu- engineers.
Community Building which shall house not only. a Young Men's Hebrew
In the middle of May both boys during the coming year."
Association but other organizations of similar character, must be fur- ever, because Great Britain would not tive committee.
found
themselves
at
Brest
waiting
to
Other grand officers elected are:
sign such a treaty. The British con-
nished and maintained by the Jews of this city. All that is needed to stitution recognizes only one church, First Deputy Grandmaster, Adolph embark for home, but neither knew THE LABOR SITUATION
start this movement well on its way is that someone shall come forward and no heir apparent to the English Rosenblum: Second Deputy, George of the presence of the other. They
IN PALESTINE
---
with an adequate amount of money to form a nucleus for a building throne may marry any one not a I. Cohen; Third Deputy. Max Sachs; met one day quite by accident and
The
employment
bureau established
were
reminiscing
together.
They
told
Fourth
Deputy,
Abraham
Wolff;
fund. There are dozens of Jews and Jewesses in this city who could communicant of the Established
ago made ar-
Fifth Deputy, Harry J. Gibstein: Sev- each other that they were, botls of in Palestine some time
give $:10,000 and upwards to such a movement and be in no way impov- Chords of England, although no- enth Deputy. Otto S. Hirsh; Eighth them, horn in West Virginia, and that rangements with the British author-
where is religion freer than in the
erished thereby. What a splendid memorial to some clear departed one
Deputy, S. N. Friedel: Ninth Deputy, each had lived in New York. Each ities with a view to obtaining work
British dominion.
a thousand Jews
But when our American govern- Henry Dembitz; Tenth Deputy; one confided that lie had a brother in for the Jews. Over
such a gift to such a cause would be!
were at times engaged on road con-
ment gets through repeating its Philip \V. Marcos. Mr. Max Hol- the service. Finally they became so
But the gift need not be in the nature of a memorial. Let one or the
struction. In the beginning of the
"amens" to the imperialistic treaty lander was re-elected Grand Secre- communicative as to disclose their
other of our wealthy men or women come forward with a contribilion making at Paris. it may have time to tary, Adolph Moskowitz, G rand names, and then it first dawned on stmoner the employment bureau, at
the
instance of the :Military Governor,
to this great cause and during life have the satisfaction of seeing hun- examine the complaint which the Treasurer, and Nathan Turk, Grand the two that they were brothers.
They were separated again next organized Jewish labor groups for the
dreds, perhaps thousands, of Jewish young men saved from the tempta- Jews are making concerning the Trustee.
day, Louis to return to New York on repairing of the Nablus road. Many
tions which now lure them. Who will be the man or the woman to cruelties inflicted upon their race in
the I.'. S. S. "America." and David on hundreds of women applied for this
Poland, Roumania and the Baltic SCHIFF GIVES $150,000
work and performed it to the com-
honor himself or herself or to perpetuate the memory of some loved
the battleship 'North Carolina."
provinces. It may consider that the
FOR
MONTEFIORE
HOME
plete satisfaction of the military au-
one by building the foundations of the edifice for which there is so contribution which the Jews have
thorities. With the arrival of the
POLISH JEWS CONDEMN
obvious and so crying a need in our city ? Surely there must be someone made to our victory imposes scone
NEW YORK.—Jacoh H. Schiff an-
Zionist Palestine Commission the sit-
obligation at least to PROTEST nounced at the yearly meeting of the
RABBI IN PARLIAMENT uation
among us who craves that honor. Who shall it be?
of the workers improved con-
against the continuance of these Montefiore Home. of which he is
siderably. The building of a number
bloody persecutions.
Warsaw.—The nationalist Jews of hospitals, schools and other in-
President, that the wooden cottages
of the country sanitarium in Bed- of Poland have expressed their indig- stitutions has given employment to
Socialist Conference Demands
ford will he abolished. and modern nation on the attitude of Rabbi Perl- many. Sewing rooms and shoemak-
well
of
the
rabbis
take
their
During the heated term a large majority
Guarantees for Roumanian Jews fire proof buildings will he erected in mutter, who is a deputy in the Polish ers' workshops have been opened, i n
their stead. Mr. Schiff declared that Parliament. Rabbi Perlmutter voted which hundreds of women and girls
merited vacations and in their absence at least some of the synagogs to
Amsterdam—The International So- it would be desirable to care for con- together with the Poles in favor of have found employment. Through-
which they minister close their doors. 'I'his is a custom which cannot be
valescent patients who are helpless. declaring vacant the seat held by
,
too severely condemned. While it is true that the rabbi, after a strenu- cialist Conference, which is con- For this purpose 9150,000 was donat- Noah Prilutski, the leader of the out the summer all available hand
were occupied, and it was difficult to
ous season's work, requires a period of rest and recreation and while it tinuing its sessions in Arnheirn, ed by a person who has been con- Jewish nationalist group.
get a single worker. But since then
Holland, unanimously passed the
cannot be expected that numerically large congregations will assemble resolution protesting against the nected with the management of the
After the Parliament voted in favor there has beets a decline in the labor
for worship during the summer months, no good reason can be brought bad treatment accorded the Rou- home for a long time. Mr. Schiff of expelling Prilntski, the latter de- market owing to the discontinuance
refused to disclose the name of the cided to appeal to the highest Polish of military works after the advance of
manian
Jews
by
the
government.
The
forward to justify the closing of the synagog altogether.
resolution demands equal civil, polit- benefactor, but the officials revealed court. The excuse given for debarring the British forces to the remoter dis-
The difficulty is that the primary purpose of the synagog as a I louse ical, and national rights for the Rou- the name of the donor, who is Mr. Prilutski from the Polish Parliament tricts of Syria, and owing to the ', -
is that he was not born in Poland.
turn of the refugees.
of Prayer is too frequently lost sight of. People habitually come to the manian Jews, the immediate naturali- Schiff.
House of Worship not to pray but to listen to the sermon and when no zation of the entire Jewish popula-
tion, and international guarantees in
sermon is preached the hour of worship has no appeal to them. This the Peace Treaty for the protection
is particularly true, both of the liberal synagog and of the liberal church. of the Jews.

Paderewski and the Jew

Temple Beth El Notes.

ALL HUNGARY MOURNS
FOR JEWISH MARTYR

THE JEWS AND "PEACE"

A Call to Our Community

STRANGE MEETING OF
BROTHERS AT BREST

0. B. A. CONVENTION
AT ATLANTIC CITY

The Closed Synagog

We have unlearned to pray.

There is no reason why people should not lie entirely willing for a
few weeks to come to the House of Worship when the Ritual service is
read by a layman and when no sermon is preached. Certainly, there are
sonic who find much inspiration in such a service. For these, even
though they be few in number, the synagog should keep its doors open
at least on the Sabbath day throughout the year. Especially mourners
are moved to come to the House of l'rayer to pour out before God the
sorrows of their hearts and to seek the consolation which communion
with Him in the synagog is likely to bring. For their sakes, too, the
synagog should not be closed.
Let us indulge the hope, therefore, that during the coming summer
synagogs that are accustomed to shut down their services will change
their plan. Particularly in communities where there are several syna-
gogs, a number of them might join together for a summer service, and
in this way make it possible for those who wish to participate in public

worship to do so.

RELIEF WORKERS
ACTIVE IN ALL CENTERS

The representatives of the Ameri-
can Jewish Distribution Committee in
Europe are very active in their en-
deavor to alleviate the distressing
conditions prevailing there. B. Zuck-
erman is touring Bokowina and Ru-
mania and the provinces now under
Rumanian control. including Bess-
arabia. Max Fein is in Eastern Gal-
icia, Bilikopf it in Warsaw, Blumer
is in the Balkan States and Shalom
.\sch in the Ukraine. Harriet Low-
enstein, who is in charge of the office
in Paris. went to Vienna for a short
visit. Mr. Herschfield is on his way
back to the United States with a de-
tailed report of conditions in Europe.

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