A merica Yewish Periodical Cotter CLIFTON AVENUE CINCINNATI 20, 01110 THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION VOL. VI . NO. I. FELIX M. WARBURG HEADS NATIONAL JEWISH CHARITIES Many Delegates Volunteer as J. D. C. Workers for Relief of Jews in Europe. 192 ORGANIZATIONS ARE REPRESENTED ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—The 1919 meeting of the National Con- ference of Jewish Charities began here on Tuesday, May 27th, and con- tinued to June 1st. There were idiom 300 delegates in attendance representing 192 philanthropic organ- izations. At the closing sessions Mr. Felix NI. Warburg, of New York, was elect- ed president to succeed Mr. Fred NI. !hazel, of Detroit, Mich., who led the organization during the last two years and who has been one of the most valuable influences in the na- tional association. ()thee officers elected are: Morris D. Waldman, New York,' First Vice-President; Julius Goldman, New Orleans, Sec- ond Vice-President; Louis M. Cahn, Chicago, Third Vice-President; Boris D. Bogen, New York, Secretary; Sid- ney Fritz, Cincinnati, Treasurer, DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1919. GREAT POGROM PROTEST MEETING IN PARIS J. W. B. Proud of This Picture. Paris.—This city last week uttered its vigorous protest against the pog- roms against Jews in Poland. At a great meeting which was attended by over 3,100 persons resolutions were taken strongly condemning the ac- tions of the Polish Pogrotnists. Among the speakers were two mem- bers of the French Chamber of Dep- Nlessis Nloutet and Gide, Dr. N. Sirkin, Dr. Leon Reich of Lem- berg and others, who in eloquet speeches condemned the Polish atroc- ities. NIT-. Louis Marshall. chairman of the Jewish delegation at Paris, was the mail speaker at this mass meet- ing. In the course of his speech, \1 r. Nlarshall stated that the Jewish pur- poses will be achieved before he leaves for America, and that the Peace 'Treaty will contaM guarantees against pogroms. Mr. Marshall also vigorously attacked the Polish gov- ernment's attitude toward the Jew- ish massacres. Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents RUMANIA TO REOPEN CITIZENSHIP TO JEWS DENIES JEWS SEEK TO INJURE POLISH GOVERNMENT Official Announcement Foresees Final Settlement of Jewish Question Under New Laws. liUt . 11.11:1.1S1 ,- .\ deuce has been issued inoilo)ing previous laws relat- ing to the naturalization of Jews in Rumania, it was announced by the Felix Warburg Says Protest Meet- Rumanian l'ress Bureau today. Jews desiring to acquire rights as ings Are Not Meant to Stir Rumanian citizens, according to the Prejudice of Americans. announcement, "will only have to ex- press the wish in proper form." The — — Jewish question, the bureau says, is TELLS HOW JEWS HAVE thus "finally settled:" — Jews Will Go To Palestine Under All Circumstances, Says Dr. Chayim Weitzman ADOLPH KRAUS AND JULIUS ROSENWALD PETITION WILSON LONDON--The Conference of English Zionists gave a great ova- tion to Dr..Chayint Weitzman when he said that he made it clear in very responsible circles that no matter what may happen to the Zionist claims upon Palestine, the Jews will in any case emigrate to their ancient homeland. This firm attitude on the part of the Zionist leader aroused the Convention to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. All the delegates rose from their scats and cheered Dr. Weitzman for several minutes. Ilr. Weitzman's speech followed a vote of confidence given unanimously by the Conference to the Zionist leaders. He repeated his assurances that the Zionist prospects are excel- lent but at the same time he let it be understood in influential circles that the Jews are decided upon settling in Palestine even if the Zionist claims should not be recognized. Dr. Weitz- man also dwelt on the difficulties which the Zionist leaders in l'aris are continually encountering. Ile claimed that every movement of theirs was being spied and every ac- tion of theirs wrongly interpreted by enemies. These obstacles Dr. Weitz- man explained are being created by Jews and Arabs, who are instigated by Jews. Thus far the Conference has re- ceived pledges amounting to 5450,000 toward its half million dollar Restor- ation Fund. ft appears likely that the English Zionists will raise much more than this sum. HELPED POLISH PEOPLE New York:—Felix NI. Warburg, Chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers, issued a state- ment deploring the assertions of Pol- ish representatives in this country that the Jews, in protest against mas- sacres, are seeking to prejudice Amer- icans against the new Polish Govern- ment. "It is to be regretted," he said, "that after successfully starting co- operation between the Poles and the Jews residing in the United States. the protest meeting of the Jews against the pogroms which have taken place, in the desire to prevent further ones, appear ill the papers as an attempt by the Jews to prejudice Americans against the new Polish Government. "Naturally the Jews are deeply in- terested in the welfare of their co- religionists, of whom about 5,000,000 are now living in the new Poland. Everybody must know that to excite unfriendly feelings on the part of Americans against the Polish Govern- ment would be criminal, as it is bound to react unfavorably against the Jews. What these protests mean is simply an earnest pleading that every possi- hie step, official and unofficial, be taken by the new Polish Government to prevent outbreaks by an excited populace, which, feeling its new strength and old prejudices may, if not held in check, break loose when not watched. That is all we hope for. ;his photograph illustrates one of the many "unique" seders held for our soldier boys during Passover. It was taken at the Nlichigan Central station in Detroit during the now famous "Pullman Car Seder" under the auspices of the Detroit Jewish Welfare Board. Prominent in the picture are Fred CHICAGO—Mr. Adolf Kraus, M. Butzel, chairman of the local J. \V. B., and I. W. Jacobs, secretary of President of the Independent Order of Irnai B'rith, and Mr. Julius Rosen- the Detroit branch. wald, Vice-Chairman of the Ameri- can Jewish Committee, have sent the following cablegram to President Wilson: His Excellency, Woodrow Wilson, Protest Pogroms. President of United States of Amer- ica, Paris. The convention adopted a resolu- John F. Smulski published his tion calling upon the Secretary of State to strive to influence the au- cablegram to you, therefore, this re- thorities of Poland and Rumania to ply. Says Polish Papers Suppress Reports—Protests From Sweden, Inter- Mr. Smulski, on behalf of Ameri- put a stop to the massacres of Jews pellations in British Parliament, and Other Protests in those countries and elsewhere in can citizens of Polish blood and or- Are Not on Idle Rumors. Eastern Europe. Seco.tary of State igin, says concerning the charge that Lansing was asked to institute an in- his countrymen are mtirdering Jews, quiry into the reported outbreak and "We know these stories are false, New York.—Nathan Straus, honor- ization; a question that concerns not adopt necessary measures to obtain for the men against whom the crimes ary president of the Committee for only the Jews, but the civilized world the safety and rights of the Jew in are being charged are our brothers the Defense of Jews in Poland, re- at large; outrages against which all and fathers." those and all other lands. plied to the assertions of hi. Gorski, civilized mankind should immediate- This is merely his statement; he director of the l'olish Information ly protest.' Messages of thanks were sent to Co-operated With Poles. Herbert Hoover for his work in sup- offers no evidence; on the other hand, Bureau, and M. Smulsky, president English Parliament Action. "John F. Smulski, President of the plying war stricken countries with we have in our possession names of of the National Polish Department of "Only on May 25, a large protest National Polish Department in Amer- food supplies, and Dr. Boris Bogen, numerous victims of those who have America. that pogroms in Poland meeting was held in Paris by the So- ica, whose cable message to !'resi- been massacred. who was commissioner to Poland. were non-existent and that "merely ciety of the Rights of Man against dent Wilson appeared in today's pa- Reliable reports have reached us An appeal for volunteers to join hearsay" was not sufficient to start the pogroms in l'oland. Everybody pers, will bear me out that from the the field force of the National Jewish of hundreds of Jews killed and burn- the stories on their rounds. Mr. seems to know in Europe the facts very first moment, even before the Charities to save 800,000 homeless and ed alive in Poland, thousands wound- Straus, in his reply, issued through about pogroms which are so abso- Polish Government was recognized orphaned Jewish children in the de- ed, and hundreds of thousands pil- the committee, said. lutely unknown to the Polish repre- by the Allies, the Joint Distribution "We fully understand M. Gorski's sentatives in this country. On May vastated zones of Poland and Ru- laged and their homes ruined. It is Committee started co-operation in a mania, by Felix hi. Warburg at the feared that a war of extermination and Mr. Smulsky's consternation. It 22 the English government was inter- most tangible form, namely, in join- is hard for a Polish patriot to learn pellated in the House of Commons annual convention of the organiza- is planned. ing with the Polish committee under Lord Parmoor of the English than savage atrocities against a part tion resulted in the enrollment of Mr. Hoover's guidance in the ship- by Colonel Wedgewood, Mr. Shaw, House of Lords, on April 11th, 1919, of the population are committed on scores of members to go abroad. and Mr. Kelly regarding the pogroms New York—The Federation for the ment of foodstuffs on the Westward- in addressing a meeting in London, a large scale in regenerated Poland. Ho, which started on its first voyage in Poland. Mr. Harmsworth, under $20,000,000 for Relief. Support of Jewish Philanthropic So- commenting on the Jewish massa- Yet there are conditions where even secretary for foreign affairs, replied cieties of New York City announced on Jan. 26, 1919. I expressed to Mr. The recruits will work tinder the cres in Poland said in regard to them, One's love for his fatherland should Smulski then what I feel today, that that the attention of the government a donation of $150,000 from Adolph direction of Dr. Boris Bogen, Execu- "a blot on the face of civilization," not overpower his love for the truth. had been called to pogroms in Poland Lewisohn, the banker. The contribu- in establishing this method of distri- five Secretary of the organization, "a question that concerns not only . News Suppressed in Poland. and Lithuania, and that the govern- tion was forwarded for application to bution, where Jew and Gentile in Po- now in Poland. Mr. Warburg said the Jews, but the whole civilized '"Not one single pogrom!' • • • ment had instructed its representa- the united building fund campaign land alike were to be fed and helped, it was necessary -to provide new world," "outrages against which all we were laying the foundation for a NVe understand why Messrs. Gorski tive in \Varsaw to make the presenta- soon to be launched under the homes and reclaim destroyed farms civilized mankind should immediate- new and happy Poland, and I have and Smulsky were led to make such tions to the Polish government. auspices of the Federation, and mark- no reason to change my opinion in and communications. Typhus, he ly protest." "Mr. Gorski cannot conceive the statements. The Polish press which ed and observance of Mr. Lewisohn's that regard. said, was exacting dreadful tolls be- , American citizens, irrespective of is published in Poland contains no protests of the Jews in this country seventieth birthday celebrated last "Nor has our plan of action in any cause of lack of food and medical religion, who stand aghast at the reports about pogroms. This is due otherwise than an attempt at 'dis- Tuesday. way been changed by the unfortunate service. The national organization ' brutality directed against l'olish to the fact that the Polish authorities crediting Poland.' The fact is that the The campaign will be modeled occurrences which are reported to us last year raised $10,000,000 for this Jews, have no desire for vengeance. suppress such papers as contain news Jews in this country are anxious to after the Liberty Loan campaigns. upon good authority, as for instance, service and this year it is intended They wish all the people of Poland of pogroms. Only the other day the see a free democratic Poland. \'e The city will be platted and tennis of the one in Pinsk. We have, since the to double the sum. and Roumania happiness and pros- Lziennik Novy was suppressed in wish to see l'oland flourishing, be- men and women will have charge of first shipment, joined in a second perity. They ask merely that the \Varsaw for printing a report of the cause we believe in the principle of Story of J. W. B. Told. different territories. The duration of shipment on the Westward-Ho, on butchery of Jews be stopped and massacres in Lida. The Polish Tele- self-determination of small nationali- Describing the Jewish Welfare that justice be accorded to them in the campaign and the total sought which we sent 1,000 tons, consisting graph Agency is in the hands of the ties. for which we fought in the have not yet been decided upon. A of 500 tons of milk and 500 tons of Board as a war-created blessing for those lauds in which it is denied them l'olish authorities. This is why only World War hand in band with all committee has been appointed to cottonseed oil, besides about $150,000 fighting men, Mortimer L. Schiff of in precisely the same manner and to scant pogrom news reaches this coun- forces of democracy. And we wish worth of clothing. The papers, no New York told the Conference the same extent it is accorded their to see Poland happy for the sake of work out plans. try through Polish channels. Mr. Lewisohn, in addition to being doubt, have misquoted Mr. Smulski, Tuesday that the distribution of 60,-; neighbors. "Fortunately for the truth, no bar- 3,000,000 Polish Jews whose lot is in- as we have not received space from an official of the Federation for the POO prayer books and 1003100 Bibles I ADOLF KRAUS. riers are high enough in modern separable from that of Poland, and Support of Jewish Philanthropic So- anybody free, but as we paid before, JULIUS ROSENWALD. was linty a small part of its work, times to conceal a widespread move- whose hearts and souls cling to the we again expect to pay, full freight cieties in New York City, holds many The Jewish Welfare Board, Mr. ment, such as are the pogroms. From Polish land. \\'e do not want to dis- and expenses for landing our share other similar posts, among them be- Schiff said, organized 462 cliiks with ZIONISTS TO ELECT the testimony of men and women, credit l'oland. The Jews of Poland of the cargo on the other side. ing president of the Hebrew Shelter- 25,000 members, to create poptdarlir- eyewitnesses, who escaped the po- have lived there for centuries, and $5,000,000 for Polish Relief. ing and Guardian Orphan Asylum. terest in its work, gave 60,000 lec- grom inferno; from official represent- think of Poland as their native land. tures which were attended by 150,- "Not counting the large amount June 29 has been selected as the atives in Poland, JiTws and Gentiles; The Jews of Poland are not opposed 1(0I persons, gave away 7.000,000 BRITISH JEWS PROTEST. sent previously, this year alone we 352 American from unbiased press correspondents to the l'olish people; they love and sheets of paper and 5,000.000 envel- date on which Jews in have spent nearly $5,000000 for relief cities will elect delegates to the an- who visited the scene of pogroms; cherish the high achievements of l'o- opes to soldiers, held 8,000 religious Committee of in Poland, which is being supervised LONDON—The lish art, literature, culture. The Jews nual convention of the Zionist Or- from reports of official investigation services attended by 300,01)0 persons, ganization of America, it was an- committees established in the places of Poland have largely contributed Deputies of British Jews and the and distributed by the American Re- distributed 100,000 books and 150,000 nounced this week. The convention that were visited by mass barbari- to the work of the Polish national Anglo-Jewish Association have sent lief Commission in Poland, on which magazines among the soldiers and a telegram to the Council of Four our representative, Dr. Bogen, is do- ties; from reports of various social genius. sailors, and supplied 4,000.000 packs will be held in Chicago on a date yet expressing on behalf of British Jews ing everything in his power to reach welfare organizations working in Po- No Harm to Poland, to be announced. of cigarettes. "horror at the continuance of the the needy, regardless of their relig- It also was announced that on June land; from an interpellation in the "The Jews of l'oland, though It supplied 34 Jewish chaplains for cruel pogroms against the Jews of ion. 29 more than 150.000 Jews will par- Polish Diet, we have gathered exact speaking their own language and sup- fighting regiments and with the war "A personal report of this satisfac- ticipate in a referendum regarding the data as to the Polish pogroms. We porting their own cultural institu- Poland." over still has 146 men and women The message urges the allied and tory co-operation has been brought progressive policy adopted at time have names, places, addresses. W'e tions. have taught their children to to us by Dr. Haim Well Davis of busy with the American troops in associated leaders at the conference Zionist convention last year toward can furnish all this to the Polish rep- love Wicklewicz and Sienkiewicz, Or- Europe, one of its outposts being in "to use their best endeavors to put Chicago, a Major of the Red Cross ownership of land and public utilities resentatives here. zeszko and Konopnicka, and national Cohlenz. Community branches are an end to the murders and outrages Commission, who returned recently and control of industry. To deter- Cites "New Republic." Polish heroes and the national l'olish directly from Poland, and while he to be maintained in all large cities to and punish the offenders." mine Zionist opinion in advance of 'Mr. H. N. Brailsford, the British martyrs. To discredit Poland. to has confirmed the outbreaks against aid the boys, regardless of religious the convention, the delegates will scholar, who visited Poland, and harm Poland, would mean to harm the Jews in various places, by photo- belief, after they are demobilized. hold sectional conferences during writes in The New Republic, under the Jews of Poland. The only wish graphs and his own statements, he Pleads for Chronic Dependents. July and August. in Boston, Cleve- the date of March 30, 1919, in an ar- of the Polish Jews, as of the Jews all has impressed us with the terrific Dr. S. Wachsman, executive of the land. Louisville, New Orleans, Minne- tole 'Poland as Barrier': 'It is, I am over the world, is that Polish Jewry need which still exists, and urges us 1lfontefiore Home in New York, de- apolis and San Francisco. to continue at full speed on the path afraid, no exaggeration to say tl- at be allowed to live side by side with I'AR1S—A special commission on clared that there was need of more the whole of Polish society in all their l'olish countrymen, to share the Jewish rights, composed of represen- of salvage of the terribly suffering sympathy with the sufferings of the PEACE DELEGATES FOR classes is now deeply impregnated burdens, the responsibilities, but also tatives of England, the United States, humanity, irrespective of creed, which is clamoring for America's help, of chronic dependents on charity, as all JEWISH NATIONAL RIGHTS with anti-Setnitism. There were po- the rights of citizens of a democratic, France and Italy, has been appointed had indicated a desire to learn a vo- groms in many l'olish towns in No- free and humane Polish common- by the Supreme Allied Council. Its which we will try to obtain our shar-. "We will try to obtain our share cation whereby they could contribute vember, happily without many deaths, weattn. lf, however, bands of rob- Paris.—The American Jewish dele- M. lierthelot, the from all corners of the United States toward their own support, if they gation recently conferred with sonic save at Lemberg, where, with the par- hers awl murderers are let loose on Chairman is to be noted French statesman. and we hope that the Polish Commit- child not entirely care for them- of the most prominent personalities ticipation of Polish troops, eighty them, if the Polish authorities coon- Andre Tardien, one of the French tee, which 110 doubt will continue its selves. He found the lack of sym- at the l'eace Conference. They as- Jews were killed and part of the tenance outrages and the Polish mili- delegates to the l'eace Conference, efforts, will also be successful in ob- pathy depressing upon the depend- sured the delegation in most em- Ghetto burned.' Mr. Brailsford did tary forces commit them openly, it is last week received Judge Julian W. taining large responses from those ents. Occupational training should be phatic manner that the Jews will re- not make a special study of pogroms the right and the bounden duty of the the made a feature of all Mstitutions ceive equal national and minority in Poland; he has not witnessed the Jews here and abroad to call the at- Mack of Chicago and Mr. Loins not of the Jewish faith, so that recent wave of barbarities; yet even tension of the world to such unspeak- Marshall of New York, who laid be- whole l'olish relief situation may be which were engaged in lo4ing after rights. improved through our joint efforts." chronic cases among invalids. After considering the advisability he knew• of things everybody knows able horrors, and no official or semi- fore him the conditions and guaran- t o h fte ic m ial denials will be able to stop tees which must be included in the in Poland. Peace Treaty in order to insure the CLEVELAND JEWS Child-Placing and Institutional Care. of holding an international Jewish "While Messrs. Gorski and Smut- congress the Conference of all Jew- "in face of these facts. Mr. Smut- rights of the Polish Jews. Ilr. Ludwig Bernstein, for 16 years ish Delegations now in Paris decided sky seem to know nothing about po- MARCH IN PROTM superintendent of the Hebrew Shel- to postpone the holding of such a groms, all of Europe is astir with ski's fears of 'racial antagonism be- Prince Max of Baden, the former tering Guardian Society at Pleasant- congress for a more favorable time l'olish atrocities against the Jews. mg fomented in America between C I. E V E I. A N D—With muffled ville, N. Y., and now director of the than the present. It was, however, The Swedish Peace Committee, the Jews and Poles, which he so humbly German Chanctllor, at a meeting in strongly protested against drums and with every marcher wear- National Bureau of Jewish Social decided that a committee shall inves- Archbishop of Sweden, the govern- yet so threateningly puts forth in his Heidelberg, pogroms in Poland and Galicia. ing black bands or mourning gar- the President Wilson, must e Research, discussed the importanc tigate the question, prepare the ma- meat of Norway, the Dutch senate message to ments, approximately 50.000 Jews of establishing standards of child terial and later on render a report on sent appeals to the l'eace Conference, have but slight effect. Racial antag- In the course of his speech, Prince to the English and French govern- onism cannot be created by the fact Max said that the great powers paraded through the downtown sec- care, both in the institutions and in the subject. tion of the city on June 2, in protest ments, asking them to interfere and that Jews here appeal to their gov- should have demanded from Poland The Socialist minister of Belgium, the homes in which children are all those to the reported anti-Jewish persecu- placed. It is far easier to control M. Vandervelde, is among the l'eace stop pogroms in Poland. Gatherings ernment to stop pogroms. We are that it arrest and punish cution in l'oland and Galicia. and govern the conditions of child Conference delegates who have given of indignant citizens recorded their not against the Polish people, nor guilty of making pogroms. Many stores and factories were care in the large institution than it their promise to support a Jewish indignation over the Polish atrocities. against the I'olish land. We are dark closed, the Jewish working people ob- is in the private home in which a homeland in Palestine and Jewish na- We will mention only a large gather- against Polish pogroms. Mr. Smut- the atrocities committed by ing of religious circles under the ski and his fellow-patriots of l'olish forces in Poland. Let them join our serving a half holiday of mourning. dependent child may be placed. But tional rights. A mass meeting was held in the chairmanship of Prince Bernadotte, origin are eager to avoid racial an- protests, join the protests of every the important thing, urged Dr. Bern- PISGAH LODGE NOTICE. were brother of the Swedish King, and a tagonism between Jews and Poles; democrat in the world, and they may evening at which resolutions stein, is that standards should he There will be a regular meeting of gathering of 40,000 citizens in Lon- let them not blame the Jews for their rest assured that this will strengthen adopted calling upon Congress and created so that there might be defi- Pisgah Lodge. No. 34, I, 0 .B. B., held don, presided over by Lord Parmoor, pain at being brutally tortured and the bonds between Jews and Poles l'resident Wilson to bring interna- nite methods of measuring the qual- on who characterized the Polish po- murdered. Let them stand up as lib- more than any attempt at concealing tional pressure to bear against a re- ity of the care given the dependent at the lodge rooms, 25 Broadway, currence of the reported massacre. at 7:30 p. m. roms as 'a blot on the face of civil- eral-n inded Americans and denounce the truth." Monday evening, June 9, NATHAN STRAUS REPLIES TO ASSERTION OF POLES THAT POGROMS ARE HEARSAY Based Adolph Lewisohn Gives $150,000 To Charity On 70th Birth Anniversary Allied Council Appoints Commission on Jewish Rights child.