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AS IT SAYS IN THE BOOK

THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

in his home city as the justice-loving American? \\'e noted especially
at the time of the appearance of his article in the Detroit I'ress that
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he emphasized the friendly relations obtaining between himself and the
When old Wankel I'etrovsky came i wait?" Papa will tell hint what it says
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Jewish citizens of his city. Or may it be that a new light has actually
days in the book and with such frummer
wearily home at six, after a
lab
Lome to the Reverend Father and that he has awakened to the horrible
e a r t peo l i o de a fin e chance we got."
ag n
woul
i, h a d n ggi g l d ance
wered,
Istrateds i
-
-
President injustice that he had perpetrated against the Jews? Surely, this fact youonrgin
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
over
which Israel sai
Benjam in,
said, "My father is
•
Secretary-Treasurer was sufficiently emphasized to hint in the flood of letters from Jew and the gate and spouting conversational a Zadik, wait and see."
NATHAN J. GOULD -
About
Ahout seven that evening Reb B en .
nothings to tiny Hannah. Petrovsky.
non-Jew that poured in upon the Free l'ress following the publication Under old Yankel's breath could be Jamul, leaning on the arm of a glow-
Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit.
of his article. We have no doubt that he read these letters with interest, heard vague murmurings of "lowlife, mg Israel knocked at the 000r of a
Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
and it is not unlikely that they tunic an impression upon his soul. Ce,t;- vagabond, nix nutz," and kindred ex- l'etrovsky home.
"Sholom Alechem," he said.
tainly, it is to lie hoped that the change of front that has come upon pressions which would lead us satin-
"Alechem Sholom, Reb liejamin,"
ally to believe that Israel was persona
and that the attitude which he has now
Rev.
Iciek
will
not
be
momentary
said
Yankel.
Telephone Cherry 3381
non grata.
assumed in his home city will be taken by him elsewhere, even in a place
So the courtesies were exchanged
"Go in the house," Yankel would
say to the little girl, and obediently, in questions as to the stage of busi-
so remote from Duluth as is Detroit.

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To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach
ental eyes at the reluctantly depart- last massacre at Kishineff. Finally,
this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
ing Israel, she would turn and pass the conversation quieted and there
It is gratifying news that comes by Associated Press from Paris through the child's site garden into came the lull before the storm. As
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
Editorial Contributor that l'resident Wilson is about to appoint a commission of. seven to in- the glistening kitchen, where Mrs. in the ancient Sanhedrin) the fencing
l'etrovsky rattled merrily the pots began warily.
vestigate the reported l'olish pogroms, and that Henry Morgenthau is and pans.
' It is a fine thing," said lienjamio
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to
coat
-
this
delegation.
No
wiser
choice
of
a
chairman
for
this
co
The tiny Hannah never disobeyed. "to see the little ones grow up. The .
the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the to head
there
not
the
book?
Ever
since
little
Hannah will make a fine Kaleh
to
whom
is
to
be
entrusted
a
very
delicate
task
could
have
been
Was
views expressed by the writers.
mince
chosen. It is a piece of work that will require wise statesmanship, keen she could remember she had stood in for a fine husband whom she loves."
in awe of the book. All paternal coin- "She will have a portion," said Van-
insight, and high courage. All of these Mr. Morgenthau possesses
marls were introduced, illustrated kel, "for a iman with business ideas I
a notable degree. Moreover, he is a man who has the respect and the and enforced by "It says in the book." shall give much. Cohen has a fat:-
hoped
that
he
Vaguely she knew that the book was tory in view. She will ride when she
confidence of all classes of people in America. It is to
By the time this issue of the Chronicle reaches our readers, the he will accept the appointment and that the commission under him Will a code and must he obeyed.' It was is old."
Germans will have signed the Treaty, and to all intents and purposes, speedily get to work, establishing the truth of the reports in regard to the higher law, but after all, she hated"What is it to ride when the heart
i like lead," retorted Benjamin. 'It
Peace will once more reign among the nations of the earth. That the the pogroms if—as there is good reason to believe—they have actually it because it seemed to contain only is
"don'ts" for little girls about anything were better if she should hear the
hearts of men the world over will be happy at this consummation, it taken place, and if not, bringing to justice those who are responsible they wanted to do. Thus one instance singing of the heart instead the ring-
would be almost puerile to say. That the gleaming sword might be for having spread rumors that have torn the heart of world Jewry and that impressed her very strongly was mg of shekels coming from the fac-
sheathed; that the roar of the cannon might no longer be heard; that that have spread suspicion and fear among large classes of people even the time of the picnic. tory...
"Let us not play at cross par-
The teacher (and that should be
war's destruction might cease and that men might return again to their in our own country.
written in capitals, because where poses," said l'etrovsky. "I have de-
peaceful avocations, has been the prayer that tor four years and more
Hannah lived teacher was also an )ermined her way. She is a good
ultimate authority) arranged a picnic girl, and as it says, honor thy father,
has been sent heavenward from the heart of an afflicted humanity.
for a vacant Monday afternoon, and so she will obey."
It would be idle to dwell upon the fact that acquiescence to the
when Monday came, lo, it was Pesach . "Only one word more," said Ben-
peace terms has been wrested from an unwilling Germany and that
goes
out
of
its
way
to
say
a
fair
word
for
Life
It is not often that
and Hannah must not go. The girl Jambi, "Reb Jehuda says in the name
according to the admissions of her statesmen her heart remains unrecon- the Jew. But in the article published in this week's issue and which we stormed and wept, and old Yankel of IVEleazar: "A good man must not
ciled to the conditions that have been imposed upon her by the victori- reprint in another column of this paper, it has certainly said a word that said sternly, "It says in the hook a betroth his daughter while she is a
man who becomes angry, if he be a minor. He must wait until she has
ous Allies. This is only natural. It would be asking too much of we must heartily endorse.
sage, his wisCom leaveth him." "To- attained her majority and can say: 'I
human nature to expect a people that has been tutored in the school of
The Bolshevik J ew who has no respect for the law of God and day is Pesach and a proper maiden love this man.. That is all. Thus say
iron and blood to accept without moral resentment conditions of peace man, is in our eyes, no Jew at all, irrespective of the fact that he may' stays at home and goes to the Syna- I the wise and so must it be."
"Er sprecht wahrheit," said Mrs.
that are not only humiliating but that actually strip her of practically have sprung from the loins of Jewish parents. The Jew is he who lives go,,,,:' And always little Hannah
every vestige of her pride and her power.
under the inspiration of Jewish idealism and who seeks to exemplify obeyed because the book said, "Hear Petrovsky feelingly.
Yankel gazed from one to the other
of thy father and cast
That such conditions were needful to insure the peace of the world, in his own life those teachings of morality which through the ages the the instruction
not off the teachings of thy mother." long and thoughtfully. Through the
none who has followed the events of the last four years can doubt nor Jew has sponsored.
Gradually the little maiden became closed doors from the other room
deny. Germany, that had sought to rule the world in arrogance and
The only possible criticism of the Life article that may possibly' be a wee whisp of dark eyed young fent- could be heard the murmur of a ten-
with utter disregard to every principle of humanity, had to be brought made is its implication that all Russian Jews are Bolshevik in tendency. inity, with an alluring face and grace der bass voice and the merry laugh
of movement which more and more of a joyful girl.
to her knees in abject humility and she had to be stripped of the imple- This, of course, is utterly untrue, for, as has been shown many times,
"As it says in the book," said re-
bewitched Israel, who had become a
ments of power that would make it possible for her to rehabilitate her- while many Jews in Russia have allied themselves with the party of sort of department store manager in trovvsky, "so let It be."—SentInal.
self and put her again in position to aspire to the dominance of the Lennie and Trotzky, many of the foremost leaders of that movement a store with four departments. Not
nations. This much has been accomplished and the civilized nations of arc not Jews. ;\ s a matter of fact, Trotzky himself is fairly consistent only Israel but others came. The
the earth may again take up their avocations with sonic sense of se- in that he denies that he is a Jew except by the chance of birth. Would beauty of Hannah and stories of a
dowry to be given to the successful
curity.
to heaven that all Jews who feel and act as he does would publicly dis- suitor brought from near and far, LIFE LONG RESIDENT OF
DETROIT PASSES AWAY
However, it would be the very height of folly to believe that with avow their Jewish affiliations. The Jewry of the world would be the eligibles, near-eligibles, and inelig-
Riles. More and more would Israel
Germany completely vanquished, all the problems brought forward by gainer by such action on their part.
despair. Schadchen after Schadchen
The death of Simon Lewis of Cass
the war have been satisfactorily solved and that men may now turn to
with visions of fat commissions came avenue, for forty years a resident of
their routine tasks, taking up the thread of their lives where it was let
and gazed and went away rubbing his Detroit, on the second day of Sha-
fall at the beginning of the war. It it a commonplace to assert today
hands. With such a prize surely many booth, Thursday, June 5, marked the
acceptable could be produced.
that the war has re-made the world and that nothing affecting human
passing of one of Detroit's most es-
lietween Hannah and the ever- teemed Jewish citizens.
living and thinking can be again just as it was. Truth is, that the real
faithful Israel the childhood attach-
Mr. Lewis, who was past 71, had
battle is just about to begin. It has to do not so much with physical
meat had blossomed into a mutual been a widower three years previous
reconstruction as it has with mental and moral readjustments. The
devotion which was frowned upon by to his demise. He is survived by a
meat. 'clue attack has not been one
vast areas that have been devastated by the war will in due time, he re-
Yankel. The book said, "False is son, Isaac Lewis, and four daughters,
sided, b u t there is no comfort in this
builded. The whirring wheels of industry that were stopped for a
thought. The mark of the intelligent grace, and vain is beauty; a woman Mrs. S. Netzorg, Mrs. Israel Cohen,
only that feareth the Lord shall in- Mr. Louis Goldman, and Mrs. J. Hand,
while will again begin to turn for the production of the commodities of
man rests on the fact that first and
foremost he is tolerant. Let the deed be praised." all of this city. The funeral was con-
life. Labor conditions will eventually readjust themselves and physical Editor Jewish Chronicle:
Then one night at dusk, as the ducted from the residence on Friday,
The editorial, "Our Hope Defined," writer take cognizance of his own shadows
cient longer and longer iii i°1 with interment at Woodinere Ceme-
life will beyond doubt go on again as it did before—perhaps even upon
contained in a previous edition of the words which are most appropriate.
the
streets and the street cars clanged tery. Rabbi Leo M. Franklin and
a heightened plane.
"Detroit Jewish Chronicle," indulges "Let us he fair to each other."
merrily, and the elevated cars rolled Rabbi A. M. Hershman officiated.
But those who believe that with this touch accomplished nothing in a vituperative attack against Zion-
MARCL'S E. RADK IN.
with rumbling shrieks bearing home- For the past twenty-five years of
more remains to be done in the readjustment of life to the conditions ism, which is unworthy of a great
ward the crowds from a day of toil, his active retirement from business,
leader in reform Judaism. Those of
Editor's
Note:
Mr.
Radkin
is
en-
of peace, have failed entirely to sense the new conditions brought about
in answer to a familiar chirping as of the name of Simon Lewis has been
us who are inclined to be sympathetic tirely mistaken when he refers to our
a joyful swallow, Hannah came weep- identified with every worthy philan-
by the war. Primarily, this great struggle must have served to change wonder if there is procurable any
article as a "vituperative attack
our most fundamental relationships, not only in the world of commerce armor of sufficient strength to pro- against Zionism." In fact, as com- ing down to the gate. thropic and charitable movement. He
As of the way of man in the Ares- was one of the leading spirits in the
and of industry but much more in the realm of thought and of spirit. tect the recipients of these continual pared with what Mr. Radkin has to ence of woman's tears, Israel's heart organization of the Talmud Torah,
say about the. non-Zionistic Jew it was wrung with sorrow and yet he
For four years a man has scarcely dared to look a stranger in the face tirades.
and has been actively interested in
The article states that the non-Zion- was so mild as to be innocuous. But could only grunt hoarsely,
without either fear or suspicion. Today. with the world at peace, it
L° 9 that institution ever since its innova-
istic Jew has been accused "in certain that is beside the point. \Ve cannot now, don't; aw, come on, please now.
becomes necessary, if the processes of life are to go on to the best Jewish circles" because he does not endorse the idea that "the panacea for Finally, between sniffs and sobs, the lion. Ile gave generously of his en-
possible way, for torn to drive much of this fear and suspicion and concern himself about the condition all Jewish ills is a national home-land story came forth. A lucky schadcheh ergies and his means to every beney-
olent cause that was brought to his
of his oppressed brother. The article in Palestine." We wish we could. It had found a prosperous tailor who
hate out of their hearts and to recognize in every man a brother-man.
attention. An ardent student of re-
This implies nothing less than the re-shaping of all our mental continues to say "It has been said, would be such an easy solution. But was ready to open a factory. With ligion and history throughout his life,
though to be fair it should be added great ends are seldom attained by the dowry of Hannah, things could
attitudes and the re-interpretation of all our social relationships. We usually by those who have taken flu easy paths. The "Mission" road is be placed on a smooth running basis. Mr. Lewis was considered a scholar
have been fighting for Freedom ; for Justice; for Humanity; for the pains to study the situation as it ex- rough and rugged. lint it leads to the Little Hannah l'retovsky must be- of note. He was a member of the
II i s
Shaarey Zedek Synagogue.
Rights of men. Now that the victory has come, men must have the ists, that in opposing a national home heights, Let us go upon our separate conic the wife of a future manufac-
-
death is mourned by a host of friends.
courage to translate these ideals into the routine practices of their lives. land for the Jews the non-Zionist be- ways if we must—but always as turer. One gaze at the prospective .
trays an indifference toward the fate friends and co-workers—stimulated husband, who leered engagingly and
All talk of Freedom is idle sinless we recognize it to be a social quality, of those hundreds of thousands of
and inspired by a love for the faith mumbled of contracts and proposi- HARRIS HERSTEIN
our own liberty secured by the full recognition that we give to the equal those of his co-religionists who have that is as dear to one of us as tit the tions and knew nothing of dancing,
DIES SUNDAY, JUNE 15
rights of our neighbor to be free. The Justice of which we have been been and are today the victims of other.
and the movies and the boat-rides in
the park had been sufficient.
Harris Herstein, of 52 Eleventh
prating and in which we honestly believe, is a mere empty abstraction pogroms and massacres at the hands
of the most cruel enemies that the
Issy," said Hannah, "you street, died at Grace Hospital, Sun-
unless our dealings with fellowmen and sister nations shall be just. The Jew has ever had to face. This charge SWEETHEARTS MEET
to see his face, and a figure day, June 15, as the result of injuries
AFTER 15 YEARS ought
"rights of man" becomes a cant phrase unless we feel ourselves conse- is so serious that it needs to be defi-
like an egg, only squashy; so lie shiv- received June 10, when he was mur-
crated now that the war has brought us victory, to secure such rights nitely. answered." If the source of
ers like jello with lemon flavor."
derously assaulted and robbed at 631
New York.—Sarah Rutman and
this criticism against the non-Zionis-
To which Issy responded, "The Michigan avenue, where he had been
for every man, everywhere.
tic Jew is ignorance, and surely it Jacob Stichbaum were childhood mutt, I'd like to get a pike at him in business for the past twenty-three
Try
heart
of
our
human
rela-
This contention cuts deep into the \
must lie, then the charge is not seri- friends in Kishenev fifteen years ago. and change his map of Jerusalem to years. The funeral took place Wed-
tionships. It touches the industrial world and makes it impossible for ous. We have reached the state when Jacob Stichbaurn soon tired of Russia .1 red sea."
nesday afternoon from his residence.
labor to exploit capital, or for capital to rise to a place of power over charges even against the Jew must be tyranny, and set forth on a journey
Wankel said, "The wise among wo-
The untimely death of Mr. Her-
the bruised and bleeding and broken bodies of the workingmen. It based and founded on facts. In ad- to America, where he hoped to be man buildeth her house, but the fool- stein will be felt keenly in the com-
dition there are many classes among able to bring his bride to join him. ish pulleth it down with her own
munity in which he lived for over
touches our social life and marks as one without understanding of the
the Zionists and responsibility canna , It took him sonic time to save enough hands."
thirty years, sponsoring all good
ideals for which we have sacrificed so touch, hint who insists upon be assumed for all. The writer of the money. He was given a good position
Mrs. Petrovsky wept and argued works in the quiet, unostentious man-
class distinctions and who continues to recognize any aristocracy other editorial need not have considered in Buenos Aires, and he went there. and wept. "Hannah is only a little ner characteristic of the man through-
than that of character. It touches especially MI: religious life of men this "loose talk" so seriously. How- He was very successful. He sent girl," she said, "why the hurry? May-
some money to his bride in Kish- be later it wouldn't be Israel but even out his life. He leaves a widow and
and sets hint down as a hypocrite and self-deceiver who shuts the gates ever, let it be said that no Zionist of enev.
seven children, Joseph, Sol, Louis.
broad sympathies, deep insight or
another, let us wait. But Wankel had
of heaven upon that fellowman who reads the meaning of God and of hue intelligence (and such a man is
Meanwhile the war made it impos- set his heart on the factory and to qrs. Louis Goldstein, Belle, Rebecca,
Anna, three grandchildren, and one
life and the universe in ditTerent terms than he does.
possible even among Zionists) would sible for Sarah Rittman to come. For him his duty seemed clear.
brother,
Jacob Herstein, all of this
th
In other words, this new world which the victory of our arms has accuse a non or anti-Zionistic Jew of sonic time it seemed as if she would
A week passed wearily by for Ilan- cit Ile was a member of Shaarey
not be able to leave Russia. Then she rah, the little face had lengthened
opened to us, is a world in which Justice and Brotherhood and the being callous to the cries of his per-
Zedek
synagogue.
secuted brother. For the Zionist the decided to venture. She left for Si- and the red rose mouth had dropped
Rights of man are not mere shallow words that fall glibly enough from panacea of Jewish ills is a national beria, and from there made her way with a wistful droop. Then again
Sinai Temple Shows Growth.
human lips but which find no echo in men's hearts. I f the world is home land in Palestine, for the non- to Japan. From Japan she made her there came at the gate the sound of
to be truly at peace and if the Treaty signed at l'aris is to be not merely Zionist the remedy lies in the devel- journey to the United States and ar- chirping swallows and she hastened Chicago:—Sinai Temple of Chicago,
opment of the "mission" idea. Em- rived in San Francisco, and from to answer the call. Israel was brit- III., reported at its 57th annual meet-
a scrap Of paper, both for ourselves and for our erstwhile foes, not
phasis must he laid on the fact that there she came to New York. She hunt and effervescing. "My father is ing 828 members divided as follows:
merely political pacts and continental bound:it - iv. shall have been newly both are Jewish viewpoints. True, will shortly leave for Buenos Aires. a Zadik." he cried, "Wait, tonight he 532 regular members, 179 special mem-
established, but man's whole relationship 1(1ln - other-man shall have been the aridity of the land, the paucity of
1Vhen she arrives in Buenos Aires, will he here, you will see what will hers, 29 junior members, and 89 assu-
readjusted upon a basis of justice and of human sympathy. In such a the water, the unproductive soil of she will have finished a journey of happen." ci5te members. The congregation's
Palestine
appear
as
insurmountable
about 20.000 miles, which she made by
"Tell me more." said Hannah. budget for the current year has been
world, gross cruelty such as has been perpetrated against the Jew in
iroblems to non-Zionists. Rut on the rail and water, over land and sea,
But Israel refused and said only, fixed at $67,812. Of this $15.000 is for
Poland and elsewhere, will be impossible. In such a world no nation other hand the position of the Jews even riding horseback part of the "Wait and see." . Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch as "salary" and
will fed itself entitled to security and peace until that saute security 'n the lands of freedom is not with- way.
"Wait?" questioned Hannah, "Why $9.000 for "extra compensation."
nit peril. The very meaning of Ju-
and peace shall have been established for every nation on earth.
When that shall come to pass, we may feel that the sacrifices and laism has passed away. It has almost
legenerated to a mere Sunday relig-
the suffering of the last four years have not been in vain. Then, and 'on. In the endeavor which the occi
then only, will we live in a world at peace.
lental Jew has exerted to enter into
all the spheres of activity and become
-5 cosmopolite, he has forfeited the
spiritual heritage which is his. No
ine can cast these problems aside and
Those elm a few weeeks ago read in the public press the bitter and still maintain that he has the interest
of Judaism at heart. The Zionist and
contemptuous arraignment of the Jews in Poland by the Rev. Capt. S. ion-Zionist each has his problems.
A. Iciek, resident of Duluth, Minn.,'and chaplain of the Polish Army,
Zionism is not a strange movement
cannot fail to be astonished at that gentleman's change of attitude. For o be derided and scoffed at and push-
we learn that at a meeting held in Duluth recently to protest against the ed about. It is a Jewish movement
and one which is trying to solve Jew-,
Polish outrages perpetrated against the Jews, he was among the very 'sh questions. The establishment en
first to sign the resolutions of protest. How does he reconcile such a home land does not mean that Re-
attitude with his charge of Jewish responsibility for Polish pogroms as form Judaism has no place. It is po-
published by him less than a month before in the Detroit Free Press? sible that both may work hand in
hand and help solve each other's prob.
I las new information come to hint during this period indicating that the ems. Reformed Judaism in many
charges he made in Detroit were utterly false? If so, should not honest ways has failed to keep her people
manhood have dictated to him Ile simple and obvious duty of giving vithin the fold. Why then should ob-
publicity to his newly discovered facts through the same medium in 'ections he raised, if Zionism desires
to aid the Jewish people. Many rem-
which his vindictive charges against the Jew appeared?
edies have been tried; why not try
Or may it be that in Detroit he poses as the Je•-baiting Pole and this w i t h t h e „ me impartial judg-

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