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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
LODGE
TELLS CONDITION 1PISGAH
ELECTS OFFICERS
OF BALKAN JEWS FOR NEXT TERM
The semi-annual election of officers of
J. D. C. Agent Reports Starva- Pisgah Lodge, No. 34, Independent Or-
der of 11'nai Britt, took place at the
tion and Destitution Among lodge rooms, 25 Broadoay, last NIondas
the Jews of Rumania, Bulgaria, evening. Mr. Adolph Finsterwald, who
held the office of vice-president during
Greece and Serbia.
HIGH CCST OF FOOD
WIPES OUT THE POOR
Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1919.
VOL. VI . NO. 5.
the last term, ryas unanimously chosen
president. The complete list of the new
officers elected follows:
President—Adolph Fin.terwald.
Vice-President—Leon 1 loldsinith.
.
treasurer—A. Lapin C‘ben.
seeretars—L \s ,. , ,....1,..
AssistantMuni`tueL7a:iii NE,eu,,,,t‘
ALLIES REQUIRE POLAND
PLEDGE JEWISH RIGHTS
— —
New York.—A report of starvation
and destitution among the Jews of
Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia,
made by Nliss limy. Goldman, an
Warden—Henry U. Marks.
agent of the Joint Distribution Coin-
Guardian—Charles Rosenthal.
'Inure of the American Funds for
Monitor—Nlorris (jars ett.
Jewish War Suffrage, was made pub-
pr eis \ i-
ry ut ,t, 0,at
re t i roiiiiig ong
t(kfriead,e
N
lic by Felix M. Warburg, chairman deult,r.lor
was tendered
of the Joint Distribution Committee. ing up his office.
He expressed his
Nliss Goldman went to the Balkan great appreciation to all the members
countries as a spec:al commissioner 1f the lodge for their hearty co-opera-
to extend aid to the suffering Jews tion during his administration and stat-
of those countries. She said there ed that it was indeed an honor to have
was serious suffering in Rumania, been the presiding officer of the city's
with conditions in Bulgaria somewhat largest Jewish fraternal movement. As
better, although Bulgarian Jews face last pre.ident ii, a u tomatically assumes
the task of caring for the Rumanian ' the office of monitor.
refugees. Speaking of conditions in
NIr. Finsteroald was vociferously
Bulgaria, Miss Goldman said: greeted as president-elect and called on
"At Sofia I found sixty of these for a speech. He briefly thanked his
people living in one room, among brethren for the honor they had be,
them about a half dozen women. They stowed upon him and promised that lie
were discouraged and mitten, and I would do his best to increase still fur-
am told that in their long hours of ther the objects of the order.
idleness they even quarrel and come
to blows. It was a most distressing
picture. These people had left Ru-
mania for the most part, not as mere
deserters, but after having completed
their military service, and because
they were unable to find employment.
Skilled workmen who had held posi-
----
tions for twelve years were told by
their Rumanian employers that as All Entente Representatives
Jews they could never get their places
Warsaw Agree in Claim That
back. They had then left the country
Repotts of Jewish Outrages in
with the hope of going on immediately
to Palestine."
Poland Are Exaggerated.
ADDITIONAL MASSACRES
POLISH INVESTIGATING
IN THREE POLISH CITIES
COMMITTEE NAMED
Paris, June 30.—Ilenry Morgclithau,
former ambassador to Turkey; Brig-
adier General Jadwin and Homer
Johnson, of Cleveland, it seas an-
nounced today, will compose the
commission which the American
peace delegation will send to Poland
to investigate reported pogroms. The
commission will leave l'aris in a few
days,
Loudon.--fur the third time with-
in the past few months Chelin suffered
from a massacre of Jews. Massacres
also occurred at Skallmerzli and Vend-
zeyeva, in the province of Kieltz.
Deputy Dr. Iliefetz left for I.
to investigate conditions there. The
despatches reporting the occurrence
of the massacres failed to state the
number of dead or wounded Jews.
PLIGHT OF JEWS IN LITHUANIA
WORSE THAN EXPULSION FROM
SPAIN, SAYS NOTED OBSERVER
Scholom Asch, Just Returned from our cf Inspection, Paints
Heart-Rendering Ficture of Starvation and Destitution of
Jews in Non-Soviet Russia.
As Condition to Recognition of Government,
Treaty Provides Poland Must Furnish Special
Protection to Jews in Maintenance of Schools
and in Religious Observances.
STIPULATIONS DO NOT CONSTITUTE
RECOGNITION OF JEWS AS SEPARATE
POLITICAL COMMUNITY IN POLAND
l'Olalld, f o r which the entire world has
Protection of the 1tw,
been petitioning the Peace Conference during its deliberations, is made
a conditi(in of recognition of Polish sovereignty by the Allied powers.
In transmitting the text of the treaty which Poland is required to sign
in order to take her place among the independent nations, Premier
Clemenceau, President of the Peace Conference, addressed a letter to
the Polish government, explaining reasons why the Allies felt it neces-
sary to include in the treaty certain provisions which protect the rights
of Jews. That portion of the letter pertaining particularly to the Jewish
question follows:
HAVE EQUAL RIfHTS.
ALL CITIZENS
ASKS COVERNMENT TO OPEN CHANNEL OF
COMMUNICATION FOR RELATIVES IN U. S.
"Five—To turn to the individual clauses of the present treaty, article
two guarantees to all inhabitants those elementary rights which are, as
a matter of fact, secured in every civilized state. Clauses 3 to II are de-
insure
. that all the genuine residents in the territories now
the pressure was so great signed to
efforts
Scholom
Asch,
the
best
New York. —
.sovereiguty shall in f act he assured of the full
who has just returned that mails. many Jews filtered , transferred to yolish
accordance
tf inspection of the con through.
-
In many cases the y were privileges of citizenship. Articles 7 and 8, which are, in
f rom a our o
tlition of the Jews in non-Soviet Rus- women with husbands in America, with precedent, provide against any discrimination against these Polish
Lithuania, painted a and children with fathers in this 1 wizens
..
who by their religion, their language or their race differ from
via
,
heart-rending
front
especially picutre of starvation country, but they were not allowed the large mass of the P olish population. It is understood that far from
tat
to
come
over..
t
and destitution to an audience
raising any objection to the manner of the articles, the Polish govern-
Luthuania Suffers Most.
packed the auditorium of Cooper'
Union last week. While the speaker,, "Lithuania has suffered compara- tureen have already, of their own accord, declared their firm intention of
U
who delivered his address in Yiddish, tively more than any. other province b as i n their institutions on the cardinal principles enunciated therein.
intimated that he had shocking evi- 'of former Russia. 1 he exnulston
of
t
1 he following articles are of a rather different nature in that they
f h
very
the Jews at
g
dente of pogroms, he said that e
provide special privileges to certain groups of these minorities.
war
was
not
soon
to
be
forgotten,
would present it to a special commit-
of
"Six — Clauses 10 and 12 deal specifically with the Jewish citizens
tee for later action, and would con- and according to the Jews themselves,
The information at the disposal of the principal Allied and
fine himself To the problem of relief. it was more terrible than when they Poland.
One of the outstanding needs of the were driven out of Spain more than associated potters as to the relations between the linos and the other
ALLIED OFFICIALS
REPORT ON POGROMS Yiddish writer ,
in
Many Die of Disease.
Passing on to conditions in Ruman- CLAIM JEWS KILLED
ia, where she visited Bucharest, Jas-
IN BATTLE WITH REDS
sy, Kishineff, Galatz and Braila, Miss
Goldman said.
London.—Official reports have now hour, he asserted, was that the United 400 years ago. Hundreds of thousands
"I was very painfully impressed by
tiCTV of the histor-
been received here concerning the States government co-operate with of Jews had to leave their homes Polish citizens has led them to the conclusion that in
the number of sick people I saw all
ical development of the Jewish question and the great animosity aroused
recent fighting between Jews ;old
over Rumania, and the statistics of
the Jews of America in opening up a within twenty-four hours. They had
Poles.
channel of communication, so that lived there for hundreds of years, and by it, special protection is necessary for the Jeers in Poland. These
the burial societies carry out this
The British representative at War- the Jews in Lithuania might send in one day and one night they were clauses have been limited to the minimum which scents necessary under
impression. In Bucharest out of a
Jewish population of about 45001) saw reports that when the Pole* en- personal word of their plight to their , uprooted, not only the healthy, but the circumstances of the present day, viz: The maintenance of Jewish
there was in the winter an average of tered Vulna. street fighting occurred relatives here and in return recei0 the sick. The beds had to be carried
out of the hospitals with their sick schools and the protection of the Jews in the religious observance of
eight funerals a day, or, if the same for three days. Thirty-four Polish direct aid.
:. .ffiliers and sixty-four Jews were
rate is maintained during the summer,
The meeting seas held under, tlaiss4accupants, and when they died they their Sabbath. • •
.1. Of the latter, ten were shot
Jewish l'eoples' Re Th
`!hasto be left on the road without
65 deaths per thousand of the popula
AS POLITICAL UNIT.
NO
g and the rest auspices of the
) fight ing
Abraham Zucker,' burial. When the Russians stopped
Lion during the year. A large per- in the street
lief Committee.
h
were
execute
for
firing
f
rom
ouses
f the
is believed that these stipulations will not create any obstacle to
I manager of the committee, presented g I mg, .
ten )age of the typhus cases here and
"It
The
•
in Jassy has also been ...mon); the representative
adds that large noon- .Alex Kahn as Chairman, who in turn Jews returned to the site of their the political unity of Poland. They do not constitute any recognition of
rifles, ammu _ introduced Mr. Asch. At the con- homes. In the smaller towns the the Jews as a separate political contmunity within the Polish state. The
Jews
machine guns,
elusion of M r. Asch's report Mr. ' percentage was es en smaller. • The
"1 think it is probably fair to saytites of
fact
union, and bombs were discovered
i re t of them are in Russia, Siberia, educational provisions contain nothing beyond what is in
that while the greatest suffering is on
the part of the peasants in remote in the homes of Jewish members of Kahn presented to Felix Warburgd
lshevist administration. who chairman of the Joint Distribution and heaven knows where. Thousands in the educational institutions of many highly organized modern states.
o
towns,
which are
not American
only beginning
the offered
B
to
be reached
by the
Food had
active resistance to the Committee. of which the Jewish l'eo- , have perished of hunger, cold, and There is nothing inconsistent with flue sovereignty of the state in recog-
pie's Relief Committee is a part, a 'disease.
nizing and supporting schools in which children shall be brought up
( . ommsson
and where people were Poles.
i i
After order had been restored 200 check for $250,000, as one of the perid "Those that got back found their the religious influence to which they are accustomed in their home.
I property destroyed, stores entered,
•
until recently actually dying of star-
before
odical
donations
of
the
People's
Com-
tried
In the interval Ample safeguards against any use of a non-Polish language to encour-
A I homes devastated.
vation, the greatest amount of suf- Jews were arrested and
fering in the cities is among the poor a commission composed of Jews and mitten to the Joint Committee.
Poles. About half have alread y been similar amount wa: given four months between the departure of the Rus- age a spirit of national separation have been provided in the express
s
and
the
arrival
of
the Germans,
A great many, of
I d ■ d ' '
'
provisions of this treaty do not prevent
ati
Jewish p opulon.
I
released. The commission is still at ago, and $ ,•
Others the local Christian population took acknowledgment that the
course, of the s mall merchant class
l'ohish language obligatory in all its
sending many more home before the end of the veer.
of
the
Jews
and carried Polish state from making the
work
and
is
and of the large dealers in grain and' day by day. present in an official capacity were 'advantage
\ lbert Lucas, i avvay all their property. Even furni- schools ;Ind educational institutions."
agues,
:
other commodities have enriched
Demonstration also took place on Dr. Judah I. hi and representatives ture, bedding, doors, and windows
themselves, but the people W110 never
Arthur Ultimo,
made more than a small living and June 6 at Cracow, and one Christian of all the Jewish dailies and weeklies. were stolen. Wooden houses were
woman was killed and 53 were wound-
taken apart and carted off. Homes
the salaried employes are in an al-
Jews.
C"
22
were
n s td " Could Express Only Part of Horror. were practically erased.
most desperate situation. The Jews ed, of whom
erable quantities of arms were found ,
In opening his address Mr. Asch
Only Rich Get Food,
can get materials, particularly raw
in Jewish homes and a member of declared that he could give the Jew-
materials, only with the greatest dif-
of New York Arranging Rolls- had"'
Hershfield,
"'the hunger in Kovno was inde-
arrests ensued.
York Lawyer,
Says Prominent
Jews Will Be New
Be-
at ish people present only a hundredth scribable. and I am talking of only a Jews
ficulty, and in consequence, the arti-
ing Welcome for the Champion
representatives
Entente
All
habilitated by Aid of American
sans—tailors, tinsmiths, shoemakers,
agree that the reports of part of what he hail seen, and that lie
he,r iiet i o,
w
e'
o
a,snst,
r
sh
e
a
isv.
e
e
k
of
Jewish
Cause
on
His
Capital.
etc.— are at present idle. It is dif- ‘Varsaw
ms in Poland have been could only feebly transmit to them fsee‘ev t
gre'arhoefnp,l)g
Return from Paris.
ewis p ogro
ficult, of course, to estimate how long Jh
greatly exaggerated. J. K. Prothro the cries of anguish that went up
Isidore
Hershfield,
a lawyer who has
has
Also
challenged
their
reportsn
front
those
on
the
other
side
who
has
made
the
population
panicky
present conditions will last, but every
tion ha s
the whole sec.
g
t hrouhout
New York,—When Louis Marshall, returned from Poland recently, told
one with whom I have talked—Amer-
tness. li e . were stretching out their hands for
commerce impossible. Work-
a„ article i„ The New Wi
sonic
of
the
impressions
he received
champion of Jewish Rights at the
He emphasized the fact that they made
icans working with the Food Commis-
ers have no tools or materials or
denies that accuracy at
of Pinsk
statements
aid.
I'eace Conference returns to this abroad, at a meeting of the Joint Dis-
suburb were stretching them out to the very
sion and the Red Cross, Jewish Mer -
concerning
a
massacre
tribution Committee of American Funds
chants. and financiers— agree that were published here on May 6. He people in the audience, for he had the agricultural implements. They can- country early next month, he will he
addresses of hundreds who had eels- not be obtained at any price. There accorded a reception more impressive for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers,
there will be no substantial reduc-
refers to statements circulated from tives living not far away from where is little food, and only the richest and enthusiastic than that ever given held in the office of Felix M. Warburg.
tion in prices for some time to come.
of the rich can think of getting it.
Copenhagen that "on Easter Sunday
"Despite their affliction and their hard-
to an American Jew, according to an
The people who have enriched them-
the spea k er The Hoover Commission has done a announcement made here. The or- ships, the Jews of I'oland have not given
almost the entire Warsaw press pub- the meetin g was being held.
"in Holland today,"
selves (luring the war are willing to
said,
"there
are
thousands
of
Jews
spletolid
work in behalf of the chit-
The
anti-Semitic articles.
ganization of the Louis Marshall Re- up hope for the future," said Mr. Hersh-
pay, and the merchants of course, as fished
Gazette of Poratma invited the masses in concentration camps. The Dutch deer's institutes and the pregnant cepion Committee, consisting of one field. "They are planning to play an
long as they can sell their goods, will
It has brought in white
tel take revenge for the crucifixion and did their best to keep out of their mothers.
thousand Jewish men and women important part in the reborn nation with
not tolerate a reddction in prices. The
the
tie icnoiguel int
(four, thus aB11,7 itahte
for the evident loss of Danzig, which
the help in money and materials that '
country the refugees from the East,
Rumanian Government has several
igl , representing organizations, activities,
i n public
is said to be the consequence of Jew-
and centers of Jewish population American Jews have promised. They
, who wished to use Holland as a gate-
times tried to fix prices, with the re-
Page Fott:.)
ish agitation."
(Continued
On
give invaluable assistance to their
can
throughout
the
country,
has
just
been
way to America, but despite their
sult that all goods have immediately
Prothero denies of his own knout_
country, ,(r
Ma.
com
disappeared from the market."
K that such statements are true.'
"The most presving matter is the
Mr. Marshall went to Europe as a
Ile was ill Warsaw out Easter Sunday
member of a delegation from the Am- saving of thousands of our people in
•
and that day not a single e newspaper
er icn
a Jewish Congress to present to Poland from starvation. Any idea that
was published. There was a general
the l'eace Conference the claims of American relief work is almost over is
holiday, he says, and none of the
the Jews. Ile sailed several months premature. On June 30, the American
,
printers and compositors worked.
ago, and will return during the first Relief Administration will cease to ex-
week of July. Mr. Marshall has been ist, and this will throw a heavier bur-
tragedy and s orrow than fall , to
particularly active in the protest den than ever upon voluntary relief
the common lot of man were crow ded JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE
into the short life of Max Greenbaum.
against pogroms on Jews in Poland, agencies in this country.
FOR VILNA ORGANIZED
"The Jews of Poland need machinery,
Galicia, 1.ithuania and other parts of
Mho met Ilk death beneath the wheels
presented
of A
raw material. tools, food, and commer-
of a L'uited States mail truck late NIon-
e . f
ter :I . Europe,
eh ab
:asied
Crossing
the
street
at
cial
credit. The whole commercial and
Copenhagen.—A
company
of
volun-
protest
1
)1
r
e
Psrt
e
of
day afternoon.
240 Gratiot avenue to post a letter to teer Jewish self-defense for the pro-
' can Jews to i'resolent Wilson and industrial structure of the country must
negad that immediate action be taken be rebuilt. An instance of this is found
his mother in NA'arsaw. Poland, he seas t1 chitin of the Jewish population of
to prevent recurrence of attacks upon in Kalitch. Before the sear, this city
struck and instantly killed by the mobil. Vilna was organized in Warsaw.
He Is at was a famous handmade lace center.
Coder the supervision of the Jewish-
tizens of Jewish faith.
truck.
iie. strenuous ef.
Greenbaum was emplaced as a sales- American Military authorities, this
present leader of the Jewish tlelega- \\ h en I visited the pi
forts were being made to keep the in-
man in a downtown department store. company already left in a special train
tim, in Paris.
The Louis Marshall Reception Com- dustry alive, but no thread for manufac-
The letter to his aced mother unit a for the Lithuanian capital. The com-
mittee also announced that the re- taring lace was to be had. To pass the
money-.order enclosure was written its pany will serve as guard in the poor
ception to Mr. Marshall is a recogin- ' secrets of lace tnaking down to the
answer to a message he had received Jewish districts.
tion, not only of his present labors on younger generation, instructors were un-
Rumors that the Jews in Poland
from her the past week. lie had been
behalf of his people, but because of raveling socks and old rags and using
planning to bring his mother to Amer- are evading military service are again
Entrance Gate to Clover Hill Park Cemetery,
his long and ardent championship of the ravehngs as thread.
ica. is fattier was killed early in the being spread, with the open 'men-
Help Free Loan Societies.
lion of arousing the Polish mob'
mar.
Consecration of Congregation Shaarey Zedek's beautiful new cemetery, their cause. Mr. Marshall is chair-
"American Jewish relief agents have
The dead lag had been in America against the Jewish population. The
2
o'clock,
The
man
of the American Jewish Relief
war-ministry for the second time is- Clover Hill Park, will take place Sunday afternoon, July 6, ar
six years and was making his home with
ceremonies are open to the public and it is hoped that there will be an Committee, and of the American Jew - taken many helpful steps in Poland.
ish Committee, a member of the eve- One of them is the outright gift of
sued an official statement declaring
his uncle. Nlotris Isadet.
that these rumors are absolutely' false. attendance that will be representative of the entire Jewish community.
Clover Hill Park Cemetery is beautifully landscaped. Thousands of entice committee of the Jewish Wel- additional capital to every Jewish free
do-
No one
knows
source of however,
the rum- the shrubs and flowering bushes are in full bloom and fine, wide driveways fare Board, president of Temple i loan society in the country. These do-
JEWISH DEPUTY SUFFERS
ors;
one
thing the
is certain,
Reform Jewish i nations will make it possible for small
along the lines of Ernanu-El, the leading
FOR POGROM PROTEST work is being carried on by a w e ll, have been laid out. The new cemetery will be operated
Jewish merchants to obtain the money
Perpetual
maintenance.
is
congregation
in
the
United
States.
He
most modern cemeteries in the country.
pro - the
ar- organized band which us bring pro
guaranteed and family lot prices are not subject to discrimination in individual took a leading part in bringing about they need to rehabilitate themselves.
London.—The government of NV
"Every Jewish hospital, orphanage,
voted by m ight ■ interests,
cases. Plats have been prepared and all purchasers are accorded the same, the abrogation of our treaty with Ruts-
:
;
-
I sit, because of the latter's refusal to old folks' home, and similar institution,
sa w started proceedings against the
even courteous consideration .
Jewish deputy, ‘Voinherg, a member
Plans for the chattel, the superintendent's home and office, the fountain recognize passports carried by Ameri- has been canvassed with reference to
PISGAH LODGE NOTICE
of Parliament in place of Noah I'rilut-
progressing favorably. The open- can citizens of the Jewish faith. li,e its needs in linen, medicines, surgical
--
and other features of the new cemetery are
immi- instruments, disinfectants, and other
ski, for publishing an article in the
There will be a regular meeting of ing of Clover Hill Park will relieve a serious situation in Detroit Jewish fought against the passage of
newspaper, M o e n t, protesting
I gration laws restricting immigration. supplies. These needs have been tabu-
against the slaughter of Jews in Pisgah Lodge No, 34, I. 0. B B. held circles.
In the event of rain. the consecration services will be postponed from During the war he was a member of heed. It will require about $1.500.000
Pinsk. This charge can be prosecut- at the lodge rooms, 25 3roadway, the coming Sunday to the afternoon of Sunday, July 13. Clover Hill Park the New York City's Draft Appeal to supply the necessary material. Po-
ed only with the approval of Parlia- Monday evening, July 7, at 7 - 30 P. m. Cemetery
.
can be reached by the cars on the Pontiac local service, running Board. Mr. Marshall is one of the land us all but denuded of medicines.
ment. At the time of filing this de-
authorities or. American disinfectants, linens, underclothing.socks
INSTALLATION OF
for out of Detroit every hlf
a hour. St o at Woodward avenue and the Fifteen best known
spatch, Parliament had not yet ap-
and shoes.
, - Constitutional Law.
the next term will take place.
Mile Road. Autoists take the Woolward avenue route.
proved of the charge,
RECOGNITION
provided
in
the
POLISH JEWS ARE
PLAN RECEPTION TO
HOPEFUL OF FUTURE
LOUIS MARSHALL
CLOVER HILL PARK CEMETERY OF SHAAREY
Jewish Boy Killed on Eve
Of Bringing Mother Here
ZEDEK TO BE CONSECRATED SUNDAY, JULY 6
I
orricEns