Americo' 'elvish Peril:Via Center Cu. AMUR • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 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