America cwisk Periodical Cotter - - CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION .0111. CONSIDERS JEWISH QUESTION SETTLED !OLD JEWS NOT CONTENT WITH NATURALIZATION By LEO WOLFSON. NEW LEADER OF GREATER PISGAH LODGE. RABBI WISE BECOMES UNION LABOR ORGANIZER Johnstown, Pa.—Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, of New York has volunteered his services to the National Commit- , tee of the Ameriran Federation of Ad-' Labor for the unionizing of the steel Premier, Bratiano, mits Jews Treated Unjustly in , His Country—Offers to Recti- fy Wrongs if Let Alone. 'Illumanian Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1919. VOL. VI. NO. 6. JEWISH RELIEF IN POLAND- MUST BE CONSTRUCTIVE, SAYS BILLIKOPF Returned Investigator f o r PREMIER REFUSES TO SIGN TREATY BECAUSE American Relief Committee OF JEWISH CLAUSES Expresses Demand for Occu- i" dustr Y . The Johnstown NI ill Workers' Council is asking for the first speech by the Rabbi at an early date, ac- cording to announcement made today by Secretary W. Z. Foster, of the committee. Samuel Gompers has ac- celoed the offer of Rabbi Wise. London—The Roumanian Premier Bratiano left Paris because of his re- fusal to sign the treaty with the Al- lies containing guarantees for Jews similar to those contained in the treaty signed by the Polish Premier l'aderewski a few days ago. It is not known whether he went to consult with the Roumanian king, and will return in a few days, or whether he will refuse to come back to Paris un- till the clauses containing the Jewish CONSECRATE CLOVER HILL PARK CEMETERY OF SHAAREY ZEDEK pational Restoration—More than Food Required. GIVE THEM A CH ANCE TO HELP SELVES HE PLEADS Assistance Should be Given by Paris, June 25-1 just Interviewed Establishing Loan Agencies, the Roumanian Premier Bratiatio re- garding the Jewish question in Rou- Supplying Building Materials mania. The Premier stated in the be- and Ships—Relates Destitute guarantees, to which he objects, will ginning that he considers the Jewish be eliminated. question in Roumania completely set- Condition. Under conditions of ideal weather tled by the last decree issued by the and with most impressive religious Roumanian king naturalizing all the ceremonies, Clover Hill Park Cem- New York—Jacob Billikopf, who 'lathe Jews, all Jewish men who ser- returned from Poland last week as a etery of the Shaarey Zedek Congre- v ed in the Romanian army, their wid- gation was consecrated on Sunday personal investigator for Felix M. ows, children, as well as children of Warburg and other members of the afternoon, July 6th. Several hundred people who reside in Roumania, (this American Jewish relief committee and people witnessed the formal dedica- includes those residing abroad, who associated bodies, said that feeding tion of one of the most beautiful and have parents in Roumania). the 3,000,000 starving Jews in Poland, ideally arranged cemeteries in the Bratiano expressed the hope that country. The event is one of great Dismissal from an important posi- thoGgh essential, will not go far to- from now on the relations between communal importance in Detroit as tion is the penalty paid by an indus- ward restoring them to their normal the Roumanian Jews and Gentiles Clover Hill Park Cemetery relieves trial expert for the publication of an condition until measures are taken to would be more friendly than ever a situation in the city that was rap- article defaming the Jew. In an ar ' return these people to their former ADOLH FINSTERWALD. before, and that the Jews would be idly becoming very serious owing to tide entitled "Wise Hiring Elimi occupations in so far as that is pos- the connecting link between all the the great growth of the population AI r. Finsterwald was installed as President of Pisgah Lodge, No. 34, nates Firing," published in the Jul y sible. Jews in the annexed Roumanian ter- within the last few years. Independent Order of B'nai Ilrith. at the meeting held last Monday even- number of the "100% Efficiency Hag • "American Jews who desire to aid ritories. The Roumanian Premier Cantor Minkowsky of the Shaarey ing. His election to the leadership of the largest Jewish fraternal and azine," which has a wide circulatio " their co-religionists in Poland must still resents bitterly the inclusion in communal organization in Detroit is a tribute to his unswerving loyalty to among industrial executives through - do more than feed them," he said the l'eace Treaty the clause giving Zedek Congregation opened the cer- emonies with an appropriate prayer. the cause of Judaism as evidenced by his activities on behalf of the B'nai out the country, John B. Lyon, In "We are spending $1,000,000 a month powers of supervision to members of Brith Order. Mr. Finsterwald is a member of the Board of Directors of dustrial Engineer of the Corticell d to feed them, but that is not enough. the League of Nations, over what he He was followed by Mr. David W. It is only deepening their problem of designates as the interned affairs of Simons, President of the Congrega- the Cleveland Orphan Asylum which is maintained by the I. 0. B. II. His Silk Mills, of Florence, Mass., lai tion, who reviewed the history of the work for this institution and his liberal contribution to the furtherance down the following rules to employ poverty. The American people must small nationalities. He made it clear and f many other Jewish communal and civic enterprises mark him as one crs for the hiring of efficient labo 1 ",:i assist them in establishing loan agen- Jewish community in Detroit that he does not consider it right for o "Hire only those between 18 an cies, in supplying them with building outside powers to look after the treat- traced the development of its burial of the leading Jewish citizens of Detroit. Other offici•rs installed last Nlonday are Vice-President, Leon Gold- 35." materials and shops, in fact, to give ment of the minorities by such coun- facilities from the time of the first , smith; Treasurer, A. Lapin Cohen; Secretary'. 1. W. Jacobs; Assistant Mon- plot on Clime Street. He pointed "No negroes, JEWS, or Turks.' them another start in the world." tries as Roumania and Poland. lie "No cripples, consumptives, or In an interview at the headquarters believes that this will create ill feel- with pride to the earnest aim and itor, David Nlaryrnont; Warden, Henry Marks; Guardian, Charles Ros- onitor, Morris Garvett. weak hearts.' of the American Jewish Relief Corn- ings between the nationalists and the ambition of the members of Congre- enthal: Over one thousand Jewish citizens of Detroit are enrolled as members gation Shaarey Zedek ir, providing "No women who paint or dress minority in these countries which will mince, 15 East Fortieth street, Mr. be subject to such supervision by the the community with a last resting of Pisgah Lodge. It is one of the largest Jewish fraternal lodges in the flashily." Billikopf told a story of the suffering "No men who drink or swagger. League of Nations. He suggests that place in the midst of beautiful sur- country. A membership campaign for the second "1,000" is planned. Jews in Poland, where he spent six The article seas promptly taken up weeks. lie visited Warsaw, Lublin, the Jews protest to the Allies against roundings, with assurance that it by NI r. Milton NI. Alexander, chair- Lemberg, Cracow, Vilna and a large "alien interference in internal Rou- will for a time be maintained as a source of comfort and sacred at- man of the local Anti-Defamation number of the smaller communities manian affairs." tractiveness to those who are left Committee, and referred to national and obtained an idea of the urban Jews Not Wholly Satisfied. behind. headquarters of the League. The and suburban conditions. Speaking Rabbi A. Ni. Hershman delivered following communication from Mr. L. of the conditions in Vilna, he said I pointed out that the Jews are not Lashman, Secretary of the national they wire typical of conditions in quite satisfied with the latest law de- an address on "NI odern Cemetery cree dealing with their naturalization, Ideas," in which he expounded the Anti-Defamation League, to the lo- other sections. Vilna had been taken which a Jewish commun- y a I , Or U cal committee is self-explanatory of by the Germans, later occupied by the and that while he, the Premier of the fn country, speaks in such friendly terms icy could possess the most modern the prompt and conclusive results of Bolsheviki and then retaken by the of the Jews, thousands of Jews burial plot and conform to the Jew- a just prote st: Poles. ish ritual at the same time. An ad- of the Administra- throughout the country are court- e At a meting Urges Constructive Relief. martialed for alleged desertions from dress was also delivered by Rabbi Lion Committee of the Anti-Defama- the army, and punished in a manner. Judah I.. Levin, who expressed his (ion League held last Tuesday aft- During the way, he said, the Jewish which, to say the least, is very cruel. sincere appreciation on behalf of oth- ernoon, there were present Mr. B. T. population of 80,000 in Vilna was re, I called his particular attention to the er congregations in the city for the Mast. General Manager. and Mr. H. duced to 45,000. Some of the people cruel injustice of the death sentence beautiful plot that had been opened. P. Gould, President and Editor-in- left before the German occupation, of the Jewish soldier, !trig Ciobotaru, Rabbi Hershman *. closed the cere- Chief of "100% Efficiency magazine" but the depletion was in a large meas- found guilty of the charge of deser- monies with prayer. to us a pr epared ure due to deaths caused from typhus They presented was Clover Hill l'ark Cemetery com- tion upon the testimony of a man who anisl mou y a apology which and stariation. In preparing a budget was arrested by the order of the court prises over 50 acres of dry. cleared cepted by the members of the com- as to the needs of the 45,000 Jews, he I oiirteen•Nlile Road east martial in connection with the testi- lam Ion the mittee. This apology will appear in said the starting point was made from mony in Ciobotaru's case by order of of Woodward Ave. The land lies in the July issue of that magazine facing the conditions as they existed. The the President of the court martial, Troy township. Oakland county, and By LOUIS MARSHALL the title page. figures showed that 20,000 inhabitants who said that his testimony was ob- was purchased by the congregation "You will also be interested to were receiving relief that is barely viously false. I asked for Ciobotaru's in 1918. It is excellently situated. be- Nothing thus far accomplished by the Peace Conference exceeds . a no w that Mr. John B. Lyon, the enough to keep them alive. immediate release and for a general ing within walking distance from which author of the objectionable article The monthly budget in Vilna, as amnesty for all alleged military Jew- Woodward Ave., conveniently acces- in importance the Polish treaty signed in Versailles, Saturday, has been discharged by the Corticelli made up after conference with the ish offenders. Bretiano admitted sible over good thoroughfares and is the first of a series of conventions for the new and enlarged States Silk M ills." leaders in the town, showed that 1,- numerous Injustices against Jews he lines of travel and is in the midst of of Eastern Europe, intended to protect all racial, religious and 800,000 marks would have to be spent said however, that he was trying to a most beautiful suburban section., in supplying just the elementary ne- correct them. He promised injuiry The ground is self-drained and roll-1 linguistic minorities. JEWS Charter of Liberty. cessities. By assessing those that A in Ciobotartt's case, and said he wool ing, presenting ideal conditions for were able to pay 40 marks each it was of the German treaty, in the first instance, stipulates give consideration to the request for cemetery purposes. Article 93 found that the town could furnish but amnesty. He ordered the Minister of The first funeral held in the new for the execution of such a convention by Poland, and similar articles 100,000 marks, and the remainder Interior to give me every opportunity cemetery took place on Thursday are contained in the projected Austrian treaty. The stipulation is would have to come from relief or- to investigate conditions as they af- last when Adolph Blumberg, a prom- carried into effect on a separate covenant which Poland has entered ganizations. If large sums are not fect the Jews. Before leaving, he ask- inent Jewish resident of Detroit. was the signature of the erman treaty, with the raised for constructive relief the prob- ed me to call his attention to unusual taken to his last resting place. LONDON.—The "Alaiiciieste into concurrently w German it lem will be a perpetual one, in the sentences and said he would do every- United States, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan. It is iardian" published an editorial i thing in his power to try to correct literally a charter of liberty, in the final act the emancipation of ,, , ', 1 hich the attention of the Englis • opinion of Mr. Billikopf, Boris Bogen, a member of the them. those who for centuries have been bereft of elemental human rights. go vernment is called to the tnassa American Jewish Relief Committee, e of Jews in Ukrainia and in th It admirably supplements the covenant of the League . . of Nations cr rritories now occupied by Ko Ir is due here in about a month with a complete program on which he has by removing one of the most constant, persistent and trrtt:ttin j., caus es chele and Denikin. s of jus - i The "Guardian" estimates from tl to been working for a long time. It is for discontent and controversy. It recognizes the prnciple ss expected that the beginning of the reports received by it that no le lice and absolute equality, and destroys forever the vicious idea that h- drive for constructive relief will date LONDON.—A feeling which can majorities may degrade minorities. obligations as fundamental laws. than 1003100 Jews have been slang a from the return of Dr. Bogen, who very justly be called a great fear ex- treat them as inferiors, withhold from with which no law, regulation or of- tered in these territories without nd has gone over the ground thoroughly fists among the Jews here in the mat- I them the right of participation in the ficial action shall conflict or interfere, single word of protest or reprima he and who will bring back with him a The Zionist District of Detroit an- ter of the ratification of the treaty political and industrial activities of and over which no law, regulation or from any of the great powers. T ng comprehensive plan of operation. nounced the election of the follow- their countrymen. and make them the official action shall prevail. newspaper addressed the followi 1 words to the government directly ing candidates to represent this city between Poland and the Allies con- I Orphanages Overcrowded. Free Religious Worship. raining the Jewish guarantees. As is objects of oppressive and exceptional c- at the twenty-second annual Zionist Just before he left the Jewish Re- known, this treaty will not come in- laws and regulations. Had nothing ' 'The Alf cannot deny their r 2—Poland undertakes to assure convention to be held at Chicago and complete protection of life sponsibility for these slaughters b e- cause they supply the weapons a nd lief Committee had set up milk sta- September 14 to 18: Mrs. N. E. Ar- to effect in spite of the fact that Pad- , else been achieved in Paris. the an- full iti,i,h, taili d t annatt s, , 0 nv:iit I; -, ammunition to the anti-Bolshev ist lions where 20,000 glasses of milk o t o n all inhabitants, liiil si onstam. H. Goldberg, Dr. W. W. erewski signed it. if the Polish par- nouncement that henceforth the a and i liberty • • tient should refuse to ratify it. In I rights of the minorities are to be pro- out which permitted these m as- were distributed daily. The soup Kahn, H. Schuldinger, P. Slomovitz. fiat- language, race or religion. All the armies,. kitchens are feeding about the same J. Spatter. Miss Sarah Wetsman and view of the latest dispatches from ' tected and safeguarded alone would sacres. number. In the food lines Mr. Billi- Poland concerning the fury caused , have been evidence of a memorable inhabitants of Poland shall be en. M. H. Zackheim. war d marc h o f e i v . titled to the free exercise, whether in ek. kopf saw from 1,000 to 1,200 men and by the tre sty containing the Jewish advance in the0„ The nation-wide Zionist election women who before the war were self- was conducted simultaneously in 352 guarantees. there are good reasons to ilization. It enshrines in the law of public or private, of any creed or re- believe that if the treaty is finally nations the eternal principles of hu- ligious belief whose practices are not lie respecting persons who did not know cities in the United States. New The New York Jewish Daily, "T York city will have the largest dele- ratified it will not be until after a man liberty that constitute the dis- inconsistent with public order or pub- Day." has published the followi ng the meaning of dire poverty. Mothers re- in the milk line carried babies who gation, approximating 400 delegates. vigorous tight in its favor. . tinctive feature of American consti- lie morals. 3—Poland admits and declares to cablegram from its London cor At the same time prominent P° 11 ' tutions, by ineans of which, despite seemed to be a year or two old and Boston and suburbs will have a dele- be Polish nationals. ipso facto and spondent: ticians figuring on Poland's anxiety to divergent racial elements in our pop- re- who were really four or five years old, gation of 60, among those elected "A dispatch from Vladivostok without requirement of any formal- ion but unable to walk because of starva- Tieing Justice Louis I). Brandeis and show the world that there are no ulation, we have become in fact as ity. the German. Austrian, Hangar- ports that a strong pogrom agitat is tion. All the orphanages are over- grounds for charges of anti-Semitism well as spirit, a homogeneous pstri- Jacob Deliaas. fan or Russian nationals habitually I is going on now in Siberia. It gait crowded. Thousands of children are in Poland, are of the opinion that otic and just nation. Although Rabbi A. M. Hershman resident at the date of coming into very often led by the official or 111- being sent to the country every week i received an almost unanimous vote Poland will affix its signature to the Recognition of Minorities. force of the treaty in territory which of the Omsk government. The ich in connection with the fresh air work after some little time will to head the Detroit delegation at the treaty have passed. e have long W appreciated what at is 'or may he recognized as forming Siberian Jewish Conference, wh nst of the organization. convention, he tendered his resigna- Dr. Dillon, the well known con- last is to enter into the conscious- a part of Poland. also all persons of , was held in Irkutsk protested agai Motoring out to the Polish-Bolshc• the tion at the meeting of the executive servative journalist. -stated yesterday ness of all people, that the true pur- German. .Nustriati, Hungarian or the articles which appeared in or, vik front, Mr. Billikopf said that he committee held last Monday. Rabbi that neither Poland nor Roumania - pose of government cannot be real- Russian nationality, born in said ter- official paper, the 'Russian Warn en- found between the two lines of the Hershman gave as his reason for the will carry out the guarantees for mi- ized until majorities look upon minor- ritory of parents habitually resident which is published by the Omsk g nly armies several thousand women and resignation his poor health. nority rights even if they should sign , ities as their equals before the law. there, even if at the date of the corn- teal staff. These articles had ope on- children unable to reach either terri- .\ pre-convention conference of the it under the compulsion of the Al- whereby this series of treaties, to ing into force of the present treaty incited to pogroms. One corresp horn tory. The women were living on Detroit delegates will be held sonie which in turn Poland, Roumania, they are not themselves habitually dent writes: 'A Russian officer w ade soup prepared from grass. Nurses time before the convention to de- lies. He bases his opinion on the Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo Slavia, Greece, resident there, and also all persons I heard speak in Vladivostok in cide on the important issues to be fact that these points interfere with Austria. Bulgaria and eventually Rus- another State. no secret of the fact that he is s eek- and food were sent to their aid just of the sovereignty of those two coun- not born nationals The before he left. brought up at the convention. Jus- or the States which are to be Adequate provisions are made giving m g revenge upon the Jews. In an orphanage at Vilna he said tice Brandeis announced that he will tn 'cs. It is a mistake to think, he agi- says, that President Wilson accom- erected within its former territory all persons within these categories,' Holy Synod of Omsk is openly tion that he saw a group of sixty or sev- be back from Palestine in time to I are to become parties. these new or who are Jeer 18 years of age, the . tating for pogroms in co-opera plished a lasting work. s of enty children squinting and blinking attend the Chicago convention. enlarged states Of Eastern Europe right to choose Polish for any other 1 with the general staff Hundred iests arc sending out inciting let- their eyes. The physicians informed r voluntarily recognize that not only nationality which may be open to 1 p , tern against the Jews whom the y ac- him that they were suffering from they themselves, but the entire civil- POLE SAYS POGROMS TO EXPEL RUSIAN world are directly concerned in Equal Before Law. cute of the breaking down of Rus- what the Germans had called "hunner krankheit" or "hen sickness." He ex- JEWS FROM POLAND ONLY JEWISH PROPAGANDA ired r •in out the great concepts of ' sia." 4—All Polish nationals shall be plained that lack of food resulted in , human equality and that the enforce- London.—The anti-Semitic Morning equal before the law and enjoy the partial blindness for the children, PISGAH LODGE NOTIC E. LONDON.—:\ hill is soon to be Post publishes a statement in today's ment of the principles declared be- same civil and political rights, with- that they were hardly able to see dur- introduced in the Seim for the ex- issue by the Polish press agent, Zuk- comes the subject of international out distinction of race, language. or There will be a regular meeti ng of ing the daytime, but were able to see pulsion of all Russian Jews from Po- skarshowsky, to the effect that no cognizance. Differences in religious extent at night. The Various stipulations in the Polish religion. Pis gah Lodge, No. 34, Indepe ndent to a greater land. About 60,000 Jews ate likely massacres on Jews occurred in Po- creed or confession shall not preju- t the physicians hope that proper diet will to be affected, most of whom have land and that all reports of such mas- treaty manifest the exalted ideas dice any Polish nationals in matters Order of B'nai Brith, held a which it formulates, and which are ngs , a j t til2y5 B14r tohadawtay7:37 Mon- restore the children to normal con- doadyg revreonoim been living for decades in Poland. nacres were simply sent out by relating to the enjoyment of civil or I P. M. dition. The equipment of the hos- speak Polish and have taken a great Zionists for the sake of putting the expressed in substantially the follow- Members are urged to be on ti me. pitals in Poland are bad, he said. share in the industrial development new Polish government in a predica- ing terms: (Continued On Page Four.) 1—oland recognizes these several of the country. Expulsion orders ment. have already been served on 900 Jews. DEFAMATORY ARTICLE REPUDIATED BY FIRM AND "1007" 0 MAGAZINE POLISH TREATY A CHARTER OF LIBERTY, SAYS LOUIS MARSHALL "Had Nothing Else Been Achieved in Paris, the Announce- ment that henceforth the Rights of the Minorities are to be Protected and Safeguarded alone would have been evidence of a Memorable advance in the Onward March of Civilization." OF JEWISH DELEGATION AT PEACE CONFERENCE DISCUSSES TEXT OF TREATY SLAUGHTERED UNDER KOLCHAK AND DENIKIN IS CHARGED Detroit Zionists Elect Delegates to National Convention at Chicago ENGLISH JEWS FEAR POLISH PARLIAMENT MAY NOT RATIFY PACT