5 4 m' cricim' 'apish Periodical eater 1 WITCH AMU! - CINCINNATI 30, OHIO THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE DETROIT, MICHIGAN, i FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1919. VOL. VI . NO. 7. Banned DR. ABRAHAM JACOBI N. Y. JEWS TO RAISE MUST GUARD JEWISH ; Passover "Mead" By Prohibition Law DEAD AT AGE OF 89 $8,000,000 FUND RIGHTS ORDER TO xVashington.— THE POLISH limp , A Jewish custom which has prevailed for centuries will un inea rc,: ns, s1,1 , e ientil thego tte % d titiaTea prm f i r ,fi t it:iitiA Was Dean of Medical Profession I into effect, if a ruling handed down in America—Foremost Author- by the commissioner of internal rev- - ---- ity on Pediatrics—Honored by mute stands. Polish Minister of War Issues Jewish families have brewed from Many Universities. Proclamation Defining Duties of grapes and honey "mead," a wine United Building Fund for Feder- aced Jewish Institutions to Be Used for Improvements and New Buildings. Soldiers and Punishment for ,erved at the feast of the Passover. JACOB H. SCHIFF HEADS A large beaker full of mead is passed EXILED FROM GERMANY; Dereliction. CAMPAIGN DIRECTORS •around the table, and each member of AMERICAN, 65 YEARS — - the family takes a drink. Under the U. S. STATE DEPARTMENT New York:—Declaring that Jewish ingwionfe the interli:ea n rieas,iiiemi,i,et oholte,ie, New York.—Dr. Abraham Jacobi, orli city were so GRATIFIED BY ACTION tri:ils the noted physician, died at his sum- institutions in New I: I Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents Herz! Memorial Meeting At Shaarey Zedek Sunday The annual Ilerzl Memorial meet- ing in memory of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism, who died on July 4, 1903, will be held by the Detroit Zionists on Sunday, July 2t), at 2:30 P. M. sharp, at the Shaarey Zedek synagogue. The principal speaker at this meet- ing will be 1)r. Israel Belkind, scholar and author, pioneer and organizer of RishonLeZion, the first Jewish colony in Palestine. Dr. Belkind is going back to Palestine shortly to establish an agricultural school there. Mr. Ab. Goldberg, editor of "Dos Yiddishe Folk," the Jewish Zionist weekly, will deliver the oration of the day on the life and works of Dr. llerzl. Cantor hlinkovsky will chant the "El Motet Itachainim" in memory of the great Zionist leader. FRENCH MINISTER SAYS PROTECTION TO JEWS ASSURED Pichon, Foreign Minister, Tells Deputies Special Treaties and League of Nations Guarantee Full Equality in All Europe. PRIVILEGES MUST NOT BE CREATED SPECIAL and can only be sold front bonded mer home at Bolton Landing, Lake badly overcrowded and in pressing — I'aris:—Special treaties and the Washington:—As a result of an al- warehousess, the purchasers being re- George, on July 10th, after an illness need of repair and enlargement that League of Nations will protect minor- tercation between soldiers of General I quired to give bond that the wine is lasting only a few hours. Athough an extensive program of construction ity peoples, especially Jews, in the Ilaller's forces and a number of Jews. for sacramental purposes. he was 80 years old, Dr. Jacobi had was imperative, Jacob IL Schiff, chair- countries of Eastern Europe, says man of the Directors' Campaign of the Any wine brewed on premises ex- been active until the end. in NVarsaw, Poland, the minister of Stephen Pichon, the French foreign war of Poland has issued an order de-icept those of a bonded winery will be Dr. Jacobi had a narrow escape last 1. toted Building Fund Drive of Feder- minister, in his reply issued to a com- fining a policy of protection for Jews prima facie evidence that the wine is Septendier when his house burned ated Jewish institutions announced munication front a group of deputies. in that country and strictly enjoining intended for beverage purposes and and, to escape the flames, he was that a fund of more than $8,000,600 The deputies, w h o represented var- the military forces to act according to threfore in violation of the federal compelled to drop from a second- for buildings would be raised by local ious parties, had expressed to the statutes, story window. His injuries in the J ews between J uly and September. In the order. foreign minister deep feeling over re- twelve-foot drop to the ground were setting forth plans for the drive, Mr. lu making public this order, offi- ports of pogroms, massacres, boycotts, cials of the United States department slight and apparently had had no perk Schiff explained the reluctance of the Zionist Organization Issues State- and persecution inflicted upon Jews in committee to undertake it after the of state expressed gratification at the ment Reporting Many New Out- Eastern Europe. dublic hail grown weary of "drives," is gov-1 e onh evident intenti on of thPol "Information which we have col- I to t tube outlined the building conditions protecti rages Against Jews in Poland. I I .111(1 trnment to guarantee lected," the communication says, among local Jewish institutions, which Jewish population. The minister of ..-- there may have been some ex- had brought about their decision to war attributes some of the bad feel- The Zionist organization of Amer- "shows . i Chicago.--111inots will he asked to launch a Cnited Building Fund Cam- ica is authority for the following aggeration, but it is certain that a propaganda wsho ! ,tif getnoLayr da t g het;i1Jsew to the ,t,his sufiscrib e $1,500,000 toward a fund of foundation of cruel truth remains ' rt° 0P em bar- paign. i being raised statement: "°' $3,000 00 0 which is "She needs of our organizations for rass the new state. The order was — ' "The Zion organization of Amer- which the Poles do not hesitate to throughout the country in a non-sec- en- • adequate building accommodations and follows in full. mo ica has received from Copenhagen re- recognize. We know with what issued on June 27 an (Iris e to be used for relief work ' are so great that they can no longer ports of a large number of excesses ergy the French government defends I among the Jewish war sufferers in Text of the Order. • ethical and religious all Le put aside," Mr. Schiff emphasized. against the Jews that occurred in Po- the rights of "A regrettable incident June 26 at Europe. "The Bronx, with a population equal land during June. The list includes minorities, but, unfortunately, owing Warsaw caused by criminal license by I The drive will begin in September to that of the City of Boston, has no two pogroms, with twenty-(our fatal to a lack of publicity of debates in the certain individuals dishonoring the or October, the exact date to be an- adequate Jewish hospital. The He- ities. It is reported that 2(1 Jews Peace Conference, Israelites of the e to renew flounced later by the state executive Polish uniform causes m brew Orphan Asylum, which formerly were killed on June 2(1 at Praszika, on whole world, notably those its Amer- preventive orders. All citizens with-1 committee, and it covers territory ranked at the head of Class A among the Polish-Russian frontier, and at ica, suppose that France has forgot- out regard to religion are equal before outside of Chicago. Chicago's quota child-caring institutions, has its 1,200 Zawierje on June b two were killed by ten her traditional role of defender the law and have equal right to pro- I of $1,250,000, of which $200,000 was boys and girls crowded into a building l'oish soldiers of Posen and 21 of the oppressed, leaving their cause I given by Julius Rosenwald, has al- section of authorities. Every viola- that has become inadequate. It is im- wounded, of whom 2 died later. The its the hands of other representatives treacly been subscribed. t ion of civil rights is a crime to b e possible to permit this condition to soldiers looted the Jewish homes in at the conference." punished with the full severity of law.' Complete arrangements for the continue. Delay in construction, Bialystock, Lublin, and five other i drive were made at a meeting of Says French Took Initiative. "Polish soldiers are obliged while -!fifty-live delegates from Illinois cities which might have been forgiven under l'olish towns on the pretext of search- off duty or on duty to aid the op , at a meeting called by Julius Rosen- The letter concludes by asking M. war conditions, cannot be permitted ing for weapons. is pressed. Negligence of this duty "Other excesses are reported as Pichon to 'slake known officially the any longer. We would not properly l wald at the Standard club. h1 r. Ros- punishable and all the more so since enwald is chairman of the Chicago be discharging our responsibilities to follows: On June 15, at Kielce, Rzy- attitude of France in the Peace Con- violence against citizens is a crime, the community' if we did not set out at redow, by soldiers of General Hal- ference in favor of the Jews. whether done with criminal intent or chapter. The meeting was held under In replying, M. Pichon assures the ler's army, who together with civil- the direction of H. ki. Lev or of New once to remedy these conditions." by simple license. I remind and warn fork, a member of the headquarters ians, plundered Jewish shops, on Jilin, deputies that the French government Years. No Building for Five that I will not tolerate that unauthor- staff of the American Jewish Relief 16 in Warsaw, on June 19 by Gen- took the initiative at the beginning of DR. ABRAHAM JACOBI. ized persons injure citizens of the • ( ommittee. hlr. Schiff mentioned that no build- eral Haller's soldiers in Nowy Dwor, the conference to insure a thorough manent effect upon his health. Upon Polish state, and I shall pursue them ing operations had been made during in Czenstochau Polish soldiers threw examination of Jewish questions by Jew- the peace delegates. The French rep- his return this summer he took up With full vigor of the law. 1 therefore the last five years, and told how de- Communist proclamations into his residence in the old house of his order: mands upon hospitals, child-caring, ish homes and thrust them in the resentatives were placed on the first former associate and compatriot, Carl "1.111 event of any excesses by sol- and other institutions had steadily in- pockets of pedestrians in order that commission on Jewish affairs, the ap- Schurz, and it was in this house he diers against the civil population, the creased despite their limited facilities. a search, which immediately followed, pointment of which was one of the would bring to light 'conspirators first acts of the conference. He says nearest military authority will take died. In order to spare the public the irrita- against the social order. 'flue motive that this commission studied the ques- necessary measures to stop it in the Began Career 65 Years Ago. tion of repeated drives for funds Mr. Ominous prospects of what the Jews . Dr. Abraham Jacobi had practiced Schiff said that all of the institutions of this was in every instance black- tion with the commission set up for beginning. of taking part in Russia may expect if Kolchak is Mail. The Jewish community 'reno)t- the consideration of questions regard- medicine in this city about sixty-live "2. All suspected shall lie arrested on the spot and de- successful in establishing himself as years and had become not only the in need of buildings had combined in eft this to the Polish General Skersky ing new states, the chairman of which livered to the nearest military court. the dictator of all Russia is contained foremost authority on pediatrics, but a joint appeal for funds large enough and the French General Odry. 'The was a Frenchman. "3. Each incident and measure in a statement made by Archbishop the dean of the American medical to cover not only their present actual latter promised to take the severest Qualified representatives of the Po- taken shall be immediately reported. Platen, the Metropolitan of Odessa profession as well. His knowledge needs but also their needs for the next measures against those guilty of lish and Roumanian governments &- "4. All soldiers belonging to the and Kherson, the senior surviving on pediatrics and allied branches of five years. these outrages unless they. Lease( iiii- Clare their readiness to accord the Colonel H. A. Guinzburg will head same detachment as the guilty one Bishop of the Russian Church. Ile medicine was regarded so highly in mediately. Jews complete liberty and equality its shall lie confined to barracks until %Tr- is now in New York to interest large other countries that he was invited the United Building Fund Campaign In Spite of Army Order. politics, religion and language," M. of Federated Jewish Institutions, it financiers in regard to obtaining funds several tinter to join the faculties of diet shall be pronounced. "On June 26th, at Colomea, Polish Pichon writes. for the Russian Church, and also to foreign medical schools, but he con- was announced yesterday. lie has troops under General Zcgelkowski, His letter points out that it would Officers Held Responsible. miral Kol- accepted the appointment as chairman e t he th ity aid the operations of Ad special fined all his work in practice, teach- of the campaign committee and will looted Jewish houses until the Ru- be most dangerous to create "5. Superior officers hay clunk and the other anti-Soviet lead ing, and writing to this country. He Jews, "as our final ob- direct the efforts here to raise $8,0011,- manian commanders took severe privileges for of instructing their men in their duty er5. measures to restore order. The Lem- ject is to guarantee the rights of min- The Archbishop said, according to had lectured in most of the largest toward the civilian population. A sol- 1100 for the erection and extension of medical schools and had served as berg Tagblatt reports that since June orities until the day they are welded hospitals, orphanages, settlements, and dier is never called to administer jus- a statement reported in the New York President of all the important medical 27th beating Jewish travelers at the into the nations so that they are in- tice for speculation or for usury or Times, that not a synagogue in Russia associations in the State and in the other institutional buildings. other citizens misdemeanor, or to inflict immediate had been destroyed by the Bolsheviki Dr. I. Edwin Goldwasser will be as- railway station has been resumed, an distinguishable from Hutt the local authorities have taken without losing their ethnic or relig- justice for a crime against kite state. and made this significant remark, "I nation. 1)r. Jacobi came to this country sistant chairman; !Michael Friedman, no measures to protect the Jews, n ions characteristics." His duty is solely to arres(The indi- warn the Jews, woe will be their fu- from Germany in 1853 upon the ad- president of 11. Altman & Co., has spite of an order from Getteral . Haller. vidual suspected and place him in the ture in Russia when a stable govern- vice of his inutile friend, Carl Schiff z, been named honorary secretary; Sam League is Permanent Protection. "The Polish weekly, Rzosidtwoiskt• hands of the nearest military or civil ment is restored." lie added that he after they and some of their compan- A. Lewisolin, treasurer; 'Miss Harriet has created a sensation by publishing The letter continues by saying that authorities. Any other procedure will always had opposed pogroms, and ions had been imprisoned in Germany II. Lowenstein, controller, and Simon an article denying that the Jews alone protection is assured by special treat- be punished as criminal. Inform the that he had prevented one while he Loeb, auditor. Among those who were guilty of forcing tip the prices of between the great powers and each was Bishop of Kiev. He character- for their part in the revolutionary ies soldiers of the enemy agents paid to have accepted appointments as honor- commodities, in which they are accus- nation containing minorities, but these there in 18411. He had be- provoke them and of the resources zed the persecution of the Russian movement come acquainted with Carl Sam: z at ary vice-presidents are Henry Ittleson, ed of speculating. The paper men- treaties are only precautionary meas- and means of propaganda they pos- Church as a "huge Christian pogrom." school in Germany, and their intimacy Judge Otto Rosalsky, R. Sadowsky, tioned published a long list of Christ- ures. sess intended to enfeeble the new Rev. Platen attended a met wig o continued to the death of Schurz in and Jacob Sperber. ian firms which have amassed mil- pro- "The League of Nations Inform bishops of the Protestant Episcopal in process of formation. 19(16. Both men became American Twenty-fivesInstitutions to be Aided. lions by profiteering, and that these vide permanent protection,'' M. l'ichon them that these disorders compromise Church, the Russian Orthodox, the citizens immediately after their arri- inciting the popu- firms are secretly concludes. "The French government them in the eyes of Europeans and Greek, and the Rumanian Churches in val in this country, and in 1894 Dr. A committee on plan and scope, lace against the Jews in order to is ready to render homage to the role bring on IS the reproach of intoler- New York last week. The object of Jacobi bluntly declined the invitation consisting of I)r. Julius Goldman, cover up their own misdeeds. played by the great Allies in defense the meeting was to start a movement of the University of Berlin to return chairman; I.eo Arnstein, Dr. II. G. "The Copenhagen reports indicate of oppressed minorities, but cannot ance. 111 case of further disorders Colonel shall hold their immediate officers re- to enlist the aid of all churches in to Germany to lecture on pediatrics. Friedman, William Goldnian t, that the Polish outrages have taken to be said that any preceded sponsible for lack of influence and dis- America to reinstate the Russian The invitation was repeatedly proffer- if. A. Guinzburg, Judge Irving Leh- a new turn. At Warsaw, Zionists allow it it its this direction. It is its urgent Church as the official Church of Rus- ed, but Dr. Jacobi did not accept. It man, Max 1). Steuer, Felix M. War- who were assembing for a conference cipline. hope that social and religious inequal- "6. The military prosecutor-general sia. was then considered one of the high- burg, and I. Edwin Goldwasser has on June 14 were arrested, and at ities will disappear and will become a publish appropriate orders; est honors among physicians to have studied the building program submit- Brody three Zionist leaders. the will mere memory." among others that investigation shall received an invitation from the uni- ted by the institutions and has ap- Misses Braff and Glassberg, were de- begin immediately and judgment lie proved building projects totaling at ported." versity. In his reminiscences Carl Schurz least $8,000,000. This program is the rendered inside seven days. The pres- mentioned several times the value of most comprehensive ever contem- ent order shall be proclaimed to all detachments, authorities. and schools. thes ifriendship of the young physician plated by any Jewish community. It and told of the aid he had given to calls for the new building additions District commanders are responsible the revolutionary movement by slip- and improvements to 25 communal in- El Paso Texas.—A true and faith- execution. for porting it zealously with speeches stitutions. ful camp follower—the Jewish Wel- (Signed) London—The Hungarian war com- and ideas and with giving medical "LESNIEWSKI, hlinister of War." Board followed the U. S. Army missary issued a proclamation to the fare attention to others in the movement. BLOOD ACCUSATION HELD into Mexico across the border from population of Budapest warning them , El Paso. Co-operating with the War In telling of his stealthy return to ABRAHAM ELKUS MEETS ' All Detroit Delegates Receive the University at Bonn, Schurz men- AGAINST JEWS IN TURKEY to discontinue the pogrom agitation, the Jewish WITH ACCIDENT. which has recently been carried on 1Camp Community Service, Important Appointments—Dr. tions his meeting with "a young stu- there. The proclamation states that Welfare Board followed the Ameri- dent of medicine, :Abraham Jacobi." troops Harry Kraus Elected President. t hi n can Red Bank, N. Y.:—NN'hile playing London.—Three Greek women at if the agitation does not w i stop into Juarez where it served Accused of Treason and Imprisoned. ' Tchorlou. near Adrianople, accused 48 hours he would take severe steps the 24th Infantry, Colored, with polo at his country - place here, Abram matches, peaches, candy and smokes, "Jacobi was a zealous democrat ORDER TO ERECT NEW the small Jewish community in that to put an cud to it. , I. Elkus, chairman of the New York divers forms of entertainment. J. W. who after/9r(1 won in America a town of having abducted and killed State Reconstruction Commission and ORPHAN ASYLUMS; WILL London—Raids on Jews have been B. workers also followed the Ameri- great name for himself as physician former andisasador to Turkey, fell COST OVER $1,000,000 and scientist," wrote Schurz, "so their young brother, Gregori, aged renewed in Warsaw. Young and old can artillery. Several of our workers 15. for requirements of the Jewish are caught in the streets and driven from his horse and broke his right were caught i in the skirmish and one great a name, indeed. that many years l'assover. A Jewish notable of the arm between the elbow and the shoul- to do military work. The last raid w as. almost killed in the rush. By Myer S. Fink. later, when he became one of the place named Mercado, and a lady, Re- der. Mr. Elkus is a good horseman took place on Saturday last. The re- , I•ield Representative, Ernest J. Alt- most prominent physicians of Amer- becca Behar Nissint, were cruelly ill- and a proficient player, and as he ligious Jews who were at the sync- man of the El Paso district, is very y The phenomenal grow th of Pisgah ica, this revolutionary exile was dis- rose in the stirrups to hit the hall, Lodge, No. 34, I. 0. during the treated and put into prison by some gogues cried, begged and offered to an r at Villa. "I have a personal tinguished by the University of Ber- Greek soldiers. The Greek one of the stirrups broke. past year, its development in all its lin with a call to a professorship. His fanatical e wri tes us, population showed a menacing atti- pay money if they would only be perd - , grudg agai n st him," of hhint His children, whom' and he was that our and attacked mitted to continue their prayers an " for it is o n accoutit playing, came to with his rescue as- varied activities, its rise front a strug- invaluable friendship I have enjoyed Jest's rude towards the picnic, which we have arranged for some of their houses. Accordingly, not to desecrate the holy Sabbath. I down to this moment, and hone to en- sisted him to the house, where Dr. W. gling, inert body to a lodge that ranks This, however, did them no good and the boys had to be called off." • Wolfert was at the time treating second to few in the United States— joy it to the last." during the night, a deputation was they were compelled to go to wor k. J. For his activities in the cause of Mrs. Elkus for injuries received when these facts gleaned from the illuminat- and thanks to the ing report of the Detroit delegation, the revolution Dr. Jacobi was accused sent to Adrianople, energetic intervention of the chief POLISH JEWS EXLED she fell from a horse a month ago. Dr. Wolfer' set the broken bone. This created an unwonted sensation at the of high treason and was confined in rabbi of that city, the governor, Col- Bulgarian Palestine Bank. FROM GERMANY, CHARGE fifty- first annual convention of the prisons at Cologne and Berlin for onel Samson, head of the English is the second time Mr. Elkus has District Grand Lodge, No. 6, of the about two years. It was reported mission, and the Greek metropol- I ulgarian Palestine Bank has I A broken the same arm by a fall. Independent Order of I3'nai Britt that new charges were to have been itan, telegraphed to the authorities , pened at Sophia with a capital BERLIN.—Considerable sensation held at St. Paul, Minn., from Thurs- made against him when he was re- at Tehorlou to protect the lives of I been 000 leva (a leva is equiva- , has been caused in German Jewish of 5 day, l uly 3rd, to Tuesday evening, leased in 1853, but his jailer heard the GREEK SYNOD OPPOSES the Jews. a franc or about twenty cents,. circles by the announcement that lent t ANTI - SEMITISM July 8th. at a convention, moreover, rumors and released him early on the At the end of two days of search, s the second national Jewish 1 large numbers of Polish Jewish work- replete with surprising reports of pro- day his term was to have expired. during which the Jews were in great This organized its Bulgaria. men were recently transported across The young physician immediately lett terror, the missing lad was found safe bank Antisemitic outbreaks having or- gress. The report by the president the frontier and handed over to the curred in a number of towns on the of the district, Hiram 1). Frankel, of the country: after a short visit to his and sound. having gone to a neigh- , 1 l'olish authorities. The exiles were PISGAH LODGE NOTICE. coast of the Sea of NI armora, and St. Paul, delivered in his masterly parents. A few months' practice in boring village with some compan-1 transported in locked railway car- especially on the Island of Marmara, manner Saturday evening, revealed to /Manchester, England, hardly yielded ions. Naturally the two persons ac- rtages. It has been arranged that an several hundred delegates and him a living, and he - started for the cused were set at liberty, but unfor- There will be a regular meeting of I protested the the Chief Rabbi of Turkey interpellation shall be addressed to Illinois, United States. Practice in Boston ili to the Greek Patriarch. The latter their f am es. representing tunately Madame Nissim, as the re- Pisgah Lodge, No. 34, Independent the German Government on the sub- / - North Da- also was unprofitable, and. upon the sult of the torture to which she was Order of B . nal Britt, held at the lodge ject, demanding an explanation of tY" dignitary assembled the Holy Synod hlicigan. Iowa, Nebraska, advice of Carl Schurz, he moved to subjected, lost her reason. An Eng- rooms at 25 Broadway on Monday I motives that prompted the atil,1- which issued a statement condemn- kota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio and ing anti-semitism and telegraphed to Canada, the infinite service that the I. this city and onened an office in How- lish commission was sent to Tchor- evening July 21st, at 7:30 P. M. Mom-( ties to expel Jews to pogrom-stt . ard street. This was the beginning O. B. II. has rendered to the world lou to hold an inquiry, and to bring , various ;Metropolitans .asking them ' l districts. hers are urged to be on time. the guilty persons to trial. to preach harmony between the Jews) (Continued On Page Four.) (Continued On Page Four.) and the Greeks. REPORT NEW POGROMS DESPITE ARMY ORDER ILLINOIS JEWS ASKED TO RAISE $1 , 500 ,000 FUND WOE TO THE JEWS IF KOLCHAK SUCCEEDS, SAYS ARCHBISHOP PISGAH HONORED AT ANNUAL MEETING OF DISTRICT 6 I.0. B. B. J. W. B. Follows the Army . HUNGARIAN REDS WARN .Across the Mexican Border POGROM AGITATORS