THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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OFFICERS
Nineteen Branches Con-
veniently located bring
the service of this Institu-
tion to your door,
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James T. Keena, Chair-
man of the Board
John W. Staley, President
F. A. Schulte, V.-President
John R. Bodde, V.-Pres.
H P Borgman, V.-Pree,
R. W. Smylle, V.-Pres.
Austin E. Wing, Ass't to
President. •
• R. T. Cudmore, Cashier
Charles H. Ayers, Asst
Cashier
Enoch Smith, Assistant
Cashier
A. H. Moody, Assistant
Cashier
D. E. Leuty, Assistant
Cashier
Braasch, Ain't
J William
Cashier
Carroll H. Lawson, 8011J
Officer
Geo. T. Courtney, Auditor
R. P. Fraser; Mgr. Foreigit
Department.
BRANCHES
2200 Jefferson West
Baker and Twenty.Third
Michigan Avenue and
Junction
Michigan, Corner Addison
Warren Avenue and
Thirtieth
Grand River and Brooklyn
Grand River and Holmur
99 Washington Boulevard
Woodward, Cor. Piquette
Oakland and Kenilworth
Hastings, Corner Erakine
Garfield, Corner Russell
Russell, Corner Lyman
Gratlot, Corner Riopelle
Chene, Corner Milwaukee
Canton, Corner Gratlot
Fischer, Corner Gratlot
Mack, Corner Baldwin
Jefferson, Cor. Beniteau
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DIRECTORS
Russell A. Alger
George H. Barbour
W. T. Barbour
John R. Bodde
H. P. Borgman
H. M. Campbell
B. S. Colburn
C. A. Ducharme
Jeremiah Dwyer
Frank J. Hecker
Fred W. Hodges
J. C. Hutchins
James T. Keena
H, B. Ledyard
James T. McMillan
R. S. Mason
Fred T. Moran
M. J. Murphy
W. Howie Muir
Truman H. Newberry
Henry Russell
Hugo Scherer
F. A. Schulte
Augus Smith
R. W. Smylie
John W. Staley
Homer Warren
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THE PEOPLES
STATE BANK
Member Federal Reserve Bank
Resources Over $100,000,000
struck one of the horses a heavy blow
on the jaw and then disappeared
among
the Cossacks. And just when
yard. The window panes rattled and
he disappeared whips were brandished
creaked.
in the air for a long time.
Presently a broad faced, rough and
The Cossacks rode on side by side,
' shaggy looking fellow brought a look-
like a thick wall, and the demoralized .
' ing glass over to the window, thrust
crowd kept running before them,
it out and shouted at the top of his
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jostling, crowding and kicking one
voice; "Eh, look out there!" and the
BY MAXIM GORKY.
mirror reflecting the rays of the sun,
another.
Translated from the Russian by Dr. A. Goudiss.
"Hit' the Cossacks with a brick!"
ft-Il to the ground and broke to pieces. at the edge of the roof, quivering in jects.
Zelman had been a wealthy con- cried someone. Suddenly a half clad
The fellow thrust out his head. His the air for a few moments, then it
very h onesut atp woman, all covered with blood, fell
round,
moon-like
face
bore
an
ex-
ling
and
falling.
One
sound
drowned
screamed, howled and dropped down. tractor. Ile was a him ali ve, b t mthat
AVE you ever witnessed a
before the hoofs of the horses. She
another, even as the autumn clouds pression of grief and seriousness, but
A soft disgusting thump resounded.' have often seen
pogrom?'" I once asked
cover one another and the noise hung not wrath. A black bearded peasant I rushed away from the yard, and as which I saw didn't resemble him—it appeared, no one knew whence. She
Gorky, when I had the pleas-
in the air like a storm cloud. • 1 with a pillow in his hands appeared I ran I was followed by a wild, roar- did not even resemble a human being clasped the foot of the first Cossack
ure and good fortune of
and clung to it with a sob,
"They're killing the Jews!" yelled a at the other r window. He ripped it
at all.
ing and howling of triumph.
meeting him in this country some few
Stupified and disgusted by all that
clean looking little old fellow, with a open and a white cloud of feathers,
"Run!"
with
"A-a-ah! A-Isa! We knocked the
years ago "Yes, dear comrade, I
ring of satisfaction in his voice. He whirling like snow flakes, filled the Jew down at last!" On the street was going on about me, choking
"Hold on!"
have," Ise replied sadly, and hope I firmly rubbed his small, thin hands
dust, I tossed about in the crowd, like
"}{it the Cossacks with bricks!"
shall never witness another massacre and added: "It certainly serves them air. "It's snowing; see that your noses people were demolishing everything a reed in a stream, d an re
I ga
rded
The mad crowd roared and ran on
they could lay their hands on. They everything as a terrible and im pos-
again."
right!" ' don't freeze, boys!" shouted the peas- were breaking chairs, tables, trunks,
like a stream down a mountain side.
sible
nightmare.
High
above
the
Mr. Gorky was very emotional
The dull tramping of footsteps smote
1 advanced towards the noise and ant, looking at the white feathers de- tearing clothing. amidst peals of
ground, on a rain pipe, hung a white the air, intensified by the hoofs strik-
while he was describing to me some mi:mit, obeying its irritating power of ' scending upon the heads of the crowd.
laug hter The air was filled with shirt, and an old woman, rising on ing the stones and other objects. The
of the horrors of the pogrom.
And
in
the
yard
someone
roared:
attraction. I wasn't the only one th us
feathers. Pillows, baskets, furniture,
The following is the story:
horses could hardly move amid the
attracted. The terrific noise has irrc- "Come here, boys! I have found the rags and a good many other house- I tip toe, was trying to re
hold articles were thrown from the 1 her dark ebony hand. A crowd of broken pieces of furniture and the
It was a very hot day in June some sistibly drawn and absorbed every- little Jews in a barrel!"
rags which covered the street. The
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windows
of
the
two
houses
to
the
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boys
swarmed
about
hither
and
thith-
fifteen years ago. I was working at body, like a swamp. The faces of the
"H it them!"
"Knock their heads against the feet of the howling mob, and the lac- er, picking up pieces of looking glass horses reared and pranced. The mob,
wharf in a certain town on the people bespoke violent, dull rage,
too, stopped, turning towards the
River Volga, pitching a raft from the their eyes flashed greedily. The en. wall," someone suggested.
ter maddened with the desire to de- and some of them jumping the
about,
air.
aters in
"Eh, you old Jew! Come down; stroy, seized all these things, tore and trying to catch fe h
early morning. The day was a glor- tire mob moved forward in a coo-
shi ng h is Cossacks.
Here ran a po lic eman brandi
'Quick! Quick!"
ious one and our queen river, the Vol- pact. heavy mass, ready to crush and we've found your grandchildren."
and"
smashed them to pieces.
hooted iml
The mob roared and waited. But
"Get off the roof, or we'll murder
ga, looked magnificent. One felt like break the walls and fences, wh ich
Two disheveled women, with flush- sheathed sword; he was Catch h
,
y
r
il
your
fain
from
the rear, at the other end of the
working, living and loving.
ed faces and perspiring, firmly grasp- jeered by the crowd. "
pressed them together. Each was .
om "Catch him!" Some street policemen and Cossacks came
dpulling it each to herself shouted seone.
Dinner time was approaching when ready to knock down his fellow coin-'1 The shrill sound of a child smote
at a box,
rew
a
broken
box
in
front
c
hastening along. Now the mob began
I was suddenly started by a dull, passion in front of him, to walk over the air; it was a terrible and heart-
thus havin g a veritable tug-o'-war, rowdy th
rending sound; it flashed like light-
They shouted, feathers and down of him and the policeman tumbled to jump over fences, running into
angry noice, resembling the roaring his body, to trample it.
yards, but the Cossacks ran after
ing about their faces; their over it and fell to the ground.
of hungry bulls, resounding some-
I rushed into the yard of one of the Meg amidst the roaring and frenzied
Loud peals of laughter filled the air. theist and rotted them in. But a few
' where in the village behind me. I, houses on the side street jumped over mob. The infuriated crowd calmed were fly
n, but their shrill
mouths were open,
too, was hungry, and was anxious to the fence into another yard. then down for a moment.
voices were drowned by the howling Glancing at the ground I noticed a minutes before these people were
"Don't touch the kids!" someone
ing of the demoralized mob, piece of blood covered skin with a veritable beasts, mercilessly and
finish my work as soon as possible, again and again until I found myself
roar
senselessly, and they ran from the
and, therefore, paid at first no atten- once more in the midst of a big shouted. "Don't touch the children!" and
and by t he cries of horror that issued bunch
of Come
hair upon
it. shouted the
"Hey!
here!"
blows of the Cossacks' whips like
tion to the distant sound, which, how-
"{lit the grown up Jews!"
forth . from
windows
of the crowd in the yard, and a mob rushed
ever, grew louder and louder, just as crowd.
'Beat them; the big ones. boys!"
A tall the
peasant.
bareheaded
shameful cowards.
The
mob
filled
the
narrow
yard
of
houses
In the evening of that eventful day,
But the cry of the child was heard
smoke grows in the beginning of a
in a torn shirt, walked past me. towards the gates like a heavy wave.
large stone house and seemed to
and
as I happened to pass the square by
fire. A thick cloud of dust hung in a
seethe. as if the ground under their again. It was a shrill and loud sound.
hair was disheveled, his dirty face
"Hit them! Beat them! Kill them!" the picket of the Cossacks, I heard
the hot air over the village, and look- feet was quaking. The infuriated piercing the heart and drowning all His
was covered here and there with thick The
mob
grunted,
roared: in
Some
people
now howled.
were engaged
one Cossack say to another: "Four
ing in the direction of the latter, it
crowd certainly presented a ghastly other
sounds.
"Oh,
devil!" someone shouted wild- almost black, blood. He looked at me, breaking the wall between the win- teen Jews were torn to pieces." And
seemed to me that I could hear many
waved
his
hands
and
smiled.
It
was
dows of the second story of the house. the other smoked his pipe and made
voiced sounds rising from the ground, spectacle. They roared, their heads
distorted, their teeth flashing in their ly. his voice rising above the noise of I the dull, contented smile of a well Bricks, lime, plaster, white dust were
no remark to his comrade's words.
together with the dust. The dust be-
the crowd.
"Did you hit him on the head?" fed beast. Presently he walked over falling to the ground and in all di-
came heavier and thicker, the sound open mouths, as if possessed by evil
to the lamp post, embraced it, and rections. A tray was flung out from
louder and louder and more varied, spirits.
someone asked.
clinched
began to shake it, leaning against it the window. It whirled in the air, BRANDEIS PREPARES
their
flourished
They
the atmosphere trembledtogeth-
"I struck his legs."
with his broad, powerful chest. The describing several circles and finally
er with it. my heart forboding evil hands. they kept jostling and crowd-
"That's clever, you old devil!"
PALESTINE MANDATE
ing one another, they climbed to,the
"Antipl Let's knock or pull the old lamp fell to the ground.
settled down on the head of a stout
beat quickly. too.
roofs
of
neighboring
houses;
they
"Break
it!"
shouted
another
peas-
woman. The stout wotnan fell down
Quitting my work, I walked up the
Jew down."
London.—Acting on behalf of the
Two tall porters. jostling the crowd ant, running up to the tamp post. lie, to the ground with a scream.
sandy bank and saw some people fell. and climbed again. And in spite
Zionists, Justice Louis D. Brandeis,
jumping out from the gates of their of the variety of the movement of apart. had made their way to the by- too, carefully embraced it and began
"The Cossacks!"
has deputed Bernard A. Rosenblatt,
"Run for your lives!" someone of New York, president of the Zion
houses, running along the street, into each person, there was something works near the house and climbed to to shake it.
dren and common in all; each person became
the depth of the village. Chil
At that moment a pretlyhirl in a shouted a warning.
the roof.
Commonwealth, and Professor Felix
ghtened
fri
a member of one huge body, animated
them,
"The Cossacks are coming!" Horses Frankfurter, to make the preliminary
Meanwhile, the serious looking red torts dress, with her hair loose. rush-
dogs followed
pigeons soared over their heads, and by one and the same mighty power.
faced fellow appeared in one of the ed out from the midst of the crowd, appeared in the side street. The blue draft of the mandate under which
hens and roosters were swarming
High above this raging. roaring and windows. He was trying hard to push like a pigeon from a cloud of smoke. caps of the Cossacks were seen, whips Britain is to assume control of Pal-
about their feet. There was a general maddening crowd on the roof of the through the window a cupboard or a She ran , her beautiful head lifted flashed and brandished in the air, and estine on behalf of the League of
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commotion. Carried away by the gen- house. by the chimney, stood a tall. box, and he called down: 'Hey there! heavenward, her face pale, her eyes a loud and ringing voice commanded: Nations. The task of drawing up the
eral confusion, I also started to run. thin Jew. He tore bricks from the Here comes the dishes!"
"Three in a line—full trot—forsvard land clause, prohibiting speculation
' wide and large.
"They are fighting on the Elizavet- chimney with his emaciated hands,
"Hit the Jewess!" roared some march!"
in land values in Palestine and provid-
The box. however, was too large to
inskayal" someone shouted.
A heap of bricks fell to the side- ing that all unearned increment shall
and hurled them down on the surg- pass through the window, so the scoundrel. and the unfortunate girl
A drayman on horseback was hur- ing crowd. kept crying in a shrill
walk. The wall was broken through. revert to the government, has also
grave-looking fellow pulled it back
rying along the unpaved street to- voice which sounded like the scream- toward himself, disappeared for a Tito- disappeared in the crowd
sort
like a A bit
of The people were running under the been assigned to Rosenblatt, who has
sugar under a heap of flies.
ward the running crowd, furiously ing of a seagull. His long. gray
blows of the scourge and the horses . made a special study of this problem.
men! ,then again appeared at the of dark gruel of human bodies began
urging on his horse with the reins. heard quivered on his breast. and his
It was the original intention of
window and howled like a hungry to boil, as it were, over her; fists They were running, chased and pur-
He kept shouting at the top of his white trousers were covered with
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wolf: flashed in the air. Cynical, rowdy sued by the Cossacks like a herd of Roseublatt to proceed immediately to
voice: "Comrades, they are beating stains.
lambs. foolishly, blindly. They could Palestine and make a first-hand in-
"Look
out,
down
there!"
A
heap
of
jokes,
abuses
of
all
sorts,
serpentine
our people!" I turned into the n arrow
have hidden in the yards, they could vestigation of land conditions, with a
The mob below shouted to him
side street and stopped. A huge crowd madly. "Shoot him! Kill him! Bring plates came crashing down from the hissing—all mingled into one malign- have jumped across the fences, but
view to the agricultural development
of people filled the side street with the gun! Hit him with stones, boys!" window, then a samovar flashed in nant sound:
they all ran along the streets, expos- of the country. But in view of the
"Get away: look out; Zelman is
their bodies so tightly wedged that it One could see through the windows the air.
ing their heads, their backs and shoul- fact that the treaty with Turkey is
coming!"
These
words
came
from
a
looked like a sack filled with grain. of the houses dark figures frantically
The people below dispersed on all
ders for the blows of the whips of now being drafted, his trip has been
crowd which was dragging something
Far away, in front of us people roared
the Cossacks. One powerful and
walking hither and thither, smashing sides, covering their heads with their
and yelled and cursed, window panes the windows. breaking the window hands, and laughing at the top of along the street. They dragged a shaggy porter suddenly turned around indefinitely delayed.
man, or the body of a man—a half
were rattling, heavy blows smote the panes and throwing things into the their voices.
was crashing. crack-
air; something
"The Pogrom"
A stout, redheaded fellow picked! clad, thin body, crushed and mangled,
o and m ud.
ed with th ick blod
the gro und. all cov er
up the samovar from his
n's feet with a rope
tied
Zelma
g,
in
then
Hav
head,
drag gin g
a
L giften d it high up over
crowd
oun abe- the dastard ly street and
was
e
ung it to
a wide stri p
' hint along the
hisfeet
His
again
trample
it
under
gait
A superhuman cry suddenly broke of blood remained behindw him.blood
thin, long hands bathi:dwith
t
forth on the roof.
Immediately all lifted their heads and Isis disfigured. bleeding head kep
upward. Some large object appeared striking against stones and other ob-
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