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better working conditions and grant a shorter work day and would
also abolish child labor. The social platform also includes provi-
sions for adequate compensation for industrial accidents and diseases,

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health insurance, national employment bureaus; right of la
organize, arbitration in industrial disputes, mothers' pensions and
President
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Secretary-Treasurer constructive care of dependents, defectives and criminals.
A program of this kind, if adopted not only by churches, but

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Captain Isadore Levin,After Brilliont Career in .1. E. F., Spends Past
Four Months as Erpr'rt in Preparation of Constitution Framework.
in Palestine—.hided in l'rgcurinv
i'rorosed Comnimoitco!th

f or

Treaties for Jewish Rights.

tion of the social and economic problems confronting us. If the

months have passed , and just when he had conic into sight

More than tour
Central Conference attempts, by aggressive means, to obtain its
of the Promised Land!"
since Captain Isadore Levin, son of ,
adoption and recognition by all parties concerned, it will do much
Sent to Palestine.
Rabbi Judah 1.. Levin, of the city,
after a brilliant career in the A. E.
toward bettering conditions in America.
After some three months of stead-

Chaplains in Regular Army.

and news matter must reac h

RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN

Detroit Young Man Inducted
Into Inner Council of World
Zionist Leaders in Europe

Senior Chaplain Bateman has proposed to the Adjutant General

of the Army, that instead of a Chaplain General, a board of three

to chaplains should lie named. This board, according to Chaplain
011 subjects of interest
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence
indorsement of t he
o lic chaplain, one
Bateman's plan, would be composed of one Cath
the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an
Jewish chaplain and one chaplain to represent all denominations not
views expressed by the writers.

represented by chaplains in commission in the army.
In presenting this new order of things, Chaplain Bateman says:
ppointment of
"This change contemplates nothing short of an a
The world has lost a great citizen in the demise of Oscar I lam-
Jewish
ministers
to
permanent
chaplaincies
in
our
military
establish-
merstein. Musical circles everywhere will feel that a direct and
personal grief has come to them. Those who make annual pilgrim- ment. We have some in the National Artily, but none in the Reg-
as a Christian minister, should
ages to our metropolis will find something missing when they hear ular Army. I have been asked why I,
propose
so
novel
a
thing.
My
answer
is, this country, thank God,
the great stars he formerly backed and presented. The watt who
did most to make the production of Grand Opera possible in America is a democracy, and the square deal requires the recognition of the

Oscar Hammerstein.

has passed away, but his memory will be ever fresh in the hearts

F., was inducted into the small group
of world Zionist leaders gathered at
I'aris to represent the Zionists of the
world and to plead the Jewish cause
before the „Peace Conference. lit con-
junction with men like Weizmann,
Sokolow, Mack, Frankfurter, Rosoff,
Ussichikin, and the late Aaron Aaron-
son, it has fallen to the lot of Captain
Levin to shoulder the responsibility
of dealing with some of the most
complex and trying problems that
have ever confronted the Jewish peo-

Jewish faith as one of the forces, moral and spiritual, in our society.

justice

of all music lovers. Genius like his can never perish. His work 1 am not afraid of the 'novel thing' when that thing is simple
to a man or a body of people who have been overlooked."
is immortal.
It is refreshing to read such a statement issued by a courageous
Oscar Hammerstein was born its Berlin on May sth, 1818, and
We wish more ministers Were like him in
he obtained his education there. Seeking greater opportunity and and God - fearing man.
their
breadth
of
vision
and
broadmindedness. I lis suggestion is a
no longer able to endure German restraint, be emigrated to America
army is reorganized that it will be
in 1863 and took up his residence in New York City. It seems that puid one and we hope when the
no
unusual
thing
511
see
Jewish
chaplains in the army doing their
his splendid foreign education did not prove of immediate help to

fast service of a legal political, and
diplomatic nature, Captain Levin was
despatched in company with NIr. Ro-
sa' of Petrograd, (a member of the
Zionist Actions Committee and chair-
man of the Jewish Political Commit-
tee which formulated the political
program for the Jews in Russia) to
Palestine on the Zionist Commission.
The following excerpts front the
first letter sent from Jerusalem give a
hint of the grave undertakings placed
in his hands in this conjuncture of
ple.
Jewish affairs.
"Mr. Rosoff and I had introduc-
In a letter of April 6, a few days
after taking his post at the office of tions to General Clayton from Dr.
the Zionist Delegation at Paris, Cap- Weizmann. When we came up Mon-
tain Levin writes: "Sunday is not a day morning to see General Clay-
day of rest in this work, and I spent ton, we were much surprised to be
Willey, the Secretary,
most of the morning and afternoon told by Major Willey,
with Mr. Gans working on the con- that General Allenby wished to see
us.
We
went
over
to the Residency
stitutional framework of government
for Palestine. Two things of prime where we had a conference with the
g
e II, a
conquerer of Palestine.
importance are engaging our a
First, the mandate, t he I man physically with a firm head and
lion now.
Nations
and Allied
and
deed of trust
so to speak,
from
the jaw and decision marked on his coun-

League of
lltel impresses\ N o:el eha as d h aa‘ c . o il i i 14 -
Associated powers to the particular i t t'll'a arig icee.brai
Cieeneisrals,C„laai),..totilhi(i.iii:
w‘;it .}
fsearne,ieweda with
nation that will be the mandatory f
but
the administration and government . 7.iri
ll-
intellectual
rather than the
Palestine. Secondly, the ((insta
wiry, the .
lion or fundamental charter of l'al- ennichet sa r‘, v v e tr■e l i ,e, „( Li a :lie.
ss T iltite'te'aicrCil.'"fer-
our busine „
estine, to be enacted by the manila- i
tory upon receiving Palestine. The
Writes of Jerusalem.
liroblems involved are pretty difficult
him and in order to eke out some kind of an existence Ile took up share to keep up the moral tone of the men.
With regard to Jerusalem Captain
and I wish we had a few of those wise
i t „.. "Jerusalem is some
cigar-making. Even in this line of work his fine brain stood him
fathers who framed the American Levin wr
2,600 feet above sea level, and it is a
Constitution to help us."
in good stead. Ile turned toward journalism and became editor of
steep, continuous climb for the small
Holds Conference With Leaders.
engine that pulls up. The Judean hills
the "United States Tobacco Journal." Ile also invented cigar-mak-
Dr. Julian Morgenstern, professor at the I lebrew Union College,
.
he
At a later
date have
the same
"There
been month,
a good are very rocky and it must have been
ing machinery which, in some respects, revolutionized the industry. has just published a volume entitled, "The- Book of Genesis—a writes:
g oo " rather a difficult task to build this
After a twenty-year residence in America, he sought to improve
many conferences and much work on line.
Jewish Interpretation."
"The site of Jerusalem is magnifi-
his social and economic status through the theatrical field. Ile be-
The book is a valuable and scholarly contribution to the field vari°"' documents and memoranda
which are to be presented. I was at cent. There are rolling hills and val-

A Scholarly Contribution.

came manager of the old Thalia Theatre and was later connected

of Biblical literature. Coming from the pen of such a deep and an all morning meeting today with
Judge 'Mack, Frankfurter, Aaaronson. position
lens all about.
It country
is a commanding
and the
all about
h student of the Bible as Dr. Morgenstern has proven hint-
or \ \ eizmann lies stretched out at one's feet. King
horou g
n
Fxer.
subsequently built and managed the Harlem Opera !louse, Ilarlem t self to he, it is not surprising that the volume should meet with uans, and le
;has been away to London fo r a couple Solomon chose a splendid place for
Music Dail, Columbus 'theatre, Manhattan opera Ilouse, The
of days, but will return tomorrow. his temple. But in his day the hills
instant and wholehearted approval.
Samuel will be heretirs- were not so barren. 'today, alas.
Olympia, Criterion Theatre, Victoria Theatre, Belasco Theatre and
Dr. Morgenstern treats the book of Genesis critically and, at 'Herbert
they are for the most part bare and
a t
a ) t ' e ." of A. 4 ari'itl t)1 (1 1 e.
it.
It
can
be
i
l
forlorn. But here and there is a
the Drury Lane Theatre.
the same time, keeps all the spirit of Jewishness
con-
e
ea
li'a
rel
of
all:
patch where man has set to work to
pi
Ilamtnerstein vvrote a number of musical productions, some of used with advantage as a source book on Genesis by advanced stu- been the busiest
ference almost every day with Frank- unite his own misdeeds of the past—
which gained wide popularity. Among the more important of these dents and at the same time it is a most valuable handbook for teach
rom
f
and one sees a fine grove of trees,
ng a
w te rt , et vae l

with Neuendorli in the management of the Germania Theatre. Ile

fturo to

s onic patches of green that are delightful
I
work with Judge Nlack on the Jew- to the eye. \\It ), can't it all be like
ish rights problem — that is, the ques- that?
"You are surely thinking that I am
tion of the guarantees for Jews in
the various countries of Eastern having a dreadful time with the heat.
Europe. Most of yesterday Ii
" et " II had such presentiments mysel v,
at the Hotel de Crillon. The various if was being "baked" at Cairo. \Viten
questions are still in a fluid state and. I came to Jerusalem I was utterly
there are interesting hnd often haf- astonished at the weather and my
fling developments from day to day. amazement continues. It is quite t
These social and political problems, throughout the day, and at night it is
you are always thinking in terms of really cold. It is truly a much more
it will be through the lasting impression his personality and labors safeguard and hand down, enlarged and enriched, unto our children the future, are pretty complex, diffi- comfortable climate than that of De-
cult to grasp. And when in addition troit in summer.
have made in the realist of musk that we shall still progress toward
At Jerusalem Captain Levin held
and our children's children."
to all the natural and inherent diffi-
even higher standards.
culties, a false light is thrown on conferences with members of the
from one direction or another, your American Near East Commission and
Oscar Ilanurrerstein in his work ranks above any producers
situation becomes pretty difficult. I also worked over the situation with
who have yet lived. It is fitting that he should be given a 'place of
am not pessimistic. On the contrary Dr. Frieden•ald of the American
recognition with those other great Jews who have contributed so
the situation is full of hope. The Bal- Zionist Organization.
"Friday afterimon," he writes, "I
four Declaration enunciated a princi-
much to the sphere of music.
ple, just as did Wilson's fourteen went to the Wailing Wall. The sight
oletto" and "Don Juan," with Maurice points: But the practical application of our people pouring forth their
Renaud; "Carmen," with Bressler- of the principle is quite a inherent souls in lamentation of our departe ,
with Melba;
Gianoli; "La Bobeme,"
matter.
Nor are questions of "inter- glory sent a pang through toy heart.
m
and Dalmores. Gilibert, Bassi, De Cis- pretation" unimportant. It is a work 'they kiss the stones, they bury their
Though the Pope, some months ago, vigorously rejected the
neros, Saminarco, Arimondi, Anconi
'' beads in the crevices, they weep and
and others were added to the com- very happy to have a share in it.
idea of a union of churches, unless it is under the banner of Rtime,
cry aloud, It is so pathetic, so tragic.
(Continued from Page I.)
v
pany, twenty-two operas being pro-
Churches.
A World In Itself.
as he said later, to escape the tyranny duced the first season at a consider-
Tribute to Aaronson.
we still confidently look forward to a Union of
When we speak of "Church Union" we do not mean "Church of his father, who was an austere man able loss.
The Governor of Jerusalem, Gen
A letter of NI ay 18 bears touching
and ruled his family with trite J'rus-
Merging." We believe that it will be impossible to make the Jew- sian vigor. As a boy he developed a
Unsuccessful at first, Hammerstein reference to the late Aaron Aaronson, oral Storrs, has left Palestine for
mentioned above, with whom Captain ii
ish, Christian and Mohammedan Churches, one, in the sense that great love for music and before he stuck to his project despite almost Levin had been in intimate associa- couple of months. Col. Popham is to
was fifteen years old had studied the insurmountable obstacles. Ile intro- tion at Paris. That month events bad be acting governor. Yesterday after-
each church shall surrender its identity and 1w forced to accept a
a fairly duced many operas into America and happened at Paris which brought noon I had a long talk with Col. Bent-
flute, piano and violin, and Was
common doctrine agreed upon by all churches. Church tradition is good performer with all three. His brought over from Europe and devel- cheer to the Zionists assembled there. with, the head of the judicial system
father was not musical. however, and oped many of the leading operatic Captain Levin writes: "If only our here. Tonight I am to dine with Col.
too strong for that. We cannot expect the Jew to give up his
after an unusually hard thrashing for stars of the present generations.
dear friend Aaron were here today. Popham
and Col. Bentwich and Dr.
Friedenwald.
monotheistic conception, nor can we look to the Christian to abro- his flute-playing young Hammerstein
You have read, I suppose, that we
"One is very much cut off from the
He Was "Music Mad."
gate his view of the Messiah. \\'e do not wish any church to give pawned his violin, rail away to Ant-
have lost Dr. Aaron Aaronson. This world at large here. But this is a
werp a nd took passage for New York
he British
left London
Paris in little world in itself and an intensely
Oscar Hammerstein was a unique morning
one of the
Peace for
Delegation
up its dogma. It is totally unnecessary to do so. But churches on a sailing ship. arriving in the fall
figure in the musical hie of this coun-
can be united none the less. \\'ithout surrendering one iota of its of 1865. Three hours sifter his arrival try; "music mad" some called him, yet aeroplanes. Later in the day that fascinating
A week one."
later he writes: "I have
he secured a job as a cigarmaker's ap-
found
the
shores of just gotten out of my system a long
France, a was
wreck,
but on
Dr.
Aaaronson
One scintilla in its doctrinal possessions, prentice. and lived on his $2 a week he added greatly to the joy of music- aeroplane
cherished
views
or
yielding
•
lovers by his splendid energy and his
it is thoroughly possible for all churches to unite, while keeping their for a year. Then he began writing determination to give the New York and the pilot, its sole occupants were encrclonedic monograph on the whole
gone • • *Aaron Aaronson knew situation for Frankfurter and Weil-
articles on the making of cigars, and
separate identities, for a common good. :MI churches, worthy of five years later became the editor of public the best music by the best Palestine as no one other does—as a mann in l'aris, and there is not much
singers, and of his artistic success
the name, stand upon a ground common to all. Truth is universal— Illy Tobacco Journal. Then he in- there can be no doubt. He gathered scientist and as a sympathetic and left in flue." Levin's
services have
Captain
try to teach the same funda- vented cigarmaking machines and laid together in his seasons at the Man- keen observer of human life. This
unusual combination made him of the trough him to the fore as one of the
no church has a monopoly on it.
the foundation of his firs
hattaan Opera House a great com-
inner of Jewish world leaders who
mental beliefs for the elevation of mankind. All believe in
Early Theatrical Ventures.
pany of singers and actors, and noth- utmost value in all our work here. are confronted with no less a task
(at
od
of
Gad
and
the
Brotherhood
of
Man,
and
y
ing
better
in
the
way
of
opera
could
And
there
is
no
one,
no
one
that
can
than that of piloting the Jewish cause
Fatherh o
his future apparently assured have been desireed than the perform- fill his place—and all his knowledge
church. Tlw Cath o lic con- he With
took up his music again and wrote
church is antagonistic to every Other
and
counsel
for
the
future
have
gone
in
these trying
and other
motnentous
days.
ty Together
with the
distinguish-
Pnotestant de- a number of songs which brought him ances of "Louise." "l'elleas and Mel-
demns the Protestant as a heretic and unbeliever; the .
isande," "Jongleur de Notre Dame," with him. For he was not the type
the head into contact with the theatrical and "Samson and Delilah" and the host of man that wrote much. lie has left ed men of the Zionist Delegation
tests the Catholic for his pomp and both pour vitrol upon
musical world, and in the late seven-
has applied himself
more of operas, with the splendid ar- almost nothing in manuscript form. Captain Levin
and devotedly to the sotto
faith. The spiritual forces of the world spend them- ties took a lease of the old Windsor tistry of the company, which included Even the short time I have worked sedulously
tion of the complex problems that
of the n o
Theater on the Bowery, formerly the
selves its competition, jealousy and immeasurable hatred. They Stadt Theater, where Wachtel first Garden, Renaud, Bressler-Gianoli, with him, I came to know hint as a hold as their objective the assuring
man, Jews
a generous
and the
loo- world their ancient
a hearted
to the
of
actually work towards sang in this country. Then he became Dalmores, Dufratine, Sammarco, Ari- big
proclaim justice and peace and happiness and
ble friend.
His a simplicity,
good
Theater on mondi, Melba, Calve, Tetrazzini, Ger- cheer
were
delight. his
homeland.
and that seek to actualize
a partner in the Germania
injustice, strife and misery. Doctrines have become a mOckery and
ville-Reache Gilibert and the great
a hope cherished by Jewry for more
street,
that
afterwards
be-
Fourteenth
director, Campanini. Oscar Hammer-
than
2,000 years.
came
Tony
Pastor's,
with
Adolf
Neu-
religious proclamations a farce. The churches are the only ones
"His whole life has meant only one
stein did much for the music-lovers of
Capt. Levin is expected to arrive
fooled by their hypocrisy. A union of churches where hatred is endorff, and the pair brought Heinrich New York, and his memory will al- thing, one ideal. What a pity that he home about the 15th of September.
Conried, the German tragedian, to
was taken away in his early years
abolished through mutual understanding and where- co-operation is this country, the latter afterwards be- vrays be green in their memory.

are: "The Kohinoor," a musical comedy (1891); "Margarite," au ers in religious schools. His notes are full of fruitful suggestions
opera ballet (1895); "War Bubbles," a musical comedy (18!16);
Morgenstern will see the words of his
and, without doubt, Dr.
"Santa Maria," an opera (1896), and "Sweet Marie," an opera (1901).
l'reface realized, when he says:
It is in his musical career that the world knows I lanunerstein
"It is my sincere wish and earnest prayer that this book may
at his best. For more than two decades he was the nestor of music
but may even inspire somewhat those who read
not only instruct,
in America. All the great stars, both American and foreign, knew it with deep and reverent love and loyalty for the religion of our
him and many of them played tinder his management. It was fathers, which has descended to us through many generations as
through him that American Opera has attained its high plane and (Air most sacred heritage and which we, in turn, would cherish and

A League of Churches.

LIFE OF OSCAR
HAMMERSTEIN

coming the impresario of the Metro-
politan Opera House. During this
period Hammerstein was a regular
frequenter of the Academy of Music
and, as he said, determined to become
an impresario. Then after smite real
estate operations in which he made
considerable money, he built the Har-
The Chairman of the Social Justice Committee of the Central lem Opera House in the early eight-
ies and opened it with grand opera
Conference Of American Rabbis, noticing that the "Nation," a na- with I.illi Lehman and Periati as the
tional weekly, had failed to publish the "principles" adopted by the stars and Walter Danirosch as con-
ductor. lie operated in turn the to.
Conference, sent them a copy of the articles and the "Nation" pub- Minims Theater, Lenox Lyceum, the
Olympia, the Victoria, and the Rialto.

established through mutual appreciation would make the church a
would certainly bring about the'
vital factor in the lives of Merl and
era whets God shall reign in the earth.

The Central Conference Social Justice Piogram.

lished it in a recent issue.
Rabbi Wolfe is to be commended for his thought in the matter,
Build Manhattan Opera House.
to go
for it is highly important that the public is brought to realize that
In 1905 Hammerstein decided
o n-Jovish organizations, into the grand opera field as a com-
the Jewish religious bodies, as well as n
petitor of the Metropolitan Opera
are deeply concerned about the grave social and industrial problems Company. and built the present Man-

hattan Opera House, opening it on
confronting the country.
December 3, 1906, with Cleofonte
The principles thus laid down are worthy; of adoption by any
Campanini as conductor, with "I Pur-
organization having the welfare of humanity at heart. They seek itani." and Bonci and Pinkert in the
"Rig-
to bridge the chasm between capital and labor. They would create leading pens. Then followed

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