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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
VOL. VI . NO. 13.
`NATION' WARNS
JEWISH LEADERS
BEWARE KOLCHAK
Pioros Joseph Synagogue
To Be Dedicated Sunday
Appru iviatt• dedicatory services,
MEDAL TO NON-JEWS FOR JEWISH RELIEF SERVICE
Sunday. August 31, will marls the
opening of the Congregation Piortis
Joseph, the new synagogue located at
208 East Ferry as cute. beginning
with a line of march from 343 East
New York Weekly Charges Kol- Frederick street at 2 p. Ill. , Jul im-
pressive program has been outlined
chak Regime Is Thoroughly by the committee to commemorate
Anti-Semitic and Represents the solemn occasion.
The speakers will include Rabbis
Black Hundreds.
Levin, Hershinann, Aishislikin and
Eiseman.
JEWISH MERCHANTS WHO LOST ALL
ASK FOR HELP TO REHABILITATE
FRANCE HONORS
ALFRED DREYFUS
American Official Says Reaction-
aries Would Drive Out All
PARI S.--011 the oessision of the
Jews and Poles From Russia as French National Fete, Lis nt.
AI
`red Dreyfus the leas promoted to,
"Foreigners."
The "Nation," a national weekly
published in New York, one of the
leading and most powerful organs
of liberal opinion ill the United
States, in an editorial published in its
issue of August 23, charges several
leading American Jens with carrying
oil negotiations with Archbishop
Natoli of the Greek Russian Church
in support of the Kolchak regime
which it claims to be grossly anti-
semitic. The test of the editorial
follows:
We sincrely hope that it is not yet
too late for leaders of the Jewish
community in America to break off
their negotiations with the Kolchak
representatives here, concerning
which reports have come to us from
reliable sources. It is, or it ought to
be, well known to those distinguished
Jews, that the Kolchak regime is
thoroughly impregnated with anti-
Semitism. This is the chief stock-
in-trade of the Kolchak officers. Even
the Kolchak press contains Jew-bait-
ing statements worthy of Czarist
times. The knout has returned and
the machine gun is rarely silent. Lib-
erals, radicals, and revolutionaries
even of the mildest type are system-
atically hunted down, kidnapped, and
killed by old Czarist officers. The
American troops under General
Graves are reported to be complete-
ly disgusted with Kolchak and his
pretensions. How can it help the
Jews of Russia for American Jews
to be currying favor with such a re-
gime? We do not wish for a moment
to question the motives of the Jew-
ish leaders here. But is their hatred
of the Soviet Government—under
which no pogroms have been report-
ed to have taken place—so blinding
that their only hope is to help the
Black Hundreds into power? What
other explanation can there be of the
recent meeting of four Jewish lead-
ers with the well-known "pogrom-
chik," Metropolitan Platon?
that rank during the war, when he
was charged with the direction of 0
park of artillery.) was raised to the
dignity of Officer of the Order of the
Legion of Honor. He was appointed
Chevalier of the Order at the time of
Obverse and Reverse of the Medal of the American Jewish Relief Committee
his rehabilitation.
Would Have American Jews Establish Banks in Polish
Cities—Morgenthau Promises to Aid Project—Commis-
sion Finds Terrible Conditions in Hospitals—Poles Argue
There Were No "Pogroms" Because Government Did
Not Back Massacres.
Londim.-•.-As 0 result of the investigation, lasting seven days,
into the details of the pogrom which occurred in Vilna when the
Poles took that city from the llolsheviki, tht• Nlorgenthau Commis-
One of the most striking features of Jewish relief efforts during the last
sion has determined that seventy Jews were killed and an untold
A JEW ELECTED TO
three or four years has been the widespread and disinterested assistance
Pole lost his
rendered by non-Jews in many Stays to .1inerican Jewry ill its undertaking number wounded. It was also found that not a single
FRENCH ACADEMY to save Jewry in Eastern Europe from the war-horn annihilation that life in the so-called lighting against the Bolsheviki. These facts were
threatens it. Goy ernors of States, public men of all kinds, and plain, humble arrived at after the examination of AO witnesses, and inquiries into
IS\ ISIS. -Dr. Fernand \Vidal has men and women, their hearts touched and their sympathies stirred by the
the casts 1 If 250 pogrom victims.
been elected Nlentber of the Academy
of Sciences. He is Professor of the
Medical Clinic at the Faculty of Nfed-
lents, of the University of Paris, and
is one of the foremost doctors of the
day. The medical world is indebted to
hint for numerous discoveries. notably
of I:scenics for typhoid fever. Dr.
\Vidal's lectures and his clinical serv-
ice are attended by students from all
parts of the world. The .\ cademy of
Sciences is one of the five .1cade-
mies that form the Institute of
France, and Jews are represented in
all of them, viz.: Academie Fraileaise,
NI. Henri Bergson; Academie des
Sciences. MM. I iabriel Lippinann,
Jacques Hadamard, and Fernand \Vi-
dal; Academie des Sciences. Morales
Cl Politiques, \I M. Georges Levy and
Bergson; Academie des Inscriptions
It Belles-Lettres. NI M. Salomon Rei-
nach and Theodore Reinach; Acade-
mie des Beaux Arts, Baron Edmond
de Rothschild.
terrible sufferings that have come upon the Jewish race in Europe, have,
without thought of personal sacrifices or reward, plunged into the drives
and campaigns that within the last two years have netted more than $30,-
1100,000 for Jew ish relief enterprises.
Out of a deep and sincere sense of gratitude for the services 111115 rett-
dered by scores of Christians, the prominent Jews of the l'nited States,
organized into the official American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers
from the AVar, have had medals struck for award to these men and women.
The names of the recipients of the honor are to be announced shortly. 'They
will be nominated by the State chairman of the committee, and must all be
Gentiles who have sexed without remuneration.
The medal of bronze was designed by J. Kilenyi, an Argentine sculptor,
now in New York. The face show s a kneeling woman :11111 two tattered
children grouped before a figure of Columbia. Behind the figures is all altar,
Ranked on either side by a seven-branched candlestick and a six-pointed
star of David, ancient emblem of Jewry. In reverse the medal bears the
name of the committee and the legend:
"When Suffering Humanity Called You Nobly Responded."
Louis Marshall, official representative of American Jewry at the Peace
Conference, is chairman of the committee. Among the prominent members
are Jacob II. Schiff, Nathan Straits, Judge Julian W. Mack, Felix M. \\'ar-
Mug. Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Arthur Lehman, all of New York; 1)r. Cyrus
Adler and Jacob I). Lit, of Philadelphia, and Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago.
PILSUDSKI TALKS OF
EQUALITY TO JEWS
\'11.N.1, Poland—Gen. Pilsodski,
president of the Polish government,
while on his way to take charge of
the Polish offensive against the Rus-
sian Bolsheviki, stopped here and, in
an inters+ made his first public
utterance regarding the Jewish prob-
lem.
- Poland cannot solve the Jewish
question." he said, "in any other way
Who Platon Is
than that in 11 hich it has been solved
ill civilized countries throughout the
Metropolitan Platon was the arch-
world, namely, by giving the Jews
bishop of the Greek Catholic or Rus-
equal rights with" the Christians.
sian Church in (41essa under the re- Poland does not make any distinc•
gime of the Czar. He is the senior tinny on account of religious faith or
surviving bishop of the Russian race. The Jew here has the same
Church. In a recent statement made rights as a Christian. 1 cannot under•
in New York, where he is actii ely en- stand why some people. interested
gaged in obtaining support (or the ill solving the Jewish question ill
Kolchak government, he is reported Poland. suppose that the manner of
to hays. said. "I yearn the Jews. woe its solution ill other civilized coun-
will he their future in Russia when a tries will not succeed in Poland, All
stable government is restored." To that is needed is IIl get the people
this he added that he always was op- accustomed to live as freemen and
posed to pogroms and that he had not as slaves."
prevented one while Bishop of Kiev.
It is activity in the Kiev pogrom has
been disproves by many Jews living
in America who were in Kiev at the
--
time the massacre took place there.
ileum, L oewy , one
NE \\'
They state that after the orgy of Jew-
ish murder had continued for three of New York's most prominent law-
day s and the madness of the drunken ye,. died last week from the effects
mob had become dissipated, Rev. Pla- of a street car accident.
Nis. Loewy was born in Berlin,
toll expressed himself as being op-
11 III he did Germany. June 4, 1854. the son of the
Benno Loewy, Eminent
N. Y. Lawyer, Killed
p0SIIII 20 the illa,saere.
MORGENTHAU MISSION COMPLETES
VILNA POGROM INVESTIGATION
After Hearing Over 500 Witnesses, Poles and
Jews, American Commission Determines that
70 Jews Met Death and Many Were Injured,
But Discovered No Polish Casualties.
BOLSHEVISM BAD ENOUGH
BUT KOLCHAK IS WORSE
Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1919.
not raise his epics during the fury. of Rev. Dr. Adolph Loewy, 1'11.1)s I'hl.
1)., Theo]. I). .\ fter attending schools
the mob.
of learning ill his native country and
Further es idenee of the attitude of in London he came to America, and
20 _ ears old, was
the Kolchak attitude toward 211C Jews
w h en ooh'
j otambitt cm _
ill Russia is furnished in a recent ar- graduated
ticle in the Loudon Jewish World. toga Law srmmt.
was
part of whidi follows:
to the bar the following year. and
since that time has been a leading
Would Purge Russia of Jews
lawyer In this city.
"Is there any lief(' 20 ask how
The library of Nf r. Loewy is most
Jens are faring ill this hell of Kolt• extensive. having in its more than
chak's contriving? Light is thrown 53,000 volumes. He was a tnember
upon the question by Dr. Joshua Ro- of many organizations, including the
sett (an . \ merican official who went American Society for Judicial Settle-
to Siberia at the instance of the V. S. m•nt of 'International Disputes, Na-
Committee of Public Information') tional Geographic Society. He also
l
lie tells of an interview he had will was a member of the American Ain-
one of Koltchak's supporters. a man seuni of Natural History, the Metro-
named Voinoff, who frankly referred oohtatt Museum o f ..‘ et , A mer i can
to himself as "an emissary from the Historical \ ssociation, .k Ill erican
Russian officers on the French front calmly of Political and Social Sai-
to initiate a propaganda for the rase eller, American Numismatic Society
toration of the autocracy." I N. Y.) Biological Society of Amer-
"But mot the Romanotfs," he said. ire, Ilibliogical Society of London
".k monarch who can not maintain (England), and many other -.similar
himself upon the throne is not worthy associations in Germany. He was a
of it. There is hut one man in Rus- member of nearly all the Jewish char-
sia who is strong enough to meet the itable organizations in this city, and
situation. lie is known to be faithful was a prominent Nlason. member of
to the Holy Greek Catholic religion. the Witai Britt' and Free Sons of
and he alone can be depended upon
.
Israel.
to purge the sacred ground of Russia
As a member of the B'naiWrith he
nfidels
infidels
Of Jews, Poles.
Wai at one time president of the
and foreigners." "Who is that man?" washingtmt Imma.,
O. 19, and he
asked Dr. Rosett.
name is was also president of the Aryell
Koltchak," was the reply he received Lodge No. 6, of the Free Sons. He
front this "emissary
a past master of the National
And this is the sort of thing which was
L odge. E. A A. NI.. past high priest
the forces of the Allies, pledged by of the Crescent Chapter. sovereign
the torrents of blood that were spilt grand inspector general thirty-third
in the war to make the world safe degree Scottish Rite, and honorary
for democracy, are supporting! There member of the Supreme Council for
is no question that the Bolshevik re- Northern - Masonic jurisdiction of the
gime is terrible from many points of United States.
View' for Jews—if half the stories
told of it be true—but even if the
The Jews of Wharton. Texas, who
worst imputed to it be the fact. it is
number only 30 families. are about to
11 0 2 so utterly hopeless. so entirely a build a synagogue. Wharton already
set-hack to every Jewish aspiration boasts of a Zionist and Hadassah So-
and hope as is esidently Koltchak-
ciety and a B'nai B'rith lodge.
ism."
A JEW FOR AN HOUR
A Jewish War Story
By E. C. EHRLICH
Anti-Setnetic documents and pro-
clamations which the Poles spread in
Vilna were also examined by Mr. Mor-
genthait. An investigation of the
prison hospital in Vilna where a num-
ber of Jewish prisoners are interned
was made by Captain Gothard, a mem-
ber of the commission, who found
conditions there very disgraceful. 'The
commission also made inquiries con-
cerning the circumstances surrounding
the death of the Jew Kravetzki, who
died as a result of torture and star-
vation in Ityalistok, where he had been
dragged by the Poles.
KOLCHAK TO CONSCRIPT
ALL JEWISH REFUGEES
YOKAHAMA, .Nugust 21.—Plans
are on foot toward mobilizing Rus-
sian immigrants in Japan, between
the ages of 18 and 45 years, for Kol•
chak's army. The Japanese govern-
ment has already given its consent,
and Herr Pakavner has come from
Siberia for the purpose of carrying
out such a draft. The order affects
some 10,000 Russians in Japan, of
whom 80 per cent are Jewish.
Widows and Orphans Testify.
Among those whose testimony the
Morgenthau commission has heard in
its attempt to get at the bottom of
things, have been the widows, orphans,
and other relatives of victims of the
pogroms, and also Rabbis Karlitz and
Grossman, who described to the
American Commission frightful pic-
tures of the pogroms, and of the atroc-
ities against Vilna Jews on the part
of the Poles. The Rabbi from Lip-
nitsch told that he bad seen accused
Jews put to death without any kind
of trial.
Another witness who was question-
ed was the well known Polish anti-
declared
Semite. Niemoievski.
He
that there had been no pogroms in
Poland. in the true sense of the word
"pogrom," which he held to mean a
slaughter of Jews which had been or-
ganized by the government. Niem-
ides ski also accused the Americans of
being opposed to Polish objectives ill
Ukrainia.
Plan Million Dollar
Memorial to Dr. Jacobi
illy friend, the army chaplain, lean- sons and sweethearts just a few days
eil across my desk, his eyes very before it was signed didn't think we
thoughtful. "Sometimes I wonder fought just a week or so too long?
whether I did just the right thing," Anyhow, we'll been having some
he murmured doubtfully. Ile leaned pretty bloody fighting before we were
back, his brown fingers plucking idly sent back to a rest area. Thank God,
at the buttons of his coat, the cross they didn't call the boys out again.
upon his collar. "Maybe you as a But it wouldn't have made much M-
ien can tell me." ference to some of the lads I visited
111 1 Ile hospital. They weren't think-
It wasn't all pleasant work over mg of fighting—though some of 'em
Hears Jewish Leaders,
there. Some of it made me pretty lived--what was left of them. There
sick. Especially visiting the hospitals was one I hoped wouldn't. although
Nlorgenthau and the American Com-
after a big push. But, then, I hadn't he was a boy of my own church, the mission took part in the conference in
enlisted for a pleasant fob. son of an old college chum of mine.
Vilna, arranged by the Jewish-Polish
YIII1 hear a lot nowadays about the (The army's a small place after all,
leaders, at which ten delegates repre-
%car rubbing out the boundary lines and you'd be surprised how many old
sented the Jewish parties and institu-
between the different religions. May- friends I met over there in every con-
be it has, a little. 'There's nothing re- ceivable place, from the Louvre when tions. The local l'olisls authorities
also were represented.
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markable in Catholic and Protestant I
.ther the conference Ilenry Nfor-
doughboys sitting around the same lousing station at the embarkation
table to smoke and play cards. Lots port) John, you see, was pretty bad- genthan declared: "I ant beginning to
of 'cm did that before they ever went lv dose for --torn with shrapnel, with have a clearer understanding of the
to France. And Jews and Gentiles an ie:ecteil leg that had to come off, Jewish national probletns."
didn't have to go through hell to- and all that sort of thing. But Ile Was
In response to Nlorgenthatt's fines-
gether in the Argonne to learn to re- game to the Inst. like all the rest of hot' to the Polish government as to
spect each other. Nly own father the fellows, and the one thing he how many of those who had a hand
would laugh at that. He had a jaw asked me wasn't for himself either,
in the pogroms and who had corn-
for a partner for years. and when old
"See that kid in the third lied?" he mined misdeeds and outrages against
Nis. Jacobson died—hut Ell tell you told me the afternoon he died. "Well, the Jews had been punished. the
about that later. W'hat I'm getting I don't think he's going to last long. .s tore i e ,,,, comm i ss i on h as b een ; n -
at is that a man when he lies on his either. You know, Ile was out of his f orme d t h a t o n e pogrotnists have
deathbed is likely to want two things head 'most all night, and kept saying been executed and 112 others have
of 105 Very OW2I, and want 'ton bad-- Ile couldn't die without saying some- been sentenced to long terms ill
his own mother and his OW11 religion thing or other. I couldn't under- prison,
Ifs may have been a Catholic with an stand it. but it mast be a sort of Jew-
agnostic (or his buddy
while Is
the y ish prayer." \1111 then John tried to
Investigate Material Damage.
were in the trenches; but when he grill at me. "Pin a regular detective
An example of the extent to which
knows Ile isn't going to 1,151 much to find that out, ain't I? Ititt his
longer he wants is priest of his own name's Cohen. So I was wondering the material damage to Jewish prop-
church. It's that was' with all of whether you couldn't get a Jewish el ty was carried, may lie gleaned front
them, I think.
rabbi or worker to come and pray the fact that the Commission's inves-
tigation proved the single establish-
\Vr11, it was back in the fall, some with him. Can you?
time in October. I think, not long
I promised John to do what I ment of Zalkind, a large department
before the armistice. Only a few could, but 1 was worried. I'm not store ill Vilna, had suffered losses of
eekS. but those few weeks cost us saying this ill a spirit of criticism, but half a million rubles during the
pretty heavy. Since I've come back vour people didn't have many re- pog(0111.
to the States I've heard a lot of nice ligious workers on the other side,
The contrast between the former
people (W110 W011 the war just by either as civilians or in the army. state of business prosperity' in Vilna
buying Liberty bonds!) saying how \\*Itich surprised me, as the Jewish and the present industrial stagnation
they were sorry we didn't tight a people must have realized how utter- was brought to the attention of the
week or so more and teach the Ger- ly alone their young men were in the Morgenthati Commission by a deputa-
mans a lesson. But I wonder wheth-
tion of Vilna merchants. The latter
er some of the women who lost their (('.ontinued On Page Four.)
suggested as a practical step towards
trade rehabilitation, the founding of
an American bank and also that the
Americans help by sending them raw
materials.
Announcing
a "Chronicle" Feature
You Will Enjoy Every Week
Beginning with this issue the readers of the "Chronicle . ' will
eisi"Y a new literary treat every week. It is something that you will
read with pleasurable interest and appreciation. and will, no doubt,
be tempted to cut out and paste in a scrap•book, or send to a friend
to express your own thoughts.
On the editorial page of this issue you will find printed a poem
entitled "My Gift." \Ve know you will like it. And there will be
another one in the nest issue on some other theme. There will he a
poem every week—a human pen picture touching every phase of life--
pathetic, joyous, philosophical reminiscent.
The author of these bits of verse is a man of broad human sympa-
thies, of wide experience, of keen intellect, of sound logic, a man who
seemingly has his band on the pulse of the human heart. with the
gifted power of interpreting the heartbeats in words and phrases
poignant with feeling and beauty. His pen name is ENOCH NIEBS.
He w ill be a regular contributor to the "Chronicle."
THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Poles Make Complaint.
Mr. Nforgenthaii assured the deputa-
, tine that on his return to America be
would do his part toward setting in
motion American forces for their aid,
and declared hiritself in favor of the
project of an American bank in War-
t saw with a branch in Vilna.
I The "Gazeta Warshava" has pub.
fished a complaint that Polish wit-
j nesses were not more in evidence at
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Movement Started to Build Children's
Hospital-140,000 Physicians to be
Asked to Contribute—Will be An-
nex to Jewish Hospital.
NEW YORK—A nation-wide cam-
paign for funds to erect a hospital in
this city in memory of Dr. Abraham
Jacobi is now under way, according to
announcement made by Max S. Wolf,
executive head of the Campaign Com-
mittee. The amount set by the com-
mittee is $1,000,000, a large part of
which is to be devoted to an endow-
ment of the institution after it is built.
Appeals for aid will be sent this
week from the headquarters of the
committee to 140,000 physicians in the
United States, while the various
trades will be asked to contribute to
Locally, teams will be
the cause.
formed to canvass the city. A speak-
ers' bureau under Justice Samson
Friedlander will furnish four-minute
speakers to the theaters of the city.
At the next regular session of the
Board of Aldermen a resolution will
be introduced declaring the week of
November 15-22 to be Hospital Week
to aid the fund.
It was announced that some of the
foremost physicians of the country
would serve on the national commit-
tee. Former Health Commissioner J.
Lewis Amster and Dr. John Riegel-
man trill have charge in the Bronx in
the driv e, and Dr. Henry G. Mac-
Adams, Chief of the Bureau of Insti-
tutional Supervision of the Board of
Health, will head the physicians' drive
in the tipper west side.
The memorial to Dr. Jacobi, which
will be for children only, will prob-
ably be erected as an annex to the
Jewish Memorial Hospital. The insti-
tution will be non-sectarian in char-
acter.
SECRETARY OF TREASURY
HONORS JEWISH WOMEN
Mrs. Nathaniel NE Harris, Presi-
dent of the Council of Jewish Wo-
men, has received the following com-
munication from Secretary of the
Treasury Glass:
"Me dear Mrs. Harris:
The service given by the women
of the United States to the work of
the Liberty Loans has constituted one
of the great factors in the winning
of the .war. To this service, made
possible by the earnest, continuous
and self-sacrificing labor of the local
chairmen, the 'Treasury Department
owes inestimable gratitude; and, al•
though no words of mine will ade-
quately compensate for tasks so well
and unselfishly performed, it is my
pleasure and privilege. in behalf of
the Department, to offer you appre•
elation of your services as well as
congratulation upon the success of
your efforts in the crisis of our Na.'
tional life.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) CARTER GLASS."
MARRIAGE UNITES
NOTED FAMILIES
the Morgenthan investigation, and Of unusual interest is the announce-
questioning the reliability of many of melt of the marriage of James Mar-
those examined. shall, a son of Louis Marshall,
a partner of Samuel Untertnyer,
of New York City, and Miss
PISGAH LODGE NOTICE.
Leonnre K. Guinzburg, a daughter of
nel Harry A. Guinzburg, of the
The next regular meeting of Pisgah Colo
Lodge, No. 34, Independent Order of same city. The marriage, which
B'nai Brith, will take place at the unites two of the most prominent
, lodge rooms, 25 Broadway, Monday Jewish families in the country, took
, evening, September 1, at 7:30 o'clock, place NVednesday last on the lawn
Chroni‘k u the ofhca loi Colonel Guineburg s summer home
local organ of INsgah Lodge.
at Port Chester, N. 1'.