A merica/I Yewish Periodical Carter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI ao, onto 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. e d e . ran pp t o p ar i s h d own t o th 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 --- 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'.