PAGE SEVEN
THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
It seems that a lieutenant of artil-
lery who had been wounded on some
battlefield in France and had been
recuperating in this country', had
taken quarters in this hotel.
One night he suffered a relapse, ow-
ing to the opening of the old wound,
and his parents were hurriedly sum-
moned from New York City.
Now it happened that these parents
were good old Jewish people, whose
every gesture gave unmistakable evi-
dence of their nationality, and on pre-
senting themselves at the hostelry
thy were refused admittance.
Tt was only after a long series of
humiliating explanations, entreaties
and threats that the honest old couple
were permitted to pass the sacred
threshold of the aristocratic boarding
A pathetic little story was .told us
by a traveling friend last week, relat- house.
The lieutenant became well, and it
ing to an incident centering around
the hotel, "at an Atlantic sea- is refreshing to be told that before
he
left he paid his respects to the pro-
port."
is more true! born. If Christians would become
more Christian to those who are not
Christians, the Jews, we would have
Us.
a better world. As George Eliot
quotes at the head of a chapter in
whole
Deronda, 'As the heart is to the body,
so is J udea to the nations.' rhe Jews
are needed in the world to teach toler-
Zionists, for whom he has the highest ation.
"The world is coming to appreciate
respect, but whose opinions differ
from his own. Ile does not believe !the Jew at his real worth. \\lien that
that the great majority of the Jews time shall have come, then will we
would care to return to Palestine, and have the true fatherhood of God, and
thinks that their place is in the world. the brotherhood of man."
while holding on to. Browning un- presentation of the Jew,
Robert Browning
derstands this, and presents it faith- than any other writer in English
I have net
fully in his poem.
literature has given
and George Eliot
"A lady at one of my lectures once only admiration, but reverence for the
said that the reason her people did
Understood Jewish not like the Jews was because they The representation.'
vision of Mordecai, as de-
(lid not accept Jesus. My answer to scribed by George Eliot, was pointed
People, Says Rabbi her was, 'How can we accept that out to have been taken up by the
Robert Browning and George Eliot
are the two English writers who have
really understood the Jew, and have
presented him in his right light, ac-
cording to Rabbi Wolsey, in the last
of the three lectures given under the
auspices of the Jewish Chautauqua
Society at the University of Michigan
recently.
"Browning and George Eliot are
two of the greatest minds that ever
came to earth" "In his treatment of
the Jew, Browning is superior to
Shakespeare. lie presents the Jew
not as a grasping hardened villain, but
as a thinker, who is trying to solve
the world's problems. In this respect
Browning understands the Jew even
better than he understands himself."
In "Holy Cross Day," Browning
treats the Jew most sympathetically,
and represents him as refusing to ac-
cept any other faith than his own.
"It was believed in those days and the
belief exists even today, that the Jew
holds to his faith because of stubborn-
ness, that he persists in heresy and
does not want to come into the 'light.'
This is not true. The Jew believes
in his religion and holds to it be-
cause he thinks the principles worth
which is already ours?' Jesus spoke
in the Jewish tongue, and he talked
to a Jewish people.' It is in the in-
terpretation of Jesus that the two
faiths differ."
In approaching George Eliot, Dr.
Wolsey paid tribute to one of the out-
standing figures in all literature, and
said that her presentation of the Jew
was finer than any Jew himself could
have dared to make. The character
of Mordecai, in "Daniel Deronda," is
a classic creation, and worthy of com-
parison with any figure in the old
Testament.
"And George Eliot knew her sub-
ject," said the rabbi. "In the whole
work there is not one single academic
error. This was because she studied
the Jew, tint only in his past literature
and history, but in actual life. She
went to the Jewish districts, and into
the homes. And because she knew of
what she was writing, she presents
the real Jew as no other author has
done.
Anti-Semitic feeling has given birth
to Zionism, he asserted. The Jews
would never have dreamed of going
back if the world had taken them
as equals.
"If the world had been made of
Bro•nings and George Eliots,
Zionism would never have come to be
"The Jew is most a Jew when lie
lives in the spirit of the prophets,
and gives utteranc to the high
thoughts that move him, George
Eliot understood this, and her Mor-
decai is a prophet as of old, This
Condensed Statement of
Merchants National Bank
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
At the Close of Business, Sentember 12, 1919
RESOURCES
$10,498,757.48
Loans and Discounts
625,942.56
Bonds, Securities, etc.
Liberty Bonds and U. S. Certificates of
1,886,230.44
Indebtedness
991,490.00
Customers' Liberty Bond Account
2,999.24
Customers' Liability under Letters of Credit
6,700.70
Overdrafts
16,307.90
Interest earned but not collected
250,000.00
Notes and Bills rediscounted
Cash Resources—
$ 862,799.55
Cash on Hand
Due from Federal Reserve
1,207,421.24
Bank
Due from Banks and Bankers 1,778,392.60
17,000.03 3,865,613.39
Due from U. S. Treasurer
$18,144,04L71
Total
LIABILITIES
State Bank
T
Reserve Bank
ESTABLISHED 1853
ASSETS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
$ 386,804.01
1,044,128.05
187,898.96
Cash, Gold and Currency
Cash in banks, payable on demand
Checks, payable through Detroit Clearing House
Bills Receivable, comprising loans to individuals, Firms and Corporations
on collateral, and based on commercial credits
Overdrafts
Items in Transit
First mortgages on improved Real Estate in City of Detroit
Bonds of Municipal Corporations and Railroads
Securities of the United States of America
Loans secured by United States Bonds
Branch Banking Houses, Furniture and Fixtures
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank
Due from Fourth Liberty and Victory Loan subscribers
7,062,652.65
196.19
344,557.41
2,324,984.07
738,159.63
1,119,690.00
35,512.93
252,072.82
39,000.00
58,971.50
$13,594,628.27
Total Assets
LIABLITIES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
$ 5,517,911.55
6,052,493.55
217,350 00
16,249.42
325,000.00
1,000,000.00
465,623.75
Commercial Deposits
Savings Deposits
Bonds left for safe-keeping
Reserves for taxes and interest
Bills payable
Capital Stock
Surplus and Undivided Profits
$13,594,628.27
First State Bank of Detroit
Main Office: Lafayette and Griswold Street
NINE BRANCHES IN OPERATION
Gratiot and Hastings
Chen& and Gratiot
Woodward and Eliot
Mack and Mt. Elliott
Hamilton and Webb
Springwells and Ferndale
St. Clair and Mack
Joe. Cainpan and Newton
• Forest and Van Dyke
$18,144,041.71
Liman W. Goodenough
David 0rnv
Oren S Davie.
John P. Ilenoneter
After all our people have done and
suffered for democracy, how can a
single American heart have room for
race prejudice?--Providence Jewish
Chronicle.
Member Federal
STATE BANK
OF DETROIT
LINWOOD AND VIRGINIA PARK (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
lien). 0 Verna, Vice-Pr•x. limit:501mq
Henry Wlesert..1s0aliint remid•
Wallet IL Joy, Aaalatant
John Dallantyne
Walter It. Briggs
Homo , E. Dodg$
John Entikott
S
Number 5
OFFICERS
John Ballantyne, Prealdent
David Gray, V ice•Pronlilent
John P lIernineter, VIce•Prealdent
Alfred T. Lerchen. Vice-Prealdent
DIRECTORS
But to us the entire story is tinged
with sadness. We had thought that
unthinking ill-feeling was waning. We
know, as has been well said by one of
our leading citizens, that when the
boys, including this lieutenant, were
ordered over the top, they were not
questioned whether they were Jews
or not, that German shrapnel tore its
way through the flesh of Jew and
non-Jew alike, and that thousands of
Jewish !withers are crying silently
even today for sons that are never
coming home.
CONDENSED STATEMENT--SEPT. 12TH 1919
$ 1,000,000.00
Capital Stock
500,000.00
Surplus
246,357.73
Undivided Profits, Net
Interest and Discount collected but not
93,717.39
earned
6,962.69
Reserved for Interest
4,991.88
Reserved for Taxes
914,013.50
Liberty Loan Subscription Account
2,999.24
Letters of Credit
250.000.00
Liability for Notes and Bills rediscounted.
750,000.00
Bills Payable
14,374,999.28
Deposits
T otal
Patriotism and Prejudice.
prietor, and that it took the combined
efforts of several attendants to pre-
vent his thrashing that individual
within an inch of his life.
.11•••• ■ •
A inert E. pleelr
Frederick W
Emil Stroh
Benjamin 1', ToMn
BANK of DETROIT
Member
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Condensed Statement
Sept. 12th, 1919
United States
Depository
Federal
Bank
ME AMERICAN
STATE BANK
RESOURCES
OF DETROIT
STATEMENT OF CONDITION
Si Ch." of Business September 111. 11119
RESOURCES
$1.573,473.011
Real lEelnte. Mortgages and Bonds
00t4,9011.113
Lonna and Discounts
$ 7,616,817.7 5
2,500,000.00
1,649,996.33
5,148,200.45
88,002.58
62,141.89
36,339.91
2,348.05
40,500.00
1,568,200.00
5,149,076.33
—
$23,861,623.2 9
S.092.73
Premium Paid on Bonds
rnitcd SDitc• Blonds and Certificates of ladoletitslime•
R. B. Gripman, Assistant Cashier
James Cot'szens, President
F. J. Beyer. Assistant Cashier
Whiteheatl,
Vice-errs.
ames
T.
James
C. A. Kinney. Assistant Cashier
Edmund D. Fisher. Vice-Pre s.
E. D. NIcCi tilough, Assistant Cashier
Geo. B. Judson, Vice-Pres. and Cashier
A. E. Lark, Assistant Cashier
20,700.110
2511.419.S7
Banking Douses
/47.492.511
Furniture and Flamm , .
1,1490,201.10
Cash on Hand and In Bank
DIRECTORS
0
8
912,422,319.27
p 509000.00
211:1,759.15
lil.: 1s
1 and lIndisided Pronto(
(0
1:(sP rp
as,11110.00
Reserse for Susinas Interest
5.000.1X)
Reserve for Tales
Geo. R. Andrews
James Couzens
W. I.. Dunham
Alonzo P. Ewing
Edmund D. Fisher
Dr.
LIABILITIES
A
T i
11,875.$6 11.1 2
Deposits
112,422,319.27
Commercial Accounts
Savings Accounts
General Banking Service
James J. Brady, Vice-Pres.
I. W. Schimmel, Vier Pres.
Chas. P. Lamed. Vice-Pres.
W. J, Hayes, V.-Pres. & Cash.
Gordon Fearnley, Asst. Cash.
00000000000000000 00
L.11. I), Baker, Asst. to Pres.
IL W. Proctor, Asst. Cashier
Cashier
P. A. Maurer, Met.
It. N. Allan, Auditor
000000000000000000000000000000000L1
C. II. Haberkorn, Jr.
Arthur J. Lacy
E. G. Liebokl
A. I.. McMcans
0
BRANCHFS
William E. !doss, President
G. W. J. Linton, Asst. Cash.
h enry Ford
C. Hayward Murphy
Andrew J. Peoples
H. II. Rnekham
J. T. Whiteln.ad
SAVINGS—.
for entire time money is on
deposit—our exclusive plan.
43 Fort St. West
OFFICERS(
6
$23,861,623.29
OFFICERS
575,000.00
Stock In Federal Resent. Ronk
§
Loans and discounts—
Commercial Dept.
Savings Dent.
Bonds, Mortgages and Securities--
Commercial Dept.
Savings Dent. .. • •
Branch bank sites
Furniture and fixtures
Interest receivable
Overdrafts
Federal Reserve Bank stock
U. S. bonds and certificates
Cash and amount due from banks
LIABILITIES
$ 1,000,000.00
Capital stock
568,347.53
Surplus and undivided profits
71.56
Dividend checks unpaid
21,330.80
Discount unearned
Rediscounts and bills payable to Fed-
955,000.00
eral Reserve Bank
510,500.00
Bond account
82,577.50
Liberty Loan deposits....
20,723,795.90
Deposits, commercial and savings
2260 W. Jefferson Ave.
2148-50 W. Fort Street
1150 Russell Street
479 Hastings St.
435 Woodward Ave.