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 R 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.