THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919.
VOL VI. NO. 17.
DR. KRASS, BACK FROM POLAND,
GIVES REPORT ON POGROMS
Re-elected Honorary President of Zionists.
Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents
FIGHTS,
RECONSTRUCTION ,
OCCUPY ZIONISTS
PROSEIC)NTIORFIAtit.FINBEAliStOWIFACTIONAL
London—M. Wipper, whit as public
prosecutor at Kiev, conducted the
world famous "blood ritual" murder
trial against Mendel Beiliss, a Rus•
sian Jew, in the autumn of 1913, is on
trial at Moscow, charged with inspir-
ing the whole case, says a .I3„ussian
Forces at Chicago
wireless dispatch from Isloscbse.
"Radical"
lieiliss was accused of murdering a
Convention Force Through
Christian boy in order to get his
Measure to Elect Executive
blood for sacrificial purposes, but was
acquitted after a long and sensational
trial.
It was alleged by the defense that RABBI WISE DEFEATED
the government was making the case
BY YOUNG DELEGATE
a part of its general campaign against
Jews in Russia.
Brandeis Advocates Practical
In' is a sort of a middleman, who,
haying been deprived of civil rights,
sv;..s thriht mi his own resources. "l 'he
national rights clause provides that
while the Jews are Polish citizens in
the sense of paying taxes and meet-
ing their military responsibilities, still
it dries not give them what they want.
They want to use either Yiddish or
Hebrew as their language of study,
and not Polish. They want to lead
their spiritual and intellectual lives
apart from the Polish population,
Program — Mrs. Fels Decries
sharing with them only the burdens
and duties of emunim citizenship.
Parliamentary Politics While
League of Nations No Aid.
Big Problems Are Ignored.
it is neither practical nor
feasible to insist that the Jews in
BY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ,
Poland adopt the same modus vivendi
—
Representative of Detroit Young
the Jews in America with reference
Institution Combines Y. M. H. A.,
Judaens at Chicago Convention.
to their relation to the Government,
Y. W. H. A., Social, and Charitable
New York—After spending eleven yet an approach to the American
Organizations
Representing
Both
The
twenty-second annual conven-
weeks in Eastern Europe as a special democratic form of government is
don of the Zionist Organization of
delegate of the Joint Distribution the road to an amicable adjustment
Orthodox and Liberal.
America is over, completing the great-
Committee, of which Felix Warburg of the l'olish Jewish question."
1)r. Krass said he thought that the
is Chairman, 1)r. Nathan Krass. rabbi
Jersey city.—The Y. M. H. A. Com • est and most successful year in the
mutiny Centre of this city began a history of the Zionist movement, and
of the Central Synagogue, arrived proposed League of Nations would
Membership Drive for 1,000 members for that reason, if for no other, the
h„ ine l as t wee k. He s aid he was cis- not bring about the needed friendly
be .
c_odiii ,s..,ei ntt liion ,itr sradtL sriiay in all L ljus
courag•d with the present political relationship.
both men and women. The drive will
is ory of
1
ill the 1 history
"I found that there was very little
situation of the small countries he
be
of
a
whirlwind
variety
and
will
end
%ionisin.
c I. e
visited, but hopeful for the cause of love lost between these small na-
at the end of the month.
Reconstruction Is Keynote,
tio. Jews, provided this country came torus;' he continued." "'they have
'The
Y.
M.
H.
A.
Commmity
jealousies,
envies,
and
hatreds,
and
I
to their aid.
C. c." - The keynote of this convention was
Dr. Krass returned in the steamer doubt whether any league of nations
tee is a new institution in Jersey City. the reconstruction of Palestine, which
I.a France after visiting Paris, Vi- or any other international device that
It is, strictly speaking, not alone a will, from now on, as one delegate
mina, Trieste, Bucharest and smaller is based on force would be helpful in
l'. NI. II. A. It is a Community insisted, be referred to as "Eretz
Centre, harboring within its walls all Isreal," its ancient Hebrew name.
cities in Rumania. Ile also visited international progress. Back of the
Bessarabia, Bukowina, Eastern Ga- League must be an international de-
Jewish Associations, both men and What is more, Palestine is looked for-
W0111C11, both young and old. It is ward to as a place to live in and not
JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRANDEIS,
licia, Limburg,. NVarsaw, Brest-Lit- sire for fraternity, and without that
different also from the old Y. NI. die in. The first steps for the up-
ovsk, and other towns in Poland. the dislike of one nation for another
at
Who
Advocated
Constructive
Measures
for
the
Upbuilding
of
Palestine
II. A. in that it rested not on the building of the country, as outlined
Dr. Krass's mission was to aster- is bound to continue.
Officika
Position
Prevented
Him
From
His
Chicago
Convention.
"As
long
as
the
Russian
situation
support of a few wealthy men but on by Justice Louis D. Brandeis, of the
tain whether the alleged pogroms and
Speaking Publicly. For This Reason He Was Char-
the composite support of the entire United States Supreme Court, are to
persecutions of Jews took place. Ile remains uncertain and unsettled the
Jewish Community of Jersey Cit y' he the afforestation and irrigation of
acterized as the "Silent Leader."
returned with the assurance that they rest of Europe must suffer. As soon
As for its Jewish end it is an inter- the land, the installation of industry
had, having seen photographs of as stability, political and economic,
esting fact that the president of the and commerce, the stamping out of
is restored in Russia we will see the
entire association is a young lawyer the malaria disease, and then—be is
beginning of the new era in Europe.
whose office is closed on Saturdays. remembered than this "then" is ex-
There are many kinds of Bolshevist,
Constituent parts of the organization peeled soon—the land will be ready
just as there are different kinds of
are various Jewish societies, such as
Socialists, and besides them there are
as large and unrestricted a Jew-
the Y. M. II. A., Y. \V. IL A., tne the ish immigration as it will be advisable
terrorists and brigands, all working
local Jewish branch of the American to populate the land with.
for destruction."
Ity WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.
Legation, the various Zionist Organi-
Brandeis spoke behind
Justice
Horrible Winter in Prospect.
t Continued From Last Week.)
been subject to draft into the Ru- zations, and is also supported by all closed doors, due to his judicial posi-
the
Synagogues
both
Orthodox
and
Hon,
but
his
greatness,
his personality
In conclusion, Dr. Krass said that
manian army and had served as sol-
Liberal.
and influence in the movement was
representative Jews in the countries their increased their intense activity, Biers.
their
cunning
in
business,
in
orderiers.
In
this
way
they
avoided
the
What
can
best
describe
its
nature
is
felt
everywhere.
and
the
propositions
where' pogroms are common, want
that they might live at all against effect of the constitution upon Jews, its activities it is about to conduct. as outlined by this "silent leader," as
America to establish banks in their
countries so that loans can he made such opposition, and it produced in and their statesmen openly prided Thus its social activities are the en- he was referred to by Judge Julian
tertainments, musicales, dances, and ..r
to, . Mack, president of the Zionist
and tools purchased for the rebuild- then' the traits that are now made themselves on their astuteness.
By adopting the constitution to games; its cultural work includes organization, proved Mr. Brandeis to
ing of their demolished hotnes. By the basis Off denouncing them.
which I have referred, the Rumanians things such as the Sunday morning be a greater Zionist than when he
the establishment of these homes,
In 1877, \ Russia declared war
open forum, a library and reading first entered the movement.
they contend that industry would Inc
ecause o f the afro- procured the recognition of European
against Turkey b
room of Judaica, and lectures.
Factional Fights.
stimulated and in that way the popu-
cities committed by the Turks against countries. Since then they have
The Jewish work comprises the
lation could be made self-supporting.
The convention has its factional
the Christian peoples in the Balkans, heckled and harried the Jews by re- Friday evening service followed by
After telling of the wonderful work
strictions upon their livelihoods, by discussion, classes in Jewish history, fights, it has an opposition and a rad-
ultimately won the war. She
that the Joint Distribution Committee and
made the treaty of San Stephano refusing admission to the elementary' in Hebrew, modern Jewish problems, ical wing. Yet there was never a con-
has been doing for the Jews in East-
vention at which the administration
with Turkey, and t h e „ t h e great public schools of more than 5 ,/, per Jewish art and MUSIC, and Jewish
ern Russia in the way of sending
won as easily as the present
cent of their numbers, and in sec- work with the clubs; while it does
money, food, and clothing, Dr. Krass Powers insisted that there must be
did at this particular annual meeting.
ondary schools of more than 7r: per not overlook the athletic work such The vote of confidence called for by
said that he looks forward with a a congress to revise that treaty.
as swimming and geenral gymnastics.
great deal of horror to the coming Religious and Civil Liberty Urged. cent, and in many other ways.
Directing the work of the institu- the leaders was made almost unan-
Although this is in direct violation
\\*inter. He predicts that thousands
imous, and the administration again
The congress was called at Berlin
tion is Dr. P. I.. A. Laugh recently
-a-ill go without shelter and with little
Treaty
of
Berlin,
the
signa-
reigns supreme. Se we can again de-
of
the
in 1878 and under it were established
from the J. \V. B.
clothing, and that many must starve
duct from this that there really was
tortes to the treaty have not thought
the separate governments of Serbia,
opposition, for whenever , a ques-
imfess more aid is provided.
it best to intervene.
COMMANDER JOSEPHTHAL no
Bulgaria, and Rumania, w h o t h us
tion of policy was brought up the
linlgaria and Serbia complied with
really owed their freedom to Russia.
PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN great body of delegates stood for one
France, England, and Germany in- their obligations.
thing—the upbuilding of their ancient
RABBI NATHAN KRASS.
New York—Commander Louis M. land, and no factional strife could
sisted that the new governments to
The Pale of the Settlement.
Josephthal of New York city has move them. The man most attacked
Inc constituted should embody in their
l'he law which required the Jews been promoted to the rank of captain at the convention was the Executive
towns which had been looted by the
constitutions a declaration in favor of .
brigands, and complete records of the
religious and civil equality for all mRussia to live in the cities of the in the United States Naval Reserve Secretary of the organization, Jacob
date of the slaughter, and the num-
De Haas. Yet even he received a unan-
domiciled within their jurisdiction. Pale of Settlement produced a great Force as the result of his activities
ber of killed and wounded.
This •aS not favored by Russia congestion. They were forbidden to during the war. The rank of captain imous vote for re-election, arid his rr-
The graves of Jewish soldiers who
Lemberg Pogrom True.
died in France will he marked with
engage in so many trades and call- in the navy corresponds with that of port for the year was received by a
and was very bitterly opposed by
colonel in the army and comes to vote of about 50 to 1. Let it be said
Ile went to Lemberg especially to the Mogan David, "Star of David,"
Rumanians. Nevertheless, on the ap- 'rags that their means of livelihood Captain Joseplithal after twenty-nine in justice to the opposition, as op-
find out if the pogrom said to have according to an announcement made
',royal
of
Prince
Bismarck,
who
pre-
was
most
limited.
They
had
no
posed to the misleading statements
by
Colonel
Harry
Cutler,
chairman
taken place there last November oc-
political rights and were thus kept years o esfvrice in the naval militia
and regular navy. Captain Joseph- published by the Yiddish press, that
curred. 1)r. Keats stated last night of the Jewish Welfare Board, follow- sided in the congress, the treaty re-
there was not a lack of leadership.
tha from records he learned that ing a conference with the Commander quired that, as a condition of recog- excluded from government employ. thal now goes on the inactive list and
as was unjustly spread broadcast, but
fifty-two persons had been killed. 465 of the Graves Registration Bureau in nition by European governments, the They were denied secondary and returns to the state service as com-
on the contrary, there was a great
wounded, and 44)00 Jewish families France, Colonel Charles C. Pierce, constitution of Rumania should con- university education except to the modore and as chief of the Naval
extent of a very small per cent of :Militia Bureau. lie is senior member opposition leadership without an op-
were injured economically by the po- and Major E. !Annie, and representa- tam declarations and guaranties of
position. And the leaders of the op-
tives
of
the
American
Red
Cross.
their
number,
and
they
were
so
of
Governor
Smith's
staff
and
served
groms there. Ile said that a great
civil and religious liberty and equal-
position were among the ablest men
deal of damage had been caused to Rabbi Abraham Burstein, of Cleve- ity for the Jews, and Russia signed hemmed about with police restric- on the staff of Governors Whitman,
in the movement and among the sin-
tions as to subject them to oppres- Dix, Sulzer and Glynn.
Jewish property, synagogues, schools land, liaison representative of the the treaty.
cerest and most accomplished Zion-
Jewish
Welfare
Board
in
France,
will
heing destroyed as well as the private
sive blackmail. The result has been
ists.
The Rumanians' authorities deliber-
heir charge of the investigation work.
that the great majority of them arc GOV. BAMBERGER, UTAH,
homes.
Young Men Lead.
"These pogroms were started by a Offices of the Bureau have been ately framed a plan by which to ignorant, and even before the war at
CHRISTENS
U.
S.
SHIP
opened at Jewish Welfare Board evade the requirement of the treaty.
IF will be of interest to note that
Polish brigadier," said Dr. Krass,
least a third of them were in direct
Headquarters, 149 Fifth Avenue.
They
provided
in
their
constitution,
the
leadership
in most of the work
"who was celebrating the capture of
misery and destitution.
Colonel Cutler declares that the Article \'11:
Governor Simon Bomberger of was undertaken by the "Young" at
Lemberg by the Poles after the Uk-
There are in the world over fifteen Utah. one of the two Jewish gover- this convention. The struggle that
plans for Graves Registration is one
""fhe difference of religious creeds
rainians, who had held it for sonic
of the most important post-war
million Jews. Of these, six millions nors in the United States, visited San occasionally breaks out in every
time, was defeated. As a result the
and conditions does not constitute in
activities of the Jewish Welfare
are to be found in the ten provinces Francisco last week and participated movement between the young and the
Polish officer was demoted. It is un-
Board. "A unit of Jewish Welfare Rumania an obstacle to the acquire- of Russia Poland and the fifteen pro- in the launching of the "Utacarbon," old was not in evidence at this meet.
true to assert that the Jews invite
Board workers," lie said, "was organ- rent of civil and political rights and
- the Pale of Settle. the Liberty Loan, honor ship of Car- On the contrary, the so-called "old"
them: they arc the work of soldiers
ized in l'aris and assigned to the their exercise." vinces called
or brigands. While in the town of
meat." There are upward of 2,250,000 bon comfy, Utah. As the big vessel publicly welcomed the young more
Graves Registration Bureau of the
Evading the Treaty in Rumania.
down the ways, Governor Ilam- than ever before, and encouraged
Bender, Rumania, I even heard the United States Army to assist in lo-
Jews in Austria and Hungary. There ; hid
They then provided for naturaliza-
shots of these brigands across the cating the graves of men of Jewish
are 615,000 in Germany. There are I nerger broke a bottle of spring water leadership on the part of the rising
lion and enacted that naturalization over its bow. In a fitting speech at generation. Thus, there was in evi-
Dniester."
faith, who were killed in action or could only be granted by a law and 270,000 Jews in Great Britain, 100,000 the ceremonies, Governor Ilamberger
dence everywhere the spirit of Young
"I have conic back very much dis- died of disease, for the purpose of
in France,
45.00n in accepted
Italy. half a mil- the vessel in behalf
their
formally
Judaea, the junior branch of the Zion-
couraged with regard to the political marking the graves with the Star of individually. It was held by
government that Jews were aliens, lion in Asia, 250,000 in Rumania, and of the people of his state.
ist Organization, called by some the
situation of all those countries. There David of double triangle, authorized
there are 3,300,000 in the United
"pet" of the national organizaion.
is a great deal of political dissatisfac- by the War Department at the re- although they had been living in Ru-
HIGHER
RANK
FOR
Mr. I. Ilassen, a leader in Young
tion, particularly on the part of those quest of the Jewish Welfare Board.
(Continued On Page Fount
mania for hundreds of years and had
Judaea,
was at the head of the New
countries now under strange rule.
FRENCH RABBIS
'Min, task is a very difficult one
York delegation of about 300 that
The Russians who are now Polish and requires considerable investiga-
fought for a democratic election of
wince under the new rule and those tion before definitely identifying the
l'aris:—A special general meeting the national executive committee by
who are now Rumanian dislike it.'
deceased. It may not be possible to
a
nation-wide vote of the Zionists.
of
the
Jewsih
Consistorical
Associa-
locate every grave, but insofar as it
America Only Can Help.
tion of Paris, held recently, under the Mr. Chas. Cohen, of New Haven, an
can be humanly done, the Jewish
It is with a keen sense of gratitude and pardonable
"I found a great deal of misery in
active
man in the Intercollegiate
chairmanship
of
Baron
Edmond
de
kVelfare Board will carry out this
pleasure that we acknowledge the numerous verbal and
those countries, but more than that, I program. It is our desire to ascer-
Rothschild, unanimously made an im- Zionist Association as well as Young
found that what would be helpful to tain the names. burial places and next
portant concession to its Rabbis. In Judaea. was heard more than once on
written congratulations expressed on the Rosh Hashonah
all of them could only octne from of kin of all Jewish soldiers who died
future the title of Chief Rabbi will be the floor of the convention on impor-
number of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle, which consisted
America. Not only must we send over while in service with the American
granted to Rabbis who have served in tant questions. Dr. Alexander Dush-
of
fifty-eight
pages
in
six
sections.
food, as urgent as is their need for Expeditionary Forces. For this pur-
the ministry a certain number of kind, Field Worker for Young Ju-
daea, was chairman of the Committee
subsistence, but we must send men— pose, rrelatives having received no-
years.
We take this opportunity to extend our sincere thanks
big men—to help them organize their tice from the War Department are
on Education. 13ut most important
and
appreciation
to
the
members
of
our
editorial,
busi-
of all Young Judaeans present in
industries. First of all we must send asked to impart this information, ac-
GIVE PENSION TO
ness and production staffs, our contributors, our adver-
engineers to teach them modern Lompanied by original or copy of
Chicago was Emanuel Neumann,
KURT
EISNER'S
WIDOW
methods of sanitation, and then back-
Educational Director of the Zionist
ion
Registrat
raves
tisers,
and
to
all
our
friends
whose
hearty
co-operation
e
G
notice, to
Organization. who was the leader of
ers should go there to superintend
the J ewish Welfare
and unselfish interest made this great issue possible.
of the economic Bureau ofth
the
radical opposition.
Bamberg, Bavaria:—A bill estab-
c on
Board, where the record will be fol-
lishing a total annuity of 12,000 marks
onitions."
cd
Neumann "Defeats" Rabbi Wise.
We feel that our accomplishment is not so much the
political situation of the Jew lowed up and the parents or relatives
due course will he furnished with
for the widow and two children of
"The
result of personal endeavor as it is one of the concrete
Neumann has been known in the
in Poland is a very complicated one.
Kurt Eisner, late Premier of Bavaria,
the past eight
and one difficult of solution. In the a photograph of the resting place of
manifestations of a dynamic Jewry in Dynamic Detroit.
who was murdered by Count Arco
their dear ones.'
years. As a leader in the national
peace treaty there is a clause which
Valley,
passed
the
Bavarian
Diet.
.
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO..
Young Judaea organization. when it
of nationa
pros-ides for the guarantee ot
Three thousand marks will be paid Zionist movement for
A section of the National Council
was not yet a part of the Department
rights to the Jews of that cduntry. In
to each of the children until they
Joseph J. Cummins, President.
of Education, he was among the best
Poland there are only two recognized of Jewish Women was organized re-
reacts their majority. The widow will
clases, he nobility and the peasant; eently at Macon, Ga. The initial
(Continued On Page 84
Nathan J. Could, Sec'y-Treas.
receive an annuity for life.
but the Jew belongs to neither one; meeting will be held this month.
but
Rabbi of Central Synagogue,
New York, Spent Eleven
Weeks in Eastern Europe
as Delegate of Joint Distri-
bution Committee.
Committee Democratically.
SAYS FATE OF JEWS
DEPENDS ON AMERICA
Finds Reports of Pogroms
True---Political Situation a
Muddle—Has No Faith in "while
League of Nations as Aid
to Jews.
as
Jersey City Begins
Drive for Jewish
Community Centre
11+
PROGRESSIVE WORLD STRUGGLE
OF THE JEWS FOR CIVIL EQUALITY
J. W. B. to Mark Graves
Of Jewish Soldiers
Who Died in France
AN APPRECIATION