THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
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JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
NATHAN J. GOULD -
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President
Secretary-Treasurer
THE SONG OF THE SAMOVAR
having read the book in outline, will wish to turn to other sources for
fuller information. Ignorance of our own history is 'one of the great
tragedies in modern Jewish-life. Any work that will stimulate all
interest in the study of our past is therefore a contribution fur which
we cannot be too grateful.
I sang my songs in a Slavish land,
To many a strange array:
To rich or poor, the low or the grand,
To many a joy or dismay.
The Jewish Working Girl
At festive hoards and on gala scenes
I shrieked in a mad delight,
And Illy hot Ith!od poured in boiling streams
As the charcoals flamed up bright.
The problem of the Jewish is irking girl without family or intimate
Entered as second - class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit,
friends its a great city', is one of no mean proportions. We in Detroit
Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
must seriously' count with it as soon as possible. The one social agency
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in our city that is making a very earnest effort to reach out the hand of
friendship to the lonely Jewish girl is the Jewish Woman's Club.
Telephone Cherry 3381
It was indeed a happy thought on the pal t of that organization to
$2.00 per year put notices in all places where Jewish girls are likely to be employed in
Subscription, in advance
considerable numbers, offering to find homes in Jewish families for them
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach during the I loly Day season ztlitl also to arrange for their attendance at
to the
this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
religious services in Reform or Orthodox synagogue. according
themselves. This, however, is only a temporary
preference
of
the
girls
Editorial
Contributor
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
expedient suggestive of a work that must lie-put upon aTertnatient basis
to in our city.
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest
of
the
Few' are the needs of a social nature more pressing than a properly
the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement
views expressed by the writers.
conducted boarding home for Jewish girls. Such a home should not
only provide well-equipped dormitories and provide Wholesome meals at
reasonable cost, but it should also be equipped with certain club features
Isaiah, Chapter 58
its order to afford working girls at least some I if the recreational ad-
\\,e can conceive of no more fitting message to bring to the readers vantages which normally come to the girl living with her family at home
of the Jewish Chronicle in these days preceding the solemn Atonement alter her day's work is accomplished.
Day, than that which was brought many centuries ago by the great
\\'e believe that the Jewish Woman's Club is the logical organiza-
unknown Prophet of the Exile, sometimes called "'Ilse Second Isaiah." tion to undertake this work. Properly organized. it will undoubtedly
indeed, the whole message of Atonement is summed up with remarkable call forth the very generous support of the conummit y. Event natty
conciseness in a single chapter of the Book bearing his name, a chapter perhaps such an institution may be made self-supporting. In the begin-
which most appropriately is set aside as the I laftorals for lions Kippur ning it will need the help of friends, however. The important thing now,
morning. In it, the prophet castigates with lashing words, the hypocrite when there are hundreds of Jewish girls out of their normal home en-
who fasts and prays and does not mend his ways. Ilk message is one vironment, resident in Detroit, k to get the institution started. Once
upon which the preacher of today cannot improve. Indeed, any word that is accomplished, we have little doubt that the means to support it
spoken front the modern pulpit and intended to wake within the Jew will be found.
a true conception of his duty in these times, must be but echo of the
message of Isaiah.
The Fresh Air Camp
And so, we reprint here that all may read the stirring words spoken
Reports of officers of the Jewish Fresh Air Camp, whose season
to Israel perhaps five centuries before the dawn of what is sometimes
called the modern era. Let those read it who once or twice a year on has just closed, indicate that approximately only .•to per cent of the
the High Holydays "trample the courts of God" and believe thus to children who should have enjoyed the advantages of the Camp this sum-
fulfill their whole religious obligations. Let those read it who fulfill mer could be accommodated. This is a condition that should not be per-
every' jot and tittle of the ceremonial law ; who fast and pray ; who mitted to repeat itself another summer. The influence, physical and
afflict their bodies but whose souls remain untouched. Let therm read moral, upon the hundreds of children whom the Camp accommodates
it whose religious life is negative in character and to whom Judaism each year for a period of two weeks, can scarcely be overestimated.
spells no positive obligation. :\ tul having read the remarkable chapter Taking these children out of their dark and unsanitary homes in the
that is here reproduced, let the Day of Atonement come to our people crowded quarters of our great city, the Camp gives them an opportunity
with a living message that shall inspire . them to meet manfully, hero- for a little while of breathing clean, fresh air and of living a life such
ically, consistently, and sincerely, the duty that these sacred days serve as ought to he the portion of every normal child.
in addition to certain new
to emphasize.
Those in charge of the Camp believe that -
1 Cry with a full throat, spare not, like the cornet lift up thy voice, and dormitory buildings which are absolutely necessary, the play space at
declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
arc under way
2 Yet me do they ever seek day by day, and to know my ways do they the Camp ought to be bolded at the very least.
always desire; as a nation that bath done righteousness, and bath not forsaken by which it is hoped additional property adjoitiig the present Camp
the ordinance of their God: continually do they ask of one the ordinances of may be purchased and the necessary buildings erected thereon. No ob-
stacle should be put in the path of the completion of such a program.
justice—do they desire to draw nigh unto God.
3 "Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest it not? have we afflicted our The Fresh Air Camp has been a telling factor in maintaining a decent
soul, and thou regardest it not?" Behold, on the day of your fasting ye follow
physical and moral standard among hundreds of children. How many
your business, and all your acquired gains do ye exact.
4 Behold, for contention and strife do ye fast, and to smite with the fist of it has literally saved none can tell. But its work is of a character that
wickedness; ye fast not so at this day, to cause your voice to be heard on high.
deserves the unstinted encouragement of every man and woman who
5 Is such then the fast which I can choose? a day that a man afflicteth his loves childhood and believes in the rights of childhood.
soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes for his
i'lans
couch? wilt thou call this a fast, and a day of acceptability unto the Lotto?
6 Is not this ( rather) the fast that I w ill choose? to open the snares of
wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free. and
that ye should break asunder every yoke?
7 Is it not to distribute thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the
afflicted poor into thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou clothe him;
and that thou hide not thyself from thy own flesh.
8 Then shall break forth as the morning-dawn thy light, and thy healing
shall speedily spring forth; and before thee shall go thy righteousness, the glory
of the Loan will be thy rereward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will
say, Here am I. If thou remove from the midst of thee the yoke, the stretching
out of the finger, and speaking wickedly;
10 And if thou pour out to the hungry thy soul, and satisfy the afflicted
soul: then shall shine forth in the darkness thy light, and thy obscurity be as the
noonday;
11 And the Loan will guide thee continually, and will satisfy thy soul in
times of famine, and will strengthen thy bones; and thou shalt be like a well-
watered garden, and like a spring of water, the waters of which will never
deceive.
12 And they that spring from thee shall build up the ancient ruins; the
foundations of many generations shalt thou raise up again: and thou shalt be
called, The repairer of the breaches, The restorer of paths to the dwellingplace.
13 If thou restrain thy foot for the sake of the sabbath, not doing thy busi-
ness on my holy day; and if thou call the sabbath a delight, the h o ly day of the
Lotus, honourable; and honour it by not doing thy usual pursuits, by not follow-
ing thy own business, and speaking (vain) words:
14 Then shalt thou find delight in the 'malt; and I will cause thee to tread
upon the high-places of the earth. and I will cause thee to enjoy the inheritance
of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
PROGRESSIVE WORLD STRUGGLE
OF THE JEW FOR CIVIL EQUALITY
(Continued from page one).
them that they work together in the
interest of each other may well be
true. When general society is against
them 411, they naturally stand to-
gether for self-protection and for
self-support.
States, of whom a million or more
live in the city of New York.
The Jews in the United States,
down to 1880, did not exceed a quar-
ter of a million, but since the op-
pression, pogroms, and massacres in
Rumania and in Russia immigration
has, increased to the figures given
They Make Good Soldiers.
And scheming men with their wild-eyed dreams—
I hissed them a warning note.
They played with tire; like their rabid schemes,
I could scald cacti parch'd throat.
I gently purred in the quiet home,
\Viten the Master came from toil,
And my welcome warm, in the light brown foam,
Not a vagrant spark could spoil.
\Ve latiglwd and lanced and chuckled away,
Aiid forgot this' .cold obtside:
'The Mother smiled at the Children's play,
And l Ill111111101 with homely pride.
,
And then, one day, they packed me away
And shipped me across the deep;
'Hwy crushed my sides and my shine turned gray,
And my day had come to weep.
A bearded man, in a heap of brass,
Caught sight of my battered frame;
My shattered Milk was as green as grass,
And I tried to hide in shame.
Ile took me home and lie scoured and shined
'Till I gleamed and glowed at last,
And then one day I awoke to find
That my shop-worn days had passed.
The pride of men—their folly and shame,
And their tender loves as well-
1 saw it all and joined in the game,
And a wondrous tale could tell.
And now I stand, a much-polished thing,
Among bric-a-brac galore.
Ma; soul has tied-1 never shall sing
As in days that are no more.
—Enoch Melts.
long deprivation their tastes have' these countries whe re the war raged
i with such violence and destruction,
been
form
life. Th have
been cooed
for city
the city roust necessarily give greater eco-
rd up in ghettos of ey
c value to every man who sw-
a
perforce, have formed the habits nomi
tive:s. 'lite loyalty which the Jews
odd,
ot Denied
an urban
population.
the opportunity for educa- bane shown to their respective gov-
tion, they are ignorant; but no people trnments in these countries
under a
eal o ught to impress
in the world manifest so much anx- most trying ordeal wit h the
tety to secure education and int- their gover
claim t.
equal in treatmen
the opportunities when offered that they it misake t rue to that
the past
\VItile
I
with such earnestness and success.
h of te
h cruelty to the Jews has
It cannot be good fur a country muc
een imme diately prompted by point
like Russian Poland and the Pale to L
continue 6,000LXX) of its inhabitants lar prejudice, nevertheless it is also
in such a persistent condition of pov- true that, with the increase of popu-
It must lar control in all countries, their con-
erty and demoralizatin,
roper develop- dition has ultimately been much im-
interfere with the po
mein. prosperity, and health of the proved. A war like this, which must
rest of the population. So large a be carried on I.y the people, increases
con of this kind must make a their ultimate power.
Repressive Measures Always
sore spot in the economic, political,
Harmful.
and social life of this part of Russia.
In spite of their deplorable con- .
dition and the immigration it stir-I
Harsh
repressive
measures
have
not and
helped
the solution
of the
J ews are very
Oates, the Russian Jewish question. The result reminds
prolific and their number is not one constantly of Aesop's fable of
diminishing. Their presence its Rus•, the contest between the wind and
sia has been a continuing fact and the sun in removing a man's coat
the policy pursued in respect to them from his back. The harder the wind
up to the Revolution did not remove blew, the closer the man, held the
it or alter it and it was not a success. coat to his body. It was only when
In aid of the Christian peoples of the sun with its warm rays increased
the Balkans and Armenia, the Rus- the temperature and created discom-
sian Government did a great work, fort that the man removed his coat.
for which those peoples should be
The harshest persecution and in-
very grateful. The conduct of Russia justice merely strengthen the peculi-
toward them was in marked contrast arity of the Jew in his adherence to
to its attitude toward the Jews with- his ancient customs, in his exclusive-
in its O•D jurisdiction. Is it too ness, in his use of cunning to avoid
much to hope that the drastic experi- outrage, and in his adherence to his
ence of this war may lead Russia to religion and its ceremonials. Give
a different view?
him the sunlight of freedom and the
balmy encouragement of equality of
A Blessing in Dreadful Disguise.
opportunity and he assimilates him-
Ii the war does help the Jew, it
self to his environment with all the
will indeed he a blessing in dreadful
quickness of perception, all the en-
disguise. One-half the Jews of the
ergy, all the enterprise, all the per-
world have bad to bear its miseries,
sistence with which he is so remark-
its cruelties, its sufferings. They
lived in the theater of war between ably endowed.
One can hardly expect that they
The Great Jewish Problem of Today. should feel entirely grateful to a
As I have said, in all parts of En- government which makes life so hard
rope and America, except Russia and fur them, or that the desire to serve
Rumania, legal discrimination against in the army should be strong in them.
the Jews has largely ceased and civil And yet the reports from the World
equality is accorded them. 'Ile pres- War indicate that they have made
ent great problem. therefore, is to good soldiers, and the history of the
in all countries in which they
secure civil equality for them in Jests
Russia and Rumania. How is the have rallied to the support of the
Russia and Germany and Austria. In
The mills of the gods—according to the poet—grind slowly, but present condition in those countries government under which they lived. this region, almost without ceasing,
explained? Their patriarch, Samuel of Nehar-
they grind exceeding title. Major Alfred Dreyfus. degraded, humiliated,
Prince Gortchakoff in the Berlin dea, sixteen centuries ago laid down the campaign continued. The Rus-
deprived of home and name and title; prisoner in the hell hole known as
sians laid waste the country in order
described the Russian and the rule: "The law of the govern-
Devil's Isle, all through the most egregious miscarriage of justice that Congress
Rumanian Jews as a great scourge went is the law;" and in the eighteen to embarrass their pursuing enemies,
stained the pages of the nineteenth century, has at last come into his upon any people. Bismarck's answer or nineteen centuries in which the and between the two armies the pop-
ulation, of which the Jews were a
own.
was that the policy of restriction had Jews have been wandering over the
Clemenceau, who defended him so splendidly against the charge given them the character which is face of the earth, rebellion and large part, suffered untold horrors.
As soon as the war came on, as
that had been laid against him by unscrupulous enemies, has now moved now made the basis for complaints treachery to the government under soon as mobilizations were initiated,
which they lived have not been fre-
that the greatest honor that France can bestow upon her sons, be given against them.
Germany and Austria, on the one
to Alfred Dreyfus—the Legion of Honor. No soldier of France more
Itlirabeau in the French Assembly quest
among of
them.
A number
them in Russia under hand, and Russia, on the other, vied
truly merits the distinction than lie. Loyal, brave, patriotic when he said, in answer to a similar charge the old regime doubtless had revolu- with each other in a cultivation of
wore his country's uniform, Ise showed himself a man even in the hour tIf yott wish the Jews to become tionary and subversive tendencies, ap- the good-will of the l'oles and the
when his enemies had succeeded its degrading and humiliating him, and better men and useful citizens, then parently confined to .1 CWS of Univer- Jews.
he did not cease to be a man even when Ise sufTered the tortures of dis- banish every humiliating restriction, it education, who found difficulty
Russia promised that an autono-
open to them every avenue of gaining 5 in Y earning a livelihood under the re- mous Poland would be created from
grace and exile in his lonely prison.
Instead
of
forbidding
strictions and who naturally cher- all three of the incomplete tribal
It is not often given to a mats who has been the victim of such mis- a livelihood.
them agriculture, handicrafts, and the
districts of the partitioned kingdom.
carriage of justice as Dreyfus, to live long enough to enjoy such cons: mechanical arts, encourage them to fished resentment.
plete rehabilitation as has come to hint. All honor to the brave men devote themselves to these occupa- With their active minds, with their Sonic of the leaders of the Austrian
genius
for
trade,
cultivated
by
cen-
Government announced an intention
who through this quarter of a decade have stood by Alfred Dreyfus tions."
titries of necessity, they prefer trade of giving autonomy to Galicia.
and have helped to win for him that complete vindication which is Isis.
manual pursuit, but many of them
NVIten the war came to an end,
All honor to France that her conscience awakened to the enormity of Russia's Plaint Against the Jews. to
are skilled artisans in many countries. tremendous governmental changes
the crime committed against one of her sons, she is now striving to
It is probably true that Russian
occurred
in the countries where the
Denied Educational Privileges.
Jews do devote themselves to trading
make the fullest reparation that is humanly possible.
Jews are so greatly congested
in money, and that the Russian moo- They do not follow agricultural
The dreadful destruction of life,
jik is subject to abuse in this respect mrsuits because they have long been
of which the Jews take 'advantage, forbidden to own land, and by this the necessity for rehabilitation of
We shall be glad to welcome to the rabinical circle of Detroit. but it must be borne in mind that the
restrictions upon the Jews as to live-
Rabbi Harry Z. Gordon, who has been called to head the new Orthodox lihood have been and are such as to
congregation which has been funned by residents of the northwest drive them into money-lending. In-
section of our city. Rabbi Gordon may well be proud of the distinction deed. this cause dates from the
of being called to minister to a congregation in his native city. Accord- middle ages. when. as already said
ing to all reports, Rabbi Gordon is a young man of scholarly attainments canon law forbade among Christians
and of splendid ideals. He is the sort of a man who will no doubt the lending of money on interest and
very soon make his influence for good felt throughout the community. left that business open for the Jews,
The work of the local ministry increases constantly with the growth who perforce became the money-
of Detroit's Jewish population. Another helper in the cause will there- lenders of Europe.
The few avenues of employment
fore be most heartily welcomed.
for Jews forced them into the con-
duct of inns and the selling of liquor.
This, as I have pointed out, was a
heritage from the Popish nobility.
A little book worthy of perusal is "A History of the Jews," just
Even if the charge made against
published by Paul Goodman. Although presupposing on the part of the the Russian Jews of fraud and trick-
reader, a rather adequate knowledge of Jewish history, the book in its ery has foundation, it is not to be
compass of about one hundred and fifty pages, presents a very full out- wondered at, when man's hand is
p: • kro.
line of Jewish history from the beginning until the present day. It against them, when they are desper-
ate in their efforts to live, when they
contains also a bibiliography and a rather full index.
Such a compendium is valuable in that it is likely to awaken an have a faculty in trade born of the
Belated Justice
Welcome, Rabbi Gordon
If education and opportunity and
freedom and equality are extended to
them in the next generation, the
traits to which objection is made will
become less and less conspicuous,
and Russia's great domain, which
needs people of energy, people of
keenness, people of enterprise, people
of experience in trade, people of
financial genius, will find a benefit
in the presence of the Jews.
(Continued Next. Week.)
Miz•achi Leader Elected
to Polish Parliament
NEW YORK—A report to the
Mizrachi Organization of America
states that the famous leader of the
Polish Mizrachi• Mr. Farbstein, has
been elected as delegate to the Polish
Parliament from Bialystok. His op-
ponent teas the General Zionist Or-
ganization party candidate. The elec-
tion was hotly contested by both
sides, but Mr. Earbstein, the Hie-
rachi candidate, was elected by a
large majority.
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