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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

American Jewish Committee
to Meet in New York, Oct. 19

NEW YORK—The thirteenth an-
nual meeting of the American Jewish
Committee will be held at the Hotel
Astor, Broadway and Forty-fourth
street, in the city of New York, on
Sunday, October 19th, 1919
The morning session will be called
at 10:30 o'clock and the afternoon
session at 2:30 o'clock. Luncheon
will be provided for members in at-
tendance.
Successors to the following will be
chosen:
Officers to serve for one year:
President, Louis Marshall; vice-presi-

Currency, Weights and The Brevity of World Samuel Go mpers Appeals
T o S e cretary Lansing To
T
Em pires.
Measures Among the
Aid Jewish Orphans
Ancient Hebrews
By Julian Morgenstern.
NEW YORK.—The Department of

Members of the Executive Commit- SLAUGHTER THE JEWS,
tee to serve for three years from
SAY THE CZECHS
January 1st, 1920: Harry Cutler, Louis
Marshall, Jacob H. Hollander, Isador
Sobel.
PRAGUE—Declaring that the
Successors to the following mem- Jews are profiteers and that is is in
hers are also to he chosen: District the interest of the country to kill
III, Maurice Stern, New Orleans (ile- every Jew in it, the Czechs in the
ceased); District IV, Morris M. Cohn, Karwin mining district of Bohemia

The truth of the teaching of the

Bible are doubtless the gold lanes nation which would go after selfish
must the
fall
desires and
false
a ambitions that
and
of Judaism,
Little Rock; District V, Emanuel have issued a proclamation advising which were issued in the reign of prophets
Rosenberg,
Seattle;
District
‘ .'•, the inhabitants to kill all the Polish Darius, king of Persia, and were cir- in the end, is proved conclusively by
Henry M. Butzel, Detroit; Victor; Jews in that region. Plundering, the ciliated throughout the east. The history. the Assyrian world-empire
Rosewater, Omaha; District
I I ,1 proclamation says, is not enough; not lane was equivalent to about $5.50.l lasted barely sixty years; the Neo-
- i stri
--- ct
-- '1 :--
James Davis, Joseph Stolz, Chicago; I a single Jew must be left alive there.
invention of coining money Babylonian empire, its successor, less
District V II 1, David Philipson, Cin- 1
than seventy yea". The vast Persian
originated in Asia Minor and e spread
onnati; District IX, Louts E. IsevY.
C srus in 538 B.
into Greece. Even after th
King George has appointed Mr. of the Jews from the Captivity, empire, founded by
Philadelphia (deceased); District X,
y, there
Charles Van Lee, Seaford; District Samuel Rotenberg of Johannesburg, is no evidence that they possessed Great in 332 B. C. The empire of
X11, Felix Fuld, Newark; A. Leo S. A., a member of the Order of the any native currency until the time of
klexander,
in turn,
of C.,
Alexander,
was overthrown
by endured
Alexander only
the
British Empire.
Weil, Pittsburg.
Ju d os Isiaccabeus', though, before that until his death in 323 It. C
The kingdom of the Seleucids
time, occasional mention is made .
ans.
standard
of the
Hebrew
weights in and
Syria, Syn..
which followed,
was ten
little
the The
money
of
Persians
„ barely

and measures was kept in the sane- pire. Its dream of world-domination
was never
fully attempt
realized, at and
even the
teary, and a copy of it was used lit more
than an
world-em-
the household. The destruction of period of its greatest glory was less
this ancient standard led to the adop- than forty years. The Maccabean
tion of various weights and measures wars, fought by Jews, filled with
From
the earliest
from
foreign
traders. times, precious Israel's ancient spirit of freedom, re-
precious belling against tyranny and thirsting
for independence, sounded its death-
metals weighed in the balance
knell.
used instead of coins. These were
The Roman empire probably repro- Mr. Lansing by Mr. Gonipers, who
,- said he felt "impelled as a duty to lay
usually in the shape of bars or rings.
seats the nearest approach to world- the whole matter before you." The
The gold shekel was worth about $10;
empire, and also the longest-lived. reply of the State Department has
the value of the silver shekel was
The duration of its world-domination not been received.
equivalent to 40 cents. Portions of
may be fixed roundly at five hundred
individuals
Hundreds
uiiiireos
of
have
the shekel, such as the half shekel,
the quarter shekel and the twentieth, years. During this time Rome held pledged themselves to adopt the chil-
were also in common use. The mina, sway from Gibraltar to the Atlas &en and provide for their education
Mountains. It allowed to its subject if they come to this country.
or lifts; silver shekels, was equal to
peoples a larger measure of auton-
about $33, and a talent of silver is
omy, legal protection and participa-
valued at about $2,000.
Seek Lost Jewish Soldier.
tion in the rights and privileges of
Joseph was sold by his brethren citizenship than its predecessors, and
for twenty pieces of silver, or for $13. likewise manifested greater sympathy
New York:—Louis Van Israel, a
The value of a slave, if killed by a with, and larger receptivity of, their sergeant in Company M, Ninth Infan-
beast, was reckoned as thirty pieces various national cultures and cults. try, U. S. A., cited for bravery at
of silver, of $16.
It was truly the most cosmopolitan Alotizob, France, is dated up for a
The "wedge of gold" which Admit government and nation the world has royal welcome home, if the American
found in Jericho was 50 shekels in ever known. For these reasons prob- Jewish Committee can obtain the ad-
weight and was worth about $500, the ably it endured longer than any other dress of the soldier, who is said to
silver he took was worth about $130. world-empire. But in the end it, too, reside lit Newark. Sergeant Van Is-
This Babylonian piece of gold is perished.
rael, who wears the Congressional
mentioned on a contract tablet in the
The dream of Roman world-empire Medal, returned home very quietly. A
British NIuseutia.
was revived by Charlemagne when in Chicago paper recently published the
As a thanksoffering for his cure, 800 A. D. he took the title of emperor. statement that he lived in Newark,
Naaman the Syrian brought Elisha But his empire, founded upon con- but nothing else could be learned con-
6,000 shekels of gold, or about quest and subjugation, endured only cerning hint, except that his mother
$210,000.
until his death, fourteen years later. resides in Holland.
'file American
The Mosaic Law recognized the in- Again in 962 A. I). Otto I, king of Jewish Committee is very anxious to
stitution of slavery and made various Germany, was crowned emperor at find the young man and communicate
humane provisions as to the status Rome, and with him the hope of to hint the gratitude of the entire Am-
and treatment of slaves; but the law world-empire was reborn. The title, erican Jewish Committee.
was very strict in regard to the daily and with it the hope, passed to his
payment of the wages of the laborer: successors and succeeding dynasties,
"the wages of him that is hired shall to the Hohenstaufens, the Halls-
not abide with thee all night until the burgs, and, most recently, the Ho-
henzollerns. But until yesterday it
mooting,"
remained with them merely a hope,
Wages are first mentioned as being
a dream, a theory, a self-deluding
511SO-1919
paid, not in money but in kind by
fiction.
Laban to Jacob: "And Jacob served
Wed,, Sept 21
The nineteenth century saw one
al ° Oct. 1
seven years for Rachel; and they
l'hurs., Oct, u
seemed to hint a few daj•s, for the bold attempt to establish a world- Surroth Wind My/
empire.
Napoleon
carried
his
vie-
Succoth
il.ust
Doy—ShelnInl
love he had for her." So, when
Thurs., Oct. 10
t1tfreth
Pharoah's daughter desired a nurse torious army into Egypt, Palestine
c „ ess. n „ .. re r j."
to look after the child Moses she had and Russia. But again the dream was
vain.
Fifteen
years
saw
its
conceit-
,,,, Nu ' s. '23
Ilosch-Chodeseh
found amid the bullrushes along the
lo.. n i 1 ). ,.e. IT
t d
hnnokala 'Feast of Dedle ms,
river bank, she chose one of the tion, development and overthrow.
Cattaanitish women and promised to Once again the fiat of history was iluseh-Chodesch Tebeth..Mon., 1/re.
affirmed—a
world-empire,
founded
pay her wages for nursing hint.
upon conquest and for purposes of j
Jim.
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In the east, bracelets for the arms
exploitation, is contrary to God's ,
and anklets for the legs were regard-
"
f
law for men and nations, and cannot f_""t
Itosch-Chodesela Shebat.. turd.. Jon. :II
ed as a means of investing money.
endure.
itokelt-Chotlexeli Ador•.•hurs., Fell. Ill
They were worn by married women
ford o , I • r..* of Esther).Thurs.,110,y4
•
of all ranks, nor could they be taken
The
new
Grand
Rabbin
of
France,
,
to pay the debts of the husband. The
Aprll ul
Levi, and M. Hendle, De-1 •o.so,er tun.sts
anklets were frequently adorned with
Is
pa fl t 1h 11:111 , 11ter l i ) o lf r, eCI I Lif veathe t n
he ai N,p
lioniiist
sire
t ed Itoseh-Chodeseh
little bells. Bracelets were also worn of

Double-breasted suits
are in great demand—

Not the clumsy looking kind that
father wore. A new type has been
developed; high waist line, high
chest, flared skirt that drapes nicely,
broad lapels; many have belts, half or
all 'round; snappy styles for keen
chaps. Single-breasted models, too.
Mubor Znilareb Clothes that help
you fight H. C. L. Their label is your
guarantee of all-wool, long wear, lat-
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State has been asked by the Jewish
People's Relief Committee, with
headquarters here, to permit the
thousands of Jewish children in Eu-
rope made orphans as a result of the
world war to enter this country, that
they may be placed in private homes
and institutions. The committee
made public a letter sent to Secretary
of State Lansing by Samuel Gompers,
President of the American Federation
of Labor, calling attention to the
plight of the children.
Mr. Gonipers' interest in the *dr-
phaus teas aroused by a letter from,
Alexander Kahn, chairman of the
committee, who informed him of the
plan. lie told the labor leader that
"no less than 150,000 Jewish orphans
are scattered in the Eastern front re-
gions and that at least 20 per cent.
are without either parent." "Chil-
dren have died and arc dying in tens
of thousands," he also asserted.
These facts were comm u nicated to

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used as a badge of royalty, and were
broad, jointed bands of gold, silver
or brass. Men sometimes wore
official gold chains and signet rings,
and, in Isaiah's day, earrings were
very common amongst women. The
Ishmaelites used to wear earrings and
the Amalekites adorned the necks of
the camels with gold chains.—S. A.
Jewish Chronicle.

members of the special commission
which has to deal with reparations ]
for damage done to civil and religious '
edifices in France by acts of war,

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