THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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GREATNESS

A Challenge to the Jew

THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Tell me why are great men great,

Much indignation has been expressed by Jews in all parts of the
What makes them favored 50113 of fate!
country at the recently imblished program of the Protestant Episcopal
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
Are they put in places high
Because the people wish and cry
Church, to devote the stun of one million dollars to the conversion of
That this or that man bear a part—
.
President the Jew. Such indignation has for the most part, however, been rather
.
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JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
Or is he great strithin his heart!
Secretarv•Treasurer unwarranted.
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NATHAN J. GOULD •
Tell me just to what degree
In the first place, we have been officially informed by dignitaries of
Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at t he Postoffice at Detroit,
Does opportunity decree
the church that the report was grossly exaggerated, and we have seen
Mich., under the Act of March 3 , 1879.
Which man shall the halo wear,
official documents to prove that claim.
By public grace, of public glare?
published
by
the
various
conver-
In
the
second
place,
the
statistics
Is
greatness judged by what the goal,
OFFICES, BOOK BUILDING
Or does it rest within the soul?
sionist agencies are in themselves the final refutation of any claim that
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the church may set up as to its ability to win Jews in considerable num-
Is your mental picture true
$2.00 per year bers.
Of all the great men brought to view
Subscription, in advance
over
None the less, every effort on the part of the Christian to win
fly the clamor of the crowd—
Though true or false—by praises loud?
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach the Jew, is a challenge to us, as was logically enough said to the writer
And is your mental calm and poise,
this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
by one of the high dignitaries of the Episcopal church. it is the busi-
Fit judge to hear bile praise from noise?
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Editorial Contributor ness of .the organized Christian, church to win souls for Christ. So
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
Is it some material plan,
long; then, as the chslrch attends tc•lts legitimate business, though we
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to
That brings great wealth, that makes the man?
may deem it foolish and destined to be without result, we Jews have no
the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the
Or is it moral power
cause to complain. The way to meet the situation and to make the
views expressed by the writers.
That gives to min that worldly hour,
work of the missionary ineffective, is for us Jews to bring such influ-
IVhich often times comes much too late,
Tishri 23, 5680 ences to bear upon our fellow Jews who seem to be slipping away from
When they are known as truly great?
Friday, October I7, I 9 I 9.
their ancesttal moorings, that they will come back to us with their whole
—ENOCH :VEILS.
heart and soul and spirit.
saving
the
city
at
least
14
separate
property
purchased for old people'..;
It is rather inconsistent of us to raise our voices in protest at the
campaigns to raise funds for the vari- home, $31,500.
No money is to he disbursed on any
We have heretofore dealt in these columns with the amendment efforts of the Christians to Christianize the Jew, if we ourselves do not Oil s enterprises. Several of the organ-
which it is proposed by certain interested parties, to make to the present do what lies within our power to Judaize them. The Jew is not a mis- izations interested were prepared to building enterprises until the organ-
•
go
before
the
public
for
subscriptions
izations
shall have submitted archi-
Michigan School Law, by which it will be made compulsory for all chil- sionary people in the sense in which the churchmen use that term, but
and probably would have raised a tests' plans and the plans and con-
dren of school age to be educated in the public schools. Recently, pro- the Jew should put forth a missionary effort among his own people. A much larger stun than is asked this tractor's bids have been approved by
the Executive Committee of the fund.
paganda in behalf of this amendment has been so persistent and so constructive program of religious and social service work among the year through the Patriotic Fund.
Jews in the congested quarters of our great cities is an immediate duty
"This does not mean that all the After that money will be paid out
aggressive, that we feel called upon to deal with the subject once more.
projects submitted to us were en- only on architects' certificates.
on the part of Jews who take their religion seriously.
At the outset, let it be said unequivocally and as clearly as possible,
All of this, of course, has no bearing upon the implied identity of dorsed. On the contrary we disap-
proved 'of a number of propositions
that we stand definitely committed to the public school as the bulwark
no the processes of Christianization and of Americanization in the pub- a s beire
of a cmm erci al than a
ng
TO RESIGN PULPIT
of democracy. \Ve are firmly and mainchingly of the opinion that
lished program of our friends of the Episcopal church. We have rea- cun
ty nature anod there fore out-
omm i ino
is
—
other kind of a school, private or parochial, can do for the child svho has
side
the
scope
of the fund."
son to believe that in recently published articles bearing upon this sub-
(Continued Isom page one)
to fit into the life of the American republic, what the public school
ject, they were in part the victims of newspaper representation. It is
Union Budget.
Community
say this, knowing full well the defects in
whether the hour has come for
in its power to do. And we
likely that this matter will shortly be set right. \Ve prefer, however, to
In addition to capital expenditures, or
our present system of public education to which only the blindest par- defer comment upon this phase of the question until certain matters now the
campaign budget will include my withdrawal."
Wants Views to be Known.
tisans can close their eyes. But with all its defects, we prefer the public
$1,986,000 for the Community Union,
pending shall have been adjusted.
Dr. Wise spoke warmly of the ac-
to provide for curernt expenses of 56
school to any other kind of school. •
local agencies for nine months of 1919 tion of the Executive Committee of
With this position made clear, none can accuse us of entering a
and all of 1920; $664,000 for a group the synagogue with whom he had
of foreign relief agencies ordered by conferred before making the address
brief in behalf of the parochial school, when we say that in our opinion,
Ile said
of the previous Sunday.
the proposed amendment is a direCt attack upon the rights of Catholics
There is a tendency on the part of some of our co-religionists to be the National Investigation Bureau; that none had denied him the right
to educate their children in the way that seems best to them, a convic- always looking for insult. They arc eternally protesting against this or $200,000 for the American Red Cross to sptak as he felt he must.
an(k Detroit chapter; $135,000 for the
W. hen the plans for building an
tion that is re-enforced by reading the pamphlets that have recently that phase of discrimination against them, ,which invariably and without SaRation Army, Detroit's quota of
edifice to house the activities of the
been widely circulated by the so-called Wayne County Civic League, prejudice.
the $13,000,000 national fund for synagogue came up recently, after
In all fairness, it may be said that this weakness on the part of the which a campaign was conducted all having been postponed since the be-
under whose auspices, the amendment is being fostered.
We claim that the adoption of this amendment instead of enforcing Jew is a hit excusable when we remember through how many centuries, over the country except in Detroit ginning of the war, Dr. Wise said,
last May, and $275,000 for a reserve he stated to some of his associates
American principle of the separation of church and state, would he has had to be 00 the defensive. The fact that he has had to look
that he hesitated to appeal for public
the - truly
step toward their union. We claim that it is the inalienable
fulkdli over-subscriptions are to be ap- suport of the venture unless he could
be the first
plied to the five-year building pro- feel that his views on industrial-so-
right of the American citizen of any creed or any color, to educate his tude toward the world.
the direr- cial questions were so clearly under-
children in the way that seems best to him, provided always that such careful scrutiny of all conditions involved, they ascribe to religious gram at the discretion of
tors. No money is to be disbursed on stood that subsequently no question
education covers a curriculum which is set as a minimum by the state
But it is time for the Jew in America to outgrow this viewpoint and
could arise with respect to them, and
to realize that seeming discrimination against him is not always due to
esraelirprtvrthitlietit'tjerd to the views on economic questions
authorities.
Moreover, the proposed amendment would cut deeper than its spon- anti-Semitic feeling. and that when prejudice does exist against him, g architects' plans and the plans and he was supposed to hold, by those
who would be urged to help. He did
sors seem to recognize. \Vhile the proposed legislation is unquestion- it illy be in part of his own making. We have in mind an instance contractors bids have been approved not want it to come about that a
by the executive committee of the
ably intended as a slap at the parochial schools as conducted by the that occurred only this week. In one of the local newspapers, there fund.
man should contribute today toward
the synagogue home and six months
Catholics and Lutherans, it would actually put omit of business, every appeared the advertisement of a home for sale to which the advertiser
Corporation to Give 1`7, Earnings.
later declare that had he known the
private school, no matter how high its standard of scholarship, and it added the wo rds "Gentiles only." A representative of the Anti-Defam-
directors have approved a re- views of the rabbi on economic ques-
would make it impossible for parents who prefer to have their children ation League took up the matter with the owner who, in athoroughly
tion he would have withheld his
f
W
by
a
committee
o
The subm itted
port
courteous and logical manner, explained why the words had been added which John W. Staley is chairman , contribution.
educated in their own homes, by private teachers, to do so.
recommending that corporations be
Denounces Bolshevism.
,
All in all, the amendment as we read it is a thoroughly vicious one to the published notice. Ile indicated in his reply that the notice had
asked for 1 per cent of their earnings.
After a vigorous denunciation of
u
appeared without these objectionable words in a number of s,
and ought not to be read into the body of our statute law.
This is a departure from last year, Bolshevism, Dr. \Vise declared that
by literal scores of when corporations were not asked to
It might be added by way of explanation, that we Jews as Jews, that his home had been overnm for several days his
Judge Gary "is the outstanding lead-
absence had been
the lower type, who in
give. This year, however, there are a er of a group of men who, conscious-
have no interest either in the passage or the failure of this bill to pass. Jewish real estate agents of
number
of
reasons
why
they
should
The Jews, by all overwhelming majority, give their allegiance to the fairly insolent to his wife, calling her profiteer and other unpleasant be asked, in the committee's judg- ly or unconsciously—and they are too
wise for the most part not to know
when she would not agree to their unreasonable terms. \Ve can
public school. The religious education of their children, they attend to names
ment. One of them is that many of what the; are doing—are doing
various religious schools affiliated with their congregations. Even fully sense the indignation of this owner, and somehow understand how their emlpoyes will benefit from the everything they can in order to make
in the
int- the present order indefensible."
these, as a rule. are patterned after the public school, and to no small he was brought to take the course he did. All of which leads us to say holpital extensions and other cap
i-
of
prov ided for in the
"That I am not a Bolshevist is as
extent, have set the model upon which the better Sabbath schools the something else.
art " expendi tures.
well known as the fact that Judge
There has developed in Detroit during its period of extraordinary l'
other denominations have been builded. But as American citizens,
Workingmen in the factories and Gary it not a secret agent of the
Jews are deeply interested in the fate of this amendment. They do not prosperity, a large group of Jews of the type characterized by \lontague elsewhere will be asked for two days' American Federation of Labor," he
class of men neither pleasant to look upon pay, spread over a period of two continued. "It is rather amusing to
wish to see religious bigotry and narrowness prevail against any class or
° the real estlters"--a
months. On this basis labor is think that many good folks have ex-
nor kindly to deal with, who seek only their own interests ant are n
counted on for about $1,400,00), which pressed themselves touching my ad-
creed in the community.
always overscrupulous ill their dealings. Such men represent a real
is only about one-font - tit of the dress of last Sunday without regard
It is safe to predict that to a man, they will oppose the passage of
menace to the good name of the Jew, and it is undoubtedly the persis- amount the workers subscribed last to the question raised—whether the
this bill.
tence and, the impudence of men of this type who are responsible for year. For those earning incomes of workingman ought to have the right
from $3,000 up to $300,000 or over a of organization and collective bar-
the insertion of the objeCtionable advertisement referred to.
gaining. That qttestion has little to
We do not justify that advertisement. It implies a blanket charge schedule of giving ranging from 11/2 do with the scarcity of so-called do-
per cent to 10 per cent has been
against a whole class of people, and that is never reasonable or right. worked out. Details of this schedule mestic servants, has nothing to do
A recent number of "Printers Ink," perhaps the most widely cir-
with the exorbitant demands of the
But somehow, we can understand the feeling that prompted it. An will be announced later.
strikers in one industry, or the want
culated trade journal in its line, carries a full page advertisement of effective way for us to overcome discrimination against the Jew, would
of faith in strikers in another indus-
Pfeffer Jewish Publicity Agency," the gist of which is that
nity in general that Jews of the
the "Jacob
u
try has nothing to do with those
Schedule of Appropriations.
the proprietor of this organization is not a "foreign language" advertis- he by making very plain to the comm
groups of workingmen who chron-
type described are quite as objectionable to us as they can be to those
The institutions and amounts in- ically strike and only spasmodically
ing agent, but a "Jewish" advertising agent. lie claims further that
cluded by the fund in the coming
not
of
our
belief.
the Jews must be approached in a way peculiarly their own in order to
work.
campaign and the purposes for which
"Let no one imagine that I am una-
get their trade and makes other assertions equally ridiculous and objec-
the money is asked are as follows:

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

The Proposed Michigan School Amendment

RABBI WISE OFFERS

Protesting Too Much

Objectionable Advertising •

tionable.
\Ve are entirely sure that had a non-Jewish firm published such an
advertisement, we Jews would have protested most vigorously against
its appearance in a public print. We would have said that the adver-
tisement was the outcropping of an anti-Semitic brain, and that it
amounted to libel of the Jew as a business man. But when a Jew pub-
lishes such a card to the public, we hold that the act is infinitely more

reprehensible.
The man who inserts such an advertisement and builds up his busi-
ness upon the principle therein laid down, values the good name of his
people very lightly and he ought to be told in no uncertain way by his
Jewish clients what they' think of him. Moreover, "Printers Ink" is
by no means free from culpability in this matter, though to be sure
they may well answer to any charge laid at their door in the matter,
that they could not well conceive that a Jew in furnishing copy of the
advertisement in question, stood ready to libel his fellow Jews.
Truth is, that we can easily enough take care of the enemies out-
side our ranks. It is a more difficult thing to combat the ignorance;
the had taste; the selfishness that many tittles shows itself within our

JEWS TO RECEIVE
HALF MILLION OF
PATRIOTIC FUND

(Continued From Page One.)

absolute requirements of the city and
welfare institutions that are doing a
community work. The city's popula-
tion has practically doubled in the
last five years and the institutions,
largely because of the war, have
lagged behind.

4,000 Beds Short.

ware of or blind to the abuses within
Grace Hospital, for first of a series the ranks of organized labor. But I
of extensions, $190,000; Harper Hos- maintain that we have no right to
pital, beginning of extension program, judge a principle or a system by the
$200,000; Children's Free Hospital, abuses and the evils that have arisen
nurses' home, $100,000; Woman's therefrom, so long as these are uteri--
Hospital, new unit, $250,000; Evan- ly incidental thereto and inevitably
this year's building fund will be
gelical Deaconess Hospital, addition, bound up therewith."
$250,000, with which it plans to erect
The Executive Council of the Free
$100,000; Y. M. C. A., branch building
a branch in the colored section of the in colored section, $250,000; Y. W. C. Synagogue met Wednesday to take
city. The Y. W. C. A. asks $100,000 to
A., portion of additional funds to up the unusual situation arising from
help complete its new building. A
stand. lion. Abraham J.
complete new building, $100,000; St. Dr. Wise's
large group of Catholic societies are
Mary's Hospital, addition, $250,000; Elkus, is President of the Executive
included in the budget for varying
Florence Crittenton Home, for ex- Council.
amounts, which are to he used
tension, $8,000; Providence Hospital,
largely for extensions. The Young
to erect children's home, thereby re- JEWISH MINISTERS IN
Men's Hebrew Association, the
leasing 100 beds, $150,000; St. Vin-
Young Woman's Hebrew Association
THE UKRAINIAN CABINET
cent's Orphan Asylum, to complete
and the Jewish Fresh Air camp will
addition under construction, $75,000;
also be provided for.
ODESSA—Four
Jews have become
Young Men's Order, to purchase and
.
The five-year building program ten-
equip residence property for modest Ministers in the Ukrainian Cabinet
tatively approved by the fund calls
start, $75,000; St. Vincent de Paul The l'oale-Zionist Gherman and the -
for an expenditrue of approximately
Society, to purchase and equip head- Bundist Breitman arc Assistant-Min
$8,000,000.
quarters, $15,000; League of Catholic isters in the Departtnent of Labor;
"To attempt to put this program
Women, for modest start on all prop- Mr. Doladar is the Assistant-Minister
through in a single year to the exclu-
erty, $75,000; Jewish Fresh Air Camp, of National Defense, and Mr. Krasni
sion of other community needs would
new building and site, $45,000; Young the Minister for Jewish Affairs.
be unfair, and is uncalled for, said Mr.
‘Vomen's Hebrew Association and
Clark. "All things considered, the
German officers in Berlin have col-
Young Men's Hebrew Association, to
d 35,000 marks to establish a
directors feel that this year's budget
start in modestly in old properties,
for capital expenditures is extremely $75,000; Carmelite Sisters, to pay forleague to oppose the Jews.
modest and in taking it on they are

There is an actual shortage of
nearly 4.000 hospital beds, a recent
survey by the Patriotic Fund shows.
The hospitals are turning away an
own household.
average of 100 patients every day.
Only the most urgent cases arc ac-
cepted and these are practically all
surgical. To relieve the situation the
In our last issue, we called attention to the need of Jewish workers average stay of a patient has been
in the coming Patriotic Fund Drive which is to begin early in Novem- reduced from 17 to 13 days, and in
ber. The matter is of sufficient importance, and the need is sufficiently numerous instances the patient has
pressing, to warrant us in repeating the request that men and women suffered a set-back because of leaving
too soon. Even in the last month
put aside for a few days during the week dedicated to the drive, their death has resulted in maternity cases
private interests insofar as they may, and devote themselves whole- turned away, because of conditions
arising at birth requiring special
heartedly to pushing the Patriotic Fund to success.
facilities.
The millions of dollars which are required are undoubtedly avail-
The building program approved by
able, but they must be gone after. Only the fewest of the citizens of the l'atriotic Fund directors will en-
able
the larger hospitals of the city to
Detroit will of their own volition send in their contributions and cer-
begin work on extensions which, with
tainly comparatively few will give as generously on their own account, the 1,000-bed hospital planned by the
as if they are met face to face by workers in the cause who can intelli- city and the Ford hospital, to he re-
opened soon. will relieve the existing
gently explain the uses to which the vast sums asked for are to be put.
shortage. The situation as it stands
The Jewish citizens of Detroit have as much interest in this fund today is declared to he alarming, and
group in the community. Altogether aside from the fact no one ventures to suggest how much
as any other
funds several Jewish institutions are to be financed, the worse it would be in the event of a
that out of these
Jew will share with his fellow citizens of every faith in the sense of great disaster or a serious epidemic
like the flu epidemic of last winter.

The Call to Serve

civic duty and of civic pride that must carry the Patriotic Fund to

Other Building Projects.

success.
Other building projects are calling
To this end, we call upon every Jew and Jewess in the community
for action. The Y. M. C. A. has
to do his and her part both in the giving of money and of service. To already deferred for two years its
do less than our full share in this time is to fall short of a civic, a patri- campaign to raise $1,000,000 for sev-

otic and a Jewish duty.

eral branch buildings. Its share of

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