THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1919.

VOL VI. NO. 22.

RETURNS HOME;
TEMPLE BETH EL MORGENTHAU
TO MAKE REPORT
OUTGROWS PLANS
R NEW EDIFICE,:,riLzeynth:luio,
FO

OUR SYMBOL OF MERCY

New York -The Honorable Ilenry
to nl f sca:! T o nrmitto.

R e

markable Progress of Congre-

g ation in Past Year Reported at

69th Annual Membership Meet-

ing Last Tuesday.

ISAAC GOLDBERG IS
ELECTED PRESIDENT

The Sixty-ninth Annual Meeting of
Congregation Beth El, which took place
in the Temple Assembly Rooms, Tues-
day evening, October 28th, covered, in
its various detailed and exhaustive re-
ports, the most notable year in the his-
tory of the congregation. An audience
that taxed the capacity of the meeting
rooms attested to the whole-hearted
interest of members of Temple Beth
El in the manifold activities of their
congregation, which, with a membership
approximating 800, ranks among the
three largest 'congregations in the coun-

tee appointed by President Vl'ilson, has
been investigating the pogroms in Po-
land, has arrived at New York and will
proceed to Washington to make his re-
port at an early date. Mr. Morgenthan
declines to be interviewed or to make
any statement in regard 'to what took
place in Poland. The public will have
to await the publication of his official
report to be informed.
Mr. blorgenthau advocated the accep-
tance by the United States of a man-
date for Constantinople, Armenia, and
Anatolia. In this connection Mr. Mor-
genthau is reported to have said
"Our people will expect Great Bri-
tain to welcome us in the blediterra-
'lean and the Near East, not as a rival
or competitor, but as a full partner with
all rights, privileges and responsibilities.
I have thought deeply as to how Great
Britain can demonstrate her willingness
and think the best way would be by her
giving us an equal control of the straits
,,f Gibraltar.'

try.
en
Reports were submitted by Presidt
Bernard Ginsburg, by Rabbi Leo M.
Franklin, by Mr. Israel Cohn, director
of the Sabbath School Board; by Mrs.
I. Goldberg, president of the Women's
Auxiliary Association; by Mr. Robert
Yanover, president of the Young Peo-
ples Society; by Warden Emanuel
Wo(lic, Treasurer Adolph Finsterwald,
and Secretary Magnus A. Hirschfield.
Every report presented indicated, the
splendid progress that has been made
along every line ofCongregational
activity and expressed ihe greatest op-
timism for the future of Temple Beth
El. The largest budget ever submitted
to the congregaton was unanimously ap-
proved, granting, with others, a generous
increase in the salary of Rabbi Leo M.
Franklin. Assistant Rabbi Samuel S.
blayerberg's term having expired, the
Board heartily endorsed his reappoint-
ment for a period of three years at an
increase of $600 a year.

DETROIT JEWRY READY
TO DO FULL DUTY IN
PATRIOTIC FUND DRIVE

Over 500 Jewish Men and Women Join Thou-
sands of Active Workers in Detroit's Annual
Campaign—$5,250,000 to Be Raised in Five-
Day Period, November 3 to 8.

BIG COMMUNAL DRIVE INCLUDES
CITY'S JEWISH RELIEF CAMPAIGN

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PISGAH LODGE PLANS
LARGEST INITIATION
AT STATLER, DEC. 14

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OUR OWN

To Commemorate 75th Anniver-
sary of Grand Master, Adolph
Kraus-600 to 800 New Mem-
hers Will Enter B'Nai Brith.

A Cry Across the Atlantic

By ISRAEL ZANGWILL

$548,000 Apportioned for Jewish Relief, United
Jewish Charities, Fresh Air Fund, Young
Women's and Young Men's Hebrew Associa-
tions—Rally at Temple Beth El Wednesday.

A mammoth "pep" meeting of four thousand volunteer workers,
which took place Friday night, Oct. 31, at the Elks' Temple, marked
the launching of the second annual campaign Of the Detroit Patriotic
Fund, which will open officially Monday, Nov. 3. Interspersed
through the enthusiastic assemblage were over five hundred Jewish
men and women who are giving freely of their time and their ener-
gies that the campaign may be brought to a successful conclusion.
Over 250 women will serve under the able chairmanship of Mrs.
David A. Ilrown, Captain of Women's Work of Division D, whose
task includes the personal solicitation of 1(1,000 persons. Julian H.
Krolik, major of District C of the campaign, has working with him
as many men of Jewish faith.. While the campaign is all-sectarian
and no group of Jewish men and women have been singled out to
work as a unit, it is gratifying to note the response Of the:Jewish
community to the appeal for workers.

What will uncloubtedly prove the
Laden with babes and bundles,
most notable communal event in the Jews of the great Republic,
Footsore on every road,
annals of Detroit Jewry will take the
Clasped to her mother-breast,
Their weary remnants wander,
form of a record-breaking class initia- Nestling so warm and peaceful
With bayonets for goad.
tion of Pisgah Lodge No. 34, Inde-
Within that bosom blest,
They cry: Shmaa Yisroel
pendent Order of B'nai Brith, at the
Turn to our tortured Europe,
of the local drives; and the crowded
In tragic monotone,
"A Million a Day" Slogan.
Statler lintel, Sunday, December 14.
Hark to the myriad moan
mass meetings •held at the Arcadia
And if ye, Israel, hear not,
"A million a day for five days," was
The day has been dedicated to Of pinched lips, white with hunger,
auditorium ' are historic demonstra-
By whom shall ruth he shown?
adopted as a slogan of the teams.
Adolph Kraus, of Chicago, Hi, Grand
That stiffen as they groan,
God
saves
us
is
tions of the power and influence of
For the strength whereby
The amount to be raised this year is
blaster of the 1. 0. and will be And remember in these wan creatures
Detroit's Jewtsh citizenry.
the strength that is our own.
$5,250,000. Of this the following al-
called the Kraus Class Initiation in
runs the blood that is your owa.
Great Response to Appeal for
lowances have been approved by the
commemoration of the Grand blas-
Alas! for the wizened infants,
' Workers.
Patriotic Fund directors for distinctly
ter's seventy-fifth birthday anniver-
Sucking at stone-dry breasts,
Their sires and yours together
When the Jewish Relief Drive was
Jewish purposes:.
sary, which will be celebrated simul-
Bore ceaseless years of scorn;
Alas! for the babies writhing •
$350,000
Fund
incorporated
'in the Patriotic Fund
Jewish
Relief
taneously in every 13'imi Brith lodge
With quenchless faith in marshfires
In the grip of plagues and pests.
Neu, Temple Delayed.
70,00 Drive of 1918, none of this spirit was
United Jewish Charities
in the country.
They are fever-stricken and famished,
They followed alter morn.
8,062
Jewish Fresh Air Society....
lacking. The Jewish men and women
It, is expected that between six and
The building Of the new Temple at
They are rotten of skin and hone,
They built their house on quicksand,
45,000 who had contributed their energies
New Fresh Air Camp
Gladstone and Woodward, postponed eight hundred men will be sworn into
Or the red volcano's cone,
Yet their mothers must die and leave Y. W. II. A. and Y. M. H. A 75,000
the
order.
The
new
class,
added
to
to the success of the exclusive Jewish
during the war, has been delayed be-
them
And every age beheld it
The appropriation for the Jewish drives plunged into the humanitarian
cause of the unusual high cost of labor the present membership. will make
To suffer and starve alone.
Engulfed or overthrown,
Relief
Fund
for
Sufferers
in
the
War,
movement of 1918 side by side with
Pisgah
Lodge
the
largest
single
Irnai
and material and because of 'the doubts
For never in all the ages did a home re- And any one of these children might be for the United Jewish Charities and
expressed as to whether the acquired Brit!' organization in the country.
your very own.
main
their
own.
proportionately
are
Fresh
Air
Society
The committee on arrangements.
site is large enough to nieet the in-
Jacob H. Schiff's Message to
the same as last year. The new al-
under the chairmanship of hirer S.
Barefoot, ragged and staring
creased demands.
Detroit Jews.
lowances are those of the additional
Fink, are arranging a day's program By devastated dwellings,
Like
walkers
in
their
sleep,
"Your Board devoted the year just that promises to surpass anything
By desecrated lanes,
Fresh Air Camp, and for the Y. Nf.
Feeding
on
bark
or
sawdust,
closing particularly to the study of the ever given by the lodge in Detroit.
fly hearth-stones, cold and crimsoned,
H. A. and Y. W. H. A. An appro-
"They bear on high their Torah
The doomed processions creep;
And slaughter reeking lanes,
question of building the new Temple,"
Like a flag to heaven flown,
Invitations have been sent to Hon.
priation of $75,000 for handirtto to
Crawling through marsh or snowdrift
stated Mr. Ginsburg in his report. "The Abram I. Elkus, Jacob Schiff, lion. Ruin is the Hebrew quarter
house the activities of a Young Men's
They prove how great their spirit,
Or forest overgrown,
Through half of Europe known;
very unusual cost of labor and material Henry Morgenthati, Rabbi Nathan
and Young ‘Vonten's Hebrew Asso-
Let an prove how great our own!"
their
Torah
hi
gh
Th ey bear on
has compelled us to take the matter Krass and other national Jewish fig- And crouching in the shambles,
ciation will renew the hope,. long in
Thus Israel Zangwilll Thus in
Like a tiag to heaven flown;
Rachel, the ancient crone,
rather slowly and give the question very ores.
the words of our own great Jewish
spirit, let us the hearts of Detroit Jewry, of having
eat
the They prose how
Weeps
again
for
her
children
and
full thought, and we finally decided, on
suitable quarters for young Jewish
Poet, let me appeal to my brethren
Its addition to the initiation cere-
theiown.
grat ou
r
p rov e how gre
fate that is her own.
the advice of our colleague and archi- monies', an elaborate entertainment
men and women of the community.
of Detroit who are my fellow-citi-
tect, Mr. Albert Kahn, to postpone the for .the ladies, a receptiou, a banquet
While approximately $548,000 of the
zens under the Stars and Stripes,who
At last but a naked rabble,
No
laughter
rings
in
these
ruins
fund
will
be
set
aside
for
exclusively
finishing of our plans until a later period and a dance are some of the out-
under its protection are enjoying
Clawing the dust for bread,
Save of girls to madness shamed,
Jewish purposes to be apportioned
when conditions are more favorable.
standing features of the day's pro-
blessing. beyond measure—freedom
Jabbering, wailing, whining,
Their mothers disemboweled
among the various Jewish charities
to live their own lives—to worship
"The delay has been rather fortunate. gram.
Hordes
of
the
living
dead,
Lie
stark
'mid
children
maimed.
and
organizations
of
the
city
and
the
Assisting Mr. Fink on the commit-
their Creator according to their own
We have come to appreciate that we
Half apes, half ghosts, they grovel,
has a great congregation
The
Shool
Foreign
Relief
Funds,
the
week
of
tee
are
Joseph
J.
Cummins,
'Milton
NI.
desires—let me appeal to these, as
must build for the future. The plans
Nor human is their tone,
But never a psalm they drone,
November 3 will be the only one dur-
their campaign approaches, to open
as originally contemplated for housing Alexander, Simon I). Rosenzweig. Shrouded in red-striped Tallisim,
'Yet they are not brutes but brethren,
ing
the
year
in
which
Detroit
Jewry
Charles
Rosenthal.
Nathan
Robinson.
wide their hearts and their purse to
These wrecks of the hunger-zone,
1800 to 1,9(X) is sufficiently adequate to
Levi huddles with Kohn;
help to bring succor to those whose
take care of only our today's demand, Loon Goldsmith and Henry 1). Nlarks. But the blood from their bodies oortng And their death-cry rings to heaven in will be approached for funds.
At a regular meeting of the lodge,
very fate in all its terror they have
the tongue that is your own.
and would not be sufficient for the fu-
Terrible Plight of European Jews.
is the blood that is your own.
held
onday
night
at
the
club
rooms,
escaped by the mercy of God!
ture. The ideas now in the minds of
It might be well for the Jewish
Have you done your duty in this
Jews
of
the
great
Republic
the members of the Board to get either, 25 Broadway, a campaign was launch-
Shot, some six to a bullet,
community to bring vividly to mind
respect in its entirety—can you ap-
Who gave your sons to death,
a larger space or additional land is one ed to raise $10,000, Pisgah's quota to
Lashed and trailed in the dust,
this week the, plight of their brethren
the
$1,000,000
fund
to
he
raised
by
pear
before your God as the blast of
That
l'eace
he
born
in
Europe
that should meet with the support of the
full countries of Europe.
in the
the order for Jewish war sufferers. Mutilated with hatchets
And Justice draw new breath,
the Shofar call. you and answer,
congregation. Within a few days in-
In superbestial lust—
So
full
has
the
preis
been
of
late
The
money
will
be
distributed
in
the
Will ye still endure to witness
"Hineinih"? Here I ■ m—my all I
formation regarding the matter will be
No beast can even imagine
with sordid tales' of suffering—of star-
As of yore your kindred thrown
shall not deny it to my brethren and
presented to the Board in concrete and form of loans to the impoverished
What some men do or condone—
vation, of disease, of hopeless pover-
Jews of the devastated countries of
To races whose souls are savage,
am ready to offer it a sacrifice to
definite form."
ty, of heart-rending distress, that the
Europe. Within five minutes $895 of Sorely these bear our burden
To tribes whose hearts are stone,
help to assuage the suffering, the
And for our sins atone,
reader becomes calloused. One scans
the prescribed quota was raised at the
is
Compared
with
the
love
and
mercy
that
Rabbis Lauded.
misery of those who, of my own
And if we hide our lac.... then the guilt
the headlines of the sordid tales hur-
meeting Monday night. Members are
for ages have warmed our own?
flesh and blood, are being plundered,
as
our
own.
riedly and turns to happier things.
Mr. Ginsburg's message voiced a deep urged to contribute to the fund. •
tortured, and murdered for no other
But the facts remain and cannot be
sense of gratitude to the inestimable
cause than that they are Jews!
Set your lips to the Shofar,
denied. Men who have been over
services of Rabbi Franklin who, during
You wish to have your own pray-
Waken a fiery blast,
there have returned with gruesome
the past year. was honored, by the elec-
ers on these our holy days heard on
Shill to the heathen nations—
stories of the plight of towns being
tion to the Presidency of the Central
This slaughter shall he the last!
High,
hear you first the cry that
wiped out, of typhus raging, of fam-
Conference of American Rabbis. The
And send our old Peace-greeting
comes to'you from across the we.
ine, of the ruthless slaying of men
valuable assistance of Rabbi Maverberg,
Pealing from cot to throne,
ter. and heed it!
and women and little children.
and the co-operation of the V;;otnan's
Till mankind heeds the message •
—JACOB H. SCHIFF.
Auxiliary, the Sabbath School Board,
Friends of Captain Isadore Levin,
On the Hebrew trumpet blown,
the Young People's Society, and all Zionists and non-Zionists, Jews and
And the faith of the whole world's peo-
Mass Meeting Wednesday at
heir'non-Jewish co-workers and aid
other affiliated organizations of the non-Jews, will unite to do hint honor
ples is the faith that is our own.
Temple Beth EL
ed in the• raising of over $10,000,000
Teniole were touched upon in Mr. Gins- at a public reception to be held on
That
they will repeat this achieve
Sunday, November 9th. at 8:30 p.
burg's as in subsequent reports.
Every Jewish man and woman in
meat in the present campaign is indi
The splendid •anntial report read by at the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue.
Detroit
and
the
general
public
is
in-
cated
by the splendid response to the
Dr. Franklin outlined a 'constructive The meeting will assume the nature
appeal for workers made by Julia!'
vited to attend the Mass Meeting on
ear. The of a public testimonial in recognition
program for the COIllif) ' y
Krolik, vice-president of the United
behalf of the Detroit Patriotic Fund
numerical growth of,;the congregation of the great service rendered by
the Jews of America: After five years of blind groping
Jewish Charities, one of the, chic
to be held at the Temple Beth El on
which has continued without abatement Captain Levin to the furtherance of
beneficiaries of the l'atriotic Fund.
its
the
voices
of
our
breth-
Wednesday evening, November 5th,
came
to
Zionismthe
solution
of
the
Jewish
into the mist out of which
has brought with-ltrqtiestions of serious
That the Detroit Jewish corhmun
at 8:15 P. M.
import that Raben Franklin touched problem in Eastern Europe, and his
ren its all the war torn lands pleading fur help from ajnerica,
ity will again "gh:e tmore the its
The address of the evenng will be
npon. The construction of a new House military ctifdribution torhis country
there ComeS now definite news of their sad state fro which
share" and "give until it hurts," is a
delivered by one of the prominent
of Worship to accommodate several duringethe scar. •
safe prediction. The, call has gone
we can learn of the task that is before us. What we, the Jews
visiting rabbis attending the con-
Fred NI. Butzel will preside at the
hundred more than the purchased site
out froin the, Joint DiMributiort Com-
ference
of
Americas
Rekbis.
meeting, °ruin Levin will relate
of America, have done during the last five years has been
could provide, the establishment of
mittee 'to' the Jews of America that
A musical - program.. of unusual
branch Sabbath Schools in different his experiences abroad, afld an ad-
summed up into I me sentence by a rabbi who said to one of
$35.000,000 is needed to alleviate the
merit will .1se'filvnished by the Hud-
dress will be delivered by Rabbi A
parts of the Oty, the continuation of
the
Jews
of
America
that
they'
sufferings of our brethren in the war-
our delegates in Europe, "fell
son orchestfe and quartet arranged
the Supplementary Service( on extended NI. Hershman. A musical entertain-
teiritories of Europe. Cam-
under the "auspices of the Young
are running arose with the angel of death; if they send money
lines, the issuance of a scientifically pre- ment of merit will be furnished by
paigns have already been concluded in
Peoples
Society.
the Detroit Young Juclaeans who
enough they win ; if they fail us the cenietery wins." Nothing
pared questiOnnaire dealing with every
many
cities
of the country. Reports
special choir for the
AdmissiOn it free to all, and there
inure graphic of what we have done and what we still have to
phase of congregational activity to every have developed a
show that every quota has been over-
will be no solicitation of fund., A
occasion. The members of Hadassah
member, the launching of a Men's Tem-
subscribed.
do can be said. We have saved hundreds of thousands of
record-breaking attendance being
will assume charge of the serving of
ple Club which will serve to deepen the
assured, all are urged to beroatilund
lives. Speaking for you all, may I not say to them when I
Money Will Be Spent for Recon-
refreshments in the gymnasium of the
bond of interest between fellow mem- congregation. The public is invited
struction.
early.
meet their 'representatives abroad, "We will not fail you now.
bers and serve to enhance their inter-
to attend
It is refreshing to note that much
We shall again pledge ourselves before our holy altars to
est in congregational matters, are
Capt. Levin is the son of Rabbi
fl
Phis
'great
sum of money will he
Too
nib&
emphasis
cannot
be
laid
•
ill the progressive program which
deserve the blessings that the Almighty has showered upon
waded
Judah L. Levin, of this city. He re-1
on the fact that this great Patriotic spent in' the rehabilitation of the
will serve to solve the problems con- ceived his commission as lieutenant
us in this favored land of ours. We Shall do' all that is
Relief
homes
and
industries
of our people.
War
Fund drive iS the Jewish
fronted by the congregation.
at Fort Sherklan at the beginning of
humanly possible to re-establish Israel everywhere so that it
Drive for 1919-20. Every Jew with The Jewish Relief Fund of 1919 is a
e was sent over-
the
war
in
1917.
H
constructive
fund.
It
will
be used to
any feeling for his own people will
may lead a fuller, more secure and more contented life, to
Co - operation Needed.
seas and was promoted to a cap-
recall with pride and satisfaction the help the suffering people to help
the
heritage
of
mercy,
transmit
to
generations
yet
unborn
taincy
for
proficiency
as
instructor
in
approaching
the
Above all, Dr. Franklin emphasized
•
wonderful contribution made by the themselves. We are
truth and love for all mankind that was bequeathed by our
the necessity of maintaining a com- the School of Artillery. At the close
Detroit Jewish community in the re- day when the people of Europe will
of hostilities he was appointed ad-
markable Jewish War Relief cam- no longer need our help, when they
ancestors to us." Mav the prayers of a united Israel be heard
munal esprit de corps.
they
paigns of 1915, 1916 and 1917, when will begin to demonstrate to us. that
"No minister, however loyal he may visor to the Zionist delegation to
On high and may the Almighty in His infinite goodness
Peace Conference, in which capacity
the quota set for Detroit was com- it was only a catastrophe beyond hu-
be to the cause he sponsors or however
vouchsafe unto us and unto all Israel His, priceless blessing
he contributed greatly to the preparam'
pletely swamped by the total contri- man control that had compelled them
ambitious for the service and advance-
ton of the Palestine mandate. He
butions.
The stirring scenes enacted to seek outside assistance. This hope
ment of his congregation and commun-
of peace.
was also a member of the Jewish
at the daily meetings at the Board of is indicated in a Paris report stating
ity, can achieve results alone," declared
Commission to the Holy Land. The
Commerce under the guidance of that Felix Warburg, who has been
Rabbi Franklin. "Whatever Congrega-
in the committee in charge of the meeting
David A. Brown, who made . for him-
(Continued On Pass soma.)
Chairman Joint Distribution Committee.
tion Beth El may have achieved
consists of 1. L. Scheinman, Fred H.
self a national reputation as director
immediate or remote past, is due to that Butzeb Nate Robinson, J. Davison,
splendid spirit of co-operation between
and S. Berger.
'(Continued On Page Sir)

CAPT. LEVIN TO BE
PUBLICLY HONORED
ON SUNDAY, NOV. 9th
•
.

An Appeal

To

FELIX M. WARBURG,

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Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents