THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
RABBI WISE OPENS
LECTURE COURSE
OF B'NAI BRITH
Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1919.
VOL. VI . NO. 23.
TAFT EXPRESSES
INDIGNATION OVER
JEWISH POGROMS
DETROIT JEWRY
RESPONDS NOBLY
TO FUND APPEAL
E.recuthT Committee of Central Conference of American Rabbis
New York—In reply to a request
from Louis Friedman, a merchant of
Broadway. fur his opinion on the mas-
ilacres of Jews "in the nations, newly
— —
created by the grace of the Peace
Famous Pulpit Orator to Give • reaty,' former President Taft has
Address on "Peace Conference" written the following letter, received
at Elks' Temple Thursday yesterday:
"New I haven, Conn., Oct. 21, 1919.
Evening.
My Dear Sir: I have your letter of
-- —
Oct. I. I share with you deep, indigna-
PISGAH LODGE OFFERS
thin at the abuse to which the Jews
COURSE FREE TO PEOPLE have been subjected in Central Europe.
. and especially in Rumania, Poland and
Four More Brilliant Addresses to elsewhere. With the League of Nations,
however, and through the provisions
Be Presented During Season— made in the L eague of Nations for an-
Part of Communal Program of ciliary treatie : . on the subject, l believe
conditions are going to be improved, but
B'nai Brith.
it will be a long, hard struggle to give
--
Through the generosity of the in- the league of Nations the prestige that
dividual members of Pisgah Lodge, it should have in order that it may pro-
Independent Order of With, test these much abused people. Sin-
Detroiters will have the rare 1,6%1- cerely c OLIN,
WILLIAM IL TAFT."
Inge of hearing Dr. Stephen S. Wise, I
the famous Rabbi of the Free Syna-
Early Returns of Individual Con-
tributions Indicate Better Pro-
portionate Showing Than Last
Year's Drive.
CAMPAIGN EXTENDED
TO NOVEMBER 11TH
Fund Leader Lauds Efforts of
Jewish Workers; Rally at Tem-
ple Beth El Wednesday Night
Spurs Campaigners.
Lacking the inspiration furnished
by the war, Detroit is subscribing
slowly but effectively to the l'atriotic
Fund in its 1919 drive for $5,250,000.
The campaign, which was to have
closed November 8, has been extend-
ed three days to provide ample oppor-
America"'
f""n"st
gug" and
orators
of one
New of York,
on Thursday
tunity for Detroit to give to the cause
evening, November 13th. at the Elk's I
of humanity. Final results will be an-
Temple. The subject of Dr. Wise's I
nounced at a monster mass meeting
address will he "Personal Impressions
to be held at Arena Gardens, Tues-
of the Peace Conference,"
Hansa Bund of Hamburg Wants
day, November 11, at 8 p. to. Mean-
The address of Rabbi Wise is the
while Jew and Gentile alike are being
Public to Cease Reading
first of a series of five lectures by
reminded not only of the starvation
Jewish Newspapers.
fatuous men to be given under the
and suffering existent in the war-torn
—
auspices of Pisgah Lodge during the
Reading front Left to Right. Upper: Rabbi Louts Welsey, Cleveland, 0.; Rabbi Henry Englander, Cincinnati, 0.; countries of Europe, but also of the
Berlin—The Hansa Bund of Ham-
season. The lecture course. arranged
Rabbi George Solomon, Savannah, Ga.; Rabbi Samuel Hirshberg, Milwankes., Wis.; Rabbi Isaac E. Marcuson, city's charitable institutions which
under the directorship of Rabbi Sam- burg, a mercantile association of the
stand badly in need of financial support
Macon, Ga.; Rabbi Felix A. Levy, Chicago,
tiel S. Mayerlierg, Chairman of the In- 14reat po, r has requested the publishers
Lower: Rabbi Max C. Currick, Erie, Pa.; Rabbi Marcus Salzman, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, if they are to continue to administer
tellectual Advancement Committee of of the G GermanOfficers' Gazette to pub-
to the poor and unfortunate.
the !Vital Brith, represents one phase lish a demand upon the public not to Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, Philadelphia, Pa.
Praise Jewish Co-operation.
of the activities of the Order seer read Jewish newspapers. The demand
purpose to be of communal service mentions as some of the more promin-
Abner E. Larned, in an address be-
not only to its membership but to the . ent German papers owned by Jews the
fore the district chairmen and team
' Berlin Tageblatt, the Ullstein papers,
captains, representing more than 4,-
citizenry of Detroit as well.
Vossische Zeitung, Berliner Zeitung Am
000 field workers, lauded the help ren-
Noted Orators in Course.
Mittag, Morgenpost, and the National
dered by the Jews of Detroit. Many
Other addresses in the course will Zeitting.
people, Ile said, had at first refused to
he delivered by Hon. Abram I. Elkus,' This is the latest, and most direct
contribute to the fund, from a mis-
November 30th; Rabbi Nathan Kraus, move in the anti-Semitic campaign that
taken idea that the budget called for
December 9th; Rabbi Leon Harrison, is growing in Germany. It is another
500 Men to Be Initiated in Rec- a stun to be used for the Christianiz-
January 6th; and Rabbi Abby Hilel result of the revolution, which in re-
ing of the Jews. Ile called to the at-
ord
-
Breaking
Class
—
Banquet
Silver, February 2nd. The expense moving the old censorship removed with
tention of his hearers "the splendid
of the course will be borne by mem- it every vestige of control over every- Influential Rabbinical Body Requests Aid of Christian
and Dance to Feature in Pro- co-operation of the Jewish workers
b•rs of Pisgah Lodge through the thing.
and the number and amount of per-
Churches
in
Ending
Social
Discrimination
Against
Jews
and
gram.
The Pan-German papers, of course,
sonal checks sent the Patriotic Fund
purchase of course tickets. The pub-
to Cease Missionizing Activities to Christianize Jews—Four-
tic is invited to attend the lectures are behind the anti-Semitic campaign,
by wealthy individuals and heads of
free of charge. becoming bolder and bolder week by
teen Leading Rabbis of Country Attended Meeting in Plans for the "Adolph Kraus" class Detroit business enterprises."
Rabbi Wise has made several visits week until some virtually plead for
initiation to be held by Pisgah Lodge,
John R. Mott, international secre-
Detroit This Week.
No. 34, Independent Order of B'nai tary of the Y. M. C. A., told in detail
to Detroit, but his appearance at this Pogroms while others content them-
time is unusually interesting, owing selves with earnest hopes that all the
Brith at the Statler Hotel, Sunday, of his experiences abroad. Unless
to the widespread prominence given ..lews will leave Germany and go to Pal-
December 14, are rapidly taking form America came to the fore in measures
estine--or anywhere else in the world CONFERENCE WILL DRAFT RULES FOR
and will result, according to reports
l° his recent pulpit utterances on th e
The
pub-'than
Germany.
DISTRIBUTION,OF
SACRAMENTAL
WINES
of committee leaders, in the largest
Labor situation in America.
CONTRIBUTOR'S LIST.
Agitation Begins in Bavaria.
and most notable communal event in
licity given to. his attack on "Gary-
Detroit Jewish history.
ism," the severe criticism against his
The
T agitation began in Bavaria short- Send Spirited Protest to Erection of Sargent's Sensational
Owing to the Fact that the Patri-
attitude by powerful members of his ly after the armistice and the revolution.
Dedicated to Kraus.
Painting "The Synagogue" in Boston Public Library—Will
otic Fund Drive is still in progress
congregation, his offer to resign his It was at first inspired by opponents of
The
class
of
approximately
500
that
at
time of going to press with this
pulpit, the vindication of his right to Kurt Eisner and the other Jews who
Make National Survey of Jewish Conditions in Country— it is confidently expected will be issue,
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle
speak freely by the Board of Trus-
tuted a part of the Government
tees of the Free synagogue, have hor , constituted
To
Revise
Manual
of
Prayers—Next
Convention
in
sworn
in
at
this
record-breaking
init-
withholds
publication of the list of
of the first republic in Bavaria. It was
individual
contributions to the Fund
iation
will
make
Pisgah
Lodge
the
tiered on the sensational.
furthered chiefly by the officer caste,
Rochester, N .Y.
largest community Brith organ-
until ■ complete and official list can
which found thousands of sympathizers
Dr. Wise at Peace Conference.
be
obtained
through the officers of
ization
in
the
country.
The
day
has
among the real Bavarians who joined
On Tuesday and \Vethiesday, No- for wh'.clt unfortunately some of them been named "Adolph Kraus Day" in
the Detroit Patriotic Fund. A com-
Dr. \Vise was one of the most pow- me movement . in dislike, if not hatred.
vemher 4 and 5, Detroit had the priv- now turn to the books of Christian conunemoration of that venerable
plete list of the larger donations
erful Jewish figures at the Peace Con- of the foreign element that had Invaded
new Grand Master's seventy-fifth birthday
will be published in the next issue of
ference where he represented the Bavaria during the war. Thence it liege of entertaining a number of the Science and other so-called
anniversary.
which
will
be
celebrated
spread
with
ever
increasing
rapidity,
and
leaders
of
Jewish
thought
in
America,
cults.
the Chronicle.
American Jewish Congress, and the
Prayer Books Exhausted.
simultaneously in every B'nai Brith
Zionist Organization. He took a heath- blazed out in Northern Germany, where the occasion being the annual meet-
lodge
in
the
country
with
similar
cere-
The Publications C o In in i t tee,
ing part in the preparation of .the it had always existed but had been snore Mg of the Executive Committee of
of relief, he said, more Eves would
treaties giving equal rights to the or less dormant because of government- the Central Conference of Amencan through Rabbi Isaac E. Nlarcuson, of mollies.
be lost during the coming winter
through starvation and poverty than
Jewish citizens of the nations of East- al restrictions. it has achieved greater Rabbis, of which organization Rabbi Macon, Ga., reported that new edi-
Glee Club's Debut.
tions of the Union Prayer Book re-
were sacrificed in any single year of
ern Europe, and helped formulate the; headway because some members of the Leo M. Franklin is president.
What
will
undoubtedly
prove
one
The
Central
Conference
of
Ameri-
cently
published,
have
already.
been
mandate for the government of Pal- present Government are Jews. Minister
war.
of the most interesting features of an the The
results of the first day's solic-
estine. His personal impressions of of Defense Noske recently took steps to can Rabbis is the largest and most exhausted and that reprints of the re- excellently arranged program will be
the Peace Conference will undoubted- prevent a threatened pogrom which influential rabbinical body in the vised edition of the book are now be- the initial appearance of Pisgah Lodge itation, netting the sum of $1,054,-
world. At the sessions of this notable ing made. The stock on hand with
evoked
a
letter
front
a
Pan-German
428.23
or one•tifth the amount asked,
ly he of historic importance.
Glee Club which, organized several
The name of Rabbi Stephens \Vise who complimented him on his attitude national gathering held at Temple the sales-agent, according to the re- months ago by I. Leonard Braun. has heightened the expectations of the
Beth
El,
many
very
important
prob-
port. is many thousands of copies be-
Patriotic Fund workers. It seemed
is familiar alike to the Jews and Gen- toward pogroms.
Officers of troops in the east repeat- lems affecting Jews and Judaism not hind the present demand. The been rehearsing zealously for the oc- assured that the "five million in five
tiles of America. It was shortly after
only in this country, but throughout Prayer Book is the principal source of casion at the home of H. D. Marks. days" slogan was to become a reality.
edly
are
accused
of
deliberately
further-
.
the death of the famous Rabbi Gott-
world were discussed.
revenue of the Conference for the An interesting tale is woven about But succeeding days showed the ne-
beil, and while he was still in charge ing oppression of their Jewish soldiers. the
• The following were in attendance carrying
on of its various educational "Su Shorim Roshechem" lOpen the cessity for continued effort. The first
of the Congregation Beth Israel of All in all, the life of the Hebrew is one
Gates, Ye Leaders) the first song day's total, fund leaders said, was the
in Germany. at the meetings at which Rabbi
Portland, Ore., that Rabbi Wise came of the most uncomortable
presided:
Rabbis
Edward
N.
and
philanthropic
activities. How-
anti-Semitic
Franklin
Berlin is flooded with
E. ever, it is the hope of the Committee which will he rendered by the choral result of weeks of pre-campaign ac-
first to the notice of the public. Re-
Isaac
that snout- great philanthropist will society as the candidates march into tivity. The standard set could not be
fusing the position of chief rabbi of literature. he west end of the city is the Calisch, Richmond, Va.;
the hall. Myer S. Fink suggested the
Macon, Ga.; Felix A. Levy,
Temple Enunanu-E1 of New York particular stamping ground of those , Nlarcuson,
Chicago
III.•
Henry
Berkowitz,
Phil-
make
possible a subvention
fund for ,vords taken from the legend of King maintained.
the publications
of the Conference.
City, because he refused to be dom- who distribute it. The antagonism to hdelphia, l'a.; Max C. Curck,
Drive Will Be a Success.
Solomon who seeking admittance to
n
Erie,
inated by the Board of Trustees. Rab- Jews extends to almost every class m Pa.; Henry Englander, Cincinnati, 0.; so that they may shortly be put in the Holy Temple cried out, "Open the
Gordon A. Damon, active publicity
the
German
population.
Magazines,
the
hands
of
the
people
at
a
nominal
bi Wise came to New York where he
Gates to the King of Glory." "And head of the organization, declared
Louis Grossman, Cincinnati,
founded the Free Synagogue, stand- weeklies, and monthlies devote col- Samuel Hirshberg, Milwaukee, Wis.; cost, as is the case with the Singer \\'m is the King of Glory?" the High however, that Detroit had unalterably
Prayer Book of England and with
ing for progressive Judaism and free- umns to the subject.
I'riest questioned. And King Solo- shown itself in favor of federated giv-
Clifton H. Levy, New York City,
David Lefkowitz. Dayton, 0.; Mar- many Publications of the Christian mon realizing his mistake, answered ing, and that the slump was in part
dom of speech and thought.
Mother of Israel Zangwill
Church.
His Stand on Labor.
in the fulness of his wisdom! "The due to the fact that thousands of
Mrs. Moses Zangwill, the mother of cus Salzman, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Geo.
Sacramental Wines.
Lord!" The words, said Mr. Fink, ty- workers, busy canvassing the city's
It was Rabbi Wise
who, by
in 1914,
Solomon, Savannah, Ga.; Louis Wol-
dment
theIsrael Zangwill, passed away
n
Cleveland
0.
•
It was called to the attention of Oily the snirit of the candidates who plants and factories had been unable
advoted
ca
orse American Rab- London after a prolonged illness. She
Excuses for non-attendance were the meeting that considerable abuse bid entrance to the Order not be- to be present at the noonday meet-
was a native of Russia, but lived most
Centra l C the ice of
received from Vice-President Rabbi is likely to arise from the authority cause their worldly attainments en- ings, and their reports withheld. That
of her the in England.
(Continued On Page Seven.)
Edward N. Calisch, of Richmond, \'a., in Rabbis to authorize the title them to membership, but rather the drive was going to result satis-
and from Rabbi Abram Simon, °of purchase of wine for religious pur- in the name of the "King of Glory" factorily was, he said, readily conced-
Famous Rabbi Who Speaks Here Next Thursday
Washington. D. C., both of whom poses.
Commissioner Daniel C. do they seek admission, bringing ed by all associated with the organ-
were detained because of funerals in Roper. of the Interior Revenue De- their offerings of service and of sac- ization.
their respective communities.
partment has asked the Conference rifice.
for guidance in the matter of regula-
Official Ode Song,
Reports Read.
Preliminary reports of a number of ting the distribution of wine for so-
The official Ode contained in the
Conference committees were present- called sacramental purposes to Jews. ritual has also been set to music and
ed, all of them indicating that the , A committee consisting of Rabbis will be sung in the course of the
men are earnestly at work in helping woisey, Currick a it d Grossman
nonflutchei(st:
g s isc a
to 1 be intr o duced,
'i
as they may in the solution of the , drafted the following rules in regard is
lewr sno
' v't' infiltilgte. o lib
problems confronting American Israel !to this which were unanimously
I adopted and forwarded to Commis. ' have been composed by Mr. Braun
in these crucial times.
and dedicated to the Order. Soloists
sioner Ruttier:
.
be . David
I
trat Con for
. will
,
,
Survey Made.
_
... the initiation
Board of ..•en
,
To
ExecutivAmer
Re.
of
urvey
NI arymont, Dr. Hilliard W. Goldsti .ck
Th e c omm itt ee out s
ican Rabbis:
' Terence
of
i„.
and
I.
L.
Braun.
The
other
members
s
t
e
Chair-
,
ligious Conditions, under th
with
1. 0111' Committee charge', 1 w.
the chorus are Dr. Henry J Good-
=fl ou t, o f R a bbi L ou i s w o t s „,, on'
I ,. the
Cleveland, o., reported that it is task of reporting upon the use of sac- man,
'n old, Aaroi 'Silber-
n i an Morris
slics to call the at -
,
nick
, ...
Hanford
eling
_0,
, Wilfre t i Gold-
_ , . n L
an
earnestly at wt3rk upon an extensive r"'""Ital winc• u
and Maurice
•
survey and an intensive study of the .tention of
the confronts
Board to us
the in serious
that
help- i 1 ,1,1.,; ,‘. L. Pi -(- I ell
difficulty that
•111)100111.
conditions of Jews of all shades of ing to formulate
regard- u
religious opinion in this country. It in the use of wine for Jewish relig- ' In addition to the musical program,
"Elsewhere," say those in charge of
is expected that the report of this "'us purposes under the law regula- an elaborate entertainment for ladies the drive, "there may lie relaxation,
he nest
committee when presented to the
;it ring the use of wine for medicinal and - miring the initiation, a reception pre- but in Detroit the people have learned
sacramental purposes, and to render ceding the banquet, and a dance are the greatest °Lail social truths, that
Conference will be epoch-making
it difficult for imposters to secure some of the salient features of the * 110 man liveth to himself alone.' De-
the history of American Israel.
troit has learned that one man's prob-
wine for illegal purposes. We realize day's doings.
Manual of Devotion.
J - oseph J. Cummins, Milton NI. lem is every man's problem, and that
Dr. Henry Berkowitz, of Philailel- that there exists the need for such
only through co-operative effort can
control
and
should
put
our
arganiza-
Alexander,
Simon
D.
Rosenzweig,
phia, chairman of the committee hay-
ing in charge the preparation of a , tion at the disposal of the Govern- :Charles Rosenthal, Nathan Robinson, the city be made a better place in
Leon Goldsmith and Henry D. Marks which to live. Today the need of
Manual of Daily Devotion for Jew s , meat.
reported that negotiations are untl:r- , We suggest that the Executive ' are assisting Mr. Fink on the Corn- money for overseas relief is pressing.
The starving and homeless of many
recommend to Commis- tnittee of Arrangements.
way With eminent and scholarly per- Committee
Invitations to the initiation have nations cry out for food, shelter and
sons in their preparation of this' sioner Roper as a practical and just'
manuscript. It is to be the purpose !method of assisting our Jewish breth- been sent to Abram I. Elkus, Jacob clothing. In Poland alone there are
of this book to supply to Jews and ! ren to carry out their religious prat- Schiff, Hon. Henry kforgenthau, Rah- 4,000,000 destitute people of whom 2,-
bi Nathan Kress and other notable
(Continued On Page Seven.)
Jewesses
thai strength and consola-
_ _
(Continued On Page Sig.)
! Jewish figures.
lion in their time of stress and sorrow I
STEPHEN S. WISE.
RABBI STEPHEN
ANTI-SEMITE CAMPAIGN
GROWING IN GERMANY
PISGAH GLEE CLUB TO
Executive Committee of
MAKE DEBUT AT CLASS
American Rabbis Discuss
INITIATION, DEC. 14
Jewish Problems Here
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