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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1919.

VOL. VI . NO. 26.

JEWS OF DETROIT
tilEET TO PROTEST

CLEVEAN
L D COMMUNITY
CHEST DRIVE NOW ON

.00,000 JEWS PARADE
IN NEW YORK PROTEST

JEWISH WOMAN'S CLUB HOME

JEWISH WOMAN'S
CLUB ACQUIRES
OWN BUILDING

N EW YORK.—Last Monday New
iork witnessed its greatest parade of
.ny one people, more than 100,000
,ewish men and women marching to
si ag•-old Hebrew dirge in protest
igainst alleged massacres of their
ironic in the Ukraine. Winding for Purchases Holden Residence at 45
aims from the Lower East Side to
' 'Rowena Street as Club Head,
.- arnegie hall in the heart of the city.
quarters and Home for Ern-,
hi cortege. continued uninterrupted
iron 1 p. In. until long after dark.
pyed
Jewish Girls.
lo
Nearly 23,000 soldiers, sailors and
1
marines, veterans of the war. led the
procession of Jewish fraternal, wel- PROPERTY REPRESENTS
Armenian and Syrian Relief activities.
fare, business and labor organiza-
EXPENDITURE OF $40,000
ter M New Nation.
Under the plan that has been agreed
--
— _
Mots. American and Zionist flags,
mmunity
h subsc riber to the Co
to
eac
draped with mourning and banners
5,500 JEWS MURDERED
es
a
mem
becom
a
Chest au tomtically
telling of the sacrifices of Jewry in Living Quarters for Thirty Girls
IN 8 DAYS IN ONE TOWN ber of the National Red Cross and
the world's conflicts for democracy
to Be Provided—Will Be Cen-
,_ one dollar of each subscription win
and humanity, were borne by the
ter of All Jewish Women's Ac-
Delegations
from
Phila-
Pass Resolutions Appealing t o lic set aside to pay the Red Cross
long line.
tivities—Nucleus for Y.W.H.A.
delphia, New Jersey and Connecticut
U. S. Government to Protect membership.
For the Federation of Jewish Char-
cities were included in the procession.
Defenseless People—Ask With- d, the sum of $288,125 is asked.
At Carnegie Ilall, the cortege was
The realization Of a dream of many
I his represents the needs of the Jew-
holding of Recognition.
dismissed, group by group. :\ mass
--
ish institutions and organizations
meeting last night concluded the days years, the culmination of noble and
unselfish effort and devotion of the
Twice within the past six months affiliated with the Federation for the
demonstration.
the coming torn
year. The with
budget needs
of
Gov. Smith, Senator aledill McCor- Jewish women of Detroit is summed
the Jews of America,
•
up in the announcement that the
knowledge of the murder and rapine the seventy-seven d organizations
and-
.,eve,ain,
,
mirk,
,
l..
, .,..e.fare
Woman's Club has acquired a
V a S It:kite:IT J
, the e .,
committed against their innocent at eo d %vi ;ta
ruf III 1>idiantutisa;nidkJuatc'oGb"1 I.
brethren, have met together in every Federation will be cared for with
were among the speakers at the meet- home for its splendid organization.
The
The building which will serve as the
city of the L'inte(1 States to openly
Mg.
headquarters for all the activities of
,,,, td .,,, the wholesalemassacreof$2.1 117,07.
the Club is located at 45 Rowena
rlier
Jews in foreign lands. The
eaught
street. It has been the home of
mass•meeting in NI ay, that bro
James II. Holden.
for the argest
cogreation Of anal
l
As soon as the necessary altera-
n
g
in
the
annals
gathere d together
dons are made and furnishings in-
etroits Jewish communal life,
Of D
stalled
the building will be opened as
ales ' of atrocities per-
was incited by tales
a clubhouse for Jewish' girls em-
petrated mum Jews in the countries
ployed in the city who have no home
of Poland. Roumania and Bessarabia.
affiliations here. It will have living
Now. newer tales more recent and
New York Rabbi Scores Organi- accommodations for about thirty
Meeting
at
Phoenix
Club
Sunday
err
more horrifying, (,f the ruthless
zation Founded by Dr. Felix girls and will be the communal cen-
Building located at 45 Rowena Street which will be the home of
WOIllell
Defines Plans to Canvass Jews
butchery of innocent men and women
ployed Jewish girls and serve as headquarters for activities of rewash
Adler as a "Synagogue With- ter for the hundreds of Jewish girls
and little children in the district of
to Fill Patriotic Fund Quota.
in Detroit who have long felt the need
southern Russia, known as the
out a God. "
in Detroit.
of a place where they can have the
Ukraine, come to rack the heart of
tn)portunity to become affiliated with
wor
all J ew ish activities in the city, and
SERMON INSPIRED BY
he great mass-m•eting, held at the
AMOUNTS OF LAST YEAR
where they may meet other Jewish
Arcadia Mionlay afternoon, was part
BOOK OF YOUNG JEW people, resident and non-resident. It
of a nation-wide movement. centering
is probable that the club house may
By Abraham Reisin.
,000 ad-
ill New York City, to awaken a gen-
capaign to
New York—For the first time in soon be the nucleus of a large young
100it to fill
ise
De$tro
eral and an active interest in the in-
ws
raof
the
Je
Tlw l by
Gershon felt strangely lonesome in 1:ilune, all alone, and was not even the history of American Judaism, a women's Hebrew association.
tolerable conditions endured by tin- ditiona
of tears.
The purchase of the Holden prop-
told thousands of European Jews. Up- the quota for the Detroit Patriotic
recognized leader of the reform move-
permittedll e consolation
large
1
the little town where ht la
thousand people Fund is on ill full swing. A
d, an
is a mint, Dr. Samuel Schulman, rabbi of
When a thhad departet
and
of nine
p
nd
from
which
lie
had
a
Wards
Arcadia to number of the most rominent
his childhood,
who Temple [loth-El, attacked the Ethi- erty was made possible by the re-
stormed the doors of the A
ens of Detroit liever been away for a day. He been left with a distant relative
e
t, and who cal Culture Society, of which Dr. Fe- lease
of $40,000
out of
funds
by
the Detroit
Patriotic
Fund
of held
money
attend the meeting of sorrow, murn- influential Jwish citiz
home, for Amer- was also waiting for a
W
eetings inet a t the Phoenix Club last Sunday yearned for is new
appropriated for Jewish Welfare War
him With her lix Adler is the founder.
s- was supposed to take ticke
aria and protest. Overflow m
1918.
tea,
to
which
his
father,
mother,
si
were hastily arranged at the Shaarey and volunteered their services as ac- tees, brothers, aunts and uncles had as soon as his eyes would be cured,
D. Schulman in "Our America," his purposes in the campaign of
sermon, termed the so-
Zedek synagogue and the Labor Ly• ties solicitors.
, Ch airman migrated, one by one, in pairs, or, then it was that Gershon's tears Thanksgiving
ciety, "a synagogue without a God." The appropriated monies are now be-
NIr. A d olplh Di Finst erwaldth e $10000
sometimes, in groups; one helping the choked him; yet he dared not cry. So,
ceinn. Speakers were hurried from
rec t or o f
e n era
forcing back his tears, he began to The sermon was inspired by a recent- ing devoted to peace time communal
place to place to address the waiting and
G
campaign, wasted no time on formal other out to buy steamer tickets.
ly published book, with the same title
berate America.
A Spacious Structure.
He stated that in-
He alone had been left behind.
throngs.
speech-making.
"A mean country! A heartless as the sermon, and written by Waldo purposes.
asmuch
as
the
necessity
of
raising
And
this,
not
because
lie
was
cis-
The new Jewish Woman's
325 Pogroms in Ukraine.
liked or because his name was not country! What business is it of theirs Frank.
Cluobf
moviz, chairman this money was apparent to all, only
It is a refreshing revelation to see
t
mentioned in the ticket which bad if I have sore eyes? Does it hurt
Henry it. Abra
and is stone,
occupying
a lot 45
the young American Jew," the rabbi brick
building
a three
story house
t Confer- consideration in the minds of all pub-
Protes
been
sent
for
the
entire
household.
them
any?
I
have
the
pains,
not
how
lic spirited Jewish citizens Was
the real feet wide by 150 feet long. It is con-
end.
of
the "U ited J
the Ethical
skin of Culture
significance
of the
said,
"get under
.•ie they."
Against the Ukrainian Massa-
sed.
The ticket included him also, and .
But soon he would retract this.
movement, and what it meant for the veniently located within walking cis-
errs," tinder whose auspices the gatli- soon the money
be raiPatriotic
as Sae
D
et
of
t
could
was
as
dear
to
his
parents
The officesh eroi t
"It's a lie. My eyes don't hurt. I Jew. He hesitates not to call it a lance of the downtown districts. The
sling was arranged, opened the meet-
lot allow
children. Still,
Still, he did not leave
ing with a recital of the pogrom's toll Fund, having placed all records of other
I call spacious proportions of the addition
with the others. Those who had sent can see the tiniest words in the
for the erection of a suitable
form o f 'degenerat e J tulaistn.'
of life in the European countries. An subscriptions to the Fund last year in
the
ticket
had
warned
the
family
a
sidur."
authentic report III Isaac time Levine, the hands of t he committee, all cards
And a sudden desire would seize it a synagogue without a God.
of
l, liv-
"Ile collies to close quarters with in the near future. The first floor
tittles that if any one
war correspondent, published in the bearing Jewish names were separated thousand
them had sore eyes he should not him to raise himself over the roof- ler proceeded to 'evolve an adulterate consists of a large room,
reception
hall, and
kitchen
and cassilied. The record of Jewish
a
ethical culture when he says that Ad- ing room, dining
-
dream
of
starting
out
for
America.
tops
and
tly
all
the
way
to
America
Chicago Daily News. gives the num contributions for 1918 and 1919 were
ber of murdered ill appalling num- compared, and where it was found "In America," they wrote. "eyes are and show them his eyes, and how well religion.' He avoided the concepts of a room that will be outfitted for an
ber
just like heads. Head administrative office. The second
hers. Pogroms, instigated by anti'
the main thing. Eyes are examined he could sec.
have that the subscription this year was
"But they won't let me in," he sud- God and Godhood. He declared
He faith
gas, floor contains seven rooms to be fur-
s must be clean,
Semities, in 325 cities ill Ukraine
them
no 'no
preoccupation
to
be of
importance.' to conflict niched fur living quarters, a large hall
taken their toll in the lives of Mtn- less than last year, the name of the but eyes arc more important. The denly reminded himself.
of innocent donor was given to a member of the
And he grew enraged—just as them a religi on that would 'bring for a living room, and four bath
to
deeds and thousands of ten thousand committee, who will interview the shrewd Yankee likes eyes to be in when the sexton of the shut wouldn't
condition. So be careful."
J ews, ill the
with their affairs, which would fit
in the wholesale murder of donor with the purpose of having him good
lie marble. The third floor consists of
Frightened, the parents began to let him in when the cantor was sin
them
more from
aptly
for past.
the life
re- a rooms
finished
in for
white
tile and
Women.
freed them
their
And of our
large hall
suitable
a dormitory,
Entire towns have increase his subscription.
three rooms for living quarters, one
little children.
It was discovered that hundreds of examine the children's eyes, and they ing. He wanted to curse them, but how pectable material dominion.'
been wiped out. whole colonies m as-
contributed substantial discovered, to their dismay, that the
Jewish J ews who
1 5, had bad could lie when his parents, and broth-
sacred, Jewish houses looted,
ag
and sisters, and uncles, and aunts author, with biting sarcasm, says,
property seized. In one pity, after 8 amounts last year (lid not contribute oldest boy, Gershon,
is the and
intention
the Jewish
'The Society of Ethical Culture met bath It room,
a room of
which
will be
, 5.500 lives , a dollar this )car• The names of all eyes.
Woe
is
me!
What
shall
we do were there?
(lays of continued butchery
No, he did not want to curse Amer- th eir problem. It was free, not only devoted to sewing facilities-
taken. Column after collunn ot of these are known and will be cis-
house
not
only
a
center
for
all ac-
with
him?"
and
the
mother
began
Were
ica—the best thing to do would be to of the suppressed demands of the
indisputable statistics, read by Mr. ited by a member of the committee.
Jewish
even of
the
Woman's
club
her we'd
hands.
"And soul,
Frank but
is right.
For
to odium
bear tivities
but Club
also to
to make
serve its
as new
a home
Abramovitz, spoke mutely of the At the end of the campaign a full list wringing
"Perhaps
better wash them have a good cry, but this was forbid-
the Of all Jewish contributions will be
of the Jewish name.'
•
whosal killing, the tragedy and
to
live
in
the
atmosphere
of
Jewish
with
lead
water,"
the
father
sag-
den.
with
a
comparative
record
a letter from
in the stricken published
Howe% er, when
companionship.
"The
necessity
for
the Jewish name and to stand for the for
employed Jewish
girls
who desire
plighlet of
e the J CAS
Bested•
subscription.
who
"What, lead-vvater? Woe is me," "home" arrived, and he read the first
countries. The diabolical, fiendish of last year's
of the campaign commit-
Jewish priestly service to God and such a house is apparent to all
Members
the mother groaned. "We must go words, "My dear son," he could no
methods of torturing the Jew devised
tee will report personally to Director
longer restrain himself. A stream of Godhood means to pay a price which
by the inhuman Cossacks, recited
in And
to see
the
the doctor,
doctor."
after examining hot tears flowed from his eyes, and as the world is still exacting. To drop are acquainted with living conditions
Jew-
graphically by the speaker, brought Adolph Finsterwald.
Max Jewish
May, President
of the says
The following members are active Gershon's eyes, declared that he had each tear fell, it seemed to him that it the name and role of the Jew in his- Mrs.
for the
girl in Detroit,"
isle Wotnan's Club. It is decidedly
the ready tears.
on the committee Messrs. Adolph
and that it would take a was drawing him further and further tory is the easier way and the easiest not our purpose to create an institu-
ik,
Poet Asks Protest.
way is never the nobler way."
Finsterwald. chairman; Julian Krol
trachoma,
away from America, from his home.
home for homeless girls. We
them.
Ike Goldberg, Abe Shiffman, llarry long time to c
And at this thought he began to
Henry Rosenblatt. Jewish poet of
"'Long to curer the mother CS-
desire o nly to fu rnish the proper en-
Grant, Walter Fuchs, Albert Schloss,
note, who acted as chairman, moved
claimed,
again
wringing
her
hands.
cry
in
real
earnest.
vironment
for the employed self-
Jacob Roth, Samuel Heavenrich,
his audience with his impassioned
supporting and self-reliant Jewish girl
Nathan Gross, Israel Iiimelhoch, Mil- "But the ticket will soon expire." with 3,000 Refugee Jewish Families
plea for the sympathy and assistance
who finds herself alone in the city
The doctor, however, insisted.
ton A. Alexander, Nathan Robinson,
thislithpinego-s
Starving in Constantinople
t J,,e,iw
of a nmrderer,
of American J ewry.
0 means itno tnolueceh
have
s t o i ' l le t 11 a , I , 1 d
cold-have
"Through the centuries Jews nave Max Lieberman, Sam Sarasohn, M el- the
"You'll
have
to
leave
him
here.
M
rs.
Clarence
Constantinople—Over 3,000 Ukrain-
vine Welt, Maurice Dreyfus, Fred
Montreal, Canada—\I
girls
learned to die." Ile said, "they have
e Enggass. Harry They'll not admit him."
ron heel
an Jewish families who have coin- I. de Sola, of Montreal, formerly Jewish. There are many Jewish
learned to suffer under the i taught NI. Butzel, ClarencC unnnins, Nathan
Gershon burst into tears.
Miss Belle Goldsmith of Cleveland living alone in rooming houses here
were
Frank.
Joseph
J.
"Don't cry—woe is me," the mother here recently are in a desperate con-
Sam
of the oppressors; they
has just been decorated by who crave Jewish companionship.
to sacrifice themselves during the 1. Gould, Morris Friedberg,
,
ohm cried out. "You'll make your eyes dition, owing to their lack of food, or
worse."
the
means
with
to from
obtain
it. Ohio
"Of course he
mustn't
cry." the
These which
refuges fled
the Pogrom-
King Albert of Belgium, with the Or- number of these girls will prefer to
Spanish inquisition—but always for Summerfield, Harry Gerson, J
. the Ukraine, and reached here der of Queen Elizabeth. The official live at the club, others will use our
an ideal. We are ready to die as mar- Ileavenrich, J. B. Lasky, May May,
Albert Hecht, Simon 1). Rosensweig,
And so Gershon had to look on lby .- . way
.
of Odessa. They crossed t le notification states that His Majesty. facilities
in their
spare moments."
The Jewbh
Woman's
Club has ten-
tyrs• but not as flies. Wearc ready
An-
doctor
added.
\lords
Weis,
Henry
to offer our supreme sacrifices on the
while his parents and sisters and Black sea in small boats and many of the King of the Belgians, has been
altar of a great ideal, but not to be drew Wittman. Ben 11. Jacob, Juliu
brothers were getting ready for the them died on the way as a result of pleased
confer
on NI
adame
Clar- tatively
adopted
an at
extensive
of
s
ence I. to de
Sob the
Order
of Queen
educational
work
the club plan
house,
altar
iam Friedman, Harry Keidan, Julius
butchered, to he wiped mit as rep-
Elizabeth in recognition of the gen- in conjunction with its established
time for demon- Berman, Dave Stocker. Morris Gar- journey. And he was to remain exhaustion and exposure.
tiles. But this is ❑
crows
and
devoted
services
she
ten-
practice
of
offering
educational
schol-
re or honeyed phrases. We vett. Bell Ginsburg, Joseph Selling, .
strations
dered to the Belgians during the war arships to capable Jewish girls.
Leo
NI.
Franklin, Rabbi A. M
are here to Rabbi
protest against
those
ii' Rabbi
n connection with Belgian relief Courses in the following subjects will
ershman, Rabbi Judah I,. Levin,
. i
H
laiis dteheswo:lifie,,c.ilfmthi,s, be offered to all members and classes
Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg.
work.ii,h.rirsc,:ilalt,:eiSioce
vt ill be arranged when a sufficient
Rabbi Levin Speaks.
Belgian consul at alontreal, and on number evince an interest ill each
Rabbi Judah I.. Levin, the first
stirring appeal to the LOAN BANKS AND SHIPS
' whom was recently conferred the
speaker, made a
TO AID JEWISH RELIEF
Order of Leopold, the highest order course: Jewish History, Religious
of America to voice their pro-
.11:WS
of Belgian knighthood. Chevalier de Work. General History, Modern Lan-
test to their senators and congress-
—
Sola is very prominent in public at- guag". Hebrew,
English Literature
Dressmaking.
Millinery,
man in Washington that the atroci-
New York—Owing to the many,
tic Science,y,
and Art,
other
subjects
for
fairs in the Canadian metropolis, and and
Composition.
alusic.
Domes-
ties committed against Jews ill l'o-
Stenograph
farm
land and Ukraine be stopped. important events which have taken
Clarence
de
Sola
is
very
active
which
there
may
be
a
demand.
Be-
SI r..:.
"At a time when the world is re- place in connection with the relief
anza- sides the educational advantages, it
many of the women's org pit
,,,,,,_
of
joicing over the triumph of demos- work of American Jewry for Week
our
tions of Montreal. both of
k planned to sponsor a program par-
brethren across the ocean, this
is
racy over autocracy, when the Jews [nay be regarded as a great relief i
thropic
and
cultural
character,
and
consola-
one of Montreal's social leaders. She entertainments in which all may
of the world should receive
in New York.
tion for their sacrifices on the altar week
Without doubt the most important
To Be Self-Governing.
ill graduate in philosophy of Western
.
of that principle, at a time when par-
Reserve University of Cleveland and
event is Mr. NVarb ur
g's declaration
While there win be a capable house
ems mourn the loss of their sons tit
a member of the McGill Alumni ticipate.
concerning the loan bank and the ex-
I 5
manager in charge of the club, the
battle, comes the blood-curdling t.tor-
pedition department which the joint
Association.
of the house will be go v-
ies of the pogroms.
In her native city she was a prom- conduct
distribution committee intends to es-
oint
"It is impossible that the voice of
worker along charitable and s ined by the girls themselves. ko-
tablish. The project is that the j
America—the land that stands for
educational lines and following her e
distribution committee should obtain
fi d-
ehdcoilityns t ,dit tail iyess da in nd
equality and justice and righteousness
de in
h;rrofio)on'lls,wailnidheJ e swejs'b
ships for the sending of food to En
from West ern Reser ve
g
—should remain quiet at this outrage. rope and on the return trip these
she devoted herself to a number of
festivals will he observed. Tables in
A man who will not go to the rescue
Mrs.
ships are to bring to our shores the
Cleveland philanthropies.
the dining rooms
of an innocent man attacked by a
-
Sola was one of the founders of the ceremonials
during will
the he arranged to
e
and children whose bread-win
murde rer is as much a criminal as the
Girls' Friendly Club and its first vice- seat groups of four or five to offset
erely
tiers
are
in
America.
In
this
manner
m
sk
ny intimation of the "boarding
e a We
fiend who attacks.
have the passage for the Jewish immi-I
president. In Montreal Mrs. de Sola a
ce.
presidents of the house" atmosphere. At stated inters
protection and justiNV
grants will cost much less than
is
one of
the three of the Victorian Or- vals the girls in the house will be
social
committee
earned it
steamship tickets bought from the
permitted to entertain their inv it ed
THIS JEWISH CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO..
Rabbi Hershman Thrills Crowd.
W ith th e con f errin g r guests, and on occasions will be al-
regular steamship companies.
rs
(l er of Nues.
Cummins, Pres.
upon he
od
American government can cer-
J.
ightho
Joseph
of
kn
of the title
Rabbi A. N1. Hershman, who fol-
The
Sec.Treas.
a thrill- tainly he depended upon to direct her
husband, Mrs de Sola became Ma-
(Continued On Page Six.)
Nathan J. Gould,
lowed Rabbi Levin,.
dame la Chevaliere de Sola.
ing address, giving a vivid picture of sympathy for the Jewish war victims
to the practical plan of placing her
existing conditions in the stricken
ships at the disposal of the
Own
lands.
Jewish relief workers.
(Continued On Page Seven.)

—
The Cleveland Community. Chest
c:inipaign is now on in full swing.
voRoiyis The drive fur a fund of $3,500,000
,o,ers the needs of all the institu-
i I. u, .iffiliated with the Cleveland
UKRAINE
. Federation of Jewish Charities and
_.....—S
:the. Cleveland Welfare R.deration,
Thousands Take Part in Monster ,nchnling the Catholic t liaritiesi and
Y. M. C. A. In addition, the cam-
Demonstration at ArcadiaMon-
War es R the R e d dsCross and
r aign includ
and th e
day Against Continued Slaugh- 1 Jewish
elief nee

14

ETHICAL CULTURE
SOCIETY ATTACKED
BY RABBI SCHULMAN

PROMINENT JEWS ARE
ACTIVE IN CAMPAIGN
TO RAISE $100,000 MORE

HIS EYES

tional

KING ALBERT CONFERS
HONOR ON JEWESS

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