THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
Per Year, $2.00; Copy, 5 Cents
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1919.
VOL. VII. No. 1
I
ORDER ARREST OF JEWISH
DEFENSE REGIMENT
piSGAII LODGE TO
INITIATE MANY AT _ ir
I4!,
S T DE C,141
Jewish Boy Is Harvard's Youngest Student
Hundreds of Jewish Citizens
Will Become Members of • t e h.'
,,h
B'nai Brith At Big Class Ini- ITh". ' theiew
tiation Next Sunday.
o
MORGENTHAII TO MAKE
POGROM REPORT SOON
__. _
PASTOR DENIES
OFFENCE TO JEWS
NATHAN KRASS
TO GIVE LECTURE
HERE ON TUESDAY
SONiurAi.ptsAgmOREIDR,
Montefiore Lodge No. 12, Free
Sons of Israel, has shown the people
ofDetroit that it is an active organ-
Last week a class of seven -
ty ation.
-
tive candidates were impressively
ty-tire
initiated. The ceremonies were in
personal charge of Henry Hyman, of
New York, Grand Secretary of the
Following the initiation a
Order.
stirring address was made by Grand
Master Salon J. Lieberkind of New
York City. More than eighty new
applicants are awaiting initiation.
There will be an election of officers
for Montefiore Lodge Sunday, De-
cember 140, at 10 a. tn., at the K. of
P. hall, 533 Cass avenue. All mem-
bers have been 'urgently requested to
tie present. Many important matters
in addition to the election will be
taken up at that meeting.
Warsaw -- i'Lebens-Fra gen," th e lo-
at Bundist paper, prior, :in artier le by
the well
k
NI. Cholodenka
nown
itit::
i s Tb
,wt he , 0 (lteas,
,mirtiali.sti„h
l'r,
ki{i here in mh
T
the reign of terroir throughwhich the
Jews in the Ukraine have been pa'ss-
-
he one exception in that un-
g' T country, Cholodenka says, was
I M
happy
,,i Vinitz.a, Podalya district.
h
, ..1 to Zt • l 1
o. S, 0 rk.
wor
• k ers,
1 themselves
. a defense regiment
• into
ewish
population
and protected the J
I so energetically an d heroically that
--...
. II, pogroms occurred. Now, Pettus
h•, issued an order for the arrest of
OCCASION TO HONOR
members of this regiment, "as
PRES. ADOLPH KRAUSS the
l:Imiltcr-rvvolutionari, because they
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iiitight agaitist l , the peasants."
Wolf , Cornell Schreiber,
that they
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g AMOS.
Sylvan Hess, Julian Greenfie ld
t Speak—Pisgah Glee Club'
.
to Sing.
FREE
Famous New York Rabbi Is
Next Speaker in Pisgah
Lodge Lecture Cource, Dec.
9th, At Temple Beth El.
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"CONDITIONS IN EUROPE"
SUBJECT OF ADDRESS
•
.-
Will Give First Hand Impressions
of Situation in Europe After
Persona I Investigation of
Eleven Weeks.
Rabbi Nathan grass, of the Central
Synagog, New York City, one of the
foremost of American rabbis, will
Honored by the present ,
\Vashinglon—Henry Nforgenthau, speak under the auspices of l'isgalt
of the oittsatoling hoot es of Amen.
General Jadwin and Homer II. John- Lodge No. 34, Independent Order of
can Jewry and leaders of the Inter-
son, comprising the investigating ll'itai Brith, in the auditorium of
Fast Presbyterian Church.
national Order Brith, one of the
commission sent to Poland by the Temple Beth El, Tuesday evening,
Howard J. Clifford, Minister.
entsi ih n
and social evJe
United States to inquire into the al- December 9, at 8:15 p. In., out "Condi-
greatest frateronal the
Saginaw, Mich., Nov. 28.
ws
Detroit
f
leged pogroms against Jewish citizens lions in Europe."
the history
Editor Detroi Jewish Chronicle:
The address, which is the second in
community will take place On Sunday,
of Poland, will meet in the near fu-
Sir-
th e
I liar Sir
December 14, at the Hotel Statler,
lure ill an effort to agree on their re- the lecture series arrange uel S. May-
:1Jewish friend met me this week
1)
when Pisgah lodge, No. 34. l O. in Flint and told me that Rabbi
port to the government. directorship of Rabbi Samd under
B. B. holds its record class initiation Franklin had taken exception to some
It is not believed that separate re- erberg, chairman of the Intellectual
ceremonies and festivities.
ports will be filed with the State De- Advancement Committee of the I. 0.
remarks made by myself in a lecture
This occasion, which has been on the industrial conditions of the
partment, as there are understood to 11. 11., will be offered to the public
be no irreconcilable differences be- free of charge through the generosity
1 "Adolph Kraus Da) . " com
n mentoration of that venerable grati«lay.
tween them. They are said to have of the individual members of Pisgah
innkman, of Ch elsea, Mass
Sha
Knowing of my many friends who
This smiling boyish-looking boy is Jacob be
st
'nosier's seventy-fifth birthday an-
c riticism, and 13 years of age, who enjoys the distnction of g the younge
Rab
stud at found that while there was evidence Lodge, who will bears the ex pence
niversary, will place Pisgah Lodge i might read the
th e Harvar d University, haying passed the entrance examinations with ease. of the killing of a small number of incurred through the purcha of
stronges not knowing how many had read
Jews, reports sent broadcast of gen- course tickets. Other addresses in the
the position of one of the .
ss I no ve read thto e Jacob doesn't wear spectacles and is not nutty, as would be expected of the
to y addd refind
of its kind in the country.of th
eral pogroms were greatly exagger- series will be delivered by lion.
hareference
normal "infant prodigy." He is a healthy young man, interested in all
ru an
ho it
Abram I. Elkus, whose appointment
CllIZetli of lecture
Several hundred JCWISil
this city will be formally installed the Jewish people whatever in the branches of athleCcs, and, besides, is studying at the Hebrew Rabbinical aced.
It is expected that the members of as Associate Judge of the New York
s revented h im from
Mot the order that d ty, and the event whole address. There is one refer- College. Ile is a Hebrew student of great promise.
the commission will meet in New Court of Appeal pr gagement in De-
will mark the culmination of the cute to Trotsky. ille following is
tilling an earlier
York
next
week.
troit,
Rabbi
Leon
Harrison and Rabbi
eminently sucsful drier for the sec- the sentence: "No city, country or re-
ce
public can be safe that endures trait-
Attila Hil•l Silver.
end thousand Members.
on like Trotsky. That malignant and
Rabbi grass though comparatively'
apostate Jew named Braunstein, has
Jewish Leaders to Attend.
a young, man, ranks among the great-
PITTSBURG II.—Enoch Rauh,
Invitations have been extendt•d to changed his name to Trotsky."
t st of American rabbis. A clear and
New York.—The Committee on Councilman of the city of Pittburgh,
----
I cannot imagine any offense to a
- eep thinker as la ell as an aggressive
some of the outstanding figures of
Chicago—Among matters consitl k
American Jewry and leaders of the brave race of people in the foregoing Protest Against the Massacre of Jews one of the original tnembers of the
erect
at
a
meeting
of the Executive and tireless worker, he has forged his c
International Order Witai Brith, in- and shall be glad ii you will kindly in the Ukraine and other lands, of Council of Nine appointed in 1911,
y forem ost among thin
verto
chilling Hon. Simon \Volf, of \Vash- allow me the copy of said article by which NI orris Rothenberg is chair- and one of the foremost Jewish public Committee of the Independent Order way to the
counted with
the Rabbi in order that I may as far man, made public the following tele- citizens, died suddenly at his home Ithiai Writh held in the city of Chi- men who are be
ington, D. C.; Hon. Cornell Schrieber,
,
cago on Nevember 16, 17 and 18, 1919, the country. Scholarly, eloquent, and
,
as
possible
correct
any
idea
that
has
gram
from
Secretary
Lansing
to
Thanksgiving Day morning.
ossessing that rare and delicate
past Hon. SO\ an Hess,
let(
ol;
voile abroad concerning my supposed Colonel llarry Cutler, chairman of the
II ayor
. t. of , pad
Mr. Rauh was president of the Were :
r ohe sense of hmor that permeates his
rand presidentot
1
i
f t
, ; sun of . toe
Jewish \Velfare Board:
Pittsburgh Association of Credit Men
Report of the Secretay
, Jewish peopl e.
ree speeches. renders them not merely in-
No. 6; Hon. Julien J. Gus- criticism
"Colonel Ilarry Cutler, New York six terms, and o•as credited with hav- Order; who was in Europe for th
District
y.
1 tons sincerely,
of Chicago, director oi uationa l
• Id i
ing made that organization one of the months, as to the condition of the structive and thoughtful, but interest-
(Signed i HO \VARD J. CLIFFORD. City:
B'nai
With propaganda, Os o t as
"Replying to your recent inquiry on foremost of its kind in the United Jews abroad, and the standing of the ing and entertaining as well, Rabbi
I
find
that
in
the
same
lec-
P. S.
other notable Jewish thinkers and tore
I referred to Moses as "the great- the subject, you are informed that no States. lie also at one time was vice- Order in such countries where lodges grass is endowed with all the gifts of
in the possession of the
speakers.
president of the National Credit Men's are situated, and how best to aid in an orator.
as the information
nran ' history and to Paul Europe.
Besides the initiates, the initiation ,
laepartment of State indicates that, Association. lie took a prominent relieving the distress of co-religion-
pable f
loan
who
best
Democracy
to
Rabbi Kra'sXis peculiaearly casitu
ill be attended by hundreds of mem- t
great while there is notch lawlessness part in obtaining remedial legislation, ists suffering as the result of the war
NI
ation,
alluded to Moses as "that
What
will most
1 I also interest-I
and in rehabilitating the members of discussing the Europn
families'
such
as
the
eight-hour
day
and
anti-
g
feabtedly
prove
the
among
certain
regions
in
Southwest-
and
their
be "
i j trist."
ern Russia, arising from the civil war child labor laws. lie was active in the Order in accordance with exist- parcrly
tiula as it affects the Jews in
undou
nged : 1
—
devastated
catmtries
of
Europe
ntttre of an excellently arra
above there in progress, and that Jews are ntany philanthropic enterprises.
the
i
ing Government regulations.
Editor's Note—The editorial
program will be the initial appear- i i referred
The Wiwi Irrith Gold Medal was whose endurance of four years of
to and to which Mr. Clifford massacred at times by irresponsible
Enoch Rauh was born in Dubuque,
there
is
nevertheless
a
sys-u
ante of Pisgah Lodge Glee Club, i
awarded
by
the
Executive
Committee
ceaseless
warfare has been taxed fur-
takes exception was based upon a re- bands, effort on the part of rcsponsi- Iowa, June 12, 1857. His family came
winch organized several Months ago
to Pittsburgh in 1872. On February to lionroable Simon Wolf for serv- ther by terrible perse cu tion. Ile has
port of his address as published in the tetnatic
ble
leaders
to
restrain
their
effort
tattler the directorship of I. LeonartU •
ices
rendered
to
Judaism
and
1111-
but
lately
returned after spending
i t.
Nsi.r. 1c.1,i'eff,t,tr ,tlis at ntliia front excesses. It is believed that I. 1882, he founded the firm of Rath
Braun, has been rehearsing zealously
Dee t hrioti,t, daily dpoanpeer
Glee , ,
i
Bros. & Co., one of the largest whole- moldy for many years and especially
er-
considu-
ntlyin been a
for the ocasion. Proof of the
sale (Iry goods houses in the country. during the past year.
and respectfully suggest to there ihas recent
the ener
gal sit
I lob's readiness and capability
able mproveme
Mr. Rauh at the time of his death
Arrangements were made for the
- I justice
him that he should have taken steps
Intellect' Monday night at a tria155aap'
,
t
ititiflii,is
said
re-
ation.
The
situation
of
the
Jews
and
was a trustee of Carnegie Library, holding of the Quinquennial Conven-
e
tne
iet,,aslf,;alliswersrelitt(r, d
l
others in the regions in question is
to•aratice of the choristers at at tin, to , ettilr,reic
tion of the Constitutional Grand
Carnegie
Institute,
Carnegie
institute
held
port appeared. \Ve are glad to know receiving the careful and systematic of Technology, and of Carnegie Music Lodge of the Order on the second
ri.gular weekly meeting
The in- .
Go vern ment, and
uitihrootos, 25 Broadway.
that t t ., ,, published report does not attention of the ns will be adopted Hall. He was a member of the board Sunday in May, 1920, in the city of
rli‘ idual and group singing displayed'
,v express the sentiments of Mr. every possible
of directors of Gushy Orphanage, a Cleveland.
to relieve their distress. An American
excelleut training and splendid liar- ,trui
A committee of three, with Simon
member of the advisory board of the
Consul General, accompanied by an
Clill..i.l.
Young Men's Hebrew Association, a Wolf, of Washington, as chairtona,
'pony.
adequate staff, is being sent to
—
1
life member of Lodge No. 374, Free was appointed to lay before Robert
Glee Club's Debut.
Odessa, and it is hoped that through
and Accepted Masons, a life member Lansing, Secretary Of State, informa-
The official ode contained in the
efforts further information will l
dis- '
tion gathered of pogroms practiced
ritual has been 'et to music ;Ind
Ise obtained concerning the general of the Pittsburgh l'ress Club and a
member of the Elks and Moose against the Jews of the territories
n l
conditions and the situation of par-
to the
tributed
t.
formerly comprised in the Russian
musical score of this, as of till' oche
Mass.—The first conference ticular persons. The Department of lodges.
Ber -
emire,
so that the government of
Boston,
Mr. Rauh leaves his wife, Mrs.
p
songs to be introduced, including the of the
New England District, United State offers its assistance to any or-
Rusher-
Floersheim Rauh. whom Ile mar- the United States May have a definite
opening number, "Su Shirt Leaders), Synagogue of America, will take place ganization desiring to send the people tha
in the regions in question relief fur- ried in Pittsburgh in 1888, two chil- basis for protest and action.
(Open the Gates, Ye
client"
Far` been composed by alr. Braun at 3 p. nt. Sunday, December 7, in niched by their relatives in the United dren, Helen B. and Richard S. Rauh,
and dedicated to the order. Soloists Horticultural hall. Rabbis from all States. It is suggested that for the at home, and two brothers, Marcus
ion will be David J. the New England States, prominent
retire- sake of efficiency anything of this and Abraham Rauh, both of this city.
for the ittitiat
, taymen and Well 1:110W11 W0111e11
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r. Hill i
the various modern Orthodox nature which may be undertaker. be
Marymont, Dr.
smiting
e
other
members
and I. L. Braun. 'Flu ard \ V. t ioldstick
conservative congregations will concentrated so far as possible in the ISRAEL
enry J. Good- and
hands
of
a
single
organization.
..f the chorus are Dr. ll athan Seim!. lie in attendance.
\Vashington—Among the members
"ROBERT LANSING,
Elias L. Solomon, President of
, wan, M attired Linick, N
Sillier-
1/r.
"Secretary of State."
of the new Industrial Board of 17 ap-
nu h. Moats Steingold, Aaron
United Synagogue; Rabbi Samuel
Israel Zangwill, the noted author, pointed recently by President Wilson
Watt, NVilfred Goldman, A. Laoin- the
Cohen. Executive Director of the
whose masterly skill has produced for another conference on relations of
JEWS ORGANIZE
Cohen and Samuel Madell. Duriog United Synagogue: Rabbis Jacob
such literary treasures as "Children labor and capital, are the Hon. Oscar
the banquet several popular songs, led Kohn and Max Drcili, of New York;
DEFENSE
BATTALION
of the Ghetto," "Dreamers of the
S. Straus, former Secretary of Com-
d Aronson.
Y Mr. Mandell and Mr. Goldman
of Merlin, N.
Ghetto," "They That \Valk in Dark- merce, and Mr. Julius Rosenwald,
of woonsocko,
en- Rabbis mo
1,
iwati,
o ill be rendered with the entire
If
.
1,1,jacas
ness," etc., has, under medical orders, president of the Sears, Roebuck Co,.
chorus.
London—Advices
reaching
here
senility assisting them in the
Frank' well-k.""" Pi'llikt• will R. I. Abraham Nowak, of Hartford, state that since the Jews of Odessa proceeded upon a long tour in North of I hicago.
RABBI NATHAN KRASS.
Gum • Jessie Ilinenfeld, of Worcester,
Wles. Upon his physician's orders,
a
The President's letter of invitation
o f spri,,field. and have organized companies for self-
'‘,1
forwarded to him.
play
the accompaniments
eleven weeks in Eastern Europe as a
no letters earl be
lhe program prepared for the oc- Sill ',rid,,
defense,
the
attacks
upon
Jews
there
Another English notable upon the follow's:
when Rabbis Epstein, Rultenovitz, Shohet
"In accordance with the suggestion special delegate of the Joint Distribu-
simls
olo111011, 01 Boron, W 111 be have been diminished to a very con- sick list is 'Mr. Samuel Samuel, a
■
g in at 2:311 n '
The self-defense member of parliament, who will, in given me by the public group of the thin Committee, of which Felix War-
' " Mu will be of initiates beg.'" "a. andS
sidcrable
extent.
one
d
he a varie
en t
, prs
'4i'trati" Midnight. "lhe Mitiaton of
plan is favored by the government, consequence of his indisposition, be recent industrial conference, I ant burg is chairman.
T h , p rogram will
laNt Mail
Dr. grass returned a little more
l which realizes that the Jews cannot
II start romptly
stios of a
•
away from London also for some calling a new body together to carry than a month ago on the steamer La
the new members \N
pmionies. and will consider que
tore
on this vitally important work, and 1
depend upon the regular army for
,
.p
the
at the opening of
ance
to
t
t
11n
life
of
ita
leant, !mpori
time.
trust you will give me the pleasure France. after visiting l'aris, Vienna,
i lowish communities of New England. protection.
The newly organized degree
of naming You as one of its members. Trieste, Bucharest and small cities in
S. is t,ar- How to keep our II ve men within
S"m" el Morris
consisting of
"Guided by the experience of the Rumania. lie also visited Bessarabia,
hat ,
0
the
fold
of
Judaism;
how
to
help
the
Leon
' , erg. I. harks
last conference, I have thought it ad- Itukowina, Eastern Galicia, Lemberg,
vett, Milton M. Alesanibr,
uld, who small communities organize services
visable that ill this new body there \Varsaw, Best-Litovsk, and other
and Natan I. Goon
that will appeal to the young people.
Goldsmi
should be no recognition of distinc- towns in Poland. Dr. Krass's mis-
h initiati ritual and establish modern religious schools
thearse
have
reh
d the
tive groups, but that all of the new sirm was to ascertain whether the
il
anre known for their thorough ac- so that every Jewish child
will re-
d a
m-
representatives should have concern alleged pogroms and persecutions of
atance with the rules of installa- ceive a Jewish training; how to co
qu in
that our industries may be conducted Jews actually took place. His find-
tion, will conduct the ceremonies. bat the soul-snatching proselyti zers;
with such regard for justice and fair Mgs and his experiences, as well as
While these solemn ceremonies are
ow to foster religious observances—
dealing that the workman will feel his version of the solution of the
going on, the ladies will be enter- h re some of the problems that will be
himself induced t put forth his best various problems confronting world
tained in the smaller ballroom with a
efforts, that the employer will have Jewry will be incorporated in his ad-
an excellent program by prof esisonal
---
an encouraging profit and that the dress before the Detroit audience
NEW
POGROM
OUTBREAKS
entertainers.
public will not suffer at the hands of Tuesday night.
Pervious to his European tour.
REPORTED IN UKRAINE
The Social Hour.
either class. It is my hope that this
conference may lay the foundation Rabbi Krasa made a country-wide
At the conclusion of the class
trip
ill behalf of the work of the \Var
oote to
for the development of standards and
be whichd
tie ' London lour new pogroms in the
al se
an hour will
initiati on,
machinery within our industries by Camp Community service. Dr. Krass
ssion,
during
(b
has appeased in Detroit on several
beady
a
soci initiated members and their Ukraine ar mentioned in a letter re-
which these results may be attained.
meet- ceived here front all illividual in that
ashinsky.
i'lt is not expected that you N in occasions and only last March occu-
re 01
country. . ■ man na
pied the pulpit of Temple Beth El.
ladies will have the Pleasu
deal
directly
with
any
con
lition
which
ing mi with those who are
the order. Special stress his wife an three
children
and in ngling
exists today, but that you may be for- The speaker will also he remembered
a. Other
Jews were
killed killed
were
tel in Borisov
;
in
Mirga
already
tunate enough to find such ways as for his orator:cal activities in Detroit
v
this part of
il
ter interest Laib Soltajtov in Bahuse
as ilkev,
ha s been laid on
will avoidthe repetition of these de- during the Jewish War Relief cam-
de
ho
new
members
in
rard,
Motel
Goldberg,
and
in
V
paign in 1917. It was he w ma th
p rogra to
plorable conditions.
Nachuaier
ght for
rn M Mashinsky.
on the part of the Immediately fol-
"The conference will meet at a the eloquent appeal that brou
place to be hereafter designated in contributions totaling over $100,000
the organization.
tuwing the social hour. a banquet
this city on the first day of December at the Stapler Hotel meeting on the
thistnan of banquet committee, as only
ill be seed, the Hotel Statler
opening day of the vigorous drive
served
interest 1,100 people call he accommodated in
w
next."
more
than
which was directed by David A.
the banquet ball. The charge has been
having ta ken
dinner worthy of
a
England now has a Federation Brown. During one of the Liberty
in providing
set
at
$3
a
plate.
. flair
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO..
of New
Ukranian Jews. One million dol- Loan drives he spoke at the Board of
occasion or
rovide the music. c The class initiation and attendant
The dance will start promptly
arge of Myer S.
Joseph J. Cummins, Pres.
tars will be sought by the organiza- Commerce and received one speaker
of the
in cha
om
o'clock in the ballroom. Fitizel's
ngemeonts; Mi - ,
greatest ovations paid to any
Nathan J. Gould, Sec.-Treas.
•
chairman of
Lion to help save the remnant of the
Gldsmith
ink, n M.
on that platform.
L
orc hestra w il ve p as yet failed to m ake 1 Feret
Al sander, aeon
,
Jews in Ukrania.
ose who hal
com- INathan Ro iinson, Charles Rosenthal
Th
rations for the banquet byare re- ton
esery
Simon
D. Rosenz- Henry D. larks, Joseph J. Cummins, I
t
once
quested to d o s
Sec. Lansing Acts to
Stop Ukraine Pogroms
S
Enoch Rauh, Prominent
Pittsburgher, Dead B'NA1 BRITH GOLD
MEDAL TO SIMON WOLF
ORTHODOX RABBIS
TON his
CON VENE AT BO
ZANGWILL
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