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THE DETROIT JEWISH AE=_ ONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATIO1

VOL VII. No. 6.

DEED, NOT CREED,
FAIN OF ETERNAL
J8WISH WANDERER

Dr. Harrison Delivers Masterful
Address in B'nai Brith Lecture
Course — Says Jew is Torch-
bearer of Religion.

SOCIAL JUSTICE IS
HEREDITARY LOVE OF JEW

His Pilgrimage Will Not End Un-
til World Recognizes the Di-
vinity of "Man" and Not of
"A Man."

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9,

EARL GREY ENTERTAINED
BY RABBI STEPHEN S. WISE

New York-Viscount Grey of
Falloden, K. G., British Ambassador
to America, was the guest of honor
at a reception tendered by Dr. and
Mrs. Stephen S. Wise at their resi-
dence, 23 W. 90th street, New York,
Friday afternoon, January 2. Lord
Grey, who had taken an active part
in the negotiations leading to the Bal-
four Declaration of November, 1917,
was accompanied by Sir William Tyr-
rell, long-time permanent under-sec-
retary of the British Foreign Office.
The guests of the afternoon were
the officers and members of the
Zionist Organization, including Judge
and Mrs. Julian \V. Mack, Judge and
Mrs. A. I. Elkus, Judge Benjamin N.
Cardillo, Professor and Mrs. Richard
Gottheil, Mrs. Mary Fels, Mr. and
Mrs. Gregory Benenson of London,
Mr. and Mrs. S. Stroock, and Mr.
and Mrs. J. dellaas.

Picturing the wandering Jew as did
Eugene Sue and Hans Christian An-
derson, a figure created by supersti-
tion and religious hate, yet adding to
it the grim symbolism of a nomad
race, Rabbi Leon Harrison of St.
Louis, third lecturer in the course
arranged by the Intellectual Advance-
ment Committee of Pisgah Lodge,
No. 34, I. 0. B. B., Monday night ad-
dressed the crowded auditorium of
Temple Beth El.

KIEV POGROMS RESULT
IN DEATH OF 40,000

The Wanderer" a Figure of Myth-
ology.
Throughout the great mythologies
and literatures of the world appeared
again and again, said Dr. Harrison,
the figure of an accursed one, posses-
sor of the "homeless head and the
wandering foot." Not merely to the
Jewish shoemaker before whose door
the Nazerene paused on his way to
Calvary could the metaphor he ap-
plied, but to the whole of the Jewish
race. The race. as well as the indi-
vidual, had been doomed to wander
front land to land throughout the old
world and the new until such time as,
with creed and dogma forever rele-
gated to the sphere of past things,
one and all might behold the _Christ-
not a god nor the son of God, but a
mortal with all a mortal's faults and
failings and sorrows.
The speaker alluded to the wonder-
ful persistency of the Jew. Expelled
front England in the thirteenth cen-
tury, from France in the fourteenth,
from Spain in the fifteenth, they
sought the new world. With their
Bible, their traditions, their precious
religion they persisted, and always
that persistence meant persecution, al-
ways the children of Israel were legiti-
mate objects of which their neighbors,
strangers with strange religions and
beliefs, might vent their bestiality and
their uninspired anger.
"He had the strength to stand alone
and the strength to suffer. And when
his sufferings became intolerable he
journeyed on. For generations and
centuries the history of the Jews was
a record of perpetual pilgrimage; for
necessity knew no law. Necessity and
the limits of human endurance drove
him on and on. He followed the mi-
grations of the peoples.

New York-The committee of the
Jewish delegation at the Peace Con-
ference has forwarded from Paris a
communication relating to the al-
leged pogrom in Kiev and nearby
localities in October, in which hun-
dreds of persons are reported to
have lost their lives. The communi-
cation reads:
"We are informed from a reliable
source in Constantinople that a ter-
rible pogrom took place in Kiev
from Oct. 14 to 18. The massacres
were instigated by the semi-official
anti-Semitic press. especially by the
newspapers published by the well-
known politican Choulgine, and as-
mated by the volunteers. The num-
ber of victims has not vet been defi-
nitely established. According to
and eye-witnesses, there were thou-
sands killed. It is quite certain that
several hundred Jews perished. The
Jewish intellectual class has been
exterminated. Each wave of mas-
sacre lasted half an hour. The exe-
cutioners allowed the Jews to choose
the form of death and to designate
the one who was to be first killed. A
great number of young women and
young girls, having applied to the civil
authorities for aid and protection,
were brutally driven away. They fled
to their houses and jumped out of
windows in order not to fall into the
hands of the murderers.

The Old Testament and the Pilgrims.
"Here in the new world at last the
Wandering Jew is a stationary Jew.
But he was not one to receive every-
thing and give nothing; he was not
simply a suppliant and a beneficiary.
He brought his inheritance with hint
to this great Fatherland to make it the
common possession of all his country-
men. Ile gave to America his ancient
Bible that became in early Colonial
days the current code of law in the
New England courts. Ile gave to
America in the Puritan character of
those that were the first pilgrims to its
shores imprint and impression of the
Hebrew genius of the Old Testament
virtues. And the cornerstone of our
American republic being the Puritan
character and conscience, and this be-
ing the product of Biblical influence,
he has literally founded this common-
wealth upon the ancient Hebrew
spirit.
"It was after the Hebrew common-
wealth. with its judge, its council of
the elders and its assembly of the
People, that this government was in-
dubitably patterned."

Hereditary Love of Social Justice.

"And another element contributed
by the Jews to the land that welcomes
them as its children, is their heredi-
tary love of social justice. What is
liberty worth without justice? What
does so-called equality mean but
equality of just rights, without which
the heritage of freemen perishes.
Without it, an invisible government
dominates and destroys the apparent
government of the people. Now the
love of justice is a passion with the
Jewish race. Alike in the synagogue
and its laws, and in the world-work
of Jews outside the synagogue, we
perceive the power of this inherited
instinct. A man may he a prophet,
without technical religion, if lie
preaches the rights of men and labors
and sacrifices in the cause of his fel-
low-creatures. It is not an accident
that Karl Marx. the founder of Com-
munism, was a Jew; that Lassalle, the
leader of German Socialism. likewise
drew his inspiration and his fervor
from this hereditary Jewish passion
for justice.
Speaking, in this connection, of the
contributions of Karl Marx, Lassalle,
Samuel Gompers. Louis D. Brandies,
Dr. Harrison said: "I am sometimes
amazed at the vast polarity of the
Jewish race. Side by side with these
men and others of the same faith, but
millionaires, Rothchilds, leaders in the
world of industry and finance. It is
this strange polarity of the Hebrew

Continued On Page 6.)

HEADS THE FIRST AMERICAN
JEWISH RELIEF UNIT TO POI

Polish Minister Advocates
Boycott Against Jews

WARSAW.-A boycott against
the Jews, and the entire concentration
of trade in the hands of the Poles
themselves, were urged by the Polish
Finance Minister in an address before
an anti-Semitic meeting.

OFFICIAL LODGE NOTICES.

Pisgah Lodge No. 34, I. 0. B. B.

The next regular meeting of Pisgah
Lodge will be held Monday evening,
January 12, at the Lodge Rooms, 25
Broadway. All members are urged to
attend.
The next Forum Luncheon speaker
will be Isador Levin.

Perfection Lodge No. 486
F. & A. M.

Special communication on Wednrs•
day, Jan. 14th, at 1 o'clock P. M.
Banquet at 6:30. Ladies night. Each
member will bring one lady friend.

CHAS. K. SANDORF, Secy.

AMERICAN JEWRY
TO REHABILITATE
POLISH BRETHREN

-000 FOR
NZ:0 ASIA RELIEF

c-- "re
than one
al3propriated for
i la
Europe and

r lc
a n announcement
has t ion Committee
si
s
for Jewish War

The sum will

3.• "IL. ),.iris , fuel, shelter
zz ea rly three millions
r it will be used for
if", which has as its
O a_a Sands of destitute
s aaptiat orting again.
contributed by the
Z=2 eIief Committees,
a-ramittee and Cen-
ii flee which are de-
of funds for Jew-
a. tat road. The Joint
az-a. it tee acts as dis-
E.c=s, a- all three organ-
-ag t heir funds for
lief_

Dr. Boris D. Bogen Heads Unit
of 23 Leading Communal
Workers Which Leaves on
"Nieuw Amsterdam," Jan. 10.

WILL DISTRIBUTE ABOUT
$1,000,000 EACH MONTH

Industrial Re - organization and

Restoration of Economic Inde-
pendence of Destitute Jews is

Object.

CLUB'S
TOGETHER"
practicable
IMFG FRI., JAN. 16 activities

Jewish Peace Delegation at Paris
Confirms Report of Horrible
Outrages — Thousands A r e
Homeless.

Russian Journals Confirm Report.
"The pogrom in Kiev is confirmed
by a number of Russian journals
which are subject to the censorship
of Denikin's army. The Priasowsky
Kral, which is pblished in Rostev-on-
the-Don, the seat of the central gov-
ernment of Denikin, gives the follow-
ing details about the pogrom:
The Jewish community of Kiev is
occupied exclusively in organizing re-
lief. The number of victims is so
great that it is almost impossible to
go to the assistance of the starved
persons, bereft of clothing and shel-
ter. In the Podole quarter almost 14,-
700 Jewish victims of pillage during
the pogrom are registered; in the Ly-
bed quarter, 8,000; in that of the Jew-
ish Market, 3,000; the situation of all
these unfortunates grows worse from
day to day on account of the very rig-
orous winter.'
'According to the Sowremennoye,
which is subject to the military cen-
sorship, pogroms have taken place, in
addition, in the following localities
situated in the region of Kiev: Boris-
pol, Grebenka, Smielo, Korsun, Ger-
tnanovka, Tcherkassy, Makarow, Go-
oditicht, Chiblennoye, Korito, Dymer,
Stephanzy, Ignatovka, Tripolie, Ros-
soya, kf otoviloska.
40,000 Dead in Ukraine.
Meir Grossman. representative of
the Jewish National Consul of Uk-
raine, whose report of the first po-
groms in a number of cities cabled
to this country firstinade the Jews
of America acquainted with the out-
raged in Ukrania, arrived lucre on the
Adriatic several days ago, and
brought with him additional infor-
mation relating to the pogroms in
many cities, in which 40,000 Jewish
men, women and children lost their
lives.

Per Year, $3.00; Copy, 10 Cents

DR. BORIS D. BOGEN

New York,-American Jewry is
about to embark upon one of the
most engrossing and perhaps one of
the most momentous tasks in its his-
tory, the reorganization upon
a
and equitable basis of the
relief activities of the Jews in Nand,
involving the distribution
millions of dollars annually. For
I/m=1=1.-n Showing Rapid of
this purpose the Executive Commit-
Liivaly Program tee, of the Joint Distribution Com-
hest Rally.
mittee, representing the contributors
to Jewish relief work, recently author-
virility and rapid ized Dr. Boris D. Bogen, Director
s "Temple Chili of General of the Committee, to organ-
organized
only a ize, train and equip a unit of select-

Interview for the Jewish Chronicle With Mr. W. T. Got

Parliamentary 'Truth."
Mr. Goode said that he wishes to
start out from a reference to recent
statements in the House of Com-
mons.
"Mr. Cecil Harmsworth," lie said,
"was recently asked in Parliament
about the pogroms in Russia, and he
replied that he did not believe the
reports which had reached this coun-
try. If he is ignorant, which I find
it is difficult to credit, I will give him
grounds for the removal of his dis-
belief. Sir Philip Magnus followed
with an insinuation that the pogroms
were the work of the Bolsheviki,
while Mr. Churchill, in the course of
the Russian debate, stated that the
Allies would use their influence for
the protection of the Jews. I should
like to say at the outset that I am
neither pro nor anti-Semite. I mere-
ly retail facts, shuddering the while
at the moral callousness of those who
can close their eyes to their blood-
guiltiness while supporting the men
who are perpetrating or favoring
these pogroms. For pogroms are
taking place and have been taking
place for a long time."

quiry by an allegation that
part of the activity of tl
thirsty scoundrels which th
viki are represented to be,
who are interested in throe
in the eyes of the Britisl
What are the facts? When
sheviki are in power there
are decently treated, as at
tionalities. They have to
fear as long as they are goo
The Revolutionary Tribum
Bolsheviki has for one of t
of which it takes cogniz
making or instigating of pa
The Part of the Jul'
It is alleged, Mr. Goode,
resentative said, that the w
shevist movement is the we
Jews. Is there any truth
charge?
"One of the cries of the a
lutionists," Mr. Goode re;
that 'Jew' and 'Bolshevik'
vertible terms, that Bolsi,
born of Jewish brains am
Jews. The actual facts a
Out of eighteen Ministers,
Commissaries of the People
Trotsky, is of Jewish blood
115 members of the Go ,
eight only are of Jewish b
regard to the part played
Jews in the whole rnovemen
most that can be said is th,
the leading spirits, the Jews
resented in a greater proper
the Jewish race bears to t
population, but that can be
by the fact that the Jews a
all educated, whereas the gi
of the Russian population
ate. The proportion of Jet
Russian Government is far
that of the Jews in the RI i
ernment, and no one conti
the British Empire is in the
the Jews."

The Results.
"The results of the 'Jew
vik' cry have been deplore
Goode went on to say. '
explain that my information
come from Bolshevist sou
from the agents of the Bun
'them the president, who 1
round the districts in the s
west of Russia on a tour o
gation. The armies of Den
lours and the Poles are opt
the part which was the Jets
and is packed with a dens
population. Orders of the
issued in Denikin's army,
the charge against Jews alb
vists, and recommending '
the Jews!' The appeal on
Sir Philip Magnus' Question.
I the effect may easily be inc
"Sir Philip Magnus's question," those who know Russia.
said Mr. Goode, "really surprises me. I groms began with plunder,
No Jew ought to have put such a the destruction of propett
question if he really s•mpathized soon went on to murder.
with his people, because the effect of left Moscow, the massacre
his insinuation was to divert atten- towns of the south and soutl
tion from the real source of the po- resulted in the death of 60-81
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groms and to prejudice the whole in-

made to secure
l eading citizens as
- eet i g. An excel-
s ri
served in the

X---a a

the program for
ff_ snappy talks, no

minutes in dura-
a t members of the
ir-rjsz- stress on the
of the organization

lure plans, will be

dinner. A unique
rirrient is also be-

d esf such an or-
rx's Temple Club,
stisrities will touch

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- wish life, was cul-
cs, g-regat ional Re-
rra ple December
rri e vicious en th us i-
rat iza than came into

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pe rmanent officers
eeting the follow-
e rat, Walter S.
President, Melville
Joseph J. Cum-
e Rosenheitn;
c ar- Maurice Drei-
-
c-L eri„ Z. Himelhoch;
years, Walter
Cohen ; directors
Henry
D. Marks,
— - a ra..
The two rob-
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together with the
Congregation, are

of the Hoard.

Organization.

organization, as
si■t.
it L1 ti CP 1-1 . Is to "con-
-
e the Jewish reli-
es r age all efforts for
...c.f.
its
teachings
tt. f Temple Beth El
—
ff tlrateir households;
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of fellowship and
aFm-
t Ile members of
e. afford an oppor-
-
for the develop-
talents ; to pro-
-
i I anzent at regular
e
among the mem-
ple an esprit de
that the causes
e
g-re gat ion—reli-
ial and philan-
e at. i 13r advanced."
at.charter members
-p I e Club appear the
hundred earnest,
far-visioned men.
i fe lted its all the
da n ce at the meet-
zit held speak well
e organization. A
is expected for the

The Officers and Directors

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DEDICATION

Of the New Addition to the Jewish Institute

Wednesday, January 14th, 1920, at 8 o'clock

239 HIGH STREET, EAST

The Annual Meeting will Precede Dedleation Exercise:
An Interesting program Is provided. No collection or appeal tot

of 'Temple Beth

joined the Men's
desire to do so be-
may
send their

Lco M. Frank

Bet hE.:1, or to the

of the

Invite you to attend the

"Temple at 6

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UNITED JEWISH
CHARITIES

workers, whom he is to lead in

e -sr e r al
hund red, is the work overseas. In view of the
- sr- east "get-together" urgency of the situation no time was
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pl a ce Friday even- lost in preparation and Captain El-
-it 45 o'clock at Tem- kan C. Voorsanger, who served as
Senior Chaplain of the 77th Division
x-A re ed for the pur- and later as overseas Director of the
e members of the Jewish Welfare Board, was immedi-
rato closer contact ately engaged to act as manager of
s well as to permit the Unit.
Twenty-three Jewish Relief work-
Congregation Beth
yet
joined to affili- ers, comprising the first relief unit,
will sail from New York City on
- t I-11 a club that bids
potent factor for January 10th, on the Nieuw Muster-
dam, for Poland to take up a pro-
Izt c ommunity.

JEWS AND BOLSHEVISM

London-Considerable sensation has
been caused by the revelations in re-
gard to Bolshevik Russia by the state-
ments of Mr. W. T. Goode, who went
to Moscow on behalf of the Manches-
ter Guardian. Mr. Goode has for
two decades been the principal of the
Graystoke Day Training College for
Teachers, an L. C. C. institution of
high repute. He is a level-headed
man of scientific training and one not
easily to be deceived by manufac-
tured evidence. He entered Bolshe-
vik Russia at great personal risk,
after a series of extraordinary adven-
tures, and his return was accom-
plished at even greater hazard. He
was arrested by the Esthonian au-
thorities at the instigation, as he al-
leges, of the British Government, and
his voyage back to England was un-
der guard on a British cruiser. Ile
charges the Government with a con-
spiracy to prevent hint from revealing
the truth as he saw it, butt he is de-
termined to disclose the result of his
observations, and a portion of his ex-
periences and deductions has already
been narrated in articles in the Man-
chester Guardian. Mr. Goode holds
very strong views on the question of
the association, in the popular mind,
of the Jews with Bolshevism, and he
intends to snake this question a plank
in his platform when he undertakes
a series of public lectures which he is
about to do.

ed

a. 1 ready boasting a

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S. I-I GENERAL
TO AUSTRALIA

Sir
John
ra I
pus Jewish soldier
, is=w ftlic cs- of the Atts-

i■r--p s in France, from
returning to Atts-
ff —rash said that he
e. find himself on
t■iie=3. e 1-aarture after five
home, and he is

gram of economic reconstruction of

the destitute Jewish population of
that country. Dr. Boris D. Bogen,
director general of the Joint Distri-
bution Committee will head the unit.
Will Distribute $1,000,000 a Month.
The relief workers will have the
task of re-organizing Jewish relief
work in Poland and will take charge
of activities requiring the distribu-
tion of approximately one million dol-
lars each month. Their work, it was
announced, will be principally along
lines of industrial re-organization,
tending toward restoration of:econ-
omic independence of thousands of
destitute Jewish families.

Workers Specially Trained.

The relief workers are receiving a
special training course which includes
classes in Polish language, contem-
porary history, life and activities of
the Jews in Poland, practical office
and business management and Joint
Distribution Committee field work.
'The workers, who were selected from
approximately two hundred candi-
dates who were chosen upon their
records of achievement in many fields,
and for their unusual fitness for the
work, include besides Dr. Bogen,
Rabbi Bernard Canter, associate rab-
bi of the Free Synagogue of New
York; Charles I. Cooper, Pittsburgh
Social worker and lecturer at Du-
quesene University; I. Field of New
York; Capt. Adolph Gerstenzang of
the U. S. Army Sanitary Corps; S.
Goiter, of Chicago, member of Labor
Adjustment Board; Harry Kagan, of
Chicago; M. Katchor, New York
newspaperman; S. B. Kaufman Super-
intendent of the Jewish Federation
of Indianapolis; Rabbi J. M. Koval-
sky of Springfield, Mass.; Oscar
Leonard, Supt. of Jewish organiza-
tion of St. Louis; Simon Peiser,
Supt. of Jewish Orphan Asylum of
Cleveland; Irving Price, New York
newspaperman and social worker;
Meyer Raskin of New York; George
Rooby of Chicago, formerly director
of Jewish Welfare Board work in the
Le Mans area, France; Edward
Rosenblum of Washington, D. C.•, I.
Rubenstein, Supt. of the United He-
brew Charities of Philadelphia; Julius
Savitsky, Executive Secretary of the
Chicago Joint Relief Committee;
Samuel E. Schmidt, Sanitary Expert
for Zionist Medical Unit in Pales
tine; Abraham Shohan of Boston,
Jacques Rieur, Supt. of the Federa•
tion of Jewish Charities of Syracuse,
N. Y.; Captain Elkan C. Voorsanger,
former chaplain of the 77th Divisioa
and overseas director of the Jewish
Welfare Board, and Abraham Zucker,
National Secretary of the Jewish
People's Relief Committee and Man-
ager of the Naturalization Aid Lea-
gue. Miss Jessie Bogen, who has
had extensive experience as a social
worker and social organizer in New
York and Cincinnati is the only wo-
man member of the unit.
Plan Broad Scope of Relief.
‘Vhile the immediate activities of
the unit will be limited to Poland, it
is planned that the experience in the
practical task of organizing and ad-
ministering relief work that will be
gained by the workers in the Unit
will prepare them for similar activi-
ties in other parts of Europe and
pave the way to the initiation of this
' work among the Jews throughout
Europe.

Poland to Free All
•
Who Are Interned

1-1 e

has been able
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great work of rc-
tc wo
1-standred thous-
rtothing of their

re

1.eatvinti the

coun-

t

WARSAW.--.11 those who are in-
terned in Poland, without any excep-
tions, are to be freed, according to a
statement issued by the government.