THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

PAGE TEN

Bestowal of Legion of Honor
on Alfred Dreyfus a Crowning
Vindication of Persecuted Jew

Edw. Johnson, American
Tenor to Make Debut to
Detroit Music Lovers

ANNA STEINER

Mrs. Anna Steiner, beloved daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Weisber-
ger and sister of Mrs. Lew Levinson,
Helen, Pearl, Sadye, Margaret, How-
ard and Estelle Weisberger, passed
away Saturday, January 3, at the age
of 27. The deceased was well known
among the younger Jewish set and is
mourned by a wide circle. of .friends.
Funeral services were held from
the home of the parents, 213 Califor-
nia avenue, Tuesday afternoon, Janu-
ary 6, at 2 o'clock, with interment at
Macalpha Cemetery. Rabbi Judah L.
Levin officiated at the services.

Detroit Young Judaea has its he-
roes and heroines, but the.noblest of
them all revealed herself last week
by an act that has perhaps never be-
fore been equaled by another Jewish
boy or girl. This is a story of effort
and sacrifice as displayed by Bessie
Piavin, of the Forget-Me-hots of
Zion, actuated by that strong Jewish
spirit which is the foundation of the
Young Judaea movement. Without
being prompted by any of the lead-
ers, Miss Navin, of her own accord ,
gathered a group of about ten Jew-
ish girls of the ages of 10 and 11 and
staged a concert 9n New Year's eve,
upon two hours' notice, the proceeds
to go for Jewish Relief. She suc-
ceeded in making the sum of $16.45. RAGTIME TAUGHT, also Classical
Considering that Bessie is only 13
Music, according to modern school.
and that the scheme is all her own,
Miss Helen Krause, 220 Medbury
her name goes down in history of
Ave. Northway 3436,
Young Judaea of Detroit as a hero-
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ine of no small means.
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This, however, does not detract
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Detroit Young Judaeans who have
22
Erskine street, 2 doors from
done their share in contributing to
Woodward.
the Jewish Relief Fund, every circli
in the city having given its share.
The sum of $50 originally pledged is ROOM FOR RENT to nice young
man. With private Jewish family
certain to be doubled within two
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weeks.
1662-J.
Athletic Exhibition.
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bition held Tuesday evening at the
heated room for 1 or 2 gentlemen.
Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, the Ju-
With young couple. 179 Garfield
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Ave.
Judaea Literary Club quintet in a
basketball game by a score of 18 to BOOKKEEPER WANTED. GOOD
14, five extra minutes of play being
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necessary for the J. A. C. boys to
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were defeated by the score of 18 to
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by various athletic exhibitions, in-
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Twenty-ninth street proved a tremen-
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A
LADY LIVING ALONE will
cabaeas, Isidore Raitt as a Greek sol-
share six-room, steam-heated flat
dier, and Dorothy Levenson as Han-
on
beautiful street near \Voodward
nah, were the stars of the cast. Mar-
Ave., with couple or one or two
garet Lefton distinguished herself in
elderly
ladies. Address Box 345,
the singing. Honorary mention is
Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
also due Anna Raimi.

CLASSIFIED

CONDENSED REPORT OF THE

COMMONWEALTH • FEDERAL SAYINGS BANK

OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

At the close of business December 31, 1919, as called for by the
Commissioner of the Banking Department.

RESOURCES

Bonds, Mortgages, Loans and Discounts
Real Estate, Branch Offices and Fixtures
Cash and Reserve

$ 9,154,780.32
192,721.88
1,300,419.77

$10,647,921.97

LIABILITIES

Capital Stock
Surplus and Profits
Deposits

DETROIT BUILDERS' SHOW
TO BE BIG EVENT

Detroit is to have its second an-
nual Builders' Show from February
28th to March 7th, inclusive. It will
Edward Johnson, the distinguished
be held in the Ford building, corner
tenor, will be heard for the first time
of Woodward Avenue and the Grand
in this city next Monday evening
Boulevard, and from all indications
January 12, at Orchestra Hall, under
it will be larger than the first.
the Devoe Management, taking the
Applications for display space are
place of Hipolito Lazaro its the Phil-
coining in rapidly to the office of the
harmonic Concert course.
Detroit Builders Exhibition, Inc.,
What has been in many respects
which has been newly organized in
the most notable occurance of the
Detroit for the purpose of holding
season in American musical circles is
annual builders' shows and boosting
the return to the United States of
the construction of homes in this
Mr. Johnson, after a career in Italian
opera and concert as Eduaria di Gio-
city.
vanni. Mr. Johnson, before he went
The Detroit Builders' Exhibition,
to Italy, was the foremost American
Inc., is composed entirely of local
tenor in the field of concert and
firms,
and ill headed by J. II. Culver,
A census of the Jews in Jerusalem
oratorio, with but a single stage-en-
president. Mr. Culver is with the
gagement in his experience-that will be begun shortly under the White Star Refining Co. J. D. Ab-
wherein he "created" for the United auspices of the Vaad Hair of that ram of the Abram Cement Tool Co.,
States the principal role in Oscar city.

The London Literary Guide for the nates and justifies their lives and
current month publishes a short re- work. Their action roused France
minder of the Dreyfus case apropos from end to end, and, after a terrible
the bestowal upon the victim of Dev- struggle, Dreyfus was finally declared
innocent, and "pardoned."
il's Island of the Legion of Honor.
All honor to these men! But there
Lieutenant-Colonel Dreyfus has had
bestowed upon him the Grand Cross were others who can not be ranged
of the Legion of Honor for services as "Freethinkers." There were, for
in the war. In this bare paragraph instance, Scheurer-Kestner, and Mat-
observes our contemporary is recalled thew Dreyfus and Joseph R,einach,
one of the, gzeatest legal fights the and Yves Guyot and Piquart, and,
world has, witnessed, and tlie crown- last but not least, there was the :vic-
ing vindication of the unfortunate tim's wife, Lucie.
The "Good Wife."
man who endured unspeakable things
because he was a Jew. It is an awful
"But for his wife's loyalty," de-
story, and one of the blackest indict- clares the writer in the journal from
ments of clericalism that our time has which we have quoted, Dreyfus "must
tevealed.
have gone mad. Again and again dur-
Alfred Dreyfus was the first Jew ing his terrible martyrdom her name
who had risen to a position on the was ever on his lips."
•
General Staff of the French Army,
Lucie Dreyfus saved her husband
and the Catholics determined that he from suicide (he continues). Only
should be deprived of that honor. censored copies of her letters ever
Working on the anti-Semitic feelings reached him, and he was deprived of
of the superior officers, they induced the solace of her handwriting. She
the belief that Dreyfus had sold his wrote: "We have spent five years of
country's secrets to Germany. A absolute happiness: we must live on
court-martial followed, and, despite the remembrance of it. One day jus-
his protestations of innocence, Drey- tice will be done, and we shall be
fus was degraded publicly amid howls happy again; the children will love
of execration, and sent to Devil's you." Weeks later she writes again :
Island, French Guiana. Five years "I am proud of bearing your name,
later Colonel Picquart, on becoming and when our children are old enough
head of the Intelligence Department, to understand they will be grateful to
suspected a plot, and immediately you for the sufferings that you have
pressed for a revision of the case. endured for theiti." All through those
This was refused, and then began a fearful years the voice of Lucie Drey-
wonderful fight of a handful of brave fus was an inspiration to her unfor-
men against an infuriated nation, for tunate husband. "If great misfor-
the French people then believed tunes arc the touchstone of noble
Dreyfus was a traitor.
souls," Alfred Dreyfus wrote to her
It was indeed "a wonderful fight"- afterwards, "then, oh, my darling,
it saved France her glorious place yours is one of the most beautiful
and noble souls of which it is possible
among the Nations!
to dream."
Who Fought the Fight.
There was "real chivalry" in this
It is well to recall those who were love of husband and wife!
foremost in this great struggle:
There Were Not Ten.
The chief champions of the un-
But in recalling all this true nobil-
happy Jew were all Freethinkers, and
their names should never be forgot- ity let us not forget that in the course
ten. Emile Zola, the novelist, of the case there were found two
Georges Clemenceau, then a journal- Jews-Arthur Meyer in he Gaulois
ist, and Jean Jaures, who was assassi- and G. Pollonnais in Le Soir-to back
nated at the beginning of the late war up Drumont and his Libre Parole in
-those three heroes stood over the its ineffable wicked lying against
figure of the persecuted Jew, like Dreyfus; two Jews, who doubtless
Voltaire above Jean Calas, and flung plumed themselves on being French-
their reputations into the scale of men uber apes, and who were glad of
justice. We of their own generation the opportunity of showing in proof
stand too near to see the full human their willingness to denounce their
value of that act of splendid audac- fellow Jews. Still it must be a happy
ity, but even to us it is a light where- thought for French Jewry that there
by we may judge of these Freethink- were not ten of such creatures to be
ers as men, an episode which illumi- found among them)

YOUNG JUDAEA NOTES.

Strauss' operetta called "The Waltz•
Dream." Ile soon emerged in Italy
into the principal tenor-roles of the
old and the new Italian repertoire in
the principal opera-houses, and be-
came the favorite of Rome, Naples,
Milan, Florence, and the other cities
of Italy.
Mr. Johnson's return to his own
land was effected on Nov, 20, 1919,
when he took the principal man's
role in the late Cleofonte Campanini's
revival of "Fedora" in Chicago, and
made a success which is still talked
about wherever opera is a subject of
interest.
Seats for this concert are now on
sale at Grinnell Bros„ box office.
Subscribers to the Philharmonic
Course will use their - Lazaro tickets
on -Monday night.

I 750,003.00
110,311.15
9,767,603.12

$10,647,921.97
OFFICERS:
M. E. Galvin, Chairman of the Board F. H. Talbot, Vice-President.
A. R. Moore, Vice-President.
J. W. McGausey, President.
Chas. J. Higgins, Cashier.
Frank Waif, Vcle-President.
John A. Seymour, Asst. Cashier.
C. F. Blelman, Vice-President.
H. W. Jordan, Asst. Cashion
Comfort A. Tyler, Vice-President.

is first vice-president. Frank P. Mil-
ler of the Frank P. Miller Co., real
estate, is second vice-president, and
W. R. Anderson of the W. H. An-
derson Tool and Supply Co., is third
vice-president. C. J. Prost of Prost
& Forde, contractors, is secretary;
G. W. J. Linton, cashier the Ameri-
can State Bank, is treasurer, and
Frank 13. Griffin is show managet.
The board of directors are C H. Kel-
lar, F. W. Woolrich, Frederick B.
Stevens, J. W. Dopp, W. G. Clemons,
J. A. Paterson, Harry Booth, Chas.
Butterfield, Chas. Brushaber, W. R.
Anderson, J. D. Abram, F. B. Griffin,
J. H. Culver, C. J. Prost, Frank P.
Miller, E. 0. Knight and G. W. J.

Linton.

It is the intention of the show man-
agement this year to feature the
"Own your own home" idea, and to
help educate the public in how to
finance, and build homes in Detroit.

CONDENSED STATEMENT-DEC. 31, 1919

IRS

State Bank
Number 5

Member Federal
Reserve Bank

STATE BANK

tII-. lIET - 14131

r

ESTABLISHED 1853
ASSETS

$ 515,254.01
I. Cash, Gold and Currency
738,984.19
2. Cash in banks, payable on demand
373,595.07
3. Checks, payable through Detroit Clearing House
Bills
receivable,
comprising
loans
to
individuals,
firms
and
corporations,
on
4.
7,821,154.79
collateral and based on commercial credits .
66.58
5. Overdrafts
434,511.65
6. Items in Transit
2,798,740.86
7. First mortgages on improved real estate in City of Detroit
764,665.81
8. Bonds of municipal corporations and railroads
1,447,797.50
9. Securities of the United States of America
52,547.44
10. Loans secured by United States bonds
274,132.26
11. Branch. banking houses, furniture and fixtures
39,000.00
12. Stock in Federal Reserve Bank
11,960.50
13. Due from 4th Liberty and Victory Loan subscribers

Totals assets . .$15,272,410.66

LIABILITIES

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

$5,676,040.59
. 6,877,952.63
228,550.00
.
25,000.00
.
30,832.73
.
933,000.00
.
80,000.00
.
. 1,000,000.00
421,034.71
.

Commercial deposits
Savings deposits
Bonds left for safe keeping
Dividends unpaid
Reserves for taxes and interest
Bills payable
Bills Re-discounted
Capital Stock
Surplus and undivided profits

.

$15,272,410.66

First State Bank of Detroit

OFFICERS

Main Office: Lafayette and Griswold Street

Cr,,. IL Kirchner, President
Paul R. Gray, Vire-President
Chas. W. I:oleher, Vice-President
NINE BRANCHES IN OPERATION
Abner E. Lernul, Vice-President
Cyreniun A. Newcomb, Jr.. \Ire-President Cherie and Cdatiot
I;ratlot and ilaptibles
Edward Yentsch, Vier-President
Woodward and Eliot
Mark and Mt Elliott
John End), VIre-PresIdent
Soringwells and Ferndale Hamilton and Webb
It. J. Koch, Vies-President and Cashier
ipsu
and
Newton
St.
Clair and ida..•c
Jon. Cd ,
Emil Jacob, Asst. Cushier
Forest and Van Dyke
liubmer, Asst. Cashier

It. T. Eirefiner,
Asst. Cushier and Supr of Branch.,
E. C. Moss.
Asst. Cashier and Mgr. Uratlot Ave
Branch
Chad. Maxale, Auditor

LINWOOD AND VIRGINIA PARK
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

DIRECTORS
ch ar t., I ■. Aaron. Physician
prank II. Itesseng••r, Ilessengsr A Moore
Gustav Darmstdetter, Mundus Products

,.

r1

Gtny, Gray Estate Companv
J Hartwig, W. J. Hartwig 4 . 0
Chad. E. Ednter, Retired Caintnlist
I:en. 11. Kirohner, Pros. First Stste ImInk
Max C. Koch, Ex. City Treasuier
1(oteller, Lumbei
l'hax.
Abner E. I.arred, Larned-Carter Co.
Irvin Long, Attorney
Edward A. Lovele), Stom achs-1..5.1ov
(70.
Ora J. Mulford, Gray )1,11, ce
Cyrenlud A. Newcomb, Jr., N■
Endicott Co.
Gustavus D. Pone, Digestive Ferments
Co.

REPORT OF CONDITION
At the close of business December 31, 1919

firtstekungritorr

Central

NATIONALBANK

RESOURCES
S 51,9.17,461.50
Loans and Discounts
17,716,306.18
United States Bonds and Certificates
8.021.322.29
Other Bonds and Securities
225,000,00
Federal Reserve Bank Stock
409,000.0P
Real Estate
30,000.00
Safe Deposit Vaults.
2,110,000.00
Customer's Liability on Acceptances
CASH RESOURCES
251,250.00
Due from U. S. Tr2asurer..$
Due front Fedeial Reserve
10.127,857.15
Bank
10,426,591.92
Due from 01 her Banks
5,162,697.98
('ash on !land.
25,971.397.05

$106,421.187.02

L1A EILITIES

Capital Sf o :'k
Surplus Fund.
Undivided Profits
Unearned Discount
Reserved for Accrued Interest.
Borrowed Bonds
Circulation
Bills payable and Rediscounts with Fed-
eral Reserve Bank
Letters of Credit and Acceptances
Deposits

5,000,000.00
2,500,000.00
1.802.123,61
401,984.92
72,747.12
100,000.00
1,309,997.50

RESOURCES

g
Loans and Discounts
Bonds and Mortgages
U. S. Bonds and Certificates of Indebted-
ness
Federal Reserve Bank Stock.
Real Estate and Banking Houses
Cash on Hand and Due from Other Banks

1,239.783.91
9.791,351.2 I

1,A1.201.00
3(1,0(3400
252,590.0:1
2,806,525.07

$ 18,987,451.2t;

LIABILITIES

Capital Stock.
Surplus and Undivided Profits
Commercial Deposits.
Savings 1)eposits

$

$ 18,987,454.28

12,025,000.00
2,124,665.57
81,081,968.30

$106,421,487.02

Combined Capital, Surplus and Profits
Combined Deposits ..
Combined Resources

1,000,000 00
385,113.58
4,950,178.90
12,651,861.80

$ 10.687.237.19
98,684,309.00
125,408,941.30