THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

VOL. VII. No. 6.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1920.

GREY ENTERTAINED
DEED, NOT CREED, EARL
BY RABBI STEPHEN S. WISE HEADS THE FIRST AMERICAN
JEWISH RELIEF UNIT TO POLAND
FAITH OF ETERNAL
JEWISH WANDERER

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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."

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 gfim 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.
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 Naierene paused on his way to
Calvary could the metaphor be ap-
plied, but to the whole of the Jewish
race. The race, as well as the indi-
vidual, had been doomed to wander
from 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
from 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.

The Old Testament and the Pilgrims.

OVER $1,000,000 FOR
EUROPE AND ASIA RELIEF

AMERICAN JEWRY
TO REHABILITATE
POLISH BRETHREN

New York—Viscount Grey of,
Falloden, K. G., Britislr-Ambassado7
to America, was the guest of honor
at a reception tendered by Dr. and
Mrs. Stephen S. \Vise 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 \Villiam 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 W. Mack, Judge and
Mrs. A. 1. Elkus, Judge Benjamin N.
Cardozo, Professor and Mrs. Richard
Gottheil, Mrs. Mary Fels, Mr. and
Mrs. Gregory Benenson of London,
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Stroock, and Mr.
and Mrs. J. dellaas.

than one
million dollars was appropriated for
Jewish relief work in Europe and
Asia according to an announcement
of the Joint Distribution Committee
for American Fonds for Jewish War
Sufferers, this week. The suns will
provide food, clothing, fuel, shelter
and medicine, for nearly three millions
of people, and part will be used for
reconstruction relief, which has as its
object to make thousands of destitute
war-sufferers self-supporting again.
The funds were contributed by the
American Jewish Relief Committees,
People's Relief Committee and Cen-
tral Relief Committee which are de-
voted to the raising of funds for Jew-
ish war sufferers abroad. The Joint
Distribution Committee acts as dis-
tributing agency for all three organ-
izations, disbursing their funds for
many types of relief.

KIEV POGROMS RESULT
IN DEATH OF 40,000

New York,—American Jewry is
about to embark upon one of the
most engrossing and perhaps one of
t he most momentous tasks in Its his-
t ory, the reorganization upon a
p racticable and equitable basis of the
r elief activities of the Jews in Pall,arld,
activities involving the distribution
of millions of dollars annually. For
New Organization Showing Rapid this purpose the Executive
Commit-
Pr o g r es s—Lively Program tee, of the Joint Distribution
Com-
Planned for First Rally.
mittee, representing the contributors
to Jewish relief work, recently author-
Attesting to its virility and rapid ized Dr. Boris D. Bogen, Director
growth, the Men's Temple Club of General of the Committee, to organ-
Temple Beth El, organized only a ize, train and equip a unit of select-
month ago and already boasting a ed workers, whom he is to lead fit
membership of several hundred, is the work overseas. In view of the
planning its first great "get-together" urgency of the situation no time was
meeting to take place Friday even- lost in preparation and Captain El-
ing, January 16, at 6 o'clock at Tem- kan C. Voorsanger, who served as
ple Beth El.
Senior Chaplain of the 77th Division
The rally is planned for the pur- and later as overseas Director of the
pose of bringing the members of the Jewish Welfare Board, was immedi-
new organization into closer contact ately engaged to act as manager of
with each other as well as to permit the Unit.
Twenty-three Jewish Relief work-
those members of Congregation Beth
El who have not yet joined to affili- ers, comprising the first relief unit,
ate themselves with a club, that bids will sail from New York City on
fair to become a potent factor for January 10th, on the Nieuw
dam, for Poland to take up a pro-
good in the Jewish community.
Efforts are being made to secure gram of economic reconstruction of
one of America's leading citizens as the destitute Jewish population of
speaker for the meeting. An excel- that country. Dr. Boris D. Bogen,
lently prepared dinner served in the director general of the Joint Distri-
gymnasium of the Temple at 6 bution Committee will head the unit.
o'clock will launch the program for Will Distribute $1,000,000 a Month.
the everting. Brief, snappy talks, no
The relief workers will have the.
longer than three minutes in dura- task of re-organizing Jewish relief
work
in Poland and will take charge
tion, by prominent members of the

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-
sisted 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.

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 pblislied 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-
lied 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-
manovka, Tcherkassv, Makarow, Go-
oditicht, Chiblennoye, Korito, Dymer,
Stephanzy, Ignatovka, Tripolie, Ros-
soya, Motoviloska.

CHAS. K. SANDORF, Secy.

NEW YORK. — More

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.

MEN'S TEMPLE CLUB'S
BIG "GET-TOGETHER"
MEETING FRI., JAN. 16

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

"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 him
, to this great Fatherland to make it the
common possession of all his country-
men. Ilegave 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.
40.000 Dead in Ukraine.
"It was after the Hebrew common-
Meir Grossman. representative of
wealth, with its judge, its council of
the Jewish National Consul of Uk-
the elders and its assembly of the
raina, whose report of the first po-
People, that this government was in-
groms in a number of cities cabled
dubitably patterned."
to this country firstinade the Jews
Hereditary Love of Social Justice. of America acquainted with the out-
"And another element contributed raged in Ukrania, arrived here on the
by the Jews to the land that welcomes Adriatic several days ago, and
them as its children. is their heredi- brought with him additional infor-
tary love of social justice. What is mation relating to the pogroms in
liberty worth without justice? What many cities, in which 40,000 Jewish
does so-called equality mean but men, women and children lost their
equality of just rights, without which lives.
the heritage of freemen perishes.
Without it, an invisible government Polish Minister Advocates
dominates and destroys the apparent
Boycott Against Jews
government of the people. Now the
WARSAW.—A boycott against
love of justice is a passion with the the Jews, and the entire concentration
Jewish race. Alike in the synagogue of trade in the bands of the Poles
and its laws, and in the world-work themselves, were urged by the Polish
of Jews outside the synagogue, we Finance Minister in an address before
perceive the power of this inherited an anti-Semitic meeting.
instinct. A man may be a prophet,
without technical religion, if he
preaches the rights of men and labors OFFICIAL LODGE NOTICES.
and sacrifices in the cause of his fel-
low-creatures. It is not an accident Pisgah Lodge No. 34, I. 0. B. B.
that Karl Marx. the founder of Com-
The next regular meeting of Pisgah
munism. was a Jew: that Lassalle, the
leader of German Socialism. likewise Lodge will be held Monday evening,
January
12, at the Lodge Rooms, 25
drew his inspiration and his fervor
from this hereditary Jewish passion Broadway. All members are urged to
attend.
for justice.
1
•
The next Forum Luncheon speaker
Speaking, in this connection, of the
will be Isador Levin.
contributions of Karl Marx, Lassalle,
Samuel Gompers. Louis D. Brandies,
Perfection Lodge No. 486
Dr. Harrison said: "I am sometimes
amazed at the vast polarity of the
F. & A. M.
Jewish race. Side by side with these
men and. others of the same faith, but
Special
communication
on Wednes-
millionaires. Rothchilds, leaders in the
day, Jan. 14th, at 1 o'clock P. M.
world of industry and finance. It is
this strange polarity of the Hebrew, Banquet at 6:30. Ladies night. Each
member will bring one lady friend.

Continued On Page 6.)

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DR. BORIS D. BOGEN

- JEWS AND BOLSHEVISM

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

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. Ile 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 Estlionian au-
thorities at the instigation, as he al-
leges, of the British Government, and
his voyage back to England was en-
der guard on a British cruiser. He
charges the Government with a con-
spiracy to prevent him front revealing
the truth as he saw it, but 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, i n the popular mind,
of the Jews with Bolshevism, and he
Intends to make this question a plank
in his platform when he undertakes
a series of public lectures which he is
about to do.

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." •

Sir Philip Magnus' Question.

"Sir Philip Magnus's question,"
said Mr. Goode, "really surprises me.
No Jew ought to have put such a
question if he really sympathized
with his people, because the effect of
his insinuation was to divert atten-
tion from the real source of the po-
groms and to prejudice the whole in-

quiry by an allegation that they were
part of the activity of the blood-
thirsty scoundrels which the Bolshe-
viki arc represented to be, by those
who are interested in throwing dust
in the eyes of the British public.
What are the facts? Where the Bol-
sheviki are in power there the Jews
are decently treated, as are all na-
tionalities.
They have nothing to
fear as long as they are good citizens.
The Revolutionary Tribunal of the
Bolsheviki has for one of the crimes
of which it takes cognizance the
making or instigating of pogroms."

The Part of the Jews.

It is alleged, Mr. Goode, our rep-
resentative said, that the whole Bol-
shevist movement is the work of the
Jews. Is there any truth in this
charge?
"One of the cries of the anti-Revo-
lutionists," Mr. Goode replied, "is
that 'Jew' and 'Bolshevik' are con-
vertible terms, that Bolshevism is
born of Jewish brains and led by
Jews. The actual facts are these:
Out of eighteen Ministers, i. e., the
Commissaries of the People only one,
Trotsky, is of Jewish blood. Out of
115 members of the Government,
eight only are of Jewish blood. In
regard to the part played by the
Jews in the whole movement, the ut-
most that can be said is that among
the leading spirits, the Jews are rep-
resented in a greater proportion than
the Jewish race bears to the entire
population, but that can be explained
by the fact that the Jews are nearly
educated, whereas the great mass
of the Russian population is illiter-
ate. The proportion of Jews in the
Russian Government is far less than
that of the Jews in the British Gov-
ernment, and no one contends that
the British Empire is in the hands of
the Jews."

all

The Results.

"The results of the 'Jew Bolshe-
vik' cry have been deplorable," Mr.
Goode went on to say. "I should
explain that my information does not
come from Bolshevist sources, but
from the agents of the Bond, among
them the president, who had been
round the districts in the south and
west of Russia on a tour of investi-
gation. The armies of Denikin, l'et-
loura and the Poles are operating in
the part which was the Jewish l'ale,
and is packed with a dense Jewish
population. Orders of the day were
issued in Denikin's army, repeating
the charge against Jews and Bolshe•
vists, and recommending 'Death to
the Jews!' The appeal once made,
the effect may easily be imagined by
those who know Russia. The po-
groms began with plunder, rape and
the destruction of property. They
soon went on to murder. Before I
left Moscow, the massacres in the
towns of the south and southwest had
resulted in the death of 60-80,000 Jews
(Continued On Page 6.)

The Officers and Directors

of the

UNITED JEWISH
CHARITIES

Invite you to attend the

DEDICATION

Of the New Addition to the Jewish institute

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

239 HIGH 6TREET, EAST

The Annual :Meeting will Precede Dedication Exereise:i
An interesting program is provided. No collection or appeal for funds

congregation, laying stress on the 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

aims and purposes of the organization
and outlining its future plans, will be
given during the dinner. A unique
program of entertainment is also be-
ing arranged.
The long-felt need of such an or-
ganization as the Men's Temple Club,
that through its activities will touch
every phase of Jewish life, was cul-
minated at the Congregational Re-
union held at the Temple December
17 when, amidst tremendous enthusi-
asm, the new organization came into
being.
The following permanent officers
were elected at a meeting the follow-
ing Sunday: President, Walter S.
Ileavenrich; Vice-President, Melville
S. Welt; Secretary, Joseph J. Cum-
mins; treasurer, Wallace Rosenheim;
directors for one year, Maurice Drei-
fits, I. B. Rosengarten, Z. Himelhoch;
directors for two years, \Vatter
Fuchs, Arthur L. Cohen; directors
for three years, Henry D. Marks,
Irving L. Hirschman. The two rab-
bis of the Temple, together with the
President of the Congregation, are
ex-officio members of the Board.

Object of the Organization.

The object of the organization, as
stated in its constitution, is to "con-
serve and promote the Jewish reli-
gion and to encourage all efforts for
the dissemination of its teachings
among the men of Temple Beth El
and the members of their households;
to foster the spirit of fellowship and
co-operation among the members of
the congregation; to afford an oppor-
tunity to members for the develop-
ment of their varied talents; to pro-
vide social entertainment at regular
intervals; to create among she mem-
bers of the Temple an esprit de
corps to the end that the causes
sponsored by the congregation—reli-
gious, educational, social and philan-
thropic, may be steadily advanced."
On the roster of charter members
of the Men's Temple Club appear the
names of several hundred earnest,
enthusiastic and far-visioned men.
The interest manifested in all the
plans and the attendance at the meet-
ings that have been held speak well
for the future of the organization. A
record attendance is expected for the
big meeting.
Those members of Temple Beth
El who have not yet joined the Men's
Temple Club and desire to do so be-
fore January 16, may send their
names either to Rabbi Leo M. Frank-
lin, care Temple 'Seth El, or to the
Secretary, Joseph J. 'Cummins, 1334
Book Bldg.

FAMOUS JEWISH GENERAL
RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA

LONDON.—General Sir John
Monash, the famous Jewish soldier
and commanding officer of the Aus-
tralian Army Corps in France, from
early in 1918, is returning to Aus-
tralia. General Monash said that he

destitute Jewish families.

Workers Specially Trained.

The relief workers are receiving

a

s pecial training course which includes
c lasses 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 1. 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; H. 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 \Velfare Board work in the
Le Mans area, France; Edward
Rosenblum of Washington, D. C.; L
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 Division
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-
glue. 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.

While the immediate activities of
the unit will be limited to I'oland, it
is planned that the experience in the
practical task of organizing and ad-
ministering relief work that us ill be
gained by the workers in the Unit
will prepare them for similar activi-
lies in other parts of Europe and
pave the way to the initiation of this
work among the Jews throughout
Europe.

was "jolly glad" to find himself on
the eve of his departure after five
•
years away from home, and lie is Poland to Free All
Who Are Wonted
proud to think that he has been able
to superintend the great work of re-
patriating some two hundred thous-
WARSAW —All those who are in-
and troops (to say nothing of their terned in Poland, without any excep-
dependents) before leaving the coun- tions, are to be freed, according to a
try. statement issued by the government.