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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Chamisho Osor Bishvat Cele- MRS. FRANCES HELLIN
"The Eternal Curse of
bration Is Next on Young
FIELD SECRETARY OF
an Eternal People"
Judaea's Program.
J. C. . S. IN DETROIT

ed by the cry, "Open, you Jew." Per- way struck his shoulder, but he felt
And the unfortunate remnant of
haps it was sudden fright at the and heard nothing. His mission for Isreal in Europe also looks forward
thought of what was in store for his the moment was to save the Torah. to us in America, the only ones in
family; perhaps it was the knowledge And he did. Bleeding terribly he Jewry who have not suffered by the
he had that the Polish beasts of sol- pressed the Scroll to his breast and war. We have plenty, they 'have
By DOROTHY LEVENSON,
die's were coming, At any rate, Kar- ran until he came 'to a neighboring nothing. It is for us to give for the
Jewish Arbor Day to be Hailed by Local
Mrs. Frances Hellin, Field Secre-
of the Auxiliary of Zion.
Zed*Is
chimbaum refused to open the door. village in time to leave it with the relief of our fellow Jews as much as
Junior Zionists at Shure),
tary of the Jewish Consumptives Re-
It is needless to say that the door Rabbi there. Then Ile was dead, too, we can, more than we can. We are
on February 8.
lief Society of Denver, Colo., who is
In the little town of Lammus there to the Karchimbaum home offered a leaving his children fatherless as well the only ones who can relieve them,
in Detroit to solicit funds toward the
poor
defense for this fancily. It was as motherless at the mercy of the and we must relieve them. And the
figs
and
almonds
will
he
on
lived
many
Jewish
families.
The
people
Dates,
maintenance of the sanitorium. and
the Young Judaea menu during Pal- more particularly for the needed ad- were happy and lived in peace. On Fri- not long before the muzzles of the beasts who had taken their parents' greatest compensation we can receive
will be that our people shall once
estine week, February 1 to 8, when dition to the present hospital at a day night all the houses were lit, and if soldiers' guns faced our unfortunate lives.
Curses, shouts were heard
Thus were families broken up, more be made strong and happy and
you would look into one of these houses, group.
the local junior Zionist organization cost of $20 0,000.
is to celebrate Chamisho Osor Bish-
Due partly to the war, which left around which our story revolves, namely on all sides. Then a shot. Mrs. Kar- ruined, Jewish homes destroyed, men, prosperous, there is no other way in
vat, Jewish Arbor Day, which falls hundreds of Jewish soldiers stricken that of the Karchimbaunis, you would chimbaum was dead on the floor of women, and children murdered, not which we can be paid.
this year on February 4.
with the White Plague contracted in see the mother lighting the candles and her own home, killed by a bullet of only in the town of Lammus, but in
The Jewish New Year of Trees will cold and muddy trenches, and to the hear her chant the Hebrew prayer, while a Polish beast. He had aimed at every village, town and city in Poland, Constantinople Opens Office
be celebrated this year by a mass cel- critical economic condition that put the children were sitting near the fire her husband, but she jumped in his in the Ukraine, in Russia, wherever
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ebration to be held Sunday afternoon.
and waiting for the folks to return home way and died in his stead. were Jews. And there are numerous
The Poles seemed satisfied and left, places where these things are still
Feb. 8, at the Shaarey Zack, to be
from Shul.
CONSTANTINOPLE—A bureau
featured by a short play by Sliulamith
The table was covered with a snow leaving the motherless children to going on.
Ish-Kishor, "I lere and There," to be
And the remnants of Isreal that have of information for prospective immi-
white cloth, on one end being the mourn at the dead body. Mr. Kar-
rants to Palestine has been ,opened
staged by members of the Buds of
Challas, and on the other the candle- chimbaurn was dejected, disheartened, survived all these things, these per-
in Constantinople under . the auspices
J tidaea,,one of the local junior cir-
stick which was being it every Friday he was so struck by his tradegy. He secutions, now have before them only
gan
.
walked
over
to
the
window
and
press-
one hope,—a return to Zion, a re- o f t e uonust r
cles. Esther Jacobsosa Tn to take .tile
night and on all Jewish holidays to usher
a message sent out by the commit-
leading part, with Tillie Chimovitz
in the Shabbos and Yom Toy spirit in ed his forehead against the window soil, to Palestine, where, on their own
soil,
in
their
own
land,
they
may
once
tee
1
nchargc,
its
object
is
declared
to
filling the second role of importance.
the Jewish home. In the center of the pane. And then lie suddenly beheld
be to furnish intending immigrants to
Hebrew Sketch on Program.
table was the Gefillte Fish and the home the misery and chaos that ruled the more live happily, peacefully, and Palestine with correct information of
city. lie stirred. The Shul was on once more make Jewish history,—
In addition to this short play the
made wine for Kiddush.
the country and its conditions, and
program will be made especially in-
The children, in their anxiety for the fire. Dead bodies of Jews were every- not Jewish history soaked in blood, to provide Palestine with correct in-
like the history that our people were
teresting by a Hebrew sketch to be
beautiful Friday night ceremony to where. Something had to be done.
the
formation
concerning those who are
Dashing out of his home he ran forced to write down during
presented by members of the Hebrew
open, watched with watering mouths the
prepared to go there.
loi t h e rts h , eb rb oltoLd r
speaking circle, "Ho'ivri," of which
eats on the table, occasionally throwing straight in the direction of the place w o r l wa r d , nw
of worship, with the one big idea in fathers and
s oafndtheir
sis-
Mr. Samuel Stollman, one of the He-
a glance on the roast chicken on the
It is stated at Warsaw that all Jew-
brew teachers at the Wilkins Street
stove nearby, and incidentally complain- his mind of saving the Torah, the ters, but the grand history of peace
Holy Scroll of the Law. A shot from that has ruled in our Holy Land of ish officers serving 111 General Den-
Talmud Torah, is leader.
ing that father spent too much time at
ikin's
army have been dismissed.
a
Polish
soldier
he
encountered
on
the
Palestine
in
the
days
of
old.
A number of recitations and a rich
Shill, or in discussing "worldly affairs"
musical program will be the other at-
with the other men on their way home
tractions on the program. An im-
But soon voices of people returning re/
portant deviation in this Young Ju-
from Shul could be heard from the out-
daea public entertainment will be the
side, and it was not long before a "Gut
presentation of the entire program by
Shabbos" greeted the happy Karchim-
Young Judaeans from the ranks. For
baum family.
this purpose solely Mr. Samuel
The father, in his new Shabbos frock,
Cohen, of the Young Judaea Liter-
and his two sons, also dressed to suit the
ary Club, has been chosen to act as
holy
occasion, took their scats at the
Mrs. Frances Hellin.
chairman.
table, and the children's response of
Distribute Palestine Fruit Bags.
beyond reach of the poor, nourishing, "Omen" to the Kiddlish soon enlivened
That Chamisho Osor Bishvat may wholesome Mod, warm clothing and the room. The meal devoured, the father
be celebrated in a fitting manner, each habitable dwelling places, tuberculo- began the weekly discussion on Jewish
Young Judaean will be presented sis is taking its deadly toll in ever- history, himself relating the great deeds
with a Palestine fruit bag containing increasing numbers.
of the Jewish heroes of old, of the glory
Palestinian fruits. The bags will bear
The waiting-list at the Sanitorium of the Jewish people of the past, of their
the seal of Young Judaea, with an has grown to appalling proportions wanderings and sufferings through the
appropriate inscription for the occa- and victims of the scourge are forced many ages, and of the great hope that is
sion.
to wait months before they can ob- so deep-rooted in the heart of every
But, while Young Judaeans arc tain admission, meanwhile obliged to loyal Jew and Jewess for a return to
making merry on the occasion of Ar- forego the care and attention given the good old times when we shall repeat
bor Day in Palestine, the children in by specialists in the disease at the
our great deeds upon our own soil, in
I'alestine are not to be forgotten. The hospital and are forced to roam at
our own land, Eretz Yisroal.
local Young Judaea organization is large a menace and a danger to the
It is needless to say that the Friday
out to collect 1,000 toys by February community. The new addition,
night Zmiros were never left out, they
8 to be sent to Palestine's children ground for which will be broken
in turn being followed by popular Jew-
through the Supply Department of shortly, will in a large measure, rem-
ish and Hebrew songs, in which the
the Zionist Organization of America. edy these conditions. The movement
entire family joined.
undoubtedly deserves the support of
Jewish Relief Fund Soars.
Thus the Jewish community of
• Meanwhile the Jewish relief fund the Detroit Jewish community.
Lammus prospered until that fatal
is soaring in Young Judaea, four of
day in 1914 when the Christian world
the clubs alone having turned in over
went mad and the Jewish world
The Forget-Me-Nots of Zion
$50.
trembled, when nations warred upon
top the list with a donation of $21.45,
nations, and the Jews once more
Bessie l'iavin and Esther Friedman
served as the goats. Brother was
being responsible more than any oth-
pitched in battle against brother, Jew
ers for the collection of this sum.
New York.—On February 1st, at fought against Jew, for no principle,
The Young Judaea Literary Club will
the Hotel Pennsylvania, will be held no object, but the eternal curse of our
in all probability he the second high-
the annual "Peace Conference" of all people that we are yet a nation with-
est in its contribution, with the
the Roumanian Jewish organizations out a country. Thousands upon
Knights of Judaea as third
thousands of peaceful families were
in the United States and Canada.
At the same time the circles are not
Up to the present time there have broken up.
forgetting their educational needs.
The Karchimbaum family was in its
existed two great organizations of
Fine literary programs arc carried
the Roumanian Jews in America: turn affected by the war in that the
out in most of the circles, and a num-
of the first Steinway Piano. We
The advent of the Steinway
The American Union of Roumanian two oldest sons packed their few be-
ber of them, in their anxiety to keep
know of none of the older makes
Jews, and The Federation of Rou- longings that are allowed a soldier
Piano marked a new era In music.
on improving their facilities for Jew-
of Pianos of which a similar state-
manian Jews. As a result of this of war and followed the great multi-
Strikingly superior, both In rich.
ish education, are in the course of
division considerable friction has been tude to the field of battle, some to be
ment can be made. The fourth
building up libraries. Successful
nese and purity of tone, and mark-
evident at times. But now, owing to slaughtered, others to remain crippled
generation of the Steinway family
starts have already been made by the
ing a definite advance in construc-
the great work ahead of the Rou- for life, still others to be crazed by
Auxiliary of Zion and the Lillies of
are now engaged In the manufac-
manian Jews, they have united into the terrible things in war.
tional perfection, it was at once a
Zion. The Roses of Zion and the
But the Friday night spirit was not
ture of this incomparable instru-
a single organization and are to hold
new and greater Incentive to mus-
Buds of Judaea are holding raffles.
to be broken until later. It was on
the Conference mentioned above.
ment.
ical attainment; an inspiration to
the proceeds of which are to be used
one
of
these
occasions,
as
Mr.
Kar-
At this Conference, the Chairman,
for the purchase of books. It is also
the development of musical genius
The Steinway Plano has never
Dr. P. A. Siegelstein, will read a re- chimbaum was relating one of his
hoped that contributions towards a
--a new standard of pianoforte con-
port on the activities of the Rouman- favorite tales of war and peace, of
been commercialized.
general Young Judaea library will he
the
times
when
the
Jews
fought
their
ian Jews in America its behalf of their
struction.
made by Detroit Jews. Mr. M. Bur-
An art product throughout Sixty-
countrymen in Europe, and he will own wars, fought for their own free-
ger, 234 Kirby avenue east, is chair-
offer a plan for reconstructive work dom, and on their own land, that a
five Years, and Inure; refined and
This was more than Sixty-five
man of the library committee for De- for the
big
change
came.
Tears
were
in
the
Jewish war sufferers in Rou-
improved as experience and skill
troit Young Judaea.
Years ago.
mania. Here, it may be mentioned, eyes of this brave Jew as he told and
have dictated, it stands today, as al.
that the Roumanian Jews, in distinc- retold tales of old, tears for his two
ways, infinitely pre-eminent among
Jewish Publisher Arrested.
And, during all this time Stein-
tion to other "Landsmanschaften" sons who might have given their
their own
Pianos, both in the esteem univer-
organizations, do alFtheir relief work, blood for the liberation of
way manufacturing and ownership
people,
but
who
were
instead
going
WARSAW—The well-known Jew- thru the Joint Distribution Committee
sally accorded it and In the musical
has never passed from the control
to
the
slaughter
house
like
sheep
to
ish publisher, 13. Kletskin, of Vilna, solely, At the same Conference, the
delight and satisfaction inseparably
and immediate supervision of the
suit the eternal enemy of the Jew—
has been arrested on the charge that well-known journalist, Mr. Leo Wolf-
associated with its ownership.
it wa, at this point that a loud knock
direct descendants of the builder
he is connected with the right wing son, who has recently visited Rou-
was heard on the door.
of the Bund, and he is now confined mania where he had interviews with
Mr. Karchimbaum opened the door
the King, all the Ministers, and the
in the Lukisher prison.
in time to hear a whisper, "Run, the
SI'E IN W A Y Grand and Upright
leadera in Jewish affairs, will lead a
Poles are coming," when, stooping
discussion on the political situation
Pianos
down, he noticed one of his best
and the future of the Jews in Rou-
friends giving out his last breath.
mania, and will make suggestions as
STEINWA Y Duo-Art Reproducing
His friend was shot in the breast and
to how the American Jews can help
Pianos
was dead, having accomplished, how-
Exclusive Michigan Representatives
those Jews in Roumania who have
ever, the purpose he set out for,—
STEINWAY "limits Player-Pianos
not yet obtained civil rights.
to notify the Karchimbaums of the
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Hundreds of delegates of societies
a proaching danger. This was a time
of Roumanian Jews thruout the coun-
—Other instruments accepted in
for action. Without telling his wife
try have signified their intention of
poet exchange.
the reason, he told her to get ready
being present at the Conference,
at once, for they were to go to an-
which is expected to be a great suc-
other city.
cess and to accomplish much good
But fate seemed to be against this
work for the Roumanian Jews.
pious Jewish family. For as they
were about to leave the 'house a loud
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knock was heard at the door, follow-

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