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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

VOL. VII. NO. 14.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1920.

B'NAI BRITH PLANS
A COMMUNITY BLDG.
FOR DETROIT JEWRY

Pisgah Lodge Starts Intensive
Membership Campaign at Cele-
bration of President Adolph
Kraus' 70th Birthday Anniver-
sary.
--
EUROPEAN LOAN FUND
DRIVE GETS NEW IMPETUS

$2,000 in Cash Raised at Meeting
After Appeal by Morris Gar-
vett—Volunteers Will Person-
ally Solicit Members.

An intensive membership campaign
to continue through June 1st for 1500
additional members to Pisgah Lodge
No, 34, I. 0. B. B., bringing the to-
tal to the 3000 mark and rendering
the local lodge the largest in the
country, was launched Thursday,
February 26, at the celebration held
at the lodge rooms, 25 Broadway, in
commemoration of the seventieth
birthday anniversary of Adolph Kraus,
President of the Constitutional Grand
Lodge of the Independent Order of
Baiai Brith.
More than 100 candidates were ini-
tiated into the Order by the splendid-
ly trained degree team. The Glee
Club, under the directorship of I.
Leonard Braun, sang the ritual ser-
vice for the new "Adolph Kraus"
class, termed so in honor of the
"Grand Old Mau" of the Order. Fol-
lowing the solemn ceremonies a ban-
quet was served in the dining r loin.
Plans for Community Building.

The Myth of Purim

Antwerp Facilitates
Return of Refugees
to Diamond lqdustrY

rvy

Antwerp -- Efforts are being
made to bring back to Bel-

gium the Jewish refugees who

fled to Holland during the war,
and thus restore to Antwerp her

pre-war prestige as center of the
diamond-cutting industry, prac-

tically the whole of which is in
Jewish hands.

The diamond merchants, cutters,
polishers and other artisans. who
were Jews fled to Holland before
the German invasion. A few went
to England. The Belgian govern-
ment is doing what it can to
facilitate their return.

MAYOR COUZENS LAYS
HIS CAR PLAN BEFORE
PISGAH LODGE MONDAY

Per Year, $3.00; Copy, 10 Cents

BY DAVID BROOKFIELD.

Twenty-two hundred years ago, or reformed—and yet Judaism is
when Artaxerxes reigned King in Judaism still. In the remote parts
Persia, they were telling the story of Caucasia the effigy of Haman hangs
as they tell it today — the story of a still from the iron rings which is set
Queen, flower of Jewish womanhood, swinging to and fro above the open
of a Haman who plotted the ex- lure; in Germany still, the men of
termination of her beloved people, of dough are eaten by the gleeful chit-
a Mordecai, quick to advise, courage- Mann as in the days agone; along the
ons and strong with the courage shore of the Red Sea the men, return-
and strength of Israel. ing from the morning services, pre-
Twenty-two hundred year ago— tend still to be consumed with anger
twenty-two hundred years in which• as they toss the women's Haman-
great scholars have come and gone, blocks into the flames.
scholars ransacking each remote and
And the story of Mordecai and Ila-
hidden corner of the ancient writings man and Esther and the King is ever
to find some textual detail upon which shifting, ever changing—yet it chang-
to spend a life of study. The fruits oh not. Myth it may or may not be,
of their toil have been many. Great but this has Purim in common witl
truths have stood boldly forth. Un- the mythological—it is replete witl
certain meanings have been clarified. mystic 'symbolism. Down througl
A mountain of commentary is to lie the ages the story has come, perpetu-
their eternal monument, than brass ated by this simple fes6.• x l in the
more enduring. And yet—. month of Adar. Sometimes the blot-

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Condemns Actions of D. U. R.
in
and Urges Consideration of
Municipal Ownership.

f.

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HUNGARIAN ATTITUDE
LEADS TO PLAN FOR
JEWISH UNIVERSITY

Seven-Year-Old Boy
Pronounced Wonder
by Many Educators

Syracuse, N. Y.—Babbling the
Hebrew togue at the age of four
and a half; making translations
from the ancient Bible manuscript
into pure English at five, and ready
to graduate from grammar into
high school at the age of seven is
the record of Moses Finkelstein,
pronounced by the educators of
Syracuse University the most re-
markable infant prodigy in the his-
tory of American education.
If Moses maintains his present
rate of progress, lie will meet the
university entrance requirements at
the age of ten. He is the youngest
graduate ever to be sent from a
grammar school in the l'inited
States.

Students Barred From Budapest
Institutions to Attend College
and Vocational School Spon-
sored by Sandor.

ANTI-SEMITES ACCUSE
JEWS OF BOLSHEVISM

Systematized Propaganda Ending
in Pogroms Continue, Despite
Refutation of Charges by Au-
thorities.

WEEKLY PUBLICATION
IS ESTABLISHED FOR
JEWS OF SOUTHWEST

Nathan J. Gould, Managing Editor
Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
Starts Paper in K. C.

BUDAP•ST—Under the goad of the
Hungarian reactionaries the Jews are
awakening. True to their tradition,
they are instituting reforms and pro-

grams for communal betterment as a

result of months of adversity, which
years of prosperity would fail to ac-
complish.
The impetus given to Jewish ac-
tivities here by reactionarypropa-

ganda directed against the "jewish .
Bolshevists" is incalculable. While a
great many have had themselves bap-

tized and have nominally become

Christians, hundreds, especially of
Charging the Detroit
Rail- 4`
.Mr. Nathan J. Gould, co-publisher the cultured classes, are returning
way with accepting the money of
and managing editor of the Detroit more resolutely than ever before to
Judaism.
Detroit car riders and refusing to
Jewish Chronicle, will return to De-
..;;
I •
give adequate service in return,
Outbreak of Anti - Semiticism.
(reit next week after an absence of
alayor James Couzens proceeded to
two months in Kansas City, during
Anti-Semitic agitation long slum-
lay his plan for municipally owned
which time he established the Kansas bering in the colleges and universi-
and operated lines before members
City Jewish Chronicle, the only Jew- ties of Hungary has broken into
of Pisgah Lodge No. 34, 1. 0. It. B.,
ish-English weekly in the great South- flame. Clashes between students have
en the evening of alonday, March 1.
west, serving the Jewish people of become of daily occurrence. Despite
Bit by bit the alay or built up his
:Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkan- the fact that 90 per cent of the scien-
case
against
the
D.
V.
R.,
laying
bare
sas and parts of Iowa and Nebraka. tific work of Hungary is done by
Acting President Leon Goldsmith.
the principal speaker of the evening• its shortcomings. He cited facts to
The first number of the Kansas City Jews, leaders of the Anti-Semitic
prove the company was prepared to
ill lv mu is
GPM"
Jewish Chronicle was issued on Jan- movement have expressed a desire to
was accorded a great ovation when
OY
spend huge sums of money in defeat-
nary
2, 1920. Filling a long felt want bar all institutions of learning to
he touched upon the subject dear to
ing the city car plan at the election
in this vast ;mil prosperous section of Jewish students.
the heart of every Pisgah member-- April 5.
\Vhat can it matter that the sages decai who sat at the King's gate is
the country it received instant recog-
the erection of a Community Building
Funds for School Are Raised.
"1% hat I want," said the Mayor, have traced the "Purim myth" to a transmuted into a great military cony nition :11111 support from every Jewish
in . Detroit for the housing of Irina'
'is a real expression from the city, festival of Persia, and that to an As- wander—a Dreifus—, the Hainan is
The Jews of Budapest were quick
clement. Soon after its appearance
With, as well as other Jewish ac-
lot from a small portion of the voters. syrian, and that to a Babylonian, and the dark, persistent strain of anti- it was voted the official organ by the to reply. Under the leadership of
tivities. The plan, according to Mr.
Honest objections I want to hear, that to another that goes back tin the Semiticism, the Esther is the public
Paul Sandor, famous as a politician
Mind Ineith lodges of this district, the
Goldsmith, making possible the ven-
but I do hate this misinformation that grey dawn of little itself? What can sense of right and justice, the King frith Abraham Order, and is also re- and himself a Jew, a sum equivalent
ture, is to sell each member of Pisgah
to $25,000 was raised, almost over-
's being circulated in literature sent it matter to the Jew, to whom the is the nation of France, quick to
garded as the official news medium
Lodge a $100 Community Building
'Purim myth" is as much a part of right a wrong, to restore to favor the
out anonymously."
by the congregations and a large night, as the nucleus of a fund which
Bond, and its success will he largely
The Mayor denied the propaganda his sacred tradition as his seven- unjustly punished. Sometimes, as in number of communal and social or- will be used in establishing a Jewish
dependent upon the results of the
ntroduced by opponents to his branched candlestick and the crossed time countries of the old world still
ganizations. The editorial writer of University, a vocational school and
membership campaign. With 3000
students' home. Here, besides the
scheme, which stated that heavier 'triangles of David—what can it mat- itazed with the blood lust of war, the paper is Dr. Harry
I I. Mayer,
members on its roster, the local lodge taxes would hale to be
ter
that
Esther
was
".\
sthar"
the
star
I- . +1111211 is connoted by untold millions, Rabbi of Temple Jelindah
heViell 10 put
of purely literary, scientific and cultural
will be enabled to raise from $250,000 the Plan
into operation. The $15.000,- goddess of a pagan faith, that the the gibbet of the pogrom is erected— Kansas City, Mo.
courses, will be taught mechanical en-
to $300,000 with little difficulty for a
00) needed, he said, must come from imposibility of a Jewish consort to a and it serves its purpose. Esther is
gineering, woodworking,
clothing
building that wil prove the wide of
the sale of bonds, the interest on Persian king has definitely been point- tardy—tardy—in coming, and the
manufacture,
agriculture and forestry.
Mid-NS'estern Jewry and which will
which, as well as the principal to be ed out'
smile of a gracious King seems over-
Sandor is considered one of the most
fill a long-felt want in the community.
The "Purim myth" is no myth to long Withheld.
retired from lime to time, must come
eminent statesmen of his time. For
New Membership Campaign On.
from the 5-cent fares actually re- the Jcw, and Esther, the spirit of
l'et it needs neither the scholar
many years he has been a deputy in
Esther, is today as concrete a reality nor the sage to tell us what elements
l.. ithounded enthusiasm was mani- rived by city owned "es-
the Hungarian parliament, and in
"The cry of 'politics' is made is the pyramids of Gizeh. This is in the Purim legend are prophetic.
fest when Charles Rosenthal. tine
running for office in the present elec-
newly appointed chairman of the against municipal ownership by some .ne of the two great holidays when They are there, as unalterably a part
tion, has not feared to demand that
Propaganda Committee, suggested the opponents," said the Mayor. ".1s a the Jew is bidden to make merry, to of the Jewish tradition as the Mosaic
the government furnish the money
adoption of the familiar and never- matter of fact there is more politics realize that life, through God. is good. code itself. Herein is a promise--
necessary to found the projected uni-
versity.
failing successful plan of working in and more chance for politics under Not eVell Chanukah gives him that the promise of survival, of deliver-
teams, each team, in turn, to consist private ownership than there would license "to drink till he know not ance from the hands of the enemy at
The Jewish Hospital here is at
ear whether he be cursing Haman or the last a promise of racial continu-
of ten men. Thus, with 100 enthu- he with the city owning tin
present besieged by Jewish students
blessing NI ordecai.•
ity till time -shall be no more. The
siastic members actively soliciting, lines."
who have been removed from the
It is indeed significant of Judaism history of the Jew is one long recital
Mayor Couzens spoke in detail of
headed by their zealous leaders, the
municipal univeFity and who are
success of the membership campaign the plans that had previously been hat neither self nor selfish enjoyment ti almost miraculous deliverances
eager to continue their studies.
bids fair to exceed the most sanguine submitted to the voters and iccontiit- may long predominate. Even in the from extermination. Egypt—the Baby-
While it is true that many promi-
expectation. The announcement that ed for their failure. During the tines- listening to his children motioning lonian capacity—the story of the Per-
nent Hungarian leaders are inclined
over 500 new members were initiated tion period which followed, the their Puriin play, rejoicing that win- sian king—all deliverances from evils
to share the attitude of Franz von
into the Lodge within the past thri c i. Mayor said that during the last street ter is nearly over and gone and the beside which the pogroms of "an en-
Heinrich, Minister of Commerce, who
months speaks well for the future if tar strike in Detroit he felt certain 110e1,-- and the birds are again to ap- lightened age" are ripples on the sur-
recently declared that "every class
thole was collusion between the com- pear union the earth—even then the face of the sea of time. The Jew
Psigali Lodge.
or religious dissension is a misfortune
Myer S. Pink, who served as Chair- pany officials and the onion leaders I cw is to bethink 16111Si:if of the poor has ceased to believe, as his Christian
for an already overburdened and over-
man of Arrangements, spoke 411 the to force the citizens to pay higher and the unfortunate and besides the neighbors halv e professed to believe,
taxed Hungary," it is also true that
tokens
sent
them,
not
in
charity
but
fares.
that
his
trials
result
from
the
hand
"Noble Ideal of Self-Sacrifice," citing
from Prague and other outlying dis-
Albert Cook took issue with the in love of all humankind, he is to of an offended tool. It is a good and
tricts have come persistent rumors
the example of the poor fisherman
of prejudice, ill - treatment and sys-
who witnessing for the first time a Mayor on some previous statements place the three half-pieces of silver gracious God, who by this constant
in
the
box
at
the
Temple
door,
to
aid
process
of
weeding
out
the
unfit
a
dative
to
conditions
in
(Teed:mil.
n d
gory battle of Roman gladiators
tematized propaganda culminating in
them in their need. And it is the preserving the fittest for survival, is
"Bet you a new hat," saint th
riots and pogroms.
threw himself into the arena in an
delicacy of the Jew, , springing from guiding
gu the Jew onward and ever on-
attempt to put an end to the torture, Mayor, "that Cleveland never owned
Trial of Attorney for Bolshevism.
his
ancient
culture
which
lays
the
ward
toward
his
destiny,
as
shrouded
its
own
lines."
and was killed himself as a result.
A striking instance of injustice is
"Make it a hat and an overcoat," command upon each receiver of gifts, in mystery as that destined goal may
Nathan J. Gould
"No single life has ever been more
found in the case of I.udwig Magyar,
on matter how poor he nay be, to be.
nobly avenged," said Mr. Fink. To- said Mr. Cook.
a Jewish journalist and attorney of
give a mite onto two others, who may
The
Kansas
City
Jewish
Chronicle
"A
hat,
an
overcoat
and
a
suit
of
The
faith
of
the
Jew
had
been
day 300,000,000 people turn their faces
le in greater need than himself. Nor founded upon the rocks when yet the is issued as an eight-page six-column Budapest, who, in defending a client
daily in prayer and reverence to the clothes," said the Mayor. Ile laughed.
accused of Bolshevistic utterances,
Church of St. Peter, that edifice erect- In concluding, lie urged members of at this season, says the 1.aw, is he to human sacrifices smoked upon the newspaper following the style of
distinguish
between Jew and Gentile, alters of Baal; when the long lines o: make-up of the Detroit "Chronicle." met with such veiled hostility on the :
ed in the memory of that fisherman.' tine bilge to vote for or against the
part of the court that he left the
"A few years ago a steamer sailing measure, April 5, but at all events friend or foe, but to give to all alike. Nennirlian slaves caricd up the frank- This form was originated by Mr. court room in disgust. For
It is the Jew's great parade:: that incense and myrrh to the temples of Gould about three years ago when
this andi.
across the Atlantic came in collision to vote.
he changes, yet he changeth not. Osiris. It saw the birth of Zeus and he changed the old four-column according to the wording of the sent.„
with an iceberg. Two thousand pas-1
Twenty-two centuries since a Haman Jupiter, watched the rising of the magazine style of the Detroit "Chron- country which gave him the oppor.
sengers found a watery grave that '
swung from the ne•-forged gibbet star of Galillee, glanced without icle" to the . present popular news-
(Continued on Page
night. Among them was Mr. and
chains• since au Esther pleaded for curiosity at the camel of abiliaminet paper style. The foundation of the
Mrs. Isadore Strauss. Ordered to en-
yet another day on which her people swaying across the desert sands. Kansas City Jewish Chronicle is a
ter a lifeboat that had room only for
might celebrate their deliverance by Through all the religious ecstacies of tribute to the newspaper enterprise
one, she refused, prefering death with
putting their enemies to the sword. the world the Jew has remained and ability of Mr. Gould, who has
her life-mate to life alone. Mrs.
First of Series of Three Concerts Under since Mordecai in purple and fine quiet, calm—and when the temples been Managing Editor of the Detroit
Strauss will live as long as love and
linen sat on the right hand of the and cathedrals erected to the faiths "Chronicle" for about Tour years. He
Auspices of Men's Temple Club,
heroism will be honored i nthe world.
King. Centuries, too, have passed, that have come with the passing cen- is considered . one of the most pro-
Monday, March 15.
History will honor her. Monuments
and with their passing wrought their tunics lie mouldering in the dust, the gressive journalists in the Anglo-
On Sunday of this week, the pulpit
will be erected in her memory.
changes, since the beating of the Jew will contemplate the all-envelop- Jewish weekly field in America.
of the Temple Beth El will be oc-
"This is what the Order of B'nai
The first concert of the Detroit I Haman stones and the noise of the mg ruin without hatred, without pas-
The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle cupied by Rabbi Felix A. Levy, of
Britt is doing—it is teaching the no- Symphony String Quartet to be given "klopfers" in the Temple drowned sion, in his heart humility in his
is operated and managed by a pub- Chicago. Rabbi Levy has visited De-
-
hinder the auspices of the Men's out the words of the Idegillah. Jpda- spirit his eternal cry, "Hear,
(Continued on Page 4)
0 lishing company of which Mr. Joseph troit before in connection with his
Temple Club of Temple Beth El will tsin has become German Judaism or Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord J. Cummins is President and Mr. duties as Secretary of -
the
Central
take place Monday evening, March 15, Russian or Polish Judaism, orthodox is One."
Gould Vice-President. The policy of Conference of American Rabbis,
and
in the auditorium of the Temple.
the Kansas City "Chronicle" will be he has a wide circle of friends in
the
The following program will be pre-I
under the control and active manage- city.
seated: Quartet in A major, Op. 41,
ment of Messrs. Cummins and Gould,
Recognized as an exceedingly clear
No. 3, R. Schumann; "Death and the
publishers of the Detroit Jewish thinker, as well as a
most forceful
Maiden," front quartet in I) minor, F.
Chronicle.
speaker
Rabbi Levy should be
Schubert; l'assacaglia, for violin and
greeted by a large congregation on
The Irtiai Brith Leap Year Dance viola, Handel-Halvorsen, blesses.
Pythias Surpass All First Appearance in Detroit of "Zia'.
the occasion of his first appearance in
and Festival, held at the clubrooms. Schkolnik and Evans; quartet in A
the pulpit of the Temple. The sub-
ro," Famous World-Travelled Con-
Former Successes
25 Broadway, Sunday evening, Feb- major, Borodin.
cert Group.
ject of Rabbi Levy's will be "The
This concert, originally scheduled
ruary 29, will long remain a pleasant
Quest for Spirituality," is of especial
New York—The Jewish Forum for interest and timeliness. Services be-
memory with the 200 noes and women for an earlier hearing, but postponed
"Zimro," the Palestine Ensemble,
The Annual Purim Ball of the De-
by reason of the illness of NVilliam
February
is
a
'Memorial
Issue,
dedi-
who participated in the fun.
gin
at II o'clock. The public is cor-
one of the most interesting organiza-
The Pisgah Lodge Glee club, in Grating King, is the first of a series of troit I.odge, No. 55, of the Knights tions that has visited America in some cated to the memory of the late dially invited.
of
Pythias,
whose
membership
is
at
Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Solomon T. II.
full strength and delightful harmony, three that the quartet will give
time, will have a real treat in store
tinder its able leadership, Finzel's or- Temple Beth El under the auspices Jewish, was the extraordinary suc- for the Detroit Jews, and Detroit's Hurwitz, and contains tributes by
cess that was promised by the vari-
Professors
John Dyneley Prince,
chestra at its "jazziest" best, a pleas- of the Men's Temple Club.
music-loving public in general, when
At the second concert, on April 19, ous committees in charge and, c^ was it makes its appearance lucre at the Richard J. H. Gottheil and A. V. Wil-
Iffg reversal of custom during which
ladies boldly accosted the sterner sex, the quartet will he assisted by Ossip anticipated, was attended by the great Arena Gardens at 8:15 p. m. next liams Jackson of Columbia Univer-
pleading for dances, all added to the Gabrilowitsch, pianist. The last con- number of pleasure seeking members Sunday, March 7. The Zimro En- sity; l'rofessor A. S. Isaacs of New
Rabbi Leo NI. Franklin is in the
pleasures of a highly enjoyable even- cert will be given Slay 3. Those of the community, taxiing the mam- semble, composed of A. Cherniayskv, York Univerity; Rabbi Dr. Bernard East in attendance at a series of im-
Revel, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr. IL portant conferences with some na-
ing. The clubrooms were effectively holding tickets for the course are re- mouth Arena Gardens to capacity.
'cellist; I.. Berdichevsky, pianist; S.
The evening of March 3rd will long
Pereira Mendes, Dr. Cyrus Adler, tional organizations, in
decorated for the occasion and pre- quested to use the one dated March
Bellison, clarinet;, G. Besrodny, viola;
his capacity
15, saving No. 1 for the May concert. be recalled as one of the pleasantest G. Mistechkin, first violin; S. Afolda- Rev. Dr. Bernard Drachman, Charles as President of the Central Confer-
sented a festive appearance.
spent
by
not
only
the
younger
set,
H.
Shapiro of Bridgeport, Conn., ence of American Rabbis. While in
Joseph S. Barak was chairman of Tickets may be obtained front Miss
van, second violin, left Petrograd in
the committee responsible for the de- B. P. Clark. 156 Van Dyke avenue; which was present intoto, but also by March, 1918, starting out on a world Ezekiel Leavitt of Boston, and others. the East, Rabbi Franklin will oc-
A committee of 100 prominent
lightful evening. Assisting him were telephone Edgewood 63, at the offices the more mature who only on such concert tour.
cupy the pulpit of Temple Beth El,
Jewish . scholars and citizens is being
special occasions arc inclined to join
I). Shinier. Leon Goldsmith, S. Segal! of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
These Jewish :trusts have recently
New York City, one of the largest
in such jollifications.
formed
to
raise
the
sum
of
$100,000
1334
Book
Building,
at
Kline's
and
at
Wilfred Goldman, Sam Mandell and
completed a ("in- of Russia, being the as a
Jewish congregations in this country.
memorial fund in honor of Dr. He will also
(Continued on Page 4)
1. Leonard Braun.
Himelhoch's.
(font ipned on Page 4)
make an address at Vas-
H urw i tz.
sar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

STRING QUARTET WILL
GIVE VARIED PROGRAM
AT TEMPLE BETH EL

Much Fun-Making
at Pisgah's Leap
Year Party Sunday

RABBI FELIX A. LEVY
AT TEMPLE BETH EL
SUNDAY, MARCH 7TH

PURIM BALL PROVES PALESTINE SEXTETTE
BRIGHTEST EVENT OF OFFERS JEWISH MUSIC
THE SOCIAL SEASON AT ARENA, MARCH 7

Knights of

Wednesday Event.

In

$100,000 MEMORIAL
FUND TO DR. HURWITZ

RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
ATTENDS CONFERENCES

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