THE DETROIT JEW1SH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
'
VOL VIII. NO. 1.
THOUSANDS MARCH
IN CELEBRATION OF
ZIONIST VICTORY
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY JUNE 4, 1920.
JEWISH ORPHANS ARE
GOODFELLOWS' GUESTS
AT ALL-DAY OUTING
Per Year, $3.00; Copy, 10 Cents
Elected President American Jewish Congress
MONTEFIORE LODGE
PLANNING COUNTRY
CLUB AT CASS LAKE
Decoration Day may he fittingly ob-
served nut only by decorating the grave,
of the dead, but also rendering sersict
to the living.
That is the way Al Foreman, Sidney
Alexander and (Ms Newman feel about
it. And to prove that they practict
what they preach, they kidnapped thirty
youngsters from the Hebrew Orphans
Home at 25 Rowena street mid showed
them the time of their young lives.
First, there was an automobile ride
around the island in a truck loaned by
the Gordon-Chapman Company. Eacl
youngster dangled horns, balloons, flag,
and fancy caps, gifts of A. Fishman of
the A. It. C. Novelty Company.
The kiddies were all taken to tht
John Robinson Circus as guests of A'
Foreman, where, in a special section
reser\ ed for them, they sat wide-eyed
and open-mouthed, Fes cling in the sight,
of big elephants and funny clowns ail'
nimble acr o bats. Of course there wa
candy—boxes of it--and crackerjack
pup-corn and ic•-cream cones, and al
the other !soothes so dear to children. It
u% as a tired but thoroughly happy young
group of youngsters that returned from
the outing,
AMERICAN JEWISH
CONGRESS IS MADE
PERMANENT BODY
A recited attendance was present at
the class initiation held by Montefiore
Lodge, No. 12, Free Sons of Israel, in
their lodge rooms, 533 Cass avenue,
Monster Demonstration is
W'ednesday, May 27,
by Detroit Jews on Sunday,
A report of the Country Chili commit•
Nathan Straw, of New York,
May 30.
tee showed marked progress. The lodge
Made President; Funds
has
an option on 101 acres on the west-
---
ern front of Cass Lake, about half a
Pledged to Carry on
JOY EXPRESSED OVER
mile from the car line, Several con-
Work.
SAN REMO DECLARATION
tractors are figuring on the building•
— —
which is to include a large dormitory,
Jewish Legionnaires and War
lance floor, inside swimming pool, bil- NEW YORK DELEGATES
BOLTED CONVENTION
liard room and piled room. The build-
Veterans Head City's
ing will be surrounded by golf links,
Historic Parade.
tennis courts, baseball diamonds, park Delegation to Peace Conference
and driveway. The club will have a
Attacked; New Plan of Work
By Philip Slomovitz.
ornate bathing beach extending a mile
Restores Harmony.
and a half in front of the building for
Detroit, long accustomed to Jewish
bathing and boating.
mass meetings and demonstrations of
PHILADELPHIA, May 31.—Reso-
It is intended to raise the necessary
protest against the pogroms of the
hind, by the sale of shares, to lie paid lutions atfirming the purposes of the
East, learned Sunday that the Jew
American
Jewish Congress and form-
by members only. Applications for
can rejoice as well as despair, that he
memb•rshM to the Montefiore . Lodge ing the structure for the constitution
but awaits an opportunity to rejoice
may lie mailed bigether with full name, of the permanent organizations were
and lay aside his grief.
age, occupation. and check for $12 cov- adopted by the Congress in session here
Memorial Day. 1920, was fraught
ering initiation fee and one year's dues, today. Nathan Strauss of New York
with two-fold significance for the
to Irving Vosler, chairman. blember- Is-as elected president of the new body
Jew, renewing as it did the memory
ship Committee, 222 East Montcalm and a fund of $57,000 was pledged to
of those who had fallen on the battle-
street, or to any of the following of- pay its expenses.
field, and holding forth the promise
Morris Rothenberg, of New York,
ficers. Nlax blichelson, recording secre-
of a future as glorious as the past.
tary. 80 East Euclid; Joe blellinoff, Was chosen chairman of the Executive
Because a handful of the world's
Committee, which includes among its
hairman, Country Club committee,
leaders met recently at San Remo to
Holbrook; Arthur Gottesman, chair- seventy-six members Rabbi Stephen S.
draw up the articles which would
man, Si ,cial committee, 166 Alger ave- Wise, of New York, and Julian Mack.
give the world Jewry its long-
nue.
of Chicago. Among the vice-presidents
promised homeland, thousands of Former British Postmaster Gen-
- - -
elected are Dr. Louis S. Ruebsohn, of
Jews celebrated Sunday with musk,
Philadelphia; Harry Cutler, of Provi-
eral Will Be First High Corn-
with flying bahners and with march-
dence, R. I., and Leon Sanders, Rabbi
rnissioner of Palestine.
ing file on file which included old and
M.
Z. hfargolis, G, Bublick and Solo-
young.
nion Bloomgarden, all of New York.
Everywhere the blue and white of
LON DON—'the Right ffonorable
A group of delegates headed by
the Jewish flag mingled its folds with Herbert Samuel, former postmaster-
Aaron Brown of New York bolted the
the Stars and Stripes and the Union general and secretary for Home Affairs
Birth Control, nitermarriage, Bap- collvention today, but returned later
HON. NATHAN STRAUS
Jack. Nearly two thousand years of of Great Britain, mentioned as the first
when the Congress decided to give one
tism, and Immigration Laws
mourning were forgetter by the 10,- High Commissioner of Palestine when
of their speakers the floor for fifteen
Are Causes.
000 Detroit Jews who signified by the English civil administration sup-
minutes. The bolt came when Mr.
this demonstration their determina- plants the military under the terms of
Brown was ruled out of order when he
tion to perpetuate their ancient tradi- the mandate granted to Great Britain,
FRANKFORT—A newspaper of this entered into
a long discussion of the
tions on the soil of their fathers, and has just returned from a trip to Pales-
city declares in an article that with the
reasons for attacking the work of the
to lend their support to every project tine and declares that the country offers
losing of the doors of Germany to
delegation to the Peace Conference.
making for that end.
An Important and Significant I listoric Analysis
lewish immigration the Jews of Ger-
wonderful opportunities for the future
man) must soon disappear altogether.
Opening Session Stormy.
and that the present financial condition
Took Two Hours to Pass.
Birth control, baptism and intermarriage
is satisfactory, except for the excessive
BY A. NIYERSON, M. I).
A public meeting at which soldiers of
More than three miles in length,
onetilting
Physician,
Ont-patient
Department,
Boston
State
Hospital;
Pint
cost of living.
are giVen as the prime factors in the the Jewish Legion were called on
the line of march took over two hours
to
Assistant Physician, Boston City Hospital Department of Nerve Diseases;
eoinplete annihilation of German Jewry.
Mr. Samuel was sent to Palestine
Assistant Professor of Neurology; Tufts 001111g•
to pass a certain point. !leaded by
keep order marked the opening session
Medical School)
Through birth control the site of the of the second American Jewish Con-
at the head of an English commission
Capt. Herman A'aiss, the grand mar-
average Jewish family is becoming gress this afternoon in the ballroom
to investigate and report upon the eco-
shal, who rode on horseback, the line
The subject of racial disease has m his character in the last generatioo, smaller and smaller and conversion to
nomic and financial conditions of the
of the Bellevue Stratford. Four hun-
of march started from Willis avenue
the added fascination that history. no surmises as to an innate character Christianity also removes a very large
floly
Land
in
view
of
the
probability
dred delegates attended, several of
and Brush street at 2 p. nt. , going
that England would be granted a man- biology, and sociology lend to meth arc permissible. Let us. then ex- number of Jews each succeeding year. whom were ejected from the hall half
west to Woodward avenue, then turn-
cise. On a broad canvass pathology aanine these life factors, governed
Then again intermarriage has been au hour after the meeting began.
by
ing south on Woodward to Adams date over the country, for the purpose can more easily be traced than on a the thesis that
social heredity has sstrthe increase in recent years and In
avenue and returning through Has- of establishing a Jewish national home- minute one, for individual and minute been established through these fac-
Judge Julian W. Mack, of Chicago
the last few• years has equalled if not
tings street. Capt. 1Vaiss was fol- land. Now that the tnandate has been variations thus tend to standardize tors.
president of the Congress, threatened
First, we may state that the surpassed the number of normal Jew-
lowed by the bearers of the American, granted. Mr. Samuel, in view of his in- themselves.
at one time to resign on "a point of
How much history is main factor and the one out of which ish marriages.
British and Jewish banners. the Jew- terest in Zionism and the fact tnat lie written in racial diseases can easily the others arose has been the per•
honor." Fifteen minutes later the Rev.
There are official statistics relating to Dr. Stephen S. Wise of New York, one
ish colors being carried by Private has had an opportunity to study the be summarized by those who know secution of the Jew. Because lie felt
Bookstein, who fought with the Jew- country first hand, together with his how profoundly malaria, yellow fever, his religion to he superior to !Lose this process of assimilation that date of the vice-presidents, wielding the gavel
ish Legion in Palestine. Then came standing as a British statesman, is re- hook-worm and other infectious dis- of the nations with whom lie came in only up to 1916. These show a tre- after an appeal had been taken from a
approximately 200 veterans of the ported atithoritatit els. as the first civil eases have influenced the world. Con- contact, and because he refused in mendous contrast between the first and ruling by the chair, threatened to "ad-
second decade of the 20th century. For
World War and an additional 55 mem- load of the Palestinian govenunent un- tersely, and this is the theme that I any way to acknowledge the nineties
journ the session and disband the con-
der the British mandate.
example: In 1903 there took place in gress for all time" unless order were
bers of the Jewish Legion.
wish to deselop, we may read some- or the reality of
the gods of the peo- I ierrnauy set enteen intermarriages to
In l'oor Condition NOW.
The Jewish Legion members were
restored immediately.
thing of the history of a race in the pie amongst whom he lodged. he was
In his statement, based upon the find- symptoms of the patient that stand, looked upon as unsociable, different, every one hundred Jewish marriages,
followed by several members of the
Dr. Wise, by a supreme effort, suc-
Zionist District Board of Detroit, in- ing, of his official visit to Palestine. he before us. and because of this a sinister person, while in 1915 there were more inter- ceeded in subduing the meeting, but a
marriages than normal marriages, with
cluding Rabbi A. M. Hershman and says: "The country, taken as a whole,
condition approaching quiet was not es-
NOW there need be no difference of one to be restricted and guarded
Mr. Fred M. Butz•l, these being fol- is underpopulated and undercultivated. opinion about the liability of the against. The basis of dislike is nor- a ratio of 104 to 100. In 1916 this ratio tablished until after more than twenty
lowed in turn by the Rabbis Levi, \Vitt' a proper equipment of roads, rail- Jews to psyclionneroses. Step into mally unlikeness. The restrictions dripped to seventy-five intermarriages uniformed soldiers of the Jewish Le-
Aishishkin, Eisenntan and "Ihuntim. ways and harbors, its prosperity is cap- any clinic for nervous diseases in any prior to the Christian era are of no for every 100 Jewish marriages.
gion of the British army, who fought in
hi commenting upon these figures the Palestine, had struggled with about
Then came the second of the 70-odd able of great expansion. With modern large city in Europe or America and importance to us, lint with th.• rise
divisions in the parade, a division methods of irrigation and dry farming, the Jew is unduly represented anions: of Christianity, a competing religion, same newspaper gives as an explanation fifty delegates who refused to resume
for the increase in intermarriage the
which has been named by a number the question of water supply presents no the patients. Figures to those I have
!that was the mother religion becams fact that in the last number of years their seats and had ejected nearly a
of people who witnessed the parade grave obstacle.
dozen men.
collected in the Psychopathis Out• a thing to be proscribed and harried.
as The Hope of the Jewish Peo-
"Now that the cause of malaria is patient Department of the Boston Through the pagans the Jew suf- the Jews have been leaving the small
The session was opened at 3:10
towns
to
live
in
the
large
cities
where
ple." Never before in the history of known and methods of its prevention State Hospital can be shown to be fered no serious misfortunes; with
o'clock with every promise that the pro-
Detroit's parades was there a divi- established, the great hindrance to the true for any clinic in Boston or if the rise of the Christian eltarch the the process of assimilation is much ceedings would be pleasant and peace-
sion so beautiful, so impressive, and well-being of the !simulation could be we follow the neurologist and psy- blackest chapter in Jewish history swifter and more effective. According ful. Dr. Louis S. Ilubensolin of this
the memory of this part of the line diminished and finally removed. The chiatrist into his private oflice. It is begins. The Christian church fell to the assurances of this worthy publi- city made a brief address of welcome.
of march will ever live with those water power of the Upper Jordan is easy to dismiss the subject by saying into a state of ambivalence. In it, sation many if the anti-Semitic leathers Then Judge black took the chair and
who have seen it
sufficient to provide adequate electric that there is a predisposition in the attitude toward the Jews as Christ of Germany are either thernsches mar- delivered the opening speech. Next
ried to Jews or have children who are
force for all parts of the country and race that accounts for this undue oc• killers and as refusing to acknowl
came Nathan Straits, of New
Thousands of Children.
its use in the towns and villages would currence of mental disease, but I con- edge His Messianic character, it married to them.
York, honorary president of the Con-
Headed by a hand of music and the enable numbers of industries to be es-
tend that this is a cheap solution in looked upon them as subjects for
gress, and the witty remarks of the
uniformed ranks of the Knights of tablished with success.
that it ascribes causation to a totally persecution and extermination; but it
veteran philanthropist seemed to put
Pythias, this division was made up
The chief obstacle to the development unknown factor, heredity., whereas en- adopted a curious restricting attitude
the delegates in a good humor.
of about 3,000 children whose enthu- of the country is the excessive cost of
vironment and history can easily be
addition—that the Jews, having
Five minutes later, however, the scene
siasm and anxiety to march to the living, according to Mr. Samuel, but examined and analyzed as to causa-
been witnesses of the Passion, must
was transformed. The trouble started
very end, reached the goal. won for
the financial position is satisfactory as tive influences. Analysis of the life also witness the Triumph. Therefore,
when Judge Mack announced that Louis
them the unqualified title of The
Ity THE GOVERNOR
the growth of prosperity- is already conditions of the Jews in the present they were to be kept alive, b u t to be
Marshall of Nev• 'York, first vice-presi-
Hope." The young Jews' ranks was
bringing in an increased revenue. •ak- day and historically needs to be made made miserable, kept from real living.
dent of the Congress, who headed the
made up of the Detroit Young
To
and
perhaps
is
best
made
by
a
ing up the question of the Arabs, he de-
Jet
the religious basis fur persecution
In paying home to the flag of our Jewish delegation to the I'eace Confer-
Judaeans and the children of the Tal-
clared that opposition to Zionism on familiar with the intimate life and we add this—that with the down fall country we honor not merely a piece ence in Paris, would read his report.
mud Torahs. At the head of the divi-
of the Roman Etnpire, the Jews and of bunting but those things for which
Was not deep. as sheiks and history of his people.
At this point Judge Gustave Hartman
sion, following the K. of P., were the their part
peasants lit ing around the Jewish col-
The thesis that f wish to develop Arabs alone kept the torch of col- the flag stands, liberty, justice, equal- of New York, grand master of the In-
members of the Young Judaea Lit-
ture and science lit. In other words. ity. The flag of the United States dependent Order of 'Frith Abraham,
onies
had
expressed
to
him
their
good
essentially
is
this:
as
important
lot
i
erary Club, the Dr. Herz! Zion Club.
he Jew was easily superior in these symbolizes the national ideals for which jumped to his feet with a point of or-
Young Judaea Dramatic, Buds of will toward the Jewish colonists and practical purpose as biological lie-
matters to his uncouth, warriorlike our fathers were willing to give their der. It 1% as the first in a series of
Judaea. These circles were under the their appreciation of what the Zionists redity, and often mistaken for it, is hosts.
at
This
w hat we may term social heredity.
superiority
had
accomplished
in
Palestine
for
the
brought lives, and in our day their sons have least a hundred "points of order," "re-
leadership of Miss Sylvia Goldsmith,
bout a jealousy, a fear of the ability proved that they too are ready to de- quests for information" and questions
By this is meant that groups of life
good
of
all.
one of the Young Judea leaders.
Jew, a fear that has never Leen fend to the uttermost "Our great, free of privilege" that were made in the en-
factors may be handed doyen for gen- o t
Room for Large .Vumber.
The Daughters of the White and
,. stilled, though the culture of the instintions which are the hope of the 41111V, it% it hours.
erat ions and may influence the
Blue and the I.illies of Zion, and the
"There is ample room in Palestine for ever t. individual i
inv
in the race as pi, 'Western races has reached a very high home as well as the nation."
Knights of Judaea, marched under the a far larger population," lie continued.
,
Hartman Urges Permanent Plan.
plane: a fear that yet actuates
trolly
most
a change had " cm "'
leadership of Samuel Heyman. The "Those who will immigrate will arrive
It is proposed this year to celebrate,
ir if,ceilsic• hostile feeling of neighboring
the stock.
Judge Hartman went to the plat form
Knights were headed by Simon Mor- gradually as conditions permit. They
in conjunction with Flag Day, June
and introduced a resolution calling upon
It is idle, of course. to deny th a.
ris, dressed as a Knight, with shield will not be a pauper class to be a bur-
Now the rest rictions that aros e twelfth as Neighbors' Day to promote the congress to institute itself a perma-
and armor, carrying a banner, "For- den upon the rest, but of the same in- the Jew has an innate character. d , : .
,.
rotil this hostile attitude gradually nation-wide neighborliness, and June nent body, in view of "the existing
ward to Palestine, Knights of Judaea . dustrious progressive type as those who ((went from that of other Jac.- • increased in number and gradually thirteenth as Community Sunday to
emergency in Jewish life throughout tbe
Then came Mr. Kaminsky, another in the last 30 or 40 sears have founded which Perkin , . PredisP"'s
narrow ed the activities
kits of the Jew. impress men and women of all faiths
Young Judaea leader. with the De- the Jewish colonies in the various parts ps)choneuroses and odor mental ‘1,, For many centuries, and especially in with the spiritualizing influence on the world.'
The
eases.
l'ilquestiottably
ele
,
m 1 vl uisr
automatically divided it-
fenders of Zion. These were fol- of the country. They will bring with
countries where Christianity individual of unified neighborhood serv- self into two fiercely antagonistic groups
lowed by about 1,504) Talmud Torah them capital which will help promote tional, clinging to belief and °potion !was late in coining, as in Russia, litany ice.
when Judge black ruled the resolution
children, led by Mr. B. Isaacs, the the prosperity of the whole country to with a tenacity unparalleled in Or iields of activity were open to him.
Therefore, I, Albert E Sleeper, gov-
line of march in this division being the advantage of all the inhabitants. No history of the world, extremely ac III o was a handicraft sman, an agri- ernor of the state of Michigan, do is- out of order
Judge black gave two reasons for his
closed by the remaining Young one who visits the districts in which tive mentally, and its point of mtel- culturist, as well as a merchant, a sue this my proclamation and urgently
Judaea circles, including "Hoivri," these colonists are found can doubt that lett na I achievement to be • °moat ed peddler, etc. But with the rise of request that Monday, the fourteenth action. The first, he said, was tech-
ly
with
the
great
races
of
. the, gu ild s, v,h u is s h e r i se o f s h op k eeping
nical. It was that the resolution could
Forget-Mc-Nots of Zion, Roses of if they had never been established the
day of June, 1920, be observed as Flag
i
not be introduced at the time in viola-
Zion, Stars of Zion and the Tikvas country as a whole would now be much onorld,
w he s curiously Passive in his • classes amongst the Gentiles, and es- Day.
tion of the agenda of the congress,
Zion (formerly the Auxiliary of Zion). poorer. If more were established the resistance and ruinously indomitable pee all' with the amalgamation of
I further suggest, in compliance with which called for the peace delegation
The Defenders of the White and Blue country would in the future be no much in his hold on life and success. Ac- church and State after the Crusades.
(-used of material sm and yet furnish- the Jew became excluded front the the request of the National Neighbors' report. The second, he said, was one
acted as leaders of the Talmud Torah the richer.
Day Committee, that Saturday, June of principle It was that the resolution
children.
"I have been struck by the fact that ing proportionately more social re- soil, in which condition he remained
The Tikvas Zion group was headed opposition to Zionism does not go deep. formers than any other race; accused down to our own day, and still re- twelfth and Sunday, June thirteenth, be violated the organic principles upon
of materialism and
observed respectively as Neighbors' Day which the congress had been founded
by Morris Goldman, who carried the The sheiks and fellabeens (peasants)
a
yet responsible for mains in such countries as Russia,
year ago in Philadelphia. Those prin-
American colors; Sam Silverstein. in the villages around the colonies live the two most ethical religions in the Poland and Roumania, where the and Community Sunday.
world:
said
to
be
dominated
by
love
hulk
of
the
Jews
live.
He
was
for-
On these three days let flags be dis- ciples, asserted the judge, included one
who carried banner that read "Out in the best possible terms with their
of Zion shall go forth the Law and Jewish neighbors. A considerable num- of gain. but the birthplace of the bidden to become a handicraftsman, played on both public and private build- to the effect that the congress should
be temporary only.
the Word of the Lord from Jerusa- ber of sheiks came to see me to ex- ethics that govern his accusers, the though, previous to his exclusion., in ings.
Western peoples; a race of contradic-
lem." Then came the banner of the
Judge Hartmans resolution oat as
Let at honor the flag.
such countries as Italy, he was the
press their good will toward the Jew-
follows:
club, carried by Anna Bookstein, ish colonies and assured me that their tions, inconsistencies, strongly in- main handicraftsman of the country.
Given under my hand and the Great
"Whereas, an emergency exists in
Fanny Blondy, Eva Crawl and Rachel advent had enabled the neighboring dividualistic and extraordinarily so- In other words, he was excluded Seal of the State this first day of June,
cial, it may well he that such a soil
Goldfaden. These were followed first
from all occupations in the pursuit of in the year of our Lord one thousand Jewish life throughout the world de-
cbrubthe boys and then the girls of the Arab villages to grow richer by giving would produce great failure as well which the manual motor side of his
manding and requiring the existence
a model for the improvement of their as great success, psychoneurosis as
nine hundred and twenty, and of the
and maintenance of a permanent Amer-
nature might find expression.
Commonwealths the eighty-fourth.
systems of agriculture and by increasing well as genius.
ican Jewish congress, be it, therefore.
Workers Represented.
Because of the fact that he spoke
the amount of employment. They in-
But even racial character may be a
ALBERT
E.
SLEPER,
'"Resolved, That this congress, in
many
languages,
because
the
Jews
The Jewish National Workers' Al- formed rile that in the Arab villages matter of social heredity. In the face
regular session assembled, does hereby
Governor.
liance came out in full force. all there was no opposition whatever to of what we know about the fac- were scattered in small colonies, and
By
the
Governor:
declare
itself unalterably and unequivo-
dressed in uniform garb, their ranks further immigration along similar tors of the Jew, and of the extraor- because the Gentile looked down upon
cally in favor of the existence and main-
COLEMAN C VAUGHAN,
dinary changes that have taken place
lines."
(Continued on Page SU)
(Continued on page 7)
Held
Herbert Samuel
Tells of Palestine
Jews in Germany
May Become Extinct
I The Nervousness of the Jew
FLAG DAY PROCLAMA
TION.
Secretary of State.
(Continued/ on page 7.)