THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION VOL. VIII. NO. 3. BUREAUS IN ITALY AND LODGES SEEK TO SWITZERLAND AID An Appeal for Service JEWISH IMMIGRANTS SOLVE DETROIT'S HOUSE SHORTAGE BY FRED M. BUTZEL. Committee from Numerous Civic and Fraternal Orders to Appeal to Governor PISGAH LODGE MEMBER- SHIP DRIVE STILL ON "5,000 Members for P is g a h Lodge," Slogan of Local Lodge, Says President Goldsmith Delegates of fraternal and civic or- ders, representing many thousands of Detroit citizens, will meet Thursday, June 24, in the lodge rooms of Pisgah Lodge, No. 34, I. 0. II. B., to deter- mine upon a definite mode of proce- dure in combating rent-gouging. Rep. resentatives will be sent to Lansing authorized to act in an effort to bring about a special session of the Legis- lature to take up profiteering. Arrangements for the coming meet- ing were made at a preliminary hear- ing held last Thursday in response to over 200 invitations sent out by Pis- gah Lodge. Arthur E. Fine], who act- ed as chairman, was empowered to ap- point a committee of three to draw up resolutions which will be present- ed June 24. Special Session Urged. It is proposed that the approved document be presented to Gov. Sleep- er who will be urged to bring about emergency legislation. The courts are overflowing with tenants fighting eviction," Lester J. Leopold declared at the earlier meet- ing. "Welfare societies are taxed to the limit and everywhere are families with no place to live. These condi- tions constitute an emergency. There is need of concerted action to stop wrongful evictions from private dwell- ings, from exacting grossly unfair and excessive rents, and to prevent own- ers from evicting tenants except after substantial notice!' The delegates agreed to take up with their respective lodges the prop- osition to expel any member found guilty of profiteering or who takes unfair advantage of his tenants. Barnett is Secretary. Robert L. Barnett, of the Private Soldiers and Sailors Legion, was ap- pointed secretary. Mr. Pixel an- nounced that the committee to draw up the resolution would include H. D. Smith, of Palestine Lodge No. 357, F. & A. M., and Martin E. Ball, of Wayne Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Among the organizations represent- ed were the Detroit Federation of La- bor, Veterans of Foreign Wars, vari- ous lodges of Masons and Odd-fel- lows, Private Soldiers and Sailors Le- gion, and Knights of Pythias. It is expected that every representative civic and fraternal order in the city will send delegates to the June 24th meeting. Membership Drive Still On. The warm weather has marked no abatement in the steady progress of Pisgah's membership campaign. De- spite the class initiation held at Elk's Temple last Monday night at which several hundred members were added to the lodge, applications for member- ship have been pouring in in sver- increasing numbers, necessitating an- other large class initiation next 'Mon- day night, June 21, at a regular meet- ing of the lodge to be held in its rooms, 25 Broadway. Members hold that the continued success of the drive during the hot weather may in a large measure be traced to President Leon Goldsmith's stirring appeal made at the last class initiation. when he urged each mem- ber to bring in at least one additional member into Pisisali's ranks. The large gathering arose then as one man, pledging their support to the campaign. Time International Order of B'nal Brith rings with the record achieve- ments of Pisgah Lodge," President Goldsmith declared at the last meet- ing. "It is indeed gratifying to view the zeal, the enthusiasm, the vim and the zest with which each individual member in the lodge worked in this intnbership campaign. It speaks well for the future of Pisgah. "I look back on the tremendous success of our campagin as in a daze," President Goldsmith remarked. "In a single year to have become the larg- est single Iniai (frith lodge in the world is indeed an achievement, but our possibilities have not even been probed as yet. I look forward confi- dently to a glorious future for Pisgah Lodge, a future of achievement not merely in numbers, but in constructive accomplishments in every branch of human activity. Let our slogan hence- forth be '5,000 members for Pisgah Lodge.'" JEWISH JOURNALISTS OF LODS ON STRIKE LODS, Poland—The Jewish jour- nalists and employes of the two news- papers, Tageblatt and the Folksblatt, which appear in this city have gone out on strike. Their demands were for a 100 per cent raise in wages and an extra 30 per cent increase for over- time. Both newspapers are issued by the Kahn Bros. Publishing Co. One of them is Zionistic, while the other is Nationalistic. Per Year, $3.00; Copy, 10 Cents DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY JUNE 18, 1920. BASEL—A special bureau has been established in Switzerland to aid Jewish immigrants passing through the country. The founder of this new institution is the Rabbi, Dr. Cohen, and its president is the well-known millionaire and philanthropist, I. Dreyfus Brodski. The organization of Jewish com- munities in Italy also decided to found similar bureaus in all the larger Italian cities. It is a known fact that there are at present many Jewish refugees from l'oland and Ukrania wandering over western Europe seeking to cross the ocean to escape their misery. Un- fortunately. these destitute brothers and sisters of ours have not the means of accomplishing this. The newly established bureaus may be able to extend much needed help to these homeless Jews, Dr. M. Benmosche Back From Europe Detroit Surgeon Completes Inten- sive Study in Hospitals Abroad —Interviews Jewish Leaders RECEIVES HONORS FOR POEMS ON BOARD "CELTIC" Dr. M. Benmosche, prominent local surgeon and member of the physi- cians' staff of the Deaconess Hospital of Detroit, arrived home on Tuesday after spending two and a half months in Europe, during which time he made an intensive study of European meth- ods in surgery in the interest of his hospital. Besides his study in the hospitals of London and Paris, Dr. Benniosche made a careful observa- tion of general European conditions with particular reference to the Jew- ish problems. He was privileged to spend consid- erable time with the world-famous Jewish writer and thinker, Israel Zangwill, and other leading interna- tional figures. Dr. Benmosche will make a detailed report of these con ferences in a forthcoming issue of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle. Dr. Benmosche spent most of his time in the Middlesex Hospital in London. Here he viewed the last offi- cial operation of the venerable and renowned Sir John Bland-Sutton, who retired from the hospital staff, having reached the age of 65 years. The De- troit surgeon also attended important operations at the Hospital Dieu and Hospital Cochin in Paris. Tours Battlefields. Dr. Benmosche was given permis- sion to make an extended visit to the devastated territories of France and DR. M. BENMOSCIIE. Belgium. the battlefields of the World War. Ile also visited Germany. "No modern man's education is complete until he sees with his own eyes the horrible desolation and destruction that now afflicts Europe." said Dr. Benmosche. "The devastated afeas may truly be termed the 'Land of the Dead.'" Regarding anti-semitism abroad, he said: "I did not find the so-called anti- semitic campaign in England as viru- lent as I was led to believe. It has taken on the form of an attempt to prove that the famous Jewish leaders of whom the Jews boast were not the only great men in their respective fields of endeavor. I do not believe there is anything vicious in English antisemitism, and am confident that the pernicious agitation will spend itself much as a fad and be forgotten in the mass interest of some new sod entirely different problem." Writes Poem to Sir Thomas Lipton. Readers of the Chronicle will recall Dr. Benmosche as "Enoch Melts," the contributor of the entertaining and instructive poems which have appear- ed weekly in this paper. He was hon- ored by the passengers on hoard the White Star liner "Celtic" on his re- turn to America, when he was unani- mously named "Poet Laureate of the Celtic" in recognition of an orginal poem written in honor of Sir Thomas Lipton, the famous sportsman a pas- senger on the ship. The poetic trib- ute follows: (Continued on Page 6.) The unsettled conditions of the economic world' and the enormous expansion of the field of social service, due to the war, has brought about an enormous turn-over in the personnel of all health, charity, prison and educational organizations. Just as these services were all becoming standardized and professional, the war made demands for quick and intensive training of numberless volunteers for all kinds of social service as adjunct to the army and navy. The armistice has brought a let-down in morale here as in so many places. There arc many young women with college training who have the ability, with a slight amount of additional preparation,' to serve as in- vestigators, probation officers, friendly visitors and office assistants. Some of these women should welcome an opportunity to test out their capacities to enter fields of service which are bound to become more attractive from every point of view. It is quite apparent that we are on the eve of an era in which the teacher, the prison-worker, the pro- bation officer and every other kind of efficient social worker is to come to proper recognition. Many people are temperamentally and physically unfitted for this kind of work and should not attempt it. But in the case of many young women, it is just a case of self-indulgence, and lack of seriousness that an attempt to offer a reasonable service is not made. Domestic circumstances may prevent the offering of full-time and the consequent entry into the ranks of paid, professional workers. Even then a part-time service should be accorded. However, pan-time serv- ice, to be effective, must be given regularly for a very definite period with all the ardor and iiderest that is given its full-time service. The objection hitherto to amateur social service has not been unintelligence or its lack of good-will, but its irregularity and lack of conscience. Dur- ing the war, however, our women did learn to cut and sew and cook and wait and visit and teach and bandage and console not only with the affections which their wards required, but with a regularity and con- scientiousness that the most efficient factory-head could demand. Are we our brother's keeper? Arc the maimed, widowed, sick and ignorant of civilian life entitled to service from the intelligent, healthy, educated and rich members of our social organization? Is there any special obligation on the part of our young women, both married and unmarried, who belong to the so-called "leisure class" to surrender some part of that leisure not only to serving others but to improving them- selves by coming in close contact with other aspects of life? THE UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES need competent and able workers. The number of available workers with adequate professional training is very limited. Volunteer workers arc wanted, both to take training with a view to becoming full-time social workers and with a view to becoming volunteer part-time workers. THE LEGEND OF JEWISH POWER BY DAJEM If Jewish seminaries and the term can well include every variety of rab- binical institution everywhere, gave a course in say Mazzini and Disraeli instead of in homiletics the course of Jewish history would swiftly run in a new direction. The suggestion is not the result of any particular ob- jection to honteletics—some other course might just as easily he skipped in favor of those named, except that the inbreeding of the Jewish mind— clerical and lay—on homiletics is re- sponsible for one of the outstanding differences between the Jewish and the non-Jewish world. The Jews, col- lectively, are not realists; they im- pinge on the theory whatever it may be, allowing facts merely to serve as evidence of the correctness or other- wise of the idea. The facts them- selves are entirely a minor consider- ation, of no more value than any table use as analogue. One cause of this must lie the Jewish ability, or desire, to explain ideas by ideas, never permitting two and two to make four, and acknowledge that the sum has been correctly added in the world of national, political or social affairs. Because of this it is always possible to explain national problems by re- ligious arguments, and to find for religious questions answers composed of highly polished phrases the prin- cipal merit of which is the polish. The remedy suggested would supply in some measure the romanticism dearly beloved of Jews, and all appreciation of what Jews most need in any col- lective grouping—from congregation to nation—an understanding of the positive effect of political environment upon any group of people. In other words, such a course would compel the student instead of evolving man- kind out of his inner consciousness to face the facts. Whenever sermons are made up of substantives instead of adjectives the real change in Jew- sit lite will have begun. All this musing has been suggested by first, a position of a wonderful myth and, second, a stern fact. First the fact: A patient reading of hun- dreds of abstracts of sermons deliv- ered during the war shows that hard- ly a Rabbi has contributed anything to the world of thinking produced by the war. View it as a Jewish ques- tion, or a world question, a religious or a moral problem, what is there to show of Jewish definite thought, in- genuity or originality? Practically no rabbi has said a commanding word; most limp well behind the tone of the non-Jewish world which is on the average equally ambling and undis- tinguished. This is not a criticism of the paucity of rabbinic genius. The explanation is at hand. The Jews are everywhere a minority, practically forceless, and distinctly and delib- erately non-cohesive. Even the most orthodox Jew is an assimilator when it conies to world affairs for such are mostly new to him. He has not "mix- ed in" where his opinion has not been sought. The socialists who do not want to be Jews are just as Jewish as the orthodox when it comes to imitation, they merely imitate some- thing different, but with more fervor and more assurance that because it is imitation it is best. Over against these facts, sad to those who desire Jewish unity and all it might produce, is the world myth of Jewish solidarity. The world, which means statesmen, politicians, publicists and journalists, believes that Disraeli's romantic character "Si- (Ionia" really exists and guides the courses of this planet. "Like peas in a pod" is the world view of the Jews. Bright men, thoroughly used to noting the differences that prevail among, say the Irish, believe that the difference between a Jewish nationalist and an assimilator is merely that the Irish says what he thinks, and that the latter has some obscure reason for disguising his real thoughts. That there are Jewish pro-allies, Jews who are pro-German, and some Jewish neutral pacifists, this, says the wise non-Jew, is merely another exhibition of Jewish cleverness, apparently to divide forces so as to be in every camp, and still maintaining in some in- visible corner a mechanism that auto- matically controls everything. Though thoroughly familiar with the Jewish ability to meet every attack with a world penetrating outcry there is a distinct belief in Jewish insensibility to mere human passions in the affairs of the world at large. Prevision, say these non-Jews, is the great Oriental asset in the Jewish character. The Jew sees ahead and leaves nothing to chance. And his internationalism pro- vides the ropes of the net whereby he can hold the world in a prison of his determination. It is most fascinating to listen to this gospel of the great Jewish power, an all determining influence that has made the Russian revolution, main- tains the Russian chaos and is now playing a three-cornered game in Lithuania, l'oland and Ruthenia. l'ass over that fact that no one can explain just what purpose is embraced in this mysterious game and you still have a remarkable legend to which all man- ner of men pay fearful tribute. The Jew knows otherwise. Ile knows that Jewish effort is individual, local and eccentric. Still by the end- less correlation of names—Jewish statesmen, judges, writers, musicians, etc., he himself, helps to make a pic- ture. His interest in the recognition of Jews makes to the outside world a semblance of that cohesiveness which no nation really possesses, which any one will ascribe to the oth- er, and which all ascribe to the Jews. But seeing that the Jews have in reality played only the small parts in the great world drama of the mod- ern ages it is remarkable that there should exist this conviction in Jewish solidarity and in the impertuahle mys- terious Jew on top who is settling the fate of nations. In the modern Eng- lish speaking world there may be an explanation in the character of Dis- raeli. He not only created the pic- ture of the mysterious omnipresent omniscient "Sidonia," but he essayed to be it himself. Bismark and Beacon- field were the only two modern statesmen who thought of the world as a chess board with the nations as pawns. Bismarck played a "blood and iron" game which is hateful, while Disraeli fascinated more than one (Continued on Page 6.) ZIONISTS ESTABLISH FELLOWSHIP TO CARRY ON RESEARCH WORK NEW YORK—To carry on re- search work in one of the social, in- dustrial, economic, sanitary or engi- neering problems incident of the Jewish National Homeland in Pales- tine, the Intercollegiate Zionist Asso- ciation of America announces the es- tablishment of a fellowship in Pales- tine for the academic year of 1920.21, open to American college graduates or students. The fellowship carries with it $2,000 a year. Applications will be received until July 21st. The committee of re- wards consists of 'Prof. David S. Blondheim, Johns Hopkins; Prof. Harry Friedenwald, University of Maryland; Prof. Nathan Isaacs, Har- vard; l'rof. Milton J. Rosenau, liar- yard, and L. Mossieff, consulting en- gineer, New York. It is probable that part of the University of Jerusalem, the Hebrew university, included in the Zionist restoration program which l'rof. Pat- rick Geddes of the University of Edinburgh is now building, will be completed in time for the experi- mental work of the scholarship to be carried on in its laboratories. England Announces Palestine Policy Holy Land Open to All Faiths; Complete Religious Liberty Will Be Maintained SIR HERBERT SAMUEL HIGH COMMISSIONER L 0 N DON .— General principles which will be followed by the new ad- ministration in Palestine have been announced by Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner for Palestine. Sir Herbert said: "Complete religious liberty will be maintained in Palestine. Places sacred to the great religions will remain in control of the adherents of those re- ligions. Civilian administration for the country will be established imme- diately. The higher ranks will consist of British officials of ability and ex- perience. The other ranks will be open to the local population, irrespec- tive of creed. Order will be firmly en- forced. The economic development of the country will be actively promoted. "In accordance with the decision of the allied and associated powers, measures will be adopted to recon- struct the Jewish national home in Palestine. The yearnings of the Jew- ish people for two thousand yearns, of which the Zionist movement is the lat- est expression, will at last be realized. The steps taken to this end will be consistent with scrupulous respect for the right of the present non-Jewish inhabitants. NEW LEAGUE OF RELIGIONS MEETS RABBI'S APPROVAL Proposal by Episcopal B i a h op Bury Hailed as "Successor of League of Nations" WILL BRIDGE GULF OF RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE Dr. Krass Declares Movement it Noblest Born in the Last Twenty Centuries NEW YORK.—A League of Relig- ions, which should supersede the League of Nations, said by speakers to be dying at present, was heralded by the leading Jewish ministers of this city at the Temple Israel of llarlem, as the noblest and finest undertaking in the last twenty centuries. Declar- ing that the gulf between Christianity and Judaism must now be bridged, the Rt. Rev. Herbert Bury, Episcopal Bishop for Northern and Central Eu- rope, proposed the scheme and told of its need. Addresses of appreciation were then delivered by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Maurice H. Harris and Dr. Nathan Krass, leading reformed rab- bis in this city. Dr. Bernard Drach- man, an orthodox minister, voiced his approval also, in the closing prayer, 'I hope that the League of Relig- ions will have an easier and a happier birth than the League of Nations," said Rabbi Wise of the Free Syna- gague, "and that no national conven- tion will, after a year or two pro- nounce the funeral rites over its re- mains. We should resolve as Jews, representing the various elements and groups within the grand Jewry, to or- ganize as far as it lies in our power into a League of Religions as explain- ed by Bishop Bury." Morgenthau For It. Before introducing the principal speaker, Henry Morgenthau, Ambas- sador to Mexico, the chairman, said he looked to the proposed league as one which might supplant the League of Nations. "We all feel sadly disap- pointed that as a result of this war there has not been accomplished that high aim for which America entered, the establishing a League of Nations so that justice and brotherly love might exist between the vraious na- tions of the earth. The proposed league of Red Cross societies has also fallen short of expectations and so we look to this union of religious beliefs to promote universal righteousness, brotherhood and peace." Bishop Bury told of his duties in Europe and narrated some of his ex- periences in the fighting areas during the World 1Var. "The great gulf that has long sev- Plans for Large Population, ered us and Jewry," he continued, "The country has room for a larger "will he bridged through this league, population than it contains, and Pales- and I hope to See it come about in my tine, properly provided with roads, lifetime." railways, harbors and electric power, "Noblest Project of Century." with the soil more highly cultivated, the waste lands reclaimed, forests "If this movement is really a serious planted and malaria exterpated, with one and not a scheme seeking Jewish town and village industries encour- converts into Protestantism, Catholi- aged, can maintain a large additional cism, Episcopalianism or Seventh Day population not only without hurt, but Adventism; if its Jewish members be- with much advantage to the present come loyal, God-fearing Jews and its inhabitants. Christian adherents remain or become "Immigration of the character that loyal, God-fearing Christians, then this is needed will be admitted into the is the noblest and finest thing born in country in proportion as its develop- the twentieth century, aye, even in the ment allows employment to be found. past twenty centuries," said Dr. Na- Above all, educational and spiritual than Krass. influences will be fostered in the hope On the committee which called the that once more there may radiate from meeting were Oscar S. Straus, Abram the Holy Land the moral forces of I. Elkus, Louis Marshall, Mrs. Charles service to mankind. These are the I. Hoffman. Dr. Etas S. Soloman, purposes which, under superintend- S. Ochs, Daniel P. Hays, Sam- ence of the League of Nations, the son Lachman, Henry Morgenthau, British government in the exercise of Jacob H. Schiff, Ntrs. m. D. Spor- its mandate for Palestine, will seek to berg, Dr. Nathan Stern, Dr. Stephen promote." S. Wise, Dr. Joseph Silverman, Dr. Cvrus Adler, Benjamin Altheimer, Mr , . Joseph Mayor Asher, Nathan J. CHRISTIANS STRIKE Miller and Dr. Maurice H. Harris. AGAINST SUNDAY LAW LEMBERG—The Joys are not the only ones to express dissatisfaction with the stringent Sunday law im- posed by the Government upon the people of Poland. Resentment against this measure is expressed by the Christian population as well. Quite recently thousands of Christian wo- men organized a demonstration on a Sunday afternoon to protest against the Sunday law because of which. so they claim, they cannot buy sufficient provisions for the family. JEW KEPT AT PRISON WALL WARSAW—A provincial Jew in his long flowing garments stepped on the sidewalk of the military prison on Jika street, ignorant of the fact that he was before such an' institu- tion and that it is forbidden to walk on its sidewalk. He was immediate- ly noticed by the sentinel who grab bed him and forced him to stand with his face to the prison wall. Not knowing what to expect next. the Jew wept and fainted from fear Hundreds were soon gathered upon the scene. Passing policemen were asked to intervene, but they claimed that it was none of their business. Someone called up the Jewish deputy of the Polish Parliament, Dr. Farb- stein, and he at once communicated with the city administration and with the heads of the prison. in the next half hour an order was issv;c1 that 'he Jewish prisoner be freed. ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE POLISH UNIVERSITIES WARSAW, Poland—Prof. Farness, a lecturer on chemistry at Warsaw Univers.t,. was suddenly dismissed from his position. Since no other reason was given, it may be assumed that the peculiar Jewish sound of his name might have had something to do with it. Professor Bandinsky of Lemberg University was called upon to take his place. The latter immediately accepted the offer and made a public statement in which he declared his satisfaction with the policy of Warsaw Univer- sity of replacing Jewish teachers with Poles. This meant that the position left by Professor Bandinsky at Lemberg University had to be filled. At a meeting for this purpose, a resolution was offered to invite Professor Par- ness to Lemberg University to take this scat of learning. Quite unin- vited, Dr. Bandinsky cane to this meeting and protested against the candidacy of a Jew for a professorial position at a Polish University. All his protests were of no avail. By a vast majority the resolution to re- quest Professor l'arness to come to Lemberg University was adopted. Now this resolution must be passed upon by the Polish Government at Warsaw. To all appearances it will not receive its favorable approval. At Lemberg University as well as at Warsaw no Jewish professors are wanted.