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we esteem most highly, has been unnecessarily severe with first
offenders, especially these offenders who were minors and who had
never before been guilty of infringement upon the
law.
\\'e have
felt occasionally that his sentences were overly severe and that where
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
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President he might have placed a lad upon probation much more good would
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have been accomplished than by the giving of a long prison sen-
as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit,
tence. But we realize that in his desire to make the breaking of
Mich., under the Act of March J. 1879.
the law an unprofitable occupation, he had to lie severe, for after
all the principle of punishment is not so much retaliation on
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part
the
of the state as it is to reform the culprit and to serve as a
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deterrent to others who would break the law without restraint.
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We rejoice that every civic organization and every newspaper
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n this community have all unanimously gone before the public re-
To Insure publication, all correspondence and
news matter must reach piesting that Judge Keidan and his associates who have served with
ale office by Tuesday evening of each week.
tint in tine spirit and equal loyalty should be re-elected for the en-
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
Editorial Contributor suing term. Detroit is safe with such men upon the bench aid we
urgently h o
The Jewish
pe that the people at large will show their appreciation
Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest 10
be Jewish
people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the for courage and capability so splendidly shown by a great outpour-
views expressed by the writers.
ing at the polls. A great vote will indicate to the judges that they
have urn support and that we not only admire their stand but that
Friday, August 20, 1920.
Ellul 6, 5680. we arc behind them in their just administration of the law.
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
Published
Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co, Ism
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Fresh Air Camp Entertainment
The announcement by the directors of the Fresh Air Camp that
an entertainment is to be given by the children on tho coming Sun-
day, August ';'2. at 7:301).111. will prove of great interest to the many
loyal supporters of the Fresh Air Camp.
The entertainment
has occasioned sprightly activity on the part
of the children for many weeks and the participants, as well as the
visitors, will receive from the occasion unlimited joy. Undoubtedly
the pleasure of the evening will be greatly enhanced by a large at-
tendanc• and it is sincerely' hoped that all who find it possible to
visit the camp on that evening will do so. It is a fine opportunity
for all those who arc unfamiliar with the Fresh Air Camp to acquaint
themselves with the work being (low there and the good accom-
plished, at the same time by their presence lending encouragement to
the youngsters, who have devoted so much time and thought to their
entertainment.
The distance from Detroit will provide a splendid ride and the Camp
can be reached without difficulty in an hour and a half of leisttre
driving. The entertainment starts promptly at 7:30. If you find it
possible to come, do so and bring pits- friends. Take the Lake
Shore road and turn in at Stop 22.
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Theodore Herd
BY ISRAEL ZANGWILL
You dreamed a dream and you have paid the cost:
To save a people, leaders must be lost:
By foes and followers be crucified,
Yet 'tis your body only that has died.
The noblest soul in Judah is not dust
But fire that works in every vein and must
Reshape our life, rekindling Israel's pride.
So we behold the captain of our strife
Triumphant in this moment of eclipse:
Death has but fixed him to immortal life,
His flag upheld, the trumpet at his lips;
And while we, weeping, rend our garment's hem,
"Next year," we cry, "next year, Jerusalem."
A Communial Meeting House
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By Dr. Mao L. Margolis.
of the spiel-, present writer believes that Jewish
peal conditions of Jewry In America
religion covers the meaning of the
must needs confess that somehow we li-brew term, provided we take a large
have not had the vision to apprehend view of teh term religion. In that
that which our communal life stands sense many that consider themselves
most In need o3. The material needs without It share in it unconsciously.
Ent unfortunately religmn is used uy
of the community are well taken care
of. We pride ourselves upon our mag- the average person In a nar'row'er
nificent hOspitals, asylums, settlement
houses of all sorts. Our charitable in-
lotions are equipped with all the para.
phernalia that modernity calls for;
with high-priced directors or managers
and their costly staffs. Education still
lags behind; but schools of all varie-
ties are maintained, though somewhat
modestly, and not at all in proportion
to the need of the community. The
synagogue Is not a communal
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ELTIFO.
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thrill. The thing that we vie after
Les been caller: .iewish culture. lint
Is,s1 smacks of the im•eligious. After
all we shall alleges to the Hebrew
term. Tahadet, s'1 , 1 each
Jew is free
to invest It al 1, whatsoever meaning
lie likes bent. CO!11100!) to all twat be
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haNahadut.
Somehow the Hebrew
term Tahadut Is richer In connotation
than the Anglicized Judaism. Jew oh.
Sea., that modern translation of Yli-
dishkeit. does not express It. It has
mere reference to the Jewish life, to
something tangible, not to the 1ntange
ble spirit which Is the creator ct life
and literature and tellrion alike. The
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Remember, It is the spirit of our be-
longing together that requires a place
for Ito cultivation. All those who hold
that they are Je•a who would have
their children continue to be Jews,
who evince a deep concern In all that
pertains to the Jew In parts near or
fa, they must be brought together, to
exchange views, to discuss In orderly
manner Jewish questions, even to lis-
ten to exposition of the essence of
that which for want of a better name
we may call the Jewish spirit, ruah
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shot
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Hot Rolls - Poppyseed Horns
Begel - Rye Bread - Pumpernickel
Judge Harry Keidan deserves any encomiums we may heap upon
his head. Ile has been mein
the bench in Detroit only a short
while, but during his tenure of office he has shown hitnself to be so
efficient—so broad-minded and so just that the entire community of
Detroit feels itself to be highly congratulated upon having such a
capable representative as the leader of its Municipal Court.
Keidan took office at a time when crime was rampant,
when Judge
highwaymen
by force Aif arms were robbing in broad daylight,
when it was quite the usual thing for automobiles to disappear by
the hundreds and thousands through the year, when people left their
homes at night not knowing whether they %yould return and find
their belongings intact.
.
Judge Keidan proceeded by M straight-forward, fearless demon-
stration of the law to correct these conditions, and be it to his
eternal credit, he has in great measure accomplished the goal he
wished to attain. He has made the criminal element in this city
rcognize the fact that no man can break the law with impunit y.
At times it has seemed to some of us that the Judge, whom
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tato
hint
gait,
Hutt
Rosen's Bakery
Judge Harry Keidan.
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pot
to
hall
wor
ate.
gait
The open-eyed observer
.lot consciousness that It connotes
that which no: ina'etia Ie. but spirit-
Department In charge of Mr. Wm. G. Hamburg.
ual y links Jew to Jew, that which
t h. i . ur he:: 1
3, that which we noel
The activity on the part of Jewish and non-Jewish organiza- tlon. We are congregationallsts in our
New Location
as the expression of our separats ex-
tions during the past week, which resulted in the hasty exit of Ex- synagogue management. The syna- Is ,
Woodward Avenue at John R.
ence,
which
eaglet
be a thing ma.
Premier Iluszar of Hungary from this country, was well spent. gogue is built by and for the few. It terial only, II to race
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The Honorable Monsieur Iluszar had come to America with the could not be otherwise. The very b'Gr eve nrace (•0118
C1011811eSi is not
structure Imposes limitations. More-
hope of receiving from private sources a sum, of money to finance
physical,
but
are
emoinently
mental
over, for the last hundred years, the
the Hungarian government in its monitory crisis. During one of
synagogue through Innovation In ritu- an I spiritual. Am! !t is rooted above
his lectures before a Hungarian audience in America he made the al, has served to divide rather than ah•In Jewish thought, It the sum •t
Oar which si neither
absurd and dastardly statement that if harm should befall him in to unite. The club and the lodge and Jes ish the
America today, 50,000
In this hook nor in that, but dispersed
Jews would be slain itt Hungary. on the mor-• the governiing boards of communal in- In
We close at 1 P. M. Saturdays during July and August
them all.
row. Naturally' the Jews in the country viewed this statement with stitutions bring together those that go
apart
when
they
experience
the
need
Let the communal trseting-house,
utmost horror. They abhorred it not only because the lives of their
brethren were threatened, but they resented it more especially on of worship. But all of these fail to built and maintained by the taxes of
Isoo,o;),-;,))) en-011)1,1s
take In the large mass that somehow,
Protests avainst
Iluszar's remaining in for one reason or another, Is not of serve as the place where this thought
tate De- the synagogue. We cannot and should may be studied, expressed, discussed.
Let there be no teacher or set of
ish ones not exclude them from the body of the
teachers unless the whole community
entative Jewish people or from the Jewish com- has a voice in electing them. Nor
ich per- munity. They claim that they have must these teachers have
any pro-
the Jewish consciousness and that
be its-
.
prietary right In the rostrum which
they cherish it. What the community
.lee goy-
they occupy. It must be everybody's.
needs is a common meeting ground,
each member of the Jewish
indica-
cemmuni-
tion that it will not recognize or sponsor a government dedicated nay, a communal meeting-house.
Every man and woman that has some-
Far
be
It
from
me
to
question
in
to principles of inhumanity and reared upon the rocks of injustice.
thing to say, let them say It from
way the serviceableness of so
Mr. Huszar himself showed more intelligence than we gave him any
there. If the socialist Jew wishes to
venerable an institution as the hyna-
credit for by leaving before he was requested to do so by the State
expound his doctrines, let hint be free
gogue. Nor will it do to hark buck to
to
do so. If the believer wishes to
Department. kVe believe that Hungary is convinced that at least
beginnings and to insist on the fact
American money cannot be used for Flungarian pogroms. It may that the synagogue at the time when be heard, let him be given a hearing.
This Is the same Rosen who formerly owned the Warsaw
Bakery, This Is My
new establishment. Bread baked bare
teach her the valuable lesson that if she seeks American support she the institution came into existence There must be no attempt at Indoctri-
nation. A debate may be preferable
three times a day-8:30 A. M.-2 P. M.-5 P. hi.
must come to these shores with clean hands and she must so estab- was, as its name Indicates, a meeting-
to a ine-sided discourse. Let the
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lish herself that decent and respectable nations shall not fear to house, not a house of worship. Only meeting-house serve as the commun .
associate with her. A direct indication of her reform will be in her gradually did worship become a part ty's clearing-house, where Jewish
immediate change of attitude toward her Jewish subjects. If Hum of the synagogue institution. We must thought may he clarilltied. Let a man
(Opposite Robinson-Cohen's)
gary wants American money and moral support to back her, she take an Institution as it exists today, talk In any language he knows hest,
as it has existed for thousands of
must first prove that she is deserving of civilized recognition.
provided the others who listen will un-
years. Still the synagogue as exclu-
derstand him. Let the house be the
sively a house of worship, to be open-
rallying point of the Jewry of a cony
ed at stated Intervals, Is of recent
'unity in times when, through woe or
date and born of modern conditions.
Joy ,a Jew feels himself attached to
In the ghetto, where old-time condi-
If private businesses were run as inefficiently as are most
partments of our
de- tIons survive, the synagogue Is more his brother Jews more than at other
government the country would be in a state of
tunes, when an emergency arises
Ouse of worship. In European' when
perpetual bankruptcy. This statement is almost axiomatic. It
corporate expression becomes a
countries, at any rate before the
war, necessity of the heart not morally for
hardly requires pri)of. We are so bound by red tape in the admin-
every
Jew
belonged
to
community,
un-
the
purpose
of demonstration which
istration of our governmental branches that in its operation we see
less he chose to withdraw, lie he- now are so
only red tape and not the machinery.
inadequately served by
onged to community because rich and processions or mass-meetings
• Whom-
Possibly we feel this inefficiency somewhat acutely due to the poor were taxed by the community.
soever and wheresoever Jews are as-
fact that in our own experience in the past few weeks we have seen The synagogues, no less than the hos-
sembled to give utterances to the
a very good evidence of it. A young nuts, who entered America pitals, belonged to this community. deepest stirrings of the ewish mind,
from Canada incorrectly, was seized by the immigration inspectors Naturally one's seat had to be paid for there Is worship of the God of Israel.
Under Present Condition s Is
and placed in jail,
over and above the communal tax.
It is a larger view of what the times
awaiting deportation papers for which request
Sure
Proof of the Fact That
had been made
But a Jew who entered any of the
call for that is here attempted. Would
at Washington. After five weary weeks spent in synagogues
maintained by the comma-
jail during the sweltering weather of July and August the young
that the counsel were heeded and out
nity had a proprietary feeling; It was
of this suggestion, humbly submitted
immigrant was suddenly released from jail without bail by one
I if his as well as the next man's; he was tothe thoughtful, to rabbis and lay-
the inspectors or government attorneys. Evidently the powers that
not a guest in sonitbody else's house.
MILLER REPUTATION
men,
to believers and unbelievers, to
be in Detroit had given up in disgust the idea of ever getting any I have wondered often why the Jews
MILLER PRICES
old-fashioned and modernists, there
action through the department at Washington. But be that as it In this country have never seen the
come In this la'rge Jewish center or
are
holding
our old customers and bringing In new ones.
may the young man is now at liberty and he finds himself in
need of cathedral synagogues, situated
another, the communal meeting-house
quandry. Ile has
a deep
If you BOOSTER.
are not on our customers' roster, give an a trial and become
in the heart of the Jewish settlement
no legal right to stay in
MILLI'lt
—the
visible
expression
of
the
oneness
America
because
he
en-
tered illegally and he cannot go
which should be the property of the
of Jewish thought and Jewish hope
hack to Canada because he is not a
citizen of Canada and because he cannot receive passports in community. Of course, the obstacles amidst all the variety of formulas In
are
obvious. But even If such a struc-
America to take him across.
which they clothe themselves. But
.
ture arose, it would not attract large
If he should cross the river he would
It must not be a gift to the people un-
possibly' again be seized elements of the community that In less it Is by the people themselves,
and put t
a place of detention there and finally lie might be sent back one way or another must be brought
to Russia from where he came over seven
rich and poor alike, though naturally
years ago. We suppose Into contract with the whole communi- each should tax himself according to
that the young man, as lono. igs
he
stays in America, perhaps for the ty of which they know themselves to his means. It must be a corporate
rest of his life, will r himself in the position of the ancient be a part. Nor will the need be served
institution vested in the whole Jewish
Mariner who, )• are told, was between the devil and the deep blue by the Institutional synagogues and community, represented through the
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sea. We that this one evidence of
the Jewish renters that are springing
Phone
government inefficiency will up In various large cities. For these mass of large and small contributors
not pro 114111
finewood
Ave.
inconvenience to him during his whole stay with us.
who thus designate themselves chil-
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still remain exclusive corporations. dren of the community.
We operat e our own
finIsh mill,
They are not built or maintained by
communal tax.
American Money for Hungarian Pogroms
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