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MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

REPORT INDICATES

4) 000 JEWS SAW
MILITARY SERVICE

Jewish Welfare Board Furnishes
First Definite Figures on
Wartime Activities.

1,100 CITED FOR VALOR;
100 HAD COLONEL'S RANK

Ncw York—The total number of
Jews in the service during the war
may be conservatively estimated, on
the basis of available evidence, at
from 200,000 to 225000.
2. Proportionately, although they
constitute but 3 per cent of the total
population of the United States, they
have contributed more than 4 per
cent of the armed forces of the
United States, which, on Armistice
Day, numbered 4,800,000.
3. The volunteer spirit appears to
have been the principal factor in this
contribution. According to the best

evidence there were nearly 40000
Jewish volunteers in the service, or
practically 20 per cent of the total
Jewish contingent. This is a record
unexcelled, as far as now known, by
any other clement of the American

population.
4. The record of honors conferred
upon Jewish soldiers for valor in ac-
tion is notable. No less than 1,100
citations for valor arc on file in the
office of Jewish war records. Of
these, 725 were conferred by the
American command, 287 by the
French, 33 by the British and 46 by
various other Allied commands. Of
the most valued Congressional Medal
of Honor—of which only 78 have
been conferred to date—at least three
were awarded to Jewish soldiers. The
Distinguished Service Cross is worn
by at least 150 American Jews, the
rare French Medaille Militaire by
four American Jews, and the Croix
de Guerre by 174 Jews in the A. E. F.
5. There were nearly 10,000 Jewish
commissioned officers in the several
branches of the service. In the army
there were more than 100 colonels
and lieutenant colonels, more than
540 majors, 1,400 captains and over
7.000 lieutenants. In the navy there
were 500 Jewish conimissioned offi-
cers, the highest rank reached being
that of rear admiral. In the marine
corps there were over 60 Jewish com-
missioned officers, including one brig-
adier general.
6. The total of Jewish casualties,
according to the latest estimates, was
from 13.000 to 14,000, including about

THREE TO REPRESENT
ZIONISTS OF DETROIT

To Attend 23rd Annual Convention at
Buffs., N. Y., Nov. 25-3 O.

Rabbi A. M. Hershman, D. W.
Simons and 51. H. Zackheim will rep-
resent the Zionist District of Detroit
as delegates at the Twenty-third An-
nual Convention of the Zionist Dis-
trict of America to he held at Buffalo
beginning Thanksgiving Day, Thurs-
day, Nov. 25, and continuing through
Sunday. Leon Zolotkoff, director of
the local district, and a member of
the Executive Board of the national
organization, will also attend.
Among other Detroiters who are
planning to be present at the annual
meeting are Miss Sylvia Goldsmith,
Miss Mary Caplan, Miss Annarosc
Hersh, Miss Fanny Wetsman, Miss
Mary Wetsman, Mrs. Ralph David-
son, Miss Jeanette Steinberg, Mrs. N.
E. Aronstam, Mrs. S. Sanders, Mrs.
M. If. Zackheim, and Miss Julia
Wine.
Much interest in the convention is
evidenced in Zionist circles as mat-
ters of vital importance to the move-
ment will he taken up at that time.
The following arc officers in the na-
tional organization: Louis D. Bran-
deis, honorary president; Julian W.
Mack, president; Stephen S. Wise,
vice-president; Ilarry Friedenwald,
vice-president; Jacob De Haas, exec-
utive secretary; Louis Lipsky, secre-
tary for organization; Henrietta
Szold, secretary for education; Peter
J. Schweitzer. treasurer; Paul F.
Moses, assistant treasurer. A. H.
Fromenson is publicity director.

Findings of Report.
These are the findings of a report

Jewish Welfare Board, held in New
York recently by Dr. Cyrus Adler,
acting chairman of the organization.
Dr. Adler prefaced his remarks with

a tribute to the late Colonel Harry
Cutler, former chairman of the or-
ganization. Speaking witlt great feel-
ing, Dr. Adler referred to the high
character and ability of Colonel Cut-
ler and his distinguished services in
the organization and work of the
Jewish Welfare Board.
Then turning to the work of the
board, Dr. Adler presented a report
of its activities, "On April 6, 1917,"
he said. "the congress of the United
States declared a state of war to exist
between the United States and the
imperial government of Germany.
Three clays later, on the ninth of
April, 1917, American Jewry, respon-
sive to the exigency thus created, ini-
tiated the organization of the Jewish
Welfare Board for welfare activities
in the United States army and navy."

Recounts Difficulties.

Dr. Adler thereupon reviewed the
early organization of the hoard. the
difficulties which it encountered and
the problems which. as a new agency,
it had to solve. He told how the
board recruited and trained the 509
workers who represented it in the
camps and naval stations in this coun-
try, and the 178 men and women who
served overseas.
After mention of the welfare activi-
ties in the camps and communities
Ina the war period, which were re-
i!d upon at the annual meeting of
;twish Welfare Board in Novem-
118. Dr. Adler referred to the

GOES AS CITIZEN OF A
DISINTERESTED COUNTRY

NVASHI NGTON.—Judge Abram I.

Elkus of the New York Court of Ap-
peals sailed on the Olympic for Eu-
rope, Nov. 6, to accept the position
to which he has been appointed by
Leon Bourgeois, President of the
Council of the League of Nations.
Judge Elkus will become a member
of the commission that will shortly
meet in Stockholm to settle the dis-
pute as to the disposition of the Aland
Islands. It was pointed out at the
State Department that Judge Elkus
is not a representative of the United

Many Candidates for City, State,
County Offices are Elected.

NEW' YORK—Election returns
thus far reported indicate the election
of four Jewish Congressmen: Meyer
London, 12th district; Nathan D.
Perlman, 14th district; Isaac Siegel,
20th district; Lester D. Volk, 10th
district.
The following eight Jewish assem-
blymen were elected: Samuel Orr,
4th Bronx district; Ilarry Jager, 14th
Kings; Charles Solomon, 23rd Kings;
Samuel Dickstein, 4th New York; Sol
Ullman, 6th New York; Bernard
Aronson, 10th New York; Joseph
Steinberg, 15th New York; Ralph
Halpern, 5th Queent
Two Jewish senators were elected:
Nathan Straus, Jr,, and H. G.
Schnackno. Three , ,Supreme Court
Justices: Mitchell E. Erlinger; M.
Warley Platzck and Isidor Wasser-
Vogel. One City Court Justice: Gus-
tave Hartman. One Justice of the
Court of General Sessions: Otto
Rosalsky. In the eighth Assembly
District, the election is still in doubt
between Morris D. Reiss and Louis
Waldman, both Jews. In the 17th
Assembly District, Nathan Lieberman
may have been elected.
The election of Judge Hartman as
Justice of the City Court is particu-
larly interesting. in view of the fact
that lie ran on the Republican ticket
and the city vote was otherwise over-
whelmingly Democratic. Ile was
elected by a pluralili of over 50,000.

Accuse Henry Ford
of Libeling Jews

Rabbis Silverman and Schulman
Denounce Attempt to Foster
Anti-Semitism Here.

Commissions for Control of
Building Developments.

JERUSALEM.—Government con-
trol to prevent the mushroom growth
in Jerusalem and other Palestine
cities of unsightly tenements, narrow
streets and other ugly features of
urban development in Europe and
America has been decreed by Sir
Herbert Samuel, British High Com-
missioner, in anticipation of the rapid
increases of the country's population
due to its recognition as the Jewish
Homeland. He has announced his
intention to create city and town plan-
ning commissions with full authority
to control building development and
reconstruction in the cities of Jeru-
salem, Jaffa, Haifa, and Tiberias and
their immediate vicinities. The High
Commissioner contemplates the ap-
pointment of a central commission
charged with thh duty of preparing
plans and general supervision over
their execution; and local commis-
sions, including municipal governors,
engineers and health officers to con-
trol on the spot the execution of the
plans.
The inspirer of this project in un-
doubtedly Sir I'atrick Geddes, of the
University of Edinburgh, who was
commissioned by the British Govern-
ment to devise plans for the modern-
izing of Bombay, and by the Zionist
Organization to design the buildings
of the Hebrew University which is
to be erected in the heights of Mt.
Olives, may be the head of the com-
mission appointed by the High Com-
missioner. Sir Patrick Geddes has
spent several months in planning the
Jewish suburbs of Haifa and Tiberias,
at the request of the Zionist Organi-
zation, and arranged in Jerusalem a
Civic and town planning exhibition
similar to the one he gave in Paris
in 1915, augmented and brought up-
to-date. The British High Commis-
sioner made the opening of this ex-
hibition the occasion for announcing
his city and town planning ordinance
which it is anticipated will have a
tremendous influence on the beauty
and sanitation of the Palestine cities.
In his speech opening the exhibi-
tion and in which he highly praised
Sir Patrick Geddes plan. High Com-
missioner Samuel touched another
point of view, saying: "Everywhere,
while the rich enjoy spacious houses
and gardens, the poor are huddled in
crowded settlements with the result
that the death rate among the latter
is incomparably higher. This must
(Continued on Page Six.)

x

,i tistice service of the board

"

144 41 .■■ as pursued in this country

once.
;o8lation of hostilities follow-
0, elstice in November, 1918,"

"brought
broiricashpiont-

welfare agencies. Mili-
tary _ .spline and restraint were re-
laxed and men possessed greater lei-
sure. Moreover, they were anxious
and impatient to return to civilian
life.
"To meet this critical situation, the
Jewish Welfare Board modified its
program of welfare activities in the
Unted States and abroad, placing
varied degrees of emphasis on the
work which had hitherto been con-
ducted. Many new activities were in-
troduced to meet the altered situa-

tion.

Judge Is Selected on Wilson's
Recommendation to Aid in
Aland Settlement.

NEW YORK VOTING IS
FAVORABLE TO JEWS

Sir Herbert Samuel to Appoint

made at the annual meeting of the

s;

LEAGUE OF NATIONS
HEAD PICKS ELKUS
TO SERVE ON BOARD

Plan Zoning Laws
For Ancient City

2.800 who made the supreme sacri-
fice.

0.

Per Year, $3.00; Copy, 10 Cents

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1920.

VOL VIII. NO. 25.

Advise Enlisted Men.

"The personal service cases which
were brought to the attention of the
field workers increased in number and
became more diverse in character.
The enlisted men were advised by the
workers overseas, on the transports,

ft:an , inued on page 11

WARSAW ZIONISTS SEND
THANKS TO BALFOUR

Warsaw—The third anniversary of
the Balfour Declaration was celebrat-
ed here by a large mass meeting in
the Central Theatre. A resolution
was adopted thanking England and
Balfour for the declaration and pledge
for the realization of a Jewish home-
land. A telegram was sent to 1311-
four, embodying the thanks of the
meeting, and appreciation of Eng-
land's gracious act in the issuance of
the proclamation.

JUSTICE ABRAM I. ELKUS

States, but will serve simply as a
distinguished citizen of a nation that
is neutra lin the Aland Islands con-
troversy.
Judge Elkus has been relieved of
'cis court duties for a month.
M. Bourgeois asked President Wil-
son to suggest an American wro
might serve as a member of the com-
mission, and the President informed
M. Bourgeois that Judge Elkus in
his opinion was eminently qualified
for the position. As a result, I ■ f.
Bourgeois asked Judge Elkus to
serve and he sailed from New York
on Saturday for Stockholm, where he
will meet the other memelirs of the
commission.
State Department officials point out
that Judge Elkus is not only a law-
yer of the first rank but is also fam-
iliar with the general European situa-
tion, he having been, prior to this
country's enty into the war, the
American Ambassador at Constan-
tinople. Judge Elkus will receive no
instructions from this Government,
since the only interest of the United
States in the dispute is limited to a
desire to see the question settled in
conformity with the historical facts.
If Judge Elkus desires, however, he
can obtain by request the data col-
lected and collated by the State De-
partment for the advice and guidance
of the American peace mission at
l'aris on the Aland Islands contro-
versy and which treat of the question
from an historical and ethnological
point of view.
It was in 1809 that Sweden lost the
Aland Islands, together with Finland,
and since then the islands have been
connected with Finland administra-
tively. The Finnish claim is based on
geographical considerations, it being
averred that they at one time were
connected with Finland's mainland.
Investigators during the sitting of
the l'eace Conference disclosed that
the population was mainly Swedsili
and that Sweden's claims to the is-
lands on historical grounds as well
were substantial.
After Russia's retirement from the
war, a plebiscite was held in the is-
lands, when Sweden was petitioned to
take possession. Later Sweden pro-
tected the population against both
Russian Red Guards and Finnish
White Guards in response to an ap-
peal from the inhabitants.
Henry J. Berkowitz Meets Members of
Justice Elkus, who has served as
Beth El Congregation; Comes to
U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, spoke
Detroit After Graduation.
in Detroit last winter about his Eu-
ropean experiences. at Temple Beth
Mr. henry J. Berkowitz, senior stu- El, under the auspices of Pisgah
dent at the lfehrew Union College, Lodge, No. 34, I. 0. 0. B.
Cincinnati, 0., selected as Assistant
Rabbi of Congregation Beth El at its
recent annual meeting, to fill the
vacancy created by the resignation of
Rabbi Samuel S. klayerberg, met the
members of the Congregation for the
first time Sunday morning.
In the form of novel entertainment
Mr. Berkowitz read the services
and variety of surprises, Pisgah
and sang the responses in a very
Lodge, No. 34, I. 0. II. B. promises
pleasing voice. He was warmly re-
to outdo itself Monday evening, Nov-
ceived at the conclusion of the serv-
ember IS, at its stag-party to be given
ices by a congregation that crowded
in the lodge rooms, 25 Broadway.
the Temple to the doors.
Plans have been completed, accord-
Mr. Berkowitz will take up his new
ing to Leon Goldsmith, chairman of
duties in Detroit immediately upon his
the entertainment committee. Novel
ordination at the Hebrew Union Col-
stunts, veiled in secrecy, , vaudeville
vaudevil
lege next June.
acts by local artists, music are a few
On Sunday, Nov. 14, Mr. Berkowitz
of the features announced.
will again occupy the pulpit of Tem-
ple Beth El. On this occasion he will
also deliver the sermon. Mr. Ber•
kowitz has chosen as the text for his
address, "A Program for Life."

N E \V V 0 R K—Anti-Semitism in
America was the theme of sermons
delivered yesterday by Rabbi Joseph
Silverman in Tetnple I:maim-EL Fifth
avenue and Forty-third street, and
Rabbi Samuel Schulman in Temple
Beth-E1, Fifth avenue and Seventy-
sixth street.
Dr. Schulman called anti-Semitism
"a slimy serpent from across the sea
which has crept into America." He
described recent happenings as " in-
sidious and subterranean" attacks.
"We must therefore face the anti-
Semitism which a few misguided men
are seeking to import into this coun-
try with an attitude worthy of our
holy heritage as upholders of a re-
ligion for which thousands have been
willing to lay down their lives, and
we must face it with fearlessness
worthy of American freemen," de-
clared Dr. Schulman.
"Essentially, anti-Semitism is an
importation. It faces us iii the form
of two publications. It was a shock
to our self-respec! or the fair play of
Americans to observe that one pub-
lishing house in Boston could repro-
duce what bears on the face of it all
the insignia of a forged document
with respect to whose authenticity the
publishers themselves are in doubt.
"This is a reproduction of the so-
called protocols of the wise men of
Zion, a cryptic document, originally
published in Russia in 1905. It is a
plain piece of propaganda manufac-
tured to instill hatred in the minds of
Christian peoples against the Jews.

ASSISTANT RABBI
PREACHES FIRST
SERMON, NOV. 14

STAG PARTY TO BE
GIVEN BY PISGAH
LODGE MON., NOV. 15

HADASSAH TO GIVE
DANCE SUN., NOV. 21

To Clear New Temple Site

As the first step toward the eree
lion of the new Temple at Gladstone
and Woodward, the vacant school-
house at present on the site, will be
razed within two weeks, according

The local chapter of the Hadassah
will give their first dance of the sea-
son, Sunday evening, Nov. 21. in the

gymnasium of the Shaarey Zedek
synagogue, corner Willis and Brush
to Mr. Isaac Goldberg, president of streets.
A special orchestra has been en-
the Temple.
Mr. Goldberg also states that speci gaged Entertainers will perform dur-
fications for the new building are ing intermissions. While all details
rapidly nearing final completion and have not been completed, Miss Dora
will be ready within a few weeks to DavAson, chairman of the entertain.
be released for bids by Albert Kahn. merit comm:ttee, promises an unusu-
ally enjoyable evening.
architect.

Jew, Envoy to England, KRASS PLEADS FOR
TO SPREAD
Has Hopes for Poland FUNDS
SYNAGOGUE PLANS

All to Be Serene and Beautiful, He Tells
London Morning Paper

(Staff C

In the course of his interview, the
professor makes a number of impor-
tant statements on policy which un-
fortunately may well lend themselves
to perversion by the large ind varied
group of people here who do not like
us and do not a bit mind saying so.

Interests of Jew and Pole Allied

Let us consider the salient passages
of the interview, which the Morning
Post of Oct. 23 dignifies with the al-
most regal favor of an approving
leader.
The professor says—"It is my firm
conviction that the interests of Poland
and its Jewish inhabitants are mutual-
ly interdependent. I go further, and
say that the interests of both parties
are one and the same.
"The reports which have hitherto
been circulated about the condition of
Jews in Poland are extravagant, either
on one side or on the other. Either
they represent that perfect order pre-
vails, that the condition of the Jews
in Poland leaves nothing to be de-
sired, or else they take the form of
exaggerated statements describing the
condition of Jews in Poland as the
worst in the world. Both are false.
The truth is that most regrettable
events have certainly taken place, but
they are the result of many deep lying
and complicated causes. We have
now every right to hope that a recon-
ciliation between Poland and her Jews
will come about by natural, internal
means."

"The World Unrest" Denounced

I

pondent, The Detroit Jewish Chronicle.)

LONDON.—Poland has sent a Jew plenipotentiary to the Court of St.
James, and his first action has been to provide an irritating puzzle, not only
to the Zionists but also to the drafters of the Minority Statute.
Professor Szynton Askenazy, descendant of a famous line of Rabbis,
conies to Great Britain with the high favor of Warsaw. There is little doubt
that even Polish Anti-Semitism has its limits, and perhaps the appointment
of the Professor to represent, in the country where pogroms are still un-
accepted and unacceptable as ordinary scenes of Jewish life, the country
where they first had their origin, indicates that Je•-baiting as a Central
European sport has begun to pall. Accordingly, the Professor comes to
Great Britain charged with a very
Anti-Semite does not desire to argue
definite mission, the white-washing of
the Polish black sheep. No better fairly and honestly from the prem-
ises set before him, but seeks only to
proof of this is needed than the praise
for the
bestowed by the anti-Semitic and re- snatch at the slightest text
his ranting and degrad-
actionary Morning Post upon the in- promotion of
terview which Dr. Askenazy gives this ing sermon.
For instance, the Morning Post
week to the Jewish Guardian, the new
and excellent communal organ • the says: "Professor Askenazy will have
nothing
to do with those ambitious
"West-End" Jew. The Jewish Guard-
ian has no axe to grind; and yet it dreams and dark designs which would
place
the
Jew in a position apart
does not object to sharpening a little
pocket knife to dig the Zionists with. from, and incidentally superior to,

"Another publishing house in this
city has published a book entitled 'The
World Unrest.' It, too, bases itself
upon these same documents, and the
argument of this book is that the Jews
and the Freemasons are in a great
conspiracy to achieve world mastery.
The book itself hesitates to affirm
these documents as authentic. But
there are constant insinuations that
they might be taken as true.
"In addition to these two publica-
tions there have been a series of ar-
ticles published in an obscure pro-
vincial journal whose financial support
is derived from a well-known manu-
facturer, Mr. Ford, who, I would say
in charity, has been misled into spend-
ing his money upon this futile but
hateful project even as he was led to
enter upon the quixotic enterprise of
taking the boys out of the trenches
during the World War.
"I know nothing about Free-
masonry because I am not a Mason,
and I suppose the Masonic organiza-
tion will be able to take care of itself.
But I do know that the idea of there
being a secret power among the Jews
which governs Jewry all over the
world is a pure lie."
Speaking of the Bolsheviki, Dr.
Schulman said:
"These men are traitors to every-
thing Jewish. They have trampled
tinder foot every Jewish sanctity.
There is as much in common between
a real Jew and a Bolshevik as there
is between a Christian and a Hotten-
tot."

Dr. Silverman Attacks Ford

By Hon. Leopold Spero

Dr. Silverman said that "the vile
and diabolical accusations and insinu-
ations of the protocols and Henry
Ford and other anti-Semites stand
condemned," and he declared that Mr.
Ford and- other anti-Semites stand
convicted of forgery, of libel, of
spreading falsehoods and calumny
against the Jewish people.
"For the purpose of record," he con-
tinued, "I wish to state emphatically
that these charges are severally and
collectively a base libel against the
Jewish people.
There is no international secret po-
litical organization of Jews, and
neither 'The Protocols' nor Mr. Ford

statement "Sounds Well"

This reads very well from the point
of view of the good American, who
finds no obstacle that is worth serious
consideration placed on account of his
religion in the road of his social and
economic progress. But Poland is not
America, and when Mr. Lucien Wolf
drafted the minority clauses in the
Versailles Treaty, he knew his Po-
land. Dr. Askenazy ventures to pre-
dict with an optimism for which we
can only pray a justification in fact,
that there will be in the immediate
future no need for safeguarding the
rights of Jews in Poland. Indeed, he
goes further. He says:
"I know that good, honest men, ac-
tuated by the best intentions, worked
to bring this Statute into being. But
I declare my conviction, as a good
l'ole and a good Jew, that the gift of
these honest and well-intentioned men
was a disaster alike to Jew and l'ole.
The Statute is a reconstruction of the
Ghetto. it segregates Jews in respect
of their language, their schools and
their customs; it deliberately widens
the gulf which already exists between
them and the Poles. Secondly, it will
do nothing but promote endless liti-
gation. It enacts that every difference
between Pole and Jew is to be re•
'erred to a representative of the
League of Nations for adjudication.
Although I ant myself a representa-
tive of the League of Nations, I re-
gard such reference as disastrous, for
it forces Jews to have recourse to for-
eign law courts, and it multiplies law-
suits. The Jewish problem will only
he solved when Jews are to be found
in the ranks of the Civil Service. when
we have Jewish officers, Jewish stu-
dents and teachers in the universities,
Jewish lawyers and judps in the
Courts of Justice."

Minister Urges Assimilation

Who will quarrel with this state-
ment and specification for the ground
plan of a l'olish Jewish Utopia? But
who will be ready to take the shadow
of Polish political promises in ex-
change for the substance which the
Minority Treaty guarantees? Dr.
Askenazy, speaking for the nonce as a
l'ole, urges the duty of assimilation,
and describes it in his view as some-
thing "which includes full liberty of
conscience and civic freedom, without
detriment to our sacred religion, to
our Jewish traditions, to our wonder-
ful and God-given heritage, the He-
ew language, by which I do not
mean any miserable Jewish dialect—
an assimilation of the Jewish masses
by raising them to to the level of
their Christian neighbours in Poland
with regard to Polish language, sci-
ence, culture and the development of

a home civic sense. Such an assimi-
lation has never been conceived be-
cause there was no Polish state to
undertake the enormous task. . .
It is only now that the existence of
this state has made it possible for us
to talk of true assimilation. . .. The
Polish nation and the Polish govern-

(Continued on Page 6.)

American Justice
Pictured by Judge

Levine, of Cleveland, Speaking
Before Open Forum Advises
Trained Juries.

First of Flying Squadron Comes
to Detroit in Interest of
$3,500,000 Campaign.

SAYS ANTI-SEMMCISM
IS ON WAY TO AMERICA

"There is an epidemic of prejudice
and hatred against the Jews of East-
ern Europe."
"Kol Yieroel, all Israel is respon-
sible one for another."
"Three million Jews are suffering
for the acts of three Bolshevik Jews."
"The spiritual agony suffered by
the Jews of Europe is spreading to
America."
"The best reply to every kind of
calumny in America, where after all
there is fair play, is by Jewish life, by
the slogan—Back to the Synagogue."

This is an abbreviation of the
speech delivered by Dr. Nathan Kress

last Friday evening at Temple Beth
El.
Dr. Krass, Rabbi of the Central
Synagogue of New York, came here
with Mr. Manny Strauss in the in-
terest of the "Back to the Synagogue
Movement" sponsored by the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations.
Throughout his talk Dr. Krass
held his audience spellbuond. When
the lecturer described the Jewish suf-
ferings he has witnessed in Europt,
mind and eye were concentrated upon
him and his topic.

"The Back to the Synagogue Move-

ment is no cheap clerical affair, no
silk-gloved campaign to pat people on
the back to get them to please come
"Justice no longer is symbolized by
to the synagogue," Dr. Krass said in
a blind-folded goddess, in flowing part.

white, holding gracefully a pair of
scales and a two-edged sword; jus-
tice, to the average mind, is personi-
fied by a big, blue-uniformed patrol-
man holding belligerently a billy,
with eyes wide open—just winking
slightly."
This American substitute for the
"Blind Goddess" was pictured by
Judge Manuel Levine, of Cleveland,
in a speech before the Open Forum
in the Central High school auditorium
Sunday afternoon, during which he
pointed out that the United States
civil jurisprudence is based on .prin-
ciples which England discarded 30

years ago. Judge Levine is known as
a court reformer.
Brain Clinic Indorsed
Election of federal judges, instead
of appointment; approval of the

psychopathic clinic, and selection of
juries that have special qualifications
for the specific case on trial were
among other points made by the
speaker, who first defined "Justice,"
and then, turning to its administra-
tion, said its part:
"If we arc to have a common-sense
administration, we must recognize
that the organization of the police
department must he the first step. The
public must be willing to spend more
money. It must realize that the best
I
brains should be made available.
advocate a three-year course in a
training school for patrolmen, with
the proviso that none should be elig-
ible for that work until he had shown
a diploma from the school.
"This mucl, is certain: The aver-
age police officer does not possess the
intelligence of the average crook.

Brings Message From Europe.

"I bring you a message of spiritual
agony that your brethren are suffer-
ing in Eastern Europe and that is
spreading gradually to the shores of
this country.
"When I was in Cracow two months

ago, 1,000 Jewish students volunteered
for the Polish army against the Bol-
sheviks. They received their uni-
forms, but no sooner did they put
them on than they were stripped from
their back and they were thrown into
prison for no reason whatever ex-
cept that they were Jews."
Dr. Krass then drew word photo-
graphs of the Polish Jews and the
blame that is placed on them for Bol-
shevism. He said that, just as it
written in the Talmud that all of
Israel is responsible one for
so the entire Jewsih people of Eastern
Europe was suffering for the actions
of three Bolshevik Jews. And then
Dr. Krass gave his remedy,

Krass Gives Remedy.
"Each one of the isolated instances
of attacks upon the Jews, whether it
is an attack in one paper or another,
or the forgery of the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion, is merely a feather
indicating which way the wind blows,"
he said.
id. best reply to every kind of
calumny in America, where, after all
there is fair play, is by Jewish life.
A Jew is a Jew whether he abolishes
his religion or not.
The Jew is
blamed one for another, and the only
remedy is for him to go back to his
Judaism."
We
going to get every unaf-
"Most Police Restless"
filiated Jew in Detroit," Dr. Krass
"Make an anlysis of the police de- exclaimed, and urged his hearers to
partments in the various cities and enlist the Jewish children for the

you will find none of the skilled labor- Sunday schools.
ers in the ranks. Why? Because the
Dr. Krass appealed for funds for
pay does not attract them. Seldom the Hebrew Union College, the Syna-
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gogue Extension Work, and the Pen-
sion Fund for Rabbis. He described

YOUTHFUL CHESS
PRODIGY ARRIVES
TO CONQUER U. S.

Eight-year-old Sammy Rzeszeunki
Continues to Amaze Chief
Exponents of Game.

NEW YORK.—Preceded by a rep-
utation which any man of advanced
age and standing might well envy,
little Samuel Rzeszewski, 8-year-old,
reached this country where leading
chesstnan were on hand to bid him
Sammy lost no time In
welcome.
demonst,ating his remarkable powers.
On the evening of his arrival he was
taken to the Marshall Chess Club,
where Frank J. Marshall, the Ameri-
can Chess champion presides. A. B.
Hodges, the former American cham-
pion was also on hams, and as the
foremost composer of problems, put
Sammy to the test by giving him a
problem which some of the oest chess
players in the country have been un-
able to solve. The little chess-wiz-
rard took just 3 minutes and 20 sec-
onds to make the necessary three
moves which the problem requires
for white to vanquish black.
Mr. Hodge placed two other diffi-
cult problems before him, and he
solved each in less than a minute.
The new prodigy from Poland, who
seemed preoccupied when he reached
the pier, speaks a few words of Eng-
lish and can say "check and "check-
mate" very clearly.
He Iva: born in Lodz, Poland, the

son of a well-to-do linen merchant,
who gave him his first lesson in chess
when Samuel was six years old. Two
days later he beat his father in the
second game so decisively that the
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latter invited the best players in the
city to play with his son. Finally, the
RESENT JEWISH LABORERS.
youthful player went to Warsaw, then
ment, which has no faith in Jewish under German rule, and he conquered
Munesten—The German labor or- nationalists, has great faith in those every opponent brought to play
ganization in Westphalia has decided Jews living abroad who, while loyal against him.
not to admit any more East European to their religion, are patriots of their
He was accompanied by his father
own country."
Jewish laborers into the province.
and his physician and was met at th
The Post and "Dark Designs."
Hundreds of Jewish workers, fugi-
pier by his American manager, Max
tives from Poland and Ukrainia. have
My readers will say. what is there Rosenthal, who has arranged a tour
found employment in the mines of to object to in this excellent plan of for him to the principal cities in the
Westphalia, but their German co- . future action? Even if the past had United States to meet all comers.
workers who are apt to preach about been dark for the Jews in Poland, His rapid moves in simultaneous play-
fraternity and solidarity of labor, will here is a bright future opening. Un- ing have already been shown in the
not permit Jews
a livelihood. fortunately, they forget that the true 'movies" in America.

to earn

is

another;

the Hebrew Union College as the
great reservoir in the country of lib-
eral Judaism. He spoke at length
on the Pension Fund for Rabbis, ex-
plaining that there were smal corn
munities that could not care for their
Rabbis as well as the Detroit corn;

munity.

Congratulates Congregation.
.
Dr. Krass concluded by congratu-
lating Temple Beth El upon their de
cision to spread out and build a new

building.
No collections were made on Fry
day night, but Rabbi Leo M. Franks-
lin, who acted as chairman, assured
that Detroit will lend a helping liana
to the movement and promised that
his congregation will n,.t only mattil

good the quota assigned to them, bit
will also raise a self-imposed quota.
Mr. Isaac Goldberg, president of
Temple Beth El, has received a letter
from J. ‘Valter Freiberg, p•esident of

the Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, wording a personal ap-

peal,
"I ant offering this letter without

comment," Mr. Goldberg said, rela-
tive to the letter. "It is of such im-
portance that I have broken a prac-

tice of years and have allowed pri-
correspondence to be published.
"If its contents stirs any of our
people who have not already contri-
buted, they may make such contribu-
tions to Rabbi Leo M. Frankl'n, Mil-
ton M. Alexander or myself."

vate

Mr. Goldberg is one of the mem-
bers of the "Flying Squadron," com-
posed of 160 nationally prominent
Jews. who are making a national

speaking tour to raise $3,500,000 for
a ten years extension program of
educational religion under the au-
spices of the Union of American He-
brew Congregations. Mr. Goldberg,
together with Mr. Alexander, will
speak at Fort Wayne Friday night
at the local synagogue in behalf of
the movement.

(Continued on Page Six)

TO ADORN GRAVES OF

FALLEN JEWISH SOLDIERS

Warsaw.—A movement is now
afoot to have the graves of Jewish
soldiers who have fallen in the Pol-
ish army adorned by the Warsaw
Jewish Kehillah.

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