A NCliCalf lavish periodical eater CLIFTON ATINUI - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 1/4.0.114.M.O../.0%....1•00•06/....0•0 fiEbETROITAWISR111tONICL- Michigan's Only Jewish Newspaper Printed in English New Telephone GLENDALE 8-3-2-6 .......sesesswwwwwwwwsnisessowte 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- (Continue On Page 7.) 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 (Continued on Page Sic) 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.