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SOLICIT FUNDS
MORGENTHAU AWAITS
ABRAHAM LEVY, N. Y.
GOV, ALLEN TELLS WILL
FOR HOME IN DENVER TO SOLICIT FUNDS
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS PALESTINE AWAKES
LAWYER, DIES AT 58 SUBTLE CRACK AT
OF KANSAS COURT
FOR RELIEF DRIVE
AT TOUCH OF JEWS
JEWS DRAWS FIRE
ORIGIN AND WORK
OF LORD READING

Mrs. Franc. Heflin Asks Annual Sub-
scriptions for Support of Jewish
Consumptives.

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Declares Great Future in Store
For Labor-Capital
Tribunal

BROUGHT TO CITY BY
BETH EL MEN'S CLUB

For years a leader in the field of
politics, exlilli&ng during the war to
the full his high quality of executive
s tatesmanship and talent for organi-
zation, and now recognized as a world
authority on the problems which be-
set capital and labor, Henry J. Allen,
Kansas's fighting governor, came to
Detroit, Friday, Dec. 17, at the direct
solicitation of the Men's Club of
'couple Beth El for two addresses.
By arrangement with the Men's
Club a luncheon was tendered Gov-
ernor Allen at the Board of Com-
merce at noon. lie spoke at Temple
Beth El in the evening. The new
Kansas Court of Industrial Relations,
founded by the governor and said to
be the most forward-looking step
taken in recent years toward obviat-
ing the difficulties arising between
employer and employe, formed the
subject of both addresses.
Detroit newspapers took occasion
aditorially to compliment the Men's
Club on bringing Governor Allen to
the city. Excerpts from his luncheon
address were printed extensively. But
because Detroit and the state of
Michigan generally has a particular
interest in the court experiment as a
possible solution to its problems, the
Detroit Jewish Chronicle has ob-
tained from Governor Allen a copy
of his address, delivered in the eve-
ning at Temple Beth El and here-
with reprints it in its entirety. The
speech follows:
Outcome of Coal Strike.
The Kansas Court of Industrial Re-
lations' act was the outcome of the
coal strike of last winter. All of our
mines had shut down, the state was
menaced by a fuel famine. The ques-
tion arose at once as to whether the
slate had the moral right and the
power to protect the helpless people,
innocent victims of a conflict in the
bringing on of which they had no
part.
Under the broad assumption that
the state had this power, the supreme
court granted a receivership, under
which the state operated the mines
by volunteer labor. The effort was
successful in producing sufficient fuel
to relieve the emergency in Kansas.
The legislature was called into spe-
cial session for the purpose of pass-
lug a law which would make it im-
possible in the future for any strife
between labor and the employers of
labor to subject the public to the
economic waste and physical danger
of a shut-down in the production of
an essential commodity. The essen-
tial commodities were declared to be
food, fuel, clothing and transporta-
tion.
The legislature consumed 21 days
in the discussion and passage of this
legislation. Nearly ten days were
given over to the representatives of
labor and employers to voice their
objections to the hill. Distinguished
men were heard upon both sides of
the subject. The bill was then passed
by almost a unanimous vole, only
seven members of the house and five
members of the senate voting against

it

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1920.

Included Men of Ability.
The law provides for a court of
three men, appointed by the governor
and approved by the state senate. The
qualifications of the members of the
court were left to the governor, the
general provision of the law tieing
that the court should be made up by
men of known ability, appointed for
their' capacity to provide impartial
ludizment upon every cause.
I he question is often asked as to
why I did not appoint upon the court
a representative of organized labor.
I declined to do this for the same rea-
son that I declined to appoint upon
the court a representative of employ-
s ing capital. If I had placed upon this
court one man officially representing
labor, one man representing employ-
ing capital and one man representing
the so-called public, I would not have
had a court of justice, but a court of
rbit ration.
In the Kansas law we are doing
:Nay with the principle of arbitration
and establishing the principle of ad-
judication. Arbitration has failed
through sixty years of growing in-
dustrial strife in America. When
labor and capital fall into a contro-
versy and decide to arbitrate, labor
appoints its representative; capital ap-
points its representative, and these
two agree upon a third member of
the board of arbitration, who must be
the umpire. He may do one of three
things: join capital and get a partisan
decision in favor of capital; join 1a-
hoes side and get a partisan decision
in favor of labor, or he may dicker
back and forth and arrive at a com-
promise not satisfactory to either
side. In the meantime, the rights of
the public, generally chiefly con-
cerned when the controversy is over

(Continued on page five)

DECLAMATION OF POEM
WINS SAUL LEVINE, 13,
AWARD OF GOLD MEDAL

Honor Student at Central High School
Takes First Prize in Contest
Held Friday.

!Ors. Frances Heflin, field secretary
of the Jewish Consumptives Relief
Society of Denver, Colo., has arrived
in the city for her annual visit in
behalf of that organization.
This year Mrs. Hellin will devote
herself primarily to the furtherance
of the nation-wide drive for $250,015)
which is to be used for the rebuilding
of the sanatorium of the Jewish Con-
sumptives" Society that was com-
pletely destroyed by fire this April.
l hr infirmary housed sixty-four bed-
ridden patients who are being cared
for temporarily in the solarium.
'The Jewish Consumptives' Relief
Society was organized 16 years ago.
Its offices are located at 510-12 Kit-
tredge building, Denver. It has about
100,000 contributors and the capacity
of its institution is 160 beds. The
sum which the society is hoping to
raise will be used for reconstruction
purposes. An appeal to Jews through-
out the country is being made.
Mrs. Hellin may be reached at 644
Dim number) East Ferry avenue.

Resting at Atlantic City Before Setting
Out on Mission for President.

Campaigners Co nee nt r ate
Force in Sunday Appeal for
Starving Europe.

Thousands of homeless children, liv-
ing in dugouts or wandering from door
to door and town to town in quest of
food, are lost in a limbo beyond the
reach of imagination, but American
Relief Administration workers who
have been in Europe during the past
year laboring to save them, declare
Herbert Hoover's statement that 3,-
510,(11X1 of thunt will die of starvation
before the next harvest, if the people
of United Stales do not subscribe the
$33,000,000 he is iisking in the present
campaign, is a very conservative fig-

ure.

II has been said, "old men make
wars, young men fight them, but al-
ways, the children suffer most." These
children are the helpless victims of

Congressman Puts
In Word for Jews

Hon. George Huddleston Speaks
in House Against Johnson
Immigration Bill.

WASHINGTON, D. C.—Rising to
speak on the Johnson Immigration
Bill, previous to the adoption of the
amendments of Congressman Siegel
and ultimate passage by the /louse
of Representatives last week, Hon.
George Iluddleston of Alabama un-
hesitatingly pronounced the original
bill to he anti-Semitic in content and
in advocating its defeat praised the
Jews of America.
The Johnson bill would have closed
ports of immigration for a period of
two years and would have prevented
the reunion of European Jews with
their relatives in the United States.
Amended, the bars are made to hold
but for one year and brothers and
sisters of citizens are to he admitted.
In part. Representative Iluddleston
said: tittle to

Criminal Trials Underwent
Two Operation..

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Henry Rabbi Moses Baroway Tells of

Morgenthau, former ambassador to
Turkey, now preparing to go to Eu-
rope as special envoy of President
Wilson, arrived at the Ambassador
Hotel here tonight. Ile joined Mrs.
Nlorgenthau and expects to remain for
several days.
While the former Ambassador, who
is one of the leading authorities on
the troubled questions of Southeastern
Europe, is coming for a rest, he will
keep in communication with ‘Vashing-
ton, and may receive an envoy bear-
ing final instructions from President
Wilson.
Mr. Nlorgenthau is prepared to
proceed with his duties as soon as
practicable. He will wait, however,
until the President has received ad-
vices from the Council of the League
as to the avenues through which th e
President's proffer should be conveyed
and the parties with whom he should
get in contact.
For nearly a week, as a result of
changed conditions in the Near East,
there has been cone doubt as to
whether the attempt to mediate would
materialize. Immediately upon accept-
ing the invitation of the League to
mediate President Wilson addressed
to the League Council an inquiry for
information, which the League was to
furnish, but which has not yet been
forthcoming, and until it has been re-
ceived the President can hardly act
further than to appoint his represen-
tative.

Development of Land by
Farm Colonists.

"The Jewish settlement in Palestine
is breeding a new peasantry which is
to mark an Utopian era in world
agriculture, showing how a country,
looked upon as the most lonely spot
in the world, call be made the most
interesting and most attractive."
Rabbi Moses Itaroway, of Akron,
0., former secretary of the American
Zionist Medical Unit in Palestine, who
spent two years in Palestine in the
service of the Jewish national cause,
thus paid tribute to the Jewish farm-
er in the Holy Land, in an address
delivered by him last Monday evening
at the Shaarey Zed•k, under the aus-
pices of the Detroit chapter of the In-
tercollegiate Zionist Association.
Old Jerusalem and the new, Pales-
tine's old settlement and Eretz Yis-
roel's new colonization, wore com-
pared and described by the lecturer
as they impressed him, and the audi-
ence left satisfied that Rabbi Baroway
has given a picture of Palestine as it
is, without making any exaggeratioris
or becoming too sentimental.

Describes Old and New Palestine.

Rabbit Baroway at the outset de-
scribed the ugly, unhappy side of Old
Jerusalem, the people of that part of
the Holy City where the most primi-
tive and old-fashioned modes of living
are in vogue. and he pointed out that
a great and extensive educational
campaign will have to be started to
introduce modern methods there. Con-
trasted with the gloomy side of flue
Promised Land, Rabbi Baroway de-
scribed t he great progress made in
the New Settlement in the Jewish
colonies, of the most modern living
— -
conditions of the Jewish pioneers who
Second Generation to See It Abel. made blooming gardens out of desert
idled in U. S., He Tell.
lands, and. of the great sacrifices made
Forum.
by the Jewish idealists who made pos-
sible the rise of Jewish genius in re-
The children of this generation's stored Palestine.
effildren probably will see flue dis-
Rabbi Baroway paid a tribute to the
appearance of all poverty in America wife of the Palestinian Jewish farmer.
that is not the fault of the shiftless He compared the Jewish farm woman
individual himself, all poverty gone with the American farm woman, and
for which social maladjustment is now the distinction he drew was, unlike
the American, the Jewish woman was
responsible.
Rabbi Horace J. Wolf, of Roches- happy on her farm, loved and appre-
ter, N. Y., chairman of the social jus- ciated farm life, and brought up her
tice commission of the Association of children to follow in the footsteps
American Rabbis, voiced this prophecy of their father . and to become farmers.
Hebrew Unites All.
at the Open Forum in Central High
practically everything of interest in
School Sunday afternoon.
the national home of the Jew was
Karl Marx Wrong.
described by Rabbi Baroway, but in
He regarded Karl Marx as a poor
particular he told of the different Jews
prophet. The great middle class, said
met there. The speaker emphasized
Dr. Wolf, which Mars thought would that not all t he Jews who come to
some day merge with the proletariat
Palestine are from Yiddish speaking
on a proletariat level, "instead has countries. lie
told of the Ladino, or
recruited huge numbers from the pro-
Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews, the
letariat and the poverty-stricken have Judeo-Arabic speaking
Jews , and 16
been so reduced that those who have
others that are to he found in the
no stake to lose by a class war are
Holy Land. He said, in referring to
infinitesimal in number•"
the Babel of tongues in Jerusalem,
"When Carl Marx issued his mani-
that to unite all these classes of the
festo in 1848," he said, "he foresaw a
Jewish people would have been an im-
great struggle of classes. He looked possibility had it not been for the
around Europe and saw infinite
common language of the Jews, the
misery, and he said, 'These people, in
Hebrew language, which unites all the
misery, have nothing to lose by revo-
Jews in the cause of Palestine's
lution but their chains.' Because the restoration.
flosses have a stake in society, no
Rabbi Baroway dwelt at great
revolution has come. The average
length on the progress made for their
level of human good since 1848 has
advancement. lie told of bow the
mounted higher and higher.
Jewish children in Palestine, because
"When we have social insurance for of their extreme love for their land
old and the sick. we will go far to- and language, refuse to speak any-
ward abolishing all poverty that is not thing else but Hebrew, and make no
the fault of the shiftless. I don't say exceptions to this rule even among
the millenium is here. There is touch their parents. The lewish child in
injustice to be uprooted and over- Palestine swears
in Hebrew, plays In
thrown, but weare marching forward, ilelircw, thinks, reads and writes in
even if it be in a zigzag line."
Hebrew, and proves by his determina-

RABBI WOLF SEES
END OF POVERTY
WITHIN AMERICA

DAVID A. BROWN

the late war, and they are neither re-
sponsible for the war nor for their
coming into tlf- world. Many of these
children are without either fathers or
mothers; they live where local aid and
assistance are impossible; help must
come from outside if they are to con-
live.

Takes Old-Fashioned View.
Synagogue Meetings Planned.
Mr. Chairman, I speak on this Jewish-Detroit will reach the climax
measure as an old-fashioned AIM .- of Its response next Sunday when
ican, as one who comes of a stock so meetings will be held in every syna-
long in America that there is no rec- gogue, and the whole community
ord of when they came, So that I urged to contribute generously. Every
may be pardoned. I hope, for taking Jewish fraternal organization, includ-
an old-fashioned American view of ing the Brith, will solicit its
this question and for nut adhering to members and many organizations will
some of the remarks which have been make appropriations from their funds.
made upon this bill. I hold to old-
Dr. Leo M. Franklin has turned into
fashioned ideals of Americanism and the relief headquarters a check for
nut to the new-fangled, narrow, and $1,000 which was given to him as an
chauvinistic spirit of nationalism. I anonymous contribution. This check
still believe in the principles of Jeffer- will save the lives of 100 children, Dr.
son, in the principles recognized in the Franklin's own contribution of $100
American lonstitution, and in some has been received, and another $100
of the old ideals for which our an- from the "self-sacrifice" fund of the
cestors labored and fought. children at Temple Beth El. Bernard
"It has been charged that this bill Ginsburg, president of l'isgah lodge
is en anti-Semitic bill, that it is aimed B mo Bruit, has raised nearly $1,000
particularly at the Jews of Europe among the members to date.
Generous checks have been turned
who are seeking to come here. To
such an extent, if ally, as the bill has into 1)10 Griswold, where David A.
the Jew particularly in view and aims Brown, general director of flue fund
at his exclusion, it is an irredeemably for Michigan, has centered the execu-
had bill. I have no hesitation in say- tive end of the campaign.
Sunday's meeting, it is expected,
ing that.
will bring a great demand for "Save-
Significant Statement.
'I read in the report of the com- a-Life" certificates, which are issued
mittee a very significant statement, a in $10, $5 and $1 denominations. A
statement of sinister significance found $10 certificate will care for a child
until next harvest, $5 will save him
on page 6, which is this
The committee had confirmed the
until June, and $1 will feed hint for a
Published statements of a com-
month.
Status of Worker Raised.
missioner of the Hebrew Shelter-
"Save-a-Life" certificates have been
ing and Ald Society of America
Dr. Wolf, who spoke affimatively
made after his personal Inveattga•
made the chief medium of the cam- on "Is the World Getting Better?"
(Continued on page four)
(Continued On Page Four.)
declared the spirit of pessimism which
wells in some men was not a twentieth
century phenomenon. Those who
think that humanity is on the verge
of an abyss are the same people of
other centuries who "always pointed
to a golden age behind them."
He considered, he said, that the
status of women, children and work-
ers today, as against 300 years ago,
might be taken as a concrete test by
which to judge whether the world was
marching up or marching down.
"Three hundred years ago," he
said, "woman had no more rights
than a man's dog or horse. In old
days infantricide on the part of
parents who thought some children
superfluous was legal. We arc
eliminating religious bigotry, and we
have arrived at the democratization of
government.
"Naaturally there still are a few
men of the old order in industry who
believe that their industry is a God-
giving thing to them which they may
wreck or make as they will. It is only
the rare reactionist, hopelessly blind
and stupid, who cannot see the writ-
ing on the wall and cannot perceive
the fact that the worker has a grow-
ing power of control over the indus-
try in which he works."

Meal--At Last

Starving Children Grateful to America.

ZINDER TO ADDRESS
NORTH-END ASSEMBLY

Reuben Zinder, instructor at the
Wilkins street Talmud Torah, will
address the weekly educational assem-
bly at the Ahavath Achim synagogue
on Westminster and Delmar avenues
Friday evening. Mr. Tinder will give
:o series of lectures of Jewish topics
in a manner similar to the course of
lectures introduced by S. Kasdan,
principal of the Farnsworth Talmud
Torah.
In addition to the weekly lectures,
the programs on Friday evening are
made interesting by numerous sing-
ing numbers by North-End Young
Judaeans. Yiddish, Hebrew and Eng-
lish recitations are features of the
program.

tion to make Hebrew the language of
the Jew, that his language is not one
of prayers alone, but is a living tongue

(Continued On Page 6.)

NEW YORE—Abraham I.evy, who
appeared as counsel for the defense in
some of the most famous criminal
trials of the last 30 years, died Thurs.
day night at his home, 57 West
Seventy-third street, of a combination
of ailments that became serious in
September. An operation for gall
stones was followed by another for a
gathering in the throat.
"Abe" 1 evy was born in England
58 years ago, came here as a child and
earned his living while obtaining an
education. In his first big criminal
case, in 18911, he defended "Frenchy
the Algerian," later declared insane,
who had killed a woman of the under-
world called "blather Shakespeare."
He was defending counsel for Fayne
Moore, whose husband received a 19-
year sentence for fleecing a hotel pro-
prietor in the "badger" game. •
Perhaps the best remembered of the
matiy important trials in which he act-
ed for the accused was that of Nan
Patterson, the chorus girl charged
with murdering in a handsome cab the
bookmaker Caesar Young. She was
freed after the jury disagreed a second
time. Levy's battles with Prosecutor
William Rand occupied many COIllIMIS
of the papers at the time. His last
notable appearance was when he went
to the aid of Charles Chapin, The
Evening World city editor, who shot
his wife.
Services were held at Temple Ro-
deph Sholom, Sixty-third street and
Lexington avenue.

ESCAPES ARMY1OF
HUNGARY, TELLS
TALE OF HORRORS

Jewish Deserter in Prague Says Com-
munication With World Hes
Been Forbidden.

Little has been reported in the for-
eign press about the sufferings and
insulting treatment of Jewish soldiers
in the Hungarian army. The reason
for such a state of affairs is to be
found in the circumstance that Jewish
soldiers are treated like common
criminals and segregated from the
world so that none are in a position
to communicate anything to the outer
world. The unfortunate wretches are
not even able to communicate with
their own relatives, One Jewish sol-
dier who managed to escape here,
gives us the following details con-
cerning his own situation and that of
his friends: The escaped man was
formerly a member of the Austro-
Hungarian army, served in the late
war, was decorated for bravery and
won an officer's commission. Severe-
ly wounded, he was released from ac-
tive service, but the White Govern-
ment restored hint to duty. However,
he was not given his old officer's
rank but reduced to that of it common
soldier, and Jewish soldiers are sent
to do heavy field duty of 16 hours in
every 24, from 4 a. m. to 8 p.
The soldier who told the story does
not want his name printed. He is
afraid the government may take re-
venge on his relatives. But respon-
sible persons were given the names
of the offending officers who were
mainly responsible for the stripes to
the man as well as 170 other soldiers
who were with him in camp. Ile also
says that he was not given enough
food and there were cases where sol-
diers have dropped dead in the midst
of the heavy work. The story ends
with a statement that the mail knew
that if captured he would be put to
immediate death but he preferred
death and a possibility of escape to
the intolerable conditions under which
he was compelled to live.

PHI SIGMA EPSILON FRATERNITY TO
HOLD 7TH ANNUAL CONCLAVE HERE

During the coming week, Detroit
will he host to a large number of
delegates of the l'hi Sigma Epsilon
fraternity which holds its seventh
annual conclave at the Hotel Statler
beginning December 26 and continu-
ing through December 30. A number
of members front various chapters
throughout the country have already
arrived and are being entertained by
members of the Detroit chapter and
:heir friends.
The Phi Sigma Epsilon fraternity
was founded at Chicago, Ill., about II
years ago and has had a remarkable
and consistent growth. At present it
bias established chapters in practically
every large city of the United States
and Canada. Its membership is corn-
posed of young Jewish business and
professional men among whom are
many prominent leaders in Jewish
and civic affairs.

Two Officers Detroiters.

Two of the national officers of the
fraternity are Detroit men. George
I). Blumenthal is Grand President;
Harold H. I.ipsitz, Grand Vice-Presi-
dent; Emil Lasker • St. Louis, Mo.,
Grand Treasurer; Horace Cohen,
Montreal, Canada, Grand Secretary.
"Although to the uninitiated it may
appear that the motives of this or-
ganization are purely social in charac-
ter," Mr. Blumenthal said, discussing
the conclave, "Such is not the case.
Activities of this nature play but a
minor part in the program which the
fraternity has outlined. Its 'raison
d'etre' is a lofty and insp'ring ideal,
and attempts to inculcate in the Jew-
ish young men a loyalty to the flag
and country of their birth or adop-
tion, and to join together the best
Jewish manhood of the country in
order to show the outside world the
intellectual, moral and social quality
of the race.

affairs, it attempts and break down

Reproves British Anti•Semites
to Applause of Court and
London's Press.

NOW BLAMED FOR IRISH
RIOTS AND OUTBREAKS

.. By Leopold Spero.

I Len ion

I 'orr000ndent.
The
J ea hal (111,11111,)

I letrolt

LONDON—If one may be so
vulgar as to apply commonplace
phrases to great institutions, one may
say that we had some fun Tuesday,
November 30, in the Court of Crim-
inal Appeal, which is presided over by
the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Reading,
and which is the last resort of the
convicted criminal.
The situation was piquant. Lord
Reading, better known perhaps as Sir
Rufus Isaacs, is the greatest Jewish
lawyer of his day, a man of rare per-
sonal charm and magnetism and abil-
ity, proud of his ancient race. He had
before him a man who was appealing
against a sentence of six months' im-
prisonment in the second division
passed upon him at the Old Bailey
for alleged fraudulent conversion of
property, and his counsel, Sir Richard
Muir, submitted that there was no
evidence of intention to defraud, Sir
Ernest Wild, K. C,.,i acting for the
Crown, answered that there was very
strong evidence to show that the man
had disposed of the jewelry in ques-
tion to pay money-lenders' and gam-
bling debits. He read the record of
evidence heard by the jury in the
Court of Appeal, and came to pas-
sages in the cross-examination sug-
gesting that the appellant had got
into the clutches of Hebrew money-
lenders. Here the fun began, for the
Lord Chief Justice put the following
question:

A Jew, of Course.

"What is the point of saying, 'A
Jew, I suppose?' It produced an un-
pleasant impression on me when I
read it. It is not in the prisoner's
favor that it is putt."
Sir Ernest Wild answered, rathei
uncomfortably, that there were cer-
tain money-lenders who were Jews,
and the inference was that the appel-
lant was in the hands of Jewish
money-lenders. "I did not put it," he
continued, "in order to be insulting
to Jews."
Here let us interpose with a note to
the effect that Sir Ernest Wild is a
politician as well as a lawyer, and
that lie has again and again in public
recently made uncomplimentary re-
marks suggesting that the Jews are
responsible for everything that is
wrong everywhere. He had received
so much local applause for this intel-
ligent and broad-minded attitude that
on this occasion he failed to recog-
nize he had overshot the mark. One
doubts whether he will overshoot it
again, for I.ord Reading said, very

politely:

"I did not think you did wish to be
insulting to Jews. The only reason
I stopped at it was that somehow or
other it produced the impression on
me that because the person referred
to was a Jew, it was supposed to be
adverse to the prisoner having deal-
ings with him. Otherwise, I cannot
understand why the question was
put."
Sir Ernest Wild said lie was sorry,
if he had put an improper question.
"There are Jews and Jews," he
added, profoundly, "just as there are
Christians and Christians. There are
Jewish money-lenders one would not
go to if possible."
"I thought that applied to all
money-lenders," said Lord Reading,
amid laughter. Upon which Mr. Jus-
tice Darling, the senior judge of the
King's Bench, and the lionized jester
of English law, made a joke about
Scotsmen, and said that he did not
mind being one But the Lord Chief
Justice was not to be put off his in-
teresting point, and said he was con-
vinced that when a man was asked
if he was not a Scotsman, the ques-
tion did not convey the same impres-
sion as when a man was asked, 'Are
you a Jew?'

Meant to Prejudice.

GEORGE D. BLUMENTHAL.

and overcome various barriers placed
in the way of the Jew by the narrow-
minded and bigotted."
The organization is proud of its
war-record. Ninety per cent of it.
total membership were in the Ameri-
can or Canadian uniform, and it has
eight gold stars in its service flag.
Many of the boys in the Canad an
chapters spent four years in the
trenches.

To Further Organization.

1Vhile the printery purpose of the
convention is to consider ways and
means of furthering the work of the
organization and of establishing new
chapters in various local:ties, the
social angle has not been neglected.
In addition to the many privately-
arranged parties which the delegates
Jews of All Ranks.
will attend, a number of elaborate
"It numbers Jews of all ranks and formal functions have also been
THREE JEWS ELECTED
classes, Zionists and anti-Zionists and planned.
TO GREEK PARLIAMENT espouses no movement fostered only
An informal reception for delegates
by a particular group of Jews. It and their ladles will be held on the
ATHENS—In the recent elections rather aims to impress upon those of evening of December 27
in the Louis
to the Greek parliament. three Jews other faiths the high character and Quatorze Room at the Elks Temple.
were elected as member of the House fitness of the Jew.
Professional talent have been secured
of Representatives. Their names fol-
"By encouraging the participation insuring an enjoyable program.
low: Siastky, Mallah and Uhanaty. of its members in civic and social
On the evening of December 28, a

This is a common sight in Poland today, eight and ten-year-old children
mothering and fathering their baby brothers and sisters. Thi
s
secured by an American Jewish Relief worker at Brest-Litovsk, shows an
eight-year-old boy feeding his little brother . from a bowl of hot soup just
secured at a feeding station supported through American funds. The relief
workers found 10,000 children, mostly war orphans, living in deserted dug-
outs at Brest-Litovsk.
It is to aid such waifs u these that the European Relief Council has been
formed by merging the relief activities of the American Relief Adminiitra-
tion, the American Red Cross, the American Friends' Service Committee
(Quakers), the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, the
entrance at Central has been an all Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Knights of C.olumbus, the Y. M.
C. A. and the Y. W. C. A.
All come from Saloniki
"1" atudent.

Saul Levine, 13-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Hyman Levine, of 234 East
Kirby avenue, was awarded a gold
medal as first prize in a declamation
contest held Friday at Central High
School. Saul, who is a 9-B student,
won the prize for his recitation of
Rudyard Kipling's "If." He was one
of the yotingest to graduate from the
Lincoln School at the end of the
summer session in June, and since his

Counsel for Defense in Many Famous

(Continued on page mar.)

"There are people," continued his
Lordship, "who think that because
the question is put 'Are you a Jew?'
or 'Is that because he is a Jew? it is
meant in some way to prejudice a
man."
There was applause at this remark.
Applause is always repressed in Eng-
lish Courts—after everyone has heard
it,—and Lord Reading went on to say
that he had consulted his brother
judges when the question was put to
him. because he thought he might be
unduly sensitive on the point.
Of Course, all the papers seized
upon the incident from their different

points of view. It was far too pic-
turesque, since it Was a duel between
a Jewish Lord Chief Justice, and a
pushful political lawyer who has not
been above using antiSemitic vulgar.
ity to help him on the platform and
in court. and Lord Reading dealt with
it in a masterly fashion. with dignity
and good temper. The Liberal "Star,'
in a long homily on the question,
quoted an old story of the famous .
Montague Williams, who had a client
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SIX JEWISH LAWYERS
GIVE U. OF D. COURSE

Numerous Jewish professional men,
according to the records of the Uni-
versity of Detroit, have been invited
to eve instruction at the institution.
On the faculty of the Law dept.-
ment are the following six attorneys:
Henry W. Butzel, lecturer on Con-
veyancing; Max N. Freedman, lec-
turer on Bailments and Carriers, and
Conflict of Laws; William Friedman,
Real Property II; Alvin D. Hersch,
Mortgages; Isadore Levin, Private
Corporations; Adolph Sloman, Crim-
inal Laws and Wills and Estates.

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