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Michigan's Only
Jewish Newspaper
Printed in English

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MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

VOL IX. NO. 7.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1921.

Per Year, $3.00; Copy, 10 Cents
_ .

EDITOR TO
B'nai Brith Hears
IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE Anti-Semitism Is FAMOUS
SPEAK IN DETROIT
BRITISH JEWS GIVE
Cause for Wrath
Samuel Rosenfeld Homeless War Orphans
IN PALESTINE FROM
SPARING SUMS TO
Must
Be
Sold
to
Jews
VARIOUS COUNTRIES
SUPPORT CHARITIES

Prominent Americans, Issuing
Statement, Plead for
Minorities.

Program to Handle "Pioneers"
Formed at Conference of
European Bureaus.

NEWCOMERS TRAINED AS
FARMERS AND ARTISANS

Representatives Of all the Jewish
Emigration Bureaus in Central Eu-
rope met recently at Maehrich Os-
trau on the border between Poland
and Czechoslovakia and adopted a
program to provide for the rush of
Jews returning to Palestine. The
,iinference was called by Mr. Land-
mann, General Secretary of the Zion-
ist organization of London. Nfr.
Landmann afterward issued a state-
ment in which he said that Jews front
the remote corners of tine globe are
arriving in Palestine. and in which
he outlined the problems which must
be met. The statement reads:
"The movement of Jews to Pales-
tine is no new phenomenon. For
centuries, in fact ever since the de-
struction of the Temple in 70 A. D.,
there have been individuals who felt
the call, and on several occasions
whole groups have taken the wan-
derer's staff in hand and made the
pilgrimage to Palestine. But it has
been reserved for our own time to
see the beginning of a national return,
of the rebirth of a people :titer so
many centuries of waiting and hop-
ing.
Actual Migration Halted.
"The Balfour declaration was inter-
preted by the simple folk in this part
of the world as the establishment of
a Jewish State and an open invitation
to all to come. .Many sold their be-
longings and set out on foot in the
midst of war conditions. Very few
reached their haven; military exigen-
cies kept the gates of Palestine closed,
even to the Jew. One young hero
walked all the way from Poland via
Russia, the Crimea, Turkestan, Persia
and Damascus, and eventually reached
Jerusalem after thirteen months on
the road.
"The actual migration was com-
pelled to wait until the political fu-
ture of the country was finally set-
tled at San Remo last April. The re-
ports read at the conference by the
delegates who were in charge of the
Palestine Bureaus in Poland and
Vienna show that after San Remo the
number grew enormously. The ag-
gravated political conditions in Po-
land also contributed to hasten the
decision of those who had half re-
solved to go. Between the months
of May and September about 50,000
persons registered their names as
ready to undertake th, journey. This
does not include those regitriled as
unsuitable, as they are not even regis-
tered. Of these 50,000 some 7,000 or
8,000 have already reached Palestine.

Class of "Pioneers" Good.
"The class of these pioneers is very
good. They are almost exclusively
young men and women—about 10 per
cent are women—between the ages of
17 and 25. They are called by the
Hebrew name 'Chalutzirn,' meaning
'pioneers.' They have been preparing
for their future life's'work in various
ways. Many have 130 their schools
and colleges and gone to till the soil
with their own hands in order to be
prepared to do agricultural work in
Palestine. for they are all intellectuals
and idealists, and they have come to
the conclusion that the only sound
foundation on which to build up a
new Jewish nation is the agricultural
life. 'We have been middlemen and
merchants long enough,' they say,'and
it is time that we turned to productive
work.' So you will find !mall colo-
nies of Jewish young men and women
—in Germany, in Poland, in Austria.
in Czechoslovakia. in Jugoslavia, in
Constantinople--all preparing for the
peat task in the Holy Land.
"Apart from these purely agricul-
tural pioneers, there are others who
are being trained as bricklayers, ma-
sons, tinsmiths, plumbers and in all
other branches of the building trades.
The crying nerd of Palestine is for
houses and shelter for all the new'
arrivals.
"In addition to the knowledge of 3
handicraft, Hebrew speaking is an in-
dispensable part of the curriculum.
Between 70 and 80 per cent of all who
leave for Palestine can speak Hebrew.
I was myself in Palestine two months
ago, and visited the settlements of
some of the newly arrived 'Clialut-
zim, and was greatly impressed with
them—the Men as well as the women.
"Many came from well-to-do fami-
lies and had not been accustomed to
hard manual work. Yet they cherf-
fully cleared the stones from the soil
in the broiling sun, and planted seed-
lings for the future fruits of Palestine
and, well satisfied with their labors,
sat down with me in the cool of the
evening to a modest—very modest—
meal prepared by the women, who
take turns in cooking and agricultural
work. These were the students who
have thrown aside everything in order
to be among the builders of Zion. And
when, after the meal, there came the
spirited Hebrew marching and folk
songs, it was delightful to see the de-
votion with wich they sang, their
love for their people and their land.

(Continued on Page 5)

S. M. Levin to Address
Detroit 1, Z. A. Chapter

Mr. Samuel M. Levin. head of the
History Department at Junior Col-
lege, will address the Detroit chapter
of the I. Z. A. Tuesday evening. Jan.
18, at the Shaarey Zedek, on "Mod-
ern Anti-Semitism." The public is
invited to attend the lectures given
by the I. Z. A.
.The local chapter is planning to
Roe a Zionist dance. the proceeds of
which will cover the expenses in-
curred by lecturers coming here from
outside Detroit. Simultaneous with
the dance, a membership campaign
will be instituted in the local col-
leges for members in the local chapter.

I.iuk y

V. Gordon, executive secre-
tary of the American Committee on
the Rights Of Religious Minorities, has
issued foviitiblication from the offices
of the Committee, 70 Fifth Avenue,
New York City, a statement scoring
recent anti-Semitic outbreaks. The
statement is signed by Arthur J.
Brown, chairman; Linley V. Gordon,
secretary; Henry A. Atkinson, Nehe-
miah Boynton, William J. Bryan,
Henry Sloane Coffin, President
Emeritus Charles W. Eliot. Samuel A.
Eliot, Abram 1. Elkus (in Europe),
Jan.'s Cardinal Gibbons, Hamilton
Holt, Herbert C. Hoover, Charles E.
Hughes, Frederick K. Knubel, Lauritz
Larsen, Robert Lansing, J. H. Lath-
rop, Albert G. Lawson, Frederick
Lynch, William F. McDowell, Charles
S. Macfarland, Louis Marshall,
1'. Merrill, Henry Morgenthau,
Alton 11. Parker, Joseph Schrembs
(in Europe), Oscar Strains, William
Howard Taft, Worth M. Tippy,
James J. Walsh, Stephen S. Wise.
The statement follows:
"One of the grave problems of the
present day concerns the rights of
religious and racial minorities. \\'e
had hoped that the struggle for re-
ligious liberty had been won among
civilized nations; that the world rec-
ognized that the right to worship
God according to the dictates of one's
conscience is among the most precious
right, of man; that the adherents of
any and every faith should have un-
challenged freedom to endeavor to
win converts by persuasion; that every
one . has a right voluntarily to change
his faith; and that any constraint by
either Church or State upon those
who prefer their own faith is re-
pugnant to every sane and enlight-
ened mind. The Peace Conference
at Paris expressly sought to guard
the rights of religious minorities and
articles for their protection were in-
corporated in the treaties.
Conditions Disappointing.
"Among the disappointing condi-
tions that Inane followed the war, how-
ever, is the recrudescence of persecu-
tion in a disturbing number of coun-
tries. The changes of frontiers have
sometimes united separated members
of the same nationality or creed into
a new State. In other cases these
changes of frontiers have broken old
ties. Minority groups have arisen
which are separated by creed, lan-
guage, or by nationality front the tuna-
jority of the people in the State to
which they now belong. The pro-
tective clauses of recent treaties are,
in many instances, being disregarded,
and minority groups are being sub-
jected to tyranny and oppression
ranging all the way from petty an-
noyances to the most atrocious cruel-
ties. In some cases, those whose
rights are being restricted are Protest-
ants, in other cases Roman Catholics,
and in still others Jews; although in
certain lands all three are the objects
of persecution.
"We are not unmindful that political,
economic and racial factors are fre-
quently involved. But we must re-
member that the alleged interests of
the State have ever been the excuse of
officials for persecuting a religious
minority. As for the excuse that per-
secution is for economic rather than
religious or racial reasons, why is it
then that it includes women and chil-
dren as well as multitudes of men who
are not engaged in business? And
why does it not include men of other
faiths who are notorious for the kind
of financial dealings that are objected
(Continued On Page Four.)

Norman Hapgood to Address
---
St. Louis Judge Takes "Ideals of
Men's Club, on Russia,
Justice"
for
Monday Night
Jan. l 7.

Address,

Norman Hapgood, former editor of
Collier's and Harper's Weeklies, will
speak in Detroit, Jain. 17, under the
auspices of the Men's Club of Temple
Beth El, it was announced Thursday.
N1r. Ilapgood's subject will be, "The
Outlook in Russia." The address,

NORMAN HAPGOOD.

which will be limited in attendance
to members of the organization, is
to be given at a place to be announced
later.
Norman Hapgood has been prom-
inently connected with public issues
since he became editor of Collier's
Weekly in 1903. Leaving that publi-
cation in 1912, he became chairman
of the committee that nominated and
elected Mayor Mitchel. Ile was edi-
tor for three years of Harper's Week-
ly, until its merger with the Indepen-
dent. He is author of lives of Lin-
coln, Washington, and Webster, and
is about to publish a volume called
"The Advancing Hour." He was
President of the League of Free Na-
tions Association early in 1919, when
he was selected by President Wilson
to go as minister to Denmark.
Being an interim appointment, it ex-
pired by law in November. Mr. Hap-
good asked not to be reappointed, as
Senator Lodge was making a bitter
controversy over Mr. Hapgood's be-
ing in the public service and Mr. Hap-
good did not wish to increase the dif-
ficulties between this administration
and the Republican majority in the
Senate. Senator 1.odge's most vio-
lent attack was due to the fact that
for over two years Mr. Ilapgood has
urged this policy, adopted recently at
l'aris, of lifting the Russian blockade
and trading with the Co-operatives.

RABBI WISE, IN
BOSTON SPEECH
DENOUNCES FORD

Use. Shield of David to Defend Race
From "Flivver Honks;" Crowd.
Cheer.

Boston, Mass.—Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise Sunday denounced Henry Ford
and declared his faith in the saneness
of America, where, he asserted, there
was no room for anti-Semitism.
The New York orator and publicist,
Detroit Boy Given Office by College
speaking at the Forum of the Boston
tion.
Zionists at N. Y. C
Y. Si. H. A., answered Ford's charge
that Jews are alining for control of
NEW YORK—The seventh annual
the world through the overthrow of
convention of the Intercollegiate
Christian civilization,
Zionist Association of America, which
Overflow Meeting Held,
ended here on Dec. 20, elected l'hilip
Slomovitz, of Detroit, vice-president
The Y. M. H. A. was not large
of the association, in his absence. Mr. enough to accommodate the gather-
Slomovitz was to read a paper before ing. Hundreds lined the stairways
the convention on "How to Intensify and walks outside until the first
the Work of the I. Z. A. Through the meeting was over and another address
Medium of Publicity," but was pre- to satisfy the overflow could he given
vented by local affairs from attend- by the speaker.
ing the convention. Dr. Nachman
Dr. Wise began by tracing the
Schlitt was elected president and Mrs. tragic history of the Jews during the
Lindheim, treasurer. Miss Sarah C. past 3,000 years. At no time in the
Pitkowsky is national secretary of the world's history were the Children of
Israel in greater suffering than now,
I. Z. A.
Mr. Slomovitz has been one of the he declared. He especially pointed
most active Zionist workers in Detroit out the indescribable plight of the
for the past two and a half years. He Jews in eastern Europe and made a
introduced Young Judaea work here stirring appeal to his audiences to
in 1919, and, a, Judaea Supervisor, give to the fund for their starving
succeeded in making Detroit Young brethren.
Judaea one of the strongest centers
The Shield of David.
in the country.
Referring to the six points formed
Mr. Slomovitz recently organized
the Detroit Chapter of the I. Z. A. by the star shield of David. which
1kitile a student at the University of Ilenry Ford has charged represents
Michigan he was closely affiliated with six definite planks in the platform of
campus activities, having been elected the alleged protocols of the mythical
president of the Menorah and having "elders of Zion," Dr. \Vise declared:
"The maker of cheap automobiles
held numerous offices in the I. Z. A.
He Was for a time secretary of the claims that the two triangles form-
ing
the shield of David represents
Detroit Zionist District.
The convention made a number of 'purse, press, proletariat, Prince of
Mr.
Israel,
peerage and Palestine.'
changes in the organization of the
I. Z. A.. the most important being Ford evidently does not know that
press
is
an
institution
not
horn
until
the restoration of the collegiate Zion-
ist organization to its autonomous
(Continued in page tour,)
status as before it joined the Zionist
Organization of America. Delegates
from 28 universities and colleges
throughout the country attended the
convention and acted on the reorgan-
ization of the I. Z. A.
Beginning with this Issue
Among the important resolution ,
the new house numbers go
adopted by the convention was one
four)
(Continued on page
into effect.
Kindly look at the yellow
label on your paper and
DANZIG JEWS CONTRIBUTE
verify it with your new ad-
FOR RECONSTRUCTION
dress. If it is not correct,
klnly notify the office of the
DANZIG—Local Jews last night
had a Chanukah festival in which the
DETROIT JEWISH CHRON-
most prominent Jews participated.
ICLE, Glendale 8326, in that
During the course of the evening
delivery of your paper will
Zionist leaders collected 2,000,000
not be delayed.
marks for the Keren Hayessod (the
Palestine Foundation Fund).

SELECT SLOMOVITZ
AS VICE-PRESIDENT
OF NATIONAL I. Z. A.

TO SUBSCRIBERS

J

Speaking on "Ideal, of Justice" be-
fore a meeting of Pisgah Lodge, Mon-
day, Judge Samuel Rosenfeld, of St.
Louis, Mo., president of District
Grand Lodge No. 2, extolled the work
of the Independent Order of B'nai
Brith, briefing its varied activities in
this and other countries.
The growing problem of the Jew-
ish orphan in the United Stales was
dwelt on at length by the speaker,
with special reference to the homes
maintained by the Order. The need
of expansion in this field of charitable
endeavor and the support of every
B'nai Brit!' member toward that end
were urged by th judge.
A lucid discuss/ on of the Jewish
immigration ones on concluded the
stimulating addrets of the visiting
speaker which included in its scope
every well-known activity of the or-
ganization. Nlorris Garrett introduced
Judge Rosenfeld. :

Chronicle to Undertake Campaign to Provide
Food and Shelter for Few of Thousands
Starving in Europe.

I I E Detroit Jewish Chronicle announces the opening of the Jew-
T ish
Chronicle Orphans' Fund, through which it invites its readers

to share in the "financial adoption" of Jewish war orphans in Europe,
in the manner described in flue following, article. It is hoped that
every reader if The Jewish Chronicle will find a way to become a
shareholder in this greatest of investments, the life of a little child,
and that the response to this initial appeal will result in the adoption
of a large number of war orphans. All communications, inquiries
and contributions should be addressed to Orphans' Editor, The
Jewish Chronicle.

Who will buy? Who will buy? Hun-
dreds of thousands of Jewish war or-
phans, throughout the length and
breadth of war-wracked, weary East-
ern Europe, are for sale. On one side
stands Death and Hunger and Disease,
Officers Me Installed.
bidding for the bodies and souls of
'rile following oll'icers, elected at an the little ones. On the other side of
earlier meeting, were formally in- the Atlantic are 3,000,000 American
stalled Monday: President, Bernard Jews, who alone can ransom the cliff-
Ginsburg; vice-president, A. Lapin- dren from their fate.
Cohen; treasurer, lien Kramer; secre-
Through an arrangement which has
tary, Wm. B. Isenberg; assistant mon-
itor, Joseph Garvett; guardian, Harold been established by the Joint Dis-
T. Rosenthal; trustees, Adolph Freund,
Herman Weiss, Lester J. Leopold.
A tribute was paid Mr. Freund, who
leaves shortly for Florida, where Inc
will spend the winter.
Dr. Kornblith Speaks.
Dr. Rudolph Kornblith, representa-
tive of the Hebrew Sheltering and
Immigrant Aid Society of America,
spoke in behalf of that organization.
Henry Santrey, appearing at a local
theatre this week, and a former mem-
ber of the lodge, was the principal
entertainer at the "stag" party that
followed the meeting. His singing of
"Broadway Blues," "Mammy" and
"Mecca" received enthusiastic ap-
proval from the members present.
Refreshments were served.

Special Meeting Called.
Members are urgently requested to

attend the next meeting, Monday, Jan.
10, to be held at tine lodge rooms, 25
Broadway. Matters of special im-
portance will be discussed at that time.
. . ,

B'NAI BRITH CLUB
ELECT OFFICERS.
At the annual election of officers,
held Sunday, Jan, 2, the B'nai Brith
Club elected the following to serve
the conning year: President, Nathaniel
Goldstick; vice-president, Lester J.
Leopold ire-electc.11; secretary, B. G.
Morris (re-elected); treasurer, Louis
I. Frank.
Bernard Ginsburg, Dave Feldman,
Dr. H. W. Goldstick, Frank Berman,
Robert Finn, William Moskowitz and
Jos. Streamer were named on the
Board of Directors.

Representative
Of Aid Society
Arrives in City

YOCHEL GOLDBERG.

Yochel Goldberg, The Chronicle
Readers Child No. 29, is four years
old and is now living in Lublin.
His father died in the war and his
mother shortly thereafter. This
poor waif is homeless, waiting for
someone in America to be moved
by his story and become his foster
parent.

tribution Committee of the American

2. Group Guardians: Groups or or-
ganizations may become the guardian
of Jewish war orphans. Let every
member of your family contribute his
share, and "adopt" a child in the name
of the family. Let the circle of your
friends "club" together for the finan-
cial adoption of an orphan. Let your
local Sisterhood, the chapter of the
Council of Jewish Women, the Ladies'
Auxiliary 3
. 1 your community, and even
the little sewing circle or social club,
contribute for the "adoption" of a war
orphan in the name of the group. ,Get
the other families living in your apart-
ment lionise to contribute equal shares
for the adoption of a child. On send-
fug in these contributions, the group
will receive the photograph and record
of the child adopted, and the child will
be notified of the name and address
of its benefactor.
Simply clip the
coupon at the end of this page, state
Ilse name of the group, attach the con-
tribution, and mail to the Orphans'
Editor.

3. Jewish Chronicle Readers: These
adoptions will Inc made in the name of
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle. These
childre,n will be known as Jewish
Chronicle Reader's Children. This
plan provides for the use of sums, no
matter how small, for the purpose of
orphan adoption. The photograph of
the child and its story will be printed
so that he who contributes $50, $5 or
$1, may know which child Ile is help-
ing to adopt. Receipts in behalf of
the Joint Distribution Contmittee and
The Jewish Chronicle will be sent to
all donors no matter how small their
subscription, with the information as
to the number of the orphan to which
their contribution will go in order to
make up the total of $100.

850 High St. West,

REFORM RABBIS ELECT

NEW YORK—At the annual meet-
ing of the Association of Reformed
Rabbis of New York and vicinity at
a luncheon in the Cafe Boulevard,
Rabbi Joseph Silverman was unani-
mously chosen as Honorary President,
and other officers for 1921 were chosen
as follows:
Rabbi Samuel Schulman of Temple
Beth-El, )'resident; Rabbi Rudolph
Grossman of Temple Rodeph Sholom,
Vice-President; Rabl i Jacob H. Tat-
skish of Yonkers, Treasurer; Rabbi
Rishard M. Stern of New Rochelle,
Secretary.

Detroit, Mich.

I herewith contribute

and care of

OLD ORDER IS SEEN TO

VANISH; NEW IS UNRISEN

By LEOPOLD SPERO,
Staff Ciiriesponilinit. The Detroit Jewish,
Chrunlele,)

LONDON.—The Chief Rabbi has
had nothing less than a triumphant
procession through South Africa,
which remembers him from the days
of Kruger, when he was a champion
of the British against the Boer in
the Transvaal. Dr. Hertz, though
Antall of stature and pacific of mien,
is a fighter all the way. He does not

mince either words or action and his

speeches to the South African Com-
munities on the need for the War.
Memorial, with its endowment of re-

ligion and of a better-paid and better-
trained clergy, touched the pride and
the sensibilities of those who heard
him.
Indeed, South Africa is likely to be
a fruitful field for Dr. Hertz and Al-
bert Woolf; there is still money

there. Here in England everybody
appears to be going bankrupt, if you
are to judge by the excuses with

which they meet claims for assistance

of communal needs.
Earlier in the week Claude Monte-
fore ran up to Manchester to talk

about the Anglo-Jewish Association,

and he rubbed if in very well indeed.
It appears that a year's contribution
to the funds of the Association from
the 20,000 or 30,000 Jews settled in

this itninesely properous commercial
city of 750,000, amounted to the im-
pressive sum of $375.
London Gives Little.

London, with a population more

than ten times as great again gave
about nine times as much. Mr.
Montefiore did not worry his head
about politeness or respect of person;
he just spoke out and said what he
thought of a city of millionaires, s
city which has made fabulous for-
tunes through the War and now gives
$375 in a year to one of the leading
charities in Jewry, a charity which
undertakes not 'only the fostering and
development of Jewish education at
home, but the protection abroad of
oppressed, the succor of the needy,
the aid in motley and in food and In
medical comforts of those who can-
not help themselves,
The Associa-
tion granted over $15,000 to the EVe-
lina School for Girls in Jerusalem
alone in the very year when its total
income was $375.
Its expenditure
last year was nearly $30,000, its in-
come $12,000. The great city of
Liverpool, bigger even than Man-
chester
erand $7,5 •e o ry bit as prosperous,

The work of supervising and placing
the orphans in homes is being de-
veloped in Europe under the direction
of Dr. Simon Peiser, formerly super-
intendent of tine Cleveland Jewish Or-
phan Asylum. Especial attention is
now being directed to the orphans in
Poland, of whom about 50,000 require
shelter. Headquarters for this work
are established in Warsaw, Poland,
with branch offices throughout time
If any one less of a philosopher
country and local committees in every
town, which see to it that the children than Mr. Montefiore had been mak-
are adequately cared for. The prob- ing this speech perhaps he would
have been less complimentary to the

Funds for Jewish War Sufferers, every
child now shelterless and homeless in
Eastern Europe may be placed in a
eve r.
home or institution, where it will be
carefully supervised and watched if
---
Dr. Rudolph Kornblith Seeks $15,00D in America, there is some one to pay
for the maintenance and care of the
for Campaign of Hebrew Shelter-
child. It costs $100 a year to care for
ing and Immigrant Aid,
one Jewish war orphan or about $2 a
Dr. Rudolph Kornblith, represent- week. And there are more than 200,-
ative of the Hebrew Sheltering and 000 of therol
Immigrant Aid Society of America,
Who will buy? For every $100 paid
reached Detroit Sunday for a two in, some little one, orphaned and made
weeks' stay in which he hopes to shelterless through the war, will have
raise $15,000, Detroit's quota in the home and care. The photograph and
$600,000 campaign being waged story of the child will be sent to the
throughout the country toward the giver, and the child itself will he noti-
building fund of that organization.
fied of the name and address of its
The funds raised in the campaign benefactor, so that it might write to
will be used to build a modern him. It may be imagined what an
structure on the site of the historic American 'guardian' means in the life
Astor library in New York City for of a little war orphan in Eastern Eu-
the housing of the society's activities. rope. Through letters some of the
The fund was originally started with sunny, wholesome cheer of America
a $50,000 bequest in the will of the may be brought into the sunless life
late Jacob H. Schiff.
over there. Through letters the child
Uniting Jewish families who have can relate its little stories, its daily
become separated through the war or activities, its very thoughts. Through
other causes, giving temporary shelter this contact, the customs and ideals of
to the immigrant, Americanizing them American life may be carried into the
and distributing them from congested farthest village in Poland. l'ractical
cities to the farms and other districts Americanization, in the highest, most
in the west, are a few of the primary spiritual sense, permeates the plan for
ESTHER LERNER.
objects of the organization, Dr. Korn- "financial adoption."
With explained Sunday morning,
Esther Lerner, The Chronicle
Who will buy? The Detroit Jewish
speaking from the pulpit of Temple
Readers Child No. 33, is eight
Beth El. The work of the society Chronicle has arranged for the adop-
yeses old. She is living in Lublin.
has won the full support and co- tion, through its pages, of as many of
Her father died of typhus and sub-
operation of the United States gov- these little waifs as its readers can
sequently she lost her mother. She
take. There are three ways in which
ernment, the speaker stated.
is homeless and uncared for. There
The purchase of the old Astor you may join in the adoption of the
are literally thousands of children
library, he said, was made necessary children:
in her same pitiful plight,
to accommodate the increasing num-
Three
Ways
of
Adoption.
ber of immigrant arrivals. Construc-
tion on the new building, which is to
I. Individual Guardians. Send $100 hem is now that of securing "guard-
house all the activities of the organ- and become the guardian of the Jew- ians" for the orphans, of enlisting
ization, has begun.
ish war orphans. You will receive the thousands and tens of thousands of
'The work of the Hebrew Shelter- photograph and the record of the American Jews in this task of prac-
ing and Immigrant Aid Society of child. You will be placed in communi- tical Americanism and applied Juda-
America deserves the whole-souled cation with it. Clip the coupon be- ism.
support of the people," Rabbi Leo M. low, attach your check or money or-
In this issue we publish the pictures
Franklin declared Wednesday, com- der, mail to the Orphans' Editor of
menting on the campaign. "More- The Detroit Jewish Chronicle. The of the first two orphans we are asking
our
readers to adopt. Who will buy?
over it is not merely a New York Editor will send you full details, in-
\Vitt you be all individual guardian?
institution, but one that is nation- cluding a receipt for your money in
wide in its scope."
Will yzn; be a group guardian?
behalf of the Joint Distribution Com-
Dr. Kornblith's mission has the co- mittee and The Detroit Jewish Chron-
Will you be a Jewish Chronicle
operatiou of leaders in Detroit's Jew- icle. reader guardian?
ish commercial life. Julian H. Krolik
Fred M. Butzel, Ben Tannenholz,
Mrs. B. Fink, B. H. Mazure, J. Shet-
zer, M. Jacob and L. Dann are assist- TO THE ORPHANS' EDrTOR,
ing Dr. Kornblith personally in his
THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE,
campaign.

New York Association Names Officers
for the Coming Year.

Londoners, Blamed for Selfish
Ends, Lay Blame on Bus.
Mesa Uncertainties.

for the maintenance

Jewish war orphans for

Jewish Communities of Great Britain.
But Claude Montefiore is a man whose

whole life has been devoted to the
unpaid service of his fellow Jews, and
it is well-known that his large private

fortune has been spent in great part
on the sane charitable objects to
which he gives his time and enthu-
siasm. There is nothing he does not
give to, ungrudgingly and eagerly,
this saintly scholar whose personal
life and character has done more to
give honour to Jewry in the eyes of
Christiansthan all the achievements
of all the millionaires in the City of
London. That such a man should
have to go hat in hand to his co-re-
ligionists of behalf of their own char-
ities is discreditable; that he should
appeal in vain is a scandal, a lasting
disgrace. There are no other words .
for it.
nstitutions Are Tottering.
Stich excuse as may be found for
those who have and will not give
probably boiled itself down to the

general complaint of bad times, heavy
taxation, a slump in trade and the

uncertainty of the world's affairs in

all directions. Rut is it going to

make bad times any better if neces-
sary Jewish works of public support,
which have built up upon generations

of self-sacrifice their present struc-
ture of utility, shall be allowed to

crumble into dust? It is the same
tale everywhere. The Board of

Guardians, tine Anglo-Jewish Associa-
tion, the Religious Education Board,
The Lads' Brigade—one and all are
losing those whose pride it was to

sec that they flourished. "The old

order changeth, giving place to new."

But God does not seem to be fulfill-
ing Himself. The present genera-
tion, and the growing generation, are
no credit to Jewry; indeed they are
not. One hardly knows what to call
them. They will find the money for.
any selfish folly of the moment, but
for the wise philanthropies they have
no patience.
Meanwhile, the Jews
and their influence continue to be a
favorite stunt of platform and press.
Last Tuesday evening Mrs. Nesta
V.'ebster,' who is now hailed as the

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CHARITIES TO HOLD
ANNUAL MEETING ON
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12

The annual meeting of the United

years Jewish Charities will take place Wed.
at $100 per year for each child (for contributions of $100 or more). nesday, Jan, 12, at the Institute Build-
ing, 687 East High St. (new number).
I herewith contribute
towards the maintenance For the convenience of those who
wish to go home to dinner the meet.
and care of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Readers' children.
leg has been set for 4:30 P. M.

Name

Address

Election of officers will take place
at the meeting. Reports of the act's•
Isles of the Jewish Charities for the
past year will be read and future
plans outlined. Those who are Inter-
ested are cordially invited to attends

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