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• thropic institutions going forward with their work. These in-
stitutions have all been carefully examined as to their respond
sibility and their efficient carrying out of the purposes which!
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they are supposed to sponsor. They include organizations both
of a sectarian and an undenominational character.
There is
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no phrase of philanthropy represented in this community,
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whether it be a child caring agency or an institution for the
WHAT ROSH HASHONA
illatered as second class matter March 3, 1914 at the Postorlice at Detroit, aged ; whether it be a relief organization or an educational
bitch., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
MEANS
endeavor; whether it be a hospital or a school, that is not de-
pendent for its very life upon the success of the Community
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succeeds season, and year succeeds
in the coming campaign:
year in an endless chain of progress.
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It need not be said that in the past, a majority of the Jews In wishing its readers a very hap-
$3.00 Per Teal
Subscription, In Advance
New Year, the Jewish Exponent
in the community have done their duty by the Community py
renews the personal tie which bind:
To insure publication, all correspondence and new. matter must reach this Fund. We hope that they shall do so again. We woulttclike to it to a representative body of men
office by Tuesday evening of each week.
see the name of every Jew and Jewess in Detroit enrolled among and women with whom it assumes to
stand in the relation of guide, teacher
the list of givers. But what is equally important, we would and
Editorial Contribute,
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
friend. Its guidance has ever
l i ke to know that every man and every woman who is fitted to been directed towards promoting O-
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of Interest to the serve will be found in the ranks of the workers. We owe this ddity to our religious devotion to the
Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the view service not only to the poor and the unfortunate in our midst cause of our oppressed and harassed
in all qqhrters of the world,
impressed by the writers.
but we owe it also to our city whose place must be maintained brethren
and in promoting the welfare of
not only as a great manufacturing center but what counts for American Jewry in every possible
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Sept. 30, 1921
much more, as being what at other times it has been called way.
The Exponent realizes that the re-
"the city with a soul."

DO (Our
(guutrutpurarirs

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Is This the Revival Season?

ligious motive should be the main
bond of attachment between a Jewish
paper and its readers. Judaism does
not regard merely the outward ex-
pression of religious devotion in syna-
gogue or home as the entire concept
of religion. Our faith considers all
the affairs of man part of his religious
development. When then we are
commanded in the Torah to observe
'the Day of Memorial a tthe beginning,
of the month of Tishri, and in law and'
ritual are bidden to begin then a
period of sincere repentance, it is not
By DR. EDWARD N. CALISCH
merely for the purpose of regulating
(President Central Conference of American Rabbis)
our connection with the synagogue and
its various activities. The obligation
give greetings to the readers of it is now on the retreat. The wave
went much furthet than that. It went
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle for the that roughened the seven seas has
so far that in the course of time the
New Year. The thoughts of all earn- hrok
Day of Memorial means rejuvenation,'
and serious minded men and Wu- the American sentiment of ''}slice and
restoration, reclamation, and when HI
men will be turned toward the New of fair play. Its yeasty siabberings
is sincerely felt, it means the begin.'
Near with the fervent hope and earn- are disappearing into the oblivion of
ning of a new and definite era. What."
eat prayer
bed.i.ndn ee.df a
. the deep.
ever the (lay may have become in the
er ,
at.,
h
The recently discoverea, additionai course of the centuries it is not merely'
happier era. May the good old Jewish and convincing proof of the falsehood'
a festival for joyous celebration in a:
greeting that 'you be written in the of the so-called protocols, as being'
secular sense. There is of course the
hef.eteanndded pneeteemearmil cton ten t only a hasty and poorly-disguised
pious joy which comes from the recog-
yo u r plagiarism of the Geneva Dialogues,
nition of duty well done. There is the
own community, but to all ann71
Jews S
has clinched the nails that were driven joy which comes from the renewal of
all peoples everywhere on the face into the coffin of mendacious preju-
the bond of Israel with the Creator
of the globe.
For it is a serious dice. Its folly will not trouble us any
of the universe. There is the supreme
period i in which we find ourselves at more. It may be possible that sonic,
joy of reconciliation with those whom"
present.
indifferent results may have followed we have wronged. It would therefore'
The political, economic and indus- from the wide spread propaganda that' be a mistake to regard Rosh Hashona
trial conditions are such as to give was made against the Jew, but it is as merely a solemn holy day, far re-
pause to the thinking mind. It were my firm conviction that whatever of moved from bunion joys and pleas-
trite to say that conditions are better harm, if any, may have been done, has ures. But the fact remains that the
here in America than elsewhere and already been done, we need fear no day is one of high seriousness, of pro-
perhaps it is also trite to say that further from this particular forgery. found sentiment and of pious devo-I
conditions here are serious; but trite
The defense that was made by the tion. Viewed in any other spirit It
though it may be, it needs be said.
Jews and by sonic splendid and would lose all the wonderful signifi-
' As
As loyal citizens, we are deeply con-
noble-minded Christians, has been! cance which has marked it during
over the welfare of our coon- effective. What further defense is the ages, since the great Law-giver
its problems and its perplex
d itie s, to be made by th Jew himself, and first proclaimed its observance by the
' staInc
its not by wordy protests or by mere household of Israel throughout all
Vie thou atn desire wailing against discrimination.
generations.
to enter upon -an economic treatise
e
In wishing to all Israel a very hap-
The Jews best answer to all attacks
or political discourse, it may be said
py New Year the thought is not a
that we may well pray that the New must be the Jew himself. The best of
selfish
one, limited only to a small
Year, under God's guidance, bring us the Jew lies in one direction only,
of God's children. Judaism
happy solution of our problems and that is his religion. The one real duty proportion
was
the
first and foremost of all re-
the establishment of peace, real peace, before the Jew is to take hold of his
ligions to recognize that all the people
religion
as
a
tree
of
life
and
let
its
not only for the United States of
fruits speak for him. Judaism is the of the earth have one heavenly Father,
America but for all the world.
distinctive possession of the Jew. It and that His providential care and
But in addition to the material
most be his distinctive power. It is mercy extend to all of them. In
ctohneret-io.r. ld'sbo
is n odires politic,
olie
s tri7. ,
his working tool. Without it he is wishing Israel a happy New Year the
is spiritual
inept and helpless. History has prov- hope extends to all mankind. For
s Jews ,
ha ve
r
rtaic.
en again and again that only that history has proven that when Israel
problems. Wh ile ,
cit i zens
people can prosper and survive, who is at peace in our‘lay and generation,
t the world,
of
tu. are
lu-e7
concerned over
have working tools and know how to the blessings fo I ce extend through-
the
oral s ta t us
h wo r
t he
t l and
rld
n
out all the nations accounted civilized,
use them.
particularly of our country
and through them to all the other .
May the New Year, then, bring to peoples. May the coming year bring
eral conditions, as Jews, we are g
con :
corned overwhat may be the influence the Jew himself a keener realization this divine peace to all the children
.c.onirt,toonws rsu ap irr.. J iuristelLes, of what is his own particular duty of men.
and the particular manner in which
its here
Je w s ar e he can perform that duty. There
often
must he a re-Judaization of the Jew,
the ba l r 'o ee m nete sr aid of rheairvilrizh::tiejei .
position
in is
tio:11, is precarious and a whole-harted and continuing return
to the faith of his fathers. Then will
ndi
(The London Jewish World.)
chaos of storm
world he be written in the book of life in
I This observation has been only too . this New Year and in all others.
It is because Jews are so often pre-
May the grace and goodness of God vented from eating meat that they
sadly proven during the past war
and during the years that have fol- and his unfailing loving-kindnss be have become expert in the preparation
realized by you, by Chronicle readers of fish. No other people in the world
lowed.
I do wish to harrow your feelings and by all Israel in the coming year. can surpass them in this respect. No

There are those who with more or less of a sneer speak of
the holiday period that is upon us as the revival season of the
Jews. It is true that during the fall holidays, many hundreds
of our co-religionists who at other times are strangers to the
house of God reverently turn their thoughts to religious duty
and to use the prophet's phrase "tread down the courts of God."
There is something in the spirit of the New Year and
Atonement holy days that stirs the soul of the Jew to unwonted
religious fervor. Remarkable it is that around these holy days
are clustered no great historical associations. Unlike Passover,
they do not celebrate a great redemption, nor like the Feast of
Weeks do they call to mind the Revelation of the laying of the I
moral foundations of a people's life.
The appeal of Rosh Hashona and Yom Kippur is essentially est
subjective. They are days of remembrance and of self-
judgment. They attest nothing so much as that the faith which
stirred the hearts of the fathers cannot be killed within the New Pe
souls of the sons. They are the attest of the permanence of
Judaism's appeal to its children. They give assurance that even;
though at times our people may seem to break loose from the
ancestral moorings, they are seldom traitors to the faith but
as a rule only victims of a passing indifference. A season like to
this with its appeal to what is deepest and highest in the soul
of the Jew brings them back.
Let those who will then, speak of this time as a revival sea-
son. Pray God it may indeed revive the languishing soul of the
Jew and bring him back in abiding fealty to his fathers' faith
and to his fathers' God.

A Hope for the Re-Judaization of the Jew

A Great Day for Temple Beth El.

thheartai'd'inm g y

On Tuesday afternoon of the coming week, Temple Beth try,
El will with appropriate ceremonies lay the cornerstone of its iftosret_nroorseillactiocnir,chump
magnificent place of worship which promises to be not only
one of the handsomest but as well one of the most commodious
Temples in this country. The Congregation, we feel, is to be
highly congratulated upon this achievement for it represents •
not only a tremendous material sacrifice on the part of the
members to build such an edifice at this time, but what is even
more significant, it tells that the people of this Congregation
realize the obligation that undoubtedly rests upon a leading ts r..l
di
congregation. to the entire community.
r
The building under construction it is hoped, will serve t h e
religious needs of that portion of the community that inclines to .
m
a liberal inter p relation of Judaism for many years to come. ■
It will provide them with an adequate place of worship and
will also put at their disposal facilities for the education of their
children. At thepresent time, Temple Beth El is accommoda-
ting fully twice as many children in the Religious School as
quarters Were intended to take care of. But by a
present qua
system of double sessions, it has been able to accomlish this. t ■ s her
. h7n co d t
.at its command, it is believed that
rt
With its fine new quarters
tion
the
within
I
put
it will more than double its present capacity and so
the
community
who
seeks
the reach of every Jewish child in
it, the opportunity of a proper religious education.
Moreover, the new building will become in a true sense,
a social center. The whole life of the Jew in other days cen-
with any description of the most pile•
tered logically enough in his synagog. To a great extent, the able
of our brethren abroad.
new building will make it possible to carry on this tradition. I will plight
touch only upon the widening JEWISH LABOR WOULD
In the great work that is thus undertaken by the Congregation, wave of anti Semitism that has rough- COOPERATE WITH ARABS
the whole community is being served. We feel sure that at, end the surface of the seven seas of
d.
.
"
this happy time, all Jews of Detroit share in a sense Beth El's th 0 It worl
JERUSALEM.—(J. T. A.)—Work
was a particular shock to us that
rejoicing.
this anti-Semitism should have found has commenced on the site of the first

An Honor Well Bestowed.

Friday evening table is considered
complete on which fried or stewed
fish does not make its appearance.
Fish is said to he eaten on the seventh
-
lay of the week because the Hebrew
for fish is a word whose numerical '
to
value (Daled•Gimel) amounts
seven. But this is not the only reason
mot here in America and that it Jewish garden city in Palestine, not assigned for the custom. Fried fish,
should have been exploited as it has far from Tel Aviv. The colony will which is the standard dish in this
been by individuals and by publish- be named after the late Poole Zion country, probably owes its origin to
] mg houses of hitherto reputable repu- leader, Borchov, and occupies an the Sephardic settlement. It is from
tation. But we may comfort ourselves area of some COO dunam of National the Spanish Jews that we derive most,
of the oily, rich and highly - spiced
with the knowledge of the fact that Fund land.
fwd. to be seen on Jewish tables.
White - stewed fish (that is fish stewed
in egg and lemon, and supplemented
the relief .
by balls made of cod's liver) and
brown stewedfi sh (a stew prepared of
vinegar, ginger-bread and beer) are
essentially Jewish dishes. Jews are
not particularly partial to boiled fish,
h
it is to simple for their tastes; but
, it is commonly eaten in Holland.
Gefillte Fisch (fish stuffed with all
sorts of delicacies) comes from North-
good or ill,
The Year is done. Whate'er it brought
' eastern Europe. Salt herring or pick-
It now lies dead and changeless with the past.
I led herring clones from Holland; but
new year dawns! Awake! 0 ye
sleeping souls,
a particular variety, known as Salmi
Gundi, is, as its name implies, a
Awake, and hear the sounding shofar's
Southeastern improvement. Its prin-
cipal feature is the addition of onions. ,
Teki'ah!
a Jews are particularly fond of onions
and garlic—a taste which they had
Pure and soft
already acquired in Egypt.
The long note swells—
'
It was the lack of onions, garlic,
Penitence
and cucumber in the desert which
Its cadence tells!
created a rebellion among the Israel.
ites. The Shalont ("Shul Ender') is
Turn thoughts within!
the
a famous Sabbath dish, consisting of
Ceasing from thy sin!
is . meat stewed with peas and beans, and
Unceasing pray!
— I often so arranged as to surround a
Seek God today!
plum pudding enclosed in a basin, so
, that the two are cooked together in a
single vessel. Its name implies that
Teki'ah!
it is ready for table when the syna-
Trembling the sound
gogue service is over. If not cooked
at
home, it was sent to the baker's
awe and fear—
few
oven well sealed on the Friday after-
Let each heart's depths
noon, and cooked before Sabbath, and
The clear call hear!
thus kept warm.
Let sinful head
Charouseth, Matzo Kleis, Matzo
Shal•t, I'relatoes, Grimslichs, Sassa-
Be bowed in dread!
fras, Pesach Borsht, almond pudding,
Account each must,
are famous throughout the Jewries of
Since God is just!
— the world. The Sephardim permit
themselves to eat rice on the Pass-
, over; but it is forbidden to the Ash-
Tekrahl
kenazim.
Clear and pure
We have left ourselves little space
again,
N to write of numerous other dishes in
whose preparation the Jewish house-
Bringing comfort
' wife excels. Who so expert as she
Unto men!
in concocting various kinds of soups
pure!
' —lockshen, frimsel, strudel, krepchen,
the
fervel? Can anyone beat her in mak-
Praises give!
ing Einlauf and Yontuff.aup? She
Seek God, and live!
knows the traditional secret of An-
nastitch, Krosphada, Tsimess, Ge-
the triple call is still,
The lingering echo
Ifillte blilz, Milinczki, Lamplich and
Knidlech. Her buttereakes and bolas
Dead as the year that slumbers in the past.
are unrivalled. Her raisin wine is
We greet the dawning new
courageous faith,
sometimes carried to the perfection of
And souls awakened by the shofar's blast.
' a fine art. The cynic decries all these
I dainties as "Bauch Judenthum," to
use Heine's phrase. But is there
ISABELLA
, not much to admire in the part they
have played in keeping the Jewish
i home sweet and pure.

THE SHOFAR

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The City With a Soul.

The Detroit Community Fund is laying its plans for its
autumnal drive for funds and an urgent call goes forth to
people of this city for material and moral help. The need of
the institutions supported by the Community Fund was never
greater than it is today. In times of financial depression such
as these, philanthropic and educational institutions are the very
first to suffer in a two-fold way. In the first place, the number
of persons dependent upon their help is necessarily increased,
and in the second, their sources of support become fewer and
less generous.
Upon the success of the Community Fund drive this year
will depend the possibility of more than half a hundred philan-

It flows

Keep heart

of

year with

It HESS.

GiAS

c.J 0 S E

(Copyright. lie2 I. By Chas. Ii. Joseph.)

I am glad to see that in Detroit the picture "The Birth of a Na.
lion" was placed under the ban, and properly so. To revive this pictur e
at this particular lime c•n have no other purpose than to capitali re
the excitement that has been created as a result of the Ku Klux Kl.rn
exposure.. Besides, those who have seen this picture ran readily
demand how easily the imaginations of the younger men can becm ue
inflamed by those "knights" riding through th e south intimidatm 4
Negroes and holding their weird ceremonies. The picture deals ...ICI
the period when the Ku Klux Klan was first brought into being as d
result of the alleged lawlessness of the Negroes of the south.
..-weee•

In connection with this organization it is interesting to note Imw
the members justify their connection with it. They claim that the
Jews are organized all over the world ( I wish to God they were) and
that the Catholics owe their supreme allegiance to the Pope and not
to America! that the Negro is getting stronger and better organized
than ever, so what shall all the other Ititiful minority of tens of mil.
lions do to uphold the traditions of the government and to maintain
100 per cent Americanism? Why, join the Ku Klux Klan. They will
be saviors of humanity—of American humanity. In the meantime
millions of dollars are being spent on this sort of thing.

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The New York Federation is going to publish • list of its con-
tributors, with the •mount each give., for public circulation.
The
promoters of this believe that by this method a great many will Rive
who are not •t present doing their duty. I wish the New Yorkers luck
in their enterprise. In cities where lists are published it seems to take
something more than publicity to induce men and women who • are not
doing their duty by the charities to change their ways.
If you really
want to know how callous some are to all sorts of pressure, visit some
member. of the community the next time there is a campaign on hand
for inc reas ed memberships or increased funds. Listen to what some
men will silty to you, and you will then begin to understand what little
effect "publicity" of the kind suggested will have on them.

There is • kind of publicity that would probably get under their
skin, but it would involve the editor in libel suits. The only way New

York or any other community is going to force certain members of
a community who ■ 6 not doing their duty in this regard is to exclude
them from all social life of • broader communal character. That
touches them to the quick. Keep them out of clubs. When you mak e
up a list of those to invite to some "exclusive" function, km their
names off. But so long as they are encouraged and given all the privi.
leges and honors, why should they worry about having their names
published?

I don't blame the students attending the Hebrew Union College
for objecting to a boarding house existence. It isn't conducive to de.
veloping the spiritual, let alone the physical side of the young men .
Though, I don't know—when one sees some of the husky specimen.
that come Rom Cincinnati, it doesn't appear that they were so badl y
housed or fed. But the idea of building • dormitory is • good one
and ought to be encouraged. The Sisterhoods of the country have
underwritten the project and there should be no difficulty in getting
the required funds. Seriously speaking, it, after all, is unfair to ask
parents to send their boys away from home to live for nine years in
boarding houses and frequently without that influence that ought to
be present in the lives of young men studying for the pulpit. By all
means contribute to the Dormitory Fund—it is needed.

I would like to see every community that reads "Random Thoughts"
subscribe for at least 100 copies of Walter Hurt's proposed book, "The
Truth About the Jews."
If our people won't stand loyally by their
friends it is • reflection upon us. These books when published will
sell for $3 a copy. You can send in your name now to the paper in
which this column appears and the order (without money) will be
forwarded to Mr. Hurt. I feel keenly on this subject, because I know
that Mr. Hurt is bitterly disappointed at the lack of appreciation on
the part of the Jewish public. Then, too, the publishers told him that
he couldn't expect much from the Jews. Let us prove that any right.
minded man who has been loyal to us, who has been our friend among
the enemy, can expect • great deal from the Jews. And then Mr.
Pipp in Detroit. Every Jew in this country who can afford to spend
$2 ought to subscribe to his paper. Every B'nai B'rith lodge in this
country ought to subscribe for enough copies to cover its membership.

because he is doing great work for you and for me.

It seems to annoy some of our smaller town contemporaries of the
secular group that Lenin. and Trotsky are not apparently such devils
as they were originally painted by the earlier oh
f the Russian
revolution. Personally, I am not concerned except to examine the
curious attitude due to mob thought in the press of the country. For
after all there is • mob psychology in journalism as much its there is
in ordinary every day human beings. It seems that Mrs. Claire Sheri-
dan, a cousin of Winston Churchill of England, and herself a sculptor
who has fashioned Lenine and Trotsky in marble, •s well as a Mrs.
Harrison, who was imprisoned in Russia, and United States Senator
France, persons of widely different stations and pursuits in life, all
agree that Lenine end Trotsky are a whole lot better than they have
been described, and they speak from personal experience.

As soon •s these interviews were given out the press rose up on
its hind legs and resented such favorable comments. I know nothing
about it, but I don't like to see the press as • unit refuse to credit
the testimony of competent or at least intelligent witnesses an any
subject whose testimony does not fit in with their cons live views.
Trotsky may be all that I called him some months back, but if reput•
able men and women insist that I may be mistaken I am satisfied to
give them • hearing without hurling stones at them. It may be Ise we
get ■ few months older that we will And out that something happened
in Russia in the direction of • finer idealism than we believed. At any
rate we look to Russia to supply some very interesting contributions to
the news of the world.

I

In selecting Mr. David A. Brown of this city to direct the I
countrywide campaign for the raising in connection with the !
ommossogrommtsosommassmsperememozhamommestmossmstomosommommr
/ oover Fund, the sum of fourteen million dollars for
sour stricken co religionists in Europe, the committee of
ent laymen who met in Chicago last Sunday, not only
hohpred a man worthy of the honor but they showed rare wis-
5:
in making their selection.
r. Brown undertakes the gigantic task thus entrusted to a
emendous personal sacrifice. But this is characteristic
hii
of
He feels that there is a work which must be done.
o
He AA been told that he is the man to do and so without hesit-
A
of
ancy he puts aside his personal interests and is ready to throw
blast!
himself wholeheartedly into a work that he knows will be long
and dificult but which may mean the salvation of thousands of
his people. That is enough for him.
In choosing Mr. Brown for this exalted office, the gentle- g
men who met in Chicago last week are not trying out a new
man. It is admitted on every hand that it was David A. Brown a
who above all others several years ago made possible the suc-
cess of the great New York drive for the Relief of
War
Sufferers. We in Detroit know what he has accomplished
here and throughout our state for the same cause. We know
with what zeal and enthusiasm he took upon himself the state
chairmanship of the Hoover Relief Fund Committee last year
and with what success he carried on that work.
There are men who give money to philanthropic causes
Of
and it means a measure of sacrifice to them. But there are
men who in addition to generous giving of their material re-
sources also give of themselves; of their time; of their energy;
of their enthusiasm in anything approaching the measure that
Mr. Brown has been giving during these many years. .
Ih the new honor that is linked with the high responsibility
that has come to our fellow townsman, all the Jews of Detroit
should feel themselves honored.

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JEWISH EPICURISM

rtiScyvt.

Drop' of water, so they say,
Will wear the hardest stone away;
A ton of coal, bought now and then,
Will fill that empty bin again.

"We unconsciously remember the things
we like and forget the things we dislike,"
says a professor of psychology, writing in
American Magazine.

Perhaps that explains why so many folks
don't order coal until the first cold snap
brings them face to face with the inevitable.
Then they find they can't get immediate
delivery— perhaps they pay a higher price
—and they may shiver for a few days wait-
ing for fuel.

It's easy on your pocketbook and your dis-
position to let us deliver a ton or two a
week until your bin is filled.
U. F. & S. service, of course.

S,0474 Sa4N.v

NITED FUEL & UPPLY CO :

General Offices—Free Press Building

Ours is "Hotter Than Sunshine"
Yards in All Parts of the City

