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October 14, 1921 - Image 10

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1921-10-14

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CONARD-r0 R1

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Largest, fastest steamers in the
world. Excellent treatment of pas-
sengers. There is a local agent in
your town or nearby.

To Poland, Lithuania, Uh-
rainia and all Baltic States
via Hamburg:
Oct. 29
SAXONIA

Cabin

1413 to 1447

Agents of the Polish police raided and examined documents and records
in all the Jewish dailies of Warsa•. No reasons for the action were given.

••

3d Cl.

$100.00
$145.00
Tax $5.00
Via Cherbourg, Southamp-
ton, Liverpool and Glasgow:
BERENGARIA
Oct. 20
AQUITANIA ..
Oct. 25
ASSYRIA . •
Oct. 29

A report from Kovno states that the police on the Polish-Ukrainian
frontier have arrested a number of refugees who attempted to cross the
border without the necessary papers.





The second son of the King of Sweden and the English Duke Sunder-
manland have arrived in Palestine and have paid their respects to the High
Commissioner.




Israel Zangwill has just completed a dramatization of his well known
book, "The King of Schnorrers," which will be produced shortly in English
in the National Jewish Theater.





Via England or Hamburg to Dan-
zig, $110; Libau, $120; Ham-
burg, $100. Tax $5.

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Select Dancing Nightly

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The Chief Rabbinate of Budapest
•• reports that between January and
August of 1021, 129 persons accepted the Jewish faith. Of these some III
per cent were repentant renegades and the others Christians, including a
goodly number of physicians and lawyers.

Palais de Dance

• •

Particular People Pref.,
the Palais

Strictly censored.

The London Morning Post confirms a recent report of the assassination
of the Bolshevist diplomat, Adolph Jaffee, at the hands of one of his bitter
political enemies, Evdakimow, who was a member of the Petrograd Com-
munist executive committee.


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Filseitesst

standard

'b .,. Niemen saws

• •

The Pierson Construction Company has begun to carry out its contract
for the construction of a modern harbor at Haifa on the Mediterranean
Sea. It is announced that the expenses of the operations will amount to
/10,000,000.


• •

Oremouss

Miss
Detroit
Cigar

Systematic searches for Jewish refugees are being conducted by the
Polish police. Police agents recently entered numerous Jewish hotels and
private dwellings, where many emigrants and destitutes without special per-
mission to live in Poland were arrested.




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The Red Star, a Communist organ published in Witebsk, prints an
article from the pen of the well known Bolshevik leader, Merejin, who
proposes that the national Soviet authorities take measures to prevent the
observance of the Jewish Sabbath on the grounds that it CRUM'S economic
loss to Russia.
.




Manuel Urbach

Emess, -a Moscow organ, states that 2,000 Jewish families in the province
of Odessa are successfully engaged in the pursuit of agriculture and in the
care of large tobacco plantations. They are handicapped, however, says
the paper, and further settlement is impossible because of the absence of
livestock and agricultural machinery.

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Public Accountant

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JEWISH

FUNERAL
DIRECTOR

Chapel and Office
7739 JOHN R.

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thamenial Artists
and Engravers

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The great overcoat sale is going
over like a tidal wave. Men are hur-
rying here to get their winter coats
and get in on the fine savings. Five
wonderful groups $19.50, $23.50,
$28.50, $34.50 and $39.50 compris-
ing 3826 of the best overcoats the
markets of the United could supply
for this big event.

Coats of every description, from the smart formfitting Chesterfields
to the great soft woolly ulsters. The variety of styles, fabrics, patterns,
colors is wide that we cannot imagine a man not finding exactly the
coat he:wants. Come Saturday and pick out your coat and save real
money.

The lea has appropriated a quarter of a million francs for the Ort so-
ciety, in order to buy seeds for the Jewish colonists in South Russia. The
Ort is making an effort to secure agricultural machinery for the Russian
Jewish colonists and hos already obtained permission of the Soviet govern-
ment to ship tools into Russia.

664 Winder St. Cedillac • 411

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WOODIVARD AVE

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The London Morning Post prints a cable from Mr. Driscoll, the presi-
dent of the Trans-Canadian Theater Association, charging that German-
Americans and Jews are in control of the Canadian Federation of Musicians
and use their influence to bar English conductors from entrance into the
federation.


• .

Marble and Granite

Tke ••ly Jewish Monument Dealer
in Detroit.

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The Building Commission of Lodz has confiscated Rasmaitasje, the beau-
tiful theater owned by the Jewish Actors Society of Lodz, and given it to
the Society of Polish Actors, whose theater was recently razed by fire.




••

CLIFFORD

Sweeping the City---

In Retjesta, near the Russian frontier, the Bolshevik authorities have
shot six plantation owners who were charged with urging the peasants to
make pogroms on Jews.

.



In the course of the debate in the l'olish Sejm, the well known leader
of the Socialist party, gibed at the "order" that prevailed in Poland, when
Polish urchins were permitted to throw stones at Jewish funeral pro-
cessions.



BETWEEN

ORMID RIVER





Jewish capitalists in America were iwcused of complicity in ft thin to
Poland through Communism' et a meeting of 'anti-Semites held in
ern
Warsaw. The old charge was repeated that American Jews have aided
Trotsky in establishing his regime in Russia and that Communism is merely
a German and Jewish scheme to destroy Poland.
• •

ENCOURAGES CUBAN
IMMIGRANT CENTER

amid non-sanitary condition, ns many
as 20 sleeping in one room, and pay-
ing from 411 cents and upward for a
night's lodging. This was a consider-
able percentage of their earnings and
some had no work at all. Those with-
out funds were forced to sleep in the
parks, resulting in sickness, as many
of them could not withstand the ter-
rible heat, particularly during the
months of August sod September.
"Many of them were contracting
climatic fever. There was no one to
look after the sick or even to take
them to the hospital. It was useless,
they said, to go to the hospital un-
accompanied, because, not knowing
the language, they could not tell the
physician what was the matter with
them. Because of this quite a num-
ber hail to leave the hospital, al-
though sick, without receiving any
medical attention.
"In my speech I endeavored to en-
courage them, telling them not to be
despondent but to make the best of
the situation in which they found
themselves. There was little to look
forward to, I said, in the United
States. because business conditions
there were just as bad as they were
in Cuba. The weather would soon
change and become bearable, in con -
sequence with the change of the sea-
son; the economic condition would
improve because of the new crop and
the beginning of the tourist season.
On behalf of the society I promised
that we would do everything in our
power to aid them and that in our
work the Jewish Committee of Ila-
vans would co-operate financially and
otherwise.

The Polish representative in Vilna has granted subsidies to Jewish
charitable institutions in that city.
The contributions are taken to be a
sop to Jewish public opinion, which has been opposed to the Polah regime.
(Continued from page 1.)
The Vilna Municipal Council has protested against the league decision re- call with me upon the Sephardic Jews.
yarding Villas Jewish counsellors were not present.
Some volunteered and we visited A.

.
a
Bensenior, a prominent merchant and
Professor Alfred Zimmern, the well known authority on Greek history, president of the Sephardic Jewish
who Was connected with the British Foreign Office and who accompanied community known as Sheivet Achim.
Mr. Brandeis and Mr. Dellaas on their trip to Palestine, has arrived in this I also saw some other Sephardic Jews
country. He will deliver n course of lectures at the New School for Social k11111 invited all of them to attend the
Research in New York, and will do some work for the Zionist movement. meeting which was to take place the
a • a

, following evening.
"They, too, hesitated in accepting
Members of the Jewish Kehillah of Warsaw recently applied for per-
mission from the local municipal authorities which would permit Jews the invitation. But when I told them
to keep their stores open on the Sunday preceding the New Year, since that the Ashkenasi community want-
otherwise Jewish merchants would be seriously inconvenienced. The re- eel their co-operation in the sacred
quest was denied and as a result Jewish members of the Municipal Council cause of aiding the unfortunate im-
have entered their resignations. migrants, they agreed not only to at-
• • a

tends but to notify as many as they
M. M. Usisshkin has arrived in Jerusalem and stated that he was full could to come to the meeting.
"Immediately after the conference
of hope for the new period which has now begun. The fact that the present
World Executive, he said, was duly and legally elected by the Congress I visited the immigrants. Messrs.
would make for progress and satisfaction. Mr. Usisshkin expressed the Steinberg Brothers had been good
confidence that the money required to cover the proposed budget would enough to place at their disposal their
store as headquarters and it was the
be raised during the year.



only place in which the immigrants
Reuter's Russia correspondent reports that a marked feeling of unrest could meet. The immigrants kept
prevails among the Jews in the Soviet provinces and in the Ukraine. Thou- coming and going, and I could see
sands are proceeding to Moscow, feeling that they will be safe there should by their demeanor that they realized
counter-revolutionary uprisings take place in Russia. Reuter states that ex. the inconvenience to which the Stein-
perienced observers of Russian conditions anticipate that in the near future berg Brothers were put. Reluctant
pogroms on Jews will take place on a large scale. , as they felt to take advantage of the
• 0 • •
kindness, under the circumstances
In reply to an interpolation by Jewish Sejm deputies regarding a nun- there was nothing else for them to
bar of Jewish immigrants who had arrived in Canada and who were in do because it seas the only place in
danger of being returned by the Canadian authorities because their pass- which they could inquire for their
ports did not show that they were l'olish citizens, the l'olish government
has published a reply in which it declares that it has wired its ambassador
Need for Permanent Home.
In Canada to take the necessary measures to enable those immigrants to
The Joint Meeting.
•Then and there I came to the con-
remain in Canada.
elusion that one of the needs imme-
• .


"On the evening of Sept. 14 the
th
tliately to be recommended was Iliac
first meeting of both the Ashkenazi
Dr. Joseph Krimeky, president of the American Federation of Ukrainian establishment of a permanent
s and Sephardic Jews interested in the
Jews, returned to New York on Friday, Sept. JO, from an extended visit no ,
welfare
of the Jewish immigrants was

to the pogrom-stricken countries of Eastern Europe. Dr. Krimsky made as
The immigrants not only inquired
gh an investigation as possible of Jewish conditions in the Ukraine for their mail, but asked about ob- held in the store of Messrs. Stein-
berg
Brothers,
Jacob Barker occu-
1111(1 brings with him a detailed report of the situation, the names of Jews Wiling work, sought information as
pied the chair.
who have relatives in America, and will place these, as well as recommenda- to their visas, and made all sorts of
"My
suggestion
for union between
Owls for further activity.
requests. My secretary took corn-
.



plete data of all the Jewish immi- the two organizations was adopted.
In the debate following Premier Ponikowski'a message to the Polish grants, particularly the more urgent
"Having received a message that
Sejm, Deputy Greenbaum stated that the Jewish deputies have no faith cases, so that I could go to the United the immigrants desired to confer with
in the promises of the new government, especially since it is adopting States consul with definite informs- me once more, I met them on Sept.
methods similar to those used by the old administration in its dealings tion and records.
15, 65 attending. Their spokesman
with the Jewish population. He complained that an unjust policy with arrival in Havana, I called upon the again referred to their terrible con.
regard to aliens has again been adopted and that the frontiers are being United States consul. The consul gen- dition, adding the information that
closed to JOS'S who are fleeing starvation and persecution in the Ukraine eral, Mr. Hirst, was in America. Mr. even girls were obliged to sleep in
and in Russia.
Putnam was acting in his stead. I parks because they were without
••• a
had a long conference with this gen- funds.
Jewish emigrants bound for America are in great distress in English tleman, who promised to do every-
"The suggestion was made that if
and French ports. The steamship companies have introduced strict medical thing possible for the immigrants, the immigrants could secure loans of
examinations so as not to carry to America such passengers as will not be and made arrangements to return the even small sums of money, which
admitted into. the United States, and who will have to be taken back on some afternoon with specific cases they were willing to repay. they could
their steamers. Many men, women and children are not passed on by the and more definite requests for in- purchase goods and thus make a liv-
steamers' physicians because of the increased strictness of the examinations, formation and aseistance.
ing. The old Jewish custom of Ge-
and many sad scenes follow the acceptance of one member of a family as
miluth Chasodim (free loan I imme-
Committee Appointed.
a passenger, while others are turned back.
"Upon leaving the consulate, I re- diately occurred to me and I prom-
• • •
turned to the Steinberg store and no- ised them that at the gathering which

At a recent meeting in Bethlehem, Pa., Rabbi Ira E. Sanders, rabbi of tieing that the immigrants were still u-as to take place that evening I
Keneseth Israel of Allentown, and general secretary of the Jewish Corn- continuing to come. realized that this would propose the establishment of
munity ('enter of that city, helped to organize a Jewish University Club, state of affairs could not continue. I a Free Loan Society for the immi-
composed of members from the cities of Eastern Pennsylvania. The pus- then appointed Mr. Schector and Mr. grants with the financial aid of Hiss.
pose of tb Jewish University Club is to foster a better cultural and edu- Heller as a committee to seek per- The immigrants left in a moat hope-
rational irit among the Jewish alumnae. The meetings that have thus manent headquarters and report to ful mood.
far been i rid in different cities of this section of the country have proven the meeting which was to take place
The Massmeetiee.
to be very whole-hearted and inspirational. that evening.

• • •
,
"I myself went on a tour of in-
"The massmeeting that evening
The Committe of Jewish Delegations in Paris and the British Joint Con- vestigation with a view of finding reseed a great success. There were
cent about 105 persons, 20 of
ference Committee have forwarded to the Council of the League of Nations some temporary headquarters. I was
detailed memoranda regarding the situation of Jewish refugees in various fortunate in obtaining from the Sep- • Sem were Ashkenazi Jews. Mr.
lensenior,
president of the Sephardic
, countries and explaining the danger that threatens them if new steps are herdic congregation the use of their
not taken to insure their safety. Dr. Friedjhor Nansen was thereupon large hall in which they hold services community, presided.
delegated to deal with the question in its political aspects and to investigate and arranged that the immigrants
"I spoke at some length, the in-
the possibility of new fields for immigration. Ile is also authorized by the were to meet there that afternoon at terpreter translating my remarks.
After a lengthy discussion, it was
Council to propose measures that might solve the passport difficulties of 5 o'clock.
agreed that there he an amalgama-
The Immigrants Mooting.
the refugees.

• • •
"About 85 immigrants were pres- tion between the Ashkenazi and Sep-
On his return from an extended tour through Lower and Upper Galilee, ent at the meeting held in the hall hardic Jews. A budget of $7,000 per
High-Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel received Dr. Then, just back from of the Sephardic Congregation, on annum was agreed upon and I prom.
Carlsbad, who complained against the severe interpretation that was being Sept. 14. The rest could not come , seal that Hies would pay one-half of
given to the immigration limitations. Dr. Thon stated that the strictness i because they were either still at work that.
"I then broached the subject of
of immigration officials prevented the utilization of the excellent prospects or were in ill health. I let the immi
for employment that now prevailed in the country. Samuel heard the grants tell their story, from which the establishmert of a Free Loan So.
charges sympathetically and promised to investigate matters in the very it was only too clear that their con- ciety. This was agreed to after be-
near future. Our correspondent learns that the High-Commissioner is well dition was a most pitiful one. Lack- ing thoroughly debated. I had th
pleased with the attitude the recent Zionist Congress took towards the ing • central home, they were coo- pleuure of starting the fund with a
Relied to seek lodgings in cheap hotelscontribution of $100 from Hiss. All
Arab question.

From the President's Desk—Talk No. 72.

How Many Years
Have You
Been Working?

and what have you to show for it?
Have you acquired any property--
made any investments — have you
money in the bank? Figure it all up.

Are you satisfied with the showing.
or will you aSmit that it is shame-
fully small for the money you have
earned?

Start this week—RIGHT NOW—to Slice more then
you've ever saved before. Save until it hurts, for
that is the sort of saving that brings mon SUCCC9 , .
All the facilities of this bank are at your disposal.

IFIST

STATE BANK

411M

promised most enthusiastically to sup-
port the Free Loan Society. Mr. Ben-
senior was appointed president of the
Free Loan Society.
"I also had a conference with
Rabbi I,. Schulsinger of Key West,
who promised Hiss considerable sup-
port from Key West, Tampa, Miama
and Jacksonville. Ile urged that Hies
appoint a representative at the
United States immigration station at
Key West PO that immigrants arriv-
ing there and who are detained would
be properly taken care of.
"As commissioner of Hies, I feel
that I fulfilled my duty in uniting the

various elements, establishing the
Iliac branch and founding a Free
Loan Society. It now remains for
the Jews of Havana to continue and
strengthen the local Hies branch.
When Mrs. Rosenblatt and I left
Cuba on Sept. 17, I was imbued with
the confidence that the work which
had been begun would be carried on
both efficiently and enthusiastically .
Mr. Rosenblatt succeeded in serer-
ing some financial support from the
Jews of Havana themselves, who in-
dicated every interest in the Jewish
wanderers and the desire to be of
help to them.

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