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ilE ET ROYFJEWISH MON ICIE

by

The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
Jacob H. Schakno, Business Manager
Joseph J. Cummins, President

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second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit,
Mich., under the Act of March 8, 1879.

"The Jewish Center."

General Offices and Publication Building
850 High Street West

A new quarterly under the above title has just made its ap-
pearance as a publication of the Jewish Welfare Board under
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Chronicle the
editorship of Solomon Bluhm. The magazine—the first is-
LONDON OFFICE
sue of whch has just reached our desk—is very attractive in
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form and interesting in content. Though a publication of the
LONDON, W. 1, ENGLAND
Jewish Welfare Board and likely to become its official organ,
Ilakeserription, in Advance...
$3.00 Per Year the new magazine deals with all phases of Jewish social work
and should be welcome addition to the literature of social serv-
To Insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach
ice. Indeed any publication that will spread the gospel of serv-
this of
by Tuesday evening of each week.
ice and that will make a little clearer the spirit and the ideals
Editorial Contributor of those who are trying to help lighten the lot of their fellow
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to men, ought to gain ready support. We shall watch the progress
11111 Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the of "The Jewish Center" with much interest.
Mew a:praised by the writers.

Cable Address:

lfalmilnanat

December 1, 1922

Kislev 11, 5683

Tracts.

No work that can possibly be undertaken in behalf of the
Jew is of so much significance to him at this time as a proper
campaign of education which shall indicate to Jew and non-Jew
alike the essential character of his beliefs and of his aspirations.
The pulpit which attempts to do this reaches at best a compar-
atively small group of people. The Jewish press which should
constitute a great educational force all too frequently is not
well directed and at its best, sends its message for the most part
to those who are not wholly ignorant of it.
There are but two agencies that can adequately function
in this regard. One is the secular press but from its very na-
ture, the public press can neither be asked nor relied upon to tell
the story of the Jew completely and correctly. As often as not
without intention, the daily newspaper utterly distorts its ac-
count of Jewish beliefs and Jewish activities.
The other means of combatting the false impressions that
are so frequent and of spreading the truth in regard to the Jew
and Judaism, is a well directed publicity which shall put its
message clearly, forcefully and adequately before those who
need most to hear it.
'To do this very thing is the function of the Joint Tract Com-
mission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations which is to hold its
meeting in Detroit on Monday and Tuesday of the coming week.
This commission is charged with the duty of publishing tracts
in which all phases of Jewish life can throw light upon Jewish
dogma and doctrine, upon Jewish aspirations and ideals, up-
on Jewish history and philosophy are presented by men who
may talk upon these subjects with authority.
Up to this time the work has been carried on in a compar-
atively. limited field but it is believed that at the Detroit meet-
ing, plans will be laid and ways and means devised by which
the work can be so extended as to be very telling in its in-
fluence. It is proposed to publish tracts much more frequently
than has heretofore been possible and to distribute them in
such large numbers as to reach all opinion forming agencies
including representatives of the press and of thb . pulpit of all
denominations.
The tracts published are in no sense controversial and ex-
cept as education is always propagandist in character, they
are not intended as propaganda literature. Their sole aim and
purpose is to spread the truth about the Jew and his religion.
We are entirely convinced that if the world, unfortunately
now so frequently misinformed, will receive authoritative in-
formation as to who we are and what we stand for, much of the
current prejudice of which the Jews are the victims will dis-
appear. A campaign of education such RS is proposed by the
Tract Commission will go much farther than all forms of protest
against bigotry and fanaticism in giving to the Jew in America
his rightful place.

Thanksgiving.

By the time that this issue of the Chronicle reaches its read-
ers, the Thanksgiving of 1922 will have passed into history.
Yet it is worth while pausing for a moment upon the day and its
significance. Thanksgiving Day is perhaps the one day in all
the year that partakes of a religious character that has a clear
hold upon people representing all racial and religious groups
in our country. For that reason, the opportunity should every-
where be used to bring these groups into closer communion in
the true spirit of religion.
Here in Detroit this has long been the case. For twenty-one
years now on Thanksgiving Day, there has been held in this
city a Community Service in which representatives of all the
various church groups meet for worship and together lift their
voices in prayer'and praise to the God Who is the Father of all.
It is a good thing, too, for men and women to pause at a time
like this to count their blessings. There are so many who are
accustomed to turn to God only with their supplications for
mercy in their time of need, who never think of thanking Him
for the manifold blessings which with lavish hand He pours
into their lives day by day and year by year.
Thanksgiving Day calls upon us consciously and actively to
count our blessings. Surely to us who live in this blessed land,
they are many. As we count our blessings, let us be moved to
share them with those who are less fortunate than ourselves.
It is only as we do this that our Thanksgiving really counts at
all.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

The directors of the Detroit Symphony Society are about to
ask those interested in Detroit as a musical center to come to
the support of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra which faces a
considerable deficit again this year. The appeal should not
go unanswered at the hands of any group of Detroit's citizenry.
We wonder sometimes whether the people of this city realize
what a tremendous asset they have in this great organization
under the inspired leadership of Mr. Gabrilowitsch.
We are accustomed frequently to count our blessings in
terms that are false. We speak and think of Detroit as a great
manufacturing center. We are proud of the fact that we have
outstripped our former competitive communities in numbers.
But let it be remembered that there are songs quite as sweet to
the souls of cultured men and women as the song of whirring
wheels and that the worthwhileness of a city is to be measured
by other standards than the wholly material.
We believe that it is fair to say that there is no other single
factor in the life of this great community that has added more
to the prestige of our city throughout the land than our Sym-
phony Orchestra. It should not be compelled to go begging
year by year. A city that boasts a million people and among
them hundreds of men whose fortunes run into the hundreds
of thousands and some of them into the millions, ought to feel
a sense of responsibility toward the cultural as well as toward
the industrial life.
Should the appeal to be sent out by the directors of the Sym-
phony Society reach those who read this editorial, we trust that
they will give it more than passing consideration.

A Union of Brotherhoods.

Among the activities scheduled to have a part in the pro-
gram of the forthcoming meeting of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations to be held in New York City in January
next, is a federation of the various brotherhoods and men's
clubs affiliated with our congregational life in this country.
The organization would correspond for men's work in the con-
gregations with the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
which since the time of its formation has done such very not-
able and telling work.
During the past seven years, men's clubs have come to play

Our New York Letter

(Copyright, 1922, Jewish Correspondence Bureau.)

French love for the "martyred"
Poles woe given another airing last
Tuesday evening by M. Clemenceau,
who very nearly broke the footlights
of the Metropolitan Opera stage in
his effort to express his deep-felt af-
fection for Pan Paderewski, who, ac-
cording to the Tiger's lights, em-
bodies Polish nobility, love of jus-
tice, liberty and fraternity. Several
times in the course of his speech Cle-
menceau turned to the box which
Paderewski occupied, calling the dip-
lomatic pianist to witness that France
had done its utmost to satisfy the
claims of the twenty some nations that
besieged the Peace Conference clam-
oring for national restitution. Other
people were unofficially represented
at the opera house that night, but
none to prominent as to call for spe-
cial mention by the Tiger. And when
a poor Greek made a feeble attempt
to voice his indignation at the:
French pact with the Kemalists there
was another Greek debacle—the un-
official Greek observer was uncere-
moniously but firmly escorted by two
plain-clothes men to the nearest exit.
• • •
Of course, one hardly expected
Clemenceau to take notice of the
Jews, whose representatives were
also at the Peace Conference, de-
manding justice more or less proud-
ly, asserting their right to national
rehabilitation. It is just possible that
in Clemenceau's eyes the Jews are
beneath notice. But it is not alto-
gether impossible that the French
war premier, who was a party to no
many bargains and counter-bargains,
an accomplice to the scrapping of as
many treaties as he helped to write,
and to the scuttling of as many hopes
as he helped to arouse—that Cle-
menceau has a rather guilty con-
science about the Jews as a people.
It is not that the French Jews have
any palpable grievance, but in all
this trouble in the Near East which
has had a decided pepercussion in
Palestine, leading to such confusion
in the minds of so many good Jews
who are apparenity too eager to see
their hopes frustrated—that in all
this Clemenceau has had the lion's

share.

rages which the entire Roumanian
press deplores and abhors.
•
The statistics of Jews so ably com-
piled by Dr. Linfield of the Bureau of
Social Research and published in the
American Jewish Year Book for 1923,
assume far greater significance when
compared with the number of Jews in
the world in the beginning of the 19th
century. Dr. Linfield's estimate of
15,400,000 is, as he says, conservative,
other estimates running as high as
17 000,000.
When it is recalled that at the end
of the 17th century, following the
Thirty Years War in Western Eu-
rope, the massacres and persecutions
of Chmelnitzky in Eastern Europe,
the number of Jews sank to 1,000,000,
the increase is nothing if not phenom-
enal. It is particularly interesting to
note that with the beginning of the
eighteneth century the growth in Jew-
ish numbers exceeded that of any
other people. Thus in 1800 there were
already 3,000,000, in 1881, 7,500,000,
in 1914 over 14,000,000, and now, eight
years later, it is certainly over 15,00,-
000. This means, as Dr. Syrkin points
out, that whereas the European popu-
lation increased during the correspon-
ding period only three-fold, Jewish
expansion has been five-fold.
The causes of this remarkable evi-
dence of Jewish vituality and fecun-
dity, had better be left to the scien-
tists. But will not the immigration
restrictionists and others, who see vir-
ility as the exclusive quality of the
Anglo-Saxon race, please take note?

Among the other features of the
American Jewish Year Book was that
embryonic Jewish "Who's Who" com-
piled by George Dohsevage under
"Jews of Prominence in the United
States." It is interesting also for its
omissions and unavoidable errors of
judgment. As an interesting reve-
lation of the Jewish origin of many
Americans who would rather not have
light shed on their parentage, it is
truly absorbing. One day some one
should take hold of this list and ask
a number of pertinent questions:
"What Constitutes a Jew?" "What Is
Prominence?" Questions of minor im-
portance, such as the compiler's dif-
ferentiation between a journalist and
a "Yiddish Journalist," an editor and
a "Yiddish Editor," will be reverted
to by this writer at some conveniently
future date.
•
The indignation aroused by the
knowledge that the Ku Klux Klan
were digging in New York is con-
ceivable. It is not a Jewish issue and
Jewish leaders should be the last to
commit the mistake of making a Jew-
ish issue of it. Something dangerous-
ly bordering that tort of thing may
come out of the move launched by
Judge Aaron J. Levy in announcing
that the B'rith Abraham will open
warfare on the Klan.
Granting that immediate action is
imperative, that action should not
originate with Jews. It does not ap-
pear to be necessary for Jews to ap-
peal to the justice of Americans "to
the end that this mob may be put to
flight and cessation of their iniquities
and criminalities be brought about."
Americans with a sense of justice need
not be appealed to. The iniquitties of
Americans without a sense of justice
may be properly left to the Federal
and Municipal authorities. Jewish
leaders should be the last to admit
that we have anything to fear at the
hands of the disguised plotters resem-
bling, but without the courage of the
Fascisti in Italy, the Awakening Mag-
yars in Hungary, the "National Soc-
ialists" in Germany. Had we not bet-
ter leave it to Mayor Hylan?

• • •
Roumania has a very watchful en-
voy at Washington. He is so ob-
servant that nothing appearing in the
Jewish press in this country about
Roumania escapes his excellency's at-
tention. And he is as threatening
as he is keen. No sooner is there
a report of mistreatment of Jews in
Roumania than the Washington en-
voy plunges into a rambling discus-
sion of that report, always attempt-
ing to question its veracity, ever as-
severating, but never, never prov-
ing.
He did this in the case of the am:
nestied Jewish prisoners who were
shot by the military authorities sev-
eral months ago. And when the news
was published of excessive rowdyism
and anti-Semitic disturbances occur-
ring during the coronation in all
parts of Roumania, particularly in
Moldavia, the gentleman from Bu-
charest hastened to issue a broadside,
denouncing the reports as untrue. As
ever, he was prepared to admit that
something resembling the occurrence
reported might have taken place, but
if it did, and he teemed to have very
grave doubts on the subject, it was
the fault of Jewish Communists.
It seems a pity the Roumanian em-
bassy at Washington does not read
the papers from home. If the Chi-
cago Charge d'Affaires had taken the
trouble to peruse the accounts in the
Opinia of Oct. 21, the Adeverul of
Oct. 18, the Diminieata of Oct. 22,
the Aurora of Oct. 23, the Indrep.
tarea of Oct. 23—all trustworthy
Roumanian organs—he would have
Pride is as loud a beggar as want,
had less to say about Jewish provoca-
tion and perhaps a trie more about and a great deal more saucy.—The
Talmud.
his government's connivance of out-

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Oh! Weep For Those

Ohl weep for those that wept by Babel's stream
Whose shrines are desolate, whose land a dream;
Weep for the harp of Judah's broken shell;
Mourn—where their God hath dwelt the godless
dwell!

And where shall Israel lave her bleeding feet?
And when shall Zion's songs again seem sweet?
And Judah's melody once more rejoice
The hearts that leaped before its heavenly voice?

Tribes of the wandering foot and weary breast,
How shall ye flee away and be at rest!
The wild-dove hath her nest, the fox his cave,
Mankind their country—Israel but the gravel

LORD BYRON

(14.1onnlifolellios)

Ciithren's Olorner

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Hugo Stinnes, German magnate and
power behind the People's Party, when
asked for a statement on his attitude
toward the Jews and on his relations
with Rathenau, stated that it was "im-
possible" for him to do so. Through
a friend, a person said to be very
close to him, Herr Stinnes authorised
to have it said in his name that he was
not anti-Semitic, that he was a friend
of Rathenau's although his political
opponent, and that he stands in poli-
tical and personal relations with a
number of Jews. This sounds to us
like a repetition of the old story that
"some of my best friends are Jews."
At the time of Rathenau's assassina-
tion, a big portion of the blame for the
feeling aroused among anit-Semites
against Rathenau was placed on the
shoulders of Stinnes. And now this
German political leader says it is "im-
possible" for him to make a statement
on his relations to the Jewish people.
We must therefore reach one of two
conclusions: Either Stinnes actually
refuses to commit himself and is the
anti-Semite reputed to be, or, and
what is worse, he is afraid to declare
himself our friend lest he lose his
leadership, the chances being that he
retains his lead on his reputation as a
Jew-hater. Either way, it is certain
that a sad state of affairs exists for
our fellow Jews in Germany.

Clemenceau's Affection for the Poles—Roumania's Watchful
Envoy—Phenomenal Growth of Jewish People—What
The Boast of a Jew-Hater.
Constitutes Jewish Prominence?—Leave It
In Budapest, hook Sipos, on trial
to Mayor Hylan.
for complicity in the death of a Jew-

By GERSHON AGRONSKY

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NEW TICKVAH

By Henry A. Pine.

(Ir Ganim, Palestine.)
There in the east I behold,
Not I alone,
But by all the eyes,
That have a true a Jewish heart
A hope from them is shone
In the rising of the setting sun
A speck of light, so light! so light!
So hard to see!
But a light, a hope it is.

To some it is invisible yet,
Or never to be, until it great,
Until it will shine all its brilliant
rays
Upon their dull brains,
To awaken them to the memory
Of the speck, of the light, of the
hope, of the past,
But my, if not sonic eyes see
Through the darkness of night
Shone only now and then
By the shadowy light of the silvery
moon,
The appearance of light, so light!
no light!
So hard to see!
But a light, a hope it is.

Ill

As my eyes were perceiving the
light
Into them there suddenly came a
fright,
For there appeared a black dark
cloud,
Blotting out the light, the hope out
of sight.
To some, who saw the blotting of
light
The speck, the light, the hope were
vain,
But my, if not some eyes saw
Piercing through the black, dark
cloud
A light, no light! so light!
So hard to see!
But a light, a hope it is.
IV
Behold, there again appeared a light
To which so many gave in vain,
Showing a true a Jewish heart they
don't possess,
For the dark, black cloud passed on
its way
Although the light is so light! so
light!
So hard to see!
But a light, a hope it is.

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an ever increasing important part in the congregational life.
Organized frequently primarily for social purposes, they have
served to invite the interest of men in the religious life of tem-
ple and synagog and in many instances they have brought for-
ward a splendid lay leadership that without them would never
have been stimulated. But working singly these clubs can in-
fluence only a comparatively narrow circle. Organized into one
great brotherhood they will surely become a great force in the
Jewish life of our time and country.

Abiding Place of Him Who rub the
World.
Then the cries of "The Temple is on
fire." "God has deserted the Holy
City!" rang in the streets of Jerosa•
lam, where the discouraged and fis.
heartened dwellers of Jerusalem on
hither and thither in search of p'sses
of safety. For, at this very tins the
soldiers of Nebuchadnezzer's
were pillaging, robbing and s:
every man, woman and child th., ng
in the streets. They chained tes. err
old men and women, youths and s ..id.
ens, to be led far away as ewe..
to march over the waste and Is e n
stretches from Jerusalem to Bilks ss
In all this chaos and confusion, the
High Priest and his band of ye eek,
priests did not give one though to
their own safety. Now that the T
pie was on fire, they longed to
up
the keys of the Temple to Him Wh o
had entrusted His house to their s re.
They ascended to the topmost pinisiele
of the Temple roof, the heavy geslen
keys of the Temple in their hands.
Then the High Priest, in a voice that
was broken with huniilation and de-
spair, cried out:
"Oh, God of Israel, we have sinned
and are impure in Thy sight, and are
unworthy of being the trusted guard
ions of Thy dwelling place! Accept,
we beg Thee, the keys which Thou
host entrusted unto our care."
The heavens parted and a rift sp.
peered in their midst. The priests
flung their keys into this great ru tit,
and an open hand stretched forth and
received them. Then, as the captive
•eople of Israel looked on in silent hor-
roe, the High Priest and his band of
young priests hurled themselves into
the flames. Their work was over, :old
they perished with the Temple in
which they had served God of la-
ma—The Jewish Child.

ish merchant, boasted on the witness
stand that "if I get another opportun-
ity to goad a Jew to suicide, I would
gladly serve another six years im-
prisonment." Sipos is only one of a
multitude of Jew-haters everywhere
whose hatred of us is so deep-rooted
as to make all efforts on the part of
Jews to educate them and to remove
the existing prejudice practically use-
less. Whereas it was thought that
emancipation will solve the Jewish
problem and that education will re
move prejudice, the many years of an-1
ti-Semitic activity since the destruc-
5,000 IMMIGRANTS
tion of the Ghetto walls proves that
something entirely different must be
IN NINE MONTHS
accomplished to put an end to Jewish
misery. In the case of anti-Semitism ,
Practically
No Unemployment in
it is important that we start from the
Palestine, Official Report States.
bottom and remove the causes. The
Jewish people is not living a normal
life. We are a people that groups 1
According to information received
with the middle class and are in gen-
by the Zionist Organization of Amer.
eral lacking in producers and work- I
ica, during the nine months ending
ern. So we incur the enmity of our
Sept., 5,889 Jewish immigrants en-
neighbors. We are extremists, being
tered Palestine, according to official
either extremely radical or extremely
figures just published. The decrease
conservative, and thus lend another , RUINS OF JERUSALEM
is accounted for by the fact that for
excuse for hatred on the part of all
the period of four months following
groups. We must begin to live a nor- I Nebuzaradan, the general of Ne- the Jaffa riots in 1921, Jewish immi-
mal life, and return to normalcy calls buchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the gration to Palestine was practically
for a revolutionizing of our entire' powerful enemy of Judea had come suspended.
Jewish existence. It calls for the es- with a great army to destroy the holy
Jewish immigration picked up
tablishment of a Jewish political, eco- city of Jerusalem, and to demolish the
nomic, religious and educational cen- Temple of God. Ile besieged the city slightly during October, 1922, when
720
arrivals of immigrants and pio-
ter such as will serve to influence ev- ' and broke down the strong walls
cry Jew in every corner of the globe. which surrounded it. Then he forced neers were reported.
As it becomes evident that anti-Jewish his way up the Temple 51ount, and led
The immigration department of the
prejudice is so deep-rooted that it is his army to th • site where the hol y Zionist Organization reports further
inerasable, our present generation is structure stood. The Babylonian sol- that permits for entering Palestine
faced with the task of becoming the diers were amazed and overawed by for 650 families (650 workmen with
happiest or most unfortunate since' the Temple's striking beauty and daz- their dependents) were granted by
the Destruction of the Temple. The zling splendor .
the Palestine government. These
solution lies in Palestine. palestme
"What a pity to raze this temple to permits have been granted for the
can be built in our own day, if we as the ground," muttered the general. period ending Dec. 31 and have al-
will it. There is nothing in our way, "How shall we destroy it?" the gen- ready been divided by the immigra-
except our will. But ours shall be eral asked his councillors, "by fire or tion department among the various
stamped an irresponsible generation with battering ram?"
Palestine offices.
if we fail to build Palestine as it is in
But while they stood there debating
The Palestine Commercial Bulletin
our power, That future generations among themselves, they raised their published the following report of the
may not point a finger of shame at us, eyes and behold! four angels, each en- Controller of Labor of the Palestine
we must not fail.
veloped in a black cloud came flying government:
down to the Temple. Each carried a
"Unemployment showed a further
Practical Relief.
burning coal of fire in his hands; they diminution during the month and
Dr. Joseph Rosen, representing the alighted on the four corners of the there are probably at present nut
J. D. C., is in Moscow to carry out a Temple, where they deposited their more than 500 or 600 unemployed
plan whereby Ukrainian Jews will be coals.
men,in Palestine. To a considerable
helped by the American relief organ-
Tongues of flame shot up from the extent, this is due to the building ac-
ization to help themselves. A laud- four corners of the Temple, and in a tivity in the towns. With the end
able act on the part of the Joint Com- few moments the whole building was of the vintage, more men will be-
mittee is the shipping of $50,000 a sheet of fire. The thick smoke is- come available for employmen, but
worth of cloth and textiles to Odessa. sued forth from the raging flames en- these should be absorbed by the new
The distribution of these among Jew- wrapped the angels, and the eyes of undertakings that are about to be
ish technical institutions will do more the soldiers beheld them no more. The commenced."
towards relieving unemployment and king of Babylon's general and his
for the advance of commerce than hosts stood amazed, their hopes blight-
could a system of loans. By loaning ed, for they realized that they, in all
(These figures apparently refer to
money to European Jews for recon- their strength and might, had not de- both Arabs and Jewish workers. Since
struction purposes, the Joint Distribu- stroyed the Temple. As they stood the above figures were published un-
tion Committee risks a constant de- watching the flaming building, they employment has been reduced still
preciation in outstanding moneys, and ! knew that this house had been the f urther.—Editor.)
funds contributed by American Jews
for relief purposes are in danger of
being lost in the course of the lowering s
of the monetary values. The sending
of raw goods for manufacture, how-
ever, does away with that danger, be-
We Doubt Whether You Can
cause raw materials are at a prem-
Equal These
ium in Eastern Europe. Thus, the
employer as well as the employe are
benefitted. While the J. D. C. is not
a committee with a businesspurpose,
such methods of practical relief ought
to be encouraged.

You Can't Get Away trans Facts.

The Polish government recently de-
clared itself in favor of the Zionist
movement and the rebuilding of Pal-
estine as the Jewish national home-
land. Dr. Chaim Weizmann and Na-
hum Sokolow are to lecture at the Sor-
bonne University on problems of Pal-
estine and Zionism. The police band
of Liverpool, England, played Batik-
vah, the Jewish national hymn, as the
Lord Mayor was entertaining the
British Chief Rabbi Herz. Zionists
or friends of Zionism are being sent
to Jerusalem as Consuls representing
their respective European countries,
the latest to be appointed being Com-
mander Galli, former first secretary
of the Italian embassy in Paris. Prac-
tical questions of Palestine building
occupy the minds of Jews in and out
of Palestine. The Jaffa Chamber of
Commerce is deciding on the question
of a dock in Jaffa, etc. No, you can't
get away from it. Jewish Palestine

is a fact.
Destructive Criticism.

A speaker at a B'nai B'rith meeting
made the astonishing statement that
the American Jewish Relief Commit-
tee ought to be scrapped and relief
work taken over by other groups. The
speaker prefaced his remarks by de-
claring it a general rule that Amer-
ican Jews are indifferent to their fel-
low Jews abroad and charged that the
work of the American Jewish Relief
Committee did not warrant the expen-
ditures incurred. This statement, sea-
soned with a reluctant admission that
the U. S. relief body was "doing some
good," came at about the same time
that the announcmeent was made that
New York Jews are to celebrate the
eighth anniversary of the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee (which is a part
of the American Jewish Relief Com-
mittee) and of the collection of $50,-
000,000 among American Jews for re-

lief abroad. While it may be true that
American Jews are more or less in-
different to the needs of their breth-
ren overseas, it is nevertheless ridi-
culous for any one at this time to
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WINTER
COATS at

$33

Normandies, Velverettes, Deep Pile
Bolivias, Rich Velours
Black, Navy, Sorrento, Brown, Malay
and Other Shades
Not only did we buy these coats at excep-
tional prices through our 25-store buying organ-
ization, but we determined to offer them at a
price which Detroit women cannot resist.
Styles for everybody—misses and matrons
with varied likes. You will marvel at the splen-
did materials and the fine trimmings of wolf,
nutria, opossum and caracul. The silk linings,
the embroidered trimmings and the other trim-
mings are of the highest quality.
Sizes 14 to 50.

Heyn's Fifth Floor Shop

tlEYNS 1 .
1241.1243 Woodward

"At the Crosswalk"

