■ TficnEntorrionsitgRot _ FOUR character and calling for professional service of a high order. program of the organization is constantly shifting and as' Wm Der Ron, JEwisiit &RON ICIE in The one of the speakers at the meeting expressed it, the activities MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION Published Weeky by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. Joseph J. Cummins, President Jacob H. &hakes, 13111110111/1 M aaaaaa Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. General Offices and Publication Building 850 High Street West Tee'phone: Cable Address: Glendale 9300 Chronicle LONDON OFFICE 14 STRATFORD PLACE LONDON, W. 1, ENGLAND Subscription, in Advance $3..00 Per Year To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN Editorial Contributor The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the view expressed by the writers. •January 26, 1923 Shevat 9, 5683 Has Weizmann Resigned? once undertaken by the society and now carried on by munic- ipal and state organizations is even a more interesting study than is presented by the work actually being done today. In- deed a survey of the history of the United Jewish Charities in Detroit, though the organization still lacks a year of being a quarter of a century old, would furnish a birdseye view of the development of social service effort not only in this city but indeed in the entire country. One after the other, activities that were the result of private initiative have been taken over by city and state. It was pointed out for instance at the meet- ing that in the first years of the organization, the United Jew- ish Charities was compelled to stress such activities as manual training, as the furnishing of bathing facilities and sanitary housing, all of which are now more or less under public super- vision and control. The schools have taken over as a part of their regularcurriculum many of the phases of work that once fell entirely upon social and philanthropic agencies. There- fore, the fact that a local organization such as the United Jewish Charities is not doing all of the things that once it did must not be regarded as a proper source of criticism. There is more wisdom in knowing when to drop an activity than there is in doggedly hanging on to it once the need of it has been outgrown. But on the other hand, in place of the old activities, the need of new ones is constantly manifesting itself. Never has there been a time when the great social agencies had resting upon them more burdensome and more significant tasks than in our present day. With the ever growing complexity of urban life, with the infusion of new elements into our population, and with the breaking down of the morale of large masses of the people in the aftermath of the war, any program that looks to the physical, the moral, and the recreational needs of the dependent and delinquent classes in the community and that seeks the restoration of these classes to social usefulness must be a full one. The United Jewish Charities according to reports sub- mitted at the annual meeting has vision and earnestness of purpose. It is a pity that more of our people are not taking a personal interest in the program and methods of the organiza- tion. We believe that satisfactory as the work of the society is at the present time, its efficiency would be measurably in- creased if back of the executive officers and the professional staff of the organization, was the wholehearted and loyal sup- port of a great community. Diurs ti n(j fibril's igehis 121111 1:12111Ins Lliillrrll' QHorner By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ January 31 will mark the seventy- fifth birthday of Nathan Straus, the noted American Jewish philanthropis and the day will he a day of celebra FROM THE WATERS Then as Pharaoh wonde,id ithom to believe., the Princess Iliti tin for our people everywhere. Mr • to his arguments, and laid the clung Straus won a place in the heart o f , It happened that Bithiah, the child every Jew by affiliating himself with daughter of Pharaoh, when she came upon his knees. And the hitle one every worthy Jewish movement am one morning to bathe in the River smiled and Pharaoh's heart wag soft. ened, and he would not heed the by being eser ready to help in ever) Nile, discovered a little child, hidden warn. worthy Jewish cause in a financia I in the rushes. And she said, "Surely ing of Balaam. But he laid his hand way. In Jewish relief, in Zionisn this child must be one of the Hebrew upon the child's head, saying, "li a ,e thy wish, 0 my daughter. The child and the rebuilding of Palestine, in ' children. Pharaoh, my father, has shall live."—The Jewish Child. the Young Judaea movement, in the commanded that every male child Jewish Congress organization, o f among them, shall be put to death. which he was the president, and in ' But I will plead with I'haraoh, my every other national and internationa father, to spare this babe. And this movement of any significance and child will be as a son to me; nailI RABBINIC WISDOM worth, Mr. Straus was always a source of encouragement /11111 help • Mr. Straus' pet quotation is the Jew- ish proverb: "What you give in health is gold, what you give in sick- ness is silver, and what you give after death is lead," and his molt, has been always to give gold. In a communication to the London Jewish Chronicle, Mr. Straus recently wrote: "It appears rather egotistical to speak of what I have done, but I have not only given since the beginning of the World War my entire income for the , war sufferers, but a good part of my will call him Moses, because I have A student asked Rabbi ;;chnislke• "We are bidden to love our neighbor; drawn him from the water." Sc,, when Pharaoh came from his as ourselves. How can I do that when palace to walk beside the river, she my neighbor does me ill?" The rabbi answered: "Th,,o must bowed before him, and begged him to grant the mercy of life unto the child. understand the command love But Pharaoh was troubled in his heart thy neighbor as something that thou art thyself; for all souls arc one. , because the night before, he had had Each is a spark from the original a strange dream and did nut know sou l, as thy body is in all the limbs its meaning, and when the astrolo- of thy body. It may sometimes hap. gers, his wise men, appeared before him, he asked them of his dream, say- pen that thy hand slips, and strikes thee. Wouldst thou then take a rod ing: An item in the public press from London under date Jan. 12, states that Dr. Chaim Weizmann has resigned as President of the Zionist Organization in consequence of the•disappoint- ment he experienced in his recent visit to Palestine where the Jewish community failed to accord him the warm reception and beat thy hand 1, 81111.14.0 of its "Last night I dreamed I was sitting blunder and thus told to to which he had been accustomed in the past. The report says capital, and I feel richer for having upon my throne, and I lifted mine. So it is if thy neighbor, thy pain! whose soul that leaders of the Zionist movement in England, while not done it." Mr. Straus has always been ; eyes and beheld an old man before is part of thy soul, do e. the,. ill in denying the resignation, assert that it will not be accepted. one of the giant figures in American me, with a balance in his hand. And his blindness. If thou does retaliate Israel, and as such our heartiest ' I saw him taking all the elders, nobles upon hint, thou merely in.urest thy. Whether this rumor is well or ill-founded, we do not know, greetings are with him on his birth- and great nein of Egypt, tying them self." though it is fair to believe that there must be some basis for it. day. together and laying them in one scale The scholar asked again: "But if I That all has not been well within the ranks of the Zionist Or- ' of the balance. And, in the other see a man who does ill to God, how ganization for some time past has been no great secret. Politi- scale of the balance, the old man can I love him?" A Great Leader cal Zionism seems to have seen its best days. But we are in- The denial of his resignation made 'placed a tender kid, and the kid bore "Bost thou not know?" said the by Dr. Chaim Weizmann will tier- down the pan in which it lay, for it rabbi, "that the world soul issues clined to the belief that as more and more courageously the tainly be greeted with satisfaction by was heavier than all the great men from God, and that every human soul leaders of that movement face the fact that the restoration of the Jewish people. Since the war, of Egypt. Now, what meaneth this is a part of God? And wouldst thou Jewish nationality and the creation of a Jewish state is an Dr. Weizmann has done for the move- strange dream?" not pity it, didst thou sec one of the unrealizable dream, the surer will be the progress of the work ment fur the rebuilding of l'alestine Then Relearn, the first astrologer, holy sparks from that soul caught what was considered the impossible. spoke: fast and likely to be extinguished!" of physical restoration in Palestine and the opening of the land As the discoverer of the chemical ex- , "Thy dream reads, 0 mightiest of of the fathers to an increasing number of Jews who turn there plosive against TNT, Dr. Weizmann Rulers, that great evil will spring up Rabbi Scbmelke and his brother in search of a larger and a fuller life. was offered the sum of 2,000,000 against Egypt, for a man will rise in ouch went to their teacher, the Rabbi Certainly it is true that there has never been a time when pounds by the British government as Israel, who will destroy the whole of of Meseritz, and said to him: "Our compensation" for turning it over to our land, and its inhabitants. And wise men have said a saying that there was such an approach to unity among all classes of Jews the Allies, but the great Jewish chem- this one son of Israel will be stronger leaves us no peace, because Is . e can- in relation to Palestinian restoration as obtains today. That ist refused compensation and made a than all the strongest men of Egypt not understand it. It is the saying every possible effort should be put forth in the direction of request on behalf of his people that •in their might." that. man ought to praise Cod for ill sanitation and the creation of new industries in Palestine, all resulted in Great Britain's declara- But Jethro, the second of Pharaoh's fortune as much as for good fortune, tion, known as the Balfour Declara- astrologers, opposed Balsam, crying: and should welcome both with equal Jewry is agreed. For these ends, Reform and Orthodox Jews, tion, favoring the establishment of a , "Nay, ruler of Egypt, Bala= bath gladness. Explain to us, Rabbi, how Zionists and non-Zionists, are ready to work together. Indeed, Jewish homeland in Paelstine. Since not read thy dream aright, for the we are to understand that." it would appear that many of those individuals and organiza- that time, Dr. Weizmann has given kid is to signify that thou, a single The Maggid answered: "Go into tions that were well nigh committed to the political program his entire time to the movement, n o t •man, art mightier than all the nobles the school house. There you will find have come to see the light in this regard and are ready to con- The Jubilee of "American Judaism" and the Universal Religion. only working without compensation, of Egypt." a man smoking a pipe. The man is Reform Jewry's Panacea. but meeting all expenses in his And Pharaoh was pleased in his Sussya. He will explain it to you." cede that whatever may be the ultimate program in Palestine, travels out of his own funds. They went into the school house and A heart at the reading of his dream, for the present and the near future at least, the one task con- leader of his type is a credit to any and he turned to Bithiah, his daugh- asked their question of Rabbi Sussya. By GERSHON AGRONSKY fronting the friends of Palestine is the physical rebuilding of government, and the Jewish people ter who waited, saying, "And now, Ile laughed and said: "You have should feel proud of Dr. Chaim Weiz. my duaghter, what is thy wish?" the land. hunted up a tine party for your ques- (Copyright, 1923, Jewish Correspondence Bureau.) mann. Those representing the Keren Ilayesod whose campaign ' And Bithiah, the princess, answered tion. You must go to someone else, and not to a man like me, for I have him: for funds is soon to be launched in our city have given the By the time these lines are read Assuming that there are only "thirty Founding • Movement "0, my father, thou knowest how never experienced misfortune in Golden Jubilee Convention of the thousand of the old Jewish families assurance that not one penny of the funds contributed to this the my life." Emanuel Neumann, executive sec- mine heart bath ached over thy de- Union of American Hebrew Congre- with reform congregations," organization will be used for propaganda purposes, but that gations will have been over, and the affiliated retary of the Keren Ilayesod Bureau ' cree, dooming the children of the sons They knew, however, that all of the New Palestine says: it will all be used for the making of the land habitable for many hundreds of delegates and not- "It is evident that the Reform of America, tells an interesting story of Israel to the waters of the Nile. Rahbi Sussya's life, from the time in connection with the founding of of his birth to the clay when he thus This child able visitors to Gotham will have re- bath been drawn from the movement which has in it certai n those who turn there as to a haven of refuge. It is on the basis from this impressive gathering features that would appeal to larg e the Keren Ilayesod movement in this waters, and I plead with thee to spare spoke to them, had been one long of this assurance that many of our co-religionists in this city turned period of pain and suffering. There- to their communities and normal oc- numbers of Jews, has not, in the first country. It was during the visit here him." stand ready to hupport the movement as they have been ready cupations. A glance even at the list place, managed to hold even the by Dr. Weizmann, when the World But Balsam cried, "0, thou who art upon they understood.—The East and and willing to support morally and materially the so-called of delegates is sufficient to convince descendants of the pioneers of the Zionist President issued a manifesto above all men, now I know that I West. the inauguration of the Palestine spoke truly, for this is the son of the Palestine Development League whose sole concern is the indus- anyone that it is the "largest religious movement. Nor has this movement for ever held here (New York) been able to make any impression F oundation Fund, that the interna- strong people, of whom thou hest trial strengthening of the land. May it perhaps be that Dr. gathering by Jews." There are assembled not upon the newcomers. The Reform tional leader was told that there dreamed, and he will be stronger than ANGHELESCU INVITES Weizmann is not yet reconciled to this new program and that only Rabbis and representatives of movement has suffered a great deal wasn't money enough to pay for the the strongest of Egypt, in his might." STUDENTS TO RETURN his rumored resignation may be due to the fact that he is not the Union of American Hebrew Con- because of the intrusion into it of first month's rent of the office at 50 But Bithiah did not heed him "0 Union Square, New York. Ile took gregations, but also of the National my father, today is my birthday, and BUCHAREST—(J. T. A.).—A matters that have no relation to re- yet ready to endorse a program that puts the political state far, Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, ligous ideals or principles. The re- a 10-pound note and handed it to it is right that thou doth give me proclamation has been addressed to far into the future? We ask this question with no knowledge and, for the first time in convention, jection of those features of Jewish Mr. Neumann to begin the work at some precious gift, but instead of university students throughout Rou- as to its correct answer. But it is worth pondering upon. of the Temple Brotherhoods. The national life that had become integ- once for the gigantic task of rebuild- jewels and slaves and garments mania by Minister of Education Our New York Letter A Unitarian Mission In Detroit. Unitarianism has never represented a militant faith. Unlike the older churches of Christianity, it has not stressed a mis- sionary effort or adopted Orthodox revival methods in bring- ing new recruits into its fold. Very much like Judaism, it has depended upon a sure and steady growth from within. It has believed that as truth gains a surer hold upon the minds of people, that they would naturally drift into a communion whose doctrines may be tested in the crucible of reason and whose dogmas find no basis in myth or miracle. It is no doubt because of this conservatism in method on the part of the church which is of all our sister churches the most liberal in thought, that the growth of its numbers has been comparatively slow. In rather sharp contrast to this traditional attitude of the Unitarian Church, the local congregation of that denomina- tion is about to introduce from Jan. 21 to Feb. 4, a series of meetings which if not revivalistic in character, are intended to spread the gospel of the church to a very much wider circle of hearers than those who are presently acquainted with it. To quote the public announcement that has been sent broad- cast, the speakers "will set forth the clear, simple, convincing appeal of Unitarianism and the applicabliity of the principles of liberal Christianity to every important modern problem. The great truths of the past and the present, will be stated and explained frankly and fearlessly with exact fairness and un- failing courtesy." The preachers who are to be brought here to lead this series of meetings stand out among the master minds of the Unitarian Church. The Reverend William Laurence Sullivan of New York City, and the Reverend Harold E. B. Speight of Boston, are well known not merely in their own denomination, but they have a country-wide reputation as men who are accustomed to clear, keen thinking and they are moreover orators of no mean ability. We believe that this effort on the part of our Unitarian friends is suggestive and worth while. Undoubtedly there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, in a community like this who are Unitarian in thought, but who are nominally affiliated with one or the other of the Trinitarian churches. Such a campaign of education will unquestionably cause persons of this type to do some deep thinking with the result that perhaps many of them will take their courage in their hands and identify them- selves outwardly with the church organization to which sympathetically they belong. What our Unitarian friends are doing might also be sug- gestive to the Jews. Many of us have perhaps too long hidden our lights under a bushel. Did we with a little more aggression speak forth the message of Judaism to the world through our pulpits, through our Jewish press, through our tracts and through such other means of educational propaganda as are legitimately ours, it is entirely likely that many of those who in spirit belong to the synagog, but who stand without its doors simply because they do not understand, would be moved to come within. Perhaps the meeting at New York will have given impetus to a more aggressive campaign of education both of Jews and non-Jews as to the teachings of our faith. Once clear thinking men and women know what we stand for as now, alas, they do not, much prejudice presently existing will be wiped away and a new respect will come for a faith whose creed is the creed of brotherhood under the Fathership of God and whose dogmas are all amenable to the laws of reason. We shall watch with interest the campaign of our Unitarian friends. Perhaps it will give to the Jews some concrete suggestion as to a method of propaganda of their own. Annual Meeting of the United Jewish Charities. • The annual meeting of the United Jewish Charities which took place on Tuesday of the past week, was not as largely attended as the importance of the occasion would have merited. The organization is doing an ever growing social work varied IL program is large and varied and significant. The conventions were ushered in by a "Go to Synagogue" campaign. There is to be a large re_ ligious rally Monday evening at Car- negie Hall with Justice Irving Leh- man as one of the speakers, and a similar meeting in Brooklyn. Louis Marshall is scheduled to welcome the convention, which President Shohl of the Union will open. Banquets, luncheons, receptions and business meetings of the various bodies will undoubtedly give the delegates enough to do while here, and a good deal to report about when they return. rated into the religious life made it difficult for reform to affect the lives of those who persisted in asserting those features of Jewish life that they regarded as essential for the existence of the race or nationality." In other words, by the rejection of Jewish nationalism and repudiation of racial consciousness, the Zionists insist the Reformers are doomed to get along without the majority of the Jews. This view naturally, and radically, differs from the views expounded by some of the latter-day exponents of Reform. No Jeremiad about the de- pletion of Reform strength is found in the big holiday number of the American Hebrew, for example. Ar- regaling to itself the right to reject "those elements in the Bible that were of fugitive value" and rejoicing that Reform Judaism "accepts only thosq that promulgate eternal verities," the Hebrew delights that Reform "has broken through the barrier of na- tionalism and the segregating walls of the Ghetto complex." The goal of modern Judaism is "true universal- ism," according to this view. And the road to achievement leads through the Hebrew Union College becoming "the leading American academy of theo- logy," which "will advance the com- ing of the day of the universal re- ligion." It must be observed that this un- usual gathering has left the great body of Jews "cold." If the amount of space in the Yiddish press is any sort of index to the interest shown by the Jewish masses in the Reform movement, then this interest is mighty small. There has been by and large far more publicity in the general press than in the Yiddish newspapers. The fault may lie with the publicity managers, but it may lie much, much deeper. It may lie in the indifference, if not antipathy, of the masses to Reform. It indubitably does rest there. The million and a half Jews —whether orthodox, conservative or irreligious—are not Reformers. This is not surprising. If the notoriously inexact classification of "German" and "Russian" Jews still applies, and if Reform is the religion of the for- mer, it is not at all astonishing that at most only a possible ten thousand Jews in New York are on the rolls of the several Reform Temples. And if in the nature of things people evince interest only in those men, things and movements with which they are even remotely identified, it becomes less shocking to bring one's self to admit that it is possible to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of "American Judaism" without causing as much as a stir in the hearts of the multitudes of Jews in this city. Not a word of warning is sounded here of the loss of vigor suffered by Reform Judaism and consequenity not a suggestion of a remedy calculated to restore that virility. Others (Rabbi Frisch of this city, Rabbi Lef- kowitz of Dallas), do complain of "spiritual impovrishment" and cry out for "intensification, a revival, a renaissance of the spirit that was in our fathers, but not the American Hebrew for whom a universal religion represents the treatment of Reform ailments, and the most pressing of present-day needs. That this abysmal estrangement exists is painfully acknowledged by some leaders of the Reform movement, and strikingly indicated by those of its adversraies who have taken the trouble to notice the Golden Jubilee. WARSAW—(J. C. B.).—The gen- eral legalization of the Keren Ilaye- sod notwithstanding, collections for the fund have been prohibited in the Lublin district. Poland Prohibits Karen Hayseed. Longing For Jerusalem Oh, city of the world, with sacred splendor bleat, My spirit yearns to thee from out the far-off West, A stream of love wells forth when I recall thy day, Now is thy temple waste, thy glory passed away. Had I an eagle's wings, straigh twould I fly to thee, Moisten thy holy dust with wet cheeks streaming free. Oh, how I long for thee! albeit thy King has gone, Albeit where balm once flowed, the serpent dwells alone. Could I but kiss thy dust, so would I fain expire, As sweet as honey then, my passion, my desire! JUDAH HA-LEVI. (Translated by Emma Lazarus.) , mg Palestine. Mr. Neumann informs heavy with gold, I ask this poor us that he has retained that note as babe's life." a souvenir. When one looks back and stops to consider what remarkable progress has been made by the Keren Ilayesod since that critical period, he is certain to adopt an even more op- timistic attitude for the cause of Pal- estine's redemption. Futility of Anti-Semitism 11 lute the renewed anti-Semitic movements throughout the European countries inevitably hurt our people, they are futile in the long run, judg- ing by the power we have evinced to survive persecution and in the long run to prove the fittest Mark Twain wrote of the Jew: "The Jew has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages, and has done it with his hands tied behind him. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, heat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmi- ties of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggres- sive mind." If the world's anti-Semites, includ- ing our Detroit "landsman," are under the impression they can exterminate the Jew, perhaps the above quotation from Mark Twain will convince them to the contrary. Russia's Anti-Religious Policy M. Klishko, the Russian representa- tive in London, has made a state- ment that the Jews have gained by the Soviet's anti-religious policy. He declared that no religion has gained from this policy as much as the Jew- ish, and that the Jews are now for the first time immune from persecu- tions and enjoying complete freedom. Which statement is ridiculous when taken at its face value. While it is true that the Soviet has prevented pogroms against the Jews, it must be remembered that there is something much worse than a physical pogrom and murder, and that is a spiritual pogrom and the prevention of Jewish national and religiuos education. While the Jews individually undoubt- edly benefit from the freedom granted them by the Bolsheviki, the more pre- vention of religious training of the youth is harmless to the people as a whole because it helps place another nail in the coffin of Russian Jewry. Cantor Piny Minkowsky of Odessa, now in this country, who is un- doubtedly one of the most cultured Jews in the world, told the writer last week that there is absolutely no hope for the future Jewish generation in Russia. lie said that the youth is not only growing up in ignorance of things Jewish, but is being trained to have a contempt for everything re- ligious. Cantor Minkowsky said that the coming generation is getting a training of "robbers," and he knows whereof he speaks, having seen the rise of the Soviet and the activities of the Bolshevik)on the very field of action. There is no doubt but that (Turn to last page.) And Jethro desired Pharaoh to harken to his daughter's voice, and he said: "Balsam speaketh falsely, for he did not read thy dream aright. Surely the gods have warned thee to save this child's life! Thus runneth thy dream: The elders, the nobles, and the great men of Egypt, thou sawest in thy dream are the rich gifts thy daughter might ask of thee; the single kid is the life of this babe, which she 'prefers to all the treasures of Egypt. I pray thee, heed thy daughter's prayer." But Balsam warned Pharaoh, say- ing, "Slay this child without mercy, for he will destroy F t " And Jethro cried: "This child will bring thee good instead of evil, and the gods will bless thee for the mercy thou didst show unto him." Anghelescu, announcing that the uni- versities which are now closed by reason of the recent anti-Semitic dis- turbances were to reopen Jan. 22, and inviting all students to return to their classes. The Jewish students are particular- ly requested to return to the lecture rooms, the invitation being coupled with the assurance that the anti- Semitic agitation will not he repeated, and if there is a recurrence the per- petrators will be punished. As a solution to the dissection prob- lem, the government has ordered that all corpses unclaimed by relatives or friends be used in the service of sci- ence, irrespective of creed. When the castle goes to ruin, castle is still its name; when the dunghill rises, still it is a dunghill.—The Tal- mud. Saviq,s of 25% to 40% on All Kinds of Apparel and Furnishings for Women at Heyn's January Clear- ance Sale. Now is the Time to Buy HEWS • 1241-1243 Woodward "As the Crosswalk"