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AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, 01110

MIREI__tt111,fr,11151101 ROA ICU;

HADASSAH TO HOLD
ITS ANNUAL DANCE
TUESDAY, MARCH 27

is neither sane nor penitent. He is
mad.

Our New York Letter

What Will You? It's America!"—Rabbinical Student
Turned Priest, Then Slanderer of Jews and Finally
a Rabbi In a Bronx Congregation—A Case

"Well,

An affair that promises to be among
the leading social events of the year
will be the annual dance to be given
by the local chapter of Hatlassah on
Tuesday, evening, March 27, at the
tler. The committee lit
Hotel Sta
charge of the dance consists of Mrs.
S. Smits of 5015 Brush street, the
J .
chairman. Mrs. S. Kavanaugh and
Miss J. M. Steinberg.
The deal community is asked to
support the dance and thereby help
kee p up the work of the Palestine
Medan! t'nit supported by Iladassah.
It is painted out that a greater need
for funds for the unit exists today
than itIer before.
e result of the sheet party held
As w
last week, 250 sheets were sent away
ideal chapter and more sheets
by
are rest iced each day at the home of
Mrs, J. li. Ehrlich, local president.
Mrs. Cllarles Robinson, chairman of
thcoeminittee, and Mrs. Ehrlich thank
the amity friends of II adassah whom
dal not see at the party but who

for Dr. Freud.

By GERSHON AGRONSKY

(Copyright, 1923, Jewish Correspondence Bureau.)

"All thnigs are possible in New town. No sane man would have ex-
York," is what every Jew has been posed himself voluntarily to a cross-
saying since Tuesday when the news- examination at which, as he had rea-
papers printed that account of the
confessed renegade and
defamer son to know, there would be tell-tale
whose rabbinical mask was ripped if eye-witnesses. Ibis behavior at the
Monday afternoon in the offices of the hearing is similarly baffling.
One
Agudath Ilarabonim . "Everything's looked for a proud annihilating ges-
possible in America," is probably be. ur
le a brazen, "What's all this got

they

Inc said throughout the country, to do ' with me?" Instead, he cringed
wherever the wires or the mails have and cowered, 'wither admitting nor
carried the story, And no doubt, in denying, except to mumble a helpless
all Jewry, wherever the report of this plea that his eye-sight is poor or his
impostor's denunciation has reached, memory weak. And when he saw all
people are resignedly shaking their was up, even then, no straight-for-
heads and saying, "Well, what will ward confession was forth-coming. He
you? Its Amercia !"
offered to give any written undertak-

PAGE FIVE

— - -
DIES SUDDENLY AT

HOME OF DAUGHTER

Perhaps our psycho-analytic friends
might tell us what complexes are at
the bottom of this unique behavior.
Here, a man of alleged very loose
morality, expelled from the thologi-
cal seminary, persists in studying fur
the rabbinate. The would-be rabbi
becomes shortly metamorphosed into a
priest—the priest turns slanderer of
the people from whom he arose. The
slanderer becomes rabbi again, but the
return to the fold is obviously mo-
tivated by no deep grounds of peni-
tence. Truly an enigma beyond the
powers of the layman to solve.

There can be no question of piti-
lessness or severity in a case like this.
The rabbis were, if anything, immo-
derately lenient with him in accepting
a written promise from him. For
what, after all, does it amount to? If
ever again he attempts to mount the
pulpit and is discovered, the paper
will have its use. But what is there
to prevent this libeller from changing
his name a second time, shaving or
trimming his beard, and if he retains
some of his senses—he certainly has
enough Torah and is a good enough
"darshon"—take another rabbinical
post in some remote Jewish com-
munity.

vide fur inheritance taxes. Over 98
per cent of the domestic death claims
were paid within 24 hours after re•
ceipt of due proofs of death. The
ing Insurance.
statement calls attention to the broad
scope of Equitable service, and to the
The sixty-third annual statement many insurance needs covered by the
of the Equitable Life Assurance So- company's wide range of policies.
ciety of the United States gives evi-
dence of the company's continued
progress. The new insurance written CHARGE FORD FINANCES
SWISS ANTI-SEMITISM
in 1922 totaled $495,000,000, occlud-
ing over $48,000,000 of group insur-
ance. The outstanding insurance on
GENEVA.—(J. T. A.)—A strong
Dec. 31 exceeded $3,000,000,000. Up- anti-Semitic movement, which it is
wards of $111,000,000 was disbursed alleged is being financed by Henry
to policyholders and beneficiaries dur- Ford, is under way in Switzerland.
ing the year in death claims, matured A translation of the anti-Semitic ar-
endowments, dividends, annuities and ticles appearing in Ford's Dearborn
other payments, making a total re- Independent has been made and is be-
turn of $1,569,676,000 to policyhold- ing widely distributed in book form
ers since organization. Nearly $35,- in Swithh official circles. Copies, too,
000,000 has been set aside for divi- have been furnished to all officials in
dends to policyholders in 1923. A the League of Nations.
large increase was made in the issue
of policies payable on the monthly in-
Be sure and vote for !tarry J. Lipp-
come plan, as well as those taken to
man for Circuit Judge.—Ado.
protect business interests and to pro-

Equitable Life Passes $3,000,-
000,000 Mark in Outstand•

ing that would be required that he
MRS. SOPHIE HERTZBERG
will never again engage in any Jew-
Mrs. Sophie Hertzberg, 49 years
ish activity, either as rabbi, preacher
It of 4126 Brush street, artist, who
or teacher. With a trembling hand he
wrote and re-wrote the "confession"
has drawn a number of valuable oil
It this most people have in mind
which is typically vague, having but
aintings died suddenly on Wednes-
one reference to the "misdeeds of when they shake their heads, sadly day, Feb. 21, at the home of her
BERLIN.—(J. T. A.)—All Jews
are generally known." and wisely, and say, All things are daughter, Mrs. Bessie Weiner, 516
youth
which
and members of the allied commis-
And the paper written, seeing the possible in America." "Well, what East Kirby avenue. Interment took
sions it Germany should be held as
rabbis and others edging away from will you, its America."
place at the Machphelah cemetery.
hostagcs or expelled from Germany
him as something lecherous, he did
Mrs. Ilertzberg was active in many
after the occupation of
immediately
not walk out with bowed head, but like
local charitable circles and was prom-
the French forces. This was demand.
a child afraid of the dark, begged
inent in the Grace Kurlander lodge.
Hitler,
leader
of
the
Ba-
protect
ed by Adolp
one
and
then
another
to
now
Surviving her are three daughters,
varian Fascisti at a secret meeting in
him, There was nothing in his ruddy
Mrs. Ida Karp, Mrs. Bessie Weiner
Munich, it is learned.
face and florid complexion or nervous
Simultaneous with the statement and Miss Henrietta Ilertzberg.
small town student. Engulfed by the eyes to indicate he was contrite of issued by the Equitable Life Insur-
log city, lured by its alternating lights heart. There was nothing to show ance Co., which shows a big gain for JEWISH WOMEN PLAN
and shadwos, overwhelmed by the he realized what had heppened to him the year, the announcement is made
FOR WORLD CONGRESS
number of things to be learned out- An hour before, during the Minchah that A. Glazer and W. II. Keidan are
BERIN.—(J. CL. 11.)—The calling
side his prescribed studies and he service, he beat his breast along with the leading producers for the c
the
most
pious
of
the
orthodox
rabbis.
of
a
World Congress of Jewish women
founders. Vague reports of these
pang in the state of Michigan. Messrs
things reach his parents at Zablotowa. Now the exposed "meshumed" was be- Glazer and Keidan were the leaders during the early Spring is being ser-
seeching
the
most
reverent
of
them
iously
considered following the arrival
wows eel" In
his pittance is diminished, discon-
in their field for the past few years .
tinued. Yudel's career at the Jewish to accompany him to the street. If
Glazer and Keidan have been in the here of a representative of the Coun-
he should have con-
penitent
cil
of
Jewish Women of America,
truly
Theological Seminary is checkered. A
insurance field here for a number of
good enough student perhaps, he does fessed all and begged forgiveness. years and are among the leaders in whose purpose is said to be to negot-
Nothing
more
at
any
rate
would
iate
with
Jewish Women's organiza-
their profession. Their offices are lo-
not behave, and he leaves, probably
have happened to him than did hap-
cated at 1510 First National hank tions in Europe to join the proposed
after being asked to leave. What is to
pen. If sane but desperate he should
Congress
of
Women's organizations in
become of Yudel? The inevitable
building. They urge their friends and
dismissed everything with a
the general public to call on them for Germany, England, Austria and
"kind Christian prelate" appears on have
gesture
and
left
the
rabbis
France
are
said
to have promised to
scornful
the scene. He helps the boy to his wondering whether after all they were statements about the Equitable and
participate.
feet and the boy makes a rash prom-
for information on insurance.
identity.
Ile
mistaken
about
his
ise; he will reward the prelate's kind- not
ness by embracing Christianity. Yudel
accordingly becomes an eminently

sent in ,heets.

HITLER WANTS JEWS
HELD AS HOSTAGES

Before the wave of disgust subsides
and the volume of old women's curses
is exhausted and the last of the salvos
of rabbinical imprecations is fired, it
is well perhaps to review breilly the
elements of the breath-halting story:
A promising Jewish lad named
Yehuda Tillinger, coming of a mod-
erately poor family in Galicia is ex-
pected by his fond parents to become
a rabbi in Israel. To this end his
family facilitated his journey to
Vienna, scrimping, probably at home
that the boy may pursue his studies
abroad. A change comes over the

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OFFICE 521 ELIOT STREET

Th e voter who desires
good judges can make no
mistake in marking his bal-
lot for Alfred J. Murphy. Ile
has shown by actual experi-
ence his worthiness of the
erm:oe. Judge Murphy pre-
ceded his term in the circuit
court by magnificent service
as recorder."—The Detroit
Free Press.

RE-ELECT

Alfred J. Murphy

Circuit Judge

An X before his name in the Republican column is respectfully
requested.

fitting candidate for Greek-Orthodox
orders. And Yodel is metamorphosed
into Father Stanislas Tillinger.

All this, according to his contempor-
aries, about 25 years ago. Tillinger
had gone the way of all "meshumm
dim." Nothing is heard of him until
the Mistier ritual murder trial in
Prague in 1R99.. He then issues forth

as the author of articles in a Jesuit

palter in Lemberg supporting this
Christian charge. II is testimony was
significant—hail he not been a rab-
finical student and were not his ar-
ticles liberally sprinkled with Tal-
mudic passages? And so it came about
that whenever a Christian in Austria,
in Galicia or in Poland, wanted to
call
insult or wound a Jew, he would

him "Hilsner."

Detroit's Safeguard
Against Crime

Austrian and Polish Jews have,

therefore, good reason for remember-
ing Tillinger.

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Service

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Soon Tillinger apparently tires of
preaching "Christ Crucified" and
makes some sort of an attempt to re-
enter the Jewish fold. Some Jews in
Lemberg were willing to let bygones
be bygones. But there VIII5 one who
said in effect, "Take back an apos-
tate? Perhaps. But a treacherous
libeller, defamir and nackbiter?
Never!" The Jew who spoke to this
Jewish
effect is Gershon Bader, a
journalist of New York, to whose ac-
curate recording of the Tillinger affair
the unmasking and unfrocking of the
impostor is largely due.

EDWARD N.
BARNARD

Whether Yudel Tillinger prospered
as Father Stanislas is of
no immediate concern. What is known

thereafter

is this, that in MO he came to New
York, looked up his Jewish boyhood
friends begging them to assist him
Some
position."
to find a "Jewish
him, but all of
recoiled,
oiled, others pitied
c
re
them warned him not to try to gain a
foothold in a Jewish institution. Ilut
Tillinger was in no mood for friendly

advice. Ile is next heard of as an
"Orthodox Rabbi" in Easton, pa.,

then as a candidate for a similar
post in Trenton, N. J., and later as

rabbi in Youngstown, Ohio. There,
it seems, one man had recognized him
and Tillinger disappeared before be-
ing publicly denounced. From Youngs-
and here,
town he came to New York

with the help of an unsuspecting
rabbi, was recommended to and ac-
in
cepted by a budding congregation
the Fordham section of the Bronx, as
Rabbi Yodel Elf enbei n.
Indefatigable Dame Rumor was do-
ing its work in the meantime. Some-
Seen() avenue cafe
body else in a

that he suspected Tillinger the
•s5
"meshumed" and "mosur"
Now
rabbi somewhere in an
New
York. The Jewish Correspondence
probe
the
rumor,
Bureau decided to

For Circuit Judge

HIS RECORD

I. Born and raised in Michigan.
2 One of the youngest graduates ever
graduated from law department of Uni-
ver•ity of Michigan, 1905.
President, Republican Club. 1911
3
and 1912.
1. Chairman of • Speakers Bureau
in ton Presidential and two •eratoried
takraigns.
6 Former Prosecuting Attorney, Kent
County. , Out of 2,962 cages tried, he
ie.r only 62.
6. W. .1111Irted with Mr. T
President, National Chamber of Com-
m •fre. as speaker in Ilughea campaign.
7. Drew Michigan aftlfla•ita used in
eoniest at National Republican Conven-
tion, 1912.
3 . Tried the nationally famous Weber.
Blackburn. Thompson Jewelry and Law-
ler. Cane,
Ta.k •pecial atudies in Medicine
and Electrical Engin,ring.
1 5 Secured confeemion and conviction
blaumeell, one of America's moll
nobirinua criminal..
I I. Challenged • right of Ore man
viand jury to make prestentment, Record•
et 4 Court—Hia opinion •nalained by Su-
preme Court of this State.
11. Challenged recorder's right to try
modemeanors other than as a Conserva-
tor of the Peace—Hi• orinin. sustained
by Supreme Court of tkis State.
IL First lawyer to challenge part of
Recorder's Act—Ills opinion sustained by
supreme Courtof this State.
IL One of the •ttornera
Triircynaki case, Leland. Michigan.
Suceeeefully defended Oakrnan.
Hubbell and Shevit. cues in City in-
• es I Intl...
RePr.enta Jitney Drivers A son
.
elation: Net-bred
to work and thousand• • speedy
of transportation.
6I• defended Mkhael and Morris
Gr.•on nn eight
f.1011O without any
7 ..trrenaation for hla

BARNARD FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE CLUB

to run it down, if necessary. Sus-
picion fell upon Rabbi Yudel Elfen-
bein and he was asked concerning the
Elfenbein spluttered
rumor. RsIshi
gibbered, fumed and foamed—
and
and lied like a trooper. He had never
a
heard of Tillinger, of Lemberg, of
Jesuit newspaper or of Youngstown,
Ile is a Roumanian Jew, he could
prove it by persons who had known
has good and
him all their lives. Ile
The rumors
"from" Jewish children.
are baseless, absurd and he had a
good mind to thrash the reporters for
He did

Judge Harry B. Keidan

Judges of the Recorder's Court

S

INCE you established the Detroit Recorder's
Court by your vote, in 1920, it has become a
pattern for national admiration.

It has tried accused persons with a promptness
new to court records.

It has set aside many obstacles which once
hampered the administration of justice.

It has established a psychopathic department
which makes it possible to aid the mentally weak
and to send insane men and women to asylums
instead of jails.

It has made jury service a duty of rich and
poor alike.

It has established a probation department which
has turned more than 5,000 persons from crime to
straight living, without the use of fines or prison
sentences, These persons, instead of becoming a
burden on the taxpayers, earned, during the past
year, a total of $1,370,155.47 for the support of
themselves and their families.

It has helped reduce crime in Detroit to a level
below that of other cities of similar size. It has
made our city known among professional criminals
as a place to be shunned.

afternoon following
And on Monday
the Thursday interview Yudel Ellen-
bein appeared at the special sitting of
a committee of the Union of Ortho-
dox Rabbis to answer the charge that
and rier had seen
Tillin ger. The
before
him
once
him
ms
quite closely during the hearing. And
the writer is prepared to concur in the
b e if
opinion that Tillinger-Elfenedi
euans.
not mad, is a case for the Fr

hi

To begin with, a sane devil incar-
nate need not have answered the
rabbis' call. Ile had sent word he
was ill and that all questions would
friend. He might
be answered by a
have stuck to that, given the friend,
utobiographical
whoever he was, an a
A
sketch furnishing • complete alibi. ve

demon in human shape would ha
every attempt at questioning
resisted
him face to face. W hereas an hour
ter the appoited time Tillinger did
aft n
of his guilt, he
appear. Conscious
e
might have taken shelter behind som
e
igeal immunity, or, knowing th
rumors had overtaken him, might have
disappeared es he did from Youngs-

ECAUSE these four judges realize that future
SE Court progress can be made, and
B
BECAU
past progress retained, only by the same harmony
of effort and action, they are making a united
request for your support. Each asks you to vote
not for himself alone, but for all four.

To make sure six more years of present
Recorder's Court efficiency, all four of these judges
must be re-elected.

NEMIES of law and order— dope traffickers,
pickpockets, highwaymen, automobile thieves,
burglars, and all their associates—male and female
—would rejoice if any one of these four judges
should be defeated, for criminals have learned that
these judges are fearless, and beyond all corrupt.
ing influences.

E

They also know that the re-election of these
four judges will continue and ensure, for the whole
court, measures which safeguard witnesses, dis-
courage fake bondsmen, sityster lawyers, and jury
fixers, and bring about prompt trials with adequate
punishment of guilty persons.

Every influence which Detroit's lawless element
can bring to bear is being used to defeat one or
more of these four judges. These influences must
be overwhelmed by the votes of the law-abiding
men and women of Detroit.

• • • • n

their unheard of "chutzpah."

call the police.

Judge Pliny W. Menlo

Judge ThomaiM. Cotter

Judge William M. Heston

E STABLISHMENT

of these advanced
methods has been possible because four
judges—a majority of the seven—have always
worked and planned together and in harmony
for the best interests of Detroit's law-abiding
citizens. These four judges are Harry B. Keidan,
William M. Heston, Thomas M. Cotter, and
Pliny W. Marsh.

• • •

T

O re-elect these four judges is, we believe, one
of the most important tasks which your duty
as a citizen imposes upon you.

Keidan, Heston, Cotter and Marsh—remember
the names. Memorize them! Vote for them at the
primaries, March 7, and at the election, April 2.
See to it that every member of your household who
is also able to vote, does s , too.

Primaries Wednesday, Marcia 7th

Keidan-Heston-Cotter-Marsh

Re-Election Committee

