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largely in the program which Victor molly opened by a city or state dign
Kolar has made for the Popular con- tary, with the aid of It. II. William
cert in Orchestra Hall at 3:30 this president of the D. A. D. A. On Sul
Sunday afternoon. In the second half day the show will be featured by it
of the program Mr. Kolar will play attendance of the jobbers and man'
the prelude to the third act of "Die facturers of the so called "access , ,rie
Meistersinger," the prelude and "Love and known as Automotive Emlipm e
Cast of Fifty Persons to Present "The Golden Bride;" Play Had Entire
Death" from "Tristan and Isolde" Day.
Year's Run in New York; Musical Numbers Are An lmoprtant
and the prelude to the tied act of
Detroit and the Auto Show are si
Feature of Performnace,
Th e so I is t is a n Amer- rally honored this year by (hi
Lohengrin. " Th
none
"The Golden Bride," the greatest Theater of New York. "The Golden lean violinist of most unusual quality, convention of the society of Autorr
Cordelia Lee. She will play Vieux- tive Engineers. The convention
e"
had
a
run
of
a
full
season
in
ope
theatrical success of the Yiddish Brid
temps D minor concerto. The other
stage the past year, will be presented New York and proved among the members on the program are Ippoli- on Tuesday and continues until I'
day. Manager Shuart has a, rang
at Orchestra Hall this Sunday eve- greatest attractions of the theater.
tov-Ivanov's
"Caucasian
Sketches"
with Crocker Clarkson, gem rid ms
Mr. German, who is directing the
play, will be assisted by Mme. Ger- and Smetana's Overture to "The Bar- nger of the Society of Automoike
gineers, to have Tuesday given co
man, who will appear in the leading tered Bride."
to the technical leaders of the hub
role, and by Max Skulnik, the popular
try and known as S. A. E. day. 1
The Symphony Concerts.
comedian, whose popularity is grow-
ing daily in Detroit. Among the lead-
At the next pair at symphony con- engineers attending the convent
ing actors in the play will also be certs, Thursday and Friday evenings, will be the guests of the Detroit Al
Morris Goldberg, Abe and Ethel Dorf, Jan. 10-11, the soloist will be Mischa Dealers Association at the show
Esther Field, Sarah Skulnik, Max Elman, one of the world's greatest that day.
Rosen, Isidore Friedman, Harry Shur, violinists, not only of our day but of
Michigan Day will feature Weds
the noted Argentinian actress, Mme. all time. Mr. Elman will ploy twice day of the show. This is the day
Bertha Gutentag, and others.
on the program. His first number will which the Michigan Automotive Tr,
In addition to the 20 numbers of be a concerto in G minor by the old Association will hold its fourth min
musical selections, "The Golden Italian master, Vivaldi. His second meeting and all the dealers in Mil
Bride" will be featured by many number will be three movements of van are invited to attend the mil
dances, including American, Spanish, Lalo's Symphonic Espagnole for vio- The M. A. T. A. convention will
Russian and Jewish folk dances. Spe- lin and orchestra. This symphony is held at Hotel Stotler. W. K. Ph
cial attention is being given to the a work of uncommon beauty flooded Grand Rapids, president of the M.
T. A., will preside at all the meeii
stage settings, and the entire produc- with the color of Spain.
and has arranged thre sessions: M(
tion is being arranged to justify the
ing, business, afternoon, educatiol
praise given it.
Joint Recital Jan. 8.
banquet. The evening
Another packed house greeted the
A joint recital by Dan H. Sofer, evening,
theatrical company of Detroit last pianist, and Nicholas Garagusi, vio- sion will close at 8 p. m. to give
dealers
the
remainder of the eve!
Sunday evening, when "The Girl That linist, assisted by Lois Johnston, so-
God Forgot" was staged. The actors prano, is announced for Tuesday eve- at the Auto Show.
all played their parts well and offered ning, Jan. 0, at Hotel Stotler. Mr.
Ever since "Society Day" pa
another argument in favor of the con- Safer and Mr. Garagusi are both well out of the picture in 1917 and the
tinued existence of the local theater. known in New York musical circles itor to the show felt that he could .
J. L. Pearl, the local manager, an- and are now permanently established attend in conventional togs Thon
MISCHA GERMAN
nounces that his plans for the season in Detroit. The program to be offered has been Detroit Day. In the last
include
booking of the leading at- by them includes several novelties, years the Thursday crowd has
ning by a cast of more than 50 peo- tractions the
for first appearances in De- among which will be the York Bowen the largest of the show week and
ple, headed by Mischa and Lucy Ger-
"Suite for Violin and Piano," Emer- expected that this year will not h
troit.
man, formerly of the Jewish Art
son Withornes'"New York Days and exception. Friday will be Mani
pear in a joint concert on Jan. 20, Nights" far piano, and "Two Rhap- tuners Day, the day on which the
at Orchestra Hall, will undoubtedly sodical Chimeras" for violin, com- iority of the men from the out
he among the leading features of the posed and played by Mr. Garagusi.
tive plants will attend the show.
present musical season.
The final day of the show, thi
Each of these artists has won a
max of the eight day exhibition,
reputation in the musical world. Mme. Twenty • Third Annual Auto he known as "Buy-You-Car-Day,'
Tarasova, whose appearance in De-
Show to be Held from Jan.
final opportunity for the show go
Tickets Placed on Sale for Eliz- troit was hailed two years ago when
see all the representative make
19 to Jan. 26.
she was declared to he among the
abeth Gutman Concert
cars under one roof and make hi
greatest interpreters of folk songs
of Hadassah.
Every day of the twenty-third an- lection.
living, is in herself a great attrac-
In the "home" of the show, Co,
Auto Show will have a special
The Detroit chapter of Hadassah tion. Mr. Akimoff was formerly of nual
significance. H. H. Shuart, manager lion Hall, there is a small am
will present Miss Elizabeth Gutman, the Pergrad Opera Company. Mr. of the Detroit Auto Dealers Associa- workmen and artisns alread;
a soprano of Baltimore, at a concert Weiner is a composer-pianist who ob- tion, will have "something doing" work preparing the structure fo
to be given Monday evening, Feb. 4, tained his professional training at the from the time the show opens, at 7:30 exhibit of 329 models of pass,
at the Stotler. Miss Gutman, well conservatory of Kiev.
87 commercial car types an
Morris Scheyer of the Detroit p. m., Saturday, Jan 19, until the cars,
known in the East and South, spe-
doors close on Saturday, Jan. 26, at booths of automotive equipment
cializes in Jewish and Russian folk Musical Bureau is the manager for
show is the largest in the hist.
10:30
p.
m.
songs. The committee in charge con- this concert.
As has been the practice for years the D. A. D. A. and will inclu,
sists of bliss Sarah Weinberg, chair-
the first showing will be known as the "best sellers" in Detroit
Sunday's Popular Concert.
man; Mrs. Abe Cooper, Mrs. Nathan
Michigan.
Music of the Richard Wagner bulks "Opening Night," the show being for-
ie Simons, Mrs. Jacob Schokne, Mrs.
Frank Hamburger, Mrs. Albert Git-
tleman, Miss Eva Werbe, Mrs. Alex
Friedman and Mrs. M. M. Cohen.
Tickets may be had from members of
the committee.

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ANTI-SEMITISM DUE TO
And the question is further whether tion, which will diminish its range,
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Gabrilowitch's Recital.

There is no more welcome event in
the musical season in Detroit than the
annual recital of Detroit's foremost
musician, Ossip Gahrilowitsch. This
is to take place Monday evening, Jan.
7, in Orchestra Hall at 8:30. His
program is as follows: Bach, Chro-
matic Fantasia and Fugue; Beet-
hoven, Sonata, F minor, Op. 2, No.
1; Chopin, Polonaise C shary minor;
Nocturne, F major; Mazurka, C sharp
minor; Ballade, G minor; Brahms,
Intermezzo, Rhapsody, Op. 119; Glaz-
ounov, Gavottf; Grainger, Shepherd's
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the development of intelligence and the conditions of its application. In
the unfolding of capacity is not doing an ordinary society a right is always
(Concluded from Page 1.)
a most serious injury to itself, by pre- the reverse side of a duty. The duties
tion at the base, the other aims at the venting a child who might have be- of national minorities form no excep-
tion, otherwise they will frequently
head.
a distinguished scholar or an
Certain states try to limit the num- come
eminent engineer from giving to the after having been oppressed actually
ber of their Jewish citizens by re- world according to this capacity, by become privileged. Government from
fusing the rights of citizenship to the forcing him to remain confined in a whom we demand that they should
largest possible number to claimants. profession, which calls for lesser ca- enforce civil and poltiical equality
36 Adams West
Circumstances mentioned above make pacities and a less extensive culture. for all their citizens would be justi-
it easy to restrict the right to natural -
Three Doors nisi of the Adams Theatre
These considerations will be suf- fied in considering our intervention Tarasova Concert Among Fea-
ization. Many of those who were ficient, ladies and gentlemen, as I open to suspicion, if at the same time
tures of Season.
evacuated and returned from the hope, to bring before you the impor- we did not insist that the minorities
Caucasus or from Siberia no longer tance and the gravity of the Jewish must be scrupulously loyal to the
Nina Tarasova, Lazar Weiner and
possess the papers needed to prove question of today. It is impossible governments which protect them, in Alexander Akimoff, who are to ap-
their identity and can find no wit- that liberal-minded countries, in particular that they must pay their
nesses to attest their origin. Then, which leagues "Pour In defense des taxes and serve their term of mili
every kind of trickery becomes pos- Droits de I'llomme et du Citoyen" tary training.
sible. In the course of a recent voy- have been founded should not show
This recommendation is not un-
age in the Baltic countries, I was told their feelings, and if there be occa- called-for, since sometimes certain
of many and cases of Jews, former sion their indignation with regard to minorities show a want of interest
Russian citizens, who cannot gain ad- the exceptional laws which certain with regard to the states that shelter
mission anywhere, even in the terri- countries seem inclined to adopt in them, which explains only too well
tories in which they had always lived order to close the door to Jews wish- the indifferences or hostility which
before the war. Still less can the new- ing to enter the universities and the they have suffered in the past but
comers gain admission, save on a great professional institutions.
which serves to maintain against
small scale and after complicated and
themselves a distrust or even an irri-
Anti-S•mitism Spreading.
expensive formalities. Even in Au-
tation which is psychologically com-
When once a law has been con- prehensible. Certain Jewish com-
tria, the Jewish citizens belonging to
the former Austro-Hungarian empire sidered by a parliament in which munities are not exempt from some
find it difficult to gain recognition as every part of the population might imprudences of this kind; they have
be represented, it possesses an au- sometimes given an impression of
citizens of the new state.
By measures or tricks of this kind, thority which should inspire respect. professing a somewhat careless de-
attempts are made to reduce the But it would seem that certain coun- tachment from the political bodies, of
number of Jews. Other measures at- tries, at any rate, are led to satisfy which they form a part. The Ligue
tempt to exclude the Jews from the the prejudices and malice of part of des Droits de l'Homme is justified in
privileges of the higher education the population against the Jews by expecting that minorities, which it is
and thus to eliminate them from the resorting to simple administrative prepared to protect against the arbi-
liberal professions and from a share measures, the arbitrary character of trary will of the governments to
in public affairs. In these ways, as which is clear. Take one example, which they are attached, will do noth-
I said above, a blow is struck at the the most recent and the most signifi- ing to arouse the least suspicion of
cant—you will learn with stupor that indifference to their duties as citi-
head.
Under this heading the problem of the Minister of Public Instruction of zens. The rights of the citizen and
no doubt because he believed
the "numerus clauses" arises a ques- Poland,
the Diet would not accept the bill his loyalty necessarily go together.
tion which, since the war, causes agi-
G. D. ANDERSON
tation in the universities of certain containing the "numerus clauses." toi These, ladies and gentlemen, are
0. MARR
T. BONDIE
A. F. WESTRUP
countries, in particular in Poland, which there is a great opposition I the considerations which I have tried
H. BATTERSHALL
Hungary and Roumania. You will even in Poland, has authorized the I to summarize in the following resole-
know that these two Latin words are councils of the faculties to limit the tion:
"This congress, profoundly moved
used to designate all measures, legis- non-Polish students in any way which
lative or administrative, which re- seems to them to agree with the de- by the increase at the present day o
race
antagonism, an inevitable conse-
mands
of
the
local
situation.
It
is
strict the liberty, which every citizen
ought to have, provided he has the useless to emphasize the danger to quence of nationalism, and, in par-
ticular,
by the renewal of anti-Semit-
which
measures
of
this
kind
expose
capacity and the material means of
cultivating his abilities by becoming the Jewish population of Poland. ism, which is ravaging in certain
countries—faithful
to the declaration
They
give
scope
to
every
local
ma-
a student in the universities or in
professional institutions. For in- lignancy and even to personal ani- of the rights of man, which proclaims
the
legal
equality
of
all the citizens
stance, Jews may be admitted in the mosity,. which is naturally more felt in a state, without considering their
schools only in the same proportion in a province than in a state, and in origin—protests against legislative
as exists between the Jewish popula- a town than in a province.
Is it necessary to add that anti- and administrative measures which
tion and the total population of the
Semitism seems to grow nearer and tend to distinguish between different
country.
nearer,
to spread from the East to classes of citizens and to oppose one
proportion
At first sight such a
may seem to correspond to the de- the West, and that Germany seems to the other.
to
be
imitating
the actions which
"It points in particular to meas-
a kind of geometrical jus- threaten to become
mend
general in the
which would deprive certain citi-
tice.' But a little reflection will show countries on its eastern frontier. Re- ures
zens of the benefits of culture, with-
how iniquitous it is and even how cent events, of which the papers of out taking account of the services
prejudicial to the interests of society
today have brought us the echo, prove which these citizens are capable of
as a whole.
that in Bavaria anti-Semitic feeling rendering to society.
J. W. MARTINDALE
C. BATTERSHALL
Jewish Artisans Are Few.
A. McINTYRE
H. E. WEISBERGER
well
known
that
the
Jews
are
is assuming a threatening character,
G. C. ROYCE
"It further recalls to mind this es-
It is
even
an
explosive
character.
if
it
be
sential principle that the exercise of
more inclined to live in masses in the
They committed no murders, engaged in no bandit hold-lips, robbed no homes, carried
true, as we are informed, that about
towns than to disperse in the coun- 150 Jews, and these not foreigners civil and political rights implies the
on no hooch trade, were not involved in any divorce scandals, and yet we think they are
try. It is known that they are more but German citizens, have been en- loyal accomplishment of civic duties.
"It demands from the national
suited to more or less intellectual riched over the frontier of Bavaria.
entitled to recognition—through a word of praise.
work than to manual labor. There
One of our German colleagues, pre- leagues for the defense of the rights
In December of each year we distribute a fund, similar to a bonus, among our office
are in Europe few Jewish cultivators sent at this congress, assured me this of man that they should oppose with
of the soil, and even few artisans,
all their powers in their respective
force.
A record is kept of the times each is absent or late, and the fund is divided accord-
morning
that
other
Jews
in
Berlin
while on the other hand they are oc-
countries the adoption of laws or the
ing to the percentage of freedom from lateness and absence. This past year we had
cupied in finance, industry, the lib- have received official warning to hold application of administrative meas-
themselves
in
readiness
against
every
eral professions, law, medicine, teach-
of an exceptional character.
five who, through the entire time, were neither absent or late, thus earning 100% rating.
eventuality. It is not surprising that ures
"And it Instructs the office of the
ing, etc.
Their pictures are in the top row. There were also many others who made excellent rec-
There are, therefore, a larger num- in the country in which misery and federation to communicate this reso-
ber of persons ready to benefit by anarchy are at work, in which popular
ords. We can not give pictures of all, but in the second row are the five who came next
a scape- lution to the League of Nations and
secondary and higher education, ow- passion naturaly searches for
to
the
governments
of
the
countries
ing to the education they have al- goat, people should be led to see in concerned."
nearest to the 100% class, running over 98%.
ready received in their own environ- the Jews the cause of all the ills from
(The resolution was carried unani-
Ho many offices can show results like these?
which today Germany, conquered and
ment, among the Jews then among overwhelmed by a continuous series mously.)
Do you blame us for being proud of our young men and women?
the general population, the propor-
of
partial
revolution,
is
suffering.
tionate numbers of both being taken
If there is a fundamental principle
GARRICK THEATER
nito account. The remarkable intel-
lectual capacities of the Jewish peo- in the declaration of the rights of
man
and
of
the
citizen,
which
is,
as
ple have been shown in the spheres
"Give and Take," with the two
of pure and applied science; this can- I repeated a short time ago, our com- famous remedy stars Louis Mann and
not be denied. The question is, there- mon charter, it is that no citizen George Sidney, will be the attraction
fore—and you will Bee that this should be disturbed on account of his at the Garrick Theater, Detroit, be-
brings us near to the usual principles religious convictions and that there ginning this Sunday evening for one
of our leagues--whether any indi- should be no distinction before the week. with matinees Wednesday and
vidual may be excluded from the in- law due to differences of belief or of Saturday.
struction which would give him the religion. This congress should close
Mann and Sidney are old-time De-
completest develoPment of his intel- with • vigorous affirmation of this troit favorites and their engagement
lectual and moral qualities—exclud - principle.
should
prove the most successful of
But we shall no doubt be wanting
of the blood

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