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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1924-03-14

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JOSEPH-

A COMMUNAL UNDERTAKING

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By Dr. Huge A. Freimd.

n• Chu R. Jasaoh.1

Iceer wriest. tent.

You may have missed it, no I will call it to your attention, that a Jewish
woman now carries probably tie largest amount of insurance in the history
may
Cl the country. I say "probably" because the insurance companies
find me in error. The woman in question is Mrs. Mollie Netcher Newbury,
owner of the Boston Store of Chicago, who has increased her insurance to
$3,000,000. The insurance is carried by 22 companies. No charge is made
f o r this advertisement of the value of life insurance.


Jewish

ician's
sinow-
y Jew-
oculiar
Jew-
music,
Jewish
sal and
led up
Jewish
he for-
rrange-
dowski,
cen to
I to the
erman
ding to
he Jew-
derplay
e made
of its
ig and
earning,
for jus-
ets, the
tiring of
of Has-
:ions of
accents
lese can-
t Jewish
d music
dish tern-
! to Ras-
ught, as
the souls

Dr. Straton says there may be a Modernist clergyman or two who carry
clergy.
• bip pocket flask, but he thinks that it is an unfair reflection on the
a clean bill of he•Ith, but close.
Dr. Potter, the Modernist, gives the dreg),
h
with the suggestion that the citizenship of this country wa• •
the prohibition amendment before it was prepared for it. He sincerely be-
haves that a campaign of education against drinking should have been
inaugurated before the Eighteenth Amendment was passed.

Dr. Hopkins, the great liberal president of Dartmouth College, was
e ked the other day if he would enrage Trotzky as one of the Dartmouth
professors, and he quickly replied: "Why not?" One maintains his faith in
the future of the American college by keeping in mind such menu Hopkins
and Meiklejohn. I don't know what you consider a menace to colleges in
this country; maybe some think as Lowell of Harvard thinks; but I think
the enrollment of 38,000 students in Columbia is an attempt at quantity

e for so many Jews.
no easy

.-....-._

Facts are more startling than generalities. At a meeting the other day
Brooklyn to protest against the proposed Johnson immigration bill, it
was pointed out that, if the proposed legislation becomes effective, the quota
of Jewish immigration will he reduced to 4,000 annually. Something to
think about. Especially if we think of our brethren in Europe who ore

seeking an escape from persecution.

he Wom-
America,
1912, a
d in the
organized
under the
;told, that
'e in Jew-

Goods at Cost, Below Cost
or a Little Above Cost.

in Detroit together with limited facil-
sties in our hospitals, has brought up
the question of the need of a Jewish
hospital. I have had the privilege of
studying Mr. Goldsmith's survey and
thoroughly analyzes this situation.
it
During the past 12 years, I have
had considerable experience in manic-
ipal, semi-private and private hos-
pitals, and I say it, not from loose MI-
pressions, but from statistics, and as

This "Profit-Sharing" Event was conceived by the owners
of this store, and as an expression of reciprocity to the citizens
of Detroit who have helped to build this great business. During
this sale we will share our profits with them.

I em in receipt of a letter from George J. Macy, editor of the Zeta Beta
Quarterly, taking me to task for my criticism of ass issue of that
magazine which came under my notice. Mr. Macy insists that the Q 11 ' the result of conferences with the

TI.,

See our advertisements in the daily papers for the greatest
values that have ever been offered to you. By all means attend
this great sale, and reap your share of the profits.

hope leading hospital superintendents of

is "issued to an audience which we believe intelligent and which we
c ity, that what we need is not
will receive it and read it with intelligence. Without attempting to disputelthis
beds for indigents—the so-called char-
the conclusion which you arrived at in your highly colored statements, let
ity beds—but more beds for private
ms say that that conclusion was not derived by sound reasoning, since
and or so-called small
quite obviously you did not read the issue with intelligence." May be that room patients
word or s emi-private room patients.
the
trouble,
I
did
read
it
with
intelligence.
The
next
time
someone
;
w as just
other
words,
this community re-
to
I In
hands me an issue of the Zeta Beta Tau Quarterly I shall take pains
those able
read it with the mind of one of the "fret" boys! Sometimes • stinging re- I quires accommodations for
to Inc in accordance with their
bake will correct ■ serious fault, and that was the only purpose I had in l
mind when I criticised the Zeta Beta Tau in the manner I did. Regardless I means.
At the present time, the city and
of the explanation offered by Mr. Macy and others of the Zeta Beta Tau,'
large general hospitals take care
there was absolutely no excuse for the matter contained in the issue of that' the
, of charity patients, and as president
Quarterly complained of.
of the Beard of Health, I can say at

Eadassah's
led nurses
ay devoted
maternity
Jerusalem,
dread dis-
trict nurs-

Prank & Seder

this time, that the $3,000,000 voted
Hon. R. B. Creager, member for Texas, Republican National Committee,
for a general hospital several years
Brownsville, Trans, sends me a tabulated list of the different kinds of folk
as soon as the
who live in the state of Pennsylvania. Why in the world he sends it to ms I ago, will he available
bonding limit of the city in increased.
don't know. He surely doesn't expect me to fight the Catholic church! I ,
I
Mr. Goldsmith in his recommenda-
find that the total population of Pennsylvania is 8,720,027. Otter much ,
on w i se l y states, that a Jewish hos- '
laborious computation, Mr. Creager arrives at the conclusion, in Paragraph [i
∎ pital will provide staff affiliations for
10, that the
, many Jewish physicians, thereby tale-'I

ing the general standards of the Jew-,

"total in proscribed classes held by Ku Klux Klan to he le,. than
100 per cent American is 5,028,116."

i■ ,
e
I l t

lassah work
thins, where
but Moslem
ie with their
advice.
41"'
of women in
of organize-
of Chapters
y
the United
who assume V
lestinian or-
ircles whose
Id gather up
ie Hadassah
Y.
nd 14 other
le 2$00 Jew-
ih Chapters
oups for the
Hebrew and
e in general
Keren Ilaye-
raising $130,-
Palestine dur-
i y
hich does not
annual value
applies.
s, the Keren
Distribution
,
ith Baron de
‘, 1.,
dents of Pal-
d the support
cal Organize -
I looking for-
it will he able
ancial respon-
k in Palestine,
ution of a uni- •
womanhood t"
lily Land.
a being inaug-
!ountry for the
e fulfilment of
the support o f
Medical Organ-

kTT.

Sale Now On, Will Continue
All Next Week

• ......-•

marri ■ ge to Jews, one need only to learn that when Dr. Kress announced
that subject, 2,500 persons crowded their way into Temple Emanu•El, New Recent Changes in Conditions.
During, the past two years, condi-
York, two Sundays ago, and hundreds were unable to gain admission. Rabbi
been rapidly changing.
Kress took the position that the objection to inter-marriage is • religious tions have
increas of the Jewish population
and not • racial one. Now it is easy to understand why inter-marriage is The

UTION
LFARE

flay

Profit Sharing Sale

is expensive and impractical.
The agitation for a Jewish hospital
had always conic from individuals,
groups or organizations that did not
El has added another Jew to the faculty. Nathan Isaacs has be-
H
represent the whole Jewish commun-
come professor of business law in the Business School. Professor hex,
ity. I hold it to he essential that
(for the benefit of our readers) is an Orthodox Jew and a real Zionist.
Jewish hospital shall he in the broad-
Professor Isaacs has been for several years professor of law in the Uni-
est sense a communal undertaking, for
versity of Pittsburgh.
which each and every Jew may have


equal enthusiasm and share a like in-
If one wants to gain an idea of the importance of the subject of inter.
[crest in its maintenance and success.

rather than quality production.

In

es arising
unit of 43
rians were
emergency
war-ridden
an Zionist
o the pres-
ganization,
:ors, 889, 15-
ns, to serve
ne, regard-
als, clinics,
d hospitals,
!plonks. A
uses Train-
ild Hospital
up a new
tiniest waln-
uts been es-
de training
ites of this

Up to the year 1921, I have been
opposed to a Jewish hospital in De-
troit. Prior to the war the Jewish
community in Detroit was not large
enough to need or to maintain one
properly. From the close of the war
up until two years ago, the immediate
demands for charity, relief and re-
habilitation were so pressing., that an
assessment or drive fur money for an
,Ide q uate Jewish hospital MUM not
well have been levied on the local com-
inanity. I opposed a Jewish hospital
at that time or other reasons that
may well be considered. Frequent
careful surveys had shown that with
the Jewish population prior to 1521,
the number of sick at any given period
of the year in all the large hospitals
combined would not fill a fifty (50)
bed institution. Everyone conversant
with hospital administration knows
that maintenance of small institution ,

ish professional roan. Though I ap- ,
predate the wisdom of this comment, .
me here sound a warning against •
the professional man's segregation
Mr. Goldsmith suggests that a Jew-
tcuonnanteectiotons,hauet exhcoewIlenatbohuotspittiael
ish hospital may furnish facilities for 1
ha
Orthodox Jews to obtain Kosher food.1
Jewish physician? Ile starts
The needs and practicability of this I Young
out with brains, an excellent pre-
One has to be careful with whom one eats these days. As for sending are open to serious argument. At ' medical and medical education, and
telegrams! That's something no discreet person will ever do. It seems,. best they are not a reason for a Jew- , i many years of hard work as an in-
rn ish hospital.
according to a statement in an Italian paper, that Cardinal O'Connell corn-
[erne in a hospital, but no hospital

In other words, there are in Pennsylvania only 3,691,591 persons who ,
meet the exacting requirement of being Protestant, white and native born,
which automatically makes them by the Ku Klux Klan $10-standard 100
t do you want see to do with
per cent Americans. Well, Mr. Creager, w
this bit of thrilling information?

milted • crime when he dined with High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel
of Palestine. According to the stupid editor of this stupid paper, he is
"Judas" who betrays his church to Jews who are systematically destroying
the holy places. The cardinal is also attacked because he "ignored the
American Protestant propaganda in Palestine." All I have to say is that I
guess Catholics have their troubles, from the empty Jude in their midst.

let

Urges Great Caution.

.

connection where he can and should

of the'
To enter into a discussion
t of equip- continue his scientific research work
cos t o f construction, th e cos

,

the guidance of older men. It
uncle[
e
molt and the cost of maintenance is u
g
pli es veryn (li o i isg (ti'iovre thed y ■- i iruonin
another matter. Before a Jewish his- 1 does noti
thi s doctor,
!
or
pita! is attempted, however,
should be considered. What the cons-Ithe scientific channels, to become a
•—
inunity wishes to spend concerns the, doctor for revenue only. Thus the
Whet's this I read about the pious Mr. Ford? Surely there must be
Jewish physician, but from one angle, loss to the scientific and medical
some mistake! Says Chairman Snell of the rules committee of the House
and that is this—if they cannot build, world and the public is inestimable.
I heartily endorse the movement
of Representatives:
equip and maintain a hospital as well !
Detroit affords at the present time, and sincerely trust that Detroit's
Shoals)
has
Tea
Pot
Dome
le
las
M
usc
ing
referr
(
"This propositi
then it should be put off until such a Jewish hospital may become a reality
ing a way government property an d
ys in givto
future.
beaten a hundred ways
time as the Jewish community can. in the very near
before you are through with it, it will be a bigger scandal."
In this connection let me say, that I
HAPPY ATMOSPHERE NEEDED
By this time the Old Sleuth Brigade of the Ford Gum Shoe Army must know from personal experience in the
kin overtimeto discover if Chairman Snell has any Jewish blood building of hospitals for the City of
By Dr. Nathan P. Levin.
b
in his veins. But let us pause for a moment while we listen to the state- Detroit, that the minimum cost per
bed at the present time including full
It
is
a
privilege and a pleasure to
ment of Representative Burton:
equipment would be around $3,500 respond to the request for an opinion
per bed. With regard to maintenance, as to the need for a Jewish hospital
"There are possibilities in this situation which night make Tea
The c St per patient per day at the in Detroit.
Pot Dome look like a mere bagatelle."
Hty institution (which I shall take as
Mr. Goldsmith has not exaggerated
are never returned to Washington!, the minimum) will average $2.40. the condition of over-crowding in De-
Treason! See to it that such men ■
Napoleon Ford crushes his enemies •• ruthlessly as • flivver crushes the This is for charity cases. The cost in troit hospitals. From this fact alone
one of Our leading hospitals at the we are justified in concluding that
Innocent chicken that has the temerity to cross it path.
I present time is $1.85 a patient per more hospital facilities are required,
Zangwill may claim the distinction of being the only living Zionist, but day. This refers to institutions coin- but it does not follow that a Jewish
apparently Chaim Weiem•nn doesn't think so, if we are to judge from the'- pewit of private and ward bed pa. hospital is called for. However, I
articles appearing in the Nation of March 12. I recommend to every read, tients.
favor the idea, quite on other
These are facts and figures which grounds. Convalescence and recovery
the very interesting discussion participated in by Zangwill
I
his
and Weixmann in that journal. Zangwill devotes three pages to burying i believe should he known before re a- are hastened and encouraged by a
d before
political Zionism, while Weismann takes half the space to prove that
to sentiment
and
son Zang.
gives wee
cheerful and congenial atmosphere.
bias and immature consideration su- This very essential feeling the Jewish
will is wrong.
persedes impartial judgment.
patients cannot expect to get in hos-
Now it is Bernard Baruch who is demanding • hearing before the con.
I should like to see a fine, well man- pitals which cater to the general corn-
f one arm w ell
husetts to prove that the statement
en manned JeWish hospital in munity needs. Jewish patients have
stitution ■ l committee of M
of the senators that he made $1,000,000 in "war profits out of the "bodies the city of Detroit. If those social often impressed me with the fact that
of the soldiers" is an absolute falsehood. Baruch is one of the few public agencies that are best able to evalu- they were unhappy in the city's hos-
men who still retain the confidence of all classes. Mr. Baruch demands the ate its needs decide that it shell he pitals, which naturally cannot serve
there be an end to these "character assassins." I know nothing about the built, it will receive my hearty in- the particular needs of Jewish pa-
matter except what is carried in the daily press, but I am willing to stake dorsement. ' tients.

size, in consequence of which many handicapped in their just develop-
people needing hospital care must ment and their clientele suffers.
Question of Diet.
wait till beds are vacant in one of
The Jewish people, of whom the
the hospitals, unless they should hap-
pen to be the patients of a few doc- large majority arc Orthodox, suffer
tors with enough influence to over- for not getting the diet they desire
come that defect. A few beds are while sick, and there is 110 denying
always left vacant to take care of the fact that, while the Jewish sick
are harder to manage, they do not
certain members of the staff.
The Jewish doctors, with the ex- receive the same attention that the
ception of half a dozen or so, are non-Jew does.

my all on the integrity of "Barney" Baruch.

OPPORTUNITY FOR HOSPITAL
SHORTAGE OF 1,500 BEDS
I am sure that every Jewish community will be interested in • detail or
In.
By Dr. Bernhard Friedlaender.
By Dr. H. C. Sal
two concernipg the new $4,000,000 Beth Israel Hospital now nearing com-
pletion in Brooklyn, reference to which appears in the Brooklyn Jewish I
Trere is a crying need for more
I think Mr. Goldsmith is correct in
Chronicle. Jewish dietary laws will be strictly maintained. There will
be 500 beds; each patient will have • room. This is interesting: the build• hospital accommodation in this city. his description of the under-hospital-
ing will contain a synagogue and • microphone will convey the services to I We are about 1,500 beds short for ization of Detroit. I think there is an
the bedridden patients. Every mother will be in d in this innovates.: I normal times and during an epidemic opportunity for another hospital in
in the hid n's ward glass partitions will be erected so that mothers who I wt• would be about 3,000 beds short. this city, and no group feels the need
look upon them wthout danger
The average Jew, with his tradi- as acutely as does the Jewish group.
cannot have their children in their arms may
of contagion. The hospital is to be conducted on the lacto•yegeteian basis, tions, his peculiar psychology and his
NECESSARY AND BENEFICIAL
and no meats will be used. I am quite sure when this hospital is completed inclination to functional neuroses,
that communal workers from every part of the United States will journey needs a hospital. We physicians who
By Dr. Willard D. Mayer.
come in steady contact with this class
there for new ideas in hospital building and administration.

of cases know how slowly the Jew
In reply to your letter of March 1,
will accommodate himself to his sur-
roundings. My statistics show that wish to state that in view of a more
or
less constant congestion of the
his recovery, leaving all other factors
aside, is slower than the average re- various Detroit hospitals, I believe
covery of his more fortunate Chris- that a Jewish hospital is necessary
tian brother. One cannot commence and would indeed be highly beneficial.
I think that the interest of The
to educate the Jew as to diet, tradi-
, tions, etc., on his sick bed. In other Detroit Jewish Chronicle in this im-
words, we must accommodate the portant problem is to be commended.
surroundings to the patient and not
NEED IS SELF-EVIDENT
the patient to the surroundings. Only
states, was prepared to establish as
a Jewish hospital can serve this pur-
By. Dr. 3. Kahn.
soon as possible a national represent- pose. Like all other hospitals in thin
ative government in Palestine with city, a Jewish hospital must be non-
The need for a Jewish hospital in
the largest possible measure of inde-
sectarian.
this community is to self-evident that
pendence for the Arabs, meantime
Clinic Most be Adjunct.
, any comment on my part on the sub-
safeguarding the interests of the
The free clinic is another very im- lject would be superfluous. .
Zionists in accordance with the White
p ortant adjunct to • hospital. No
P aper.
clinic can exist and do satisfactory
DOCTORS ARE HANDICAPPED
Palestine Arabs, King Hussein's scientific work unless it is a part of
representative has said, were pre- a hospital. What explanation can
By Dr. Edward J. Brimstone.
pared to accept the treaty and Na- the Jewish Charities offer for the 40
jiassil says that he has reason to be- per cent of Jewish patients who fre-
On a number of occasions I ap-
lieve that the Zionists were also ready quent my free clinic in the Woman's peared before Pisgah Lodge in the
to accept the plan. Najiassil reports Hospital? Why don't they go to the interest of a Jewish hospital. Com-
events in Amman as surprising and Jewish clinic? The Jewish clinic is mittees were appointed to look into
ascribes them to the fact that the receiving the money for these pa - the matter, but there were unfor-
dispatch containing the treaty never tients from the Community Fund . tunate hitches, which prevented ac-
reached King Hussein, to whom the The answer is that the Jewish clinic tion, though the committees were
present situation is most embarrass - has no direct hospital connection a convinced of the urgent need for
ing.
I and, as Samuel Goldsmith pointed each an institution.
I showed at these meetings that
The treaty had neither been signed out in his report, the clinic does no
1,000 beds below the mini-
r
nor definitely agreed to by eithe and cannot do satisfactory work un - [ Detroit is
der these circumstances. I am for - mum req_iremente for a city of its
Britain
or
Hussein.
Great

I know the connection is not easy to see, but there is a definite one just
the same between the idea of religion and right livnig of the Lord's Day
Alliance as expressed in its Blue Law crusades sad the lack of character in
the administration of public office. This may sound as senseless as • code
message sent to McLean in Florida, but there is • great deal of sense to it
just the same. When religion is expressed in such terms • the Ku Klux
Klan, Billy Sunday, Rev. Dr. Bowlby, Rev. Dr. John Straton, the M ,
Henry Ford and Zion, Ill., the wonder is that we are getting along even as

well as we are.

BRITAIN HEDJAS PACT
IS LOST IN TRANSIT

LONDON.-- (3. T. A.) — An un-
signed draft of n treaty between King
Hussein of iiedjat and the British
government has been lost somew' , ere
in transit between London and the
Arabian Peninsula, according to a
statement given to Reuters by Na-
Dann, representative of Hussein in
London.
Najiassil informed Reuters that he
had submitted to the British govern-
ment three months ago a plan for a
treaty with Ilussein, which the gov-
ernment had accepted in principle.
According to the plan presented,
Britain agreed to recognize and sup-
port the Arabs in their efforts to ob-
tain the independence of not only
Irak and Transjordania but the whole
peninsula. Great Britain, Najiassil

There is not a city in this country
of one-tbird the size of Detroit which
has not at. least one Jewish hospital.
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago,
Boston and Baltimore have Jewish
hospitals.
The Maimonides Medical Society,
with a roster of over 70 Jewish doc-
tors, is a unit in favor of the hos-
pital and will lend every aid to push
it as a public need.

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in their financial relations.

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