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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1924-08-22

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A mericait lavish periodical Coffer

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PLANS CITIZENSHI P
otfpfivr, WORK AMONG JEWS'

him of his conversion to Christianity:
"2 Observatory Gardens,
"Campeten Hill, London.
"St c. ,I. It a o bb ote r r,t t r. s: i e c r,

"Vienna II.
"Dear Sir:—In view of the decision
wh ich you have to make regarding
the publication of my English trans-
lotion of my father's diaries, I take
Foreign Born to Secure
the liberty to inform you of my pass-
.
Br Chas. H. Jminsa.)
Karywrislit, ttat.
Naturalization.
ing over to Christianity, which oc-
.
, curred recently.
The other day James Coed, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of
e
NEW
YORK.—The
largest
Jewish:
"I would consider it as unjust were
St. Petersburg, in a speech before the Kiwanis Club, is reported in the daily 1
press to have said that "the future of St. Petersburg depends on the elute- , fraternal order in the United States, • I to withhold from you a fact which
sion of foreigners and Jews." Mr. Cowl, the distinguished American the Independent Order of B'rith Ab. might be of great weight in your de-
(though if he were put to the test I question whether he could properly raham, with national headquarters at vision. I am, dear sir,
"Yours faithfully,
define Americanism), explained his statement by saying:
37 Seventh street, this city, an-,
rounced that through the activity of
"BANS HERZI.."
"I was speaking as an individual and not for the Chamber of Corn-
Congressman Nathan D. Perlman the
Father Schlessinger, the apostate
pierce, buhl hope the Chamber will back me up. I believe the influx
' order would begin on Sept. 2 a drive
to prepare for citizenship every for. miest who baptized Hans IlerH, left
of foreigners here, and I class Jews as foreigners, is detrimental to
„ ign-born Jew in the country. Th e Vienna for Bavaria. it was learned by
the city and would tend to produce slums and destroy that neighborly
elan has the support of Secretary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency retire-
feeling that is now an asset here. I know many Jewish families plan
Labor James J. Davis. A night and sentative when he called at the Do-
to come here in the fall and that two Jews will come here to enter
day school for men and women will mini•an Church, with which &hies-
the real estate business,"
"
be conducted and every effort will be singer is connected, for the purpose
•.

of finding out the details of Ilerzl's
made to speed up the naturalization , conversion to Catholicism. The monks
I don't know the sort of Chamber of Commerce St. Petersburg, Fla., has,
but if it is to be judged by the ignoramus who advertises himself as its court proceedings.
in charge of the Dominican Monas-
Congressman Perlman, who was! ' terj would not admit the representa.
secretary, then it is open to improvement. I use the term "ignoramus"
advisedly, for any mein with the slightest pretension to intelligence who named head of a commute to take up' tine into the building, stetting that no
a
t'
s
th
e
n
d
th
party the matter of the lack of instruction
lessens that "Jews are foreigners" is a Know Nothing a
he logically belongs to. The Jews who are either native born Americans facilities for Jews who seek citizen- Jew is permitted • to • meter.

or who have become naturalized citizens are no more "foreign" than Mr. ship, has reported on his plan to •
('oad himself, unless he grew like Topsy in some mysterious way before Adolph Stern, grand master of the CONFIRMS BAPTISM;
RESENTS
PUBLICITY
C ol um bus discovered this country. It is a pity that such loose-tongued and order. Max L. Hollander, secretary
loose-thinking men are permitted to break into newspapers with their im- of the order, has volunteered his sere-
LONDON.—(J. T. A.)—A letter
becile talk, because they happen to be attached in some perfunctory capacity ices with those of the entire clerical from Hans lierzt confirming his con-
staff
'version to Christianity, but denying
to a local business organization.
,„
Women Must Be Naturalized.
ether details, appeared in Saturday's
It was pointed out that women London Daily Telegraph. The letter
Well, John W. Davis made his speech of acceptance the otit'r day, and
,.
outspo
en
position
whose
husbands
became
citizens
after
reads
as follows:
an
Samuel Untermyer said that if he failed to take
"In view of the statement about
against the Klan he would leave the Democratic party, or at least would , September, 1922, must make sepa-
not support Davis. Mr. Davis diet not mention the Klan, so I am patiently "ate application for naturalization. myself to which you gaze publicity
' Under the (:ieble law the wines of citi. last Tuesday, allow me to say that
waiting for the expected announcement from Mr. Untermyer.
xens admitted after September, 1922, while it is true that I was baptized
In a letter written to his sister-in-law, Archie Butt writes most inter- to not enjoy the privileges accorded into the Christian church on July 20
estingly on the subject of cabinet officers. He takes occasion to mention!their husbands and remain aliens in in Vienna, report of the Jewish Tele-
' the eyes of the government.
graphic Agency is in no other ear-
that Roosevelt had said to him that:
1 The Independent Order B'rith Ab- ocular correct.
, raham has more than 150 e- 0 0 o - mem -
"Thanking you in advance for any
'Meyer, Garfield and Straus (04) are ideal cabinet officers
'bets. The schools and classes will courtesy which you may show these
for me. They keep up the routine, and when it is a matter of na-
constitute
a
forum,
and
for
citizens
lines,
I am, sir, yours obediently,
tional or international policy they promptly bring it up to use for a
who wish further light on American
" BANS HERZL."
decision with a clear-cut recommendation."
government and civic problems lac-
,
Hans
Herz' in a conversation with
..
-----•°'` tures will be given by qualified in- t h
o
e representative
of the Jewish Tele-
3
Business men in particular will be interested in this criticism by tructors.
ilF, Cabinet is Jacobean, in dark, rich ,
, graphic Agency here stalest: "I was'
Roosevelt:
Congressman Perlman, who is not important to Jewry till now.
baronial oak, hand-carved — truly a
.
hmitt
chairman of the
coni -. e on intellec-
ec-
ewry
never
interested
itself
in
my
J
)eautiful piece of work.
"I have been criticised for shifting and changing my cabinet so
•tual advancen4ent, said that the pease, affairs. why resent now and pry into

often, but I do it with a purpose. Just as soon as a Secretary of the
Arm ('hair is of hand-carved walnut cov-
Was the first step along educational my private life?"
Exterior' Painting
Navy, or Interior or any other department gets rusty, or else settles
lines to be carried out in every lodge
Hans,
who
resented
strongly
the
ered
with
needlepoint
tapestry
in a large,

Interior Decorating
down to ease and comfort, I transfer him to some other department
in the country.
, publicity given to his conversion, re-
colorful figure as befits a chair so stately.

,
which needs bolstering up. I have not hesitated to drop cabinet
fused to make any other statement
Wall Papers •
officers when I found them inefficient, even though my affections for
The other chair pictured is of wonder.
than to admit that he was baptized.
Exquisite Furniture
them urged me to retain them. it is easy to put one's personal affee-
HERZL'S ONLY SON
"This is my private concern and I am
fully hand-carved walnut—one of the finest
of all periods .
lions for men above the public service."
angry with Robert Stricker be-
examples of carving we have ever shown.
BECOMES CONVERT ' really
:: —
0
cause of his making public my pri-
Seat hay be covered to suit.
'
Upholstering
Now that "Doe" Evans is willing to admit Jews who are ex-service men
letter, which should never have
TO CHRISTIANITY , rata
to the Klan, he might go a step farther and admit men like Adolph Sloman
been brought beyond his privacy. I
Torchieres have noted bronze column,
Draperies
of Detroit, a real estate operator, who wants only 100 per cent names for
4—
felt bound in honor to inform Mr.
filigree 'base and lop, with amber cylinder
-, Rugs and,Carpers
-
Detroit streets. Maybe the Klan's modification can go even farther, and
Stricker of nay change of religion,
(Continued from Pave 1)
and crystal apex—offering something dif-
. 'Lamps and Shades
perhaps Jews who eat 100 per cent American apple pie, washed down with : but it was intended only for him."
, ferent in lighting effects.
100 per cent American ice water, may be eligible for membership. We his two sisters, came, therefore, a s 'the correspondent of the J. T. A.
. Window Shades •
are getting on nicely, gentlemen, thank you! good deal under the mother's influ- had the impression that Hans }teal
Rare, indeed. is furniture of this charac•
Objets de' Art ,
—;;
ence 'and his father died, if I recall feels that a
injustice has been
ter and quality. Itut it is only typical of
We have all sort!' of "extractions." It is said that "the board of goy- correctly, one week before Hans' bar , done him. He isparticularly aroused
:all that found at Dean's. • Come ih and
ernors (of Rockwood Hall, Inc. a 'proposed country club on the estate of mitzvah (thirteenth birthday). Upon at the Wiener Morganzeitung, which
judge for yourself.
the late William Rockefeller) will not tolerate any one of Jewish extraction the death of her husband, Mrs. Ilerzl , published his London address and
as a member of Rockwood Hall." Former Postmaster-General Frank Hitch- felt that Zionism had made her a thus made his private dwelling place
cock, one of the organizers, refused to issue life memberships to certain widow and therefore whatever influ- unsafe against inquisitiveness.
persons who have taken a financial interest in the enterprise based on the ence she exercised upon her children
was unsympathetic to Jewish life.
reason I have quoted.
Coming under English influence, GERMAN CONSTITUTION'S
Hans Herd, I think, rid himself of
AUTHOR IS LAUDED
1227 Griswold St., between Grand, River, and State
If what Mr. Ilitcheock says is true, then I and surmised to see the names , this maternal teach ,i e ng,nd biu vtidh u e al.grew
of such men as Robert W. Chambers, Bainbridge Colby, Edward Doheny u p a Ila'OldliSig.nzo B
B individual.
Telephone M•in‘.0224
(of oil fame), Frank Munsey and Melville Stone (formerly general manager
BERLIN.—(J. T. A.) — Hugo
e Himself
of the Associated Press). If these men do not believe in the position
"I hail a long talk with him in Presuu, Jewish German political
adopted by the entire board they should resign. Most of them have played 1920. It was a painful session, in leader, author of the new constitu-
loo large a part in the affairs of men to have the sort of mind one has a that it was evident that he was en- tion of Weimar, was highly lauded At
right to expect from narrow social-idlers. I can't get over Melville Stone tirely set in ways and habits that re. the main festivals at Weimar. Lead-
.
and Eel. Doheny being mixed up with that sort of thing
fleeted nothing of his father, and a t•es of the Democrats, Socialists and
tote of mind of dull unhappiness. Centrum parties were present. A
Well, well, well. My old friend, the Dearborn Independent. I haven't ', Ile walked and talked like a man lengthy ovation was accorded to
seen you for a long, long day. The mail carrier brought this marked page twenty years my senior. He made l'reuss.
in a hermetically sealed envelope so none of the scandal fumes woulej escape. clear to me that the chief burden of
• T
Which reminds me that before I begin to quote that Sniffing Henry is now his life was that he could never be
• sniffing the breaths of Ford employes to discover whether they are to be himself; that he could take part in
classed as hootch-suspects. To me it is a puzzle hose it is possible for nothing that related to Jewish tiles
Henry to smell anything so innocent as a whisky breath, when he can hold as an individual, and the curse that
a copy of the Dearborn Independent close to his nose without discomfort. was otahins was that he existed only
--;: in the minds of men as the son of
Rabbi Kornfeld, United States Minister to Persia, is the subject of Theodor Herz). He was interested
Weary Willie Cameron's remarks. A United States consular officer. had in Palestine. but he was nervous,
been killed. Everyone knows about it, but no one knew, of course, that timid and .self-conscious. I had re-
all this Persian trouble is due to the fact that a Rabbi is the United States cently hoped, from news that I re-
Minister to Persia. No one, of course, except the gallant crew' of the pirate ceived, that he, had probably gotten
ship, the Dearborn Independent. S-,s-s-h! Don't make a sound. Are the into a better Mood when I was in.
keyholes stuffed? Take no chances, boys; turn out the lights. Come closer. formed that he went to Vienna to
translate hiri father's diary into Eng-
hob .
"Mr. Kornfeld is, by the way, worth recalling. His full title is
"I would assume from what I know
Rabbi Kornfeld. (11a! Ila! The plot thickens, my lads.) He is a
of him that baptism represents no re-
Hungarian Jew' who came to Columbus, Ohio, in 1907, and was an-
ligious conviction, but merely an at-
pointed United States Minister to Persia 14 years later, in 1921. The
.. .
tempt to escape the depressing
dates are worth noticing."
thought that the world treats him as
•:
It takes millions of dollars of new capital ' ' ea'rningS will riot result if the rates should .'
So, my dear Cameron, you are an astrologer. You deal in dates an•I the son of a great man—the one
each year to keep pace with Dctroit's in- . prevail which were'containedln the 1893
signs. I give up. What's the answer? Dear reader, watch the dates closely. thing that he cannot escape, for
The closer you look, the less you see. You will notice that they are 14 years there would be no news value in the
ordinance which expired OctOber.31, last. : ,,
. creasing requirements in gas mains and
apart. The secret's out. Now we know why the United States consular report of the baptism of Hans Herz',
.
.
agent was killed. The dates are 14 years apart and the American minister if Hans llerzl were not the son of

equiPment.
We are spending these ,huge sums (over .
is a rabbi who came from Hungary 14 years ago. Now what could be easier Theodor Ilerzl, who regarded the
, 0
.
.
than that? I tell you if they ever harness the brains in that newspaper conversion of a Jew as the supreme
$2,500,000 already spent this year), because, '
Last year this cost was approximately $2,-
office they wouldn't have enough power to run a Ford car. failure in the attempt to achieve as-
similation."
-- ••
.500,000. 100 miles of new mains were . laid ' ' we have faith in getting. 'Square Deal"
. • • •
Edmund Vance Cooke is one of the hest American poets. Many pleasant
-
and gas service was extended to over 25,000 . from the people of this • city.
. . .
hours have I spent with him. lie talks and recites as well as he writes. ZANCWILL SEES MENACE OF
.
.
.
-
Mothers looking for poetry that will interest the child as well as grown-ups
,
homes.
or three NON-SPIRITUAL ZIONISM
After months of study the present gas rates
should take a Cooke's tour through Rhymeland. It has been two
. .
I
LONDON.—(J. T. A.)—"The son
years since last I heard of him, until the other day in looking through the
F:xtenuations," and of the Conservative ex-Premier of
of
This year another 100 miles or more of- . were recommended by a Board . of At•bitra-
Nation I saw a page of his titled "From the Book
the one captioned "Moses" appealed sufficiently to pass it on to the Random England, Baldwin, is a Labor candi-
mains will be laid, and another 25,000 fami- .,. tin a4, the lowest .ptissible 'rates' on which
date; the son of Dr. Theodor Herz],
Thoughts readers.
an apostate," stated Israel Zangwill
lies will enjoy the comfort mid .eonvenience .. we could be expected to serve your gas re-
when
asked
for
his
opinion
on
the

"No pyramid was budded of the groans
of gas service and this, together with. the quirernents. • . ,
conversion of Hans Herzl to Chris-
Of driven slaves to glorify my bones.
tianity. "Ilerzl's son has recognized
.
necessary additions to gas plant equipment • -
No golden chamber and no jeweled shrine
that Palestine does not offer now the
Houses the dwelling-place which once was mine,
will cost well over five millions of dollars. • • The' members of the Board of Arbitration
solution for the Jewish quest-ion; he
No lash drove labor to a dreary doom
. . ' were • Judge 13; J. M. Bally, Ch.a. irman;
may launch a rival solution, conver-
. .
That I might shrivel in a vaulted tomb.
sion of the Jews en masse," Zangwill
All this was taken•into consideration When • - Judge Frank. Murphy', lif.. B.' May6, Chief

declared.
"Thus did the Pharaohs, who held my tribe.
' "The Zionism which now prevails
the Board of Arbitration recommended the ' Engineer Ford Motor Co. and Ex-General
And flaw their treasure-tombs become a bribe
'n Palestine being merely racial, its
To itching, alien fingers. which have stripped
present gas rates.. • To raise the necessary . , Manager Dept. Street Railways: Frank, Ii.
I -elapsed university purely scientific,
Corpses of its coffin, coffin of its crypt.
Police Commissioner; Orla B. Tay.:
t cannot, exclude Christians more

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Fraternal Order Would Help

lf,

Masterpieces of Furniture
Craftsmanship

fr

it

at Surprisingly Moderate Prices

T

,TKE HARRYJ. REAM

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MILLIONS FOR
GREATER GAS SERVICE

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hart it excludes free-thinkers," Zang-
"But I, beyond the loots of love or hate,
' will added.
I have no sepulcher to violate!
See. Hand of Church.
,
Yet, bounded by no metes or time or place,
That the conversion of Mans. Berri
Welded of my own will and Yahveh's grace,
to Catholicism is nothing less than a
• Behold my cenotaph, thghosen Race!"
tart of the intriguing of the Roman
that as a subject for a sermon. using possibly Catholic church against the re-build-
Some rabbi could use
nig of Palestine as a Jewish home-
some such appealing and popular title as "Moses and King Tut."
land was the opinion expreaed by the
Dr. }feebler, Protestant pastor
IN. 0. Saunders, writing in Collier's on the subject "Why I am Not a ' Rev.
-end life-long friend of Dr. Theodor
Church Member," takes occasion r to say :
Ilerzl.
, Dr. Ilechler was one of the feu,
p "Neither could I understand why Christians held Jews in such
Oral non-Jewish adherents of Dr. •
-contempt when they had accented a Jewish Bible and worshipped a
llerzl, helped him in his work of. ee-
God who had called the Jews His Chosen People."
tablishing the first diplomatic con-
,
savior a sections and was instrumental in in-
their
But that isn't all, Mr. Saunders. They have Accented as
Jew, and possibly you are not aware of the expression frequently heard, :reducing Dr. Herzl to the German
"Some Christians have made of one Jew a God and of all other Jews, devils." Kaiser.
"I am extremely shocked," de-
to Catholicism. This it"m has ;hocked dared Dr. Ilechler, "and cannot on-
converted
son has become
not Herzl's
only Zionists
but • great many other Jews as well. No one ever be- lerstand how Hans, the son of my
lieved that the son of the founder of the Zionist movement Would have left 'riend Dr. Herzl, could lend himself
the faith of his father. The explanation given by Jacob de Haas. who at o such an act. The Roman Catholic
secretarial capacity, tries "laurel' has always been intriguing
one time was associated with Theodor Herzl in a
Zionism."
to expl ai n the phenomenon by saying that young Ilerzl was weary of being I . •ainst
Jewish leader and wished to detach himself' Dr. Hechler's adherence to Zionism
known as the son of a great
of his father is that he could work out his own Ia, as he himself put it, a part of his
from the faith and fame
Protestant belief. In his conception,
career.
I he restoration of the Jews in pales-
"preliminary step for
strangest reason I have ever heard for a man i tine is to be a
That is just about the
religion. And the reason doesn't increase one's re- he second corning of the Messiah."
turning his back on Ma
son. But the interesting and significant part of Hechler is 87 years • of age.

do
spect for the mind of the
the whole business is that he was converted to Catholicism by another con. I
vetted Jew, a priest by the name of Schlesinger. The consensus of opinion AOTIFIES STRICKER
by those in a position to be well informed is that young Herz] apparently 'W HIS CONVERSION
brooded on the fart that he could never be himself but only the son of his VIENNA.—(J. T. Al—The fot-
father. This became an obsession until finally, probably under the influence lowing Is the letter of Hans Herzl
that
o( the converted Jew Schlesinger, he was persuaded to cut the ties
_ant to Robert Stricker informing
bound 'him to his people.

money for these much needed extfpsions Croul,
now, and in the future, we must sluliv rea- , , tor, Director. Wayne County and Home
Savings Bank. - ,
sonable earnings from oper,ations. . These

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The following quotation is take' n . front their report:
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"From the standpoint of the public we. are' faced with two
o
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problems
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Meet the requirements of the
rice that wohld not be hur•
to the
commensurate
with
-ille
he
and
which
would
densome
, cost of supplying it
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k .-
f user:.
various 'CI
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"(1) A continuation of to supply of Ia. si4cient 16
•,. domestic,
business .s4 indsistrial 'users of the city at •



• fair return on
"(2) Fixing the price in an. amount sufficient to Live the company
sery mosey to meet
t
its iffiestment, Ind no enable it in tho funsro to p
ekpanding
community.'
These
are very m••
:ad
the needs of ,• constantly growing
interested he the
terial, anti the nmssiiy of ma•ting them mead appeakito all Mho are
continuous growth of our community.
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"We Offer this reports one which trees. each class fairly, and give. to tins Company
the necomry revenue to maintain and operate its pleat, and provide • fair return on
the capital invested and employed for this service in this community. ANYTHING
LESS THAN THIS WOULD BE AS UNFAIR AS ANYTHING MORE WOULD RE-
SULT IN AN INJUSTICE TO ALL.

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