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Circuit Court Judge Merriam! JEWS
61MIWIR ■ Ile
Endorsed By Bar Leaders
and Business Men.
VOTE FOR
OF CHINA, LONG ESTRANGED
FROM BRETHREN, TO RECEIVE AID
a strict observance of
If a movement now on foot among delity, and
wealthy Jews in Shanghai, China, their religion."
A Chinese-Jewish inscription of the
backed by influential support in the
United States, is successful, Jewish same date says: "Our religion came
colonies in China that have been vi r. originally from Tien-tchou"—or, it
believed by modern scholars, India.
tually cut off from the Western World is
for more than a thousand years will This is thought to refer to a renewed
from India which
1, 22,110. t ItatiN trirs.
again be brought in touch with the migration of Jews
may have taken place about the tenth
main body of the Jewish people.
The efforts now being made are the century. The ancient Chinese name
Kiu
— FOR —
latest of several extending over a per- for these newcomers was "Tiao
detail of
iod of more than three-quarters of a Kiaou," which refers to a
of
pre-
century. The present hope of success the traditional Jewish manner
Of Congregation Shaarey Zed ek.
rests on an increased knowledge of paring meat for human consumption.
the history and traditions of the There seem to have been a number
Most beautiful well kept Jewish Cemetery in the city. Family plots
Chinese Jews, better organization of Chinese-Jewish communities, but
ranging from four to twelve graven can be purchased by the Jewish ,
and more adequate financial backing. the most important of these was the
community at reasonable prices.
Facts that have gradually come to one at Kai-Fung-Fu in the Province
In Case of Bereavement Call
light reveal an amaring story of small of Ronan. llere they not only work-
For Information Call
I.. KATZER, 589 East Kirby
D. S. ZEMON, 818 Virginia Park
communities of these exiles clinging ed as farmers, merchants and occas-
Norther.), 2496
Empire 8040
to their ancient rites and practices tonally as bankers, but manufactured
J. H. EHRLICH, 5593 Second Blvd.
Northers), 0552
through generations inthe very heart a particular kind of silk fabric that
Present Incumbent.
I. SAMSON, 300 Ease Hancock
I. SAULSON, 300 East Hancock
of Chinese civilization. was well known in that part of China.
G'endale 3982
Glendale 3982
Intermarried With Chine...
The present revival is due in large
of Rai-
Adolph
S.
Oko,
librarian
of
For
a
long
time
the
Jews
part to
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Primaries Sept. 9, 1924
the Hebrew Union College, of Cincin- Fung-Fu clung to their religious and
Republican Ticket.
nati, who recently brought from Eur- racial customs tenaciously, although
ope a collection of fifty-nine menu- they adopted the queue and the Chin-
He Is a Capable and Conscientious Judge.
scripts containing hymns, prayers and ese method of dress, and sometimes
rituals showing conclusively the con- intermarried with the Chinese. They
nection between the Jews of ancient built a famous temple of which ac-
and medieval China and those of the curate descriptions have been pre-
GEORGE B.
Western World. served and whose ruins may be re-
These manuscripts, Written on stored if the present campaign suc-
WILLIAM R.
JUDGE DE WITT H. MERRIAM
paper folded into the form of fans, ceeds. This building, according to
dorsed by the leaders of the legal pro- are partly in Chinese and partly in the records, was a characteristic mix-
fession and the business world.
an ancient Jewish-Persian dialect, in- tare of the Ilebraic and the Chinese.
The Chinese influence showed itself
From 1915 to 1018,Judge Merriam Meeting
,
First District
that they were originally
served as assistant prosecuting attor- composed by emigrants from the long- in many other ways, for instance, in
ma W.A. AM of W.thrurd
ney, appearing daily as trial lawyer in established Hebrew settlements in ancestor worship. , The Chinese writ-
REPUBLICAN
the courts of Judges William F. Con. Persia. According to a writer in The ers, however, were fond of pointing
molly and Edward J. Jeffries. In his American Hebrew, they "constitute out that the Jewish religion was not
at all at variance with Confucianism.
work as an attorneyfor the state,
noted engineer.
all the manuscripts known to have
Judge Merriam handled the prosecu• been written by Jews living in Perhaps this was the polite Orien-
tiers in the greater number of impor- China." They were collected during tal manner of minimizing religious
Harvard University, A. B.
A successful business man
tent criminal cases tried in the Re- the middle of the last century by differences among the subjects of the
empire.
corder's Court.
missionaries sent to China by an
Boston University, LL.B.
The
next
distinct
reference
to
the
In the fall of 1918, Judge Merriam English society, which hoped to con-
Ilea served his city as
Chinese Jews after the account given
resigned as assistant prosecuting at- vert their owners to Christianity.
Fifteen Years Practice in Courts
by Marco Polo was that made by the
lighting commissioner,
torney to take over the office of gener-
Origin of Settlement in Doubt.
Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth
Primaries, Sept. 9,1924
al attorney for the United States
Belle Isle bridge com-
The origin of the Jewish settle• century. The Jews had by this time
railroad administration. He served
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lost
all
trace
of
their
origin,
although
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missioner and city plan
in this capacity until 1921, when he ments in China, as well as their prob-
able date, is a matter of doubt among they still adhered to the customs and
resigned.
commissioner.
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In August, 1923, he was appointed scholars. One theory advanced is observances handed down from father \\‘.1 ■ \\1•1
by Governor Alex J. Groesbeck to his that a part of the Jewish people who to son for many generations. One 10
of
them,
hearing
that
the
Jisuits
Ile served his country
present position as judge of the third were carried into captivity in Baby-
on in the seventh century B. C. grad- taught. belief in a single deity, canal/
:
judicial circuit, Wayne county.
overseas — 13 months
the belief
At the recent Detroit Bar primary, wally made their way eastward in- to the Jesuit Father Ricci in
with the American air-
stead
of returning to Jerusalem when that both were members of the same
held by the lawyers of Wayne county
for the purpose of expressing what the city was restored to them by Cy- faith. The Jesuit missionaries, and
plane forces.
they think of the candidates for cir- rus, King of Persia, in the sixth cen- later those of the Protestant faith,
attempted to convert the Chinese
cult judge and to enlighten the gen- tury B. C There is little or no di•
oral public, Judge Merriam was very rect evidence to back this up, ab Jews to Christianity, but apparently
Ile will serve his district
there
without
success.
though
in
the
writings
of
Isaiah
10
highly endorsed--in fact of the
ably in congress.
The attempt leading to the collec- 0
prominent
lawyers and judges who 'a a reference to the "land of Sinim,"
of DETROIT
ro
were candidates he received the sec- which is thought by some Old Testa- lion of the documents now in the pos.
ment commentators to mean China. 'session of Mr. Oko was made in 1849.
Republican
Candidate for
and
highest
vote.
Republican Ticket
If this supposition were correct, it According. to the reports made by rids-
Primary Bept. 9
would indicate that the Jews as far sionaries at that time, the Jewish col- •
RE WILL
as the eighth century B. C. ony at Kai-Iung-Fu then consiste
WOULD CO-ORDINATE back
"of a few Jewish families, sunk in
knew about the Chinese.
COLONIZING EFFORT Another theory is that the Jews the lowest poverty and destitution,
num- their religiion scarcely more than a
way
in
considerable
made
their
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name, and yet sufficient to separate
European Workers Federate Agencies hers to China after the destruction them from the multitude around.
of Jerusalem by the Emperor Titus
Aiding Emigration.
Not a single individual could read
in 70 A. D. It is known that very
early in the Christian era Jews were the Hebrew books; they had been
Formerly Assistant Attorney
MAURICE
without
a rabbi for fifty years.
BERLIN.—(J. T. A.)—A central living not only in Persia but in India.
General of Michigan
The best testimony on the subject, The synagogue itself was tottering in
federation for regulating Jewish end-
gration and colonization is being es- however, is that of the emigrants ruins; some of the ground had been
alienated
to
pagan
rites,
and
a
por-
Assistant United States At- $
tablished here, following a series of themselves. They believed, accord-
conferences of Jewish social workers ing to their medieval writings and in- Lion of the fallen materials sold to
torney.
the
neighboring
heathen."
scriptions, that they settled in Chins
held in this city.
later reports were not quite so dis- 0
The idea which has led to the form- about the third century of the pres-
ation of the new federation is that ent era. This accords with other evi- oral, and it turned out that the "fam• A
PRIM ARY SEPTEMBER 9, 1924
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
with the closing of the countries to dears which historians consider trust- Hies" meant people of the same name
0
rather
than
merely
of
the
same
house-
5
4
immigration, it is necessary first to worthy.
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The weight of this evidence seems hold, so that the Jewish population & a\1 ■■■■■■••■■ la■
ensure a place of colonization before
might
be
a
few
thousand
rather
than
the emigrants leave the countries in to show that the Jews worked their
which they are domiciled. way eastward, sometimes under pres- a few hundred. But the Jews were
A report on the situation was made sure of religious and racial persecu- intermarrying with the Chinese; some
GIVE WAYNE COUNTY A CHANCE
by Dr. A. Singslowsky and it was de- tions, such as took place in Persia of them had taken up other faiths
Primaries September 9.
cited to establish a society for elm- as early as the first century, and than their own (one even becoming
gration and colonization the aim of sometimes in the role of trailers seek- a Buddhist priest) and it was thought
JOHN A.
i
which should be the opening up of ing new markets. The Romans call- that they would soon disappear in the
new immigration possibilities for that ed the Chinese by a name meaning great mass of native Chinese.
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Movement. to Save Them.
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section of the Jewish population of " s ilk men," and the Jews of Persia,
Movements to prevent this threat-
Eastern Europe which must emigrate. and, perhaps also of the Roman Em-
The society will strive to influence pire, were silk merchants of a very ,efled obliteration were started among
all other organizations which are ac- early date. It is thought probable 1 Occidental Jews in 1856, in 1864 and,
tive in the fields of emigration and that they followed the caravansI more recently, in 1900. If the Chinese
Republican Candidate for
through Central Asia, or went by sea Jews could be put in communicatio.i
colonization.
to India, and thence made their way with their more advanced brothers it
into the silk-producing regions of was thought that much could be done
for them both culturally and econom-
Hoffman Refers to Crowded China m
.
ically. A similar movement among
arca Polo Found Thom.
Condition of Jail As
For a time these wanderers prob.. Jews of Abyssinia, who had also been
FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT
ably kept in touch with members of isolated for many generations, has
Public Scandal.
includes cities of lIamtramck, High-
their race in the Western World. been notably successful, and 100,000
of them are said to have come under
land Park and 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th,
LET'S MAKE
Louis J. Hoffman, candidate for the Then, as the Occidental Jews became Western influences as a result.
19th and 21st Wards, Detroit. Vil-
Republican nomination for aheriff, has scattered the ancient trade routes
The problem in China is more dif-
Sheriff
fell
into
partial
disuse,
they
were
cut
Crosse
lages of Gnome Pointe,
challenged the efficiency of
ficult because the Jews of China are
off
and.
forgotten.
They
were
not
Walters because of the overcrowded again brought to the attention of the fewer in number, are more widely
Pointe Park, Grosse Pointe Farms,
condition of the county jail. Hoffman Occident, no far is . is known, until scattered and have been less aware
Grosse Pointe Shores, Redford,
declares that jail conditions, which
of their far-reaching racial relation-
Northville, Plymouth, Brightmoor.
amount almost to a public scandal and Marco Polo found and mentioned ships.
them in his famous travels. toward
Townships of Grosse Pointe, Gra-
which have been condemned by the the end of the thirteenth century. Po-
They cling to their traditional
jail examiners, could have been avoid•
customs and observances because
tiot, Hamtramck, Greenfield, North-
ed had the sheriff co-operated with the lo, said that the
Tartar
Emperor,
their
fathers
did
so
before
them,"
ville, Plymouth, Livonia, Redford.
7-a , model of religious
county supervisors and the auditors. Kubla
Khan.
tolerance--honored the religious. tea• said one New York Jew in discussing
Primaries Sept. 9, 1924.
A new jail is an imperative need, he , • tivals not only of the Mohammedans the subject. "It is doubtful if many
declares.
and Buddhists but also of the Chris- of them realize the significance of 11'
Wayne county, the richest county in liens and the Jews, making no dis- what they are doing."
the United States, has the lowest unction among them. This i.9 held
Whether the Chinese colonies—if
amount of outsanding bonds of any to show that the Jews must have been they can still be called that—can be
county of its class, says Hoffman. It
rehabilitated is a question of deep
VOTE FOR
easily could provide a new jail. He is fairly
and highly of
esteemed.
A numerous
Chinese inscription
the year interest to Jews all over the world..
satisfied that the supervisors and 1489 bears out this conclusion. "They
auditors would approve such a build- . excel in agriculture, in merchandise,
IL I. Cohen was named Minister ;
ing if the matter was taken up earn- in magistracies and in warfare and for Works and Mines in the govern-
estly.
are highly esteemed for integrity, fi- went of Victoria, Australia.
The United Stales Government has
no prison nearer than Leavenworth
and Atlanta and could he induced to
CANDIDATE FOR
buy or lease the present says
REPUBLICAN. PRIMARY, SEPTEMBER 9th
Hoffman, thus aiding the county in
RETURN
the cost of a new bastile.
Judge DeWitt II. Iderriam, of the
Wayne County Circuit Court, who is
a candidate to succeed himself at the
primary election Sept. 9, has been en-
Judge Ernest P. laJoie
n'TR,
CLOVER HILL PARK CEMETERY
Circuit Court
Judge
ELECT
MURPHY
' KALES for CONGRESS
CIRCUIT JUDGE
Leonard S. 0
COYNE
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Lieutenant
Governor
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STATE REPRESENTATIVE
REYNOLDS
Sibley For Prosecutor •
STATE SENATOR
Wayne County
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Criminals
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FRANK C. SIBLEY
W. McKAY
SIC illffian
Republican Candidate for
State Senator
Wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Since 1921.
Primaries September 9, 1924.
Barnard
Circuit Judge
of
Judge Guy A.
MILLER
TO THE
Republican Primaries
Sept. 9, 1924
CIRCUIT COURT
Present Incumbent
WilliamJ.Shea
Wayne County
Bas been endorsed by many of the leading Jews of Detroit. These
men think Mr. Barnard well fitted for the office he seeks and are
doing all they can to further his candidacy. Mr. Barnard's promise
to bring to the Circuit Bench the same energy and knowledge he has
given to his own private practice appeals to the thinking man and
woman, for Mr. Barnard is one of the most successful lawyers in
Michigan and on the bench he should prove himself equally as com-
petent a judge as he is a lawyer. The following gentlemen have
indoser Mr. Barnard for Circuit Judge:
Elmer H. Chri•ta
D. Oppenheirn
H. J. Brachr ■ n
Nate S. Shapero
Robert S. Striefling
Sidney Hart
Dr. A. Carlstein
E. C. Frank
Abram S•piro
Abraham Bennett
Maxwell D. Solovich
Harry Bennett
Irwin I. Cohen
Fearless Enemy of the Ka Klux Klan
and Parochial School Amendment.
Prim
Sept. 9, 1924.
Herman P. Cohen
Herman C. Mumovich
Nathan A. P•rcim
Dr. M. Rattner
Daniel Lewis
Nathan S. Shellfish
Harry H. Becker
Solomon Leek
Henry Velick
mnnwimagssrwellIMMMI
dmy for Election to the
COUNCIL
Theodore Lewin
Akin E. Schreiber
bidor H. Slesinger
Meyer Perlman
Julius Berman
Henry Friedman
Wilford L. Goldman
Meyer Stone
Dr. H. W. Goldstick
Vote for Edward N. Barnard Primary Day, Tuesday, September 9.
Solicits Your Support in His C•ndi•
Indorsed and Recommended By
Aaron A. Silberblatt
Harry S. Scheinrnan
Dr. Hilliard W. Goldstick
Roland W. Fixel
Nathaniel H. Goldstick David M. Welling
Herman H. Greenberg Dr. Charles A. Smith
Edward N.
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