L PAGE THIRTY-EIGHT OEMBOR PIDERAL PIEVEFROMANISII RESERvE SYSTEM Billikopf Closes Steuer Incident MAKES APPEAL FOR DENVER SANATORIUM An Open Letter to Max D. Steuer. Mrs. Frances Ilellin, field secre- tary of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief society, is spending several weeks in the city in behalf of that institution. She in making a per- By JACOB BILLIKOPF. May the new year bring health, happiness and prosperity to an. Griswold-First STHE HANK Corner cristrold and Lafayette Boulevard and 17 Branches CAPITAL .5.000.U00—SuR PLUS 1 11500.00e t ' • —WORHS INCORPORATED-- 880 EAST FORT ST. DETROIT, MICH. Cherry 8451.2 The Season's Greetings. Gifford Lumber & Finish Everything for the Builder. PRICE QUALITY — SERVICE MAIN AND HUDSON STS. ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN Phone 210 Benjamin Z. Goldberg A nnounces that he is now operating the Dear 111r. Steller: strainedly the problems of the day. During 1917 and 1918, as you I venture to say that if you had well remember, I was the executive submitted to these gifted men a firistor of the American Jewish symposium on what should consti- !Relief Committee, serving with- tute constructive relief, you would out compensation; only once during have received as ninny replies as the [gist 10 years have I appeared there were individuals in the apart- before the executive comniatee of ment. Suppose you submit a . aim- the Joint Distribution Committee, ilar symposium governing the needs and in behalf of a cause of purely of New York City to the enlight- collateral interest. Consequently ened ladies and gentlemen on your I cannot be :orused of bias or ul- Federation Board? terior purpose's in presenting the Said Dr. Shabad, who, by the views which follow. way, is very bitter because money About eight or nine months after is being spent on Palestine: "Our the armistice was signed I visited greatest need is the dissemination those iw•tions in Central Europe— ■■ f medical knowledge among our Poland, Lithuania, Galicia, Latvia, Rumania, etc.—which up to that tins. had received most of the J. D. C. funds. Having lived in Missouri, I wanted "to lie shown" how effectively, if at all, the funds were spent in behalf of our un- fortunate co-religionists. To my tusk as an investigator I brought years of rich and varied experi- ence in almost every phase of Jew- ,sh and non-Jewish nodal endeavor. What did I find? While the moneys were largely spent for ele- mentary creature wants; while no "constructive work" was dole-- and it would have been the height If fully to have attempted anything constructive under the then chaotic conditions—tens of thousands of thousands of lives were literally saved through our intervention. The leaders of Polish, Lithuanian and Galician Jewry were extra- ordinarily profuse in their appre. dation of what we were doing for them. My good friend, Dr. Shabad, whom you quote, told me repeated- ly in 1919 that were it not for the presence in Poland of Dr. Boris Bogen and his group of American co-workers, the condition of our people would have been infinitely more wretched. The presence on Polish soil of Jewish social work- ers, dressed in American uniforms, had an extraordinary effect on the minds of the Polish people--officials as well as the hoi polloi. In fact, as I look back on our activities (lur- ing and after the tear, I not per- suaded that the greatest single con- tribution which we made to Central Europe was in sending American workers, who, by virtue of their strategic position, were enabled to deal with the various governments in a manner such as insured the safety of many Jewish communities. What do you suppose did Shabad, Tchernikotf, Rabbi Than of Cracow and others mean by "constructive relief" in 1919? Said Tchernikoff: "Strengthen our trade schools and you will solve our problem." But when he spoke of trade schools he meant, of course, the particular Technical School, in Vilna, of which he was the head. And Shabad said: "Why waste somuch money on soup kitchens, when you can save oar people by utilizing vacant lots for gardening purposes—thus making the people self-sustaining." Shabad had refer- ence to three or four vacant lots near Vilna on which, at most, 200 or 300 persons could be accom- modated, forgetting that on the day I arrived in Vilna, which happens to be my native town, there were literally between 25,000 and 30,000 persons who were forced to subsist on inc meal a day'--furnished by the .1. D. C, I was in Vilna again last sum- mer. My mother being a Katzenel- snbogen, a member of the famous I5 Katzenelenbogen family, the lead- ers in Vilna turned out en masse, riving me a hearty reception. With :hem I discussed freely and unre- GOCEOCROCC 000( 1 01,0-000 00-00-000-70000C*000-0-40-15-0**0000**004-0-0-00-0000Etra0416ap ,Inmrso 1LIMIL%%WAT OLVILTOMMVOLIMUMOLVMMOCTMLATLVALAVOLWMANNSTAILVAILTAWAVMAAVIi• 000000000 000000000eZcton.anzeitrzotnreosscseirecereriprec,oreorere.ors.....s.sesesoreconorsoreoes 40 Greetings 5 e May the coming year be filled with happiness and success for you and yours 00 Summerfield & Hecht 320,334 4500 Michigan Avenue Grand River Ave. Delray Store: 7925 W. Jefferson Ave. 00 00 400 00 000000 " wool ow omsevookAmocNSAAvwcyc.wcw‘Nwoetwcw.levotAswcwoc%•w4Awc.t oo-Woop00000000*****00000aelooa000-o-00000vo-o0o-000 00000 t WIMILIMWMIMOSIOINIMMIAWANSils.V.CIMMIMWSIMWMIIWOMPAICIMS% I Editor's Note :—There have been a great many statements and counter-statements since Max a Steuer, on his return from Europe, made his sensational charges against the Joint Distribution ('ommittee. Jacob Billikopf, former executive director of the American Jewish Relief Committee, is the logi- cal num to give n conclusive answer to Mr. Stever, a copy of which har been obtained by The Detroit Jewish Chronicle.) 5688 - 1927 Happy New Year to All Our Jewish Depositors and Friends. away IcIA people. The Journal of Hygiene, which I publish, re-aches 3,010 per- slaw. It ought to go into every Jewish home. If you could get us it subvention from the .1. 1). C., you would help solve the Jewish prob- lem in Poland." But his son-in-law, Dr. Ehren- reich, a lovable and brilliant Heid- elberg man, insists that the only worthwhile constructive work to be done in Poland is the maintenance if Yiddish schools and of his Jour- nal of Yiddish Philology, no that Yiddish and the Jews will not both disappear from the face of the earth. And Dr. Elutinnel of Warsaw— the notable President of a J. D. ( 1 . Foundation comprising several hundred Kansas and Co-operatives that are accomplishing great good —bitterly resents the fact that the .1. D. C. gives more money to Yid- dish than to Hebrew schools, which latter are the "Salvation" of Polish Jewry. Now, then, what were the find- ings? I was amazed at the magni- tude and character of our activi- ' . In Philadelphia, which is a pretty homogeneous and prosperous community, we spend nearly $2,- 000,000 a year in the care of our Jewish poor, If we could establish what it costs to provide for our peo- ple in private non-Jewish hospital and state institutions, we would probably have to add half to three quartsrs of a million dollars. And we in Philadelphia do nut have as much to show for that large ex- penditure as the .1. D. C. has to show in Poland alone at an expen- iture, last year, of inutile less than the above allotilit. What is true at Philadelphia also applies to Ne • York, Chicago and other commun- ities. Think of it! Nearly 15,000 orphans are being taken care of in that country alone—loony more than are to be found in all our Aniericanslewish orphanages, and at an expenditure of millions. Per- haps 700,1100 to 000,11110 .lens take advantage of the 000 or 700 Kansas and ('o-operatives throughout Po- land. In all our country we have nothing comparable to these, which you will find in every town and vil- lage in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, etc.--all planned by Her- bert II. Lehman with a group of abused American representatives abroad. If the .1. D. C. simply monied itself to the problem of child dire, supervised at this end by Dr. Sol- omon Lowenstein, and to the Co- operatives, under the !oval super- vision of Ilerbert Lehman, we would more than justify our exis- tence! that of the trade schools, prophylactic medical service, edu- cation of tens of thousands of chil- dren? Anil if thousands of dollars (a small fraction of the entire allot- ment) were spent for soup kitchens —what of that? I Was in the cities of Lodz and Ilialostock last Septem- ber. About 65 per cent of the peo- ple in these two textile towns had been out of employment for over a year. Suppose the J. D. C. had built and equipped a dozen fac- tories. There was no market for the manufactured articles. Ger- many refused to have any dealings with Poland. Russia and Poland had reachtsi an impasse—a compli- cated international tangle which the J. I). C. could not solve. The markets which Lodz and Ilialostock had enjoyed were gone. Should the J. D. C. have allowed some thirty or forty thousand Jews in Lodz, and equal number in Ilialostock, to starve? Every prominent leader I net in Poland last summer spoke with great satisfaction of our work there, not only then but during the hectic period of 1911 to 1921-22 as well. Of course, each had his own axe to grind. When I net a group of physicians, they wanted as to put up pathological laboratories. The engineers wanted us to engage in a housing scheme far more am- bitious than Ileckscher's. The pro- ponents of education wanted us to spend all our funds un the main- tenance of Yiddish or Hebrew schools. The "Nordic Jews" of Poland thought we were committing a crime by not insisting that the Polish language alone be taught. I made another discovery in Po- land. So much seas being said about Jewish Colonization in Rus- A happy New Year MRS. FRANCES HELLIN sorial appeal to the friends of the institution for subscriptions fur the maintenance of this most worthy of Jewish institutions. The Jewish Consumptives' Re- lief society was organized in 1901 to give relief and tr.:alluvia to per- sons suffering from tuberculosis in all forms and stage's. Only needy patients are admitted to this, one of the few sanatoria accepting pa- tients in the advanced stages, and probably the only one in Inc coun- tr• granting immediate entrance to emergency cases. The sanatorium has a capacity of 300 patients, and since Its es- tablishment in 1901, 5,52•J cases have been admitted for a total of 1,190,007hospital days. The pa- tients du the work on the institu- tion's grain, veg•table•, dairy and poultry farms. Recognized by all c• 'menial lead- ers its eine of the tie outstanding and worth a -bile of Jewish institu- A tions, the Jewish ('onsumptives' so- ciety is surely worthy of the hearty support of the Jews ut Detroit and of the nation. Mrs. Heflin wel- comes any opportunity to explain further the work of this organiza- WittiatItI tion. She stay he leached at the Y. W. 11. A., sit Rowena street. — A A a frightful fear-complex. They were actually frightened stiff that American Jewry might make Jew- ish colonization its Lidding, alai divert all moneys from Poland. I foul to reassure the people that Jewish Colonization iii the Ukraine and ('rimes was only one of the many features of our large and cumplicuted program. Ilad you had this slant you would hate bad en altogether different picture of the situation. The Jew- ish social workers in Central Eur- ope, particularly Poland, who are administering our funds under the dilection of Dr. Bernard Kahn of developed another psychosis. They were under the impression that the J. D. r. proposed to sup- plant them by American serial workers, whiell would weaken their prestige and, perhaps, their jwcu- niary . status. Consequently they rarely missed an opportunity to cast reflections On Dr. Bogen's American assistants. Their con- versations were full of innuendos. Bad they not known that Dr. Bogen and I are friends, they might have made even more vigorous attempts to poison my mind—all because of anxiety lest they might 110 sup- planted. Ileac in mind that prac- tically eve' y one of our existing personnel in Poland had at one time OE another worked under Dr. Bogen. You quote Dr. Gruenebaum in your statement. I am quite sure that his conception, if he has one, of what constitutes "constructive relief" in Poland would nut he ac- ceptable to the .lewish leaders there, even though Gruenebaum is a very brilliant orator. Just a year ago, in London, I was asked to speak under the auspices of the English Federation of Polish Jews in behalf of a campaign they were then contemplating for the benefit of Polish Jewry. I hesitated to ac- cept the invitation because only two weeks before Gru•neliaum, who had been invited from Poland tu report on .lewish affairs there and thus stimulate interest in the re- lief movement, net with dismal failure. Ile told the audience that the .lewish problem in Poland can never lie solved; that all the moneys which Jewry might spend there would be absolutely wasted. "There seas only one solution--Palestine." Whereupon any number of people inquired: "What should be (lone with the Polish Jews in the mean- time?" Only one answer: "Pales- tine!" 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Did I consider it advisable fur him and a group of prominent Jews to approach the Moscow governnient in person? Wouldn't I take the matter up with Dr. Rosen: I point- ed out to Dr. Elummel and his as- sociates the difficulties that would confront the Russian government and the embarrassment they would create for themselves with the Po- lish government. I mention this to show that Shahad's and Tcherni- koft's suggestions to acquire large tracts in Poland are not feasible. In conclusion, I trust you will not take offense at my amazement at your interviews—amazement be- cause you did not first present the factsgathered in Europe to War- burg, 'Marshall, Lehman, and the others who have been on the job for thirteen years; contributed so gen- erously of their funds and time; kept so intimately in touch with things on the other side. I am con- fident that in a fifteen minute con- ference any one of these gentleman mold have pointed out to you why I T is our pleasure to announce the ar- rival of this Autumn's woolen im- portations, which include patterns from the world's most famous looms. We extend to you our most cordial invitation to visit our showrooms and inspect the season's offerings. 4 11 514 111 011 • OA • %xi* iliftite. the dollar which, let us say, reached Vilna on July 21, 1920, was worth ► - 411 1341t4ta3 only 500,1100 zlotys, when on the previous (lay the value of the dol- lar might have been 1,000,000 zlotys, and vice versa. Even in untutored a mind as mine could grasp the causes for such violent Fluctuations. Surely the Gruene- transplanted to Palestine. As for haunts, the Tchernikoffs and Sha- the acquisition of large tracts of bads are not so naive as not to have la Russian Coloni- land in Poland a known why these telescopic fluctua- zation—a futile dream. Dr. Elam- tions took place. Incidentally, it met, a very practical man and yet is because conditions were so in- an idealist, realizing that agrarian describably chaotic that it would activities cannot be pursued in Po- have been criminal for American land, asked my opinion of a plan to Jewry to have instituted so-called petition the Russian government to sia that the Polish leaders developed allow thousands of I'olish Jews to "constructive movements," which would • have • vanished os• ernight. During. my brief stay in Europe in 1919, Vilna, (and it is typical of other communities), was in the possession of Germany, Lithuania, and Poland; and even today it is hard to determine to whom Vilna belongs. No wonder that the cur- rency went to pieces! And then— it is only natural that there were losses in the transmission of funds under such chaotic conditions. 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