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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928.
VOltaiti NO. 12.
BUTZEL HONORARY
CHAIRMAN OF 1928
DRIVE FOR U. P A.
Workers Being Mobilized for
Campaign for $150,000
in Michigan.
ADOPT SLOGAN: "GIVE
TODAY, BUILD FOREVER"
National Director Blumen-
thal Prepares For Drive in
Neighboring Cities.
Fred M. Butzel is to be the hon-
orary chairman of the Detroit
1928 United Palestine Appeal.
Announcement of Mr. Butzel's
acceptance of this office was made
at the meeting of the board of di-
rectors held a week ago Wednes-
day evening at Hotel Statier. •
Joseph H. Ehrlich, as chairman,
announced that committees chosen
to organize for the campaign of
$110,000 in Detroit, and an addi-
tional $40,000 in communities
throughout the state, are concen-
trating all their efforts to organize
teams, under the direction of cap-
tains and lieutenants. It is hoped
that at least 150 volunteers will
canvass the community in this
year's campaign, which opens offi-
cially on April 15.
Adopt Slogan.
The slogan of the national U. P.
A. campaign, "Give Today and
Build Forever," was also adopted
for the Detroit appeal.
Constituent organizations of the
United Palestine, including Ha-
dassah, Junior Hadassah, the Zion-
ist District, Jewish National Fund,
Hebrew University Committee and
Mizrachi, are co-operating with
the central committee in the forth-
coming campaign.
Campaign Leaders.
Captains and lieutenants for the
campaign are to be chosen from
the following members of the
board of directors.
Dr. N. E. Aronstam, Rabbi A.
M. Ashinsky, J. W. Allen, Dr. P.
M. Bernstein, A. J. Blumenau,
Morris Blumberg, Julius Braun,
Dr. P. H. Broudo, J. Burrows,
Fred M. Butzel, Harry Cohen,
Harry Cohen, Abraham Cooper,
Louis Dann, Israel Davidson, David
S. Diamond, J. II. Ehrlich, Mrs_ .1.
II. Ehrlich, Dr. D. H. Fauman,
Benjamin B. Fenton, Rabbi Moses,
Fischer Morris Fishman, Rabbi
Leon From, J. Friedberg, Morris
Friedberg, William Friedman,
Boris Ganapol, Miss Hattie Gitt!e-
ntail, Abraham Glazer, II. Gold-
berg, Nathaniel 11. Goldstick, J. R.
Greenberg, Joseph II. Haggai, Al-
vin D. Ilersch, Rabbi A. M. Hersh-
man, Rabbi R. Ilurvitz, William B.
Isenberg, Jacob Jay, A. H. Jaffin,
Samuel Kabaker, Samuel L. Ka-
vanan, A. J. Koffman, A. Lacho-
vitzky, A. C. Lappin, Isadore
Levin, Jacob 1,evin, Sol R. Levin,
M. D. l.ipsitz, Miss Rose Edith
I,ipsitz, Robert Marwil, J. Miller,
Arnold Neiss, Charles Rubiner, J.
S. Sauls, S. Schwartz, I. Chetzer,
D. W. Simons, Philip Slomovitz,
Harold II. Smiley, Abraham Srere,
Mrs. Abraham Srere, Miss Jea-
nette M. Steinberg, Samuel Stein-
berg, Sidney Stone, Mrs. H. N.
Weinstein, M. II. Zackheim, D. S.
Zemon, Israel Zilber and Rudolph
Zwieback.
William R. Blumenthal, regional
director of the United Palestine
Appeal, reported that during the
past two weeks he visited Port
Huron, Mt. Clemens, Pontiac, Bay
City, Saginaw and Flint, and ad-
dressed a number of gatherings
there in the interests of the U. P.
A. Mr. Blumenthal reported the
collection of money on outstanding
pledges in these communities.
• . •
SUICIDE
Committed by Warsaw Mer-
chant When He Fail. to Locate
Brother in U. S.
WARSAW.—(J. T. A.)—
Failure to locate his brother,
said to be a well-to-do merchant
in the United States and who
might have brought him aid in
his plight, drove Sinicha Sdan-
how, once a wealthy merchant,
to commit suicide on a street
here. He was 68 years old.
Sdankow's act of dispair was
the climax of a deeply stirring
tragedy in the lives of many
Russian Jewish families as a re-
sult of the upheaval in Russia.
Sdankow, who before the war
was a rich lumber merchant,
having wide commercial rela-
tions in western Europe, lost
all of his property by a con-
fiscatory decree of the Bolshe-
vik authorities. His only
daughter was shot on the charge
that she was a friend of an of-
ficer in the Czarist army. Sdan-
how's wife died of heart failure
on receipt of the news of her
daughter's death.
Reduced to extreme poverty,
Sdankow made his way to Po-
land, where he had to resort to
begging, continuing to live in
the hope that from Poland he
might succeed in learning the
whereabouts of his brother,
said to be a well-to-do merchant
in the United States.
When all efforts failed and
when his many letters brought
no reply, the merchant-beggar
ended his life on a side street
in Poland's capital.
Beth El To Hear
Dr. J. S. Kornfeld
Former Minister to Persia to
Occupy Temple Pulpit
On Sunday.
On Sunday morning, Feb. 19, Dr.
Joseph S. Kornfeld, United States
Minister to Persia during the
Harding administration, will occu-
HUNGARY CLOSES Judge Dannenbaum and Jacob de Haas RELIGIOUS STUDIES
SCHOOLS AS RESULT Urge Change in Zionist Administration IN STATE SCHOOLS
DECLARED ILLEGAL
OF STUDENTS RIOTS
Applaud Sentiments in Detroit Jewish Chronicle Editorial
Of Jan. 27; Individual Dominates Movement, Dan-
nenbaum Says; De Haas Decries Machine Rule.
Disturbances During Parlia-
ment's Discussion of Nu-
merus Clausus.
In the issues of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle of Jan. 27,
the editor, writing under the heading "The Zionist Situa-
tion," reviewed the deplorable situation that led to the
present crisis in Palestine and called for an open discussion
4 INJURED IN CRACOW
of facts that Zionists may know how to act on the questions
RIOTS; MANY ARRESTED
which are certain to arise at the June convention as a result of a
movement of opposition to the present administration.
LINDHEIM PASSES
IN HIS 48TH YEAR "
BUDAPEST, Ilungary. — The
minister of education has ordered
schools and colleges throughout
the country closed, fearing disturb-
ances. The government has under
discussion a proposal to modify re-
strictions against the enrollment Husband of National Hadas-
of Jews as university students.
sah President Was Ac-
Disorder occurred at Budapest
University when Christian stu-
tive in Zionism.
dents declared a strike as a pro-
test to the government proposal.
NEW YORK.—Norvin R. Lind-
A strike was also declared at
helm, prominent Zionist leader and
Szegedin University.
member of the Administrative
BUDAPEST.—(J. T. A.)—New Committee of the Zionist Organi-
anti-Jewish riots broke out in the zation of America, died of heart
colleges at Szegedin and Buda- failure Wednesday morning, Feb.
pest as a protest against the pro- 8, at his home, 134 West Fourth
posal now being discussed in par- street. lie was 47 years old and
liament to modify the numerus left the office of Eitingon-Schild
Fur Co., of which he was vice-pres-
clausus law.
The Christian students, who ident, the preceding day, feeling
were called out on strike, laid well. His wife, the former Irma
siege to the college entrances, Levy, president of Hadassah, was
ejecting Jewish students and stu- on the way back to New York from
dious Christian students who Nashville, Tenn., at the time of his
death.
ignored the strike call.
His death came as a shock to his
The posting of anti-Semitic pla-
cards was prevented by the Buda- many friends and Zionists. A
pest authorities when students At- scheduled meeting of the Finance
tempted to place the signs through- Committee of U. P. A. and a meet-
ing of the Administrative Commit-
out the city.
It was learned that members of tee of the Zionist Organization
the Hungarian government party Wednesday night adjourned in re-
have decided to vote for the gov- !meet to Mr. Lindheim after having
ernment bill to modify the nu- adopted resolutions on his death.
merus clausus law. This decision
was brought about by the state-
ment of Count Bethlen, prime
minister, that he will consider the
vote on the numerus clausus bill a
vote of confidence in the govern-
ment. None, however, of the
party members has agreed to take
part in the discussion defending
the bill.
BUCHAREST.—(J. T. A.)—The
demand of a group of anti-Semitic
professors, members of the fac-
ulty of Bucharest University, that
the terms of expulsion of the stu-
dents found guilty in the anti-
Jewish riots in Transylvania be
shortened was granted by the uni-
versity senate.
DR. JOSEPH S. KORNFELD
PISGAH TO OBSERVE
70TH ANNIVERSARY
Yiddish Theater Company to
Entertain at Meeting
Monday Evening.
The seventieth anniversary of
Pisgah Lodge will be celebrated on
March 25. An outstanding leader
in American Jewry will address the
dinner celebrating the occasion, to
be held at Hotel Statler.
Another big night's entertain-
ment is promised members of Pis-
gah Lodge No. 34, 1. 0. B. B., for
this Monday evening.
Aaron Kurland, chairman of the
intellectual advancement commit-
Us, announces that the entire com-
pany of the Littman's People's
Theater will he present and will
entertain with a number of special
selections, dances, songs, etc.
An address will also he delivered
by Arthur F.. Fixel on "Lincoln and
Washington."
M. Rudensky, National Field Secretary, To Be Principal Mr. Kurland reported that a fine
Speaker ; Visiting Lecturer Also To Address Shaarey
arts evening is being planned for
March 19, with the co-operation of
Zedek and Emanuel Congregations on Saturday.
Frank Barcus. Benjamin March,
curator
of Eastern art at the De-
The Detroit Jewish National mer president of the Farnsworth
Fund has arranged for a busy and Holbrook synagogues, has ac- troit Museum of Arts, will then
give
an
illustrated
lecture.
schedule of activities for this week- cepted the secretaryship of the
end, on the occasion of the visit to committee.
HOUSE
COUNCIL
OF
the city of M. Rudensky, national
Mr. August will assist Louis
Y. W. H. A. ORGANIZED
field secretary.
Louis Duscoff, chairman, in an ef-
At 3 p. m. Sunday, at the Con- fort to enroll in volumes to be
gregation Emanuel, the local com- perpetuated at Jerusalem all the Annual Camp Reunion To B. Held
This Sunday Afternoon.
mittee called a conference of rep- friends of the National Fund. Mr.
resentatives of synagogues and or- August has placed at the disposal
A large group of enthusiastic
ganizations in the city and indi- of the Detroit committee his of- representatives, two from every
vidual leaders, to hear Mr. Auden- fices at 540 Buhl Building.
elle+ and club affiliated with the
sky's report on the latest achieve-
Julius Braun, prominent Detroit Y. W. H. A., met last Monday eve-
ments of the National Fund, and Zionist, is to be the treasurer of ning to organize a Home Council,
to outline a series of activities for the registration campaign.
to serve as an active agency for
the Palestine land-redeeming fund
promoting unity and house-spirit
Seek Synagogue Support.
during the coming year.
Mr. Duscoff and his committee within the association. It will
were pledged the support of all serve as a clearing house for class
To Speak at Synagogues.
National Fund workers at the and club problems and will plan
On Saturday morning, Mr. Ru-
meeting on Thursday evening, and the social and recreational life of
densky will address Congregation
at the conference on Sunday it is the building.
Shaarey Zedek, at the Atkinson
The first program under the
planned to enroll the co-operation
avenue branch. Saturday after-
of all local synagogues and or- auspices of the House Council will
noon, preceding the Mincha serv-
ganizations. It is expected that as be a leap year party on Wednes-
ices, Mr. Rudensky will speak at
a result of the registration can- day evening, Feb. 29. The club-
the Emanuel.
vass, at least 10,000 names of De- rooms will be decorated to denote
Friday evening, Mr. Rudensky
troit Jews, men, women and chil- the spirit of Valentine festivity
was scheduled to address a meet-
dren, will be enlisted on the roll while a committee is already at
ing of the Poale Zion and Zeire
call of the builders of Zion.
work planning the entertainment.
Zion at the Schule on Twelfth and
It is stated in connection with The admission is limited to mem-
Gladstone.
this drive that any one securing bers and every girl has been asked
On Thursday evening, Mr. Ru-
100 names for this roster will have to bring a box of refreshments for
densky addressed the Jewish Na-
his or her name inscribed in the two.
tional Fund Committee of Detroit.
Golden Book at Jerusalem. Adults
The date for the annual camp
Registration Campaign.
will be asked to pay $1 each upon reunion has been set for Sunday
In connection with the registra- registering and children 50 cents afternoon, Feb. 19. The camp
tion campaign of the local commit- each.
committee is planning the presen-
tee, announced last week, A. J.
All Detroit synagogues and or- tation of "Stunt Night at Camp"
Koffman, president of the Detroit ganizations are urged to send rep- for the program. Mrs. Joseph M.
J. N. F., announces that Sol 0. Au- resentatives to the conference at Welt will show the movies she took
gust, son of I. August, well-known the Congregation Emanuel on Sun- while visiting camp during the
Detroit communal leader and for- day afternoon.
summer.
National Fund Calls Conference Of
Synagogues, Organizations On Sunday
State Constitution.
RULING IS DEFIED IN
MT. CLEMENS SCHOOLS
Bucharest University Senate
In the issue of Jan. 27, also, was reprinted from the Texas Jew-
Reduces Students' Ex-
ish Herald an article entitled "Back to Hersh" written by Judge Investigation of Effect of
Ruling to be Made by
hllenry J. Dannenbaum of Holm-
pulsion Term.
CRACOW.—(J. T. A.)—Three
Christian students and one Jewish
student were seriously injured and
scores of Jewish and Polish stu-
dents arrested in new riots which
broke out in Cracow's historic
square, Sukienniece.
The Jewish students, it was
stated, decided not to surrender
to the demand of the Polish stu-
dents and new riots are feared.
py the pulpit of Temple Beth El in
Dr. Franklin's absence from the
city.
Dr. Kornfeld has made an envi-
able reputation both as an able dip-
lomat and as an eloquent preacher.
Since his return from Persia he has
been the minister of the Coiling-
wood Avenue Temple at Toledo,
Ohio. During his short residence
there he has become not only a
leading figure in the religious life
of the city, but as well in all of its
civic and social activities.
EXTEND TIME LIMIT
The subject of Dr. Kornfeld's ad-
FOR ESSAY CONTEST
drees at the temple will be "The
The time limit of the essay con- Real Aim of Education." Services
test conducted by the Zionist Dis- begin at 10:45. The general pub-
(Continued on Page Five.)
lic is invited.
Opinion, Prepared by Attor-
ney General, Quotes
Adopt Resolutions.
The resolution adopted by the
Administrative Committee of the
Zionist Organization of America
reads in part: "The passing of Non
yin R. Lindheim at the very prime
of life has deprived the Jews of
America of a man who was inter-
ested in the problems of Jewish life
and who devoted his time, energy
and means toward their solution.
The Zionist world, in particular,
has suffered a great loss in the
death of Mr. Lindheim, who was
for many years a leading worker
for the rebuilding of Palestine as
the Jewish National Home."
Born at Lynchburg.
Mr. Lindheim was born at Lynch-
burg, Va., and attended Johns }lop-
bins University, graduating with
the class of 1901. He then studied
law at Columbia University, receiv-
ing his degree in 1904. After ad-
mission to the bar he practiced
with the firm of Guggenheimer, Un-
termyer & Marshall, and later with
the firm of which James S. Alcus
was the head. In 1907 he entered
into a partnership with S. Walter
Kaufmann and Arthur Garfield
Hays.
During the World War, before
the entry of the United States, Mr.
Lindheim represented Germany
and the German Ambassador in
several legal controversies result-
ing from European hostilities.
Trouble With N. Y. Mail.
In 1920 Mr. Lindheim, along
with his partner, Mr. Kaufmann,
and Dr. Edward A. Rumely, were
placed on trial by the government
charged with conspiring to conceal
from the Alien Property Custodian
the fact that The New York Eve-
ning Mail, of which Dr. Homely
was publisher, had been purchased
with $750,000 obtained front Ger-
man sources.
They were sentenced to a year
and a day in the Atlanta Peniten-
tiary, but President Coolidge com-
muted the sentences after one
month. Appeals for reinstatement
to the bar are pending at the pres-
ent time and many leaders in legal
circles have made public statements
favoring such action.
Zionist Leader.
Mr. Lindheim was a member of
the Administrative Committee of
the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica and of the Finance Committee
of the United Palestine Appeal and
was interested in other Jewish en-
terprises. Ile went to Palestine
last year as a member of a commis-
sion to survey the work of the Ha-
dassah medical organization.
It was after his release from At-
lanta that, being barred from Frac-
tiring law, he entered the employ of
the k:itington-Schild Company, and
soon assumed the post of vice-pres-
ident.
Besides his widow, he is survived
by his mother, Mrs. Hortense C.
Lindheim, and five children, Nor-
vin R. Jr., a senior at Yale, who
was with him when he died; Hor-
tense A., Donald R., Richard W.
and Stephen W.
DETROIT RESIDENT
FOR 67 YEARS DIES
AT THE AGE OF 96
Mrs. Janey Oppenheim, Detroit
resident for 67 years, died at her
home, 2488 West Euclid avenue,
on Saturday morning. Funeral
services took place Sunday, Rabbi
A. M. Ashinsky officiating. Burial
was at Machphela.
Mrs. Oppenheim is survived by
three sons, Julius, David and Ja-
cob, and nine grandchildren. She
has lived in Detroit since 1861.
BUBER CELEBRATES
FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY
BERLIN.—(J. T. A.)—Martin
Buber, well known German Jewish
writer and proponent tof Zionism,
Will the recipient of many con-
gratulatory messages today on the
occasion of his fiftieth birthday.
ton, Texas, who called for a re-
vision of Zionist policies for the
sake of the success of a Jewish
Pa
Al eT s a t isnke 'Too Sacred for Secrecy."
The Chronicle editorial main-
tained that "the upbuilding of Pal-
estine is too sacred a task for it to
be clouded with secrecy," and
called upon the leaders in the op-
position to present their views. In
response to which came communi-
cations from two men, both at one
time nationally prominent in Zion-
ist councils, both referred to in
The Chrnoicle editorial.
One of these communications is
from Judge Dannenbaum, who pre-
sided over the convention in
Cleveland six and a half years ago,
when Judges Brandeis and Mack
were virtually ousted from office.
The other is from Mr. De Haas,
veteran Zionist, friend of the late
Dr. Theodor Ilerzl, founder of
the Zionist Organization, and
executive secretary of the Zionist
Organization of America during
the administration of Judges Bran-
deis and Mack.
M. S. C. Committee.
It is illegal under the Michigan
statutes to teach religion or use
sectarian text books in public
schools, according to W. W. Pot-
ter, attorney-general, who prepared
this opinion last week at the re-
quest of the Lansing board of ed-
ucation. Potter held any school of-
ficial who permitted teachers to in-
struct in sectarian matters or use
text books of a sectarian nature
would be guilty of a misdemeanor.
The opinion quoted from the
state constitution that "Everyone
shall he at liberty to worship God
according to the dictates of his own
conscience." If Protestant books
are to be used or read in the schools
the same privilege would have to
be extended to Catholics and all
other sects or denominations, the
attorney-general held.
Judge Dannenbaum's Reply.
The communication from Judge
Dannenbaum follows:
Houston, Tex., Feb. 8, 1928.
Editor, Detroit Jewish Chronicle:
Your issue of Jan. 27 reproduces
my communication to the Texan
Jewish Ilerald, calling for change
in American Zionist leadership;
editorially, you ask for publicity
of complaints. Sly individual po-
sition is here presented.
The affairs of American Zion-
ism have been for some time and
now are controlled by substantially
few men and these men are domi-
nated by or defer to one man.
Other good men lend their names
and contribute their services to
fund-raising campaigns, etc , but
policies, methods, expenditures,
etc., reflect the judgment of a sin-
gle mind.
That single individual has been
unable to win the confidence and
support of the non-Zionist element
of American Jewry.
That single individual has been
unable to hold the interest and
enthusiasm of Zionists, especially
in New York City.
lie dominates conventions as he
dominates committees, frequently
by political methods. Ills methods
are not always consistent with the
standards demanded by the Zionist
cause and essential to public con-
fidence.
Results of the New York City
campaigns are disproportionate to
expenditures. lkadquarters' ad-
ministrative expenses have been
larger than necessary.
National
administration
has
been centralized at 114 Fifth ave-
nue and conducted without under-
standing of sectional needs and
possibilities.
The foregoing does not purport
to be complete or as specific as
possible. But it may be sufficient
for advance notice. No one has
the moral right of attack unless he
suggest a remedy. The following
is respectfully submitted:
Remove national headquarters
to Philadelphia.
Create an administrative com-
mittee of members like Morris
Rothenberg, Jacob Fishman, Carl
Sherman, I. D. Morrison, Mrs.
Irma L. Lindheim, Mrs. Simon
Rothenberg, Miss Susan Brandeis,
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Reuben
Brainin, Mrs. Richard Gotthcil, M.
A. Zeldin and Robert Szold of New
York City; Mrs. Archibald Silver-
man of Providence, R. I.; Judge
David A. Lourie and Jacob Har-
ris of Boston; Judge W. M. Lewis
and Sol C. Kraus of Philadelphia;
(Continued on Page Five.)
SPECIAL MIZRACHI
MEETING SUNDAY
Rabbi Ashinsky and Mr. /Ullman-
thal the Principal Speakers.
At the urgent request of the
Central Bureau of the Mizrachi
Organization of America, 31 Union
Square, New York City, made to
Rabbi Aaron M. Ashinsky, a special,
rally meeting of all the component
local Mizrachi units will be held
Sunday, Feb. 19, 2:30 p. m., in the
auditorium of Congregation Eman-
uel, Woodrow Wilson and Taylor
avenues.
The meeting will be addressed
by Rabbi Ashinsky, William R.
Blumenthal, the regional director
for Michigan of the U. P. A., and
other well known speakers.
In stressing the importance of
the meeting Rabbi Ashinsky
states :
"As we are standing on the
threshold of the United Palestine
Appeal campaign it is the para-
mount duty of the Mizrachi to
fully co-operate with other Zionist
organization in doing its full
share towards this most important
instrument for the building up of
the Jewish Homeland.
"All affiliated members of the
Mizrachi and other congregations
traditionally inclined are requested
to participate in the meeting, when
the forces of the Mizrachi will be
mobilized for the great work of
the U. P. A., which is so close to
the heart of every devoted lover of
Zion."
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PERSECUTED BARON
WILL BE AIDED BY
HUNGARIANS HERE
$1,000,000 GIFT
Chen by Julius Rosenwald to
His Son on His Wedding
Day, Feb. 12.
CHICAGO, III.---(J. T. A.)—
Williem Rosenwald, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, was
married to Miss Renee Scharf
of Vienna on Sunday at the
home of his parents here. Rabbi
Louis L. Mann of Temple Sinai
performed the ceremony. ,
The wedding gift of Mr.
Rosenwald to the young couple
was a check for $1,000,000. The
presentation of a check of thin
size is a custom which Mr.
Rosenwald has followed upon
the marriage of his other chil-
dren.
Miss Scharf is the daughter
of the Viennese portrait paint-
er, Victor Scharf, who is now
engaged on a portrait of Mr.
Rosenwald.
It was reported here that
young Rosenwald met his bride
while traveling in South Amer-
ica. Although he was not trav-
eling incognito, he might have
been as far as Miss Scharf was
concerned. The name "Rosen-
wald" meant as much to her as
any other name. tl was not un-
til after they became engaged
that William Rosenwald told
her of his father's great wealth
and that he is worth $5,000,000
in his own name.
The couple are planning a
honeymoon trip of three years
in Europe.
M. S. C. Courses Not Affected.
He decided schools boards have
no authority to establish or main-
tain the teaching of sectarian re-
ligious subjects, to use books by
sectarian publishers, to use school
buildings, school funds or to divert
the time of the pupils from their
regular educational work for relig- "Bismarck and the German
ious pursuit.
Republic" Topic of His
The decision of Attorney-General
Address Here,
Potter will not necessitate the dis-
continuance of religious courses at
the Michigan State College, in the
Dr. Emil Ludwig will appear in
view of college officials. Although Detroit at Orchestra Hall, Wednes-
six courses in religious education day evening, Feb. 29, under the
are listed in the college catalog,
none of these are taught on the
campus and no funds are provided
by the college for instructors in
these courses.
Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield, pres-
ident of the college, declined to
make any statement on the effect
of the attorney-general's ruling on
the courses listed in the college cat-
alog, but said a committee would be
appointed to investigate.
Dr. Ludwig Speaks
In Detroit Feb. 29
"Rothschild of Hungary" Is
Hounded Because He
Is a Jew.
AIM TO SAVE HIM FROM
SEVEN-YEAR SENTENCE
An Aroused Hungary Urges
Government to Free Re-
turned Exile.
A nation-wide campaign among
Hungarians in the United States
has been started by friends of
Baron Ludwig von !latently, the
"Rothschild of Hungary," to save
him from a seven-year sentence
and fine of 500,000 penges, or
$80,000, imposed recently in
Budapest.
Ferenc Condor, editor and pub-
lisher of An Ember (The Man),
352 East 79th street, New York,
and a lifelong friend of Baron von
Hatvany, hopes to bring the agita-
tion to a head by March 15, when
500 representative Ilungarians are
coming from Budapest to unveil
the Kossuth statue in Riverside
Drive.
Baron von Hatvany is being per-
secuted because he is a Jew, Mr.
Condor says. The articles for
which he was sentenced were writ-
ten in 1919, before the present
Bethlen regime.
Mt. Clemens Defiance.
Defiance of the attorney-gener-
al's ruling against religious train-
ing in public schools is expressed by
local school officials following the
announcement, that under the law,
Bible instruction is banned from
the public schools, providing the
Bible is a sectarian text book.
Paul J. Ullrich, president of the
board of education, declared the lo-
cal Bible class of high school stu-
dents would continue despite the
ruling. lie said that the law did
not cover the local situation and
that it would be ignored by the
board.
DEFINES RELIGION
AS WILL TO LIVE
Audience; Hough Next
Forum Speaker.
"Everyone believes that he or she
counts as an individual, and that
is religion. It keeps as living in
spite of all obstacles in our way,
in spite of all our trials. In view
of the fact that we live and con-
tinue to live, we have religion. So
long as the will to live exists re-
ligion will live."
This is the gist of Lewis
Browne's answer to the question,
"Is Religion Inevitable?" which
was also the \topic of his address
at the Jewish Open Forum on Sun-
day.
The largest audience of the year
attended this lecture, which was
presided over by Aaron Kurland.
"Judaism is the best religion for
the Jew and Christianity is the best
religion for the Christian," was his
reply to the question whether re-
ligion should not be given up if it
brings suffering. "The religion
which the individual professes is
best for him," he added, "because
in it he finds salvation for himself.
Where it requires most pain it
gives greatest pleasure."
In the course of his address he
told why he was a Zionist and an-
swered a number of questions fol-
lowing the lecture.
Dr. Lynn Harold Hough will tie
the Forum speaker on Sunday af-
ternoon, Feb. 25, his topic being,
"A Christian's View of the Jews,"
PLEA FOR TOLERANCE
BY CHARLES H. JOSEPH
BALTIMORE, Md.—The largest
crowd in the history of sisterhoods
of Baltimore attended • lecture at
liar Sinai Temple Monday after-
noon by Charles H. Joseph of Pitts-
burgh, nationally known syndicate
writer. Mr. Joseph pleaded for the
Jews as well as Christians to take
inventory of themselves. He said:
"The world is suffering from an
overdose of theology and a lack of
religious nourishment. So long as
life persists people will have diffss-
ences. If the world would agree
tomorrow on every disputed ques-
tion, religious, economic and politi-
cal, the following day they would
have something new to differ about.
The Jew's job is to carry on and
make the best job of life that he
can. There is no Jewish question
any more that there is a Protestant
question or a Catholic question.
E very people has its troubles, and
will have them as long as those
people exist."
Hatvany 's Crime.
The weekly, Time, sums the case
up as follows:
"A rich Jew came unto judg-
ment, last week at Budapest. Soon
he stood, plucked, gasping and
stunned, under sentence to pay a
fine equivalent to $80,000 and to
serve seven years imprisonment at
hard labor. What crime could fit
so monstrous a punishment?
"Six years ago the criminal,
Heron Ludwig liatvany, onetime
Hungarian minister of finance, re-
tired sugar merchant, launched
into journalism at Vienna and
wrote a series of articles attack-
ing Count Stephen Bethlen, then,
AI now, the reactionary prime min-
ister of llungary, but at that time
grappling desperately to establish
his government. Count Bethlen's
was a 'White Terror' as opposed
to the previous 'Red Terror' of
Hungarian Communists under the
notorious Bela Kun.
"Attacks thrust home at such
a moment are keenly felt. For six
years Count Bethlen's police have
been ready to pounce upon Jew
Baron Hatvany should be un-
warily return, lulled into false se-
curity by the technical expiration
of the original order for his arrest.
Friends of Count Bethlen had,
moreover, allegedly assured Baron
Hatvany that his attacks had been
'forgotten.' Last week he was ar-
rested on a new warrant, learned
that stern, glacial, silent Dictator
Count Bethlen does not forget
Appeal by Authors.
In his lecture Dr. Ludwig pro-
poses to show his new ideas about
Bismarck's character. He reaches
the conclusion that the "Iron
"Justice Tuerosky, who sent-
enced the prisoner, calmly ruled
out of consideration his many
writings of a generally patriotic,
pro-Hungarian, character. All that
mattered was the six-year-old at-
tack upon the present Hungarian
regime. For that, vengeance.
"Throughout the trial Count
Bethlen could curl his thin lips
over a telegraphic appeal for
mercy dispatched to him from Ber-
lin by several authors of world
fame who have followed with ap-
proval the literary flowering of
luckless Baron Hatvany. Signers
of the telegram included Gerhart
Ilauptmann (dean of German
dramatists), Arthur Schnitzler
(smartest of Austrian dramatists)
and Sinclair Lewis (now residing
in Berlin). They appealed to
Count Bethlen: 'We turn to you
in order to say a word for our per-
sonal friend and highly treasured
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ss.
DR. EMIL LUDWIG
Detroit direction of the Alvin C.
Hamer, Inc., Book Stores.
Dr. Ludwig's transcontinental
lecture tour of the United States
is in response to a demand com-
ing from thousands of his Ameri-
can admirers to see and hear him
on his first visit to America.
The distinguished writer is no
novice on the lecture platform,
having appeared frequently before
European audiences. He will
speak in English on "Bismarck and
the German Republic."
Bismarck the Prophet.
Ittamar Ben Avi Draws Large Audiences
Here at B'nai B'rith and Zionist Meetings
Urges Greater Industrial Effort for Palestine and Declares
Faith of Palestine Jewry Keeps it Battling for Suc-
cess of Homeland; Addresses Hebrew Meeting.
Wainer Ben Avi, the son of the
late Eliezer Ben Yehudah, who re-
vived the Hebrew language and
was responsible for making it the
spoken tongue of the new Pales-
tine, drew large audiences during
his three-day stay in Detroit and
virtually carried the many hun-
dreds who heard him off their feet
with the eloquence and enthusiasm
of his orations.
Mr. lien Avi, who is the editor
of the Hebrew daily Doer Ilayom
and of the English weekly Pales-
tine, spoke at a luncheon of B'nai
B'rith and Zionist leaders at Hotel
Statler on Monday afternoon. On
Monday evening he addressed the
B'nai B'rith, and on Tuesday eve-
ning the Zionist District of Detroit
heard him at the Philadelphia-11 -
ron Talmud Torah. Hebrew-eyes -
ing Detroiters, Talmud Torah
teachers and other educators heard
him in a Hebrew address on Wed-
nesday evening, on "Victorious He-
brew."
Urges laslustries for Palestine.
collected will in a period of five
to ten years be given up and pri-
vate industries will be established
to build the land. The schools and
hospitals, he expressed the hope,
will be cared for by the natural
agency—the government. and the
Jews will not be burdened with
such taxation in addition to paying
taxes which should support the ed-
ucational and health institutions.
Enyly Struggle of Helvrel..
At the meeting of the B'nai
B'rith, at which he was introduced
by Mr. Miller, Ben Avi described
the early struggle of the Hebrew
language. He told how his father.
the late Ben Yehudah, introduced
the language and related that he
himself was locked in a room for
seven years by his father that he
should not learn any ether lan-
guage than Hebrew. As a result.
of the nine languages Ben Avi
masters, Hebrew is the natural
tongue to him.
Mr. Ben Avi deplored the fact
that thousands of Jewish tourists
who go to Europe yearly fail to
visit Palestine.
The B'nai B'rith program was
supplemented by a musical pro-
gram, the participants in which
were: bliss Rhoda Goldberg, solo-
ist, accompanied by Clara Silber-
man, and Miss Rose Swartz, pian-
ist, pupil of Samuel Solomon.
At the luncheon on Monday, ar-
ranged by Jacob Miller, whose
guest Mr. Ben Avi was during his
Detroit stay, and who befriended
the Palestinian during his two
years' stay in Palestine, Rabbi A.
M. liershm-n introduced the lec-
turer and lauded his efforts for
Palestine, as publicist, propagan-
Early Zionist Struggles.
dist Ansi communal leader in the
Robert Marwil, president of the
Homeland.
Mr. Ben Avi predicted t t the Detroit Zionist District, presided
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public funds that are now
ing