TIEDETROITIEMSACIIROMIClif
Save Your Eyes
AMERICA'S RESPONSE TO A VITAL APPEAL
October 8, 1937,
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
HISTORY PROVED HERZL WAS RIGHT
to the reviewer of the record,
there looms here a strange para.
wrrit
dox. During th9 administration of
HEALTH.LITE GLASSES
)0NOLUDED FROM EDITORIAL PACill
can Zionists in the East and the Bernard A. Rosenblatt, when the
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branch was incorporated
had found the right form of
tercel now so small an area of Order Knights of Zion in the mid- American
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were the channels through under the laws of the State of to
what historically belongs to us and west
the congress hall in order to juristic personality. Herd en-
N ew York, inter-party and abo
which its flowed.
what Is so urgently needed at this
party status of the Keren Kay ve continue the discussion privately. deavored' to prove that the tempo-
moment, you will find in some of t It was, in the main, a spon- meth was acknowledged, The , e - I remember that at the time, we rary nature of the statutes did not
aneous response of the poor and
the
chapters
of
these
memoirs.
I
area Etnatined, Glom Fitted by
then evolved an elaborate sys- journalists were drawn from our necessitate a postponement of the
our DOCTORS of Optometry,
would recommend that you read humble who, having just emerged was
tem of representation under which work by the spectatcle of the work; that there was no need to
feeder. under the Mato law.
with particular attention the chap- themselves from the depths of the Jewish
National Fund work in the grand duel which was carried on wait until all arrangements were
ters relating to the American ex- ghetto, carried in their hearts the
in what may be described as a completed and waste more time;
vision of a new life that would United States was to be stimulat- "leaders'
periences
of
one
who
went
to
the
caucus" without parlia- that there was nothing to prevent
1119 GRISWOLD ST.
come through the processes of na- ed, supervised and directed by a
United
States
11
times
in
an
en-
mentary
procedure or formalities, us from accepting for the time be-
Op. Evenings Until
deavor to secure from the strong- tional redemption. lierzl's chal- union of all Zionist forces.
but with increased temperament,
And yet the very triumph of excitement and frankness, all of ing donations and contributions on
est and freest Jewish community lenge rang in their ears: "We
the basis of the proposals before
in the world that measure of finan- shall prove to the world that a the Zionist cause and the growing which added a special and unusual congress. But Bodenheimer only
poor
people
can
provide
greater
response of American Jewry to
cial support which would have
sums
for
the
restoration
of
Its
its
appeal
in
the
1920's
served
to
been commensurate not only with
The essence of mutuality as ex-
"For Your Health's Sake" the
HE MADE HERZL'S VISION A REALITY
need but with the actual pos- homeland than the wealthiest mil- dampen zeal and obscure vision
pressed in North American Life is
lionaires!" Whatever the Zionist in so far as the land problem of
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sibilities which existed.
the sharing of profits by the policy.
"When Ussishkin and I visited in this prehistoric era contributed Palestine was concerned. The ma-
(C),I ONIAL HOTEL
himself
or
raised
from
among
his
jor part of Zionist energies were
holders alone.
America and asked for sums suf-
\UM HAI.
ficiently large to bring within our intimate friends, he remitted to concentrated on the Keren Kaye-
70,000 men and women—the sole
possession Palestine land areas his Zionist society or to one of the meth'a younger sister, the Keren
owners of the Company have found
that were then available and to two national federations, the Fed- Ifayesod, which from the moment
their interests best served by Assur-
make possible large-scale immigra- eration of American Zionists and of its birth in 1920 to date raised
Order Knights of Zion.
all over the world the sum of $31,-
ing Mutually in this Company.
tion and settlement, we were told the May,
191U was a turning point 00,000 of which $14,000,000 was
that such figures were 'fantastic'
Promote your own prosperity. Share
in
the
progress
of
this
effort.
contributed
in
the
U. S. In devot-
and could not be raised."
in the benefits offered by North
Sensing that the growing Ameri- ing their greatest attention to the
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American Life.
can Jewish community was destined
The American branch of the to play a leading part, Keren Keren Hayesod, the Zionist leader-
Jewish National Fund is the oldest Kayemeth Headquarters, than In ship acted under the pressure of
national agency of American Cologne, Germany, under the vig- the tasks which fell upon the Zion-
Jewry for other •tham local pun. orous direction of Dr. Max F. ist executive in connection with
poses. In point of nation-wide Botenheimer undertook special ef- the biennial budets for immigra-
tion, education, etc., voted then by
operation and contact with the forts to organize the American the
successive congresses, A feel-
basic phase of the Jewish prob. ' branch of the fund on a central-
lem, it antedates any of the other ized basis. It was in this year that ing seemed to have prevailed that
the
task
of the Keren Kayemeth
instrumentalities through which the Jewish National Fund bureau
which American Jewry sought in I for America was established. From was a long-range program for
which
there
will be ample time
the pre-War as well as the post- this point on, the history of its
when the other needs will be less
pressing.
A Call Instates No Obilautton on Tour Fart L
But the other needs of Palestine
were never less pressing, and the
REP11ENENTAT1%
call upon American support was
) DAVID STOTT BLDG,
never less urgent, More aggressive
insistence on the prior urgency of
the J. N. F. appeal was called into
play through the administration
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which
was presided over by
35 years experience qualifies us
Emanuel Neuman (1928-1931)
to make Plaster Casts and
when the then unprecendented fig-
shoes for foot troubles of
ure of $418,226.35 was recorded
any description. Exten-
for the fiscal year 1929-30. Simi-
sions and Arches.
lar were the plans of the adminis-
trations over which Nelson Rutten-
FREE ADVICE
berg presided (1931-33). But then
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the great economic depression
descended upon t h e American
scene. The effect of the depression
was reflected in the alarming de-
dine recorded for the fiscal year
1932-33, when the J. N. F. income
from the United States amounted
219 John R Street
to 1144,278. The urgent appeal of
WM. E. IIINTZ
Menahem Ussishkin during h i In
Shoe Specialist
visit to the United States in 1931
the man looking at the map of Palestine (in the picture above)
for a $5,000,000 commitment by is Menahem Ussishkin, veteran Zionist leader and world president
American Jewry for the acquisi- of the Jewish National Fund under whose leadership the Jewish
tion of a specific and strategically people' ■ fund for the acquisition of the Boil of Etats Israel made
important land tract to be ac- tremendous progress in the last 17 years of its 35-year-old record.
complished over a five-year period
ife/ „
found an echo but led to no tang- charm to the occasion.
tribute large sums to the Keren
tss:
ible results in an America eco-
1p
Only One Dissenting Vote
nomically depressed, The five-year
Kayemeth just established. Others
T he stormy debate centered followed. 1. L. Goldberg donated a
plan which had been inaugurated
after
the
1930
crash
fell
by
the
j:0 oo 0 8p4 itis
around the legal question: whether piece of land which he owned at
4 9 6' 6°
wayside,
WINDOW SHADES
we could begin the work of col-
It•do to Ord. --Cleaned and
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lecting funds in various countries Hedera and in this way the Keren
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Reno 'Med
acquired its first terri-
49 1914
Since the close of the World for the Keren Kayemeth before we Kayemeth
tory in Eretz Israel.
Linoleum • Carpeting
S 21, 857
War, the Jews of America, contrib- cried: "We shall make ourselves
armotrong and M o h a to k and
History
justified
Herd. Many
uted, in round figures, a sum ex- immortally ridiculous is we issue
HIoana - Mahon A lotion d n r
22,251 111911 2
passed until the Keren
Inlaid and Mt- H nt I t It — For
ceeding $90,000,000 for relief work a provisional appeal for funds!" years
Kayemeth
was
registered
as an
tioship
Dom. di Offices
In the end Herd, as was ususal,
overseas. It has been estimated
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English company, In the meantime
Retail and Wholesale
that the communal budget for triumphed, A formula was found it became a popular institution,
American Jewry's local needs (I think with the help of Kokesch) had penetrated into all circles and
VENETIAN BLINDS
beautiful ly
since 1920 averaged $40,000,000 which notified Dr. Bodenheimer.
Columbia and IVIeseh
roe realdences—orthos
1, Wind.
to $50,000,000 per annum. Over a At the afternoon session the Keren became the "National Institution
with
a
capital
'N'."
Dr.
Boden-
furnished
outside
tetras
Kayemeth
was
established
amid
period of 17 years, American
Drapery Hardware
heimer had become one of its best
Jewry's contributions for com- tremendous enthusiasm and with and
Get Our Prices and N.V.
All
with
private
tub
and
most
energetic
co-workers
and
the
support
of
all
delegates
ex-
munal purposes amounted to,
Free Itatimates Furnished
done much for its development
roughly, $850,000,000. Is it fanci- cepting one. At the' same session had
shower
boths-at
lowest
and
'
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ful to imagine that it might have a beginning was made. Ilerzl and
The living, national act again
Call TYler 6-1230
possible rates in down-
War periods to discharge its re- effort is recorded. A maintenance been possible to secure—had the Kremenezky were the first to con- triumphed over cold logic. The
sponsibilities of participation and budget was provided by the Co- vision and the will existed—say,
genius of creative energy, albeit
town Detroit for perman-
10
per
cent
of
this
total
for
a
na-
torn away from the land?
leadership, In the assumption of logne headquarters for the Ameri-
irrational, had its way. To Ilerzl
The American chapters in Dr. with his intuitive simplicity be-
responsibility and in continuity of can bureau. Gifted organizers and tional land acquisition program
ent
guests. You can live
effort to discharge these responsi- propagandists were dispatched to in all parts of historic Palestine? Weizmann's memoirs might per- longed the secret of victory, not to
bilities, the American branch of the American scene, The fruitful Is it too fantastic to speculate haps, in that case, have contained his critics who spoke in the name
in
luxurious
comfort
the Jewish National Fund is the field, plowed by on unnamed legion that with $85,000,000 invested in a totally different story. Instead of reason, circumspection and
senior of organizations like the of enthusiasts and zealots for the the purchase of land in Palestine of a proposal for Partition and a jurisprudence,
inexpensively.
Joint Distribution Committee, the Keren Kayemeth idea, started to as inalienable Jewish property Jewish States the last Zionist Con-
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Federations and the other Pales- yield fruit. With the fiscal year there could hardly have been any gress might have had to consider
David Silverstein is scripting a
tine fund-raising organizations. May, 1910, to May, 1911, when the serious danger of any important only areposel for the establish- story based on the candid camera
Great Lake buses leave De-
Its history 13 indeed the record of total of contributions reached sections of historic Palestine being ment ofp a Jewish State,
troit at 9:30 p. m. Tuesday,
fad for the latter studio.
CADILLAC
SQUARE
AT
BATES
a popular and spontaneous re- $20,149.25, the upward trend be-
Thursday, Saturday and
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sponse to the call of a pure ideal- gan.
Sunday making direct con-
ism which Is motivated by a great
nections at St. Ignace for
David II. Leiberman, a business
national vision, the compelling
Maniatique, Escanaba. Mar-
reality and strength of which has man and an ardent Zionist, known
quette, Negaunee, Ishpem-
not always been grasped by those mainly to the small band of Zion-
ing, Houghton, Hancock and
Calumet.
who had the means to make it ids on Manhattan's east side, was
come true but were lacking in ap- chosen to the presidency of the
Buses for the southern pen-
preciation of history in the mak- American branch, an office which
he occupied during the period
insula leave the above cities
ing.
1910-1012. Ile was succeeded by
on Monday, Tuesday, Thurs-
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Senior Abel, one of the early Zion-
day and Saturday,
The graph showing the an- ists, Maskil and pedantic writer,
Comfortable, insured serv-
nual totals of AMerican Jewish who occupied the office of presi-
ice. Low rates.
contributions to the Jewish Na- dent from 1912-1924. What
tional Fund over a period of 26 the large Zionists lacked in
years, published here, tells the quantity, they made up in
story of the present day total. But quality. To whatever extent
beneath it spreads the record of they were deprived of worldly
the triumphs and failures of riches, they were compensated in
Zionism as a movement, and of the more ardor and idealistic devotion.
strange paradoxes of American Immigration to Palestine was only
Washington Blvd. at Grand
Jewish life. To properly evaluate trickling in, Land purchase on a
River Aye.
this record it is necessary to divide large scale was hardly possible
Phone Ca. 9000
the 26 years into the three differ- and not even contemplated. But
ent periods which they embrace: any day the great event might hap-
1), the pre-War period, when Zion- pen. A charter would be obtained
ism and Jewish life in America from the Sultan of Turkey or
Dr. D. Segal Moves His Op- were still in their infancy; 2), the sonic other miracle might come
War
and post-War period when about as a result of the World
tometry Office to Dex-
American Jewry and Zionism War conflageration. In the mean-
ter Boulevard
grew to their full stature; and 3), time, the national chest of redemp-
the era of the Jewish National tion must be filled up. A cent must
Dr. D. Segal. an optometrist Home when the realities of Jewish be added to a nickel and a nickel
life in the Diaspora and of Pales- to a dime and a dime to a quarter
in Detroit for over 20 years, an- tino came into bold relief.
and quarters to dollars, for soon
nounces that his offices are now
When the first Zionist Congress the National Fund might have an
located at 10301 Dexter Blvd., in December, 1901, announced to
oo r f tult ry etl oar
hel-
e a t—to redeem the
corner Calvert. Dr. Segal, who the Jewish world Its decision to soil
is well known in the community, establish a Jewish National Fund,
It
is
no
exaggeration
to say that
chose this location because of its the Jewish population in the
convenience to so many of his United States stood at a figure of long before the modern methods of
mass action were being applied,
patients.
approximately 1,250,000 souls, The the band of Zionist devotees who
Outfitted with the newest eci- gates of immigration to the United directed and were engaged in the
entifific equipment, combined with States were wide open. Every operation of the J. N. F. in the
Dr. Segal's experience, Detroiters month witnessed a new influx of .United
devised and applied
are assured of excellent service Jewish immigrants from Eastern methods States
which had the tame pur-
and results on the examination Europe to these shores. The idea pose in mind and in the use of
of eyes, orthoptic treatments and of the Keren Kayemeth and the which they obtained • compara-
the prescribing and fitting of devotion to its purpose came on tively high measure of success.
glasses. His telephone number is t he crest of this wave. When the
The "man in the street," that un-
Tyler 6-9846.
Zionist Congress decided on an fathomed figure, whose sentiment
issue of Blue-White Stamps as a and opinion and readiness for ac-
Three J. S. S. B. Workers fund-raising method for the Keren tion are of decisive importance in
Kayemeth and net the price for all political movements, had his
Join in Michigan Confer. the
various countries which were say in shaping the early course of
ence of Social Work
represented in the congress, the the J. N. F. Hundreds and thou-
price for the sale of these stamps sands of men and women volun-
Three members of the Jewish in the United States was fixed at teered their services several times
Social Service Bureau took an one cent per stamp. These stamps a year for consecutive mass enter-
active part in the Michigan Con- found circulation among the new prises in behalf of the National
ference of Social Work. which arrivals to these shores. Few and Fund, The consecrated their lei-
was held this week.
far between were the native sure time to distribute boxes, to
Harold Silver, director of the American or Americanized sym- visit synagogues, to solicit dona-
bureau, was a member of the local pathizers. An occasional contribu- tions, to sell a flower or a minia-
committee on arrangements. Miss tion to the Keren Kayemeth ture Zion flag in a series of activi-
Pauline Gollub acted as chair- through the use of a Blue-White ties that punctuated the calendar
man of one of the meetings of Stamp on one's private letter or all year around. Their ceaseless
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the conference, and Harry Fein- a synagogue ticket, a donation efforts were Instrumental in evok-
berg took charge of the social when one was called to the Torah ing a response of scores of thou-
work exhibitions displayed at the in the synagogue was a good Zion- sands of small coin donors. No
conference, and was requested to ist "deed." An inscription, on the other American Jewish institu-
take chance permanently of the basis of a $50 contribution, in the tion can boast of equally as large
orenaration of social work ex- Golden Book of the Keren Kaye- a number of friends and support-
hibitions for the eoderence.
meth, was a generous bit of sup- ers as can the National Fond.
port for a sacred but distant ideal.
The figures shown in the graph
Benny Baker, still trying to Zionism In its pre-War period was for the corresponding years
tikes an early morn- a relatively calm and unruffled an Indication of the strenuous give
loan w
ef-
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stream, The Federation of Ameri- forts made along those lines, But
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