Page Two

Silver Questions
British Sincerity

Israeli' Envoy

Dr. Leo M. Franklin

`No Rich or Poor in House of God'

Scoffs at Concern
for Arab Refugees

LEO M. FRANKLIN belonged to his city, his country, his
people, to all mankind.
llht life was a monument to be emulated by all who live and
all who will follow.
A spiritual leader with great wisdom and warm understand-
ing, -Dr. Franklin has gone to his rest. The inspiration and guid-
ance he gave to everyone are his legacy.
Dr. Franklin was born March 5, 1870 in Cambridge City,
Ind., the son of Michael II. and Michael Franklin.
When he was six years old, his family moved to Cincinnati.
Ile spent his youth there, attending the University of Cincinnati,
from which he was graduated in 1892. On his graduation he was
awarded the Phi Beta Kappa key, the first of many honors he
was to receive.

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Takes Pulpit in Omaha

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IN TILE SAME YEAR, he was ordained by the Hebrew Union
College and became spiritual leader of Temple Israel in Omaha,
Neb., where he remained until 1899, when he came to Detroit to
fill the pulpit at Temple Beth El.
When he arrived, his congregation numbered a mere 136
members and occupied an old building at Washington and Clif-
ford.
It wasn't long before he aroused the congregants to the in-
adequacy of the building. A lot was purchaSed on Woodward, near
Elliot where a Temple and religious school were built.
At this time, Dr. Franklin made a radical 'departure in en-
forcing democracy in the Synagogue. No seats in the Temple were
to be rented or sold, on the ground that "in the House of God
there should be no rich man's corner and no poor man's corner."
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WITHIN A SHORT TIME, more than 100 congregations
throughout the country had adopted the unassigned pew system.
Dr. Franklin also insisted that the congregation should see
to it that every Jewish child was instructed in the faith of his
fathers, regardless of its parents' ability to pay.
In 1916 Dr. Franklin established a Jewish Student Congre-
gation at the University of Michigan, the first organization of its
kind to be formed in this country.
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Molded Charity Organizations

HIS EFFORTS TO create a spirit of understanding among
Jews and Christians were recognized by the University of De-
troit, a Jesuit school, which conferred on him the degree of Doc-
tor of Laws.
When an effort was made to enact a law in the Michigan
Legislature which would virtually have destroyed private and
parochial schools, Dr. Franklin compaigned zealously and effec-
tively against it.
During this period, he became perhaps the first Rabbi any-
where to have spoken from the pulpit of a Catholic church.
Dr. Franklin was instrumental in bringing together the vari-
• ous Jewish charitable organizations in Detroit. Eventually he
united them into the United Jewish Charities, out of which grew
the Jewish Welfare Federation.
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HIS CONGREGATION continually growing, in 1924 the Tem-
ple at Woodward and Gladstone avenues was completed. It still
ranks among the finest structures of its kind.
Dr. Franklin's activities were not confined to the Jewish
community and Detroit. He was active in campaigning for the
abolishment of the Volstead Act as a means to destroy the law-
lessness of the illicit liquor traffic.
Ile served for two terms as president of the Central Con-
ference of American Rabbis and as president of the alumni as-
sociation of the Hebrew Union College.
He also toured Michigan, establishing congregations in small
towns.

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Author of Many Works

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AMONG TILE CIVIC offices held by Dr. Franklin were those
of commissioner of the Detroit Public Library, member of the
board of the Detroit Symphony Society and trustee of the Civic
Theater Group of Detroit.
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Ile was one of the first directors of the World Union of
Progressive Judaism and a member of the board of managers of
the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
Among his published works were "Christ and Christianity
from the Standpoint of the Modern Jew," "Practical Problems of
the Ministry," "A Word to the Queen of Romania," and "The
Rabbi—The Man and His Message."
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IN 1944 HE WAS elected.. to honorary membership for liter-
ature in the International Mark Twain Society. Wayne University
conferred the Doctor of Laws degree' on him in 1940.
One of the founders of the Round •Table of Catholics, Jews
and' Protestants, Dr. Franklin was honored by that group when
he retired from the pulpit in 1941.
At the time of his death he was the only surviving founder
of the Interdenominational Community Thanksgiving Service
which began in 1901.
Ile was a member of the Wranglers Club, the Economic Club,
. the Great Lakes Club, the Franklin Hills Country Club and the
Knollwood Country Club.

Israel to Issue New Currency

mi ► ittAEL S. COMAY, direc-
tor of the British common-
wealth division of the Israeli
foreign office, is a member of
Israel's Mission to the United
Nations.

City Mourns
Dr. Franklin

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Dr. Franklin's death came at
3:30 a.m., Sunday of a heart at-
tack ill his home, 26 Edison, ave-
nue. The immediate family was
present at his bedside.
He had been in failing health
since his retirement from the
Synagogue he served with un-
tiring devotion for 42 years. The
only trips he made from his
house were to the Temple and
these became less frequent this
year.
SURVIVORS LISTED
An elevator had been installed
in his home by members of the
congregation to make it easier
for him to move around.
Dr. Glazer flew in from San
Francisco, where he had been
vacationing, to officiate at the
final rites.
Dr. Franklin is survived by
his wife, Hattie M.; a daughter,
Mrs. Stanley Fleischaker; a son,
Leo I.; two sisters and a grand-
daughter, Mary Einstein; and a
grandson, John Franklin.
He was laid to rest at the
Wood mere Cemetery.

NEW YORK (WNS) — The
"sudden concern" of the Bri-
tish government for the plight
of the Arab refugees can only
be considered as "synthetic hu-
manitarianism," Dr. Abba llillel
Silver, chairman of the Ameri-
can section of the Jewish Agen-
cy, declared here prior to his
departure for Israel.
One fails to be impressed by
British solicitude, Dr. Silver
stated, when one remembers
British action in the case of
the Exodus and other Jewish
refugee ships and while "11,000
Jewish refugees are still being
forcibly and lawlessly held be-
hind barbed wires by the Bri-
tish government on Cyprus and
are denied the right to go to
Palestine—a country over which
Great Britain has no right to
exercise any authority whatso-
ever following the termination
of its Mandate on May 15."
At the same time Dr. Silver
cautioned that failure of the
United Nations to implement
the partition decision and at-
tempts, on the part of the UN
mediator, to radically alter that
decision to the disadvantage of
the State of Israel would "of
necessity compel the new state
to reconsider its commitments."

Gen: Clay Hails
Work of ✓ JDC

Palmach Chief
Quits; Blames
Ben Gurion

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property abandoned by Arab cIs
vilians who fled areas controlled
by Jews.
The Arabs place the number
of refugees fit 550,000, the ma-
jority of whom, they say, a re
penniless.
SITUATION TENSE
With the situation still tense
oVer the Jerusalem issue, a dis-
turbing report from Rhodes dis-
closed that the UN mediator had
notified the Security Council that
rumors were' circulating about
"impending coups by imer
elements."
Count Bernadotte was said to
have reported that "these ii regu-
lar elements are alleged to be
uncontrollable, or to be used as
spearheads of regular forces."
His refere9ce to "irregular ele-
ments," it is believed, was meant
to apply to Irgun Zvai
whose leaders only this week as-
sured Israel's military governor
in Jerusalem, Dr. Bernard Jos-
eph, that they would accept his
authority as law.
WANTS ONE ARMY
The Palmach controversy arises
from Ben Gurion's adamant
stand, that the State can have
only one army and that it should
be officered by professional sol-
diers without political connec-
tions.
Palmach is composed of bat-
talions formed into brigades and
has separate headquarters. The
premier wants to wipe this out
and give Palmach brigades the
same status as other units in the
army.
He is willing to permit the
to retain their insignia and low-
er echelon commanders.

NEW YORK — Gen. Lucius
D. Clay, commander-in-chief of
U. S. forces in Germany, this
week praised the work of the
Joint Distribution Committee
for Jewish Displaced Persons
in Germany.
In a congratulatory letter to
Samuel L. Haber, JDC director
for the American zone, Gen. Chapter One Awaits
Clay lauded "the magnificent
work which is being done here All-Day Excursion
under your direction," and
An all-day excursion on the
pledged continued cooperation Put-in-Bay steamer is scheduled
"to the full" on the part of for Sunday by Chapter One,
both the army and the military Zionist Oiganization of America.
government.
Thoseattending will meet at
Haber, who is returning to 9 a.m. at the foot of First street.
the U. S. this week for a brief
vacation, declared that he was
U.S. Savings Bonds will help
WASHINGTON (WNS)—Revi- gratified with the general's
sen- provide future security for your
sion of the Displaced Persons timents.
home and your business.
law, recently passed by the 80th
Congress, at this special session
appeared unlikely as the Sen-
ate deferred consideration of
proposed amendments which
would, if adopted, eradicate the
discriminatory features of the
DP legislation.
In the meantime Ugo Carusi,
Displaced Persons commissioner,
disclosed that, due to a short-
age of funds, only 40,000 re-
fugees would be allowed to en-
ter this country within ' the
next 11 months.
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TEL AVIV (WNS) —A new balances Israel has in various
currency, issued by the Israeli London banks.
government in one, five, 10 and
The new currency will re-
50-pound notes, is expected to
place the present British-issued
be put into circulation within Palestine pound.
the next few weeks.

The new currency, which was
engraved in the United States
over four months ago, arrived
here this week under heavy
guard.
The, notes, when put into cir-
culation, will be backed over 50
percent by gold and other "hard"
currencies and by the "frozen"

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