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The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

A. bequest of $4,000 is made to
the Mount Sinai Hospital, and an
other of $4,000 to the United He
brew Charities of New York, in the
will of Meyer H. Lehman, the bank
er who died June q. His estate
is estimated. to be worth ST 100000.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

The Austrian papers report that
the Hungarian-Jewish historian
Jekutiel Jehuda Grunwald, who is
at present serving with the army
in Albania following the guidance
of a priest who told him that "a
great Jewish prophet was buried
in Berat, came upon the grave of.
the pseudo Messiah Sabbath levi,
who set the whole world in commo-
ton two and a half centuries ago.
The place of his burial is marked
by simple tombstone with the in
scription "Cerigi Mehemed."
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

Capt. Julius Peyser, of the Hous-
ing and Health Division of the War
Department, has been appointed to
succeed Major Potter of that divi
sion. This appointment makes Cap
tain Peyser the head of all the i'm
portant work and practically as
sumes his elevation to majorship in
the near future.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

One of the floats in the New York
City parade of nations on the Fourth
of July bore shaft on which were
printed the names of Americans Of
German descent who gave up their
lives in the past year in the war.
Many Jewish names appeared on the
roll of honor.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

Jacob Shapiro, twenty-three years
of age, drafted from New York and
now at Camp Upton, is astonishing
every one there by. his power of
rapid calculation. In less than four
seconds he totaled three columns
of figures fifteen rows deep. He
has given the officers there other
remarkable exhibitions of his skill
in working out arithmetical prob
lens. The result is that he has
been appointed statistician at can
torment headquarters. Shapiro is
a native of Russia but has been an
American citizen for two years.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

Non Jews contributed sum ap-
proximating 100000 to the $417,-
600 collected by the Jewish War
Relief Committee of Pittsburgh, Pa.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

Several thousand members of the
Knights of Columbus gathered at
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and ap-
plauded a patriotic address by Dr..
Alexander Lyons of the Eighth Ave-
nue. Temple.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

produce a real peace. This treaty
is nothing but bartering for pc
troleum and railways"
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

Colonel Edward Jonas, who died
at his home in New Orleans, La,
on July 6, was one of seven broth
ers who served in the Civil War,
six on the Confederate side and one,
Col. Edward Jonas, on the Union
side. Col. Jonas was born in Co.
lunbus, ILL.,, seventy-hve years ago
and was the SON Of the late Abra
ham Jonas, friend Of Abraham Lin
coin.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

Miss Agnes ]. Morgenthau,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Mengo
L. Morgenthau, $40 Park Avenue,
New York, and Sidney Newberg,
were married at the Morgenthau
country home in Long Branch. 1t
was an outdoor wedding, the cere-
mony being performed under a
canopy of green.
The bride is a niece of exam
bassador Henry Morgenthau.
Emil Wolff, treasurer of Einstein-
Wolff Company, lace importers,
who died on January 9, left nearly
half million dollars to charity. &C
cording to his will filed last week.
The gifts are made in the distribu-
ton of preferred stock in the Elm
stein-Wolff Company, valued at
$500 share.
Describing a visit which he re-
Gently paid to an American division
in France Mr.. H. Perry Robinson,
war correspondent of the London
daily News" stated that some of
the best non-commissioned officers
in the American units were Jews.
The Joint Foreign Committee for
Jewish affairs Successor to the
London Conjoint Committee) re-
ceived from Secretary Balfour re-
iteration of assurance alread given,
that the British government is in
sympathy with the emancipation Of
the Jews in Eastern and Southern
Europe, and are anxious to do every
thing in their power to secure just
and permanent settlement through
out the regions concerned.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

Stockholm, July 14.-The Jewish
Press Bureau announces that the
proposed congress of Hungarian
Zionists, which was to have been
held at Budapest, has been forbid
den by the Hungarian Government.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

Tisha Bah was observed in all
the environments on Wednesday
evening of last week. In view Of the
fact that a Jewish battalion is now
fighting to free Palestine and a Brit
ish commission is now working on
plans for its restoration, the annual
fast commemorating the destruction
of Jerusalem has an added signif-
canoe.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

Ossip Gabrilowitsch, has been
engaged as conductor Of Detroit's
symphony orchestra. He is to get
$4,000 a year. Gabrilowitsch is a
Russian Jew and is looked upon as
one of the worlds greatest pianists.
He is married to the daughter of
Mark Twain Samuel L. Clemens).
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-26

At the annual meeting of the Min
nesota State Bar association at Fari-
bault August 49, a and IS, Earl
Reading, lord high commissioner
and ambassador to the United
States on a special mission. will
head the list of speakers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Crime Steadily
On the Increase

Since the United States entered
the wer the German press has re-
ferred with bitter cynicism to the
alleged low standard Of official and
political integrity, as we'll as in
dividual honesty, in this country.
Without referring specifically to
the profiteering scandals in Ger
many of the past year or more, OF
to the crime wave which has swept
over the nation which designated
treaties as mere scraps Of paper, Of
fetal statistics show that the extent
Of crime in the German Empire be-
fore the war was astounding. Evi-
dence Of this may be found In the
Imperial Statistics Of the German
Empire, " Volume 228, dealing with
Criminal Statistics" 'Dr. Thomas
Smith, author of "The Soul Of Ger
many" compiled table showing the
convictions for various crimes in
Germany and England. Pointing
out that the population Of England
and Wales is three-fifths that Of
Germany, DIR. Smith gives the fol-
lowing staggering comparisons
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

worth Of meat and 26 cents worth
Of sausage each week. The average
family expenditure for fish was z
cents week, for butter or it's SUBJ
stitutes-suet, oleomargarine and
lard--36 cents a week, and for eggs
IL cetns a week. Of cheese, a
staple German food, a family was
able to buy only to cents worth.
For other necessaries the average
family expenditure each week was:
Potatoes, Is to 16 cents worth;
vegetables, 10 to II cents; sugar,
syrup and honey, II cents; fruit, IL
cents; flour, rice and cereals 10
cents; coffee, consisting chiefly of
coffee substitutes, IL cents; tea,
chocolate and cocoa, cents; milk,
Is cents and bread and pastry, rs
cents. During peace times the prin-
cipal diet of the German workers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Canlouflage

death rate Of 1876 or 100 per thou
sand births in any American city
would be regarded with great
alarm. In 1912 the infant death
rate per thousand in New York was
only 105, and in New York there
is a mixed population, including i'm
migrants and uneducated foreign
ers. But in Germany, where the
infant death rate in cities averaged
100 to 258 per thousand, there was
no such problem. Why was there
such high rate Of infant mortality
in the German Empire?
The British Labor party and
Trade Union Commission, investi-
eating conditions of life and labor
in Germany in 1910, inquired into
the infant mortality rate. The IN
vestigators found that in the town
of Gera, from 1898 to 1907, more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

In the German Empire there was
year by year an appalling increase
in the suicides Of children and
young people, the child suicides Of
Berlin being fifteen times more than
those in New York City. Year by
year the number Of paupers in
creased, in Berlin the number ris-
ing from 31,35S in 1891 to 56,eO1
in 1909. So tr1vza- were the much
extolled pensions given the aged
that the miserable beneficlaries had
to ask for additional poor relief
aims in order to live.
While Germany, through her pub
licity agents, German professors
and American "uplift" writer's, car
ried on propaganda designed to
impress Americans with the belief
that Germany was superior in So
cial progress, German writer's made
it their policy to regale the masses
at hope with accounts of food
adulteration, municipal graft and
political corruption in the United
States. The "muck rake" articles
of those same American "reformers
and uplifters," who, while they ex-
tolled Germany, made it their bust
ness to exploit conditions here. were
relishingly purveyed by the German
press to the German people.
While the German government
sought to ALLEVIATE the loyalty and
allegiance of other peoples from
their governments, they endeavored
to render their own masses more
servile, submissive and content by
presenting as inferior the conditions
existing in democratic countries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

were forced to use substitutes and
adulterated articles instead Of pure
food. Taking the facts embodied
in reports of Prussian state officials,
the "Zeitschrift fur Oeffentliche
Chemie" published in 1914 an
amazing account Of the methods of
food adulteration which prevailed
in Germany. According to this re-
port, artificial butter was increas-
ingly being used instead Of real
butter, even in the country; ben
zoic and sulphuric acids were used
as preservatives in margarine; flour
and bakery products were adulterat-
ed with sand, talcum and weed
seeds; imitation egg mixtures were
colored with coal tar products;
canned vegetables were colored
with salts Of copper; coffee was
adulterated with pulse or lupine
seeds; fruit jellies were found to be
entirely artificial; without regard
for human health, the most fragrant
adulteration Of candy was carried
on. The penalty for such adultera-
lions, so the report declared, s'has
not been clearly defined because
the law has not been properly ex-
planned" In fact, Germany never
had any effective food investiga-
lions or scandals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

happiness and folksong? Germany
was pictured to American children
as the home of Santa Claus, of the
Christmas tree, Of marvellous me-
chanical toys.
Yet in this Germany Of alleged
happy homes many children found
death more alluring than life. In
Saxony there were eight child
suicides to every one in the United
States, and in Berlin fifteen to every
one in New York City. In the
United States registration area the
suicide rate for children from ten
to fourteen years Of age has been
0.55 per 100000 population; in
Bavaria it has been 1856. and in
Saxony 4.39. Bavaria has been less
under the influence of Prussia than
Saxony, where the working classes
are hard worked and underfed. In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Cost of Living
Relatively High

Of course, one has heard a grea,
deal about the cheapness of food
in Germany; that for a little money
one can get a great deal more than
in the United States. In addition
to the cost of food, according to q
study of a given number of fanail-
les made by the German Imperial
Statistical Office during 1907-'08,
the average family expenditure
each year for clothing was $67.22,
for rent, $95.50; for heating and
lighting, $21.62, and for miscellane-
Gus expenses, $105.19. Bearing in
mind that the average yearly earn
ing of unskilled workmen was 1910
and of skilled workmen 1878, the
difference in cost of food between
Germany and the United States was
not relatively as great as it was
represented to be. An idea of how
the German workers food compared
with that of the workers in the
United States may be cleaned by a
comparison of the food consump-
ton of the average German work
man in 1907, as reported by the
German Imperial Statistical Office.
with what the average adult male,
according to the report of the
United States Bureau Of Labor,
consumed in 1903 in the United
States:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
In some of these cities the cost
If caring for sick paupers in hos

In some of these cities the cost
Of caring for sick paupers in hos
pitals was not included. In Bavaria,
the richest agricultural state in the
German Empire, the number Of
paupers relieved, according to DR..
Zahn, had increased from 189.4S4
in 1900, to 23o,21s, in 1911. Even
at that the Bavarian statistical rec
ord was incomplete. Expenditures
for poor relief in Bavaria increased
from 9,442,955 marks, in 1897, to
17,460,000 marks, in 1911. In ten
years, from 1897 to 1896, about
$26,000,O00 was spent for poor re-
lief. That restitution was not con.
fined to the great cities was shown
in the annually increasing expendi-
lures for poor relief in two rural
districts alone:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Death Rate Higher
Than in New York

The great increase in longevity in
Germany has long been one of the
chief arguments of propagandists
for German efficiency. But figures
show that the death rate in New
York City has decreased much more
rapidly than in Berlin. According
to the figures of Gustavus Myers, the
actual gain in longevity in Germany
for period of thirty years was only
1.6 years. Comparing the period
from 1892 with the four years
from 1908-'12 the decrease in the
death rate in New York was 1913
while the decrease in Berlin was only
27.8 per cent. In short, health is not
so we'll safeguarded in Germany as
in America.
One Of the other chief arguments
for German efficiency has been the
adjustment Of the unemployed class.
Figures show that the number Of
men out of work far exceeds the
available positions. Just before
the war there were I'll applicants
for every 100 jobs, according to the
figures of the employment bureaus
in one German state. Clearly this
understates the real situation since
many men undoubtedly sought in
vain for work without applying to
an agency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Crime Increasing
Throughout Germany
But what are the facts?

1t may be assumed that the eff
cheney and integrity of govern
ment may be interpreted by the abb
sence of crime and the moral stand
ard of the people. Crime has in
creased throughout the German EN-.
pire. According to data gathered
by DR.. Thomas Smith, there were
IN Germany in period of ten years
$50 convictions for murder, against
81 in England and Wales. From
1901 to 1910 about $4,000 illegiti-
mate children were born each year,
and, according to German statistics,
25 per cent Of the children born in
Berlin are illegitimate. AS for the
superiority of Germany in pure
food, scientific Germany was the
original home of food adulteration.
While legitimate criticism was called
for by food adulteration in this
country, the United States was
never worse than the expert Ger
man adulterators and inventors OF
imitation foods. From the candy
sold to children to the coffee slipped
by those happy benefciaries of old
age pensions the rankest adultera-
! ton has prevailed for years. AS
for meat, dog slaughter houses have
been officially recognized, and in
Berlin before the war from 1900
to IA, 900 horses were butchered for
the markets.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Infant Mortality
Alarningly Great

Germany has claimed to be the
innovator of the movement to re-
duce infant mortality, to take care
Of poor mothers, to give babies and
children proper food and medical
attention-in fact, the whole "child
saving" system was claimed by the
opponents of Teuton Kultur. AS a
matter Of historical fact, this move
ment originated in France. before
the Revolution, in 1885, when the
Societe de Charlie was founded.
Milk stations for babies were estab.
l1shed in France quarter of a
century ago. Yet Germany has
advertised her krippen, milk sta
tions, clinics, maternity hospitals
and other alleged social reforms to
the degree that Socialist Bentall and
perhaps many others were inclined
to regard the possible imposition of
such wonderful government upon
ourselves with acquiescence. Ger
many has never advertised the facts
regarding infant mortality or child
suicides. In this alone is q damning
indictment Of the Prussian system.
According to official figures the
number Of deaths per hundred of
children under one year Of age in
the German Empire from 1910 to
1914 averaged II, against IL in
France and 1919 in England and
Wales. The infant death rate per
thousand in 1912, according to the
report Of the Prussian Medical De-
partment, Ministry Of the Interior
was: Berlin, 178; Danzic, 203;
Breslau. 203; Magdeburg, 2oz;
Posen, 212; Dusseldorf, 146, and
Hanover, 1879. The death rate OF
children in the East Side of New
York and the Sums Of other Ameri-
can cities has been exploited 70,
their own purposes by various Amer.
lean radicals and Socialist reform.
ers, who at the same time praised
lsverything that WAS German, "A
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Pauperisrn Doubled
In Ten Years

Pauperism in any country is an
unfailing index to "the Just distri-
button of wealth" in that country.
While Germany spent untold sums
in advertising her model homes for
workingmen, her insurance schemes
and other alleged social reforms, she
was significantly reticent regarding
pauperism. Of course, if the pen
sion system of Germany was what
it was said to be there should have
been no such thing as pauperism.
In fact, it was claimed there were
no paupers in Germany.
DR.. Ffiederich Zahn, director of
the Bavarian Royal Statistical Office
at Munich, and the greatest author
ity on poor relief in Germany, read
a paper at an international conven-
ton, held in 1912, impressivefy
called "The Fifteenth International
Congress on Hygiene and Demog-
raphy." DR.. Zahn presented facts
and figures which proved that pau
perism, increasing year by year,
was general condition throughout
the German Empire. In Berlin, for
instance, the number of persons re-
ceiving poor relief had increased
from 1855 in 1891 to 55,601 in
1909. From 1895 to 1909 between
5000 and 10000 persons were
given poor relief in Hamburg. In
Munich the number of paupers get
ting relief had more than doubled
in five years; the number who re-
ceived aims had increased from
II, 1873 in 1895 to 25,187 in 1909
although the city's population had
decreased less than two-thirds.
From 1905 to 1909 the poor relief
expenses increased almost one-third
in Frankfort-on-the- Main. In Nu-
remburg the number receiving aims
increased from 5000 in 1900 to a.
496 in 1908. In Dusseldorf the num-
Der of paupers relieved almost
doubled in ten years. In all of the
large German cities pauper burials
were frequent. While the German
military machine was in the making,
while German manufacture and
commerce expanded, while the
world was thrilled with clustering
boasts Of German achievements
stark restitution increased among
the masses throughout Germany
Public expenditures for paupert
and orphans Ia twenty-six German
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
By Ralph M. Easley
~ u;,.ruam Erecutive Council Of the
National Ciac Federution--Dk-
rector of the League for
National Unity

OR nearly a quarter OF CEN
tury-despite the fact that
\ thousands. Of Germans fled
). nxher countries-the American
,.onle have been told that the Ger
IAN masses were we'll fed and
hanny. that from infancy to old age
thew were solicitously cared for by a
fatherly government, that workers
.n;oyed shorter hours and higher pay
.hsu those of other countries, that
they had picturesque homes, cheap
food in plenty. According to the re-
norts in Germany there was no pow
erty, slums did not exist, German
babies were provided with pasteur-
;sed milk and cared for in Nippen
and clinics, and in sere old age, in
usad of poverty or the almshouse,
the happy Germans enjoyed ease,
comfort and freedom from worry
through the marvellous German sys-
TEN of pensions.
In fact, so delightful were the
living conditions Of the masses of
German workers before the war, as
presented by German propagandists
and certain American sociological.
experts" that many people in this
country pinned for the paradise pro-
yided by the Kaiser for his de-
voted subjects. Especially were So
cialist leaders, whose political phi
losophy came from Germany and
who opposed our going to war with
Germany, outspoken in the belief
that the German system was better
than our own. j. c. Bentall, former,
Socialist candidate for Governor of
Minnesota (recently found guilty by
jury in the Federal court of Min
neapolis Of violating the espionage
act and also under sentence for OBJ
structing the draft, declared in
effect in a public speech: what if
the Germans come over and rule us?
What do we care who governs US
30 long as we are we'll fed and
hapuv?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Conditions Unknown
To Most Americans

The system which has worked out
IN Germany is what the German
autocracy by force of might would
impose upon the people of the world.
Should it be desired with out
stretched arms as blessing for all
mankind? The Allies have given
their answer, and America has given
her answer. Yet so long-continued
and persistent was the German prop
uganda, aided and abetted by such
writer's as Fred Howe and Morris
Hillquit, that many Americans are
still in ignorance of the actual facts
concerning conditions in Germany.
When they realize what actually
existed they will better understand
Why the peoples of the world must
resist the thing called Prussianism
with force to the utmost.
Facts concerning the social and
working conditions in Germany up
tothe outbreak Of the war have been
gathered for the League for Ma
tional Unity by Gustavus A. Myers,
the we'll known historian and re-
search writer These facts have
been assembled from official Ger
man documents and other authori-
tative sources. What do they re-
veal:
The annuity banks of Germany,
instead of benefting small farmers,
operate almost exclusively to the
advantage of Junker landlords. The
poor peasants are still paying off the
Ieudal impositions of five centuries
ago. Because they could not AFFORD
machinery, German farmers were
opliged to employ women and chis-
dren, who worked beside the oxen
ana the plough. Women in 1912
earned 38 to 48 cents a day and
children over IL years "a cents q
day.