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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
1 4
In Quest of Lodgings
(Continued from page 12)
young man ; ich weiss? and you live
there? 1 can't understand!"
The image of my little hall room,
with its sinister green walls, its bare
floor and hard bed that provided
for only half the length of my legs,
arose before me. Yet I tnade an
effort to clear things to' "I
was in need of a room," I ex-
plained, "and (motivated by limita-
tions of financial horizon ) a certain
kind of a room. 'Ilw lady down-
stairs, whose pulse was moderated
by the darkness and general stingi-
ness Of her little bedroom, could
name terms in harmonious conso-
nance with my rent-paying capabili-
ties ;" etc., etc.
She listened to tile attentively
with eyes wide open and face up-
turned so that she seemed to be
sniffing the air with her chin, and
when 1 had concluded my futile
chatter said:
"Well, wass ken ich helfen. Fir
weist nicht wass de dichter Goethie
halt gesagt ?" Then she recited
something that sounded like an ex-
tract from the Toitch Chumseh, and
I went away haunted by the misery
of living in a room against which
the wisdom of the immortal ioethe
could lie quoted.
Obviously the only way I could
redeem my self respect was to get
for myself more respectable quar-
ters. I took off a nice afternoon
for the purpose, filled my pockets
with pieces of macaroni and started
off.
The first room I inquired about
was tucked up on the fifth floor of
a big tenement house on the same
Block. The woman was short and
fat, but had a pleasant way of smil-
ing at me, so that I was half tempt-
ed to take the room, which was
ample enuogh and opened sideway
into a big yard. lint one corner of
the kitchen, I discovered while con-
versing with her, had a stubborn
way of smelling so that I had to
constantly keep myself at a safe
distance from it. Since tender
childhood I have had an aversion
for such corners, and just then I
didn't feel that 1 possessed suffi-
cient courage to grapple with this
prejudice.
(To be coral nued)
For the first time in its exist-
ence there is a decrease in mem-
bership of the 13'nai li'rith in
Austria. All the lodges in the
district, with the exception of
three which are located in the
war zone, hold their meetings
regularly.
A conference will be held at
Odd Fellows I fall, Norfolk, Va.,
on Sunday, July 30, for the pur-
pose of considering the erection
of a Jewish hospital at Norfolk,
which will be supported by the
entire Jewish community of the
state.
"Michigan's Leading Insurance Company ''
Forty-Eighth Annual Statement
of The Michigan Mutual
Life Insurance Company
FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31st, 1915
ASSETS
$ 335,662.99
Cash in Banks
9,682,466.29
First Mortgage Liens on Real Estate
100,000.00
(Home
Office
Building)
Real Estate
Loans to Policy-Holders, secured by Reserves 1,932,248.52
25,000.00
Bonds, cash value
14,000.00
Loans on Collateral..
165,445.31
Interest and Rents due and accrued
Net Outstanding and Deferred Premiums, se-
136,537.62
cured by Reserves
$12,391,360.73
Total Assets
LIABILITIES.
Reserve Fund (including disability benefits)..$11,099,117.49
36 702.62
Premiums, Interest and Rents, paid in advance
35,514.63
Installment Policies not yet due....,....
73,342.75
Other Policy Claims..
33,707.24
Accrued Salaries, Taxes and Expenses
1,112,976.00
Surplus
$12,301,360.73
Total Liabilities
1 4.1,4,•••^
Mutual Has Some Lucrative Field
The Michi
pen' for Men of Integrity and Ability
Positions
A. F. MOORE, Secretary.
0. R. LOOKER, President.
T. F. GIDDINGS, Superintendent of Agencies.
What the Brewer Said:-
the distiller among us, because they
"Sewers aren't attractive things to
talk about, but , ,they are necessary if
we are to have sanitary, healthy
homes.
"The Cafe Roma has never been a
pleasant subject for the liquor men to
contemplate, but they must have the
Cafe Roma or its prototype to keep
the respectable saloon reputable.
"I've been in the liquor business 15
years. I know it from A to Z. I be-
lieve in personal liberty as much as
any man, but I do know that we can't
get rid of our sewers unless we give
up our homes, and the only way we
can get rid of our Cafe Romas is to
get rid of the respectable saloons
along with them.
"The disreputable saloon, catering
to young girls and boys, is the bul-
wark of the liquor trade. The high
class bar can refuse to sell to a drunk-
en man, SO LONG AS THERE IS
SOME OTHER PLACE HE CAN
GO FOR BOOZE, but it cannot af-
ford to offend its regular customers
by prohibiting them from drinking.
This would be in contravention of the
liquor men's own argument of 'per-
sonal liberty.'
"If you sell to a man at all, you'll
have to sell him all he wants. That's
personal liberty. ONE DRINK'S
ENOUGH, TWO DRINKS ARE
TOO MANY AND THREE ARE
NOT HALF ENOUGH. It's the
third drink that the Cafe Roma must
exist for.
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"The reason I got out of the liquor
business was because I knew too much
about it. I have a boy of my own and
I want to leave him an honorable
name. I don't want him to remember
me as associated with the political
chicanery and political methods of to-
day. I want him to know that I
fought for clean citizenship and when
I found the saloon was its greatest
enemy I got out of the business. I
love my family and my home, and I
know that the saloon is their greatest
menace. It's a competitor, with booze
and dollars on one side arrayed against
love and mother on the other.
"I know how legislators are bought
and sold by the liquor interests. I
know, too, the liquor men want to re-
form, but it's too late. The brewers
have laid the blame on the whiskey
men and the whiskey men have passed
it on to the saloon keeper, and the fact
is they are all guilty. The saloon
keeper is perhaps the least culpable
of any, but his business is against him.
"I say we don't want the brewer or
have too much 'pull' in politics. The
saloon keeper hasn't so much influ-
ence, but we don't want his open bar
that makes the Cafe Roma necessary.
"And, then, as I said, there's my
home and my family. I couldn't stay
in the business and tell my boy to keep
away from the Cafe Roma. I sold
booze to the Roma. I couldn't boy-
cott my own customers. I couldn't
tell my boy to get into politics and
fight for clean citizenship, because if
I did he would have had to fight
against me. I couldn't tell my boy
that personal liberty entitled him to
drink whenever he wanted to, because
I didn't want him to be a drunkard.
"And my wife! She was the hap-
piest woman in the world when I told
her I was going to quit it. She knew,
even more than I did, what an enemy
of the home the saloon was. She
knew, more than I did, that I didn't
want to sell my franchise for a mess
of pottage as I have done in my work
with the legislators and town coun-
cils, and her happiness at my message,
'I have quit,' has repaid me for all the
financial sacrifices I have made to get
out of it."
MAKE MICHIGAN DRY.
VOTE YES, NOV. 7.
Wayne County Dry Campaign Committee
708 Kresge Building
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