THE JEWISH CHRONICLE 4 Russian Subjects Ap- peal to President Wilson. tional temperament. The propor- LONG DISTANCE PHONE 836-,J tion of blindness is greater among the Jews than non-Jews, and nearly STRICTLY KOSHER all diseases of the eyes have a dis- Special Dinners for Tourists Despatches from Stockholm to tinct predilection for the race. MT. CLEMENS, MICH. B. MUSCOVITZ, Prop. Berlin newspapers, says the Over- Idiocy is not uncommon among the seas News Agency recently, tell of race and the causes are probably the formation, in Sweden, of a referable to neurotic taints. Mar- league of members of various non- riage of those near kill has been Russian races who are subjects of considered a prominent cause for the Russian Empire and that the the prevalence of idocy, but statis- CHERRY 4211-R 98 RUSSELL ST. league has sent a cable message to tics do not bear out this contention. 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We are always edly the primary cause of this nerv- "The letter to President Wilson glad to offer suggestions, submit proposals and blue prints without enumerates the grievances of the ous instability of the Jewish race any obligation on your part. different nations against • the Rus- lies in the repeated persecutions and sian Government. One paragraph abuses to which the race has been subjected for centuries. Sudden Phone Cadillac 2370 reads : Salesrooms: 100 Jefferson Ave. " 'We Jews of Russia are en- massacres were of common occur- thralled as no people on earth. We rence in the middle ages and their are abandoned to physical and in- effect upon the nervous system tellectual misery. Our attendance could not have been other than a at schools and universities is for- rigorous one. Through experiment bidden. We are crammed together upon animals it has been demon- in the Pale and are exposed to strated that subjection to fear for 124 GRATIOT AVENUE pauperism and destitution. In bar- several hours produces a distinct change in the nerve cells. What barous pogroms the beastly instincts of the mob arc let loose against us. must have been the condition of the BEGS TO ANNOUNCE THE ARRIVAL OF THE Our dwellings are looted, and every nervous system in Jews whose en- day our brethren languish in most tire existence, almost, was a contin- uous state of terror, is not difficult atrocious misery.' to imagine ; a weakened nervous or- IN MEN'S AND YOUTHS' CLOTHING HEALTH AND DISEASE ganism of one generation was trans- OF THE CELEBRATED AMONG THE JEWS. mitted to the offspring and in them (Continued from page I) further undermined ; to these suc- ROCHESTER HAND MADE CLOTHES While the race thus enjoys a rela- cessive weakenings of the nervous We carry the lines of the following well-known clothing manufacturers: tive immunity to many diseases it system add the mental tax de- is not to be envied ill every respect, Michael Stern and Company manded to overcome a hostile en- for there are affections which arc McGraw, Benjamin and Hayes vironment, and can you wonder, particularly prone to affect the Jew ; R. 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