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July 21, 1916 - Image 3

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The Jewish Chronicle, 1916-07-21

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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

3

Story of the Louis Smilansky
Honor Medal

What One Man Has Done and Is Doing for the
Jewish Youth of the City

Louis Danto Says:

Whoever heard of a deceased
husband or father who had
too much life insurance?
Wives sometimes object

widows never do.

Young men sometimes object
to Endowment insurance—old
men with maturing policies
never do.

LOUIS SMILANSKY

"I have had many honors in col-
lege." It was a prominent young
Jewish attorney of the city who
spoke. "I have been congratulated
since on successes at the bar, but I
will never again experience the
thrill or the pride I felt when the
Louis Smilansky Honor Medal for
Oratory was pinned to my coat
lapel years ago."
There are men in Detroit today.
and big men they are—men who
are leaders in their profession,
business men who are helping to
make Detroit's industrial history,
men in other walks of life who are
up among the top-notchers—who
cherish as one of their dearest pos-
sessions the Louis Smilansky medal
awarded them when they were but
mere lads.
Yet • comparatively few in the
Jewish community of this city have
heard of the Louis Smilansky
Medal, and comparatively few are
aware of the splendid activity of its
donor in encouraging public speak-
ing and debating among the Jewish
youth of this city.
It was back in 1895 when a
dozen Jewish lads, mostly students
of the Central Iligh School, finding
that it was difficult or impossible
for them to join some of the stu-
dents' debating clubs because of the
intense feeling of racial prejudice
which pervaded them, organized
the Philomathic Debating Club,
which today is one of the most
flourishing of all Jewish junior or-
ganizations. The leading spirit
among the organizers was Louis
Smilansky, now a well known De-
troit attorney, then a youngster in
his teens.

And now, years later, when suc-
cess has crowned his efforts, he
has not forgotten the club which
he helped found and where he
learned much that was help-
ful to him. He is a frequent
visitor at its meetings, and as a
real and substantial mark of his in-
terest in the Philomathic Debating
Club and its activities lie donates
annually a gold medal which is
awarded to the winner. in the club's
yearly oratorical contest.
Among the winners of the Smi-
lansky Honor Medal are : Isadore
Levin, recently graduated from the
I larvard Law School and at pres-
ent a practicing attorney of this
city ; Samuel J. Rhodes, editor of
the Jewish Chronicle ; Maxwell
Friedman and others.

It is reported that the Hungarian
government forbade the refugee
Jews from Galicia and flukowina to
settle there.

Mr. Gustav Rosenthal, who died
at hi§ home in Raleigh, N. C., last
month, was seventy-nine years of
age

H. RUDAIn

634 HASTINGS STREET

(Near Rowena Street)

High Grade Furnishings

For Ladies and Gentlemen

I. BERKOWITZ

Dress Trimmings and Supplies
Onyx Hosiery and
Mercde Underwear
Kayser Silk Gloves

396 HASTINGS ST., DETROIT

Louis Danto Offers:

The oldest American company. All
forms of life and endowment insurance.
Convenient premium settlements.

Premiums waived upon loss of
feet, hands or eyes, or upon]total
disability.

NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE CO.

of Boston, Mass.
Organized 1835.
Assets over $73,000,000.00.

LOUIS DANTO

Manager

Office, Main 2749
Telephones I House, Cadillac 3024

UTTER 2, THOMSON, State Agents

623 Penobscot Bldg.

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