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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
POLITICAL
Organization of Jewish Y oung Men
Responsible for City Clean-Up
Campaign
DETROIT'S CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR.
Citizens of Detroit and Wayne
county are rallying to the support
of Frank II. Leland, of Detroit,
for the republican nomination for
governor of \l ichigan. It is antici-
pated that there w ill be more than
80,000 votes cast in the republican
primary for Wayne county On Au-
gust 29, and it is anticipated that
Yr. Leland will have a majority of
at least 30,000 out of. this number.
Decision of City Government to Thoroughly Clean-Up Detroit's
East Side Is Direct Outgrowth of Plans of Montefiore Club
Some months ago the NIontetiore
Club of this city, an organization of
young Jewish men, having awak-
ened to a realization of the lack of
sanitation in Detroit's ghetto,
launched a campaign having as its
aim the education of the residents
of the district to the dangers inhe-
rent in uncleanliness. An organi-
zation of 500 Jewish business men •
of the district was formed, which
pledged itself to the work of clean-
ing up Detroit's East Side.
The city authorities, when they
learned of the situation, gladly of-
fered their co-operation in the
movement, and as a result the three
most important departments of De-
troit's city government are now to
unite in an endeavor to make the
district the cleanest, most healthful
and sanitary possible. That section
of the city will ill fact become a
veritable laboratory, where many
new sanitation plans are to receive
their first practical application and
trial.
Says It Is a Hobby.
The plan of a special clean-up
FRANK B. LELAND
Frank II. Leland's services 'as
member of the Board of Regents of
the l'iliversity of NI ichigan, espe-
cially in his capacity as chairman of
the Finance Committee, has saved
tens of thousands of dollars to the
tax payers of NI ichigan.
NIr. Leland was born on a farm
in Oakland county, where he walked
seven miles daily to the village and
high schools in order to prepare
himself for a college education. I le
has felt the pinch of poverty, hav-
ing been obliged to earn his own
living and pay all his own expenSes
in the University of NI ichigan,
where he completed the literary and
law courses. Ile later practiced
law in Flint and Detroit, finally
drifting into corporation work and
organizing the United Savings
Bank of Detroit, a successful bank-
ing institution, of which he has been
the only president.
Frank it Leland has been suc-
cessively a farmer, lawyer, banker
and business man, and has never
been identified in any way with the
automobile industry. It behooves
every Detroit voter to cast his bal-
lot for Frank B. Leland for the re-
publican nomination for governor.
on August 29.
was first the idea of Mayor Marx.
The plan was presented to the heads
of the three departments concerned
at a meeting in his office. The work
has received his encouragement and
interest from the time the first
move was made. "This is becom-
ing a hobby of mine," says the
mayor. "I am making visits to this
place out on the east side every few
days and am determined that it
shall bear ripe fruit."
George II. Fenkell, commissioner
of public works, said of the labora-
tory :
"That is something I have wanted
for a long time. What I will do
first will be to show the health de-
partment and police department
just where I can use their help and
will ask where they want me to act.
this department and the house-
holder. They complain about lack
of courtesy on the part of the gar-
bage collector. Perhaps the men
are disagreeable at times, but I
wager it is usually because the
housewife has dumped her refuse
loose in the alley, or mixed papers,
rubbish and garbage together. In
these cases the police or board of
health inspectors, being more ac-
quainted with affairs, can take up
the matter of such disputes and
place the blame where it belongs."
Dr. William II. Price, health
officer, has long used the intensive
"block system" in his work. When
he wishes to obtain a basis for some
new work his plans are first tried
out in a small district. What he
wishes to especially apply ill this
case is his new housing code passed
by the board of health. It is not
yet in operation, being ill the .hands
of the corporation counsel's office
for approval as to legality.
Favors Old Squad.
Dr, Price is in favor of the old
sanitary police squad. Ile says that
theoretically each patrolman should
look after sanitary conditions in his
beat as he does other conditions.
It tut he believes experience in De-
troit has not shown that the regu-
lar patrolmen are active in sanita-
tion matters.
The sanitary squad was abol-
ished last year and its duties given
to the patrolman on the beat.
Lent D. Upson, at the head of the
municipal research bureau, which is
making a study of different city de-
partments with a view of aiding in
establishing efficiency methods and
making suggestions, is urging ac-
tion on the laboratory plan. He
believes that the plan is feasible
and will produce scientific informa-
tion on which to work in adminis-
tering a part of the city's affairs.
He would be much interested to
Co-operation Needed.
see
as one experiment patrolmen
"We need co-operation between
assigned to the district and kept
there until they became acquainted
With all the residents in a personal
way. The real policeman, he says,
is one who can pleasantly tell you
over the back yard fence if some-
thing is wrong.
A MODEL STORE.
Fairly well-kept paint stores are
numerous. The average success-
ful business man has a pretty good
sense of order and neatness, for it
is so much easier to do business in
a businesslike way. But just now
and then we come across a store
were order, neatness, light, safety
and quick and efficient service have
all been made a matter of long and
careful study and a plan worked
out that tits in with a Ns, el I -de v e l-
oped system. Such a store is the
warehouse and salesroom of the
American Paint and (;lass (.'o. of
Detroit, in their new warehouse and
salesroom, 1'9-131 Fort Street
West.
The showrooms and stock rooms
are compact and perfectly systema-
tized. The large stock which a big
and growing business has made
necessary is arranged with a scru-
pulous care and neatness which in-
sures prompt and efficient shipping
service. The American Paint &
Glass Company sells the renowned
Nlasury paints.
As a result of an open competi-
tive examination held by Congress-
man Siegel, there was admitted to
the United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis this week, Harry
Marienhoff of 22 East 120th street
and Philip Lemler of 59 East 106
street. It may be of some interest
to know that this is the only Con-
gressional district in the country
having at Annapolis two young men
of the , Jewish faith.
MADAM MYERS
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