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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

Candidates for Office in Highland Park

FOR RE-ELECTION

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Candidates for Office in Highland Park

VOTE FOR

Frank G. Ladd

For

MAYOR

A Man Who Does Things'

CANDIDATE FOR

his Record and Experience
Commend

City Commissioner

A Man Who Has One Standard Of Conduct, Truth-

fulness and Integrity For Private and Public Affairs.

A Constructive Faithful and Successful President.

TWO-YEAR TERM

His Policy—"A Square To All."

SUBJECT TO

VOTE FOR HIM

PRIMARIES, MARCH 6, 1918.

PRIMARY MARCH 6ST. ELECTION APRIL 1ST.

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A resident of Highland Park for eight years and a

heavy taxpayer. He is well qualified for the office of

$ clerk as he is honest, energetic and an upright man. If

elected on the merits of his past record as a citizen of

Highland Park he will faithfully discharge the duties of

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WALTER L. LORANGER

CANDIDATE FOR

Justice of the Peace

admitted to the bar In 1895, practiced 18 years. Held several public
offices and was Circuit Court Commissioner for the County of Leelanau,
Michigan, at the time of coming to Highland Park, five years ago. Was
also elected to the office of Justice of the Peace and left the (nee on
coming to Highland lark. Had held the office of Police Justice for
four years previous. The duties of the office are not new to hint, and
if nominated and elected he will discharge the duties pertaining thereto
with ability and discretion.
Since coming to Highland I'ark, has been engaged in the law and
real estate business and was with the Ford Motor Company for over
two years. He left the company in March, 1917, and in September
formed a partnership with W. S. Miller, under the firm name of Miller
Loranger, with offices at 2981 Woodward avenue.

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If nominated and elected

will give economic and con-

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Anglo-Palestine Bank, Closed early days of the war, when the Turk-
ish government declared a moritorium
During War, Reopened 'and
ordered the bank to pay all its

depositors their $2,000,000 in gold.
the Provisional Zionist Committee The idea of the government was to
has received word that the Anglo- subsequently commandeer the gold
Palestine Bank, which has been closed ' from the inhabitants.
since the early days of the war, has
As there was little gold to be had,
reopened its main office at Jaffa and the officials of the bank were in a di-
the branch office at Jerusalem. As lemma. In accordance critic the gov-
the bank is the financial keystone of ernment order, they issued checks to
the Jew ish enterprises in Palestine, depositors, payable at the window.
including the 48 Jewish colonies, re- But the depositors, Jews, Moslems
sumption of busines by it will have a and Christians, had such faith in the
powerful effect in stabilizing financial bank that only one-fifth of the depos-
conditions through Palestine. The re- its were withdrawn. Most of the de-
opening is the first sigti of the restora- ' positors simply took checks in small
tion of more normal conditions amounts, which they preferred to use
throughout the various Jewish enter- as currency. instead of the depreciated
prises.
Turkish paper money.
The reopening was made possible
These checks were the first Jewish
by the cabling of $200,000 from the currency used in Palestine since Bar-
Provisional Zionist Committee in this Eochba led his unsuccessful revolt
city. Because of the chaotic condi- against the Roman power in 70 B. C
tions in Russia, the American Zionist
organization has assumed the Russian
A census recently completed in
share of the obligation, which is also
V00000. Newark. N. J., shows a Jewish popa-

The bank has been closed since the Winn of 55,000 for that city.

Fred Caldwell
• Commissioner, Highland Park

Koenigsberg, Prussia, Claimed by the New Lithuania.

ITIIUANIA, which has declared
Its Independence of Russia, has
a history that for hundreds of
years was Intertwined with that
of Poland, with which It long main-
tained a loose sort of nnion. At the
time of the dismemberment of Po-
land It went for the most part to Rus-
sia. Lithuania now comprises the Rus-
sian "governments" of Kovno, Vilna,
Grodno, Vitebsk, Minsk, Mogilev, and
Suwalki (the last a pert of Russian
Poland.) This territory Is almost en-
tirely occupied just now by the Ger-
mans, who swept over It in their cam-
paign of 1015 against the Russians.
In the heydey of the Lithuanians the
dominions of their princes extended,
however, far beyond the limits of to-
day, reaching even the shores of the
Black sea, and embracing districts now
included In Ukraine, Poland, and oth-
er parts of Russia.

A most Interesting point about the
claims of those who have brought
about the Lithuanian declaration of
Independence Is that, In their extreme
form, they contemplate not only the
separation of Lithuania from Russia
but also the Incorporation into the new
state of German territory which cen-
turies ago formed part of Lithuania.
This district Includes the important
city of Koenigsberg, in what Is now
East Prussia, as well as Tilsit and oth-
er towns. If this district should form
part of the new Lithuania, and If an
independent Poland should have free
necess to the sea after the war through
the seaport of Danzig, formerly Polish
and now German, there would he a
small wedge of German territory, Iso-
lated from the rest of the empire, he-
tween Polish Danzig and Lithuanian
Koenigsberg. The Lithuanians re-en-
force their claims to Koenigsberg and
other cities now tinder German or Rus-
sian rule by pointing to the fact that
they have names for them in the Lith-
uanian language which the cities bore
In the old days before they were seized
by Teutons or Slays.

Once a Great Principality.
The Lithuanian nation In the fourtk
century of our era suns living along
the coast of the Baltic sea between
Riga and Koenigsberg.

From the tenth to the sixteenth cen-
tury the Lithuanian principality ex-
tended from the Baltic to the Black
sea. In that territory were White
Russians and Ukrainians or Little Rus-
sians. White Russians are mostly of
Lithuanian stock. Whoever goes from
Lithuania to White Russia soon no-
tires that the same types, customs and
festivities exist there. The language
of White Russia is 25 per cent Lithu-
anian, and the attitude of the people
toward the Lithuanians Is very
friendly.
The Lithtmnians are Indo-Aryans,
fair, light-haired, blue-eyed, tall, and
strong. They are In no way related
to the Slav or Teuton. They are sold
to have crossed from Asia to Europe
shout 2.000 R. C. They settled along
the rack sea, near the mouth of the
Danube. Gradtmlly they were driven
by other races until they came to the
shores of the Baltic, where they final-
ly settled. Here Lithuanians grew and
prospered. They were peaceful folk,
never fighting unless attacked, busy
with agricultural pursuits, and a few
with hunting and fishing. As a nation
they were prevented from going Into
mantifneturing or Into commerce by
physical surroundings, but some of the
more venturesome made trips to Ro-
man territory with cargoes of amber
and various products of their country.
The language of the Lithuanians has
been preserved to this day. Some even
say that It Is the oldest language In
use. It closely resembles the Sanskrit
and. In many cases of research work,
Is the key to It.
Beat Germans and Mongols.
The Lithuanians lived in clans until
the thirteenth century, when, because
of national danger, they handed togeth-
er. They chose Rinenudas as the first
grand duke of Lithuania, and he soon

collected a large army. Ile defeated
the Germans and stopped the western
advance of the Mongolians. He like-
wise defeated the Russians and in-
creased the territory of Lithuania con-
siderably.
Mindaugis, tee next grand duke, a
capable organizer and administrator,
continued the work successfully. Ged-
eminas, a shrewd diplomat, as is shown
in his correspondence with the popes
of Rome and the Teutonic order, was
the next grand duke of note. De es-
tablished the grand duchy of Lithu-
ania on a firm basis, vanquished the
Russians, Teutons, and especially the
Tartars, and so helped Save Europe
from the greatest disaster that could
have befallen it—Invasion and occupa-
tion by Mongolians. At this time Lith-
uania extended from the Baltic sea
to the Black sea. After the death of
Gedeminas, his two sons, Aigirdas and
Keistutis, reigned, and waged °tittles
with Teutons and Slays.

In 1500 a sort of dual Polish-Llthua-
nlan government was adopted. Even
then, Lithuania kept Its Independence,
In the three partitions of Poland the
major part of Lithuania was annexed
by Russia and the smaller by Germany.
Thus Lithuania was removed from the
mop of the world.
The people were forbidden to use
the Lithuanian language, and the pos-
session of any Lithuanian books, even
prayer hooks, was considered a polit-
ical crime, and schools teaching Lith-
uanian were closed. The Russian gov-
ernment prohibited the use of any type
In print but the Russian. The people
as a result, smuggled in hooks and
newspapers printed In Latin type, from
Germany. Eventually the imperial or-
der was revoked and the use of Latin
type re-established. From that time
on Lithuanian literature has flourished,
many newspapers having been pub-
lished and tnany books printed.

There are probably about 7,500,000
persons of genuine Lithuanian stock.
In addition to these, the Lithuanian
state would Include 1,r,00,000 Poles,

Jews, Russians, and Germans, making

a total of 0,000000 for Lithuania prop-
er. If Lettland should he united with
Lithuania It would add 2,500,000 Letts,
making n grand total population of 11,-
500,000 for the new nation.

Russian Peasant's Hard Life.
The whole existence of the Russian
peasant Is out of Joint. He Is born In
a world of earth and wood, where his
life is circumscribed oy a log cabin
that is thatched to fall, when it as-
sumes an appearance of tidiness, but
beeonies a hutse harp for the March
winds to play their woeful dirges on.
The thatch Is fed to the few starving
animals, and the dispensable wooden
props and decorations used to cook
dinner with long before the approach
of spring. Here between the unpins-
tered, undecorated walls he lives with
his horse, his pig, his hens—always
provided he has any—under the same
roof, glad of their sociability and ant-
mal warmth, being much In need of
both. Ills home Is one of the maze of
zigzaz, lopsided, weather-beaten, bro-
ken-down izlias that stand huddled to-
gether, freezing in God's solemn peace-
fulness and uncannr dreaminess. En-
chantingly idyllic on a canvas, but a
dreadful place to live in.

Java's Sugar Production.
Java is such a fruitful land that one
hesitates to specify the principal crop,
but it is one of the great sugar-pro-
ducing countries of the world
The
annual export of sugar amounts to
something like 1,700,000 tons. People
are so accustomed to thinking of sugar
In terms of pounds that nearly 2,00 ;
000 tons of sugar seems to have a stu-
pefying effect on the mind. There are
more than 400,000 acres of land under
cultivation in sugar on the Island of
Java and the average yield per acre Is
four and one-half tons, which Is a yield
that Is high above the average of

sugar land.

Candidate for Nomination for

FAVORS CHARTER AND

ECONOMIC ADMINISTRATION

He is sound on every interest that is of interest to the voter

of Highland Park

A man who deserves re-election as Commissioner

Vote for him at the

Primaries March 6th.

Election April 1st

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Vote For

R. MILTON FORD

Candidate for

Mayor of Highland Park

He believes it's time to clean up for bigger and better

Highland Park

Your support will be appreciated

at the

Primaries March 6th.

Election April 1st

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Delmer C. Cowin g

For City Clerk

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Resident and taxpayer for seven years. One year's
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; experience in the clerk's office. Acting clerk at present
; time. Your vote will be appreciated at the

PRIMARIES,MARCH 6, 1918

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It's a small thing to ask
it's a big thing to do!

Small to ask, because you'll never miss a

quarter now and then for a Thrift Stamp.

A big thing to do because every quarter

that you and your neighbor loan to Uncle
Sam brings the end of the war just that much
closer.

Will YOU Big

Thrift Stamps

Regularly?

