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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
FORM BETA CHAPTER OF
For scientific eye-sight examination
and perfect fitting glasses
GAMMA PHI SIGMA HERE
Let Them Call It What They May
It's Right Name Is Saloon
COUNTLESS ATTEMPTS have been made in
this and in other states to fool the people into
voting for acts and amendments that will bring
back the saloon with all its attendant evils and
dangers.
THE USUAL PROCEDURE is to give such legis:
lation harmless sounding titles, but by a tricky
use of words—a camouflage of language— slip
a joker into the text that will give it, when en-
acted, the opposite power and effect to that
which appears in the title.
A MORE VICIOUS use—or rather abuse—of the
intentions of voters cannot be imagined--but
what can you expect from a business founded as
was the saloon on the weakness and cupidity of
the weaker members of the race?
RIGHT NOW IN MICHIGAN a last desperate
attempt is being made to do just that sort of thing.
UNDER A TITLE thct sounds like one thing, an
amendment that means just the opposite, is up
for your decision.
IT IS CALLED the "Beer and Wine Amendment."
When the "Wets" speak of it they use the term
"Light wines, etc.," but as a matter of fact the
word "light" does rot nppjar in title or text-
.. and a heavier weapon was never used by the ad-
vocatea of a befuddled world!
FOR IF YOU WILL READ this latest attempt
to nullify Michigan's best piece of legislation—
the "Dry" act—you will find that it means just
this—bringing hack the Saloon in its worst form
and with its most harmful accessories.
CALL IT WHAT THEY MAY—word it as they
may, to conceal its true intent—this "Beer and
Wine" amendment's right name is "The Saloon
Amendment."
DON'T BE DECEIVED by the wheedling of those
who have always advised only for their own
profit—and your loss.
READ CAREFULLY; weigh every word; and
make up your own mind what the saloon inter-
eats are trying to get you to do.
JUST AS AN EXAMPLE of the difference be-
tween what they say about it and what they say
in it:—
THEY ARE SOLICITOUS—Ohl so feeiingly
solicitous!—lest the poor farmer be denied the
privilege of making cider from his own apples.
That would be a great hardship you will agree.
They weep real tears over his predicament.
VERY WELL—Read that amendment and you
will find cunningly concealed in verbiage, yet
clearly stated, that if that "Beer aud Wipe" amend-
ment were passed the farmer could neither make
nor sell cider without first takirig out a license
—same as a saloon or a brewery.
CAN YOU BEAT THAT for double dealing? Yet
they fondly hope that enough Michigan voters
will be fooled by the title and by their propa-
ganda to vote for this thing that would put the
saloon back even stronger than it was. •
"OH, WINES ARg HARMLESS," they say.
Verily? Wine is the standby of the "Side Door"
and the Cabaret. And the Cabaret and the
"family entrance" are the most vicious phases
of the Saloon—they ruin women as well as men
and degrade both.
WHY, SOME FOREIGN WINES have almost as
great an alcoholic content as the strongest
whiskey—and create a worse form of intoxica-
tion.
"AND BEER" they used to tell us—"why in
Germany even the children drink beer. Beer
drinking is universal there."
WELL, WE HAVE SEEN what Beer will do when
universally used) Was ever a people more de-
graded—more brutalized—more deadened to the
difference between right and wrong?
JACKMAN
Beta chapter of the Gamma Phi
Sigma Sorority has been organized in
Detroit. Among the charter members
are Ruth Koploy Rosinsky, Esther
Lamport, Pauline Alvin&Freda Kop-
loy, Bess Rosenberg, line Bielfield
and Edythe Brown. The first formal
meeting was held Tuesday evening,
March 25, at the home of Mrs. Jos-
eph M. Lamport, a member of Alpha
chapter, of New York City, who is a
graduate ni Barnard College. The
purposes of the sorority are social
and charitable.
MAKE THE BRAIN SODDEN—render it, by
constant soaking in beer, only half active--and
you have a being more akin to a brute than a
man. Tractable? Yes--but never dependable.
NO—WE NO LONGER hold a beer soaked people
up as examples of—anything.
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Young Judean Literary
Club.
Atiorttoarien
The regular meeting of the Young
Judean Literary Club was held Sun-
day, Nlarch 23, 1919, at 2:30 p.
The business matters were dis-
cussed and it has been decided to
postpone the package party indefi-
nitely on account of the Jewish holi-
day which will soon be here.
l'he program which was on "Zion-
ism" and "Who's Who in Its 1.eader-
ship," was given by the various mem-
bers at this meeting.
For the next meeting the debating
team have arranged a debate: "Re-
solved, that the U. S. have tlx largest
navy." Those taking part are; Af-
firmative, Mr. J. Forman and Nit:. H.
Rothman; negative, Mr. S. Bershko-
witz and Mr. F. Barbas. Also some
other members arc to speak on
"Zionism." The next meeting will
be held Sunday, March 30th. All
those who wish to be present at this
meeting are requested to come. Th,
Y. J. L. C. meet at 224 Warren .\ v-
enue East.
AMERICAN GENERALS found that men
who"went over the top sober were better able
to do their part and take care of theMselves
— especially if wounded —than were soldiers
who had grog served to them to lend an arti-
ficial, momentary courage.
THEY EVEN TRY—the Saloon propagandists- -
to make you think our soldier boys resent the
abolition of the saloon.
WHAT AN INSULT to those brave boys and to
your intelligence.
AS IF EVERY AMERICAN SOLDIER were a
toper so addicted to his booze that, like a dope
fiend, he would fight if deprived of it.
THAT'S THE VERIEST Fur of course. They
know it is—else why do they not dare say just
what this "Beer and Wine" Amendment really
means?
WHY DO THEY TRY TO HIDE its real intent
under an innocent sounding title, and hide its
meaning again by a tricky use of words? Why?
BECAUSE THEY KNOW that the people who
voted Michigan dry still want it dry. And they
know, too, that the votes of the men will now be
supported and augmented by the votes of Michi-
gan women—and they know what that vote will
say.
THEIR ONLY CHANCE to get the saloon back
is to make you think they want something else.
For they know you want no more of the saloon.
IT IS THEIR LAST forlorn hope—their last dying
kick. The saloon is gone never to return. The
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OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT
15 MILLIONS SENT
FOR RELIEF OF JEWS
Since the beginning of the war to
March 1, 1919, the Joint Distribution
Committee made appropriation:
amounting to more than fifteen mil
lion dollars. The following sum:
were apprdpriated for the designated
countries:
$2,612,304) for Russia; $27,530.24 fot
Siberia; $7,599,158.04 for Poland
Lithuania and Kurland; $1,683.700.01
for .Austria and Hungary; $2,098,
485.86 for Palestine; $11,528 for refu
gees from Palestine; $93,521 fot
Greece; $25,000 for Serbia; $5,000 for
Serbian Jews in Switzerland; $863.
581.80 for Turkey; $7,785.51) for Bag
dad; $56,394.84 for Alexandria; $11,20
for Switzerland and Denmark; $9,1010
for Tunis, Algeria and Morocco; $13,-
000 for Spain; $18,500 for Bulgaria;
$155,900.00 for Roumania; $15.5 00
provision for Jews in internment
camps; $25,700 for Persia; $70,000 for
the Japan, Russian refugees in Yoko-
hama; $5,000 for the families of Rus-
sian soldiers in France; and $300,000
for American Committee for relief in
the near East.
longer we are without it the less we miss it—
the less does anyone want it back.
THEY'D LIKE TO DRIVE a wedge in the Federal
act by getting this amendment through in Michi-
gan. That is the big significance of this at-
tempt—that is why so much outside money is
being spent in propaganda here.
TRUTH TO TELL there isn't much Michigan
money being spent—Michigan breweries and
Saloonists look upon it as a dead issue. They
are making other plans and are not sending more
good money after bad.
BUT OUTSIDERS are still frantically trying to
get Michigan back in the wet column so as to
prevent nation-wide prohibition and the utter
dismantling of every brewery and distillery in
this ccuntry.
FOR THAT KIND OF PROHIBITION does pro-
hibit—no more chance for disgraceful scenes like
that recently between Toledo and Detroit.
THEY HAVE EVEN TRIED to make this appear
a religious issue—their propaganda says some
denominations are against a dry state.
IT'S NOTHING OF THE KIND—a few men of
all denominations favor a Wet condition. But
the vast majority of all religious denominations
are for a dry state and a dry nation.
THIS ISN'T A MATTER of religion; of sect ; of
nationality. It is just a matter of decency and
sanity and good citizenship as against rowdyism.
WATCH THIS THING—it is counterfeit. It
does not mean what it says. Its title is a mis-
nomer. Its intent is vicious. It dresses in the
guise of liberty—"personal liberty"—its effect
would be to enslave again.
IT IS CALLED "The Beer and Wine Amend-
ment"—its real name is Saloon."
DO YOU WANT the Saloon back?
SABBATH BILL BEFORE
N. Y. LEGISLATURE
The bill brought before the assem-
bly at Albany by Samuel J. Dickstein,
to the effect that Jews in all large
cities of the state who do not work on
Saturday, should be allowed to con-
duct their business on Sunday, is now
to be amended by consent of said as-
sembly. Morris Asovsky, executive
director of the Agudas am Israel, has
introduced this amendment, which
asks that only three large cities in
the state should be given this priv-
ilege of doing business on Sunday—
tamely, Rochester, Buffalo and New
York City.
It is expected that a great part of
the opposition to this bill from up
state will disappear with the accept-
ance of this amendment, and that the
bill as amended is likely to pass more
easily. In the next few days the
Assembly Codes Committee will pass
upon this bill and it is expected that
a majority will be in favor of it.
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