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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

LOCAL NOTES

A charmingly appointed wedding
was that of Miss Esther Goldsmith,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David
Goldsmith, to Hyman Harry Koff-
man, which took place Tuesday eve-
ning, June 24th, at the home of the
bride, 333 Kirby avenue cast. Rabbi
Judah L. Levitt officiated. Mr. and
Mrs. Koffman are spending their
honeymoon in the cast and will be at
home to their friends after July 15th.

The engagement is announced of
Miss Reva Rosenthal, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. If. Rosenthal of 103
Elliott street, to Mr. Louis Berman
of this city.

There's a Right
Piece of Furniture
For Every Spot

Mr. A. Friedman is registered at
the Hotel Astor, N. Y. C.

Messrs. Adolph Freund, Myer S.
Fink, Simon Rosenzweig and Her-
man Weis will leave Detroit Mon-
day, June 30, fur St. Paul, where they
will represent Pisgah Lodge, No. 34,
I. 0. B. Ii., at the Grand Lodge Dis-
trict No. 6 convention.

HENRY BILLIKOPF ON
t
Wire
i Your Old House
WAY BACK TO STATES [ Fixtures
for sale at reasonable

Henry Itillikopf, of New York city,
formerly executive director of the
American Jewish Relief Committee,
who has been studying conditions in
the hear-torn countries overseas
expected home this week.
Mr. Billikopf has consented to write
a series of articles for the Detroit Jew-
ish Chronicle on existing conditions
in Europe immediately upon his re-
turn. Readers of this paper may well
look forward to Mr. Billikopf's writ-
ings as a source of intense interest
and valuable information.
Mr. Itillikopf, it will be remembered.
recently became the recipient of the
greatest material testimonial ever be-
stowed on any Jew in public life in
this country, when he was presented
with a gift of 550.000, expressing the
great personal appreciation on the
part of prominent Jewish men and
women throughout the country for the
efficient manner in which he raised
millions of dollars in behalf of Jew-
ish war sufferers in Europe.

prices without destruction to
building.

Jack N. Houston

711 Pennsylvania

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HAMTRAMCK

The Most Successful
Little Town in the Union

People everywhere are talking

about ilamtranick—that busy little

town Hamtramck.

And

that dy

nandc dos. Cainpau frontage in

Hamtramck is much sought after.

If you want to secure choice Jos.
l'ampau frontage in Hamtramck.

see me. Through my ten years'

experience, and hying in constant

Inter-Allied Commission's

touch with the owners, enables me
Mrs. J. K. Berliner, of 666 Brush
Report About Ready to secure choice business frontage
street, is leaving Sunday, June 29.
for a motor trip to Chicago where
for you at a saving.
she will visit with friends for about
London:—The Inter-Allied Com-
two weeks.
mission which consists of two repre-
sentatives from each of the three
countries—England, France and Am-
PLANS COMPLETED
erica—and which is investigating the
FOR Y. P. A. MOONLIGHT pogrom at Chanstochov, is said to be
almost ready with its work. The
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All plans are now complete for the commission, at its hearings, has al- •
moonlight ride to be given by the ready interviewed the Polish repre-
sentatives
at
Chanstochov,
as
well
as
Young People's Auxiliary of Shaarey
Zedek, on Thursday evening, July 10 the representatives of the Chan-
The steamer Put-in-Bay will leave stochov Jewish Community, and us
about ready to hand in its report.
the foot of First street, at 8;30 p.
The steamer can accommodate 4,500
people, and front advance reports of
ticket sales, a capacity crowd is ex-
pected.
Finzel's orchestra will furnish the
music for the dancing in the spacious
ball-room on the second deck of the
11•111.11M
boat. Special entertainment has been
planned for the evening.
We offer a limited amount of 81' prefered stock with
Tickets can be secured from mem-
bers of the committee, from any mem-
common stock at a very attractive price.
ber of the Young People's .Nusiliary,
or at the dock.
We Manufacture Tractor Motors

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OU have tried time and
time again to rearrange
the furniture in each
room of the house.
The results in some in-
stances, have been an im-
provement in other rooms no
amount of changes produced
the desired effect.
Undoubtedly there is a piece
of furniture lacking! Some-
thing needed for just one spot.
We specialize in unique
pieces, tainty bits of art!
Handsome, big comfortable
chairs!
There is no store in Detroit
that offers a greater variety of
handsome furniture that this
big store and you will un-
doubtedly/ find just the thing
that has4ong been needed to
complete that room.

S. K. SLOBIN

ALL

' 1919 Dime Bank Bldg.

The Jewish Chronicle
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Chief Motors Corporation

EMINENT PSYCHOLOGIST
BECOMES ASST. SUPT. OF
HOUSE OF CORRECTION

From state psychologist of New
Jersey to a buck private in the Med-
ical Corps and thence to the assistant
superintendency of the Detroit House
of Correction—that has been the
somewhat novel experience of Dr. 1.
Z. Taub, of New York dity, now a
resident of Detroit.
Dr. Taub, for four years state psy-
chologist of New Jersey, winner of
end
h
a philosophical fellowship consisting
FIVE BLOCKS NORTH or GRATIOT
DIVE BLOCKS [We/ WOODWARD
of a $6,000 endowment, a member of
NORTH-BOUND rOURTUNTH CARS PASS THE 0000.
Phi Delta Kappa, a fraternity of emi-
nent Psychologists, and holder of sev-1
eral degrees from New York college
and Columbia 1_ niversity, enlisted as ■ „„
a private in the medical corps at the
outbreak of the war, and was sent to 0
Georgia.
btrvi(,), rgkin tgli esroti '. TbeY
shoaidn es ,:licectent:, i( 1 e (rje
Not being a physician, Dr. Taub
food vvas tam d
in that Mandl of
to Vienna for these refugees %vith the „rvi„ so far i as personal advance-
BY LEO WOLFSON.
,
permission of the American Food Re - Intent was concerned, but the medical
,a mel arc trying to get !department needed psychologists and
Paris:—Horrible and gruesome de-lave Mere shadows of human beings. I lief
rei .t. 1 .; 1 ). havci however,
some im
ih i n
in Cdnunission,
i
his extensive training in that field HI
tails about the conditions of the few- ' have never seen anything like it, said
it . ws, because technically I served the government in good stead. 1/
They move like serious dill
ish refugees in Vienna were given to' Miss Lowenstein.
we are still at war with \ustria and
lie was sent to Custer with the u
me by Aliss Harriet Lowenstein, of shadows, listlessly helpless and with guarantees must be given that the
rank of first-class sergeant and took
the COMIlliSSi011 of the Joint Distrilm- something of a tatal resignation. It loud permitted to be brought in will charge of examining the mentality of
tion Committee, who has returned to , rends one s heart to pieces to see not go to thccitettly. The work
the raw recruits. lie determined just
children — thin,
Paris, alter a visit there and in other !those
emaciated,. there is carried on under serious dis- what men were mentally capable of
' deathly pale, most of them unable to 'advantages, but carried on it is nev-
eastern European parts.
absorbing the training at once and be-
Some thirty thousand Jews from stand on their tiny weak feet—they .ertheless, and it is of the most heroic
ing sent abroad without delay. He 0
Poland and Iltikowina, seek... have a glazy, icy stare; listlessly' kind.
selected the men who were to be as-
,
‘,,
ing to escape the horrors of their mutely they look at you--you feel that
MI SS 1.0WC11Steill was very modest signed to the labor battalion, and he
own ruined and devastated regions, pin are staring in the face of death—
,
about her own share in the work, and examined the accused in court-martial
sought refuge in' Vienna. Well, they inevitable death caused by starvalgth that of the Commission of the Joint
cases and reported the degree of their
jumped front the frying pan into the and lack of power of resistance. They Distribution Committee. I gathered
intelligence.
fire. Vienna has suffered and is still are in a sort of stupor and nothing the impression, however, that they are
Dr. Taub continued this work at 1.1'.
suffeeing from the effects of the war. can bring a smile into their little faces. , trying to do everything possible im-
S. Genera! Hospital, No. 36, until his'
Business is practically suspended; There is something grave and despoil- , der the circumstances, and that the
discharge. May 23. 1919, when Ile
there is hardly any work; and the dent about them, and all of them look' relief work amongst these refugees is
found himself slated for the assistant 0
scarcity and lack of food is even now old, prematurely old, her beyond their „ cogre ,tsing,
superintendency of the Detroit House U
felt. The Vienese population is ac- actual age. Whatever will become of '
of Correction, in full charge of the 0
mally starving; the rations of food them is beyond human conjecture.
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psychological work instituted there
To
the
credit
at
the
Vienese
Jews
it
are merely a form of expression;
Detroit Motorbus Company
since Supt. G. Burt Banta assumed
there is hardly enough of anything to should be stated—that although they ”`
his
position on May 5. He will con-
to
Operate
100
go round to meet the local needs. had their own bitter, hard life to lead,
tinue this research work in his new
The houses and habitations have de- their own innumerable troubles and
position.
Dr. Taub and Mrs. Taub,
teriorated to such a degree, that many worries, individually' and collectively, I A partial solution of Detroit's trans-
of them have been condemned and de- they stood bravely by their own, in I portation problem has been.presented formerly Miss Sadye NVeinstock, of
No Ion- this city. are thing in the l'arsons
Glared as unsafe for human habitation:spite of hitter criticism and actual to strike-weary Detroiters.
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To a place where such conditions pre- hatred of a large part of the non-Jew- ger will its long suffering strap-hang- apartments.
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tail, that great number of Jews ish population. Nlany of them opened!ers fret and fume at unprotected

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Detroit
Phone—Cherry 340

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Michigan

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men of long experience, trained in courteous, help-
ful handling of the banking business of our clients.
We are exceptionally well-equipped to handle
banking abroad.

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Our savings department, offering national bank pro-
tection for your savings, is a deservedly popular
feature. This department is also open Monday
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flocked, and you can—nay, you cannot , their own houses. shared their rooms 'street corners waiting for the car that Served Government,
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tiiti.:a it:,i(iicti. t i hta,,ri:
possibly imagine how they lived—if with the refugees. and many a time does not coincoming,
Now Opens Office Here
you Call call such a state of existence took a morsel of food from their own her them. Disdaining
living. There was no room for them families and gave it to the unfortun- alde. _rattling surface cars that pass
One of them, a irregularly, they will step confidently
on the streets until the condemned ate in their midst.
liter having spent the greater part
Abraham Cooper
David Cooper
double-deck. shock-absorbing. of last year in the employ of the
houses, which ma) tumble down ally hIr. Deutsch, a wealthy, pious
Jew 'sml
iiil)ft.a clean, smart automobile, the
minute, were placed at their disposal. has kept and fed for many months.i•
United States \Vat. Department, help-
In these so-called houses, from garret forty refugees in his own home. They : new Detroit Motorbus.
ing to solve the problem that arose
to cellar, they are crowded and herded could not, however, cope with the sit-, The Detroit Nlotorbus Company, a with the signing of the armistice be-
;corporation organized under the laws tween the manufacturers and the gov-
together, worse than cattle. Many of nation. it was beyond their ability.
2219 Dime Bank
Cadillac 7509
of the State of Michigan, with $1,- ernment as to proper disposition of
:them actually have not space enough •
No Bread to be Had.
500,000 authorized capital, under the war material and war claims. Charles
i tgi hut;
on ti t ,s11_ou,i,ra rtroo,Ivi.e ddoaw; kn . f
They tried their utmost to feed direction of prominent Detroiters, has
Klein has turned in his resignation to
alter]. unfit for any living being. them in some manner—the food was,. in the course of construction 100
Fire
h o tcrter.hard') deserving of the !vehicles, especially adapted for mans- the Secretary of \Var in order to again
Burglary and Theft
much less for human beings. Nlany
take up the practice of architecture.
Plate Glass
Health and Accident
To he sure not through any iportation.
They are doulibwilcck
share cellars with its and vermin - name.
Mr. Klein graduated from the die- 1
Automobile
fault
of
the
Vienese
Jews, but simply ;buses, seating 22 inside, and 25 on
Compensation
partmcnt of engineering and architec-
and 01 , rats are the better off thcre. •
This is because they could not do anything , the upper deck—in the open air. Safe,
than the human occupants.
ture of the University of Michigan in
else. A .number of popular kitchens dependable, liberal service is as-
11Q,_. exaggeration— Miss Lowenstein
1916. His new• offices are located at I
picture the were upend. but there was not stired.
could not find words to
92 Ilroadway. -
horror of it all—and actually shod- enough of them, and people had to', The three initial routes planned will
„lac,. stay for many many hours in hue, i be on East Jefferson, with terminals
!king aishooni.iden
tiered
these places. waiting for some concoction of water at Campus and Hudson Motor Car
Think of me n,
and crushed maize. called soup, which Company; John R and Brush streets
who
once lived as human beings in
place, of their own. haying to occult ,. in a small quantity was the food ra- in combination, from Cantons to
such quarters, and imagine if you caw.
. tion for the day. Some days, bits of Ford plant; Cass and Second avenues
meat and fats were mixed with the in combination, from Campos to city
the tragedy of rt. ,
soup. Then the pious Jews would hunts. Busses are to rim 2V., min-
Food Problem Difficult. 'rather fast than eat it. Bread! There utes apart. The sale of stock in the
Unspeakably bad as these places are ' was none to be had, and when it was corporation has been authorized and
—they still afford some sort of a slid- obtainable it looked more like horse regulated by the Michigan Railroad
ter. Now comes the food question manure, ill-smelling, and mouldy, and Commission, now succeeded by the
These people had to have some food thin there was not enough of it. Nliss Michigan Utilities Commission.
Is Nature's most elegant mode of locoinotIsn"—Mcuillard. Scores of passengers
on which to subsist, and how to get Lowenstein showed me a piece of the
The venture on the part of the De-
describe their sensations in delighted, ecstatic phrases—the supreme experience of a
, so-called bread, which these refugees troit Nfotortnis Company is not an ex-
it became a question of supreme
lifetime.
The difficulty can hardly and many in Poland had to use when periment. Buses are an established
Portancc.
be realized for not only didsenna obtainable. We would not give it to certainty, and a splendid success; as
suffer from lack of food, but the 1- a dog in America, and it is beyond our evidenced by New York's experi-
cnese population resented this crowd- to realize that the thing I saw could ence. New York operates 250 mo-
ing of the city by strangers and their b e ca ll e d by the name of bread, and torbuses which carry 36,000,090 peo-
being compelled to share the little that human beings could eat such ple every year,
they had with them. Add to that , f ou l, ill-smelling, miserable looking
The officers and directors of the
that many of the Jews are strictly or- stuff and live through it.
Detroit Motorbus Company, are:
thodox and will not eat everything.' Miss Lowenstein then told time of Richard NI. Meade, of New York
and you have a situation which baffles the work of the Commission of the city: William J. Kennedy, Herbert
dealing with. How they were able to Nut Distribution Committee tinder- Y. McMullen, F. \V. Hutchings Sher-
A soul together up to -- , took to do there. Max Pine and Mr. man I). Callender, Herbert \V. Alden
keep body an-
now, is a mystery of the power of vi- Gillis, of the commission, were placed i Fred M. But: el. Orrin S. Goan am'
tality and human endurance. Theyiin charge, and they are organizing W. F. Evans.

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