A merican 'apish Periodical Cotter ▪ CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 30, 0300 PAGE SEVEN THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Evidence of Former :" IllEmomminmonnimm o mmummommonimminmmmond40.0minmnnommonnionmmitmmonsasannmnommmommimmommommiennmomm o m m oml ■ Jewish Life in Spain OPPORT Quaint Synagogues, Streets and Residences; Spanish Families with Jewish Names; Beauti- ful Women with Distinctive Jewish Features, Reminders of a Past Grandeur. To Share on an Equal Basis in a Big Successful Business I n many big towns in Spain there are beautiful remains of the ancient Jewries, the streets and buildings hav- If you are a conservative investor, the following little bit of Detroit history will interest' Fourteen years ago there became associated in a real estate firm in Detroit, three men' b ;Wide banking and real estate experience. They chose the name ing been preserved intact to this day. There are, for instance, several fine residences which belonged to wealthy Jews before 1492, especially the two LAMBRECHT, KELLY & C beautiful .synagogi in Toledo, with their Hebrew inscriptions. In Cor- dova, an important part of the old Jewish quarter still exists, and there these men. If ieluird G. Lambrecht, the President, was with the Peoples is a beautiful little synagog with in- situated in a street named Calle Mai- ■ , . Iltisltegon for seventeen years. churches which were formerly syna- ries is that of Gerona, the birthplace of Nachmanides Ramban). It is built in a tine gothic styl•, and the old com- munal house is now used as a school. In Saragossa there ate whole' streets of the old Jewry still, preserved with the residences of wealthy Jewish den- izens. Another old Jewry is that of Polite- vedra, which is supposed to have been the town where the alleged Jewish forebears of Columbus lived. All these places will prove attractive to Jewish visitors, especially to no., of Span- ish. descent, because nor, is no doubt they will pick tap old associations. ■ 'there are thousands of Spanish fam- ilies bearing Jewish names, and they know they are of Jewish extraction. Several members of the Spanish no- bility are also of Jewish origin. remarkable that the Jewish type is Since its organization the Michigan Investment Company has paid 327 per cent in dividends, including 300 per cent in stock dividends and 27 per cent in cash dividends, on the common stock, and 35 per cent cash dividends on the preferred stock. Today, with Detroit the (tenter of the motor industry; with the most pros- in those parts of Spain which have communities, especially Andalusia and Catalonia. Never can one see in Europe such beautiful types of women with their wonderful eyes, lairous and diviiNitied line of manufacturing of any city in the country; with the future transportation problems to be solved by good roads and automo- biles; with Detroit just starting upon its growth; these men out or their long experience see the immediate need and N'Iltit possibilities of profit for a great financial organization adequate to meet and handle the problems of 1)etroirs natural elegance, and most attractive elasticity and dignity as are to be found in Seville and Granada. First Jews in Modern Spain. real estate development. Thu. nucleus of the organiration is already available. with years of success- ful operation' behind. it. There is nothing experinitiY4111 abOut its'oPeration, its standing . or its Stli•er,ks. It is merely it matter of enlargemlint tht!' Up to 60 or 70 years ago there were My Jews living in Spain.,,ithout ltkik 41 ■ 64ig to the war in Morocco, several Jewish fatuities' gettled'in Sevilre . and 'ii I tist'inel 'it Company will he Managed by the salmi Tim new, large MiclUgaiklii‘I men who made the foregoing companies successful, and it will combine iCII the features of the old Laiiihrecht, Kelly & l'ompany and the old Aliehigan'In- vest mint Company. 1, cij The stock of the Mieltigl'itivestinent Company consists of 200,000 shares of CO11111101' stock, $10 par Vi hie, and 300,000 . sharett of 7 per cent cumulative preferred stock, *10 par value. No Mold: will be sold at's than par, and the first 100,000 shares of corn: 111011 stock will be sold with is .'goal number of shares of preferred stocic. For eatill $100.00 invested you ' riiiicive $50.00 of preTerred a n d $50,00 of com- mon stock. After that allottNiAt is taken, no share of common stock ean'be sold unless the purchaser bity4Two shares of preferred stock. There is no promotion or'ivitered stock. Every dollar's worth of stock will be paid for in cash. Whenever iii the past yoUliave been ofTi:red stock in any proposition, you have invariably been asked to go into something on at speculative chance.lhe men who approached you have .eited to you some similar proposition, the eue- cess of which they hoped to duplicate. . : : ' • ' . . With this proposition we need cite no other company's success. Take the same men,. the same organization, plus a large, new capital, the wonderful op- portunities now offered, and you can estimate what the results will be. This eorporation will develop into one of the strongest financial institutions in the west, and your IISSOCkiltiOp with it, as„a stockholder, will put you in a i t!. ' las the tiriT sion. Unfortunately', during the re- cent war, several of these families went back to Morocco for business purposes, and communal life in Seville was temporarily interrupted. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ .. - A tant one in Spain. Almost all the Jutish war refugees who came to CAPITALIZATION $5,000,000 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • . ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ PI $3,000,000 Cumulative Preferred, $2,000,000 Common Par Value $10.00 Per Share Spain settled in Barcelona. Although it is possible that after the signature OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS of peace several of the refugees will leave Spain, the communities will still RICHARD G. LAMBRECHT, President President American Loan 8. CHARLES BORNMAN, Director President John Bonin= & Son. DANIEL KELLY, Vice-President Vice President American Loan & Trust Co. GUSTAV DIETRICH, Treasurer Treasurer American Loan & Trust. Co. WILLIAM J. BERRY, Director sanerinteLdent MIchigan State Telephone Co. Trust Co. flourish. There are very few Jews in Spain who are Spanish subjects, and, as a whole, there are scarcely 1,000 Jews in all Spain. As the degree of expul- sion has been tacitly revoked by the CARL WISNER, Secretary Secretary American Loan k Trust ('o. new constitution, there are no prac- tical disabilities. The late Senor Gus- tave Bauer, whose sons now represent the interests of the house of Roths- ■ ■ JOHN R. BODDE, Director Cps-President Peoples State Bank of De arch. C M. BURTON, Director Pri?-ialent Burton Abstract & file ( o. Director Wayne ('oun'y and Home Savings Bank of Detroit. Ai n • lately been founded in Barcelona, and this promises to be the most impor- V. 73-75 Griswold St. Corner of Lamed St. , A community un a larger scale has Senate.—Chicago Israelite. ■ ■ ■ • Michigan Investment Company 1 I;4 community in Spain since the expul- child in Spain, was a member of the ■ ■ ■ ■ position where you C1111 consult ivith financial experts if you need adveie This 'is an oppprtunity which is conservative and,safe., rf voitase., itfIfi0 - ii i ■ 0," troit, , egme down to oin:offiee itt tioy'sontlatt4St corner of 0 ;s: ■ 4151 iindstittnell 1:'• 1'i .strtrefs.` If tou live (oft of tattrnlatlitefor stock reservation immediately. k i.' Stock an Be Purchased By Paying 20% Cash With Subscriptio n and 'the Balance ity Four Equal Monthly Installments 4 posirea., they formed a little community' there With a 3§11411. Loan & Trust ("ompany because, Unity It could not absorb theinerienti ,\.. the. Aliehigan law, a corpoTiy on (+arterial to deal ill reel ektate and real estaic securities cannot exercise 't it broad t rust poNvers vested in a trust eompani.. r,..gom pany, however, will have he tilt. 101111O quarters, The American bowl & Tito and as it is managed by the same people, the advantage to both corporations ill obvious. ,, i , . Dividends Ill'. payable Jammu 1st and July 1st of each year to stockholders or record as of June 15th anal December Bath, respectively. cit v. even 'still preserved with such purity Jewish it has besides about $70,000 in surplus and undivided profits. It has paid cash dividends every year sine' its organization, besides the above stock dividends. and has Imlay OVVI . $4,000,000 ill assets. Again in 1914, IlleSe Olen were among the first Its grasp the opportunity In- offered by the needs of a growing city, and they organized the with ant original capital of $25,o0o eommon stoidi and $50,- vcslucut This elimpaily deals in land contrails and mortgages--ii development of the real Ps 11110 lalsnioss whit'll follows naturally the rapid growth of a Proslwrolls type of fanatical Catholics. It is very large ment of only $10,000, they have paid large cash dividends, and their present holdings have been appraised at about 4,4 50,000. This makes something over four thousand per (Tilt on the original investment in fourteen years' time. They are subdivision experts, as well as dealers in improved property, and have sold over fifteen thousand lots to satisfied, customers, who have always made at profit by following their adviee. 'Phew men, wide awake always, were the first to see the opportunity offered for a trust company to handle real 'sinus 1101111S, and in May, 151)6, they or- ganized the present Ameriiiiiii Loan & Trust Company. 'rids Trust Company started with an original capital of $25,000, and at the end Id the first yen!. increased it Its $50,000. The second year it again increased its capital to $100,000. In 11117 it declared a stock dividend of 100% and sold au additional 4100000 w01111 Of stock, making its present capital $300.000, and 001) preferred stor(. It contmeneed doing business in 1tctober, 1914. though these are now of the Spanish To grasp this opportunttyrn new corporation known as the Aliehigan In- has beep organized, with a capital of $5,000,000, and it Ivi11 take over the business of 14qthreclit, Kelly & t'olopany, and the 1)11(1 Michigan Investment Company, moil `ON'er,y dollar received by the stockholders of tile lannlorecht, Kell). & Compaox for their valuable holdings is reinvested in the stock of the new couipany ' ' vestment Criminaly thistav Dietrich, the Secretary and Treasurer, was with the Ilackley Na- tional Itallk of Altiskegoit for twenty-three SellIN, 1111.y have grown to he One Of the three leading real estate firms in Detroit, and their sueeess is attested by the fact 111111, starting with an original invest- togs. One of the most beautiful Jew- PANY enlargement it has been deemed leis(' to admit the general piddle as widely as possiblo, for the business of such a company grows in direct ratio to its miquaintaneeship. Daniel I elly, the Vice-President, was with the Ilackley National Dank of monides.. In Seville there are four ■ ■ ■ enlarged needs. And in this Savings Bank. now known as the l'eoples State Baal( of Detroit, for fifteen Fears, in charge of their mortgage department. scriptions. round the building, which is ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ J. C. S. C. McLOUTH, Director General Manager Michigan Salt en. Shipbuilding Co. President Marino President Liberty National Bank or Marine City. City Michigan Investment Co., 73.75 Griswold St. Gentlemen: WILLIAM T. FRY, Director CONRAD H. SMITH, Director Capitalist. WIthOut any obligation . on my part, please send ma further Infor- mation about your investment J. O'BRIEN KIRBY, Director JOHN WYNNE, JR., Director Investment Banker. Name Vice-President Brighton State Bank President Kirby Inveslunent Co. EDWARD P. KIRBY, Director Secretary-Treasurer Kirby Investment ('o. JOHN E. LAMBERT„ Director Secretary' Clayton & Lambert Manutactur. Mg Co. RALPH B. WILKINSON, Directoil Hinkley, Ateys Wilkinson, Routier & H. LEONARD WILTON, Director capitalist. Address ■ • • • is s•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••I•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Nri GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO JEWISH SOLDIERS Addressing a public meeting re- cently at Boston, Masss., under the auspices of the Associated Y. M. H. A.'s of New England, Major General Clarence R. Edwards paid this tribute to the bravery of the spirit of the Jewish soldiers of the 26th division: "It seems but yesterday that I stood in a Jewish synagogue in France at- tending a service after the battle of Chateau Thierry on the occasion of the burial of several men of the He- brew faith who had smilingly made the supreme sacrifice. With me, I re- call. were Congressman Isaac Siegel of New York, Corporal Bencin J. Rise- man, who occupies a seat on this plat- form this evening, and two other Jewish soldiers who are here with us this evening. "I want to tell you that the Jews made an enviable record in the war. This is true in particular of the Jew- ish men of the Y. a I. remember in- stances where formerly intolerant Gentiles asked that Jews might be made officers in order that they might become leaders. Those very Gentiles wanted to follow and imitate the Jew upon whom they theretofore looked with a cross and suspicious eye. "Many a Jewish lad of the 26th gave his life with a smile on his face. You good people here touch my heart tonight. You have reason to be proud of the valor of your sons over there." TAFT PLAYS IMPORTANT PART IN FORMULATING POLISH-JEWS TREATY HEBREW SCHOOL SYSTEM IN JERUSALEM Jews of America. many of whom did l not understand the attitude of Presi- dent Wilson and his colleagues. For- mer President Taft sent a personal' cablegram to Mr. ‘Vilson, pointing The following extracts are made out that inasmuch as the chief source Mr. David Lawrence, in a Washing- of religious irritation in Europe had from a report of the Palestine Office ton dispatch to the Evening Bulletin, on the Hebrew Schools. been with respect to Poland• a pro- We have now a comprehensive sys- says: vision -wisely might be included in "Publication of the text of the 'I the treaties recognizing the independ- tem embracing the educational insti- treaty between the United States, tutions all over the land under the ence of that country. Great Britain, France and the Ell-: "Mr. Taft argued the same thing supervision of the "Vaal tente Allies on the one hand, and Po- had been done with respect to Serbia, (Board of Education). There are in land on the other, make it possible to Rumania and :Montenegro, when their Jerusalem 39 schools, with 4,569 pu- that provisions giving special pro- independence was proclaimed by the pils and 177 teachers, In Jaffa 13 tection to the Jews in the pursuit of Congress of Berlin. He insisted the schools With 1,937 pupils and 75 their religious customs arc the dirett same course might apply also to the teachers, in the colonies of Judaea outcome of the efforts of President new treaties with Czecho-Slovakia, and Samaria 13 schools and 1.202 pu- Wilson and former President Taft. pils and Is. teachers. In Haifa, Ti- Bulgaria and Hungary. "Originally the Jews sought a gen- "President Wilson replied to Mr. berius, Sated, the two colonies of eral declaration of religious freedom Taft the course he had outlined would Lower Galilee, and Damascus, there to be incorporated in the preamble to he followed. This cablegram was sent are lo schools with 1,300 pupils and the League of Nations. At inure than a month ago, but nothing N. teachers. Altogether there are 9,- was urging a declaration has been said publicly about the mat- 2,4 pupils in the schools under Zion- of racial equality. ter, because the negotiations were not ist supervision, which is about 75 per "Difference of opinion among the cent of the total number of children complete. Allies made it impossible to reach an "An examination of the various ar- of school age in l'alestine. Further, agreement by acceding to the desires ticles of the Polish Treaty and the some thousands of children attend of Japan. It was felt as a conse- letter transmitted to Premier Clemen- schools, which, although not under quence that in eliminating the general ceau to l'remier l'aderewski shows the administration of the "Yazd provision with respect to racial equal- how the suggestions of Mr. Taft have Hachinuch have nevertheless adopt- ity the Allies would be inconsistent if been carried out to the letter by ed our Hebrew curriculum. We may they retained the principle of religious President Wilson and his associates." , therefore conclude that the number freedom. Expediency demanded both of children who do not now receive clauses be excluded, so progress on proper Hebrew education is very The Jewish Charitable and Educa- small. To this latter number belong the treaty might not he hampered. All. Equality to tional Federation of New Orleans, Taft Argues schools whose medium of teaching is "This action, nevertheless, caused La., has opened a permanem suinmer in French, English. Yiddish, Ladino considerable disappointment to the, camp at Bay St. Louis. I (Espanol), or Arabic. There are al- say 'time Japan the same so some children who do not receive any education at all, but the number of these is insignificant. Of course, it is the object or the Hebrew Board of Education to provide these chil- dren also with a national Hebrew ed- ucation. The number of schools un- der our administration is increasing and the recent improvement in teaching is very considerable. The influence of the non-Hebrew schools is considerably lessened. Their moral and material importance has diminished so much in the last few years that they scarcely deserve now to be taken into account. The following Orthodok schools are now also under the "Vaad Hachinuch": the schools of the Mizrachi (Tach- kemoni in Jaffa, the Orthodox schools in Detach Tikvah, Rishon-le-Zion, Rehoboth, Ekron) as well as the new l'eshibah in Jerusilem, six Talmud Torahs in Jerusalem, and the Tach- kemoni and Ortholo Kindergartens in Jerusalem. i ist organization. The School Budgt ' is more than treble the amount of ' former years. These new burdens have been gladly taken up by the ' Zionist leaders, in the conviction that ; the great educational and political value of the work of our Ilebrew schools in Palestine will be fully rec- ognized by all Zionists. German Peace Delegates for Jewish Palestine The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zei- tung," the official organ of the present German government, recently printed an article in which it said that there was every reason to believe that the German delegates to the Peace Con- ference will stand strongly'in favor of a Jewish Homeland in Palestine. It is rumored in high official Ger- man circles, that among the German delegates will be a number of well- known Jews, who will be the govern- mental advisors on all questions rel- A number of Hebrew Evening ative to the Jews. Among these will Classes have also been established, be Herman Struck, famous Jewish . for the better dissemination of the painter and Mizrachist, who will be language, in Jerusalem, Jaffa, and assisted by Prof. Sobernheim, Dr. other places. _ Fuchs and Herr E. Lichtheim, Three excellentt4Perts are now at the head of the Lieilwew School Sys- Mr. Arthur K. Kuhn, la'wyer and tem, viz., Dr. Epstein, Dr. Lurie, lecturer on international law at Co- and Dr. Turow. lumbia University, has been elected This gratifying progress of our a commissioner of appeals for three schools demands considerable finan- years by the Grand Lodge of Masons cial support on the part of the Zion- of New York state.