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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919.

VOL. VI . NO. 16.

A Message to the Jews
of Michigan

Dime Savings Bankl
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By JACOB BILLIKOPF

THE "HINNER KRANK. itErr."
I have a message fur Michigan.
ront the Jews of
It
is
a
message
f
In this orphanage I saw a group
Resources Over $35,000,000.00
0 Poland, which I have heard front of sixty or seventy children squint-
their own lips, a message repeated ing and blinking their eyes. 'f he
to me a thousand times throughout physician informed me that they
Member of Federal Reserve
United States Depository
the length and breadth of that in- were sutTering from what the Ger-
credibly unhappy country, — in
I mans called "Milner Krankheit."
ilangoraram
Warsaw, in Vilna, in Lemberg, in
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Cracow, in I.odz, and in a score of I lie explained that lack of food
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General Banking business transacted.
Interest paid on Savings deposits.
Drafts and Travelers' Checks sold.
Money loaned on real estate.
Safe Deposit Boxes to rent.

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Per Year, $2.00; Copy 25 cents.

Trustworthy
Investment

FIRST
MORTGAGE
BONDS .

Unquestionably people are wiser. They
seem to judge securities with a shrewder
eye for safety.

The sad results that follow in the wake of
speculation have made their imprints on
the minds of people.

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Patrons' interests are our first consideration—the most °
courteous, acceptable service is at all times extended.

And as a result bonds such as our 6% First
Mortgage Real Estate Serial Gold Bonds
are in greater demand than ever before.

Our ample resources, sound, efficient management, and
helpful service make an account in this Institution particularly 0
desirable.

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Their known safety and stability together
with their liberal interest rate makes them
the must desirable form of investment to
be had.

We extend a cordial invitation to new depositors, with the
full assurance that their every banking requirement will be
effectively met.

They are based upon First Mortgagee upon
new, income-producing buildings and land.
And the security is always of considerably
greater value than the size of the issue.

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Write for Booklet,

MAIN OFFICE

Dime Savings Bank Bldg.

"Questions and Answers on Bond Investment"

Griswold and Fort Streets

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Branch Offices:

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1491 Woodward Ave.
1306 Grand River Ave.
1475 Fourteenth Ave.
2321 Grand River Ave.
1221 Jefferson Ave.
789 Woodward Ave.

Broadway and Withercll
1381 Harper Ave.
407 Gratiot Ave.
418 Michigan Ave.
591 Oakland Ave.
Mt. Elliott and Davidson

Federal Bond
& Mortgage Co.

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"Detroit's First Mortgage House"

Phone Cadillac 5989

90 Griswold Si, Detroit

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JACOB BILLIKOPF

Can You Save $50.00 a Month?
Would You Do It for $5,000.00?

smaller towns filled with the wreck- resulted in partial blindness. They
age of destitution, disease, hunger, were hardly able to see during the
and persecution. I wish that I day time, but their eyesight was
might transport the Jews of Michi- partially restored at night. These
gan for one brief moment to Poland children were being fed on cocoa
to hear for the, selves the voices of and chocolate bought with Ameri-
anguish which I can only feebly; and can Jewish Relief funs r
., the physi-
Open a Systematic Savings Account. Save
vicariously express. I wish that I cians hoping that prop r diet would
$50.00 each month.
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condition.
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might show to my friends in Michi- restate them to norm,
$4,200.00
gan Krochmaina, the most ghastly I have lwen in social work of all
84 months x $50.00
Jewish Warsaw, the him- kinds fur so many years that I
street in
800.00
5' compound interest
dreds of children, crippled by thought I had become accustomed
rickets, and the hollow-chested to all sights of misery. But in
Women carrying in their arms wan Poland, I continually violated all
$5,000.00
babies that look to be undernour- the principles of organized charity
Draw out in cash
ished infants of six months but who which I have invariably• advocated
turn out to be children four and and gays away money right and left
Griswold and Congress Streets
Systematic saving is what does it. It is the only positive
five years old. In Krochmann chtl- to families in the depths of destitu-!
ahead. You can draw out every dollar paid in
dren are only born to wither before Lion and despair. My conscience
way of getting
they can even feebly blossom. I would mat let me do otherwise.
after 3rd payment, 5% after 12th
any time with interest at 4%
AN•INCIDENT IN VILNA , But it is nut this elementary relief i
carried
through for 84 months.
if
alone that I sir unhappy people in
payment, full earnings
Surplus and Profits $700,000
er
Throughout sty
incidents Poland want.
Capital $1,000,000
even worse
t e y
i\ 1%1 . trowels,
Accounts from $1.00 per month up.
s u pir ti i c n i g t tt o o ntrye • klt i t i e is. . c l hltic ardnly ig, Ik ano
cry ( 1 4".t a ll s elhii e twti . s ‘ .l i trc Y t \ t'nit l i e urtem\i ‘ ti i t e is '
Deposits, $14,000,000.00
Py
for aid of a constructive character.'
Vilna Henry G. Alsberg, the well- We appreciate. they said, "111(1.1
known foreign correspondent of the " flour, oil. money. etc.. that you are I
Nation, and 1 were returning, sending ns• but you arc only making
late from a conference in w inch we
a budget of relief. Sod•I schnorrers of us. We \sant you to
In
five
prepared
so that we;
We opened for business in August, 1914.
we bear d a soun d o f so bbing I help us get on our feet
denly
have increased our Surplus and Undivided
and shrieking. It took us some time can lift care of ourselve-s." This
years we
is after all the great problem facing
to locate the source of this sound, in'
Profit accounts $450,000.00 and accumulated $14,-
the dark, on the narrow streets. us! N.dhing can compare in im-
iortance ii ith this vast necessity for
420 Farwell Building
000,000 in Deposits.
Finally', we came upon two little . I
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children on a stoop--a boy of live relief that i s mare
than remedial.
or six and a girl two or three years I We must establish loan associations
A MUTUAL SAVINGS INSTITUTION
and co-operative , ; we must supply
older whose appearance was that of 1
all
hinds
with
the
toils
of
,
a yowl. woman of eighteen years.1 artisan trade and we must make
Ask for Booklet Explaining Our Four Savings Plans
President
and of their
John Ballantyne
The little by was obbi ng over
provision
of
raw
material
so
that
Vice President
so sleepy. I want
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over : 'Till, I :1111
David Gray
industry may begin again and the
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Vice President
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to find some place to sleep!" The people who are compelled to live __
John P. ilemmeter
become indepen- tanthasistintalatuasamitnsaimanllaisinaamisamisonmuinamaisianatifflatiamaitaatistummonsioattaanamitte.
little girl was trying to quiet him.
Vice Pres. and Cashier
Benj. G. Vernor
Fs'
15)11 charity may
ESTABLISI1ED 1885
Later we found that it was com- 11 dent
E-t
Vice President
and self-supporting. To do i
Alfred T. Lerchen
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monplace to see homeless children this e must have money, money,
Assistant Cashier
w
Henry Wiegert
in the streets and that it excited no
money.
and
more
Assistant Cashier
comment or even interest from the
Walter R. Joy
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A SPLENDID R E SPONS
people of the city. There is so
.4
-
l
any
states
have
already
re- F.
much suffering in Vilna that peo-
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?.:
E.:
ple have grown accustomed to hor- •p011lied magnificently to this
P.
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peal.
Intensive
non-sectarian
cam-
those
children
upon
whom
a
rors. -
of
Manufacturers
P.
we stumbled were 011iy two m„,t of paigns have been held ill all parts of i
and
unprecedented
WIRE
CLOTH,
WIRE
WORK
hundreds. Their father and mother the country and
were dead and their aunt had dis- sums have been raised. The fol- i
ORNAMENTAL IRON WORK
appeared. They begged on the lowing list will indicate what has
streets during the day, but had no been accomplished by this method.
Bank and Office Railings
$ 99,19817
place to sleep during the night. The Alabama
Phone Melrose 3126
111,7(0.12
we
succeeded
in
getting
corgia
r gia
Geo
, next day
Detroit, Mich.
147,268.42
Iowa
the children into an orphanage. We
109,766.12
iiiminmontionninimummotnainuminimonwmaiminninceininamminionomosinnnnigidlommonnuilumumninua
Mississippi
found, however. that this orphan-
162.494.29
Carolina a
could ordinarily accom- Northaro
55,000.00
leadership will unite in our humani-
tgc
Arizona
answer. Under the generalship of
modate sixty children was attempt- K a i, s a s
tarian cause the entire citizenship of
00
,
°(
000.W
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30.
5°
David
A.
Brown,
of
Detroit,
and
2
ing to provide for to w hundred with I Kentuc k y
400,1300.00 with his characteristic enthusiasm Michigan. And I have every confi-
an insufficient supply of food andl i.ouliiana
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of Michigan
.00
125,00000
South
Carolina
Michigan will do its full part. This dence that the Jews
facilities
in
the
the most inadequate -
50 ,000.
will rally to the cause that must ap-
Dakota
South
campaign
is
to
be
state-wide,
inten-
way of beds, linen, and other neces-
500,000.00
most poignantly to their hearts
sive. non-sectarian. I have every peal
cities. \Ve were informed that Te
J. H. McCLELLAND, Branch Mgr.
and to their loyalties. I have no
several hundred children in addi- What will the Jews of Michigan confidence that the rare genius of
for the outcome.
lion were on the waiting list clamor- reply to this message which I have David Brown and his inspiring fears
85 Shelby St. DETROIT, MICH. Cadillac 4671
ing for admission to the institution. brought from Poland? I know their

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