THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
PAGE SIX
Life's Pace Too Fast
For One Out of Ten,
Says Wm. J. Norton
Jf
Robinson-Cohen Co.
The
East Side's
Greatest
Store.
Secretary of Detroit Community
Union at B'nai Brith Luncheon,
Says Over 100,000 Detroiter'
Are Failures in Life's Struggle.
The
East Side's
Greatest
Store.
Corner of Hastings and High
Five Blocks North of Gratiot
Five Blocks East of Woodward
Fourteenth Ave. Can Pais the Door
RABBI FRANKLIN IS
NEXT SPEAKER
CLOSED SATURDAYS—OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS
That
over 100,000 people in Detroit
alone are obliged to apply to some
organized charitable institution for
assistance every year was brought out
address
in a forceful and
by William J. Norton, secretary of
the Detroit Community Union, at the
weekly Forum luncheon of the It'nai
(frith Club, Tuesday noon, December
16, at the clubrooms, 25 Broadway.
Mr. Norton painted a passing pic-
ture of the structure of American so-
ciety by describing it in terms of a
race; stating that in this country we
stand upon an individualistic philoso-
phy believing in the ascension of the
opportunity of the individual to make
of himself what he can in the t ace of
life.
"We are all running in this race,"
Islr. Norton declared. "We start at
the beginning to attain a definite goal.
And the minimum goal in this race is
the one of self-support and self-re-.
spect. The goals of comfort, luxury,
honor follow.
"It is the glory of America that
any man born in this country may
aspire to he president, a judge of the
'Supreme Court, a genius in literature,
a great teacher, a rabbi. All goals
'lie before ds, and it is the wonder of
America that though a man start at
the bottom, he may attain the heights
CONTINUING THE SALE OF "LILY"
451b. MATTRESSES
95
Not to be Duplicated Elsewhere
$
Under $18, but Now Offered by
Robinson-Cohen as a Special at .. .
to which he aspires.
Pace Too Swift.
"But the pace is tremendously
swift, We are so organized that one
out of every 10 of the runners fails
to attain even the minimum goal of
self-support and arc forced to depend
. upon organized philanthropy of one
kind or another. Over 100,000 people
in Detroit fail in the course of a year
to retain their speed in the race."
The failures, Mr. Norton pointed
out, were due to inequality of oppor-
tunity, as contrasted between the
child who is born to inherit millions
and another who comes as an added
burden to poverty-stricken parents—
to physical endowments that gift one
with a rich inheritance of energy and
brilliancy affil strength and handicap
another fruit birth with weak men-
tality, lack of energy, stunted physi-
cal growth—to the scourges that take
their deadly toll, to diversities and
misfortunes.
The needs of these laggers in the
race of life gave rise, Mr. Norton ex-
plained, to the formation of a multi-
tude of charitable societies, sixty in
number, in this city alone. Because
cif lack of organization, too much
sentiment and too little business tac-
tics, these institutions were Incurring
great overhead expense, tremendous
duplication of effort made stock of
in too many instances by the un-
scrupulous, confining the giving to a
narrow circle, all resulting in gross
inefficiency and wasted energy.
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The Community Union.
The Detroit Community Union,
composed of all the principal char-
itable organizations of Detroit, the
speaker related. was organized to
eliminate the ills that weakened the
institutions of mercy, eradicating all
duplication, carrying the story of all
agencies back of the lines, cutting
down the operating expense to the
lowest possible minimum, operating
on a highly efficient basis and thus
carrying on its humanitarian work in
the most telling and constructive
manner.
"If one man in every ten fails," Mr.
Norton declared, "and continues to
fail, then the Revolutionist has some
ground of complaint. It is our sol-
emn obligation to take care of that
10(1,000, to see that as far as possible.
they may be made self-supporting and
self-respecting, to eradicate the social
ilk, to rebuild the social structure so
that the unfortunate conditions may
not be repeated in the next genera-
tion.
"If the pace ill the race of life is
too fast, it must he slackened. If
not, we must provide relief stations
on the way and ambulances to aid
those who impeded by some unfor-
tunate handicap, cannot keep us. The
Community Union acts as agent a
Its problems
t
t hese relief stations.
are the problems of every Americ an
citizen who must get behind the load
and see that the job is done!'
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PALESTINE JEWS START
A COMMERCIAL COLLEGE'
E have decided to ex-
tend the time limit on
this sale and give the
public a bigger op-
portunity of buying these
L, •
splendid "Lily" mattresses
at this greatly reduced price.
About half the shipment of
1,000 m attresses has al-
ready been delivered to De-
troit homes.
The price
quoted
is me re-
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tory. We are
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acting in ac-
cordance with
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the plans of
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the makers,
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who desire to
place their
rew e8tand
t.aest product
before the general public,
confident that their opinion
will be very favorable.
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Jaffa—Education in Palestine has
hitherto been mainly of an academic
character, and has failed to give due
consideration to the necessities of the
country. Hence the Jaffa Commercial
Association recently convened a spe-
cial meeting for the purpose of im-
proving this • unsatisfactory state of
affairs, so that when an official is
wanted for sonic bank or an office he
might be found in the country instead
of being imported from abroad. Many
local merchants' sons arc incapable of
continuing their fathers' work as they
have had no commercial training.
Sonic are attending the missionaries'
schools, which are better adapted to
the needs of the population. With the
,
coming of the new regime a
cant situations were filled by non-
no others suffi-
Jews as there were
eieiit i y quali fi e d.
Rabbi Franklin Next Speaker
The meeting considering all ithe J re-
Bernard Ginsburg. who followed in
whilethe quirements, resolved to open n affa
the discussion, stated that while
commercial institute, consisting of
Jew was always known for his char- a
'table tendencies and while the Fed- four classes, :it their own expense,
help of
ins oking
oration of Jewish charities paved the % ■ ithout
l
and any public body. The first class wil
way for the Community Union
like institutions throughout the cowl- be opened shortly. Any holder of a
try, the Jew of late had lagged be-public school certificate (or of a four-
!classes Gymnasium) will be admitted
a student.
hind.
leaders in this work, , to t hi s institute as
"We must he
The foreign languages that will be
not foil:As crs," Mr. Ginsburg stated, taug ht are Arabic, English and
'or stragglers are some unhappily are. French. Besides bookkeeping and
tenets:'
type-
We would not be true to the
correspondence,
of , commercial
of our religion, to the teachings
lead. writing and shorthand will also lie
our prophets if we were not to
t.
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\ dolph Freund presided at the ,
Dr. Isaac Epstein and Ntr. Vechiali,
luncheon. Rabbi Leo NI. Franklin
will be the speaker at the nest Forum , head of the teachers' organization.
luncheon, Tuesday, December 23., were present and both congratulated
the
,.. association On their new enter-
Rabbi Franklin has chosen ac the , t,,
nrke.
ct of his talk, "Christmas and the
be maintained by
at
The institute will
subje
Jews." Luntheon begins promptly
The deficit will be covered by
fees.
12:15. Ladies are cordially insited.
an animal tax of 16 at least on every
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Joseph Lazarus (Republican) of , merchant. Sixteen people contributed
.P 180 on the spot.
Louisville has been elected a mem-1 —
Chief Rabbi Hertz was among
her of the Kentucky State Legisla- ,
present at a
tore. Mr. Lazarus is being favorably
heonvited to be
mentioned as a possible candidate for those in held in the Guildhall in the
lunc
of
London
to
meet
the Shah of
speaker of the Hou se.
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Persia. Owing to the function e nR
. . •
held on the Sabbath the chief rabbi
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recently arrived at( r
nsia had to decline the invitation.
A traveler
Republic of
from the
saw from
Rabbi J. Shapo of West Browns-
(Caucasus) states that a large num-
reside there. They ville. l'a., has accepted a call from
ber of Jews now
are happy and contented. They en- the Kempston Street Synagogue, New
For ten years he was
joy national personal autonomy in Bedford, Mass.
and there is a Minister for Rabbi in Tampa, Fla., and for twelve
GfUtia,
Jewish Affairs in the person of Mr. years in West Brownsville.
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