PAGE SIX THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Problems of Unrest, Housing Shortage, Are International Easter Greetings NOW IS THE TIME TO David A. Brown, Forum Luncheon Speaker, Gives Business Man's View of Condition* in Europe; Belgium is Prosperous. Feather Your Nest Start a Savings Account If you wish to open an account with us and get one of these banks, call, phone or write us and our representative will call on you. You are welcome whether your account is large or small. Despite the current accounts of con- (litmus abroad, despite daily cables and press reports, it was shown at the !Vital Brith forma luncheon of Tuesday, March 30, that there arc still some sidelights which deserve to he better known and some phases of the situation which will bear further consideration. Not as a social work- er, not as a diplomatist, versed in statecraft and seeing only the polit- ical side of the problems confronting Europe, but as an American business man, with keeness of vision and fresh- ness of view, David A. Brown, long prominent in the Detroit Jewish com- munity-, detailed his experiences and observations during his three months' visit to France, England, Germany and Belgium. THIS BANK WILL HELP YOU FREE TO OUR SAYING MEMBERS Problems Are Universal. Perhaps Mr. Brown was most struck with the fact that the problems arising from industrial unrest, from lack of adequate housing and from so- cial discontent are not local but al- most universal. "We assume that such unrest is local," said Mr. Brown, "only because we think locally. In reality it is in- ternational. We are irrevocably hound up with Europe. Our °destiny is their destiny, our problems their problems. Strange as it may seem, when there is a great public disrup- tion here, as, for instance, a railroad strike, it is usually followed by a similar strike in Europe. The great industries of a modern state, whether American or European, advance through flue same stages and stiffer the same rises and falls in fortune. We Pay 5% On Savings UNDER STATE SUPERVISION AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, $50,000,000 Detroit & Northern Michigan Building & Loan Association HOME OF THRIFT Washington Blvd. at Clifford. Main 4943. OFFICE HOURS: Daily 8:30 A. M. to 3:30 P. M. Sat. 8:30 to 12. Mon. Eve.6 to 8 What Lowden Stands For Belgium Is Prosperous. "Belgium presents a post-bellum paradox, It is very prosperous. There is good food for everybody, and plenty of milk. butter and eggs. The crops arc good. One can traverse the whole battle front in a single day and see signs of activity and pros- perity." Mr. Brown stated that he had had commissions from two Detroiters to bring back two Belgian war orphans for adoption, but visited every avail- able asylum in vain. 'Reverting to conditions in Eng- land, Mr. Brown stated that the hous- ing shortage was as acute as in De- troit. but that Parliament, to aid in a solution, had passed a law condemn- ing the estates Of the landed gentry, which were to be converted into building sites and small holdings. In England, he said, labor was in the saddle, but that it both talked and acted intelligently and was ever ready to compromise to its advantage. Governor Frank 0. Lowden of Illinois JACOBY'S ... WHOLESALE... CLEANERS AND DYERS PASSOVER GREETINGS Detroit, Michigan Rice & Ash Let Us Send You A Trial Counterboro for More Production at Less Cost Fred M. Butzel Laispel Frank H. Croul Former l'olice Commissioner Monseigneur Van Dyke Cost-Cut Counterboro Co., Inc. Miss Helen E. Keep State Chairman, Nat'l Women's Service Counterbore Without a Fault 74-78 East Fort Street. We have done little to provide for our demobilized troops. Merely sending a man back to civil life is no solution to a vexatious problem. In England the insurance paid to men unable to get back into civil employ- ment is sufficient to enable them to live as decent men should until they find work. As for America—the peak of unemployment was reached nearly a year ago. There were 50,000 men out of work in Detroit alone, with the same condition obtaining all over the country. With the country more prosperous than it had ever been before we were talking of soup kitchens! Pisgah Lodge, No. 34, 1. 0. B. B., of Detroit, Mich., is planning a com- munity building, for which several large subscriptions have already been recorded. The lodge is also conduct- ing a campaign for 1,500 new mem- Causes of Unrest. bers by June 1, which will bring the "It is difficult to say what are total to 3,000, making Pisgah the really the causes for this so-called largest lodge in the order. In his campaign for the Republican nomination for President, Coy. Frank unrest. One reason may lie in the 0. Lowden of Illinois has adopted a brief declaration of principles to express fact that during the war we began to Ills views on public Issues, sy'llich may be summarized as follows: idealize labor for the first time. We Ile stands for an efficient, economical and business administration of public placed it on a high pedestal. \Vhen affairs. the war was ended, the conservatives and reactionaries attempted to say Reduction of taxes. The abolition of the numerous agencies for war purposes which have been that we did not mean what we said continued at an enormous expense in time of peace. but labor won't go backwards. A clash was bound to come and we had A protective tariff measured by the difference in cost of production at hcnie done nothing to avert it. We had and abroad. made no more preparations for peace A government by all the people and not by any class. than we had for war. The ratification of the peace treaty with reservations substantially as pro- "Only England seemed to have en- posed by the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate. tered into such preparations. And Encouragement of agriculture and recognition that it is and must remain because it did so, a revolution was our most important industry. narrowly averted. Over there, new — WHOLESALE CLOTHING — industrial relations are being born. The exclusion or deportation of aliens who place the red flag or any other flag We over here have done nothing. above our own. Persons, supposed to have proved 129 Jefferson Ave. A stalwart, uncompromising Americanism which puts this country's interests their merits as prophets, say that evil first. Detroit days are coming. A panic is close at International friendships, not partnerships. hand. Well, this is exactly what we A fearless enforcement of law and order . might have expected. Of course, it Main 4675 seems foolish to talk of such a thing. A speedy return to normal conditions. Just now we are riding on the peak Justice to all. of prosperity. But a reaction may — NORTIIWAY 3032 — 8 to 10 Custer Avenue come. When it does cotue, it will find us unprepared. Main 2604 Frank H. Watson Former U. S. District Attorney cyma E. H. Jewett John Tigchon President Jewett, Bigelow & Brooks Real Estate Dr. H. N. Torrey J. M. Eaton Physician Lincoln Motor Company F. W. Blair J. H. Simpson President Union Trust Company First National Company Major Edwin Denby Lawyer and Former Con- gressman. Mrs. Walter T. Bradford Robert Plotler R. W. Baiznall Rector, St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Henry M. Leland President Lincoln Motor Co. President :Michigan Steel Cast. Ings Company Harry A. Buckley W. E. Metzger Secretary Woodiawn Cemetery Ernest C. Kern Regent University of Michigan C. H. Campbell Auto Parts Manufacturer Dexter M. Ferry — We Solicit Your Vote at the — Primaries, Monday, April 5th F. T. DuCharme Extending to you Greetings of the Season Wm. Livingstone John J. Bagley & Co. Burt R. Shurly, M. D. SMITH Physician George L. Bahl Manager, Penn Mutual Life Company J. Cotner, Jr. Editor, "American Boy." Republican Bryant Walter Lawyer National Committeeman D. H. Roberts President Roberts Brass Mfg. Co. Hyman Berman Grosse Pointe Furniture Co. M. W. Neal Treasurer Acme White Lead Color Works P. W. A. Fitzsimmons Harry T. Mason Parke. Davis & Co. Charles A. Dean President Wolverine Manufactur- ing Company Henry Ledyard W. E. Moss W. E. Moss & Company Lawyer John N. Bagley Michigan Bonding & Insurame Company. HAL. H. President. Michigan Mutual Lia- bility Company President Pittmans & Dean ('o. Frank G. Ryan President Parke, Davis & Co. Arch. F. Bunting, — FOR — President Detroit Board of Commerce Treasurer. Ireland & Matthews Mtg. Company . P. J. Farrell Treasurer D. M. Ferry & Co. Treasurer, Huron Portland Ce- ment Co. President Timken-Detroit Axle Co. Henry H. Sanger President The Kern Store S. T. Crapo A. R. Demory W. D. Bonthron Price, Waterhouse & Company Vice-President, National Bank of - Commerce Merchant, Hamtramck Mrs. Herbert D. Allee Treasurer Charcoal Iron ('o. Rudolph Flinterman Mrs. George Caron Lawyer and Former Congress- man Henry B. Joy F. W. Hutchings Frederick B. Smith Guy B. Cady Advertising Henry M. Campbell chairman of Board, Union Trust Company L. B. Robertson General Motors Company Frank C. Root President General Aluminum & Brass Mtg. Company William F. Goodlove Real Estate H. Robert Stoepel The Stoepel Company George R. 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