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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

MATERIALS SHORTAGE
SERIOUSLY AFFECTS
STATES INDUSTRIES

dimity has been more forehanded in
providing for emergencies than the
Bell system, and yet day after day
the mails bring reports of broken
promises, and materials vitally neces-
sary to the work of construction arc
Difficulty in securing fabricated delayed, and it appears to be nobody's
products and equipment of every sort, fault."
traceable right back through the fac-
In summing up, the bulletin says:
tory, even to the source of the raw
"The situation as to production, the
material, is seriously affecting practi-
manufacture of fabricated articles and
cally every line of business in klichi-
the difficulties of transportation is
gall. according to a very enlightening
worse than the country has ever
bulletin received here by employes of
known before. The prospect of relief
the Michigan State Telephone Com-
is certainly not in the immediate fu-
pany from President Franz C. Kuhn. ture.
In an accompanying letter Judge
"But, in spite of all difficulties, the
Kuhn dwells upon the necessity for
telephone people have carried on.
conservation of all material in view
Business of every description has re-
of the serious conditions facing the
lied upon the telephone more than
nation's industries.
ever before, and had the telephone
The bulletin calls attention to the
service broken down the disaster
fact that the telephone company faces
would have been indescribable."
the Sallie condition as does the hard-
.are merchant, the dry goods man
and the automobile manufaetnrer.
It is estimated that, in spite of
greatly increased prices and demand.
the average falling off of production
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has been da per cent. Never has the
Warsaw.—Ilirschel Nicht, a Jewish
present demand for manufactured young man was arrested by the l'olish
goods, for railroad or telephone serfs police while he was standing at a
ice, for every product of human en- street car station on the charge of
deavor been equalled, the bulletin beating Jews.
Ile told his captors
says, and the result is that the en- that he was a Jew himself and that
thusiastic telephone man, who is no Jew would beat and torture his
anxious to fill orders for new service, own brethren. l'he zealous police in-
cannot make prompt installations.
sisted, nevertheless, that he looked
Commenting on the situation the suspicious and took him to the police
bulletin says: "The streams of busi- commissaria. Ilere he was freed after
ness, after being damned up during much grilling.
the war period, have overflowed their
banks. The whole country is flooded
with business and the flood is con-
stantly finding new and unexpected
channels. The flow of business has
been interrupted by polLtical uncer-
WARSAW—Recently the case of
tainty, by financial uncertainty, by the
shortage and disturbance of labor, by Schifman, director of the Polish
the scarcity of raw and fabricated Theater against the dramatic critic,
materials and by the overload that Pietikowsky, was tried in a local
has been put on the means of trans- court. It seemed that in one of his
articles in the press the critic stated
portation and communication.
"The Bell system is larger than ever that Schifman was a Jew and that he
before, but it has not yet become conducted his theater acord'ng to his
large enough for the new and greatly Jewish tastes.
' flee plaintiff produced evidence and
increased demands. It is building all
over the map, building plants and witnesses to prove that lie was not a
building up its force of men and Jew, and the judge decided that to
women.
call an honest l'ole "Jew" is an in-
"New central offices are needed, sult and an offense which may only
new switchboards, new relays, new be expiated by serving one week in
distributing boards, new conduits, jail.

POLISH POLICE BUSY
AT LAST; CHARGE JEW
WITH BEATING JEWS

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lines, new equipment of every kind.
Thousands of miles of cable must be
laid and spliced, thousands of miles of
wire must be strung, uncounted mil-
lions of joints must be soldered to
make perfect electrical connections in
new central office equipment. The
whole country is teeming with this
construction, covering every mechani-
cal process from the factory produc-
tion to the installation of the sub-
scriber's
station. Rapid work is he-
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wants it to be more rapid.
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Hungarian Conceptions
of Christianity

TIUDAPF:ST—Deputy Hegedus de-
glared in Parliament that the Hun-
garian state must be thoroughly
Christian and that the main purpose
of Christianity should be the complete
annihilation of Judaism. Christian-
ity, lie said, can no longer he tolerant.
Pogroms are not necesary for the
'realization of the expressed ideal.
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