ME *room
Assumes General Managership
Explains Sales of Cadillac Cars, ORTHODOX JEWS FIGHT
of Brick Manufacturers
I RELIGIOUS COMMUNISTS
On Permanence of
Association.
Utility.
RIGA.—(J. T. A )—A disturbance
caused by Orthodox Jews during an
assembly of pious communists in the
sc.-celled "living synagogue" is the
latest development in Jewish religious
fife in Soviet Russia.
A group of Orthodox Jews in Polt-
ava, who strongly resent the creation
f
o the living synagogue in that town,
a ppeared in the hall where the Jewish
communists were assembled preach-
ing their new conception of Judaism,
and caused a storm of protest. Both
parties engaged in an exchange of
epithets which finally led to a riot.
Order was restored only after the
lights were extinguished and the as-
sembly dispersed.
PAGE THREE
(A Km, ICIE
The Dregs of Moscow
A Picture of the Poor of the Chief City of Bolshevik Russia.
Big Savings in
Floor Coverings
Charles A. Bowen has been appoint-
By D. MOSKVIN
ed general manager of the Detroit
That the known performance of a
Commen Brick Manufacturers' Asso-
car and its characteristics outweigh
(Copyright, 1024, Jewish Telegraphic Agency.)
ciation,
with
offices
at
404
Penobscot
other considerations in the minds of
building, and is planning fur an exten-
most buyers is the opinion of Lynn
If I wanted to describe in one word
Moscow is today the largest Jew-
sive campaign in the interest of one
McNaughton, vice-president and gen-
of Detroit's important products—com- ish community in Russia, and like ev- all these Jewish poor who have col-
eral sales manager of the Cadillac
lected
in Moscow during the last few
ery Jewish community, it has its poor.
mon brick.
Motor Car Company. Mr. MeNaugh-
•
The difference between the poor of years, I should use the word—dregs.
Mr. Bowen has been connected with
ton has taken an active part in the
The Jewish refugees in Moscow,
the building industry for many years, other towns and the poor of Moscow
production or marketing of the Cadil-
, they are the broken vessels, the refuse
is that while in the older Jewish
6
lac since the early one-cylinder days.
munities the poor are generally pee- which is left behind in every house
a '
rat' 411:
. 44
"In the early days some makes of
pie who have inherited their poverty • when the tenants move to their new
cars had a brief run of popularity on
from father to son for generations, home. And if the tenants move to a
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account of some special feature or
in Moscow, they are mostly people great distance and the moving is done
4446.'441 :WY
novelty," Mr. hid:Naughton declared,
without any tradition of poverty. in a hurry, it happens that good ar-
"but today buyers are experienced
%t• 4 • tY4' 0 tGI
There are a few who were b orn Nor, tides of furniture too are left behind,
motorists and their choice is deter.
"
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a few who have become poor, but most and in the confusion, are tripped over
•1•
•ri
mined by the established general char-
• 0-PN11,04 •;) sal ir
of them are people who have fallen and smashed.
acter of the car rather than by any CONSTANTINOPLE JEWS
.1.4
ireove.47-
from more or less great estate, vic-
The evacuation of the Jews at the
particular feature or attachment.
,0; otttP., , 11 0112
ARE IMPOVERISHED
tims of time and circumstance. There outbreak in the Great War, the forced
"In the case of the Cadillac we are
is also no lack of professional beggars, expulsion within 21 hours, the "vol-
convinced that it is the permanent
both genuine unfortunates and ARMS, untary" evacuation eel the time of the
AI, « 41 It :It ti
CONSTANTINOPLE.-1.1 'r. A.).
VI az
performance of the car according to —The now administrative council of
people who make efforts to keep Civil war, the fleeing front the pd,-
co
wk Its
standard that is the foundation of our the Jewish community of Constantin-
themselves from sinking, and others groins, from the famine, from the epi-
sales. While our company has intro- ople decided to reduce the salary of
who have touched the bottom and will denies, the tossing to and fro from
duced some of the most radical im- the grand rabbi of Turkey, Bejaranu
never again rise from the dept hs.
one end of Russia to the other, has
The war, the evacuation, the revo- everywhere left behind shattered frag-
provements in motor car design, such Effendi, from 260 Turkish broom a
as complete standardization and in- month to 160.
lution, the civil war, the famine, the ments of human refuse.
terchangeability of parts, complete
epidemics, the emigration, and the re-
The decision of the administrative
Everything that was strong and
emigration have swept the popula- healthy among these unwilling wan-
electric starting, lighting and ignition council was caused by the critical
tions backwards and forwards from derers, has again found its feet. Some
system and the eight-cylinder princi- financial situation of the Jewish com-
one end of Russia to the other, and of the refugees have returned to their
ple of engine design, a careful analy- munity and the withdrawal by the
the flotsam and jetsam, the dregs of homes, s o me have adapted themselves
sis of ous sales and a tabulation of Angora Government of the annual
the people have stopped in Moscow. in new places. Everything that was
the high percentage of new cars to financial subsidy which the Turkish
At first, Moscow was only dine of the physically, spirit tia Ily and material-
previous Cadillac owners proves that Government hitherto granted to re-
stations on their long road of exile, ly weak has become broken. They
it is the Cadillac as an established ligious institutions. This is in ac-
but later on it became the place for are the dregs, flotsam and jetsam, off-
'nstitution rather than any one of cordance with the new policy of the
them to spend the rest of their days. scouriugs, refuse.
these improvements which is con- Angora Government to separate
CHARLES A. BOWEN
church
and
state.
"Here is your grave!"—these words
stantly increasing its popularity."
It is characteristic of the situation
not only in Detroit, but throughout might be branded on the forehead of that among the several hundred Jew-
the country. He was formerly secre- every one of them.
ish refugees in Moscow, there are no
tary of the Detroit Builders and Trad-
intellectuals and hardly any artisans.
PURE—FRESH—WHOLESOME
ers Exchange, later became manager
At most perhaps there are about a
of the National Retail Lumber Dealers LATVIA SENDS BACK
among the lot who have a trade'
JEWISH EMIGRANTS dozen
Association, following which he was
in hand. Ninety-nine per cent of them
LARGE SHIPMENT of fine, new
assistant to President Charles II. Bry-
belong to the class which Lithuanian
an of the Common Brick Manufactur-
rugs has just been received. The
RIGT.—(J. T. A.)—All emigrants Jews refer to as "commis people."—
ers Association of America, with head- from Russia who are now in Latvia they are small dealers, people without
newest colorings and patterns in-
quarters at Cleveland.
and were unable to obtain American any settled mode of life, commission— I
cluding many rich Oriental designs,
Recently he resigned that position visas by June 20, will be repatriated agents, eanuen, water-carriers, day-
are included. Take advantage of
to take up his work for the Detroit to Russia, according to a decision of laborers, wounded ex-soldiers, "Loft-
Insist Upon
Insist Upon
common brick manufacturers. Ilis the Latvian Minister of the Interior,
this sale to buy high quality rugs at a
inensehen."
Guosberg's
home
is
in
Detroit.
Guesherg's
made public last week.
great discount!
Many of them are just misnomers,
"There is no better building mater-
This
decision
will
affect
a
consider-
Wherever
Pay only a small amount down and
ial in the world than common brick," able number of emigrants, mostly but years of forced exile, the continu-
Wherever
al
wandering
about
through
the
refu-
Mr. Bowen stated, "and it has stood Jewish, who are here awaiting the
the balance as convenient. No in-
You Go.
ge
homes,
the
pleading
before
the
re-
You Co.
the test for hundreds and even thou- opening of the new quota. These emi-
terest or carrying charges.
sands of years. It is also true that grants came from distant parts of lief committees, the begging and the
the clay found around Detroit is of the Russia ion the hope of being able to get alms have left their mark on all the
victims and now it is difficult to dis-
best and produces a brick which is un- to America.
Open afanday, Wednesday and Saturday Nights
tinguishbetween the born schnorrers
surpassed."
and those who have become schnor-
Mr. Bowen has been making a sur-
STUDY WEMBLEY
rers. They have all come down to the
vey of the local building situation, and TO
AND MUNICH SHOWS level where men forget what they have
following his work thoughout the
been.
county he is in a position to make
UM Cos'
NEW YORK.—Congressman Sol
Demoralization has been wrought
comparisons with the conditions in
other leading cities, and the benefit of Bloom of the upper west side, New on the refugees not so much by the
his advice can he had by any resident York who recently introduced a bill relief committees, the begging or even
at
the hunger, but by the compulsory .
of Detroit or its suburbs who wishes in Congress authorizing a Morld
That's what people say after partaking of Cunsberg's products.
Fair in the United States in 1930, sail- herding together of hundreds of com-
Our plant which is the most sanitary in the country is well equipped
to build.
"AMERICA'S FINEST FURNITURE"
ed on the S. S. Leviathan to make a plete strangers in one refugee-home.
to furnish our dealers with delicatessens which are the last word in
tastiness anti freshness. Gunsberg's delicatessens can be had almost
Reports from Budapest indicate study of the Wembley Exposition. "I The refugee-homes are like a bog.
8432 Hamilton at Philadelphia
have
been
commissioned
by
two
Con-
Those
who
once
get
caught
in
them,
anywhere in Detroit, or if you prefer, come in our modern and up-to-
that Speyer and Company of New
date retail store at 8809 12th for a sandwich or two,
4721 Warren West at Thirtieth
York, bankers, participated in the gressional committees," he said, "to sink to the bottom. The refugee loses
make
a
personal
study
of
the
Exposi-
his
identity,
he
loses
his
humanity,
he
loan to the Hungarian government,
13506 Oakman Blvd. at Davison
arranged under the auspices of the tion at Wentbley and also of the In- loses his shame. The Moscow Jewish
League of Nations, to the extent of dustrial Exposition now in construc- Relief Committee, like all other re- ,
$10,000,000. The conditions of the tion at Munich, Bavaria. The time lief organizations knows this very s
loan, which has been subscribed to by has come for America to prepare o well. but the housing conditions in
2380 Twentieth St.
a group of international hankers, are a new World's Fair to record the pro- Russia, and especially in Moscow
said to be similar to those agreed up- gross of industrial arts, and this espe- make it impossible even to think of
Glendale 8244
the city, with the pickpockets, with the
on when the Austrian loan was ef- cially to cement the good will between separate homes for the refugees.. Here there is a servant whose duty it
Even these refugee homes have not is to keep the place tidy. But what underworld of Moscow.
nations."
fected two years ago.
Some parents would like to send
been easy to find.
, sort of tidiness can there be in a place
1 There arein Moscow no less than I where, next to a shell-shocked soldier their children to school, but the envir-
onment
is stronger than they. They
4 nine such homes, two in the center of is a syphilitic young man, a consurnp-
41
.he city, and seven in Mariano Rosza, , tive girl, a paralysed old woman, a have "a home" a pound of bread a day
and
a
meal
at midday. Children un-
a dirty marshy suburb inhabited by i woman without feet w scrofulatic, all der 14 get white bread, milk, cocoa,
artisans of the lower class, cab-driv- crowded into two small rooms which
sugar
and
oats,
and with the midday
are not even divided by a door.
•rs, thieves, coiners and the like.
one can live through the day.
They are terrible places, these refu- This living together, this dressing meal,
Besides the food one needs a Dar of
gee-homes. Over the portals like over and undressing and doing all the soap, is shirt and a suit of clothes of
the entrance to hell, is written,. things of life in front of everybody
'Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter else, is degrading. And worst of all, some sort and for them things at-
tempts are made to find money some-
Here." is the effect on the children.
The children grow up without edu- how.
We will pay a visit, for example, to
The refugees may be divided into
the refugee hone in the Yamske street cation, without discipline. Chedorini
three classes—those who consider this
at No. 16. It is not a house for peo- are prohibited. In most cases, the
state
Of affairs only temporay, those
pie to live in. It is a grave-yard.' parents will not send the children to
There is one long room with not less schmil, some because they believe they who hope one dey to tear themselves
away and settle down with their
than 90 people living in it, mostly are only staying for another day or
by the Company, but did recommend a scale of
OVER THIRTY YEARS AGO a contract was made
women and children. True, the room two and will send their children to friends in other countries, and those
rates that increased the cost of gas to large con-
between the City and the Gas Company to fur-
is large enough and has windows school when they have settled down Who have lost all hope and have be-
come refugees by profession. The
sumers.
The
price
of
gas
to
the
average
consumer
more than sufficient, but it is dark all , again in their own homes, and some first two classes make strenuous ef-
nish gas at certain stipulated rates.
remained the same. A minimum bill of $1.00 per
the same and there is no air. There is , because they prefer to send their chil- forts not to sink. They do odd jobs,
e dense smoke darkening the atmos- dren to work, or worse still, to beg.
TIMES WERE PROSPEROUS—the City grew rap-
month was recommended, and a meter charge of
they buy and sell anything which may
phere and shutting out the light which A child of less than 10 years of age
idly—and in an endeavor to be perfectly fair and
things im-
10c per month was to be made for a short period
comes in through windows. There is stands in the streets selling newspa- help to save them, till
volun-
reasonable the Company several times
of time. In lieu of a raise in rate to the average
a stench of dirty clothing and unwash- pees, soiling cigarettes, selling cakes, prove.
The
third
class
have
no
strength to
or stretching out his hand for alms.
householder, the heat value of the gas was re-
tarily reduced its gas rates below the contract
ed bodies. It turns one sick.
If a refugee-home is the school of fight against the odds, they cannot and
duced from 600 to 530 BTU, which is about the
Along the whole length of the room
price.
will
not
do
anything.
They
can only
are two rows of beds, or rather boards the child, the street is his university.
average heat value throughout the entire country.
beg, and they are doomed to die in the
THEN CAME THE WORLD WAR and nearly
placed on supports which serve as Ile becomes acquainted with the chil- mud.
beds. There are dirty, torn pillows, dren of the streets, with the scum of
arrlitecli 9'
r e : • ?
S•ti
Our Entire Stock of
Fine Rugs Reduced
20 %
Velvets, Axminsters, Brussels
A
=
HAVE YOU EVER TASTED SUCH
DELICIOUS DELICATESSEN!
MAIN STORE—HIGH
HASTINGS
GUNSBERG PACKING CO.
O
I
I
About the Gas Rates:
everything shot up in price and stayed up except
the gas rate. During the worst period of high
prices the City Council granted a temporary in-
increase ill price for a short period of time.
EVERYONE FELT that prices would drop rapidly
after the war but today the cost of both labor and
materials is much higher than in pre-war days.
MOST PUBLIC UTILITIES have had to be granted
increased rates in order to show a fair return
upon their valuation.
IN DETROIT, Street Car Fares, Water Rates and
Taxes went up, but the old Gas Contract held.
Earnings were low—extensions were needed-
-that meant new capital investment—the gas
property was not showing anything approaching
a fair return on its value—something had to be
done—and when the old contract expired on
October 31, 1923, it was naturally expected that
the Gas Company would announce an increase in
its rates.
IN AN ENDEAVOR to keep the whole matter out
of politics the Company waited until after the
fall election and did not announce its new rates
until November 13th.
A COURT ORDER was issued restraining the Com-
pany from putting these into effect and a Board
of Arbitration was appointed to determine what
was a fair and reasonable gas rate for the City of
Detroit.
BOTH THE COMPANY AND THE CITY pledged
themselves to be bound by the award of this
Board of Arbitration for a period of three years
from November 15, 1923.
A1 1b.11 SEVERAL MONTHS of the most careful
investigation, this Board rendered an award
which was accepted by the City Council. This
award did not recommend the gas rates asked for
TILE COUNCIL THEN PREPARED an ordinance
endeavoring to follow out the award of the Board
of Arbitration, but unfortunately this ordinance
was drawn in such a way as to be impossible of
acceptance by the Gas Company.
TIIIS ORDINANCE required the Company to fur-
nish two kinds of gas, both illuminating and fuel
gas, which is manifestly impossible under the
existing conditions, and the rates in the ordinance
were not the same as those awarded by the
Board of Arbitration. The ordinance further
stated that hereafter no higher rates could be
charged by the Gas Company, no matter what
change there might be in the cost of producing
and distributing gas.
THE GAS COMPANY in the meantime put into
effect on May 1st, the same rates that were
awarded by the Board of Arbitration.
A NEW ORDINANCE has now been prepared by the
CITY COUNCIL conforming to the award of the
Board of Arbitration which will be placed before
the voters for their approval at the primary elec-
tion on September 9th.
THE GAS COMPANY IS NOW, and has at all times,
been willing to accept any proper ordinance
which is in accord with the award of the Board
of Arbitration. All we ask is a fair and rea-
sonable return upon the value of our property.
We entered into the Board of Arbitration Agree-
ment in good faith and we have accepted and put
into effect the recommendations of this Board.
The intelligence, fairmindedness and painstaking
care with which this Board reviewed the whole
matter cannot be questioned. We have accepted
their award and we believe it is the honest desire
of the people of Detroit to have their official
representatives carry out their end of the Arbi-
tration Agreement.
DETROIT CITY GAS COMPANY
Vice-President and General Manager.
sacks of straw, rotting cotton-wool
quilts, old clothes, rags, but nowhere
is there a sign of bed-clothes. There
i e not a sheet anywhere no pillowslip
or blanket. Beneath each bed stands
the occupier's whole worldy wealth,
a saucepan, a tin tea-pot, plates, shoes,
etc.
The beds are placed so close to each
other, that each row practically forms
one long bed, swarming with l'haro-
ah's third plague.
The-re is not a table or a chair in the
, whole nsun. The inhabitants eat
standing up at the counter, which has
been left, a relic of the beer-house
which the building once housed, or
else sitting on their beds.
In the middle of the room is a prim-
itive stove, the warmth of which rad-
iates about four inches around, but
its smoke fills the whole room. A
heavy cloud of smoke hangs over the
whole place and brings the tears to
the eyes and eats the lungs.
And this cold, damp, filthy stable,
'into which a decent man would not
turn his cattle, is the home of 90 mis-
erable souls, mostly widows and or-
phans.
The men have died, the women ex-
plain, and the explanation is made in
a tone of voice es if they were saying
the menfolk had gone out for a walk.
If an epidemic comes into this place
one of the women told me, it cleans
it out thoroughly. About 20, she says,
have died of typhoid. "You see those
six children in the corner" says an-
other, "they are orphans. Both their
parents died in one week. They have
an aunt who is locking after them." '
Typhoid is not the only epidemic
which has come into the refugee-home
and cleaned things up. There are al-
so tuberculosis and dysentery. Eczema
is a disease from which not one of the
refugees is free.
Here are the victims of eczema.
. One is about 40 years of age. Ilia
face is one big running sore. The
second is a boy of about 17 with the
face of an His nose is an open
wound. "These are our menfolk,"
says one of the women bitterly.
In the other refugee homes things
are a little cleaner, but not much.
There too, men, women and children
are herded together in one room.
I "How do you undress? How do you
dress?" "Oh, nobody looks at you."'
, they answer. The only comparatively
clean refugee-home is the one in which
the wounded ex-soldiers live with the
old, the crippled, the incapacitated.
Don't Fool Yourself
By the belief that legislation such as created the
Michigan Railway Commission does not have a direct
bearing on YOUR every day life and prosperity.
By reducing freight rates, halting special privi-
lege and rebates, securing fairness for all Michigan
shippers and creating a check on the efforts of public
utility companies to create their own prices the Com-
mission is a direct instrument that lowers the price of
THE FOOD YOU EAT
THE HOUSE YOU BUILD
THE CLOTHES YOU WEAR
HAL. H. SMITH, candidate for nomination on
the Republican ticket for U. S. Senator, was the
original sponsor for the bill creating the Railway
Commission, canvassed the state in its interest and
fought legal battle after battle to establish its con-
stitutionality after its passage. The Workmen's
Compensation Act, the most beneficial piece of
legislation for labor on the statute books was secured
by a commission which he headed.
Consider these things when you vote at the Pri-
maries and at the election. To secure your job, to
better your income, for general prosperity there must
be elected a president and a Congress that will make
for confidence and industrial expansion. Such a
president is Calvin Coolidge and HAL H. SMITH is
pledged to support him and the platform as adopted
at the Cleveland Convention.
Hal H. Smith
FOR U. S. SENATOR FROM MICHIGAN.