Amtericalt Jewish Periodical Carter
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ThEfterkorr, //Nun Rex tux,
Prospects For the New Year
By MILTON M. ALEXANDER
On the first day of each year the
secular press habitually devotes eon.
siderabe space to a recital Of the im-
vents that transpired during
portant e
the proseding 1'4 months.
mistaken a similar prac-
If I ant not
tice is omsued by Jewish publications
at the Rosh Ilashonah season.
It ' ,sit( prove a pleasing diversion
from t!.-. practice to devote some
space to what may well he expected
to trai-t re during the year that lies
d, anther than that which lies
a h ea
us essay such a task.
behind. Li t
the World Problem.
The ...ming year should seto
strengd , song of the Jewish state in
Palestine. The foundations of the
historic homeland will be reinforced.
Noticeable results will be seen in the
Beth El other congregations will un-
dertake to provide adtamato housing
for their various groups.
The lt'nai Writh, under the leader-
ship of President Samuel J. Rhodes,
may be expected to play an increas-
ingly important part in Detroit af-
fairs, lath Jewish and general.
Housed in its new home, that (organ-
ization will do much to encourage
harmony and brotherly love among
Jews of different shades Of theological
belief.
We may confidently expect that the
coming year will see the working out
of a community program that will boo
fulminate, effective and practical.
\Ve inky expect II campaign that
Will be successful in raising funds for
litany enterprises, long needed, much
discussed and heretofore not attained.
Progress will be made towards the
establishment of a Jewish hospital
that will tie worthy of the city and
its Jewish residents.
Buildings for the Y. NI. II. A. and
T. W. II. A. may he expected to be-
come realities.
•
An adequate community center will
be started, if not finished, during the
, '0111: ng year.
A Brief Summary.
Any resume of prospective develop-
ments in the position of the Jewish
people at home and abroad is open to
challenge.
It is al•xays easier to speculate up-
on the possibilities of the future than
to record the happenings of the past.
More than three. thousand years of
history testify to the faithfulness of
the Jew and his ideals.
If history repeats itself, we need
expect no radical change in Jewish
principle, philosophy or practice in the
year that lies ahead.
ROTHSCHILD BANK
BECOMES MUSEUM
Although no Rothschild is now in
the banking business in Frankfort-on-
the-Main, where the foundations of
the far-flung financial establishment
were laid in the eighteenth century,
the old hank building still stands on
the corner of the Fahrstrasse, near
the entrance to the old ghetto, as a
perpetual reminder of the past. The
following description of its present
state was written by :flax Osborn in
the Vossische Zeitung:
"The house was used fir the bank-
ing business from top to bottom until
the death of Baron Wilhelm Roths-
child in 19(11. Then it stood empty,
seas used during the war for chari-
table purposes and two years ago was
presented to the city by Baroness
Alathilde, Wilhelm's widow, the last
of the Frankfort Rothschilds.
"The soon (templed by the heads
of the firm and the manager remains
just as it was. At the window, two
beautiful writing desks, opposite to
each other, for the all-powerful ones
themselves, but—separated by green
screens! For the last ten Frankfort
kothschilds, Baron Wilhelm and his
brother, ;Player Karl, could not see
each other in a figurative sense, and
didn't care to do so in reality.
"Near by was the conference mini.
somewhat more elegant. In a corner
is the safe. It is not a piece of ar-
mored steel, but a decerative bit of
iron furniture, so pleasingly shaped,
with its plainly done Ran bands and
nails and stamps, as to make the ugli-
ness and shapelessness of its descen-
dants in the wide world doubly annoy-
ing. And this safe holds a secret. It
cannot lie opened! The nounc word
that sets the combination of eight let-
ters that decorate the keyhole has
been lost."
BUILDING HOMELAND
IN PALESTINE
(Continued froth last page.)
Let me alai mention the Hebrew
University, an institution ahleh has
aropsed the imagination of all Jews
and of non- Pews the world over. This
enterprise has attracted s upport from
many who have not been drawn to
other aspects( of our work. Here, al-
so, the Keren Ilayesod is playing a
leading role. The agricultural insti-
tute. with its experiment stations, a
!tart of the oniversity, is being sup-
ported by the Keren Ilayesod. These
experiment stations are doing splen-
did work in the improvement of Pal-
estinian agriculture, in tobacco, sugar
The Koren
and other products.
Ilayesod has a regular university
budget towards which first payments
were made last April.
The work of preservation and con-
servation, the work of development
and extension which is now going on
in Palestine, in towns, suburbs and
colonies, the work of the schools, the
hospitals, prevention of disease and
health improvement, the work of
keeping Jewish hands busy at the la-
lior of love in which they are engaged,
work-
all this is mule possilole by the
ere; and supporters of the Keren
labors
Ilayesod, especially by our
here in America, which furnishes more
oof the funds of the
than 4'0 per rent
Keren Ilayesod.
May the knowledge of this truth in-
just feel-
...ptre all our workers with •
Inc of pride and stimulate them with
new energy and devotion in the fur-
thrruae of our great cause.
A.) —The title of
I A III S --(J. T.
Commander of the Legion of Honor
Philippson,
was conferred upon Franz
Belgian-Jewish financier and philan-
thropist, by the French trovernmeat.
Mr. Philippson is the president of
the Jewish Consistory in Belgium and
is a member of the Joint Iteconstrue•
tio Fund in which the American Jew-
n
Distribution Coommittee is
FUTURE FARMERS IN PALESTINE
.10illt
Schools getting pree- ish
A group of children Irons one of the Keren Ilayesod
participating.
ned training in agriculture. The garden is attached to the school.
New feature great advance in closed car design
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uphuilding and development of estab-
lished colonies. New engineering
projects will he started and these that
have already begun will progress. Ex-
ploiters will begin to see the practi-
cal possibilities of Palestine as a field
for their activities and rem enter-
prises will be sponsored.
Relations between Jews and Arabs
will continue unsettled, efforts looking
toward amity being occasionally
chocked by agitation resulting from
enemy propaganda.
Encouraged by the new restrictive
immigration law in America, Euro-
pean countries of anti-Semitic tenden-
cy will be quick to tighten the cruel
bold which they have upon their Jew-
ish residents.
Although anti-Semitism may not ex-
press itself in pogroms, we may
look for it to assert itself by an in-
sidious campaign of social, political
and economic discrimination.
The agitation of the international
anti.Semites having passed its pre-'
liminary stages, we may expect new
restrictive legislation to be introduced
in the law making bodies of Germany,
Austria and Poland.
Conditions among the Jewish refu-
gees at ports of embarkation may he
expected to lamina( worse instead of
better, and to necessitate heroic
measures on the part of American
Jews.
The suggestion of the Mexican gov-
ernment that Jews establish colonies
in the republic to the south will he
followed by similiar invitations from
other Spanish-American nations.
Situation in America.
We may lie prepared to see further'
advances of the Ku Klux Klan to a
position of increasing strength and
influence.
The hooded knights, following up
their campaign for political power,
may be expected to become factors in
almost every community. In those sec-1
lions where their numerical inferiority'
fails to establish them as a practical
menace, their influence will he felt as
a deeded factor in political battles.
The y will be quick to turn their in-
fluend into a balance of power, which
will be used as a pawn in the political
game.
Heartened by the immunity with
which Henry Ford has dared to at-
tack the Jews and by the failure of
retriluatians to he visited upon him,
other anti-Semites may be expected
to giie expression to their prejudices.
IVe may expect the comparative
pea,,, which has blessed us during
the 1s 1 .1 year, to he rudely shattered
at 11
time by malignant farces that
yen boo busy visiting their ma-
lice Uo. , I other minorities.
Thu coming year will undoubtedly
nets , ... , re sharply than ever before,
sue between Catholic and
a '
Poo , ,.el forces in America. Efforts
will ,. vale by both factions to draw
the I ...II group to their respective
io., ial service, progress will no
doubt ',o. made towards the establish-
ment a budget for national Jewish
organ,78l Isms.
The Union of Arnercian Hebrew
Coolgr"rations will be placed on ti
sound and permanent financial basis.
The chief financial campaign, as
wa s the ease during the past year,
will be that of the Keren Ilayesod.
Detroit's C ..eamesal Program.
Yt•: of con .ersation and agitation
will p ro! ably be transferred into ac-
tion w:th the development of a com-
plete J.-Nish community program.
The oral survey made last year by I
the Bureau of Jewish Social Re-1
search, under the direction of Samuel
A. Goldsmith will, in a large measure,,
be apps used, and its recommendations
CA cried out
e the leadership of Storris D.
Wald
ald e r n,
n, newly appointed executive I
director of the United Jewish Char-
ities, that organization may be expect- 1
cat to function more efficiently than
rt gray' time during its history, cov-
eeing a period of more than 25 years
of service.
The recognition of the shifting tides
of Jewish population will result in the
estalohshment of a number of social
centers, strategically situated.
Family and child welfare work may
be exerted to be carried op more ef-
fectivsly.
New enterprises along recreational,
eduraticnal and cultural lines will be
Illonsoled by the Jewish Institute.
The work of the United Ilebrew
School s is calculated to attract the
notice and interest of those who up to
this lime have been passive in their
attitude.
Efficiently equipped and effectively
°untied • these schools may be expect-
ed to do much toward reestablishing
interest In and enthusiasm for the
Hebrew language and culture.
inePleed by the work of Temple
New Chummy
Sedan
New VeV Windshield
(vision & ventilation)
New Metropolitan Sedan Do Luis
The
Richest
Bodies
that ever graced a famous chassis
OPEN
Slides silently upward ins
stead °Editing. Operated by
a convenient regulator hens
die. Make a'poInt of seeing
and studying this remarks
able improvement.
r
DAY are presented two new Chandler Their color scheme is a brilliant combina-
nclosed bodies, eminently worthy of the don of black and Luxor Blue divided by a
famous chassis on which they are mounted. double molding smartly striped with gold.
Their appearance of unusual length and
It is fairly to be questioned whether any
of America's exclusive custom body builders rakish lowness has been achieved by reduc-
has ever achieved greater harmony of line, ing their overall height to less than six feet
without impairing head room or road
form, finish and detail.
As a part of their construction Chandler clearance
announces the new V &V Windshield— a
radical improvement in design that vastly
An unstinted elegance of detail—typical
increases the pleasure of closed car driving.
of Fisher coachwork—characterizes the in-
Consisting of a single plate of glass, the teriors. The soft gray mohair upholstery is
V &V Windshield affords clear and complete
applied with corded edges instead of being
vision to persons of all heights. There is no
taped. Garnish moldings are of Circassian
rubber strip to strain the eyes; no split to leak
walnut, harmonizing with a similarly finished
air or water; no unsightly quadrants or
braces; no thumb sc-ews to rattle or stick. instrument board.
The hardware is satin surfaced with
brightly burnished high lights. The seats
are low, pillowy, and pitched at an arm
All degrees of ventilation are provided in chair angle. Even the arm rests are uphol-
a manner that is absolutely new:
stered over springs.
Instead of tilting, the entire windshield
In the famous Chandler chassis, the Pikes
slides upward in felt lined channels, respond , Peak Motor provides absolute mastery over
ing to an easy turning handle above the all hill and traffic problems; the Traffic Trans-
shield. With half a turn, a ventilating cure
mission insures silent, certain speed changes
rent of air is conducted through the cowl to
under all conditions.
is
the car floor—although the shield itself
Balloon tires eliminate the effects of road
tightly sealed!
On any boulevard—in any company—these irregularities; Chandler 4-wheel brakes
provide extra safety at slight extra cost.
two new sedans will dominate.
Elegance of Detail
Pikes Peak
Motor
Traffic
Transmission
100% Rear Azle
4•Wheel Brakes
Balloon Tires
Perfect Ventilation
Cuss Traffic Transmission Is built came
f,ku In the Chandler plant arida
Cam pbell patents)
The following prices plus freight and
ma Inc lude on both model., Full balloon
des equipment, bumper,niclielled redl•
ator shell, motometer, leather covered
sue visor, and automatic wlndshleld
wiper controlled from dada.
Chummy Sedan - • 1204S
Metropolitan De Luso 12195
See These Two New Models at Once!
CROSSTOWN SALES CO.
5115 John R. St.
Northway 1576
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