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GRAND RAPIDS GROWTH SHOWN BY WILL FRANCE BECOME ANOTHER
COMPARATIVE STATISTICS
U. S. FOR JEWISH IMMIGRANTS?

PASSOVER GREETINGS

7

Statistical
comparisons prove This statement is .substantiated by
News Letter From Paris
that Grand Rapids forged steadily comparison of bank cleaHngs and
Its I. SCHECHTMAN
forward during 1'J28. It grew in debits against individual accounts.
. 7 popu I at i on, ts us
b nes. expanded,
I ostoffice receipts last year were
"I. ran, must and Will bth.4)11 ie 1922 a spe,ild circular was issued
":.4 its industries were well employed, $21,725 less than they were in :1111111cl'
America for the Jewish in I. to the police ordering them to re-
°:..1 its health excellent. Improvements 1527. However, the decrease was militant," was the rontident opinio
a turn lip force, if necessars:, those
were made by the city government, recorded up to Sept. I. There-
expo Sr:0i by one of the Paris Jew contract laborers who leave their
streets being widened, many miles rater the gains were pronounced,
ish immigration kakiel'S at a meto I , position before the lawful period.
of new pavement put down, new again indicating the improvement
Subseepently, howeve-r, this circu-
school buildings erected. High- in business conditions after that ing held some time ago.
lar was withdrawn as illegal, since
Far too cootiffiltont as this Stati.
ways leading to the city were date.
it was held that a contract
paved
11101(
Illay
it
and widened, improving
is
a
fact
that
thi
Building permits
last
year
. s was a matter of tan' law only and
. .,17 transportation facilities. Building showed a falling MT in number, but idea has been twit(' popular is Jew
proceeded at a normal rate, utili- a very small increase in valuation. ish circles which devote themselve ' the employer could do nothing more
than sue the deserting employee in
ties expanded, affording enviable These permits are not an accurate to the problems of immigration. I
% I, service for business and the holm...measure of growth, for they do not is some years since great expecta court for the loss caused.
Problem Regulated.
•••4= Altogether, 1928 was a year of dis- include activities in the suburbs, buns had begun to be placed in th
In order to combat legwly the
tinct growth. in one of which alone buildings capacity of France to absorb
t
Population growth cannot h e valued at more than $1,000,000 :large number of immigrants, no desertions of contract laborers into
, °their occupations, a law was pass-
satisfactorily measured by the fig- were erected. Utiless the suburbs only among the leaders. but like
•
823 LEONARD, N. W.
Phone 7.1469
tires applying strictly to the city. are annexed when they reach the wise among the masses of tomi : edon August I I, 1526, at the midi-
„
alive of 1)1. Lambert, mliereby the
grat•ts.
Today
one.
one.hears
Pari
.oa Grand Rapids has grown right up proper stage of development, we
z
GRAND RAPIDS,
'•:',;t to its municipal limits, and the in- inaN' reasonably expect a decrease Nlalscilles, Lyons, Nancy, Met : problem is at present regulated.
According to this lam:. an alien
Strasshourg
and
other
place's
.. i _ crease now is to a large extent out- in the numbe•r of building permits
642 Grandville Ave., S. W.
side the boundaries. The various issued in the city in the years im- Fraller alellti011ed by the would worker cannot as a general rule,
h change his OCcallal loll at will. For
need
be
immigrant
in
the
same
bunt
s:lft suburbs, from every logical view-
II-ady to come.
with New fork, Philadelphia an d a period of at lead one year he is
.1:1• point should be annexed, but five
0
____ _.
_ .__ -
Boston. Of course, the scale s obliged to remain at the work indi-
of them have refused to conic into
much smaller, and it is clearly un cated in his last "carte ir idtintite."
the city. Outside population has
derstosni that France figures in al If he maws to Change this !wealth-
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special dis-
these calculations merely in th „ lion he ha. to .do
schools at North l'ark Comstock
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liSat Ion I Ion, the offino de place-
= Park and on South Ilivi , ion road.
capacity of a "Little America." .
(Continued from Page 1)
molt” and such dispensation I.
=
The justification for these hope'
Despite these condition, Grand fact that in the small town the 50'
granted only on very rare ores'-
SeellIS
enough: France
' 10115, namely, if the occupation to
pids as of Jan. 1. 1525, is cred• members include all the available
needs immigrants alai is admitting
= lied with an estimate,' population Jews, both the "religious" and the
which the alien intends to change
= of 180,300. This
scores of thOUSallila
thein every
estimate is more indifferent, while in the metro's°.
will be considered "useful" to the
sci eutitic than haphazard.
year. Only a few short weeks actu
It is his the membership is recruited
best interests of the country. Even
=
an itoteoresting book was publislaal
based on an excess of births over from those who manifest a desire,
within the limits of one and the
= deaths since the 1920 federal can- to become affiliated. Consider also from the pen of Deputy Charles
same occupation the immigrant is
= sus, an increase of 30 per cent in the number of transients who are Lambert, formerly the High Com-
forbidden to change his employers.
th o number of qualified voters always to ti, found in a big city. missiontor of Immigration. The The hull requires of every employ-
se 19211, all increase of 28 . 7
and you will note that the numeri- book, entitled "France and the er that he should hire no foreign
per
in the number of youths cal showing of the little brother is Alien," has a ftoreword by' M. Iler- worker without a certificate show-
of school age since 19211, an in- not so bad.
riot, the former Premier and pres-
ing that the latter has served the
ease of 37.2 per cent in the
The same thing applies to the ent Nlinister of Education. The stipulateod period with the original
number of"II"'
volume
( - Manilla a Wealth of inter-
dumlotiC water complaint of the good loropko who
employeor.
service since 1920, and annexa- are engaged as field workers and esting statistical material showing,
It appears thus that the alien
ons since 1920 of territory with organizers. A town may be over among tither things, that there are
worker in France' finds himself
THEY SAVE LABOR, FUEL COSTS,
of 6,500. organized. and will be if the same, now living in France upward of bound hand and foot at every turn.
3,000,000
foreigners,
representing
Grand Rapids is credited on little group is called upon to act
It is especially true in the ease of
AND ELIMINATE SMOKE
= Jan. 1 with having -14,151 familiei, as presidents, vice-presidents ' 22 countries or origin. The Italian a Jewish immigrant, who is bound
= with 77,363 persons in gainful o - boards of trustees, committee.; I contingent alone numbered S07,655 to remain at the trade or
occupa-
Many Grand Rapids Boilers Are Now Equipped
=7 collations. Of the gainfully occu- members of six or seven or eight souls and there were 467,156 Span- t ion for which he was originally
—I.et Its Show You.
pied 57,620 are sales and 19,- separate groups. The result of iards, -160,352 Belgians and 310,. admitted to the country. It in ex-
71:1 females. There are 112,52(1 over-organization can never be 265 Poles.
' ceedingly difficult, almost imp°,
Hopeless in Practice.
540 S. DIVISION AVE.
Tel. 4.1333 = persons over 21 years of age, a f healthy growth.
sible,intleed,to obtain permission'
= whom 55,438 are males and 57,-
In the last analysis, the problem
In these circumstances it is quite to change from farm labor to
= 088 females.
is not mathematical, and cannot, atural to ask why Jews, too, should clerical work, or for a coal mimic
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
EE Bank clearings, always looked he solved by arithmetic. The sole not he able to send large numbers
to engage in commerce. To be.
upon as a reliable barometer d f reason for using figures as illus. of immigrants to France, where
sure, there are many immigrants
business conditions, indicate pro - trations of this point is that fig-, neit her racial nor religious preju-
who succeed in getting along with-
lass. Clearings for 1928 total, I arcs are the basis of the popular dices seem to exist. Why, it is
$446,963,46S, against $412,979 - lament about the decadence of asked, should not France become out these permits; but theirs is not
115 5 in 1927, a gain of $33,984,41: , Judaism in the small communities. in course of time a "Little Amer- a bed of roses. They are com-
or over 8.2 per cent. Ideals cannot be measured, nor can ica"! Especially now, that the pelled to play a constant game of
Probably a more accurate bust devotion. Still it is true that there gates of the larger America are hide-and-seek with the police, are'
ness barometer than bank clea - are certain numerical indications I lefiiniteoly shut to the Jewish immi- driven from place to place if caught.
and are often deported from the
ings are debits against individui I on the basis of which one may grant?
country. Under such conditions it
accounts. These are not influence I judge the spiritual tendencies of
accounts for the progress we
There is S°1110 justification for
is, of course, vain to think of find-
by an increase or decrease in th • different communities.
are making in the sale, rental
such questions, but only ill theory;
number of banks, such as we ha I
The fact that the Jews have • in practice the problem seems to ing in France a "Little America."
and repair of Electric Motoors.
Still, we must not exaggerate:
in 11126 when the Fourth Nation I been fur so long an urban group is be hopeless because of the peculiar
We sent out of our works in the
Bank was consolidated with th helpful in any analysis of the social composition of the Jewish measured by European standards,
month of January, 1929, one
France
today undoubtedly repre-
Grand Rapids National, and as w' situation in which Judaism finds emigrant masses, which makes them
hundred and eighty-five motors.
probably shall have this year, wit itself today. For the Jew in the anything but desirable to France. sents the largest immigration reser- I
That indicates a capacity to
voir
in
Europe.
France does need
the merging of the Old Nation; I small town is very much like his M. Lambert states the case quite
worve well in our line of activity.
and Kent State.
Furthermore, brother in the big city. Both have bluntly in the book mentioned plenty of immigrants, but only of
a
certain
type.
It
is mot the type,
items of transfer are eliminated.
the same background and the above., saying "France requires no
Debit against individual am- same traditions.
Therefore the hankers with international minds; the one who will not shring from
those
hard
and
unprofitable
tasks
counts, with final figures not yet small town is a fine laboratory in , she needs instead young, vigorous,
for which the diminished and part-
THE MOTOR FIRM
available, indicate a slightly mor • which to observe tendencies that
productive people." In using the
ly
spoiled
native
stock
has
lost
its
pronounced business increas ' would be more difficult of obstor-
15.17 Ionia Avenue, N. W.
Phone 4384
term "bankers" the author does
taste. What France is looking for
than bank clearings possibly u vation in the metropolis. The same
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
not confine it to the accepted tnean-
is not more immigrants, in the
to 8.7 per cent for 1928 ove tendencies are present in both
i. et, persons engaged in bank-
• 1927.
cases, and it is well to give this i ng and speculating on the ex- usual sence, but more settlers. It
is exactly the same problem that
It is generally admitted that the attention it deserves,
, change, since the number of such
we observe in countries such as
business conditions in the natio Whether or not it is true that
persons would be quite negligible
Canada,
Argentina, Russia, Pales-
were below normal from Jan. 1 Judaism is becoming, weaker and
among any kind of immigrants. tine, Mexico.
to Sept. 1, 1928, and Grand Rap weaker in the small communities is
What he has in mind is the "un-
Colonisation
•s. Immigration.
ids conditions did nut vary from open to question. But this much •
productive element" in general,
the national. However, the tree is sure—if this is true of the
If they are to be received with
i. e., traders, tniddlesmen, intellec-
upward was pronounced during th smaller citiess, it is just as true of
tuals and other such groups of im- open arms and establish themselves
ast four months of the year, th
the larger settlements, and Juda-
firmly upon French soil, our Jewish
notterment in that period beP
ism is in need of some sort of migrants. hat France really re- immigrants will first have to change
quires is an altogether different
more than sufficient to offset th
spiritual tonic.
completely their socio-economic
loss of volume prior to Sept. 1.
Fortunately, however, there is type of Omen, to-wit: peasants both composition. Instead of immigra-
another angle from which one able and willing to till the soil and tion we must have colonization, in- ,
• might view the whole situation. take the places of those thousands stead of the trader, a worker. This
The problem of Jewish extra-con- f French peasants who are drifting however, is a very painful and slow
gregational institutions is but a to the big cities and abandoning process, and even in the best vie-
phase of the quandry in which their farms. France needs, fur- cumstanctos it cannot anon become
many non-Jewish organizations thermore, labor for the coal mines, extensive.
find themselves. In like manlier, factories, mills, etc., I. e., precisely
France still offers quite consid-
the problem of the Jewish temple the kind of people we meet so FA- erable opportunities to those int-
the Jewish immi-
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is but a phase of the general re-
migrants who are prepared to set-
(h' manwng
ligious problem. What we are grants.
tle upon the land and engage in
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Difficulties.
viewing is not the state of affairs
farming. Thus the Russian imini-
of Judaism only, but rather one
In Jewish circle's this tragic out- grants are availing themselves of
aspect of the march of events, come
tome is regarded with something this opportunity on a large scale.
which happens to be a rapid march that appears very much like inex-
After the inevitable hardships at-
in this age. What the outcome cusable irresponsibility. All that
tending the first two or three years
will be it would be foolhardy to the Jew is thinking of is how to get
they find themselves well settled
Dial 6.1125
predict, but it is safe to say that into the country first, after which
and at last free from the constant
the very universality of the diffi-
the matter of choosing a trade or worries which harrassed them in ,
17 Market Ave., S. W.
culty is a ground for assurance. profession is to
be settled. This is the cities. But the Jewish immi.
ASK FOR
Near Fulton St.
The world may be trusted to find a
a very dangerous and fundamental- grant comes to France with en-
way out.
ly wrong attitude to take. Those tirely different ambitions. Ile will
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
who reason in this manner have not for an instant consider the
evidently not the slightest concep- possibilities of life in the country.
tion of the popular circumstances At best, he becomes a worker in
and laws which govern this situa- the specifically "Jewish" trades,
tion in France.
such as capmaking, leatherwork,
According tel the existing laws, etc. The majority, however, fol-
France admits only such alien la- lows the usual way: opening a lit-
borers as are able to show' at the tle store, dealing in old clothing,'
Cream of Uniform Quality
NEW YORK.—(J, T, A.)—Ap-
frontier control stations definite and " huff " OCCUpations without
pro al of the statue to be erected
contracts entered into with French number. But the rapacity of
to 11aym Salomon was given by
employers for certain periods of France to provide a living for such
the Municipal Art Commission and,
time, being thus assured of work. elements is quite small, especially
Dial 3-0137
toe monument will be erected in
Grand Rapids, Mich.
The employer, again, may conclude in the case of the foreign imtni-
the triangle at 66th street, west
such an agreement with a foreign grant.
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Boiler settings
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of Broadway, New York, accord-
worker only with the consent of
As one of the smaller immigno•
ing to an announcement made by
the competent "office de placement" tion countries, France undoubtedly
Repairs—Ovens-
Benjamin Winter, president of the and of the foreign section of the
Day and Night Repair Service
could hold an important place for
Elaboration of Polish Jews, which Nlinistry of Labor. From this it
Kilns
the Jew; but even the role of a
is sponsoring the memorial for will be seen that it is by no means
"Little America" would toe beyond
the financier who supplied funds
easy to obtain such contracts, in her capacity, and those who cher.'
to the colonies in the American the very first place; but it is even
12 Williams S. W.
Tel. 6-7345
ish this illusion are doomed to di,
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Revolution.
M. E. NEWELL
more difficult to obtain a release appointment.
250 Pearl St. Di•I 4721
More than a year ago the Muni- from these obligations, once under-
GRAND
RAPIDS,
MICH.
Icoestishl by J. T. A.i 9 r 2• 1.
(;RANI) RAPIDS, MICH.
V--
cipal Art Commission disapproved taken.
the erection of a statue with the
people are under the im•
suggestion that the historical facts preson
m
that these contracts are JOSEPH SARE, CRACOW
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VICE-PRESIDENT, DIES
him such an important site as to be discarded at will as soon as
Strip Co.
Madison Square l'ark. Later the they have managed to enter the
CRACOW.-1.1. T. A.) Josenh
commission was faced with records country, and that 'here will Ise Sore, vice-president of the city
Home Office, Grand Rapids
of 1805 telling of his services to nothing in the way of their choos- of Cracow, died here at the age of
Maker , of
the CRUh• of the American Revo- ing some other oecupation. This 81. M1 r. Sara, Who Was an engi-
lution.
All-Metal Weather Strip
is a grave error. The French law neer, established the Cracow •treat
It gives your face that fresh bloom of
The memorial will have for its makes quite sufficient provision for car system.
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main
figure
a
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statue
the
protection of the employer's in-
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of Salomon. Stanwood S. Menken, terests and the enforcement of the
It gives your skin a freshness and
Good things cost less than bad
boas Fnel—Keep.
aind and
a
descendent
of
Salomon,
will
as-
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