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A Happy New Year

KALAMAZOO'S PROGRESSIVE
GROWTH

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Kalamazoo's progressive growth' 02.7; fire loss, per capita, $1.80;
is revealed in the following fig- number of firemen, 83; number of

l urea: police officers, 52; number of

Main Motors
Incorporated

E. J. McCULLOUGH, President

W. G. FLANIGAN, Sec.-Treas.

STUDEBAKER AND ERSKINE
AUTOMOBILES

472 West Michigan Street

Phone 6848

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

Population within limits, 54,900; parks, 15; park area, acres, 310;
population of Greater Kalamazoo, per capita area, square feet , 250 .
65,000; area, square miles, 8 1-2; Public library, volumes, 73,500;
altitude, 775 feet; native born pop- • bituminous coal consumption, tons
ulation, 83.5 per cent; southeast- per annum, 765,000; passenger
ern European immigration, 3.3 per trains inbound and outbound daily
cent; assessed valuation in city, (steam roads), 94j-best office rent-
$73,677,000; tax rate, total or als, per annum, per square foot,
property rates, $32.68. $1.50; industrial rentals, per an-
Bonded indebtedness: City, gen. num, per square foot, 25c; street
11+ , coal, $182,000; per capita, $3,15; car fare, 6 1-4 cents; average
school, $2,569,000; per capita, residence rate per kilowatt, eke-
. : . tricity, 4.5 cents; gas rate, per
Building permits, 1924, 1,282; 1,000 feet net, $1.30; Ovate rate,
building permits, value, SIMI* begins at per 1,000 feet net, 55
055; bank assets, $23,317,7:38; post cents; insurance rate, 26.6 cents;
office receipts, 1924, $197,025; post death rate, 10.6 per 1,000 resi-
, office carriers, 46; newspaper cir dents; assessed valuation in Kala-
culation, daily, 20,500; city tele- mazoo county, $112,574,000; hi
phones, 13,429; gas meters, 12,- surfaced road in country, miles
}; 5 r 870; miles of streets, 147; miles railroals in county, miles, 115•
of paved streets, 56 1-2; miles of interurban railroad in county,
sanitary sewers, 108; miles of ma.; miles, 25; population, retail trade
ter mains, 116; miles of gas mains, area, 150,000.

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Greetings of the Season

FIRESTONE TIRES

Greetings of the Season

THE OLDSMOBILE

The Fine Car of Low Price
Used Cars with a Guarantee

ORRIN B. HAYES

1....,
Say Peter Pan
To Your
Grocer Man

Greetings of the Season

N. J. BAUMANN

HUDSON

Whenever You
Order Bread

ESSEX

The Peter Pun Bakers

Phone 7118

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

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Greetings of the Season

Greetings

COLUMBIA
HOTEL

Kalamazoo
Buick Sales Co.

FRANK E IIRM A N, Manager

Comfortable
Rooms

BUICK SALES AND SERVICE

Beat Meals in
Kalamazoo

Phone 7191

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

Greetings

Season's Greetings

Casper Hass

Kalamazoo Laundry

Concrete Products
and
Builders Supplies

RUG CLEANING
FAMILY WASHING
DRY CLEANING

Arlington-Jefferson

Dial 2-4531

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

Telephone 4161

A distinct advance in the techni-
que of encyclopedia make-up intro-
duced in the Fourteenth Edi-
tion is the treament of subjects
which cover a vast field. Such a
topic as electricity which would
ordinarily compose a single treatise
has been segregated into various
sub-heads which are practically
scientific entities themselves. Thus
we have a world authority writing
on magnetism wihle a second takes
up the subject of electrical illumi-
nation and still a third deals with
generation. In this manner com-
plex technical developments are
simplified yet enhanced by expert
knowledge. Similarly, instead of a
single article on Jews, there are
essays on Jewish history, Judaism,
Hebrew language, Hebrew litera-
ture, Zionism, Yiddish language
and literature and so forth.

has its staff of advisory editors,
sub-editors, and assistants. Each
has its own art department of from
50 to 75 ntombers. At times these
editorial departments have been in
contact by cable, wire, airplane and
mail, with contributors in all cor-
ners of the earth.
The present edition is divided
into 24 volumes embracing more
, than 35,000,000 words, 15,000 il-
lustrations (including 1,200 full
1page plates, many of them in color)
1600 new maps, including 200 in
color; thousands of new articles,
and hundreds of subjects never be-

All work and no play dulls me.
Company is not play, but many
times hard work. To play, is fur
a man to do what he pleases, sir
to do nothing—to go about sooth-
ing his particular fancies .-
Charles Lamb.

Grown up people are separates!
by so many thousands of miles
from the world of children; per-
haps we know less about then) than
they know about us.—Theodor
Herzl

THE HOLE IN THE WALL

The Talmud tells of some men
who went out in a boat and one
of them began to bore a hole at
the buttons of the vessel,
In great alarm his fellow pas-
sengers asked him what he was
doing. "1 am only boring under
my own seat, he replied.
"Yes," said his comrades, "but
when the water rushes in we shall
all be drowned with you." Indi-
vidual crime may thus involve the
whole community.

GODFREY
LUMBER CO.

"Build a home First"

Lumber and Building
Material

Season's Greetings

I INCORPORATED)

Prompt Settlement of Losses by Resident
Adjuster

PACKARD DEALERS

Phone 6109

K ALA MAZOO, MICHIGAN

The Season's Greetings

A. L. Lakey Co.

PAINTS, OILS
Painters' and Roofers' Supplies

Phone 2-8432

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

Write us, phone us, or call at the school office
today for full particulars. No Obligations.
Enter Day School Any Day. Enter Night
School Any Monday or Thursday Evening

PARSONS BUSINESS SCHOOL

135 N. Westnedge Ave.
Phone 2.3722
KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

We Wish All Our Jewish Friends and
Patrons a Very Happy New Year

ROTECTION
P RODUCTS,
Inc.

Waterproofing Preparations for Auto Tops,
Canvas, Cement, Etc.

2305 Superior Ave.
Telephone 2-7752
KALAMAZOO, AlICHIGAN

Phone 2-0181

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

Season's

DE SO TO SIX

CHRYSLER MOTORS PRODUCT

Greetings

KALAMAZOO
MONUMENT CO.

Mausoleums, Monuments
and Markers

Work Done With Most Modern
Machinery

ED. T. KEIS, Prop.

WHITE BROTHERS

847 Portage St., Phone 2-0149

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

Associate Dealer—E. N. Lindsey, Otsego, Mick.

1017 RIVERVIEW DRIVE

Phone 2-1813

Residence Phone 8648

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

Greetings of the Season

Season's Greetings

Hargie Plating

Works

M. & T. BATTERY
& ELECTRIC CO.

JAMES S. IIARGIE, Mgr.

Battery and Electric
Service

Electro Plating and Polishing

610 W. WILLARD ST., Rear
Phone 2-562I
KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

131 West Kalamazoo

Phone 2-0259

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

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Greetings of the Season

Season's Greetings

A. M. TODD

M. BOVEN
ROOFING CO.

Bird's Built-Up Asphalt Roofing,
Slate Roofing, Roll Roofing,
Asphalt Shingles

Tar and Gravel, Re-Coating and
Repairing Roofs

1411 N. Burdick Street.

Phone us for estimate.
obligation.

No

COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Peppermint, Spearmint, Essential Oils and
Synthetic Perfume Materials

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

Phone 2.7355

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

Season's Greetings

We Wish All Our Jewish Friends a Very Happy
New Year

Saniwax Paper Company

Ideal Dairy Co.

Makers of

Ideal Dairy Products
Ideal Dairy Brand Butter
Pasteurized Milk and Cream

SANITARY WAXED
BREAD WRAPPERS

126 S. Westnedge St.

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

A Happy New Year to You

ORDER YOUR WINTER COAL NOW!

Title, Bond & Mortgage Co.

OF KALAMAZOO

Abstracts of Title and Title Insurance
Good Bonds—Land Contracts and Mortgages

125 Exchange Place—Old Gazette Bldg.

256 North Burdick St.

A Better Chance to Succeed

Prominent business men will tell yid'
"young men or
young women with a practical business education ar,
independent. They can always earn a good living, and
they are working under the eyes of executives—wher e
the "lightning of promotion is likely to strike."
A thorough business course at this school will give
your buy or your girl a greater chance to succeed. Them
is no greater inheritance that you can leave your son °I
your slaughter than the ability to get ahead in the world
We have prepared special literature which tells you
how we prepare our graduates to succeed. It tells about
opportunities in business and how we train young peon)
to grasp them.

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F. L. Cornish Co.

Kalamazoo Natonal Bank Building

Boy
" Your Girl

Office and Yard, 841 Third St.

Kalamazoo's Leading Insurance Office

E. S. Rankin Agency

Parents!

LACQUERS FOR
Interior Decorating and Refinishing of
All Kinds
POLISH FOR
Lacquer and Varnish Finishes

Greetings

The role played .by the Jew in
the pageant of progress is detailed
with painstaking impartiality and
thoroughness H. M. J. Loewe,
lecturer in Rabbinic Hebrew' at Ox-
ford, is the author of the brilliant
exposition of the post-Biblical de-
velopment of the Jewish creed.
This article and Stanley Cooke's
searching discussion of the Tal-
mud bid fair to become elassics of
Hebrew apologetics. Mention must
be made of Isaac ilusick's treat-
ment of Jewish Philosophy, a phase
heretofore disregarded in tilt pre-
cious editions.

Individual articles sin sub-divi-
sions of the Bible make for thor-
oughness and convenient reference.
To revise a work such as the Thus we find the Old Testament
Encyclopedia Brittanica is a col- separated into an introduction,
hisal task. Recognized author)-, ('anon, Texts, Higher Criticism
ties must be procured to expound and chronology. Exclusive of this
on their specialized avocations. So list, we find an individual treat-
t he theory of relativity is intelli- ment of every book in the Bible.
gently explained by Albert Ein- Another instance of specialized ap-
stein himself. The rapid strides proach to a major topic is ably
taken by the theater are discussed illustrated in the historical aspects
by Max Reinhardt, while stage de- of the race. The Chief Rabbi of
sign is treated by Lee Simonson. England, J. II. Hertz, confines
Modern philanthropy has assumed himself to modern history, while
the position of a science, as lucidly the. racial composition of the Jews
is left to L. H. D. Buxton, an an-
told by Julius Rosenwald.
The problem of controversial thropologist of high repute. -
The article on Zionism has been
subjects has been solved in the
most logical manner, namely by rewritten and recast by Leonrad
psesenting both sides of the ques- Stein. Here we see a true rellec-
tion as defended by authoritative tbm of the change which has come
champions and a commentary by ever the consciousness of the world
some 'unbiased judge. Thus we regarding this vital movement.
find the article on War Guilt has With Stein's temperate account as
been divided into quarters; firstly a background one can form a far-
there is an introduction by J. L. ' seeing and intelligent view of the
Garvin, followed by the allied view- Arabian uprising in the Holy Land
point as seen by a Frenchman. under British rule.
To an inhabitant of some foreign
The German aspect of the respon-
sibility of the war is put forth by celestial sphere our existence must
a German authority, and the topic indeed seem a meaningless hodge-
is concluded by a further com- podge. Yet in viewing us from a
mentary written by J. L. Garvi n distance he is spared the raucous-
who attempts to weigh the ques- ness of our strident civilization.
tion in an unprejudiced manner. How much more difficult then, must
What the work has meant is in- all this appear to the inquirer who
dicated, to some extent, by some is part of this seething vortex
of its features. The new Britannica we call progress. Man is by na-
was written by more than 3,500 ture a reasoning being who desires
eminent authorities, men and wo- to have the "whys and wherefores"
men, specialist in every field of of his brothers' acts explained.'
knowledge. These represent more There is no doubt that a monu-
than 40 different countries through- mental work such as the new edi
out the world. Two large editorial tams of the Encyclopedia Britannica
: departments—one in New York, must necessarily become an integ-
covering North and South Ameri- ral part of our existence reflecting,
ca, and another in London, cover- as in a universal mirror, our
' ing Europe, Asia and Africa. Each many-faceted life.

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A Happy New Year to You

canons.

fore included in encyclopedias. The
POETS
index of 400,000 references points
out the way to more than a mil- A poet sings because he must,
lion facts. This epic snaking pub- Time cannot turn his song to dust;
lication represents an investment But if he sings to fill his purse,
of more than $2,t190,000 before the He should polish pans instead of
printing of a single set.
verse—Morris Abel Beer.

By MAXWELL FELLER

To a people whose traditional is staggered by the ever Mynas-
love of learning has earned them a ing labyrinth. Events crowd upon
flattering description as the "Pea- : each other with such breath-taking
pie of the Book" the publication of , rapidity that he has nut time to
the revised (fourteenth) edition of ' stop and grasp the meaning of the
the Encyclopedia Brittanica is an stages which have gone before. Ile
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justice has the Encyclopedia been wildering accumulation of knowl-
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progress in the social and techni-
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tory.
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Kalamazoo is an economically,
Three homes for the aged are
efficiently business managed city operated under denominational
from whatever angle you may in- control. Six hospitals of the major
vestigate•
class care for the sick and in-
Kalamazoo's altruistic spirit is jured. One hospital is
under
exemplified in many organizations state control, one municipal, three
and institutions, which are ever denominational and two private.
ready to help those in distress, care All are excellently equipped and
fur the unfortunate, or elevate its offer admirable service at mod-
citizenship.
crate rates. Both old and new
Burgess and Bronson hospitals are
The Associated Charities,
sauced by a community budget, liberal in their care of charity pat-
onsists of the Civic Improvement dents.
Pretty Lake 'Vacation camp pro-
league which looks after the city's
poor, conducts infant welfare, pre- ',ides outings fur the children of
scho,! dental, pre-natal, tubercu- the less fortunate during the sum-
losis, onsil and adenoidal clinics mer months.
A boys' farm cares for indigent
and promotes general community
welfare; Cribside Society; St. boys and supervises their educa-
Agnes Foundling Home; Whatso- lion. An orphans' home cares fur
,veer Free Bed Association; Child's girls.
Several patrols of Buy and Girl
W elfare League; Children's Aid
Society, and Douglas Community Scouts are active in scout work
House for Negroes. and are provided with summer

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