dear. aim anu s • suorm wows

Iiirokir

PAGE NINE

TIE Y")erRon;/Eingi 01, 10141cm

My Sincere Wishes to All My Jewish Friends
and Neighbors for a Happy and
Prosperous New Year

Harry A. McDonald

PRESIDENT and GENERAL MANAGER

Arctic Dairy Products Co.

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All

Ripley Drug Stores

Where Service Counts

Drugs, Prescriptions, Candies, Cigars and Sodas

2864 Fourteenth, at Temple

Glendale 1413

2903 National at Temple

Glendale 6337

Wishing All My Jewish Friends and
Patrons a Happy and Prosperous
New Year

NI
.7.1%

A. H. Badger

Upholstering, Wood Turning
Antique Furniture of All Kinds

Cadillac 0728

Wishing You All a
Happy New Year

D. & C.

J. Lefkofsky & Sons

Window Shades
Need Cleaning?

Rosh Hashonah Greetings and Best Wishes

G. W. CRANE

PRESCRIPTION PHARMACIST

Window shades made to
order and installed. No
charge for estimates. Our
autos will call in any part of
Greater Detroit.

Glendale 6108

Wishing You All a Happy New Year

WILLIAM D. DULAC

REALTOR

929 PENOBSCOT BLDG.

Randolph 8945

A Happy New Year to You

JOHN A. MACK

Company

Punching, Perforating and Eyeletting

MANUFACTURERS OF

BLANK BOOKS AND LOOSE LEAF DEVICES

Formerly Manager of Phoenix Club

We Serve Strictly Fresh
Frogs All Winter

LOUIS GAMBLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA

FOR RESERVATIONS CALL ROSEVILLE 118

Randolph 6746

Wishing You All a Happy New Year

BURNS HOME

CONVALESCENTS
CHRONIC CASES
ELDERLY PEOPLE

Wishing the Entire Jewish Community a Happy and Prosperous

do It-we
4*„„

.

.

Let the Cowen Co. Renew Your Fur,
niture and Beautify Your Home

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All Our Jewish
Friends and Customers

Cowen's

Disposal Corporation
of Detroit

Ilome of Fine Upholstery

H. W. STANLEY, Sec.-Treas.

1012 Helen Street

9

A Happy New Year

Grading and Dirt Disposal

Saw and Specialty

Corporation

Wood and Metal Cutting Saws, Paper Cutting
and Planer Knives and Shear Blades

Wishing All Our Jewish Friends and Neighbors
a Happy and Prosperous New Year

TAYLOR ENGINEERING & PUMP CO.

TAYLOR AUTOMATIC PUMP

Easily Installed in Factories, Residences, Stores -

CALL US FOR A DEMONSTRATION

12033 Cardoni Avenue

Arlington 6220

Wishing All My Jewish Friends and Patrons a
Happy and Prosperous New Year

Leo. A. Ziske

Manuacturer

of

UPHOLSTERING
REFINISHING
REPAIRING
RESTORING OF FINE ANTIQUES

Empire 6243

New Year
qr u i
.:1 ,.. t
p!._ I a, .

„_... II
4,0 v

..T”

CUSTOM BUILT
UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE

Day and Night Nursing Care

I

..1111111111111.1111111m111111111simma

r.

57 HOLBROOK

JOSEPH P. WEYER, Proprietor

"One of his strongest traits is a
half-humorous contempt for suc-
cess. He has never fully believed
that our aristocracy consists of
'captains of industry,' and he has 4=
never fully believed that it con- mi
sista of 'malefactors of great
wealth.' He believes that a rich,
powerful man should not plume
on0000-00•0*** 000000 000000041 000-0-0 :000-03:10 0 0-000 0-0 400 0-0 0-00-0-000-0-00-0-00400-00-0-0 04-0Csa nannOn00
himself with the trappings of
wealth, but should be entirely will-
ing to sit around the stove in a
country store and be one of the
boys again. Ile is not a theoreti-
cal
cal Democrat, like Mirtibeau. Ile
a practical one, like Andrew
Jackson.
"Ile sees his fellow Americans of it—all Americans, possibly, ex-
in his own image. Ile has no pa- „pt Jews .
tience with the European feudal
"The first instinct of any intelli-
idea (which is also a Jewish idea) gent American who makes a suc-
that the son of a rich man can be
cess is to dodge the crowds and es-
insulated against ordinary trou- cape from fame. Lindbergh has
bles, and sent into some agreeable remained a hero for years by be-
vocation like diplomacy. He wants ing shy. Ilis great achievement
the rich man's son to work in
or :—
focused attention on him. But if
overalls at the mill. He is cer- he had been blatant for one sec-
tain that a 'leisure class' can con-
„ ,, d: , .,6
,„
- .
ond, he would have been laughed
sist only of bloated idlers, with re-
at and forgotten."
.6, ' T— ! 4—
.„
'
.4.
-,
,
ceding chins and foreheads. He
e*
,
• j
...:4.1..4V14:26., ' Ill ,
'14
feels that a rich nun's son who
s
In other words, what you show
plays polo is a drag on the com-
us,
Mr.
Powell,
is
a
peasant
ruling
'' r •
munity (but how about daddy him-
self playing golf, Mr. Powell?— the mightiest nation in the world
.,.._,,
Te-,,,
l' . 0 1
,— ' ... , .'1.,,
. V..
1 ** it
P. R.) and a rich man's son who today. You go on to show, by
'r, g/ T.,7777-...1,—...•'--
' 4.
becomes a railway express clerk examples of Ford, Rockefeller and
(why not a subway digger' 1'. • others, how these peasants have
R.) is a fine young man of the old not acclimatized themselves to
:-r.....''_'-
_,,__,........i.,,,,":"----
. •••-_—
ill .
stock, certain to success Ibut why wealth, how they have remained
=s-•
A
,s _,.,...st:4,:i.Tlf1" --. 4*,;L:7,7.1. :Ii_ ' -'7.— t'"=- ....
bother anyway about success if, as farmers—and you want us Jews. a
you say, Mr. Powell, your people city people for centuries. an old,
regard it with half-humorous con- dignified, aristocratic ram to be-
come peasants too. You try your
tempt?-1'. R.I.
"And his influence is so great , darndest to show us your peasant
race at its best. You forgot, of
'T.1 1 that all Americans are conscious
, course, to mention such things as
corruption in politics, but man-
Thirty years' experience as a designer and builder of fine upholstery with
ners Isuch as chewing and spitting
tobacco) and an idiotic contempt
a record of tine craftsmanship is your assurance of complete satisfaction. Our
for learning, intelligence and re-
work will be found in the most prominent homes, clubs, etc.
finement in others. You forgot to
wo Do Evc.Tythow in Upholstering, Repairing. and Refinishing
mention Ford's famous saying that
ALL OUR WORK SERVICED FREE FOR SEVEN YEARS
"History is bunk," and perhaps
Mr. James Truslo• Adams, who
Let us help you with our expert advice and suggestions, whereby we can cut the
conies of your good old Puritan
price down, nettin! you • big saving.
New England stock but who pre-
fers to live in old England now
(that's also in Europe I, might tell
you something about the "wicker
Cadillac 2890.1902
3129 Woodward Avenue
pose," i. e., the vulgar peasant at-
: titude, that supposedly intelligent
■.■
Americans have to assume lest
they he accused, if they display a
little intelligence and refinement, „
of being "high-hatted," highbrow"
or "sissified" by the all-powerful • consumed by religious problems.'
democratic Nordic-Yankee peas- i The American (except a few ab-
antry But you to remember to, surd medievalists) is not worry-
"dig it in" to the Jew for being ing about the flesh because he
ostentatious, for displaying his ! chances to be a Protestant, or
wealth, i. e., for being a middle- about heresy because he is a Cath-
class parvenu instead of a peas- , olic. The American is indifferent
ant. You very conveniently for- , to his neighbor's religion (page
get that there is quite a large your friend Mencken, Mr. Powell,
Jewish intelligentsia in this coon.' and ask hini about the Methodists,
try, besides a class of newly-rich Baptists and other varieties of Ku
'Jews. What should the AmericanKluxers—P. R.) least of all does
Jew who hasn't chosen money- he invite the Jew to become a
making for a career 11 am such a Christian church-member.
Fitzroy 0083
"If the Jew is eluted to a good
Jew) do in order to find favor in
the eyes of your Yankee peasant- club he must take things slowly
• folks, so that they should gradu- at first. It is a tradition that a
ally begin to regard them as one new member must earn his spurs.
Repair Work Called For and Delivered
Presumably he, - 110 must not be flamboyant (b• a
lof their own?

For a safe, dry basement use the

RULERS AND BINDERS

514 MARQUETTE BLDG.

Eastwood Inn

Caterpillar Tractors, 1 to 10 Tons
Bulldozers and Graders for Rent

Property Management

ti

To

O it
kiniEti
jii;i1004P.'
v.
A lt: :773,. n

Longfellow
2980

1

Take the New Gratiot Road

4. v

Longfellow
8324

We Will Cull for Prescriptions and Deliver Them

1413 Michigan Avenue

We Wish All Our Jewish Friends and Patrons
a Happy and Prosperous Nett , Year

I.._

Established 1896

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR VIENNA SAUSAGE MFG. CO .,
CHICAGO, ILL.

O

By PHILIP RUBIN

LE SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU
A Happy New Year to You All

Broadway Market, Shops 37 and 38
Phone Randolph 1664

00-000 3X)00000000000 00000000 0-00000000000000 0000000 0009000 0-0-0,0 0000-0 0-0-0 000 0-0-0*0 0040(30-0

Deur Mr. Powell:
ish culture, to drop that cultural
I have just read your book, "The baggage and to assimilate with
Invincible Jew," which on its fly. American lift:. You show us the i n
leaf is characterized by your pub- example of St. Paul, who forms im
lishers as "a challenge to unthink- the major theme of your book, St.
ing prejudice." Maybe it is a chal- Paul who was born a pious Jew NI
lenge—to morons. But, as the and who bacame the founder of 'NE
peat i,od Meneken, whose recent Christianity and one of the great-
- liolvice to thi• Jews that they as- est figures in world history, be-
similate seems to have found such cause he merely said "Civis Ro-
great favor in your eyes, will tell menus Sum!" "I am a Roman
And then, while ac-
you, even intelligent, thinking citizen."
people can have their prejudices, knowledging the social prejudice ml
that is, their likes and dislikes. that exists against the Jew in , m
and these people, I fear, won't America, you say:
lose any Of their prejudices by
The Jew who says 'I am Anwri-
reading your book. I for one have can,' and means it, can have any-
felt that, if anything, it has in- thing he pleases in American life.
creased my prejudices. All he needs do is to look around
For 1, too, a "Jewish dew;' a him. The faculty of vision will i
"nation Rustic," "unassimilated" show him everything if he exerts R NE
Ili
Jew, have my likes and dislikes, fully—looking out, and not in."
and your book certainly hasn't
And what will he see, this Jew ,
changed or mitigated them. And who will say "1 am 0 hundred per'
just as it is the privilege of you cent Nordic Yankee" I for this is id
and your type to dislike nu• and what you really mean)? here is
my type, so I take for myself the what, according to your own hi
privilege of telling you here that words, he will see:
I react to your type—which you
"The man who holds the whip- „„.
seem to know
and
describe
quite
well—in
exactly
the
same fashion
hand, socially, in America is the .4.
man whose forefathers started on
is tali react to mine. I was born farms an d ;,, the little towns
and
raised
among your
old-stock
Nordic
Yankees—in
New
England, along the Atlantic coast , . . Ile
.
controls our courts, our legisla- 11111
a . tures, our town governments. IN
brought up in your own public , Sometimes he grows lazy, and then
schools; yet from early childhood , the control of a large city gets In
it has ever amazed and pained me away from him for a time, but NI
when I would find that I am much : on l y for a time. Ile manages our
more comfortable in the company' greatest railroads and public util- IIII
of immigrants and foreigners than ! it ..
y companies and banks. Ills an- mi
in that of any own native-born fel- 1 ,,t
. mixed. The term An lo-
low-Americans, Jews included. I Saxo'n is not a scientific doscrip-
base alwa y s wandered why. You, tion of him. Ile is Anglo-Saxon
as well as anyone, give me a good cum Colt, cum many other strains.
answer.
He can he found at every cross-
' You tell those of as Jews in roads in America ... At his worst
America who have still retained a he is Babbitt; at his best, Abraham
MI
goodly part of our European Jew- Lincoln.

Window
Shade

Hygeia Kosher Beef, Sausages and High-Grade
Delicatessen

rill • 111 11111 1 1111111 111 1111 111 1 111111111111 1 1•1111111

An Open Letter to Mr. Herford Powell, Jr., Who In His
Book, "The Invincible Jew," Follows in the Footsteps
of the Great God Mencken, and Advises
Us to Assimilate.

t,

CABINET MAKING

318 Beaubien St.

WHAT MUST THE AMERICAN
JEW DO TO BE ACCEPTED
INTO A GENTILE GOLF CLUB?

4243 BEAUBIEN STREET
Phone Columbia 1262

too, must become a peasant, for
puritan hypocrite and try to
hide your own precious personal.
you go on to say:
"The Jew who would cross O e lity, your pta•uliar
gap that stretches between him- from the gaze of others— I'. it.) lie
self and his American neighbors must not usurp the best armchair
must learn to think as they do. in the whitlow. Ile must not bring
They will never let themselves feel Bursts on the first day after he is
impressed by his skill as a money- elected. Il e must not demand pri-
maker. They will be more sem- :all y on the first tee (all "foreign'
fortable with him if his clothes
ill-
always lews of course arc a bunch of ill-
are a little baggy (and I
mannered "kikes" and all Nordic
thought that g oo d "One Hundred Yankees know just how to behave
Percenters" regarded me as a "for- themelves at any time t and ever ye,
•
eigner" because I neglected to where
, as nativesy of Paris, Rome,
have my trousers press ed as often
l on and other such "ha f-civil-
Lond
as they!—P. R.). If he builds a
iced creates w ill tell you.-1'. It.)
large, pompous house, with a lawn
"If he wants to be' a welcome
naked of trees and shrubbery, they
will turn their eyes away when member of American social circles,
they pass. if he tries to impress : rich or poor, he must contrive to
them with the sumptuousness of slow down, just a little, the terrific
his entertainments, they will laugh pace of mind."
But whose fault is it, dear Mr.
at him in his own vestibule.
Powell, if we are just a bit too
''If he goes to college, he must quick-witted for your Nordic Yan-
—because it is part of the tradi-
asant minds to swallow us?
kee
tion—take the bumps of the foot-
Even if all American Jews consist-
ball field, and the agony of rowing ,
ed only of middle-class upstarts,
or track. If he succeeds as an ath-
ld , petite bourgeoisie, We' would still
late, he must never display hi s go
, Emu,r, o r eptS•aanl:
uhre
a our
football (then why in thunder do
heritage,
l wii7chc ac cultural
uu'let
you want to give him the gold
football at all?—P. R.), and he lured than your One Hundred Per-
must expressly disclaim all merit. centers, removed as they are only a
student, he few generations from the frontier,
If he succeeds as a
must attribute it to luck (can he the backwoods and the Indian. But
harbor at least a secret feeling,', there are a good many Jews here in
Mr. Powell, that God endowed him America who have inherited a
with a little more gray matter and background of wealth ■ and educe-
with a better heritage than He en- , tion going hack to several genera-
dowed some of his other fellow- tions whom by no stretch of the
students?—P. R.I. imagination you can call "middle-
"If he is religious, he must not :class upstarts." These are •ristcs•
think the ordinary American iscrats, you will admit. Do you want

s

937 E. LARNED

Randolph 1665

9

New Year's Greetings to All Our Jewish Friends
and Customers

KING
Distributing
Service

We are equipped to give good service
in the delivery of circulars, advertising
and printed matter.

11499 Whithorn

Drezel 5134

