A merica latish Pendia eater
CLIFTON ATENUI CINCINNATI 10, OHIO
MEDErcerannsit CHRONICLE
and
THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Community Closeups . .
THE BLUMBERG BOYS—
Deliver a Double Measure of Service
The following lo one of a orrIro of biographical
okrIchro of oulolasollag
lewder, 1.11111 will be pub.
11.bed neck') 10 'I Ile Iktrvll Je8 Leh Chronicle.
EDITOR'S NOTE:
w
E HAVE often speculated to pinochle; with an occassional
on the advantages of be- joust of knock rummy. lie is ad-
ing a twin. Think of the viser, uncle-by-adoption, to Hank
opportunities for snubbing bores. Greenberg, whom he scolds (and
—and pretending afterward that who takes it). lie is married to
it was your brother who did it!. Edith (Brown) Blumberg; makes
I Or even—and who has not felt his home at the BelcresL
the urge at times?—a nice, jus-1 During the yearly Allied Jew-
' tillable murder, with the perfect ish Campaign, and for weeks be-
, alibi making himself conspicuous fore the actual drive is under
115 miles from where you are fir- way Lou and Iry abandon their
ing the fatal shot! , . . What an . business to their staff; go out to
act a skillful defense lawyer could, do the big job. Do it! The twin
810
beautifully
furnished outside rooms
All with private tub and
shower baths-at lowest
possible rates in down-
town Detroit for perman-
ent guests. You can live
in luxurious comfort
inexpensively.
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--,4Losse4s.,
DETROIT'S
NEWEST
HOTEL
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PISGAH TO START
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
First Lady of
American Jewry
golden celebration will signify
their faith in her and her work
with contributions to the $50,-
000 Jubilee Fund which is be-
ing collected for those Causes
to which Mrs. Kohut has given
many years of her rich life.
But I am interested at this
time in speaking solely, and I
fear inadequately, of Mre. Ko-
hut. She herself, has told and
written of these interests so
eloquently that she needs no
help from me, but I cannot re-
sist bearing testimony to her
and my love for her,
ORGANIZED NURSERY
I first met Mrs. Kohut In
1894, the year after the es-
tablishment of the Henry Street
Settlement. Mrs. Kohut then,
as she has been ever since, was
interested in health protective
work, child welfare and child
education. Under the sponsor-
ship of the Emanuel Sisterhood
she had organized a small day
nursery and kindergarten, a
project which• has grown in
scope with the years.
From our East Side Streets
Mrs. Kohut, like others, felt
the irresistible call for help.
The presecutions in Russia and
Rumania had caused the exodus
of thousands to us and they
lived pitifully and often dan-
gerously with us. They peo-
pled the narrow streets and
squalid tenements which had
been discarded by earlier im-
migrants, chiefly Irish and Ger-
man, who had also known op-
pression and difficulties and
life in the new world was not
easy to many of these arrivals.
Large numbers were unable to
fit themselves to the new en-
vironment and many were ex-
ploited and received but poor
impressions of the land of the
free. They needed renewed
demonstrations of democracy
and needed friends, Mrs. Ko-
hut became one of those who
answered the call.
O
CADILLAC SQUARE AT BATES
in the memory of the departed
past president, the name of the
class to be Nathan D. Metzger
Memorial Class.
Herman Osnos, chairman of the
membership committee, announces
; that the drive for members for
the Nathan D. Metzger Memorial
Class is now under way to be
culminated in an initiation at the
Stotler Hotel on Sunday after-
noon, Dec. 29, by Pisgah Lodge',
degree team. A prominent speaker
will address the new class. Mr.
Osnos states that every member
I of the lodge has been appointed
on the membership committee and
asks that all do their share. The
slogan of the drive is "Every
Member Get A Member."
Members of the lodge are as-
New York of the East European
little Jewish girl's experience.
There is a difference between
Mrs. Kohut's life and the lives
of other American Jewesses who
have made great contributions to
America. There has been no es-
trangement between the gener-
ations as far as she is concerned.
There has been progress and 'iden-
tification with the changing con-
cept but she is the effective link-
ing of the generations. While
she displays her characteristic
energy and zeal in participating
in the American secular ideals,
she is at home on the Jewish
scene. She gives us glimpses of
the struggle with underlying prin-
ciples instead of the more corn-
mon rebelling against the burden
of customs and ceremonial, which
does not involve the inner aliena-
tion from her past and her tradi-
tions. Her own spiritual develop-
ment and the spiritual develop-
ment of the American Jewish
community are identical to her
In her autobiography "My Por-
tion," written some years ago,
she makes a contribution to the
available material on that period
in American Jewish history when
the communal forces were crys-
tallizing and their organization
became the conscious aim, not
of individual leaders only, but of
all the people interested in Amer-
ican social forces. It is cape-
chilly valuable to have her com-
ments on the beginnings of the
organization of Jewish women's
endeavors, such as the National
Council of Jewish Women, of
which she is one of the founders,
a movement which is flowering
into a consolidation of women's
forces of rich promise,
Mrs. Kohut's future may be
prophesied from her past. May
she give for years to come and
she will give abundantly.
stage before 12 good men fear- offices — identical— in the Lafa-
ful of shedding guiltless blood! yette Bldg. do not see them for
On the other hand—imagine be- days on end.
It is a significant commentary
ing a twin with a conscience .. .
Trying not to hurt anybody's feel- that the two leading pre-cam-
Inge; speaking to perfect strang- paign divisions of the 1935 drive
era; and professing familiarity I were headed respectively by
with perfectly incomprehensible Maurice Aronsson and Roy Fisher
subjects because they must mean —with Louis commanding the ar-
Bookkeeping and Costs
tillery for Aronsson; Irving wheel-
something to one's brother!
Installed, Simplified, Re-
vised.
Fortunately Louis and Irving ing the caissons into action for
Fisher.
Blumberg
are
peaceful
citizens,
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Monthly, Quarterly, Annually,
0
Their solicitations are a clas-
without any noticeable inhibitions.
Industrial and Embezzlement
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1 Fortunately, too, they are part- sic—from the casual entrance—to
Investigations.
departure with the signature
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2 ners and share business contacts the
in common. And social ones as on the dotted line. How they
Tax Service for All Forms of
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3 well.
Fortunately, likewise —and manage to make the prospect see
Taxation.
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4 this for the community — the that he is remiss in his duty un-
Blumberg boys take their obliga- less he doubles the last year's AIDED UNEMPLOYED
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5 tions
to humanity seriously and, pledge—and that, cheerfully—is
The passing of the years did
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6 in consequence deliver a double something other workers would not lessen the problems which
like to loam.
measure
of
service
in
the
inter-
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seemed inevitable accompani-
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CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
ests of their fellows.
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Sartorially the Blumberg boys ments of poverty and bitter
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Louis and Irving Blumberg, are a symphony in line and color. struggle; therefore fitting peo-
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Blum- Detroitera may enjoy the cartoons ple into employment made a
berg, were born on May 16, 1901, in Esquire, but their information
in the little town of Omer—which on the fine points of what to wear pressing appeal to her sym-
Protection Pim Profit • Sating. With Security •
Protection Pine Profit
pathies and her intelligence.
lies northwest of Bay City. They and how, and when, they get from
attended grammar school at Lou and Irv. They were first to
Mrs. Kohut was a pioneer in
profess
light
colored
cravats
Standish; high school at the old
the establishment of employ-
against dark shirts and reverse
Central in Detroit.
ments services for girls and or-
Irving's entrance into the busi- calf shoes, on these here mid-
ganized the bureau of the
ness world was via the 'shipping western boulevards. The fabrics
Young Women's Hebrew Asso-
room of Crowley-Milners; thence in their suits are exotics of the
to the Hudson Motor Co., found loom; the snap of the brims of ciation in 1914, later affiliated ..
himself in the employ of the Peo- their hats something to make Gus with similar non-sectarian or-
pie's Outfitting about a dozen Newman preen his plumes with
ganizations. There was chaos,
years ago. Lou, whose first rung pride,
Both salesmen, they know the alleviated to some extent by
in the ladder was out at Fisher
I.
a
Body as office boy, advanced value of
good sales-talk. They such organizations. The un-
a re
ardityersoef, phrase, Tboutthneotponinigt: employment period of 1914-
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along the line to become secretary g
- to E. W. Smith, plant auperin-
15 was perhaps the most ser-
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tendent. In 1925, the boys went without flourish.
ious and widespread that Amer-
Young,—well 34 is youth. With
7 , into the insurance business on
a
measure
of
service
to
their
fel-
ica
had experienced up to that
$
their own. And have been in it,
lows that would be heaping-full if time,
successfully, ever since.
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There is no nerd to be shacv'ed by financial worries.
their years were twice as many.
$
Serious—Ask Esther Prussian
There is no reason why you should take years to
With the outbreak of the
"
The similarity—almost identity Detroit Jews owe a lot to the
shake off the effects of the depression.
Blumberg bo . ys
e war, Mrs. Kohut's
xperience
of the twins—was more marked
—G. B. S. became available as a "Dollar-
At one step you can build up a substantial estate
qa
several years ago than it is today.
for your family's protection--en estate almost twice
a Intimates can almost tell 'em
a-Year-Man" as a member of
apart now, but back about 1930
Strictly Confidential
as great as you could alTosd through ordinary life
the federal employment clear-
4 this story was current:
insurance.
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ing house. It was under her
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It seems the Blumbergs decided
The GREAT-WEST LIFE "Double Protection" policy
direction, too, that the Na-
it was time they did something gentleman's establishment the
is a special policy for men who are just getting
for the community. So, one bright Magistrate discovered a "made in
tional Council of Jewish Wo-
established or re-established financially—men whose
afternoon, Miss Esther Prussian, Germany, 1935" label on the back men organized its reconstruc-
families require the maximum amount of pro-
secretary of the Detroit Service of one of the dishes . .. Without
tion united for relief work
tection.
Group, looked up In see a hand- any ado Brodsky called the owner
among refugees during the war
some lad standing beside her desk. and gave him a replica of the fano
This plan enables you to buy twice as much Insur-
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"My name is Blumberg," he ous talk which made the swastica
and in the post-war period.
ance for just a little more than the regular cost of
said. "I am going to work - in this an international issue
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ordinary life insurance, should death occur before
Fortunate in Her Heritage
campaign, and before I go out ON THE PODIUM
age GO.
How deeply Mrs. Kohut was
and do my stuff, I'd like to know
That $150,000 Stradivarius en
what it's all about." Miss Prussian which Jascha Ileifitz plays is de- interested in employment prob-
Get the facts today about this double value in life
was delighted. livered to him just before every lems and labor conditions can be
insurance.
judged by the willingness with
"That's the spirit", said she. concert in an armored car at a
which she gave of her energies to
And proceeded to give him verse cost of 8100 ... After 12 years as
ameliorative agencies. She served
and chapter; from the history of an alien, Serge Koussevitzky, con-
on Mayor Mitchell's New York
the Agencies, through the per- doctor of the Boston Symphony
Committee on Unemployment In
sonal highlights on this particular Orchestra, has taken out his first
1915-17; she was a member of
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citizenship
worker's 30 prospects. She re-
papers . . , Don Rich- the employment committee of the
counted, in detail, how much each ards, the orchestra leader, is not
DETROIT. MICH.
Mayor's Committee on National
of the prospects had subscribed Jewish, but his Egyptian father
Defense; organizer of the United
REPRESENTING
in the past half decade; angles of and Italian mother, who were
States Employment Clearing
approach; the proper manner of both raised in Jewish families, are
House and first president of the
filling out the pledge card. It took strictly Orthodox ... Taking a leaf
Federated Employment Bureau
THE
and s onlsrisshponli
Abie'e
an hour and a half, but Esther
nr the Harris of Jewish Girls. In more recent
Rose,
GREAT - WEST
Co
frohen
m
felt it was worth it.
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music and songs program on sta- years she served on Governor
HEAD OPPICE•••WININIPEG
"Got it?" she asked.
Roosevelt's advisory council on
1 "I got it," he answered. "Good- tion WHOM, Jersey City ... Mau-
rice Ravel, composer of the world- employment, submitting a min-
„,..ess„,,s, piss „di bye.” And bowed his way out.
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Security
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Prot...11A. nu ProlitM
Five minutes later Miss Prussian famous "Bolero," is ■ very sick ority report in support of unem-
ployment insurance. She also
looked up from her desk. A hand- man in Paris ... His nurse reports
that he whistles the "Bolero" all served on the advisory committee
some lad was standing there.
for the New York Employment
The brothers purchased the Vita-
"My name is Blumberg," he day long ...
Service and the State Joint Legis-
graph Co. in 1925 and at the same
said. ".1 am going to work on this POTPOURRI
Committee on Unemploy-
time Sam and then Harry saw the
The world's champion pie-maker lative
a nd before I go out
mee
t,
mond film recently developed by
■ nd do my stuff, I'd like to know is Monroe Straus. of Boston
If
the Bell Laboratories. The film in- what it's all about."
Rebekah
Kohut has been for-
you
And
the he-men of America
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taking to wearing monocles blam e tunate in her heritage and in her
Miss Prussian fainted.
show interest in the new device,
environment.
She is the daughter
It was some time later that she Noel Meadow, the press agent,
o
Two years later he sold bicycles but Harry Warner believed it had
has been engaged by a glass manu• of an eminent rabbi, Albert Bet-
learned there were two of 'em.
and did bicycle repairs. His broth- great possibilities in providing
facturer to popularize monocles ...1 telheim, and a descendant of •
On the Record
er, Albert, joined him. A third "canned" musical accompaniments '
noble
oble family which goes back to
Irving is a director of the De- Collier's Weekly will shortly pub-
brother, Sam, caw hie first movie for silent films. Early in 1925 the
t oit Service Group and on the lish an article on the late Dutch I h sad ghetto days of central
while working at an amusement Warner brothers obtained exclusive
Europe.
No less fortunate has
Ca aign Planning Committee Schultz by Quentin Reynolds in
park at Sandusky, Ohio. As • result use of Western Electric's sound r
she been in her early environ-
I
ere he helps
l a y -out the blue which the author reveals that
Sam and Albert arranged and system for a period of years. Ex- w hmp
ts
for
philanthropic
campaign
Schultz
was
converted
from
Juda-
merit,
for
in her youth she be-
prin
staged the tour of "The Great pernte
im e were carried on f or the set-up, then finds himself having ism i to Catholic
on his dea t h came the wife of one of the
Train Robbery" through Penney). foll owi n veer, first at the Fl at-
really
great
figures of the Amer.
ot her
to obey his own instructions when bed in or d er to please the 1?lot
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R.
vania and Ohio. This led to the bush studio
and later at the Man- the drive is on He Dan the young- of his son . . . That all-1 iddish lean synagogue and a giant in
closing of Harry's bicycle shop in hattan Opera House on 34th St.,
est Master of Perfection Lodge talkie, "Yiddish King
Lur ."
the winter of 1903-04 and the four New York City.
Koh
of iPtke:vei:r
e n Te
duced by Johnny Walker,
h
at 31; is adviser to Perfection Produced
brothers rented a store in New-
On August 26, 1926, a silent film Chapter of De Molay. is • direr• Irishmen . . . Dr. Denis Scanlon, n was influenced by one of his chil-
dren, George A. Kohut, who, un-
castle, Pa., furnished it with 91
tor
and
treasurer
of
Knollwood.
another
son
of
Erin,
offered
one
chains rented from an undertaker with synchronized orchestral ac- He plays the 18 holes in the low , dollar for the German rights to til his passing recently, was a
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and opened it as motion picture companiment wa. shown to the 80'good game of contract; • the film . . . You wouldn't believe figure of light and learning.
theatre. Sam was the projectionist. public. As a result. a number of uniformly successful one of Klab-; it but Kuhn, Loeb & Co., one of
At Home on Jewish Scene
Harry and Albert looked after the theatres throughout the country
Mn. Kohut's American root.
biash. He is married to Bettye ; the chief rivals of J. P. Morgan,
business, and 15-year old Jack, be-
were wired for sound equipment (Wallace) Blumberg. They have filed the only objection when Helen reach to the generation that fol-
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sides being handy boy, occasionally and Warner Brothers proceeded ene daughter, Alene, aged six; I Morgan's new night club registered lowed the Civil War. The pa-
sang songs illustrated by slides.
, itself as "The House of Morgan" triarchal mode of living had not
.code for silent films. live on Clairrnount Ave.
musical
was
In 1904 the Newcastle store
Lou is a member of the Col... . . Kuhn, Loeb & Co., owns the yet been completly disrupted. The
Finally, on Oct. fi, 1927, there came
cold and for the next six months to Broadway, "The Jazz Singer," lection Committee of the Detroit I property on which the club stands 'South In which she spent her
the Warner brothers were occupied in which Al Jolson spoke and sang. Service Group; director of Knoll- I . , Leo Lowenthal, rrotege of early American years was not so
with the rental and distribution of This picture won overnight both wood; secretary and director of Senator , Robert F. %inner, is stricken but that the chivalrous
films. They decided to become pro- the theatre-going public and the in- the Standard Club—both of which; slated to be appointed Federal traditions of • more prosperous
ewer's in 1912 and produced
organizations make it • prere- Marshal for the southern district past softened the asperities of
dustry as a whole to the new talk-
i t
"quickies" for ten years, from 1913
quisite of membership that one of New York ... After seeing his impoverished and frugal house-
to 1923. Then they branched out ing film.
subscribe to the Allied Jewish first game of football, Emil Lud- holds. Her California yearn gave
film
"The'
"It'n
I nto more expensive and ambitious 7 he nn 1 II
0.
K.
on
the
great
inspiring
pioneer
memories.
The
Campaign.
On
the
links
he
breakslwor
put
the
was released
Productions, including several star- Lights of New York,"
Richmond and the San Francisco
1928 and
" of Mn. Kohut's time bear little
f a ilcP bS
a e tit :oy
e hw t
Tint John Barrymore and by Warner Brothers in the era of " ..c °o nfsligc r o nit'j:od w ;: r 1:::: r c y l eil». k
witho " ut
Lubitsch'. memorable The Mar- by the end of that year
Likes contract; sometimes reverts teaching them to mintier"
reeemblenco to the Boston and
silent films was ended.
441 Circle."
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*Audits
• Taxes
CHARLES K. HARRIS
girding the Women's Auxiliary of
the B'nai B'rith in disposing of
tickets for the recital by Molly
Picon at Orchestra Hall on Wed-
nesday, Nov. 20.
Every Thursday night members
of the lodge are bowling at the
Livernois-Fenkell Bowling Alleys.
Herman Littky, chairman of the
athletic committee, invites all
members of the lodge to join, as
bowling teams will soon be or-
ganized.
Several interesting programs
for the winter months are being
planned, Including a dinner dance
the middle of January.
Cancel Greenberg's
Testimonial Dinner
On account of the death of
Frank Navin, owner of the . De-
troit Baseball Club, all ar-
rangements were cancelled for
the einner that was planned in
honor of "Hank" Greenberg.
Approximately 500 men were
expected to attend the event
in "flank's" honor next Wed-
nesday evening. Maurice H.
Caplan, chairman of the com-
mittee arranging this testi-
monlai, said that it will prob-
ably be given in the spring.
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LIFE
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