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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal
October 1, 1943
_Food Conference Progenitor
tect a negrow who otherwise any golden veins of wealth and proverbial song, but refused to
same
Editor's Note: Nearly two score years ago the American David would surely have perished at returned
after a while
disbanded.
David
revise when,
the bargain
in his
East,
having lost
his favor
later on,
the own
hint
df the infuriated mob meagre all in the Chicago fire of manufacturer's lawyer offm
the hands of
'73. The lure of the West proved, the opportunity to do so. Lu-
Lubin brought nations together for agricultural cooperation— at
his heels.
for a United States of the World.
At the age of twelve, David conference but who may be re- bin became
the untiring
advocate
e farmer's
cause,
seeing
began. He worked garded the spiritual father of of th
(Reprinted from "Liberal Judaism")
the conference, the progenitor of that the farmer was so shame-
wantlerjahre
however, too strong for Lubin lessly exploited by the railroads
The United National Food Con- the plan to eliminate the scourge
scourge as a jewelry polisher at Attie-
and he returned once more to as well as by the marketman.
ference, held at Hot Springs, has of famine and undernourishment bozo, Mass., for the munificent
ing and
towards
the future
wage
of
$3.60
per
week.
After
that
enchanting
land of beauti- He became the first advocate
come
gone. Resolutions
look- well-
among the nations by the simple
stocked granary of the nations Process of making the knowledge that came years as a traveling ful dales, mountains and rivers, form
of the ocean
parcel rates,
post rural
system,
credits,
uni-
pted, to be put in effect of it generally available. His salesman for a coal-oil lamp ready men. This time he engaged eroP reporting and, finally, cre-
as soon
were
ado as peace is restored to name was David Lubin, and firm. He traveled up and down golden sunsets and rough-and- ator of the Institute of Agricul-
the country selling lamps to the in the dry goods business, at
See FOOD—Page 14
arrassed mankind. In the words he established the International
h President Franklin D. Rouse- Institute of Agriculture at Rome, merchants. It was at that Pc- Sacramento, in partnership with
of
velt in his address to the dale- in 1904, with the cooperation of rind of his life also that he made his brother-in-law. By means of
gates, the conference dealt with all the then existing European his first invention, a non-explo- hard labor and honest methods,
most basic of all human ac- nations. Lubin even visioned a sive oil lamp that did away with he established
a prosperous en-
..
et 1 mse.
Sincere Season's Greetings
the
— and with "United States of the World
the
dangers
of
the
lamp
in
tom-
t
.
After
awhile
he founded the
1900's mon use at that time.
re-
first
mail-order
house
on
the
Pa-
food, the most basic of all hu- away back in the e
California, and the then
was de-.
remarkable
man n , 1Villiam
It is
appropriate to recall here This
scribed
by Professor
cently opened Far West getter- cific coast,
became a large fruit
man,
needs.
0. K. CLEANERS
a while became the grower 1 . and a progressive citizen
a man who most assuredly was Roscoe Thayer as a "minor He- ally.
after. that drew David to- generally. While in the dry
lodestone
& DYERS
ward itself, as it did to thou- goods business, he invented a
not mentioned at this important brew Prophet."
David Lubin Klodowa,
was born Russian
in the sands of other young, energetic "non-ripping overall," brought a
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_small town of e 1st, 1849. Like and adventure-loving Americans fortune to the manufacturer to
Poland, on Jun
of that day. A sister of his and whom he had sold it for the
Alterations — Repairs
most of the Jewish children of
Prompt Pick-Up and Delivery
the
Polish
ghetto
of
that
day,
her
husband
had
preceded
him
Holiday Greetings
on this road of adventure. Da-
he knew proverty and persecu- vid worked for a while in San
Happy New Year
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tion and struggle in their full Francisco and then joined a par-
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Arrow
Express
&
Cartage
Co.
measure from the very moment ty of rough-and-ready men that
of his birth. The new-born babe's went out to hunt for the pre- Light Moving — Expressing — Storage
Crating — Trunks Hauled
opened upon a scene of pov- cious gold dust in the deserts
GOOD GULF SERVICE eyes
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arty, a fierce and elemental of Arizona. The party found no
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struggle for a bare existence.
gold, but David found valuable
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L'Shono Tovo Tikosevu!
Before little David was four
GOOD GULF
years old his father died of experience.
In the desert his poetic soul
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cholera, his mother remarried, was afforded the opportunity
and the child lived through that given to but few mortals: to
Parking for 200 cars-2-1 hour
peculiarly Russian experience—a observe Nature in her vastness
Rosh Hashonah Greetings!
pogrom. When a little over five and
watchman service
grandeur.
overwhelming
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years old, his mother and step Once during his desert wander-
father decided to emigrate, go- ings, David was actually lost for
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ing first to England and after- a period of two days. Yet,
ward to America. In 1955 little strange as it may seem, and as
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David and his folks arrived in he himself related in later years,
America, where they settled on Lubin did not experience any
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the East Side of the City of feeling of terror in the midst of
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New York. There were but few almost certain death, but rather
Moved and Erected
Stacks
STEVE BUBNAR
Russian or Polish Jews here at a fascination, an intoxication
that time, and these were poor with the rare and enchanting
H 4PPT NEW YEAR TO ALL!
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and insignificant in every way. beauty about him. He also ob-
When not at school David served at the time that his corn-
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spent his time on the docks panions would as leave have
where the many ships with their shot down an Indian as a rab-
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unfurled sails, telling a tale of bit; and with no more compunc-
strange lands and climes, capti- tion. The thing is "incomprehen-
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vated the fancy of the dreamy sible to me". . . "whoso mocketh
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boy, so that he seriously con- a . man"—he remarks further in
templated running away to sea. Ills narrative—"reproacheth his
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An elder brother intervened be- Make•." A Hebrew melody that
times and prevented David he sunk to himself while at work
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from carrying out this project drew the attention of a fellow
that might have changed the worker—a specimen of the rough
and uncouth characters of the
course of his entire life.
Then came the years of strife Far West of that day—who ask-
of the the Civil War, years of ed the youth what it was that
struggle and fighting for a great he was singing. On being told
ideal. The youthful David sought that it was a Hebrew song
A Happy New Year to All
to enlist in his adopted country's learned from his mother, the
sacred cause, but the recruiting fellow remarked menacingly:
sergeant rejected him as too "Oh, I didn't know that you
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young and undeveloped for this were one of those damned Jews,"
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manyly and hazardous task. Da- whereupon there ensued a fist
vid's heart was almost broken fight and a victory for the youth-
WILLIAM RYNIEWICZ—JOSEPH RYNIEWICZ
by this denial of an opportunity ful David, who already had the
to serve his country in that most strength of a man.
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The party did not discover
vital cause. But he resolved to
do whatever lay in his puny
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powers as a civilian. In 1863
came the disgraceful "draft
riots" in New York, during
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which the negroes were hunted
through the streets like wild
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beasts and slaughtered without
Petoskey, Mich.
mercy. The fourteen-year-old Da-
vid risked his own life to pro-
By HAROLD BERMAN
BOB WADE'S
Don Cartage Co.
Ryniewicz Brothers
and
Company
GIDLEY
BRUDY
I I
ROSH
HASHONAH
GREETINGS . .
and Sincere Wishes for a
Year of Health, Happiness,
and Contentment
1943
Rosh Hashonah
Greetings . . . .
May the New Year be one of profound happi-
ness and intense living upon a high and holy
plane. May you and your dear ones experience
every joy, health, and contentment. May the
shackles of oppression, bigotry, prejudice, and
ill-will be everywhere broken so that mankind
may go forward in its search for the Godly.
Fred Sanders
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PFEIFFER BREWING CO., DETROIT, MICH.