Page Si: DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Tien Ale Sophisticates By IIELEN TENNENBAUM NEW YEAR has begun for the Jewish people all over the world. It is a year which we can help make better by being the kind of Jewish boys and girls for whom our an- cestors fought and suffered. Sure glad to hear that Ole' School Spirit is back, espe- cially for t h e fellows w h o Helen are slaving to make their various sport teams the best in the city . . Some of the stars of the freshman football team at Central are Pete Kaiserman, Walter Thomp- son, Don Lakind, Min Labe, Al Chafetz, Jerry Roger, Sam Lewis, Eddie Merkow and Joe MacCoullogh . . . Congratula- tions Stan Delidow and Jerry . Varon for having made the cross country team. • • • IT WAS EARLY in the morn• ing and your reporter was wait- ing to see one who we think is a man destined to be one of America's greatest, Franklin De- lano Roosevelt Jr. . . . We felt oh, so humble when we walked on Washington boulevard with Mr. Roosevelt to the Greyhound bus terminal where he took a bus for the airport .. . Here are some of the things that FDR Jr. wanted me to pass on to you! "In order to become good and strong Ameri- can citizens you should 1. learn as much as you can of what goes on in your city, county, state and the whole world; 2. you should study history thoroughly and follow the happenings of today; 3. in your schools try to form discussion groups headed by experts, where you will have a chance to discuss housing, la- bor and management and racial and religious problems of today." • • • CENTRALITES, YOU must have been pretty proud of your graduating class treasurer Arnie Rosenthal whose picture ap- peared in the Detroit Times after completing a 2,000 mile trip which took Arnie through four states and another country (Canada, that is) oh, I almost forgot to tell you, the means of transportation was an old 1913 Model T Ford . . Sure must have been thrilling . . • • • • THE LINDIES are together again after a long and enjoyable summer. The gals are Sandy Edelstein, Rita Klein, Judy Marks, Bev Nathanson, Marilyn Robins, Marcia Rosen and Card- lyn Schayowitz . . . When open club meetings begin you gals ought to draw quite a crowd ... Mel Wachs just got back from the International Boy Scout Jamboree which took him through Belgium, Holland, Lux- emburg and France and which gave him a wonderful chance to make some lasting friendship with boys all over the world ... Once while trying to speak with some boys who knew only Ger- man, Mel decided to use a little trick, first saying "Sprechen Sic Deutsch?", meaning do you speak German, then continuing in Yiddish which proved very effective until he met some Jew- ish fellows who knew the Ian- Mrs. Williams couldn't be- lieve that this was the Edison man, come to replace a burned- out fuse. Why, she had reported her electrical trouble only twenty minutes before. If Mrs. Williams were to visit Edison's Customer Service Switchboard, she'd understand better how such promptness is possible. Here, at the nerve-center of the Edison system, clerks write • • • THE VOGUES have planned an interesting schedule this year. One of them, Lila Chatlin, will sponsor a Halloween masquerade at the Jewish Center. Among the others are Eleanor Snyder, Frieda Friedman, Lillian Yago- da, Mildred Schuster, Sarah Wildbaum, Florence Rosenberg, Bev Shapiro and Diane Schreib- man . . • • • WON'T BE SEEING Stewart Mittenthal, Phil Schwartz, for- mer H.P, student, Al Gendelman and Burt Moler, for these fel- lows thought they'd give St. John's Military Academy a try. • • • WONDER WHAT'S become of Bev Genser whom we saw with Don Rubin a while back? Haven't seen you together in ages . . . If you want to keep cool, go to Hammerstein's after school where you'll be greeted by Soda Jerk Shel Otis, and at Horowitz's on Linwood where Dick Nathan is doing a fine job giving out with the sodas in ex- change for just a little bit o' silver . . . Well, don't wanna be late for school, so see you next week with a surprise interview. up incoming requests for service, pass them on a conveyor belt to a control table, where a large illuminated map of the city stands. The requests are sorted geographically, routed on another belt to a staff of dispatchers who are in almost constant touch with servicemen in the field. With such a system it's no wonder that most customers' calls are relayed to a serviceman in their neighborhood within a matter of minutes. DISON COMPANY Friday, September Hs 1947 Beth El Women Launch Campaian • The Sisterhood of Temple Beth El, largest in the country, has started its campaign for the House of Living Judaism, the victory project of the National Federation of Temple Sister- hoods. The project has as its goal the raising of funds for the building of a permanent center to house the executive offices of the Union of American He-. brew Congregations and its af- filiates, the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, Na• tional Federation of Temple Youth and National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods. Mrs. John C. Hopp, past presi- dent, is in charge of the local drive. Assisting are Mesdames Theodore Birnkrant, Philip Bloomgarden, Lloyd Frankel, Lawrence Freedman, Bertram Kaatz, Harry Krohn, Edward Lichtig, Herbert Kallet, Max Loewenstein, Lawrence Segar, Harold Smilay, Hilda Vau Con- sant, Sol Wolff and Oscar Ze- mon.