r
Canadian C.C.F. The Center
club will meet Monday at 8 p. m.,
in Butzel Hall. The Dexter Club
will meet at the Bnai Moshe Syn-
USO lounge, in a get-together agogue Tuesday, 1:30 p. m. On
which will include dancing, table Tuesday, at 8 p. m., all mothers
tennis and refreshments. At the will meet at the Center and leave
same time, the Young Women's for the Franklin Settlement
group of New Detroiters will hear House. The Fenkel club meets
Sam Levy, director of the Health Wednesday, at 1 p. m., at 11340
Education Department, talk on Dexter. The 12th St. club meets
"Your Figure."
Thursday, at 8 p. m., at Lachar's
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Hall.
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Special Study Meeting
The Young Women's Study Club Seek Adult Choristers
will hold a special meeting at the
An adult mixed choral group,
home of Mrs. Al Jaffin next under the direction of Julius
Thursday at 8:30 -p. m. A social Chajes, Center music consultant,
hour will follow the meeting.
is now being formed. Chajes has
Jewish Center Activities
Thanksgiving Hop Sunday
The 34th Holiday Hop, a Thanks-
giving dance, will be held at the
Center this Sunday, 9 p. m. to
midnight. Stan Howz.rd and his
orchestra will provide the music.
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•
Saturday Night Dance Plans
Continuing its series of popular
dances, the Saturday Nite dance
committee invites all young men
and women to join in the fun at
9 p. m. Saturday, Nov. 23, in But-
zel Hall.
• • •
Center Journalists Meet
The Center Journalism Class
under the direction of Harry
Wainbaum of tha publicity com-
mittee will meet in the Ginsburg
lounge at 8 p. m. Persons inter-
ested in learning the practical as-
pects of journalism are invited to
attend these sessions. They are
urged to bring in a sample of
their writing, preferably about
some Center activity, to the class.
There is no fee. Call Harry Stutz,
. MA. 8400, for information.
• • •
Newcomer Activities
The program for the New De-
troiter group of the Center will
include a sewing unit meeting
from I to 4 p. m. every Wednes-
day, to provide needed clothing
f(p. the displaced children of
Eu rot ie. Newcomers will meet
Tuesday, at 7:30 p. m., :n the
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Aid Talented !Youth
A Talent Clinic is being organ-
ized to assist young singers and
song writers to
• develop their
talents. Seymour Simons, orches-
tra leader, composer and show
producer, is the leader of the
clinic. Interested persons are
asked to contact Sam Neuschatz,
MA. 8400, for details.
• • •
Young Women Organize
A new group of young adult
girls meets every Thursday at
8:30 p. m., according to Marilyn
Adler. president. Those interested
in joining, see Harry Katz, adult
education director.
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•
Mothers' Clubs Schedule
During the week of Nov. 18,
thy Mothers' Clubs wilt discuss
the meaning of the recent elec-
Zim Art Show at Center
Attracting Much Interest
The Marco Zim exhibit of
paintings and etchings now at the
Center will continue until Nov.
29, it was announced by Mrs.
Edward Quint, president of the
Art Committee.
Paintings and etchings of a
wide variety of subjects have at-
tracted much interest. A larger
clmposition, "The Burning Bush,"
has evoked widespread comment.
dance celebration for teenagers,
sponsored by the Dance Commit-
tee j of the Intermediate Council,
on Nov. 27, 8:30 to 11:30 p. m., at
indicated that no knowledge of the Center. Tickets are $1, but
music is necessary to become a with a can of food for the SOS
member of the group. Persons drive, the price is 50 cents.
interested in joining are asked to
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call MA. 8400, or to leave their
4,
Form Nzw Adult Club
names at the main desk.
The Detroit Adult Club of the
• • •
Center, for single men and wo-
Plan Speech Aids
men, 25 years and up, will hold an
A speech improvement class is
organizational meeting on Nov.
being organized at the Center.
21 at 8:30 p. m., according to
Those desiring to join, call MA.
Lewis Hendlin, temporary chair-
8400 or leave name at desk.
man. Mary Caplan and Harry
• • •
Katz of the Center staff are ad-
Discuss Far East
visors to the club.
On Nov. 20 at 9 p. m., the Wed-
nesday evening discussion group
will hear Harry Whang talk on
the question, - What is Going on
in the Far East Today?" Admis-
sion is free.
• • •
Intermediate Barn Dance
Tickets are on sale for the barn
Visitors at the exhibit have com-
mented that Zim's interpretation
of nature has potency and uses
color with great effect.
Mrs. David D. Werbe, art con-
sultant to the Center Art School,
and the following members of the
Art Committee were instrumental
in !raking the exhibit a success:
Prof. Jane B. Welting, Mesdames
Harry Farbsten, Julian Wollner,
Morris Garvett, Mortimer Meyer,
ALE- :ander Freeman, Benjamin
Goldstein, John P. Heavenrich,
Arthur Bloom, Milton Strauss,
Harold N. Smilay, J. Gilbert;
Messrs Sol Rosengarten, Stanley
Bleischaker, Fred M. Butzel.
SIXTY YEARS
OF LIGHT. .
.
Just sixty years ago this week, eleCtric lights
winked on for a handful of Detroiters—eighty-nine,
to he exact. Amid applause and excitement, four
little generators in the Edison power plant at
Washington Blvd. and State St. (which now houses
Detroit Edison's downtown office) had begun to
hum.
As overworked housewives cleaned the soot from
kerosene lamp chimneys, they thought enviously
of the new lamps. Off and on, they had been think-
ing of them ever since Thomas Edison invented
the incandescent lamp seven years before. But,
though some of these women might have foreseen a
day when they could flood their homes with sun-
light at the flip of a switch, they couldn't have
dreamed of a time when lamps would purify the
air they breathed or sterilize the food they cooked.
And they would have been incredulous had they
been told that electricity soon would be accom-
plishing a score of household chores.
Similarly, the husbands of these women, reading by flickering lamps about John I- Sullivan's
latest battle, might have looked forward to a day of better lighting. It isn't likely, though, that many of
them foresaw the growth of southeastern Michigan into a great industrial giant. How could they
visualize vast factories lighted day and night by hundreds of thousands of fluorescent lamps?
Yes, it was an historic event for Michigan. But the Edison Illuminating Company did not consider itself
a public benefactor—bringing Edison's priceless gift of light to a darkened city. Far from it. It thought
of itself as just another small business—it had little realization of its destiny.
The first bills were high. Many of those eighty-nine customers used their current recklessly, demon-
strating their lamps to friends and playing with them as though they were toys. It was November,
when the nights are long and the days are dark. And the rate was more than six times as much as
you pay today.
As people saw the advantages that electricity had for them, they sought electric service. The business
grew. With its growth, service improved and rates began to go down. They are still going down.
Today, more than 850,000 customers are served with light and power by Detroit Edison. Quite a
contrast to the eighty-nine of sixty years ago.
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