THE JEWISH NEWS-7
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Friday. August 25, 1950
Reunion . . .
Reprinted From "MINK MAGIC"
A Weekly Column by Laurence O'Larry
le The Detroit Free Press, Monday, August 14, 1950
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SAMUEL KANTER, 56, of
Brooklyn, greets his sister, Fan-
ny, 62, whom he has not seen
for 40 years, upon her arrival
in New York. FANNY'S immi
gration was aided by HIAS,
the Hebrew Immigrant Aid So-
ciety. Her son and daughter,
are waiting in a German DP
camp until they can immigrate
to the United States.
Argentine Jews
Honor Memory
Of San Martin
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) —Jew=
ish delegations from all parts of
the country converged on the
"Mountain of Glory" in the
province of Mendoza to par-
ticipate in ceremonies marking
the 100th anniversary of the
death of Gen. Jose de San Mar-
tin, Argentina's natural hero
and South American liberator.
Dr. • Ricardo Dubrovsky, presi-
dent of the DATA, central repre-
sentative body of Argentine
Jewry, and Dr. Moses Slinin,
president of the Ashkenazi com-
munity of Buenos Aires, spoke
during the ceremonies.
Highlighting th e • ceremonies
Was the unveiling of a bronze
plaque on the Monument to the
Army of the Andes. The plaque
depicts two great liberators —
Moses freeing the Jews from
Egyptian b o n d a g e, and San
Martin breaking the chains of
Spanish oppression in South
America — and is the work of
the noted Jewish sculptor, Is-
rael Hoffmann.
Israel Memorial
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A corner-
stone for a building carrying
the name of Gen: Jose de San
Martin was laid at the Weiz-
mann. Institute of Science at Re-
hovoth, in memory of the Ar-
gentine hero. The building, to
be erected with funds contrib-
uted by Argentine Jewry, will
serve as a home . for visiting
South American scientists.
The ceremony was presided
over by Joseph Sprinzak, speak-
er of the Knesset, and the prin-
cipal speakers included Argen-
tine Minister to Israel, Pablo
Manguel,; Joseph Mirelman,
who represented Argentine
Jewry; and Israel Minister to
Argentina, Yaakov Tzur.
Holiday Vote Problem
On Colorado Agenda
DENVER, (JTA) — Governor
Walter Johnson called a special
session of the Colorado legisla-
ture to discuss the problem con-
fronting this state's 25,000 Jew-
ish voters, a large number of
whom may refrain from partic-
ipating in the ballotting because
the primaries fall on the first
day of Rash Hashanah.
The \issue has been widely dis-
cussed for some tithe, with some
sections of the press advocat-
ing the granting of absentee
ballots to those Jews who, be-
Cause of religious reasons, will
abstain from voting in the pri-
maries.
Meanwhile, it was revealed
that the Rabbinical Council of
Denver, in an effort to resolve
the issue, had sought to obtain
an opinion from higher rabbinic
authority on the use of voting
machines, which does not in-
volve writing, on Rosh Has-
hanah. The Council's efforts,
however, failed to bring an au-
thoritative reply.
ELL, fellow taxpayers, the melencholy
days are here . . . the doleful days of
hay fever . . . high humidity . . . sand fleas
. . • twin-motor mosquitoes . . and those
meandering montebanks of the 'fur business
. the fake "wholesalers." Some of these
fly-by-night phonies may have already es-
tablished momentary beach heads . . . others
will be along any day now. They're ambulant
fakers who set up shop in a hotel room . .
peddle inferior furs - 'wholesale' . . . at prices
higher than legitimate. retail prices.. . . and
then vanish • . . leaving their bamboozled
customers holding the furs .. • and the BAG!
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DON'T know how many Detrdit wotnen
I have been fooled by these high-pressure
peddlers. There must be thousands. I know
I've personally talked to many, many women
who fell for the fast talk of these larcenous
fakers. And the girls, needn't feel too apolo-
getic, either, because the fake 'wholesalers'
could sell bathing suits to Eskimos!
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(411ERE'S a typical sales pitch used by these
Ilirresponsible fur racketeers! The fur
faker comes to town and moves his wares into
a hotel sample room. He represents himself as
a 'manufacturer' of fine furs. But things have
been a little slow, he confides, and he has a
few priceless creations that you can "steal"
from him at less than cost.
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“IF You rush right down to the bank and
1 get the money, he confides, you can ac-
quire a lovely fur at ridiculous prices. You
should have this priceless fur, he insists, be-
cause you are the only woman in town who
can do it justice. You have inimitable chic,
elan, and incomparable grace. You are tres
distingue ! (You are also . . . if you fall for
his line ... a dope!)
munity. He'll be here next week ... and next
month and next year .. . to help you realize
the fullest degree of comfort and beauty and
service from your lovely furs.
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“ A FTER all, a fine fur is a major invest-
ta. ment for a woman. She divides its first
cost by anticipated years of queenly comfort.
When the first cost is too high . . . when the
quality is inferior ... when she buys her fur
from a stranger who vanishes into nowhere
. that investment is as worthless as shares
in a dry oil well.
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4411" JNFORTUNATELY, it's easy to be fooled
U on furs. There are many grades of pelts
in every type of fine fur. There are scores of
manufacturing tricks that unscrupulous man-
ufacturers use to cut costs in production.
There is as great a variation in the enduring
quality and loveliness of furs as there is in
the sparkle and fire of diamonds. And those
variations are just as hard to detect for the
great majority of buyers.
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KVOUR ONE great safeguard in buying furs
1 is the integrity of the dealer who sells
them to you And it is rank foolishness to buy
your costly furs from a character who isn't
going to be around town tomorrow . • . who's
going to skip town for good the moment he
unloads his stock."
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44DECAUSE
it's dollars to kopeks that your
LI oily-tongued salesman is NOT a manu-
facturer . .. that his creations are not price-
less . . . his prices are NOT wholesale ... and
the opportunity is not golden . . . except for
the fur faker who hopes to waltz away with
your hard-earned money.
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“IN TOO many cases, buyers take their furs
home . . . and begin to learn the fur
business the hard way. Even if the furs are
of passable quality, the price at 'wholesale'
turns out to be higher than retail prices at
your own home town fur shop. In a distress-
ing number of cases, buyers find their gar-
ments are inferior in design and workman-
ship, and made of lowgrade pelts. Many a
coat that seems gorgeously lovely in a hotel
sample salon turns out to be a creation of old
and brittle skins . . . pelts so far gone that we
call them, in the fur trade 'peelers' . . . skins
brought to a high lustre by glazing, but crack
and peel and shed with a few months wearing.
We, here at St. Clair Furs, Inc., have bees
serving the style-conscious, value-minded womee
who know furs. It is our proud claim that we
offer you "the most beautiful furs in the world"
. and at the lowest possible margin of profit.
We do not believe that any furrier has a right
to the tremendous mark-ups of 75% to 100%
above cost of skins and manufacturing that some
furriers demand. We make and sell the finest of
furs . . . designed by top fashion artists .. . fin-
ished by the best technicians . . . at low prices.
We buy the finest peltries at rock-bottom prices
because we pay cash and give you the savings.
Visit our air-conditioned fur salons. We would like
to show you what these savings mean to YOU.
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“rilHERE are, of course, legitimate traveling
1 fur salesmen. But these legitimate travel-.
ing men deal with retailers. They carry on a
steady, ethical trade with hundreds of small
fur shops across the nation . . . and they care-
fully refrain from undermining the home
town trade of their own wholesale customers.
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“A
ND THEY know, as you should know, that
every fur garment should be backed up
by the integrity and the continuing service
. of a fur dealer in your own home town
... a dealer who treats you right because he
wants you and your friends as steady custom-
ers. This dealer is a member of your com-
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