Dr. It C. Miller's 'Kilowatts at Work' Say 96% of U. S.
Jews Are Living
New Wayne State Press Volume
Wayne State University Press did not bother it. Even when ill Urban Areas

Israel Approves Plan
Israel Seeks to Add
Man to Moscow Court for $11,000,000 Plant

for Lubricating Oils

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
may seek the right to name
to The Jewish News
a new member of the three-
I JERUSALEM , — The Israel
has published this month Dr. Edison Illuminating lines did
WASHINGTON (JTA) — De- man court of arbitration in Cabinet's economic ministerial
Raymond C. Miller's "Kilowatts finally touch the area, the two tails of the Census Bureau re- Moscow hearing its claim for committee Tuesday approved.
at Work," an historical account companies operated on the high- port of sample survey on over 52,000,000 in damages the establishment of an $11,-
not only of the Detroit Edison est 'live and let live' principle." religious affiliation of the against the Soviet Union for 000,000 plant to manufacture
Jacobs, Dr. Miller writes, re- United States population — unilateral breach of the 1956
Co., but of the general growth
ceived rental of $20 a month for which indicated that 3,900,000 oil-for-citrus trade 'agreement. lubricating oils.
of Detroit. •
The project, which has the
In preparation for six years, the power house which was on persons over the age of 14 de-
This was indicated by Moshe approval of the Ministry of
the book is the result of Dr. his property and a salary of $50 clared their religion as Jewish Leshem, Foreign Ministry press Trade and Industry, will be set
Miller's sifting through tons of a month as president. The sec- states that the survey was-con- spokesman, who said that if up by a group of Israeli and
material—management records, retary, Sadie Jacobs received ducted last March and answers Dmitri' Ramasaitzev, Israel's foreign investors. It is expected
telegrams, correspondence and $20 and still the company was to the religious question were. nominee on the court, does to produce far more lubricating
confidential files—to relate the able to pay its stockholders a voluntary. This question will not recover by the end of this oils than Israel needs and to
2 1/2 percent quarterly dividend, not be included in the 1960 month Israel will attempt to export appreciable quantities.
story of "creative capitalism."
Dr. Miller, chairman of the "better than any of the larger census.
have him replaced rather than
For the purposes of the sur- `hold up the hearing any For fast advertising results, call
WSU history department from companies."
A
court
battle
between
Jacobs
vey, the census considered the longer. The case went before The Jewish News, VE. 8-9364.
1932 to 1951, is the Dr. Leo
Franklin lecturer at the univer- and H. C. Phillips of Chicago, southern region to embrace all the arbitration court last De-
the only outside stockholder, states from Delaware south cember and has been post-
sity this spring.
In his interesting recital of developed when Jacobs decided and extending west as far as poned several times since then
Enjoy Your Fireplace.
With
Edison's growth, problems and to grant himself a 10 percent Oklahoma and Texas. The west because of Mr. Ramasaitzev's
included the Rocky Mountain illness.
development, Dr. Miller relates dividend as a stock bonus.
As a result Jacobs bought the and Pacific coast- states; the
the, story of Abraham Jacobs, a
The claims arise from the
clothing merchant in the Gra- stock from Phillips, paying north central area took in all cancellation of oil deliveries
From
tiot Avenue business district, $62.50 on a $25 share, but know- states north- of the Ohio River by the official Soviet oil export
Mimco
Steel
& Supply
whose interests were bought out ing-there was talk in the offing and as far west as the Rocky company after Israel launched
Inc.
of
a
merger.
On
March
,31,
1903,
Mountains.
by Edison in 1902.
its Sinai operation. The com-
24200 Telegraph \ Rd.
In the northeast there were pany explained its action as
This fascinating chapter actu- he sold out to Alex ' Dow and
Edison
for
$67,500—more
than
2,671,000
professing
the
Jewish
WE DELIVER
ally had its beginning in 1896,
having been ordered by the
religion or 8 1/2 per cent of the government. Israel insists that
when Jacobs, his friends and $100 a share.
This is only one of many fas- population of the region. This the company is a government
family decided to incorporate
their little East Side electric cinating accounts that make Dr. represented two-thirds of all arm and may not legally side-
Open: Mon. thru Sat. till 6
Thurs., Fri. Eves till 9
Miller's book interesting read- those reporting the Jewish re- step its obligations on such a
plant.
Sundays 11 to 3
Dr. Miller writes that "the ing, to historians, sociologists, ligion; the bureau estimated plea.
that
460,000
persons
in
the
engineers
and
the
average
read-
company kept to itself. It was
on the east side beyond the lines er interested in the growth, not north central states considered
of Edison Illuminating, and the only of a company, but of the themselves as belonging to the
Jewish religion, 299,000 in the
other . electric light companies city of Detroit.
South and 438,000 in the west.
Whereas 64 percent of the
entire population lives in city
areas, there were marked
rural-urban differences in the
religious groups. Of the Jew-
John P. Mansfield, president ish group, 96 percent lived in
A Syracuse University pro-
fessor, who was inspired to of Plymouth Division and vice urban areas; of the Catholics,
pursue a life-long career in president of Chrysler Corpora- 79 percent; of the Protestants,
57 percent; and of those re-
mathematics through a chance tion, 'llas been •
porting no religion, 54 per-
meeting with named C r u
cent.
the late Prof. sade Chairman
Among the married couples
Jekuthiel Gins- for the Ameri-
in which one spouse was Ro-
burg in New can Cancer
man Catholic, the other. partner
York's Public Society's an-
was Protestant or Jewish in
Library at the nual educa-
22 percent of the cases. For
age of 11, suc- tional cam-
the couples in which one part-
ceeded his paign in South—:
ner was Jewish, seven percent
mentor as di- eastern Michi-
of the husbands, or wives was
rector of Ye- gan, it was an-
Protestant or R.oinan Catholics.
shiva Univer- nounced here
The question on religion was
sity's Institute by E. W. Tue-
not asked of persons under 14,
of Mathemat- scher, execu-
but the bureau said it was pos-
ics. The ap- tive director. Mansfield
pointment of Mansfield began his career as sible to classify nearly all
Dr. Abe Gel- a factory worker with the Dort young children according to
Dr. Gelbart bart, now 46- Motor Company in Flint in 1920. the religion reported for the
years-old, as head of the Uni- During the next 12 years, he head of the family or his wife.
versity's graduate mathematics was associated with several auto-
The world awaits another Edison.
programs was announced by mobile firms, including Chrys- Royal Engineers Build
Dr. Samuel Belkin, president ler's predecessor, the Maxwell `A Bridge of Service'
He could be your son.
Motor Company, where he for Canada Bnai Brith
of Yeshiva University.
worked in the distribution de-
MONTREAL, Can.—The
partment.
Royal Canadian Engineers have
* * *
Israel Anticipates
During his lifetime Thomas Alva Edison "lighted the
built a bridge—of timber, steel
Included in the list of 10 per- and brotherhood. They built it
world" with the electric light, reproduced voices and
86,000 Tourists in '58 sons
who were named life mem-
sounds with the phonograph, pioneered in developing
"Transportation to Israel and bers of the National Institute of for Bnai Brith.
This is the story, told by
movies and radio. Over 1100 important inventions
hotel accommodations within Arts and Letters are:_ Arthur members of Mount Royal
were his because—like your boy—he simply wanted
the country will double this Miller, S. J. Perelman, Babette Lodge of Bnai Brith:
to know.
The group for many years
year to 40 flights a week, 130 Deutsch and Saul Bellow. The
painter, Abraham Rattner, was
direct sailings to Haifa, and elected to the department of art. has operated a camp for boys
But, we are told, one Thomas Edison in a genera-
near Ste. Agathe. des Monts in
to 15,000 accommodations, in
* * *
tion
is no longer enough to sustain our kind of prog-
the Laurentian Mountains. Re-
order to meet the tourist traf-
Rabbi MORTON LIFSHUTZ, cently it acquired 100 addi-
ress.
The need is for thousands—educated young
fic of 86,000 visitors in 1958," former senior Jewish U. S. tional acres—across a lake—so
people, trained to harness their curiosity about the
it was announced by Joseph Army chaplain in France, has that girls_ could enjoy camping
Ilan, director of the Israel been appointed director of Bnai as well. The problem: there
unknown.
Government - Tourist Office.
Brith's citizenship and civic af- was no convenient access be-
Right now American industries are trying to en-
tween the camps.
, The forecast' of 86,000 tour- fairs department.
courage the natural curiosity. of the young—with
The Royal Canadian 3rd
ists was originally made in an
Field Engineer Regiment heard
American travel survey of
assistance in education and training and good-paying
Israel, prepared for the U.S. Harlan's Son Pens Saga of Bnai Brith's plight. Its
jobs,
as well. You can be sure your electric light and
troops went to work — volun-
International Cooperation Ad- of Warsaw Ghetto
power
company is a part of this movement.
teering
weekends
of
their
"free
ministration.
BERLIN, (JTA) — Thomas time" to construct a bridge
We owe a lot to Torn Edison. We'd like to help
Harlan, son of the leading Nazi across the lake.
Collective Agreement
actor Veit Harlan who directed
your boy to be like him. We salute both on February
the notorious anti-Jewish film U. S. Aid Chief to Return
Benefits Farm Hands
11th, 1958—SCIENCE YOUTH DAY—and also
"Jud Suess," gave a public read- to Washington for Talks
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
Mr.
Edison's 111th Birthday.
ing of his new drama, "I, Myself,
to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM (JTA) — J.
JERUSALEM—The first col- and No Angel," a dramatic Hagerty, head of the United
chronicle of the Warsaw ghetto. States aid mission in this
lective bargaining agreement
Science for boys and girls
has publicly stated country, will leave for Wash-
covering farm hands in Israel he Harlan,who
watch
wants to expiate his father's ington Saturday for consulta-
was signed Tuesday between sins toward the Jewish people tions over increasingly tense
"4-H TV ELECTRICAL CLUB"
the Farmers' Federation and through his own work, previous- relations between himself and
Sat. 9 a.m. Channels 2 & 6
the Israel Finance Ministry.
the Agricultural Worker s' ly made a film about Israel.
Israeli circles here assert
Union. It guarantees each per- • Written in a style reminiscent
manent employee—any worker of the late German playwright privately that Hagerty is try-
who has been employed at least Bert Brecht, the Harlan drama ing to exercise too much in-
six months-20 days a month has been greeted as a compan- fluence over Israel's use of
Serves Southeastern Michigan
employment even in slack ion piece to the "Diary of Anne American aid. American circles
season, 12 to 18 days of vacation Frank" among attempts to show state that Hagerty is merely
annually, family allowances and the German people the crimes sticking to Washington direc- •
tives and instructions.,
committed against the Jews.
severance pay.

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