Detroit Population Lag Predicted, With Suburban
Families Outnumbering City 23,000 to 3,100 in 1975
Hotchner Writes
Hemingway Book
"Papa Hemingway" by A. E.
Hotchner (Random House) is a
revealing document. It is literary
history as much as it is the story
of Hemingway by the man who
was so close to him, who had
worked with him and knew his
private life as much perhaps as
anyone.
He tells a b out Hemingway's
habits, his loves, his prejudices,
and he describes his literary at-
tainments.
Mary Hemingway tried to cover
up when Hemingway shot himself.
She called it an accident. Hoteh-
ner is not blaming her. He puts it
in the form of questions: "What
difference does truth make about
a thing like that? Does truth bring
back anything? Or assuage the
torment?"
Then the author reminisces:
"I found myself remembering a
question from the interminable in-
terview years before with the Ger-
man journalist at the Felipe II. He
had asked: 'Herr Hemingway, can
you sum up your feelings about
death' And Ernest had answered:
`Yes-just another whore.' "
Hotchner has written a most in-
teresting book about Ernest Hem-
between 1970 and 1975 "the yearly number of births will almost
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double." He states:
The report. declares that it is "highly unlikely" that this movement
"If we assume that the present highly regular pattern of fertility
can be reversed, that:
which presently exists will continue to be about the same on the
"It can be 'slowed up a little by concerted and conscious efforts to average for the next 15 years we can make a fairly accurate prediction
preserve the Northwest area; but the ultimate result is virtually of births in the Detroit Jewish community between now and 1980.
certain. The reason for this positive statement can be found in an Naturally the future may bring forth changes not now foreseeable.
-examination of the American value system. Moving to a new neigh- However, by periodic review the forecasts can be revised as changing
borhood is considered desirable by the vast majority of Americans. circumstances dictate."
In other words, households (Jewish, Gentile, Negro, White) all move
His projection of births in the Detroit Jewish community in the
periodically. The average family moves about once every seven years. years 1970-1980 is contained in the following table:
The Detroit Jewish community, at least that part which has not
Average Yearly No. Births
Number of Women
already moved to the suburbs, is now backed up to the northern
Fertility
boundary of Detroit, and seemingly can go in only one direction
1965-70 1970-75 1975-80
Rate
1970
1975 1980
Age
-out."
26
7.0
28
29
4,005 4,129 3,755
15-19
Pointing to Dexter which has all but disappeared as a Jewish 20-24
165.2
419
730
682
2,536 4,421 4,129
-community, joining Twelfth Street, Oakland and Hastings as an area 25-29
1,004
227.0
353
909
1,557 4,005 4,421
"where Jews once lived," Dr. Mayer reports that Seven Mile East of 30-34
69.6
166
177
279
2,383 2,536 4,005
Meyers suffered a loss of 16 per cent-1,200 households-during the 35-39
73
28.6
83
45
2,933 1,557 2,536
1963-65 period; that Seven Mile West of Meyers lost only 400 families 40-44
6
2,933 2,383 1,557
3.8
11
9
-6 per cent-and that the losses therefore were principally in the
eastern portion of the community. Oak Park gained 800 families;
By JESSE SILVER
Southfield 700 households; New Suburbs (principally Birmingham-
(Copyright, 1966, . JTA, Inc.)
Bloomfield), 300; Huntington Woods, 200.
Mike Epstein, the big Baltimore you consider this is only his sec-
The vast changes that have taken place in the 16 years since Dr.
ond season in organized baseball.
Mayer began to make geographic studies for the Jewish Welfare Oriole first baseman, got his first
"I'm in a hurry," said Epstein,
hit against major league pitching
Federation are described as follows:
and became the talk of spring "I didn't get started in pro ball
"In 1949, our first year of record, only a scattered handful of training. The blow, a triple against until I was 21. If I was only 18,
Jewish families lived in the suburbs. Dexter contained half of the
the Yankees, carried 400 feet and I could wait. But I'm in a hurry."
Jewish households, Twelfth Street contained an appreciable pro- hit the centerfield wall.
"He'll make a million dollars
portion of the population; and the Northwest area was newly grow-
if he makes it as a big leaguer," ingway.
In
Epstein's
case
the
baseball
ing. Of interest also, was the fact that almost one in eight Jewish
predicted the Oriole's executive
Who knows not how to flatter,
families lived in scattered areas away from the major areas of writers didn't have to dig much vice-presidents. "He has power.
Jewish concentration. In only 16 years the following things have for a story. Epstein likes to talk. He has a wonderful attitude. He's knows not how to talk. - Italian
happened: Twelfth Street, as a Jewish area, is gone and forgotten. They discovered that he had colorful. And he'll have a devoted proverb.
picked up a few nicknames in the following. He's a Jew."
The Dexter area no longer can be considered to contain more than
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
a trace of Jewish households. The Northwest area (at least the California League last year. One
Milton Stark of Baltimore, Md., 8-Friday, April 8, 1966
of the opposing - managers had
eastern half) has gone from youth to middle age to decline. Places
hung "Super Jew" on him while who produces documentary films
whose names were not even known to most Jewish persons in 1949
another nickname was The Kosher for the United States Olympic
have become 'marked' as Jewish sub-communities."
IF YOU TURN THE
Sequoia (because he's from Cali- Committee reports that his first
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Does urban renewal offer hope for retention of Detroit as a fornia). Epstein is working on a film "Hold High the Torch" has
M I
Jewish population area? Dr. Mayer states:
degree in social psychology, so been seen by 90 million people.
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
"At present there is little housing built or planned under either one writer called him "a combina- His current film "The World is
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
private or urban renewal sponsored auspices that will attract any tion lefthanded Hank Greenberg One," which has just been re-
leased, has had 14 million viewers
large number of Jewish households, particularly those with children. and Sigmund Freud."
thus far. Stark, a former presi-
Chances are that within the next decade some spot in the central city
"I thought his calling me Super dent of the Har Sinai Brother-
-probably near the river-will form an apartment residential nucleus Jew was funny," said Epstein, hood in Baltimore will also cover
for older families without children. Jewish families with children "but when my father read it, he the coming Pan -American and
Milian Wineries, Detroit, Mich.
. will continue to leave the city during the next decade mostly because wondered about being limited to Olympic Gaines.
the pendulum has swung :too far. As a consequence, most Jewish a certain group. I told him I
families with children live Outside the city already. The remaining thought it was very complimentary
and didn't mind."
families with children will undoubtedly join them."
He adds that the "return to the central city" movement in the
Epstein doesn't figure to make
Detroit Jewish community "is fancy not fact." He reports that during the Orioles this trip. He will prob-
Offers
the movement toward the suburbs "only one household `returned' to ably wind up at Rochester which
is - Triple A ball. Not bad when
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Dr. Mayer's study goes ;Tito considerable detail in describing the
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expressed by those intending to move and those who do not and the
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Another
aspect
of
the
Mayer
report
is
the
fertility
of
the
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Detroit Jewish community and the projection of future births.
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Dr. Mayer reports that the level of fertility remained at the same
fruit trees. Near Petach Tikvah.
level from 1953 to 1964. While the number of births dropped from
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1,556 in 1953 to 961 in 1964, Dr. Mayer states:
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"Detroit's Jewish women have not reduced their rate of child
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After
bearing at all. All of the loss in number of children is due to a
smaller number of potential mothers in the child bearing years.
This is a crucial fact in understanding the future. If the present
level of fertility continues, as soon as there are more women in the
child bearing years, the number of Jewish babies born in Detroit
will rise again. The exact dimensions of this will be explored later
but it is comforting to realize that the 'facts' as seen, if only the
number of births are considered, are not really facts at all. Birth
rates in the Detroit Jewish community are really quite stable."
Comparing the Detroit Jewish community's figures with those of
the total White population of the United States, Dr. Mayer shows the
Detroit Jewish rate to be 74 per cent of the total, as indicated in this
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table in his study:
COSTS LESS AND IS BETTER. THAN
TOTAL FERTILITY RATE DETROIT JEWISH COMMUNITY
AND WHITE POPULATION UNITED STATES: 1953.1964
2 PLY-SAFETY TESTED AT 100 M.P.H.
Detroit Jewish Rate
U.S.
Detroit
as
Percent
White
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Jewish
of U.S:White Rate
Rate
Rate
Year
'78
3,263
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2,559
1953
70
3,3'72
2,363
1954
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'78
3,435
2,682
1955
'73
3,532
2,594
1956
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'76
3,611
2,730
1957
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69
3,547
2,455
1958
69
3,553
2,464
1959
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'70
3,531
2,488
1960
'71
3,496
2,476
1961
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3,343
2,597
1962
80
3,198
2,561
1963
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2,511
1964
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'74%
3,444
2,540
Average
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As a prediction for the future, Dr. Mayer states that births
between now and 1970 will be slightly higher-1,100 per year-and
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