-,-,•=4. 401 ''‘.1111111,1111110•111.11 ;,.o.vmaheir•*•,--- - 18 Friday, April 29, 1977 Edmund Frank & Co. Liquidators & Appraisers Df Household Contents and Estates Sale held in your home all items tagged for your approval for...Info call _8624273 or 875;7650 FULL TIME PROTECTION FROM MARV CHECK • • • • Burglary Vandalism Fire Personal Attack MARV ROSEN . AM Price You Can Afford NO IFONE • THE DETROIT. JEWISH NEWS Automatically Notifies within seconds Police Dept. & Fire Dept. Central Office i .Hidden Wire Installation You Won't Know We've Been There emergency reporting system with 24 hr. protection AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ALARM INC. . 838-7008 The Forward's 80th Birthday Simcha Marks By DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.) When Washington was President, Thomas Jeffer- son was Secretary of State and lived on the Lower East Side. If he were to come to life he might say, "What, has become of all the papers on the Lower East Side? There were the Forward, the Freiheit, the Tog, the Togeblatt, but now when I get up in the morn- ing, what have I to read with my breakfast? The only paper I can read is the Forward or the goishe papers." The Lower East Side isn't what it used to,be, and nei- ther is the Yiddish press. One time, out of East Broadway, where the Yidd7 ish papers all had their ex- istence, came voices speaking to all America. But now only the Forward remains and that has moved from the Lower East _Side. The Forward is now celebrating its 80th birthday. The first of the American Yiddish papers was the To- geblatt. It presumably first was established as a politi- cal sheet_ to support Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune in his race for Presidency against Grant. Abe Cahan, the founder of the Forward, had his pecul- iarities. When a-man asked him for a job on the staff, Cahan asked him, "What can you do?" "I can write poetry," said the man. "Poetry doesn't sell papers," said Cahan. "Can you make pogroms? Pogr- oms sell papers." This may sound a bit ruth- Aluminum or Canvas • FIRE REPAIRS • HOME IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETE PARTY RENTAL • Tents • Chairs • Tables • Dance Floors QUALITY AWNING & CONSTRUCTION 7937 SCHAEFER RD. • DEARBORN 48126 846.5735 FREE ESTIMATE PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO AFFORD DESIGNER CLOTHES Petrocelli • Puccini GIGANTIC REDUCTION SALE on new spring, summer &year round men's designer fashions 30% to 695,SAVINGS Thurs. till 9 p.m. Sat til 8 p.m. Sun. 10 am.-5 p.m. Moris Huppert Clothier Harvard Row Shopping Center 21750 W. 11 Mile Road Southfield 353-0395 less, but perhaps this streak of ruthlessness is an important fact in the success of the paper. The too tender-minded are apt to fail. Cahan of course was not an insensitive man. He made the Forward an organ for the under- privileged. Of all the ethnic press, perhaps the Jewish press was the most vigorous. In part this was due to the massive concentrated immi- gration of Russian Jews at one period, and the "hetero- genity in the homogeneity." There were Russian Jews, and Galician Jews and Ger- man Jews. Especially strong was the rivalry be- tween the Litvaks and Ga- litzzianers. The Yiddish press served as a unifying fotce._ At the same time, the editors were not always free of their own personal prejudices. For instance, Cahan was a staunch Litvak, but there was a Galitzianer who wrote very amusingly and Cahan wanted him on his staff. So what did he do? He got the man to change his name to Kovno. Kovno is the capital city of Lith- uania. So that is how the Galitzianer humor writer be- came the famous B. Kov- ner. Cahan turned him into a Litvak. Cahan had strong politi- cal convictions, for which the Forward fought, but he was too good a news- paperman. tO neglect other areas. In the brief kasten (letter box) the Forward was a progenitor of the many similiar columns giv- ing advice to people on per- sonal problems. But the Togeblatt, the, oldest of the Yiddish dailies, and the most conservative political- ly and religiously, also had its brief kasten. Forward's 80th - NEW YORK (JTA)—The Jewish Daily Forward.cele- brated its 80th anniversary Sunday with a gala "simcha" attended by some 800 trade unionists, leaders of Jewish organizations, members of the news- paper's staff and its read- ers. "The Forward is more than a newspaper," Simon Weber, editor of the paper which is the oldest and larg- est Yiddish daily in the world, told the audience at the New York Hilton. He and other speakers de- scribed the Forward's. begin- rings on April 22, 1897 as a Socialist newspaper in oppo- sition to Daniel De Leon, then head of the Socialist Labor Party, through its leadership in the trade union movement and its role in educating Jewish im- migrants to its support of Is- rael and the Histadrut in the post World War II peri- od. The newspaper, which published a special 120-page anniversary edition Sunday, did not appear Monday. Harold Ostroff, general manager of the Forward As- sociation which .publishes the newspaper, said this was so all of the employes could , attend the anniver- sary luncheon. Israel Breslow, president of the Forward Association, said that the Forward raised $500,000 during the last two years to make up its deficit. He said 70 per- cent of this came from its readers and 30 percent from trade unions and other sources. Among the letters of -con- gratulations was a note from President Jimmy Car- ter. AJCongress Club to Meet Thursday Members of the Century Club of the American Jew- ish Congress will meet 8 p.m. Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Silber, 774 Lakeside, Bir- mingham. An evening of music is planned, with Genia and Matthew Mischakoff, flaut- ist and guitarist. For information about the Century Club, call the American Jewish Congress, 357-2766. I M E REPAIR In Our Store "Your Something Special Shoppe" Oak Park Center 9 Mile & Coolidge 545-1399 • • MOVING? HOUSEHOLD SALES IN YOUR HOME --., ESTATES LIQUIDATED • - • IRENE EAGLE : 626-4769 626-8907 : • . I can remember seeing the old editor of the brief kasten—who happened to be a relative' stopping in the middle of a street and begin to mumble to him- self. Only he wasn't talking: He hadn't been able to go to the synagogue that after- noon and was "davening minha": (reciting the after- noon prayers). Ethics, Morality, Life Style Topics The Center for New Think- ing has begun two lecture series on ethics and morali- ty 10 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays at the Baldwin Public Library in Birming- ham. Lecturer is Rabbi Sherwin Wine. There is a charge - for the 10-week courses. The center will also have a life style seminar May 14 at the Michigan State Uni- versity Management Educa- tion Center in Troy. Author James Ramey will be the featured sneaker. There is a cha_ For information, call the Center for New Thinking, 646-2034. A Jew, Benjamin Althei- mer, proposed the in- stitution of Flag Day to President Wilson in 1918. 4 Convenient parking 555-S. Woodward Birmingham 642-1040