Foreign Language Press Service

Setting aside a week for health promotion is a very good and worthy action. It would naturally be better if each man and woman would take this into consideration everyday in the year, for nothing makes man so happy and content as good health. Health is the best blessing man can rece

Our new light, sunlit shops are now operating at full capacity. Here is an opportunity to join a shop that furnishes work all year around. When you work here you work with us, not for us. The following positions are now open. Come ready to work. Lining makers, Shoulder and

Last Wednesday, July 9, 1919, Mr. Harris Dick, founder and president of the Western Dairy Company, died. He has done much for Chicago Jewry as a man of great self-respect, with a soul and a Jewish conscience. He devoted many years to the building of a business concern which brought health to

The Italian Medical Society exists for the purpose of battering the sanitary conditions and health of the babies of the Italian colony of Chicago. A large number is now victims of infectious diseases, irrational feeding, and neglected hygiene. This society has the permission of the

The school year of 1919-1920 is already a few weeks in progress. The idea of this article is to give some particulars of our Christian schools in the Chicago area. There are in the Chicago area now nine schools with the reformed principle; one Christian High school and eight lower schools; fi

In preparing an article of this character it is almost impossible to eliminate the time-worn race question, especially if one has decided views on the subject. It is only fair, however, to differentiate between the American of foreign birth who is a good citizen and the foreigner who is a det

In a meeting of the board of education, officially called Board of Education, School District 99, Cook County, Ill., held yesterday, a resolution submitted by Mr. Frank J. Petru, demanding that the Czech classes be permitted to use classrooms of the public schools for the purpose of teaching

The city of New York spent 250,000 dollars for radium. That was a sensation and many disapproved it. The city, to excuse itself, declared that radium is the only remedy for cancer of which New Yorkers suffer a great deal. Only unintelligent people could reproach authorities for tryi

On November 8, Dr. W. R. P. Emerson held clinic in our Home. Many prominent social workers and dietitians of the city were present. In the course of his talk he emphasized repeatedly the fact that he had never seen so well-nourished a group of children. He found our Home to have the lowest pe

Of the two thousand junk peddlers in Chicago there are at least 1950 Jews, and the other fifty are a mixture of various other nationalities. The lot of these junk peddlers is not at all to be envied, because their work or business is far from being an easy occupation, but a hard, bitter work,

We are a people of city dwellers, a people of industrial laborers or businessmen, a people of hustlers, a busy, all too busy, people. We are a nervous people. One very seldom finds a Jew who is not nervous, and one very often meets Jews and Jewesses who are too nervous for words. Alienists wi

An American magazine prints the following paragraphs: "Reared in church traditions, the people in the Balkans have very little faith in medicine. They laugh if you tell them that microbes, mosquitoes, flies, rats, and other animals are able to spread disease. They think that sicknes

In certain quarters it is being realized that the manner in which women dress these days has its undesirable effects, aspecially in that the ultra modern trend is not conducive to the maintenance of good health. A short time ago Swiss life insurance companies announced that from then on the t

The Jewish butcher shop is the beginning and the ending of the knowledge of an average Jewish child of what constitutes Kosher, and this is the real reason why most of us have so little respect for the word. If the average person had a deeper knowledge of the real meaning of the word "Kosher"

A group of Northwest Side Jews have organized an association under the name Von Humboldt Sanitary Improvement Association, for the purpose of keeping the neighborhood, which has lately been so inexcusably neglected, clean. Tenants as well as landlords are members of this association. The offi

The streets and alleys of the Lawndale district which have lately been very much neglected, will again be taken care of, according to the declaration of the officials of the new organization, the Lawndale District Improvement Association which was organized Wednesday evening. The Yo

After I visited the Young Men's Hebrew Association and became well acquainted with the members, their program and activities, I really regretted that I had not paid my visit two years ago when they began to build this organization, and that during these two years I had not helped them in thei

Businessmen of the Chicago Avenue district, covering an area from Hermitage to Noble streets, opened the Christmas shopping season amidst a gala celebration. A new lighting system, which was recently installed, was officially put into operation. The large electric lights added brilliancy to t

There are people with pretentions to high learning and wisdom, having even, in certain directions, a high enough education, who, in spite of all, have to be reckoned with as fools, if one may be a fool who willingly causes an injury or harm unto himself. There are people who lack or

In reading the financial statement for the year, 1921 of the Italian Church of the Holy Guardian Angel of Chicago, 717 Farquer Street, we would like to mention, briefly, the splendid religious, humanitarian and educational work accomplished by the missionary fathers of the church in behalf of