The Canadian English-Jewish Weekly
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MONTREAL, OCTOBER 12, 1951
an Was Founder Of Vast Chain With Annual Of $45,000,000
Lane Bryant Malsin, who in 1900 the ladies' wear that developed into Lane �eat, Inc.. with twenty-five re-ahop* throughout the country a mail order plant, died of a attack at her home, 1056 Avenue, New York. Her age _ 72.
Although Lane Bryant was prob-'* moit well-known for creating % -to-wear maternity dress rtaut mothers, the/concern had started in a one-room ioor flat in Gouverneur as a lingerie seamstress at her death a vast retail chain women's apparel of all descrip-
^cW|lrs. Malsin, whose real name �^s1(BM Lena Hiramelstein when she j to the U. S. in 1896 from uuania. struggled for four years bar adopted land as a seam-^&X|gfosa. Then at the age of 20 she ^VvjjM married to David BTyant, a ^�!ljpjllili Jewelry salesman. The T^4#*r* had a son, Raphael, but the .�^jHrtbtod died when the child was v>� *-fj�w months old. Pawning her :^^.�lamo�d earrings, the young widow i^.pwekaaad a sewing machine and �Js$tajrted to sew lingerie at home, ^Nfe'** N�w York Times. ^f^JMx years later she had made ^�.eaofcgh money to borrow additional Yon the strength of her suc-and expand to larger quarters r first real store. It was when opened bar bank account in n with her shop that she signed her name said later the was to correct the she was known as thereafter.
basis of the historic dress was a bodice that was attached by an elastic band to an accordion-pleated skirt. With the production of this garment, Lane Bryant's enterprises were well established.
In 1909 the young widow was married again, to Albert Malsin, a young engineer also born in Lithuania. Thus started a long partnership in the manufacture of women's wear. While Mrs. Malsin concentrated on the designing of maternity apparel, her husband ran the business operations of the organization. He started the practice of retailing the maternity wear by mail and was credited with originating the idea of making clothes designed especially for stout women. When Mr. Malsin died in 1923, the Lane Bryant enterprises were grossing $5,000,000 a year.
Last year, when the modest, small, grey-haired grandmother helped to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her specialty stores, the company was operating units in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland and St/ Louie. It has been estimated that the organization's larger-size business accounts for 90 per cent of the annual sales and that the Lane Bryant mail business if the sixth largest in the country.
According to a standing regulation, any Lane Bryant customer whose wardrobe is destroyed in a disaster is offered a free new outfit through the Red Cross. Fifty-eight mail-order clients in Texas City were literally redothed in Lt*7 after the explosion and fierce ~ itae^Attneesdof fee second ~"--------J*tlw>Laia
ISRAELI COALITION PUTS RELIGIOUS PARTIES IN STRONGER POSITION
To their Royal Highnesses The Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, welcome to Canada!
Look To Year Off Change Due To Inflow
Israel ushered in the start of the Jewish year 6712 with a warning from her leaders that it would bring continued trials and sacrifices. Both President Chaim Weiz-raann and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurioi> offered prayer* in their New Year messages for peace for the world as well as for Israel.
Mr. Ben-Gurton. pointedly began his greeting: To all Jewish communities in the world: The Government of Israel sends from Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, its sin* cevest wishes for the New Year." Israel's proclamation of Jerusalem as its capital has not been recognised by other nations. Each message noted the heavy burden plated on the young state by
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Grandson Of Ford Heads Goodwill Body
Benson Ford, vice president of the Ford Motor Company and general manager of its Lincoln-Mercury division, was installed as Protestant co-chairman of the National Cowferenco of Christians and Jews at a dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York.
Mr. Ford, fourth to serve in that capacity since the establishment of the conference in 1928, succeeds Charles E. Wilson, who resigned to become director of the Office of Defense Mobilisation. Prior incumbents of the Protestant co-chairmanship were Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War in President Wilson'* Cabinet, and Dr. Arthur H. Cowptoo, chancellor of Washington University in St Louis.
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The new Israeli coalition Government of Mapai Socialists and the nation's four religious parties �the same mixture as before last July's election�was formed. The religious parties will have four-health, interior, industry and social welfare-religious affairs.
David Ben-Gurion, the Socialist Premier, was forced into a coalition with his old partners by the final breakdown of negotiations between Mapai and the General Zionists, the country's second largest party. The talks foundered on the General Zionists' insistence on naming a trade minister with authority over rationing and controls, says the New York Times.
Involved was the basic issue of how large a part ii> the direction of the country's economy should be given to the General Zionists', who increased their Parliamentary representation from seven to twenty on a campaign to ease controls and grant greater induce* ments to private enterprise.
As it finally turned out, Mr. Ben-Gurion and Mapai have had to pay a coneiderable political price for the establishment of another Socialist religions bloc coalition. The old Government was defeated in the Parliament vote last February when the Premier refused to concede the bloc's claim to the control of the religions education of the children of new immigrants.
Now the religious parties have won the right to name the Deputy Minister of Education. He can be
expected to see that the bloc's claim is fulfilled and as, deputy minister, he cannot fail to influence the kind of religious education to be given- in the secular schools.
Mapai also has had to make concessions on other religious issues. As a result there will be no recruiting of religious women for national service for at least one year. The present party school system, in- which religious schools are supported but not controlled by the state, will be continued, and the virtual veto Of* meat imports held bv the Minister of Religious Affairs, designed to prevent state purchases of non-kosher food, will be extended, according to the New York Times.
Except for the religious parties and their supporters�about 10 per cent of the population, according to the July election�no one in Israel is likely to be- pleased with recreation of the old coalition. The religious parties lost slightly in the elections but they have emerged in a stronger political petition, with the four ministries and the number 2 position k> the Ministry of Education. They held three ministries in the former government.
Although one of the reasons for holding new elections was the Premier's desire for a mora stable government, he will have to get along on the narrowest of majorities in the new Parliament. In the last Knesset, with the religious
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/unmigratioo figure for the-last tear was given by Mr. Ben-Gurion-3e record of 210,729. This inflow has changed the character of the country in many ways that can be sensed bat as yet only barely perceived. It is the year ahead that will show the effects on Israel's political and economic makeup and, even- more important, on its social and cultural outlook.
"Great and hard are the problems of integration/' Mr. Ben-Gurion said. He added that "we are supporting and shall support this burden fully aware that it is for our generation to discharge this primary task and in the hope
4hat the Jewish people throughout ta dispetsion will devotedly join in the/historic enterprise."
President Weizmann described the last year as one of "great achievement** k> which Jewish communities had recorded a "new and glorious chapter in the long history of Jewish fraternity and devotion." He warned the nation that "there is no easy path to the towering goal we have set ourselves. Freedom, in so far as we have, attained it. places its demands upon us, but the ultimate for our efforts and is yet to come." Government had hoped to distribute special rations to alleviate at least for a few days the eevere food shortage. The anticipated supplies did not reach the country, says the New York Times, and the Govern meat's New Year wishes to its citizens remained on a purely spiritual plane.
World Group To Review German Offer To Pay
Representatives of major Jew-ish organizations throughout the world will meet in New York on October 26-24 to review Western Germany's recent offer to discuss with "representatives of Israel and the Jewish people" all Jewish daimj arising out of Hitler's persecution of Jewry, H was announced by Dr. Nahum Goldman*, co-efcainnan of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, which will sponsor the meetrag. Present will be delegations from almost at least seven countries, including the United State*, Canada, sad Great Britain, as well as repreaentativee of the Israel Government, which in recent months has laid before the Occupying Powers a eteisa for 11,600,000,000 again** Germany, eased on the east to Israel of giving haven to more than 600,000
^sgnlff International Airways, #nd Soger W. fltraus, chairman of the beyrd of/the American Smelting and Refining Company.
Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, president of the national conference, participated with Mr. Braniff and Mr. Strauss in the installation. In his response, Mr. Ford stressed the need for "teamwork among free people in the production, defense and development of a free-choice society." As co-chairman he presented an award to Dr. Howard E. Wilson, executive associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, for "pioneering work in improving human relations t through education."
Mr. Ford, son of the late Edsel Ford, is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is president of the board of trustees of the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and a trustee of the Ford Foundation and the Henry Ford Trade School.
The -automotive division of the national conference was sponsor of the dinner. Samuel C. D re tain, president of Surrey Motors Cor-poration, presided._
surviving victims of the Nazi terror.
In announcing the conference, Dr. Goldmann, who will preside declared: "Chancellor Adenauer's statement before the West German Parliament last week, and the Parliamentary approval of it which was promptly forthcoming, open* the door to serious conlideration by the German people of the material as well as the moral debt they owe to Israel and to Jews of the world. In the light of this statement it is vital that representatives of the Israel Government, and of all major Jewish bodies concerned, have opportunity to meet together to review the whole restitution problem and to achieve a concrete and united program.
"Discussions at the meeting will cover various kinds of claims which have been presented to Germany by various Jewish bodies, and especially the claims of the Israel Government as they have been set forth in two notes delivered in recent months to the Occupying Powers, Included in the discussions will be the restitution owed to the Jewish people as a whole for Jewish property which has been left heirless. We stunt reach agreement at this conference on method* for arriving at a settlement wtth Germans; in tome measure commemorate with the staggering material losses in-fheted upon the Jewish people by the Nazis."
Delegation! hav* been invited to nurssim central Jewish bodies hi Jeuss Africa, France, Australia; and.ArgonslTis.
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