The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, August 24, 1973-Page 3
By BRIAN STONEMAN CJNStafif Reporter TORONTO-
North York Mayor Mel Lastman told a group of 40 Golden Age Club members recently that the day when Jewish people needed to change their name iri order to get a job is gone.
"Toronto has changed, Canada has changed," he told an informal discussion group at the Creative Living Centre on Bathurst.--A Jewish person now has a chance and it was yoTT-peopIe who laid
the groundwork for this.".
The flamboyant mayor, who often makes headlines with his outspokenness, continued, "ifayoung man wants to work, he can do well. But you have to want to work, not just talk work."
Lastman also challenged the audience to name one person under 50 years old who was seriously looking but couldn't find employment. No one could.
Despite his feelings that success is there for those who work hard, the man who
built the Bad Boy appliance and merchandise chain through "working from nine untillate at night" could see the difficulties one faces today.
"The trouble is you have to have an understanding wife," he said. "Wives expect their husbands home now at four o'clock and still make $400-* week. A wife can drive you crazy or put you-out of business."
Lastman, covering a potpourri of topics, also said.
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7y per cent non-Jewish
40,000 attracted to heritage exhibit
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Some 40.000 people, of whom about 75 per cent were non-Jewish visited Journey Into Our Heritage according to the official report on the first Jewish museum exhibit in the West released recently by the Jewish Historical Society of Western • Canada.
The report discloses that 29.884 people signed the guest book during the six months duration of the exhibit, Oct. 9. 1972 to April 1. 1973. Since at least 30 per cent of the visitors did not sign the guest book, total attendance is placed at 40,000.
Journey Into Our Heritage was co-sponsored by the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature and was on display in Alloway Hall, the temporary, exhibition hall of the Man-
i^toba museum. The locale of the exhibit undoubtedly had a great deal to do with the large attendance.
This is particularly true of the fact that visitors included almost 8,000 students from 177 schools. Some 25 per cent of the students came from outside Winnipeg in-cludiiig North Dakota as well as rural Manitoba. At least 100 of the student groups came through the special program of the Manitoba Museum's education department.
A total of 65 adult groups toured the exhibit in Alloway Hall including the national executive of Canadian Jewish Congress and delegates to the national conventions of Pioneer Women and Canadian Women's Ort.
The total museum project included four audio visual presentations. . Two films were specially produced for the Jewish Museum by the CBC and were shown in the museum auditorium according to a schedule of prearranged screenings. An Hour of Lifetimes, dealing with a cross-section of Jewish personalities in western Canada, was shown to 40 groups. It Must Be Told the experiences of three Holocaust survivors who started new lives in Winnipeg, was screened for 49 groups including 14 student groups.
The two other audio -visuals were sound - slide presentations, running continuously in Alloway Hall. One was Voices of the Pioneers based on the oral his-
tory interviews of the Jewish Historical Society and the other was The Fabulous Temple of Jerusalem, a recreation of some of the ancient history of the Second Jewish Commonwealth in-Palestine.
Journey Into Our Heritage is described in the report as 'the most gratifying and successful project undertaken by the Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada since itsinception." The exhibit as devoted primarily to a recounting of the history of the Jews from the ghettos of Eastern Europe to settlement and development throughout western Canada.
-"when-I-see-fhe-way the future is drifting with a few taking oyer the power lean; understand why kids take di?ugs." Blaming much of youth's rebellion on parental neglect, he urged a. return to corporal punishment on children but also saw ai need for flexibility.
Citing an incident which is "something small but major-to him" (Lastman's 16-year-old son), he said he was confronted with a request to allow his son to serve his friends beer in their home as they "had done. Realizing the illegality and political delicacy of the situation, Lastman nevertheless elected to treat his son as an adult by letting him make the decision.
"1 think, he was just testing me to see if I would listen to his, problems," Lastman said. "Anyway, it turned out he decided not to serve anything."
Summing up his feelings, the mayor said, "I have-better faith in young people today than I did with my own generation when 1 was young."
"To a lot of councillors, conventions are an extra pleasure trip the taxpayer should pay for," said Last-man when he touched briefly on the current controversy over alleged misuse of convention money by some councillors. "They take advantage because we leave loopholes we have no right leaving."
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