The Jewish Westerii Bujjetin
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VANCOUVER, B:C. CANADA, THURSDAY, DEC. 16, 1948
We Regret
WE LEARNED ON MONDA if THAT MANY READERS DID NOT RECEIVE THEIR "BULLETIN" SATURDAY.
We are truly sorry—we checked with the Post Office and learned that apparently due to the Christmas mail— our "newspaper" (being what is called "second class mail") was in some cases delayed, the postman being overloaded on Saturday.
We thank those many readers who phoned to advise us, for it helps us to check when we are told. During the year we found that in some districts the delivery did not take place in too many instances until Monday.
The postal authorities will help to remedy the situation if we can give them precise information as to localities—so if your paper doesn't arrive by the week-end we will appreciate being told.
For the next three weeks we will do our utmost to have The Bulletin in the Post-Office earlier to better ensure delivery by Saturday—but we need the co-operation of all correspondents.
PLEASE REMEMBER, TOO, THAT WELL PREPARED COPY HELPS TO SPEED THE BULLETIN.
To those readers who did not get their paper on Saturday last, and to organizations which may not have received full benefit of publicity, we express our sincere regrets.
Letters td^tne i^aitor
LABOR ZrONtST ORGANrZATION "THIS IS OUR STORY" GROUP
By MORRIS CHERNOV
The next general meeting of this group will be held at the home of Julius Shore on Monday, December 20, at 8:30 p.m. All members are urged to be on time, and to bring a friend. Plans and the date for our next "open" meeting will be formulated and discussed.
Be sure to tune in on "This Is Our Story" on Sunday, December 19, at 12:00 a.m., over station CKMO. Through the courtesy of the Columbia Broadcasting System and the U.P.A., we have received the script entitled "Datefline Israel," and will present it this Sunday. This show was presented over C.B.S. national network during the last U.P.A. campaign, and received tremendous acclaim. Mr. Paul Kligman, our producer and director, has received the co-operation and assistance of many local radio stars, including Jimmy Johnston of C.B.C., and there is no doubt that this program will be an outstanding one. Do not fail to tune in.
Again, the radio committee reiterates their plea—please
write_even if only a card. They want you—the listening
audience—^to have a voice in their presentations. Ideas, comments, criticisms, both good and bad, are desired. Remember the address:
"THIS IS OUR STORY" c/o RADIO STATION CKMO VANCOUVER. B.C.
RACIAL MASSACRE OUTLAWED BY U.N.
PARIS. — The United Nations Assembly unanimously approved a convention outlawing genocide—^the mass destruction of religious, racial or national groups.
It was a personal triumph for Dr. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word "genocide" and made a personal crusade against the practice. Genocide is derived from the Greek word "geno," meaning a group, and the Latin word, meanmg killing.
Lemkin. many of whose relatives died in Nazi horror chambers, was iji the gallery. He is on leave as professor of international law at Yale University.
The Assembly also will invitia the International Law Commission to study the possibility of establishing an international coiiftfor the trial of persons^ charged with genocide. It suggested consideration be given to establishing a criniinal chamber of the intematiohal court of justice;
A^embly President Herbert V. Evatt of Australia told the 'dfeiegates their action was an "epoch-making event" which marked -a iigmficant advance in the devielopment of international criminal law.
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CQnadian Civil Liberties Union
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' December, 10, 194S;
Dear Sir:
In view of the widespread interest in the cast of Mr. Gordon Martin, recently refused admission to the bar by decision of the Benchers of the Law Society, we wish to bring to the attention of your subscribers the following facts:
1. Contrary to the impression created by press reports of a recent meeting of the Vancouver Bar Association, that body has not offeired Mr. Martin free counsel in the event of his choosing to challenge the Benchers' decision in court.
2. Mr. Martin has so decided. The costs of the hearing-amounting in all probability to some hundreds of dollars-will have to be met by Mr. Martin witliout the aid of the Bar Association.
, 3. Mr. Martin's financial position is similar to that of , the mjajority of student veterans, married and with a young family, at the end of tlieir University course.
4. The Civil Liberties Union of Vancouver, believing that a fundamental principle of British justice and of civil rights is involved in this case, have opened a fund to meet the costs of the legar proceedings now pending, with a donation of fifty dollars. We do so in the behalf that that inadequate sum will be supplemented by the donations of many private citizens who recognize that a basic issue is at stake in this case—namely, whether a man shall be prevented froiA the exercise of his chosen profession by virtue of membership in a legally organized politiefal party.
The cause is one of justice and civil, right. It is, therefore, every citizen's business. The main purpose of this letter is to intimate to anyone who is willing to take up this challenge that there is something he or she can do about it— namely, to send > a donation "to the Civil Liberties Union, Gordon Martin Fund,, care of the Treasurer, Mr. Robert Christie, 2457 Dundas Street^ Vancouver, B.C.
- Yours sincerely,
D. C. McNAIR.
Executive Secretary, Civil Liberties Union.
Canadian Young Judaea
WESTERN REGION
No. 1 Wallace Apts., Calgary, Alberta; Dec. 13, 1948.
Vancouver Jewish Bulletin, c/o Jewish Community Centre, Oak Street, Vancoiiver, B.C. Dear Sir:
Enclosed please find a copy of my column of Young Judaean News for publication in this week-end's edition of your paper.
Since Young Judaea has only very recently been reorganized in Vantouver, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of pur columns appearing regularly in your paper to keep our new group in close touch with activities of other Judaean centres all across the west.
Thanking you for your co-operation in the past, and looking forward to very favorable relations with your paper in the future, with Judaean greietings I am,
Yours truly,
IDA ZYSBLAT,
Western Publicity Chairman.
Editor's note—^We want to be helpful. Please see page 4.
LILLIAN FRElMAN^ INkbASSAH CHAPTER
By JENNIE R. BERCOV ^
A special luncheon will be held on Wednesday, December 22, at 12:30 p.m., at the Conununity XJentre, in honor of Miss Hannah Stein, vice-president of British Feideration of Zionist Youth, London, England. Miss Stein has recently returned from a visit to the State of Israel and will give its an authentic report of an eyewitness. Miss Stein is- a free-lsunce journalist of acknowledged standing, and her address promises to be very enjoyable as well as informative. A well-selected imusical program will be presented by Cantor Gartner.
The raffle for the luggage a^d clock will be drawn at the luncheon. Please dispose of the remaining tickets and turn in the money and stubs to Mrs.- A. £ieith in time for the drawing.
The Hadassah Convention will t^ke place in Montreal beginning January 32. All members who have not paid their dues yet kindly do so right away, as we are allowed delegates representation on paid members only.
THE THUmETH ANNiyERSARY DINNER IS IN-DEFINITELT POSTPONED. The Wednesday luncheon is the only affair this chapter is arranging for Miss Stein.
Sabbath. Times isnd Holidays ^
CHANUKAH—DEC. 27 to JAN. 3
BETH HAMIDHOSH
3231 Heather Street
General fleeting
SUNDAY, DiCEMBER 19
2:00 1P.M.
For the Purpose of:
1. Reorganizing the Beth Homidrosh.
2. Proposing the Leodershtp of Rabbi Ginsberg.
3. Election of a New Committee.
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' Ali through - history, when some ruler has needed a scapegoat to cover up his failure to satisfy his people's'^ ^demands,
ddm, he; could :always "di^er thepi' by;-, blaniing '^^^ tli^r troubles on the Jewk. HiMer was only the last to use this ruse, in which the Jews have been Used as scapegoats down the centuries to.cover up 'ec6-nbmic and political failures;. ,.
And the: same method of finding a scapegoat on which to place the biame is not confined to nations. Individuals, who lack the honesty and courage to admit personal failures, do it' too.
Remember in the Depression when there weren't enough jobs to go around, and the Letter-to-the-Editor columns were full of moans and groans about married women .working and "taking the bread out of the mouths of men with families"?
As if the economic woes of the depression could have been solved by firing all the married women workers. Over 90 per cent of them were working because they had to anyway, not because they wanted to.
"OP" Now
The latest scapegoat, t see by current Letters-to-the-Editor, is the Displaced Person. He is now being blacklisted by the man who is looking for someone on whom to place the blame for his own failure.
This really makes me mad. There are a mere handful of Displaced Persons in Canada. Which is to our shame. For we have a country capable of supporting a far larger population than we have. Meanwhile, nearly four years after V-E Day, the Displaced Persons still in camps in Germany number about 400 to the square mile of German landscape on which they are quartered.
We are not alone in our shame. The United States has been just as niggardly in its attitude toward the DP. The DP Immigration Act passed by the American Congress in June was a most depressing blow, to the hopes of Europe's still Displaced Persons
Niggardly
Even the few slated for the last emigration to the United States this fall had it made as difficult as possible for them, according to a' New Yorker-article written by Janet Planner from Wurzberg, a large DP centre. The state department did not send the consular agentsi it promised, to give visas; the army did not send the promised counter - intelligence corps for intensive prying into the wretched DP's histories, private lives and political and'' religous views.
"They know that few of them will be chosen," she writes. "For three Christmases they have
drunk a. toasts to their -last^^win-ter in Germany. Soon they be shrinking tKeir fourth. 'Mdst of the half-million DPs~ still left in the camps in the American zone are suffering from re-signatipn", , ^ v
:4^e^^toUntri^: ihat have a&loed
.^©P ;.ii|tK)r'v wives,'; -and;cjhildi:^n ^o'^t^^^^^ i)a%^the-{y(prkers/^"This ;is^the cru^nest-^low-^^ of- all, especially tx> pepplti';w^^ have be^?i lucky emv^i^io::sm nearly lo year^ :;oi jhellj ;t(jgeth^r.- They shouldn't 'be ■separated ir^^ th#ir familie?!:/nW, ^ust when the chance cpmes' ^ to'. thein to leave -the miseries of concentration camp life behind them forever.;"'";•, •' "
Noblis^ Few
Holland and Belgium, small countries though they are, have allowed DP immigrants to bring their families with them, and recently Norway asked for tpn DP doctors with their families.
Few nations, however, seem to want intellectuals, who' are proportionately large in DP circles and number once-famous doctors, university professors, scientists and artists of all kinds. So, at DP vocational schools in Germany we have the ridiculous farce of intellectuals learning to be garage mechanics, bricklayers and so forth in the hope that some country will send for thern when it needs ^'unskilled labor."
It's not" a pretty picture, is it? Espebially four years after war's end. Instead of blaming a few poor DP's in Canada "keeping Canadian citizens out of a job" as a complaining letter to the editor stated (you can bet he's the type that couldn't: hold, a job anyway),' we should ' lirge our government to be more liberal and generous in its DP immigration policy go the poor sad faces still behind camp fences in Europe won't start to haunt us in our guilty dreams. By MAMIE MOLONEY
—Vane. Sun 12/13/48
Every Jewish. youngster should have a Chanukah party to attend. If there is no party for your child and you would be interested in having the Centre arrange one, please call CE. 1168.
Handbook On Canada For Immigrants
OTTAWA, Dec. 10—A ppcket-size handbook, written in simple language, wiU tell Canada's new citizens some of the things they should know about the coimiicy.
Copies pf the book in English Wete issued today by iResouites Minister MacKinnon and he said that French, Dutch, Polish, German and Ukrainian editions are in preparation. The book entitled, "This Is Canada," wHl be given to all immigrants.
Prepared for the department by the Canadian Association for Adult Education, the book has a wealth of information .jammed into its 120 pages. It starts qfif with a message of welcome from Mr. MacKinnon and ends with instructions on how to go about obtaining Canadian citizenship. On the front and back covers are maps of Canada.
The opening chapter warns the immigrants to liewar^ of shysters.
"Be sure not to pay anyone for helping get your citizenship papers," warns the book. Complete information on citizenship could be obtained through the State Secretary's Department in Ottawa.
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