THE JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
Friday, October 12, 1945
The Jewish Western Bulletin
OfBd&i Organ of fbe Vanconver lewidi Administzative Caasdl
Robt. L. Zien-............................................Coramittee Chairman
Goodman Florence...............................................Associate Editor
Ruth Toubman-.........................................................Society Editor
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VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA, FRIDAY, OGT. 12, 1945
EDITORIAL
Looking For Trouble
® THE BRITISH appear to be building up a situation in Palestine which seems to come about as close to declaring war on the Yishuv in Palestine as one may imagine. Formidable forces of troops, including tanks and parachute troops have been brought into Palestine, and even two submarines were reported to be in the Palestine waters now. All of these preparations purportedly are for any trouble that may occur in Palestine in connection with the expected announcement by Mr. Attlee soon that the White Paper, barring Jews from Palestine, is to be continued.
All pf these soldiers and miUtary weapons have been brought into Palestine to subdue the Jews. What crime have these Jews committed that all this force must be used against them? Their crime consists in the fact that they demand that the gates of Palestine be opened to the displaced Jews in the German camps, to all the victims who were-the chief sufferers during the war.
The Harrison report, submitted to the President of the United States after all investigation of the situation of the displaced Jews in the German camps, has recommended l2iat these displaced Jews be permitted to enter Palestine. Dean Harrison incidentally, it is reported, left for his investigation in Germany with a bias aganst Zionism, but, afteir his survey and study of the situation of the displaced Jews, came to the conclusion that Palestine was the only hope for these displaced persons. President Tnunan, too, has indicated his complete approval of the report., and has, in fact, asked that 100,000 of these displaced perso]^ be permitted to enter Palestine forthwith. . V
But now the British Government has brought in tanks and parachutes and is .prepared to ind-wr down any Jew who takes the same position as.'Mr. Harrisc^ or President Tnmian.
. Wfe* wfere just wondering a little about that loan which England is asking of the United States. She sorely needs a few bilHon dollars, she declares. Is this money needed to buy these tanks and to vght Jews?
Meat Rationing Only Means Of Feeding Starving Europe
• AS a result of the devastation caused by war, food production in the liberated areas has been greatly restricted and disorganized. Large areas are at present on starvation rations, and it has been estimated that 600,000
children will die of starvation this year. In Canada we produce much
more meat than we consume ourselves and throughout the war we •have been providing Britain with vitally needed supplies. We now face, an addition, the urgent appeals of the liberated countries and at the very time when for a variety of reasons, our meat production is declining. That is why meat is being rationed—to direct as much as We can spars toward Great Brtain and the liberated areas and for the supplies of the Some people who are riot convinced of the necessity of rationing, have suggested that the quantities needed for Europe be taken and that we should get along on what is left withoct the bother of rationing. The result of this pol-
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icy would be that some people and some stores would get enough meat, while more people and more retailers would not, and some would get scarcely any at all. Control of meat prices would break down and black markets would flourish. We know as a result of hard-bought experience in Canada and elsewhere that when an article of viniversal and daily use, like sugar or butter or meat gets into short supply, the only way to assure fair distribution at fair prices is to adopt coupon rationing.
Mr. Donald Gordon, chairman of the W.P.T.B. assures us that meat rationing is absolutely necessary. Present prospects do not point to early disappearance of the worldwide shortage of meat and other foods. Textile controls wall continue to at least the end of the year. Sugar rationing will continue for at least 18 months or longer. The board v.'ill hold the line on 1941 price leveia out it depends on the public whether the transition from war to peace will be well managed or will be influenced by petty rumoiurs and throw the country into chaos and confusion. The government assures us that positively every constriction or control will be removed just as fast as it is safe to do so.
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By ALFBED SEGAL "i The oj^nlohs expressed by the : author of tins column are not
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• A GENTLEMAN, who'feels av.'are of divinity in the affairs of men, admonishes me to.consider the atomic bomb as an. instrument by which a divine comedy may be about to be afEected.' ..-The gentleman who lhas .lived only 50 years is qu^te discour&ged with the; humgja^ r^oe and--asks; How much mor;e.discouraged .God must be who has tolerated it all these ages and seen it go-from bad to worse?
He doesn't in the least disparge the divine patience. It is a patience of which man has been; entirely imworthv. enduring; :"as it has, through all the evil centuries of man's life on earth. . !• •
He has learned nothing from the generous goodness that has';been bestowed upon him to make his life more and more worth living, and nothing from the many adversities he has suffered by reason of violating the laws of God. He is practically hopeless.
The gentleman lately has '■ been reading about one of the si)eci-mens of the human race—the Poles. "VSrhen he speaks of "specimens" he is thinking in a political sense; for, beside the fact that the Poles are kept in a separate box called a State, they are not. essentially different from the. general species of homo called sapiens.
Like all other members of the human race, Poles have been given a fairly presentable outward appearance. They stand eredi'^^d have been endowed with speech with which to communicate ^with one.another. They take theii->ibod in erect position; they cry when are "hurt and laugh when they are pleased.
Nor'are" they less eiidowbd'^ with any of the other gifts which been iconferred upon man with the "idea; that, if he really, ine^r he might come to resemble the .diylne-Image in which he was created. ■ Poles have religious teaching.^and, like others of the hxunan,-race, haive their sacred edifices in j\Yj^ch as elsewhere throughout ^the world, God is kept imprisoned.
All in all, it may be said that the gentleman is not picking on Poles when he makes of therii. an example of his thesis; they are a fair sample of this human race.
The recent behavior of the P'oles points up the hopelessness of the human race and emphasizes the gentleman's, dincouragement - ^and imderlines his question; i^ow much longer, can the patienc^ of God endure?
What- agony 'feU upon F^les when in 1939 the Nazi oppressor took them over! What hid^us death! What destruction devastated their ctiies! From the Nazi, incinerators, where Poles and aVL other kinds, were reduced together, they might have learned the essential unity, as ashes mingled.
They might have learned it from the communal graves all over Poland in which Nazis heaped, all kinds of bodies, and Poles and Jews, for example, lay together in grisley embrace. From the common pain they might have learned compassion and in the ultimate fate of the common enemy they might have seen the fulfillment by which the evil-doer in time is consumed by the hate he let loose.
Having been made slaves for five years, they might, by a dignity of character, have asserted the majesty of men worthy of liberation.
The discouraged gentlemaii mourns for the perversity of the human race as he looks at the abysmal Poles. The former slaves have sunk to the degratation o£ their cruel''masterii^-"and, set free, have gone into business for -them-selves,;as murderers,, .theives and /; persecutors. .,y,-. Recent- news from Poland reports their moral collaps: "The wave of terrorism against the Jewish population in Poland is gaining momentum,and in the city of 'Lodz alone 128 Jews were slain in the month of July. . .• In the small towns of Poland . .• .many Jews who only recently' retiurned to their homp towns are reported fleeing pell mell in the hc^ of finding shelter. Bands of organized terrorists . . . arie" irouhding up Jews, terrorizing them, and beating them and steialiiig their property. In some tovms the terrorists were rieported to ihave issued ultimatums to the Jewish residents, warning them that tui-less they leave they would fee killed. .• .• .* The plight of -Uie Jews throughout Poland, the report disclosed, is de^rate. The Jews are afraid of speaking Yiddidi in public for fear of being attacked by the terrorists. .
"Recently there arrived in Po-lan a group of 720 Jewish men, women and children who were liberated- from a German concentration camp. ■ "When they heard what was happening to the Jews in Polaond they hid in woods and forests instead, of retunung to their former homes. Atfer two weeks of hiding they returned to Mimich where they rdated that the Jews in Poland! are facing the same dangers as in the dpys of Hitler." :
So gentleman, going from the scientific to a mystical evaluation of the atomic bomb, has come to the cohclusidn that God's .timeless patience with the human race is about over. A kindly Father,. He has nciver-laid.His own hand upon the Children;. the many >pimish-ments they, have suffered ; have faUeh upon "them , by reason' of their own misdeeds in violation of His laws.;;.
In the meantime, though they have kept him prisoner in thebr churches and synagogues, he has .lavished upon,them His best gifts; by the intelligence with which He endowed them He let them- into knowledge whereby they- may have more and more to eat and more and more to serve all their creature comforts. Recently they were admitted to the ultimate secret of matter.
God chuckled,.father-like, when He saw that the children had harnessed the atom. Bright kids! He had given them their last, h&A chance. Now by their own creation they cotdd make a world of plenty in which all men could live in i)eace. Or in one cataclysm they could annihilate themselves.
He had been so long suffering. Even now, afteri a hideous travail, they were returning to their ola ways all over the world; They seemed to have learned nothing from their suffering. Now in the divine comedy they had been allowed to comd to untimate judgement: They coxild choose to perish or live the life abimdant.
The gentleman thinks the patience of God has had about enough. Their last chance to live —or die.
—Seven Arts Feature
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Sivartz To Call Conference On Polish Problem
O WARSAW (WNS)-Dr. Joseph Schwartz, European director of the Joint Distribution Committee, and leaders of the Central Committee of Polish Jews met here this week at a conference where relief plans were mapped out for the Jews in Poland and for the Polish Jews who are to be repatriated from Russia.
The JDC representatives assured the conferees that the Joint Distribution Committee will, do all within its power to meet the urgent needs of Polish Jewry T)je
relief plan envisions the possibility of between 150,000 and 180,--000 Polish Jews returning to Poland from the interior of tho Soviet Union.
It was disclosed at the conference that many Polish Jewish refugees in Russia who secured Soviet citizenship have applied for the restoration of their Polish citizenship tmder the Russo-Polish agreement of July, 1945, -which provides that Poles who became Rusiaii citizens can apply for hes-toration to PolisJi citizenship ani for repatraton to Poland. Most of the repatriated Polish Jews from Russia virill be settled in Lower Silesia, where there are presently living aproximately 15,-000 -Polish Jews.
THE SEDITION trials will be re-opened." / IJ.S. Attorney-General Clarke is in posession of, brand new material from Eiurope showing the tie-up between American and Nazi Fascists. . Professor Haushofer, . Hitler's Geopolitical braintruster -will not be tried for treason ... He was per-,];nitted to jretum to his -Jewish .^wife*' .yvhojm'i Jewish, at alL.. . Leni Reifenstahl, former Nazi film : £tar and producer is .'treated like an American glamour- girl'by- the American geiierals stationed in Germany. -A JESSEL TRUE STORY
George Jessel sUre is branching out. .■Not content with being an actor, author and producer,- fas is now" entering -the business 'end of the book-publishing field as ■"well. And incideiiiaiiy, we'd like to., teii you of George's comeback when the headwaiter of a Manhattan night club stbocl ratheir goggle-eyed because Jessel was escorting Lena Home, IQie beautiful Negro actress. "Are you sure you have a reservation?'" the waiter insisted on asking, though at'other times he had always welcomed Jessel -with open arms. . . George repeated that he had made the reservation. .. ""Who made the reservation for you?" the waiter inquired. . . And,Jessel repUed "Abe Lmcohi." IN PRINT
We note the " recent annoimce-ment by Dr. Henry Noble, Mac-racken, president of Vassar college, to the effect htat seven hundred textbobks at Harvard university are now being examined with a view to purging them of any references tending to.increase prejudice. .. Which raises,the question of whether Ur. i/Lac-Cracken is equaUy busy with giving similar treatment to textbooks used by teacheijs and students in the college over 'Wiftich'he presides. How come that Bernard Postal,- in his fine article in liberal Joulrnal-ism on the contribution of'Jewish genius to the uivention of the atomic bomb, neglected to mention the name of Alexander Sachs? . . . Though not! ■Jt' scientist,' but an economist', •'Sachs played 'ah im-
portant role in the atomic bomb project. . . For it was Sachs who, in the fall of 1939, first broached to President oRosevelt the desura-bility .of encotiraging work on the development of atomic energy for military purposes. . . svom that first letter of. Sachs' grew the ?2,000,000,000 project that won the r vwar. .;AU of 5^ us .s--tQ.-'-congratidate ^Alexander Sachs "on his recent marriage. . . That ■autobiography on which Bernard M. Bariich has been working is just about up-to-date now, but he has no intentions of publishing it at his time, . . The 75 year-old Baruch has no Intention of briiig-\' iag his life story before the public tmtil he's ready to retire from active work—something be doesn't expect to do for, many a year. . . AMONG stars; Arthur L. Mayer, the" theatre 'man, who,did such a swell job for the Red Croi;^ durmig the war, is now headed for -the Far" East, where he will continue the good work by co-operating' in a March ' of Time film about the Red Cross in that area.'v .- Leonard^^Lyon^ r^orts that when little Sonya, daughter of pianist Vladimir Horowitz met New York's Mayor La-'■ ■ Giiardia, he said to hetj Jl. know yotu" grandfather, iKfaestro Tos-cannini, and I thiiik ; he's," t^^ greatest musician- in'' tlte| w>rld.'* Whereupon Sonya niidgiecl her mother and asked: "DoeJsn'ifc he know Daddy?" . . . Now that pianist Hepzibah Menuhin is just 'an American housewife, your only '"chance' to hear her music is in the records sh^e makes with her brother, violinist Yehudi. . .That's why we hasten fo call -yow at-'tention to the new Meniihih duet, issued by BCA Vicxor; m.w^ tlus ^fted pair play the Beethbven ' Sonata No. 2 in C Minor for violin aiid piano. . . Gone to Hollywood is Luther Adler, wholl be making '< his screen debut in your nei^bor-hood movie theatre before long . .. Sorry to hear of Fannie Brice's illness which may force her to '.retire indefinitely from the enter-< tainment field.
—Revert Aris Feature
Appeal Is Madi For
To Prouide Bool^ For Europe
• THE WAR has ended, and.with it ends the pain and suffering of our brothers in concentration camps and gas chambers. We cannot help them by weeping, for the dead — In Europe there still are remnants of Jews who require our help. We must help — both-materially-and spiritually.
Poland, Lithuania and Rumania formed the centre of Hebrew Culture in Exile. Those who remain of the Jewish children in Europe want to learn our language and be educated in our culture, -bift, xmfortunately, all Jewish books are burned, all printing shops de- ■-. stroyed, the pubishers dead or exr -iled. ■ .
From all sides we hear the cry, "We need books." But what books do they need most? Obviously/' text boks are most important for our youth. "What type of text books can we send from Canada "and the'United States to the liberated countries of Europe? Text books such as were printed in America are not suitable for tho
Jewish children of Exirope.
AND HERE IS THE ANSWER:
Canadian Jewry has had the privilege of photographing and reprinting children's text books which enjoyed the greatest popularity in European Hebrew schools prior to the outbreak of the war.
Up to the present-time, -we have printed five Hebrew text bocks on Chumosh and Jewish history: these books are ready for mailing "The Canadian Hebrew Culture ' Fund" is happy that its members were responsible for this accomplishment.
These text books will be tne first direct gift from Canadian Jewry to the Jewish children of Europe.
We beg you to help us in this great enterprise. - Mail us, as soon as possible, your donation for text books for the children in Europe.
A SET OF BOOKS COST $3.60.
A set consists of five text books. Chumosh for ChUdren (formerly published ,by A Gitlin, Warsaw— L Gold, Montreal, Canada); Jewish History for. Children and Young People (formerly published, .by "kedem," l^g^w—now by 'Ka-
dima," Montreal, Canada).
BUY SEVERAL SETS, OR ONE SET, OR A HALF-SET AT imi VERY LEAST.
-The name of the donor will be published in the press. Help our - National Schools in- -the liberated countries.
r}FoT generations Europeail Jewry nourished the Jews of Canada with Jewish culture—^now. is the time for us to show our appreciation.
• Please don't set this appeal aside without a reply. Kindly mail yoiir cheque today to'Mr. J. (Selbfarb, Vancouver representative, and principal of the Talmud Torah.
W» 5. Zionists Ask Laborites To Keep Pledge
• NEW YORK (WNS)-A warning to the British Government
that "no palliative measures will be accepted by what is left of ihu-opean. Jewry," was issued, this week by the American Zionist Emergency Council in an open letter to Prime Minister Atlee appearing in 50 leading newspapers throughout the country.
The letter, signed by Drs. Wise and Silver, coimcil co-chairmen', demanded that the Labor Government take measures immediately toward opening Palestine to free Jewish immigration and toward the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine.
Rejec^g the reported British offer of 1:500 Palestine certificates monthly, the letter said that the responsibility for allowing Hitler to massacre hundreds of thousands of Jews rested on the entire Christian world, particularly on Great Britain because- of its refusal to open the doors of Palestine to"the fleeing rJews-bf--Europe. ••