Friday, September 14, 1945^
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RUTH TOXJBMAN — Society Editor — BAyview 4210
Miss Irene Steiner has left for Toronto, where she will attend University.
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Miss Mavis Silver left by plane
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Capt. and Mrs. J. B. White, of Calgary, are receiving congratiila-tions on the birth of a daughter. Capt. White is the son] of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack White of this city.
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Mr. arid Mrs. K. Kramer of Victoria, were recent week-end visitors in the city.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. Ploskin of San PVancisco, were recent visitors in the city, guests at the Hotel Vancouver.
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Mrs. E. M. Lavy has returned from a summer vacation on Salt Spring Island.
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Mrs, M. Archek has returned from a three-month trip throughout the east. She visited relatives in Chicago, and during her stay in New York and Montreal, she was entertained by the National Executive of the Pioneer Women. Before retvuning to Vancouver, ^IVIrs. Archek, as a Vancouver delegate, attended the Histradruth corivention in Calgary.
Manny Spector has left to attend
the University of Manitoba.
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Mrs. A. Levison and daughter Molly, are visiting in Seattle.
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Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. S. Wayne, formerly of Calgary, on the birth of a daughter, on September 12th, at the Vancouver
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Messrs. Sam and Joe Wall, of Wall's Women's Wear, are on an extended buying trip in the east.
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Recent visitors in the city were Mr. and Mrs. A. Busheiken, of Calgary, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith.
Mr. Archie Baker has arrived in the city to taike up permanent residence here.
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Mr. and Mrs. Sol Greenberg were recent visitors in Seattle, guests at the Mayflower hotel.
Mrs. Thelma Freeman is visiting in the city, a guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Koffman, 1765 West 13th Ave.
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Mooter Farein Tea A Success
• THE MOOTER Farein Peretz School take this opportunity to express their apreciation to Mx. and Mrs. M. Dodek for their generosity in giving their home for the Mooter Farein Tea held ,.thisre on August 29th. Appreciation is also given to Mr. L. Novik-off, convener of the tea, and to everyone for their kind patronage in helping make the tea a success.
...When He Retunis Home!
B.C. Electric employees now in the armed forces, are on leave from the company and their jobs are being held in trust for their return without loss of seniority. By this policy the B.C. Electric hopes to express its gratitude to the men and women who have served in the defense of freedom and decency.
WITH THE RETURN OF PEACE
The B.C. Electric has made plans for the development of the Bridge River power project, purchase of the most modern equipment available and complete modernization of its services. This plan tcill cost an estimated $50,000,000 and will offer additional opportunities for post-war employment.
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THE JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
Hadassah Concert Tuesday, Sept. 2Sth
• T.TT.T.TAN FRIEMAN fedassah concert will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at the Hotel Vancouver, featuring Edwina Heller, well-known Concert Pianist, and Margaret Fewster, Contralto, frequently heard over C.B.C. This concert holds every promise of being the most outstanding cultural treat of the season. Mrs. Leah Resnik and her committee whose imtiring oflforts brought such successful reiuilts from our previous concerts are again hard at work. Tickets are on sale by all Hadassah groups. The proceeds are for the rehabilitation of our children from wajr-tom Eiurope.
Please make Tuesday, September 25, your concert night.
B. B, Women
To Hear Economist
Prof, Drummond
• THE VANCOUVER B'nai B'rith Women No. 77 will be guests of the Vancouver E'nai B'rith Lodge, Tuesday, September 18th, at the Community Centre, following a short business meeting which will open promptly at 8:15 p.m. in the regular meeting rooms. Members will be priviledg-ed to hear Professor Drummond of the University of British Columbia, who will speak on "The Russian Ecomonic System." Professor Drimimond has made an extensive study of this vital problem, and is considered one of the leading authorities on this subject.
Important date to remember! October 24th at 12.30 p.m. has been planned for the B'nai B'rith luncheon at the Community Centre. Drawing of the beautiful nylon hose, donated by Dexall's Shoe Store, will be the highlight of the day . Tickets can be obtained for the raffle and luncheon from any executive member.
Pioneer Women
The Pioneer Women's Organization will hold their first social of the season at the Community Centre on September 26th, at 8:30 p.m. Everybody is cordially invited.
Calendar
Saturday, September 15: 9:00 a.m.—Beth Israel Services
Sunday, September 16: Erev Yom Kippur
Monday, September 17: Yom Kippur to Sundown
Tuesday, September 18: 10:00 to 4:00 p.m. Red Cross 8:15 pjn.—B'nai B'rilh Ladies 8:15 p.m.—B'nai B'rith Men
Wednesday, September 19: 7:00 p.m.—Veterans Dinner Beth Israel Sisterhood 8:00 pjn.—Progressive Club Lecture Sam Carr
Thursday, September 20: Jewish National Workers
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Wed. Sept. 19th
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Nigel Morgan Calls Anti-Semitism Fascist
• "ORGANIZED labour places the problems of the peace above all other problems; even above the problem of bettering labour's own conditions. Because of the urgency of the job of completing that peace organized labour is prepared to sit down and cooperate with all organizations in achieving that end."
With this statement of a general post-war labour jwlicy, Nigal Morgan, one of the foremost west-em labour leaders and leader of the Intemational Woodworkers of America xuiions in B.C., spoke to the dinner-meeting of the Canadian Hebrew Active Club on Tuesday September 11.
In presenting his topic of "La* hour's Post-War Plan" Mx. Morgan eloquently depicted the specific improvements that have accrued to union workers in recent years by way of increased wages, better conditions and greater safety. In this respect a new problem of a revised attitude towards even shorter working hours is now before the economic world.
But while keeping all these economic objectives in mind, labour still realizes that the nation's general pictiure is paramoimt. Laboiur believes that the fimdamental principles of the declaration of Teheran and San Francisco m\ast be carried out aU over the world. Fascism is the same danger to Xiabour that it is to the Jew. Fascism is Fascism whether in Canada or in Germany; for Fascism is a ssytem of political practices, not a system of government.
Hebrew Active Club Plans To Sponsor Bowling League
9 THE HEBREW Active Club baseball season has come to a glorious termination. The response was so enthxisiastic and the wealth of player talent so profuse that Commissar of Athletics Jarvis is detenmned to field a team next year in some city league worthy of our participation. In this respect we would like to reply to the complaint of one little lady that the fact her husband claims to be such a wonderfid low-ball player does not entitle him to be feat-lu-ed in our reports on the baseball players.
The winter sports program has already got imderway with the Club bowling league, to be held every Thursday evening at 9 PJM., La Salle Allies. So far only eight alhes have been booked but seeing as how some members cannot come unless their wives can come too, the bowling league will be a mixed men and wives league, and it looks like additional allies will have to be booked. 28 weeks oi comi)etition wall be the program, with a purse for the wiiming team.
The members are asked to note that the meeting of September 2Sih will be an unusual one. For the first time the sacred sanctiun of masculinity that is the pillar of our noble organization will be pierced by femininity. This meeting will be "wives' night". Members Kjan come with wives. The miserable bachelors are hereby warned, however, that this means your own wives. It is expected that room will be provided in the kitchen for the male spinsters.
Three new committee chairmen have been announced for the new term. At the head of the Cultural and Educational committee will be Bernard Reed; Entertainment Committee, Irving Lipsky; Youth Supervision Committee, Albert Miller. New committees will be named by these chairmen.
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recent visit to Washington was made to solve a nimiber of problems affecting Franco-American relations, and particidarly to work out plans for putting France back on its economic feet. A problem which extends beyond French boundaries, and beyond those of the United States, and which is far from quiescent in either country, was discussed with the General by a delegation representing the American Anti-Bigotry Committee. Led by Secretaty of Commerce Henry A. Wallace, the delegation took the occasion "to point out a common problem in oiu- two coimtries. . . the spread of anti-Semetism as a primary means of stirring up racial discord, and perpetuating racial strife even after the overwhelming defeat of Germany."
They recalled France's traditional racial and religious tolerance. They expressed appreciation of the measures taken by the Da Gaulle government to wash away the injustices iniiicted by the Nazis and Vichy collaborators. At the same time they told the General of "grave concern over manifestations of i>rejudice and injustice to many Jewish citizens, which have been evident in France as an aftermath of German domination." As American citizens they hoped that the reborn free government of France would give constant protection .to the "fundamental principle. . . of freedom from racial and religious prejudice."
The committee is headed by Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy and includes governors of a number of states, senators, labor leaders, clergymen and other prominent citizens. Their were aware, the delegation said, that a prmcipal Nazi country, despite the political weapon, racial discord, is still used not only in Europe but also in this country, despite the physical defeat of the Nazis. And they lu-ged continued vi^lance "against racial prejudice as the principal weapon of subversive forces seeking to undermine free govenunent."
Calling attention in his own way recentiy to one of Washmgton's chief prejudice-salesmen was a navy veteran wotmded in the Pacific, Edward Bykowski, farmer pharmacist's mate, picketed the
Senate Office Building T^fQ+oct Senator Bilbo's threats against Negroes, Jews and Americans of Italian and other ancestries. The veteran is himself a Catholic of Polish origin, from New Yorfc.
Senator Bilbo, he declared "has abrogated everything that veterans have died for." And then he told the story of two men on his ship, the heavy cruiser Vinconnes, which was torpedoad in the Solomons. There was a litfle Negro boy called Simshine, he said. "He kept on passing the ammunition with his right arm after the Japs blew off hs left. That's a Negro for you." Then there was Danny Boy who died in his arms repeating, "keep up the fight." "His hand opened up. He had been clutching the six-point Star of David. That's a Jew for you." * * *
Atomic Addenda: Dr. J. R. Op-penheimer, who directed research for the War Department on the A-bomb, as it is now called for short, was president of a learned soiciety at the age of fifteen. To ^are the feelings of its more mature members, we leave blank the name of the society. For the record, however, the young scientist so impressed the association with a letter he wrote them—casually omitting his age—that in convention assembled they overwhelmingly elected him president.
At a later stage in his career. Dr. Opi>enheimer became associated with sundry societies, and not only of the scientific variety. He foimd time, in fact, to be a director of Consumers union west coast branch. An active co-director was Melvyn Douglas, the movie actor, for some time i>ast Major Douglas, whose wife. Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, has made an outstanding record in her fiLrst term in Congress.
One of the few American nuclear physicists not engaged in atomis research but very much engaged in war work of high importance has been a Nobel prize winner of 1944, Dr. Isaac Isadore Rabi. As assistant director of the Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is part of the federal OMce of Scientific Research and Development, he has had a large share of the responsibility for developing radar.
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Prime Minister Lauds Soldiers
• OriWWA (WNS)—"All Canadians will rejoice that the final victory of Allied arms over the enemies of freedom has ended the cruel oppression to which coimtless people of the Jewish faith have been so long subjected, and from now on, let us all remember that the only sure foundation of world peace is human brotherhood," W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, said in a Rosh Hashonah message to the Jewish commxmity of the Dominion.
The Prime Minister also stated that "it affords him special plea-siure to extend cordial greetings to the Jewish citizens of Canada together with his warm thanks for their fine contribution to Canada's war effort throughout the past six tragic years."
Douglas Abbot, the Minister of National Defence, in his New Year message to the Jews of Canada, said: "This great Dominion has reason to bej proud of the manner in which its sons and daughters have responded to the call. Jews and Christians together, they have fought magnificently to bring about the downfall of the infamous Nazi regime. Still together, and with the inspiring example of their own Canadian way of life, they are carrying on their just part in the fight to the end that all nations of the world may yet live and work together in peace and security."
New Year Message From Peretz School
9 WITH THE High Holidays coming on, when each of us takes an accotmt of the year gone by, we should also think of the future, especially in the upbringing of oiir children, upon whom rests the rej?ponsibility of continuing and enacting our age-old traditions.
The history of the Jewish nation is a long chain, each generation forging a link. It is up to us to see that the future generation continues to add new links to the chain. It is needless to stress that if our children are not brought up . in the spirit of Judaism, the teachings and achievements of our cul-tmal wealth accumulated through thotisands of years, may be forgotten-Educations tends to the betterment of the world, and Jews of all countries have done their share in that direction, as a nation is judged by its deeds and contributions which have been accepted by the world.
So, let us not lag behind. No obstacle was too difficidt for our grand-fathers and great grandfathers to, overcome. Therefore we must put our shoulder to the wheel, and keep it rolling.
With the New Year coming on, let us look back and be thankful that we have escaped, to a great extent, the tragedies of our brethren in European covmtries, who fought to keep Judaism, and what it stands for, alive, which alone, is a message for us to continue.
VANCOUVER LODGE B'NAI B'RITH
3Sth Annual
Buy Your Tickets Early From
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th, 1945 9s30 till 2 A.M.
JACK KOFFMAN — BAy. 2650 JACK ACEMAN — KErr. 0960 R
MYER FREEDMAN — MAr. 1535
Ole Olsen and His Orchestra Tickets $4.00 Per Couple
Servicemen in Uniform at the door only $3 per couple