J E WIS H W E S T E E N B U L L ETIN
Friday, August 2, 1940
The Jewish Western Bulletin
Official Organ of the Vancouver Jewish Administrative Council Philip Lesser ■' ■ ■' ■_________Xhairihan Adniinistrative Cpujacil
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YAITCOUVES, B.C.V f EIDA^g^^
JEWISH COMfflUipfY CENTRE Bra
After much delay, some d^J^s ago, second nbtipes were m^ to the many pledgoi^^<p^;lhi|^
overdue accounts. ::'---y^::::.^-Ay'^^^ : '''''7
, Thed^^ Committee, was decided in view
of the many yra.r driy place, which wiere paiumount, and
it has proven itself correct inasmiich as Vancouver Je\^ responded nob^'ldurmg this period,
' It is no-- doiibt re&-lized. by Vancouver Jewry that our Coinniunily Centre Building has proven its definite worth in cof-Telatingthese::e^ffoii;s which made possible this local unity and the continued flne'ifS&pdhse'when called upon.
As the New Centre Building Committee has inadi" definite agreements sis t6'the paiyments on the Amortization Plan, it is therefore expei^d that the pledgors will co-operate by mailing in their remittances at once to help continue this progress.
NEWCOMERS
It is known that Vancouver Jewry has, during the past months, received in its midst numerous families who have as yet made no contact with our Community and know nothing of our social and general activities.
It can be ai^preciated that some of these newcomers, in view of their past experiences are inclined to be reticent and, in respect of this, it shoi4d be the duty of every one of our CommttfaJty members to be on tlie look-out for these new arrivals and see to it that they be placed in contact with pedpl^ ahd surroundings that will be conducive, to help them readjust thiemselves within our Community. If i '
The Cpmmuiiity Centre, through its centralized efforts, is the ;Proper sonrce if pr,contact and if the name, address and telephone number of, these new arrivals can be obtained and the Secretary at BAyview 4210 adyised of this .information, much will have been! done toward helpingithem. in re-establ^
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It is stated the air waves have been unsually pleasant through' the Sununer., The; hate vendor^ Father Charles E. eoughlin,>has: beeiiinajetive. since J[une apparently because'he vcouid-not raise; the money to cpntinueshis broadcasts through the Summer months.
Now theiiadio priest;has^a his! weekly teklks .the^^^second Sunday in?^October. He "will discuss, •'among otherv-tbings>i'' the principles and personalities in the Ipresidentiai ca.mpaigniplt/wiil, h recalled'that he was an active; ' participant in; the: 193Q .campaigii> wheif%eiba^edrfieihke. At that; -time he. promised that if Roosevelt^ were^^^lecte^ lien^rouldVwit^ ^Iraw from broadcasting, but the "Ittfe ^ of'^influencing listeners: .through honeyeid words proved too strong foi? him and he broke his promise,., returning: to the micrdphptte' before long^ ' in - But this'i&'n«t:>l<936.^1tis 1940, a year of war and a year when Ittie American Lpiewple.^ little |^Mene# with those who would rdisnipt 4ts, 1^ trade publications it would
:seem that CoughKn?iB finding it;difficult to get any large number of stations to .broadcast Jhis talks; The code of the .National Asso-ciatipn of Brpa^castersi bars such hate-mongering as Coughlin's. V : :How wp.,Cloughlin use his influence in this campaign? His 'paper. Social Justice^,supported Wendell L. WilUrie's candidacy,; rbut- that w^is before >Willkie came out forthrightly against race "^hatred—which Coughlin is spreading. Coughlin's political gyrations are unpre^ip^able, b^t one thing is sure^it must be realized the siti^itioi;i,via> jbpo si^ripjis tp give attention to the Royal Oak
,. l^lbble-rPI^Ser..; M<:5 r. v: r;'.
of Events
tliroiighout the world today makes, it necessary now and then to summarize/ events ot- the . ps^st few , By special arrangements-
,-sdlth the editor8\^df:^e> Contemjpf^% otary Jewish Becoi-d^^'S^^ Feature^; :^y)aM Je:tyish :
Western' p^eilliifyou. Jthlau resume of jjewlsh^^..,^^ , eyeiits.^r
With^'the ioiibupation 'oi Countries and thetefili^pgi^if|^ continental Europe can riowltJe^'ca^^^ ed a veritable trap for the Jews. To the numbi3i> of Jews already uilder the Nazi domihation; tfaeris wire added about 84,000 residents of Belgiuin;-about 200,000 of Holland, and nearly 450,000 reisideiits of Franxje. The rijl-atively scarce^ iMormatidn f^^^ Lowlands tells of the arrests arid return'to Germany of refugees ahd of incr^iasing 'mistreatment and ecoho-mic elimination of • native Jews; There is a justifiable fear- that the Nazi demands on Pran<;e may - include the introduction of some fdrm of racial policy, modified to a certain extent because of the strength of the traditions of democracy and equality in the first European country to; emancipate the Jews. Today, West-em and Central Europe, with some; exceptions, are dominated by^'^^ej forces of racialism arMi "anttM&ll:^' isnij^^andj coordinated by Nazi policy. Ifi^e, pahteky s^tching alliances; is extending this controlled area, as; in the case of Rumania, which is.today a completely racist state, and through the growing influence of pro-Nazi elements in such countries as -Hungary,. wherie antiTJewish.poll-; cies are becoming; more and ^ more vicioiis. Furthermore, Nazi fifth C9I-umn propaganda outside of Europe is continuing to exploit anti-Semit-j ism in its efforts iat further domination. Its poisonous infiueni:es haVej become increasiri^ly fisilt in the New; Wotid,' "as evid^ncied ^fey"recent ioiecp-pefiiiigs in 'several Latin' Americkh; countries. The combat against ftieu*,; therefore,- becomes- a life or' death struggle ;by the'democracies. •
The fate of ^specifically Jewish refugees has becbme an issue of relatively lessier importance' in the eyes' ^f 'the' world^^ because of the' t»reseriee; of niillions 'of'others in a sim'ilar''i)6S-l itioii Of GerEftalh' emlgres^particu-: larly those who' "actively 'fought Naz-| ism and thus became tlie'^pecial' db-; jects of• Nazi ■revengc'-^ho'Sdiiighti shelter.' in HoUaiid,'Belgium and; France -only' to be' handfed over to the Nazis as • part' of the " dictatied; armistice ■ terms."^ -Relatively ' few-have managed to escape-info Eng-; land and Portugal.' '
The entry of Italy into the war has placed the Jewish communities in the Mediterranean in the direct line of danger. Those in Tangier as well as in the French possessions in
North Africa are now exposed to the hazards of Spanish fascism and the changes in the governinent policy of France. Palestine,..faces.,-direct Italian.;a^ttacks. The sympathy:.;.of the Arab, and. particularly the Jewish communities witti the war aims of the Allies cOipti^iiii^&ir^t^ bb.-
in a number 9j%riicticali wiys'; such
,as y.9lunt^ry military service, defense
economic and cultural field is slow-
lyjerasii^^^
of terrorisUc.3propaganclai.and acts' The. uncer^Iiar' MiatiisT oif'"'Syrja, howr
.ev|rj;:h^SWc^glJl^
propo3i?is f or. an- Arab''Federation of
Hdroe.^
With> -the incorporation: of ■■■Bessarabia; and Northern B]iiko'<^na ;aS:\^^^ as' ii^e virtual extension-'of ^S^ rule^ over the itolt^c ;VepiibliC3,f the vSoviet: Union noW;; includes in its population more than .half Jews;While looking forward, in the case "of Bessarabia/'t<i:lib from-racist; policies;.: ihe.-i. Jews of theses countries are ejqjosed^to^;^|he existingr,^cpnflict;-b^^ logy.;';Mi;d^M^^|^iM|g^-^^
PLAIN TALK
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jpiuslpn: "Well, there's something to said on; both sides^ There's, this one side and then there's thie other. The other side is that this is a most beautiful doll. This golden hair! This ^pr^ty ;lai5g!' ';This; ^dy' dre^!'^^r besides ■ I gu^ ' \\^ap"^t''up,'''pieM^
readers', humbly.
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Italiah building Jo'^find tlie Palestine Pavilion. O Lord-,0o^'^itIsi5P«t;';;h^ mused, if I hav^-'Storied'in'^7^^^^ the wicked Italians, witness.2thatf I am hastening now! pQ^^i:^,Jbfy^hj^]
guarding, as some holy light, the; League of Nations. There was a stately temple and a rapt yoimg guide who took people about. . . . "This.VS^ lie said, "is the League of Natiphs 1 Btiilding." . .. We.tii)-toed from room to room, as at som?^-sick-bed/ Ye^^^ the young man said, the League of Nations is only a. bit sick. It was as £illve as ilihe yearning 61 people for brotherhood. - - ' "
llien your qorrespondent called .on GeijiOTal GiBjtit mvCTr
ally came upon an inscription, which
of my own people^itliife^Je^&l&; He stood quite awhile before a llfe-
O^e^aiiehjliOT^ ed -States-w^ directed mainly; .toward tlie -problem, of relienng ;yar victinis, while, preparations^;} were made-fpr- the reception of - refugee; children. fi?om' England. "Miich;' attention, was" focused on the.- cohyen- ■ tioia of the Zipnist Organization of; Americ^:;; which resulted^Inia^ com-' plete change/^f.-^^^^ verdict reached in the ciiristianj Front trial In Brookiyn, N.Y., and; the increasing ' veiTom •'df'Fttther; Coughlin's;.-propaganda iwere-:--more than offset by concrete evidences of the. spirit, of national unity in;;the:' face of .events.abrp9.d. These were! .expressed in- the .general temper of the pyblic, the .weakening of anti-, Jewish and .Nazi'.propaganda, and the increased demand by the public': for vigorous -action against -fifth column activities.
field. He thought this was tiie iiaJtsF liest thing in the pavllioii—thiesV faces of J^ews brighit^j^v^th '^opfelul-ness, thes^ -hands of Jews molded new and- strbngrby-stern- toil; -t feet:Pt'Jews^rpoted a,t.]Lasftyin after the long wandering.
(The faces of Jews he had seen all over New. York were dark .-wlthi.their worcies' and f'theirtceiyeS looked, vtlred and their voices were ' the.'h'olloiw voices of...pepple who,,.had com?; to the bottom of. despair. Whst's.K nex^? they were asking. What's . next? What's ' next? What> might happen next in the world dldnt. seem to matter much anymore;, they had been niunbed by all the pain- that had gone before.) ; 1:: r
Your correspondent's eyes felt comforted to look at these ehalutzim, for he himself was sick and tired of: gazing into the darkness.of the world:i So. from: the) Itallam he is bringing hometthis :doll which; will inform; .Ellen that things which are decently, fine" can:come;.out,of .people we call: enemies; he is. bringing ,home, the; luminous faces rof these- Jews which! are bright with'great.'dreams. :
Yet these 'w^re riot all^- the evi-; dences of good hope that yoiir cor-; respondent disCbvered sis he went here and there on his vacation. Inj the World's Pair he foUndpeople. still'
^ ^wpesppndeht
Ma^'t'been' bohsumed! Diurfc^
bush was not consumed,".it read from ^h^'faipade.: 6^ Jelvi§lx?*5nh
..j^iEarii^^;.^;^;^
^TOei-e's -somkliirigV^ yoiur
bush
bo^^^ed|has fallen upon the JeMth'aiiiivthd right-
wrong-e bush t consumed. He found it glPwing^ that af--t^oon: ^din V t*i& i^sunie^ next day in people standing rever-iently to'the room where the Declaration of Independence was iiroclalmr ied in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. — - .....
' ^e Wafbhinaii told^ him tliat people seeitned to kaye something bright in theii" eyes when they stood there.] He had iseen it to all the 35 years hej bad been there. ^ . . "People justi standtog here, with their eyes all! bright" . . .arid he guessed it was-the eyes of people in all the ye before lie came th^re. That was it:l The bush was not consumed.
Finally, your correspondent visit Arden, clc^eby WUmtogtori, iJelJ which 30 years ago was founded bs dreamers who sought Utopia. Arde tiiey 6aid,' wPuid be Utopia, it'is rio3 yet Utopia but the iriiiaUtarits 'sf cariV the' drearii in their eyes; iir: Sbevens' house he .with' his py hands 'had carved his .faith: "Tc rrioiTowts' a:'N
'; Mr. Stevete, one of the 'founders AfdW; 1^ dead. He is buried beside 'I great [ 'stoiie in k' garden ; beside house. Prorii time to time pepiile'coim to 'Mr. Sfevens^^witix gay flowers witness the"valor of their own' fait that the bush is not constuned that' tomorrow Is'a new day. "
LISBON ;(WNS)-^While tlie iiew prdi-Fasclst' ■government' of'Marshal, Peltain wrestled with the prbblerii of feeding iriillioris of hbriieless JFrehch refugees, thie press and radiP laiinch-ed a bitter attack on the Jews, foreshadowing dfiicial anti-Semitic riilas-ures. ■ -■'■ '■■ ■■
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Stricily Confidenticil
By FHINEAS J. BIRON
HEAR YE ' ■ . Among the. Americans whp. have taken charge of spme.pf the British refugee, children 'fbrtunate to have arrived on these shores is William .Paley,vhe#;,<rfy3te|^
im^he^young
Faley war a new^ Nazi i: of Hia^^ mendaljon; body biut er hasVeiit W gan s please
Amon^itM|^i^i^an refugees frpm Nazism \fif^si^le' now beingvwelpomed to thisi^cyiiirj^, is !t)ie; .^alt^i king. of pre-! comp
music jtto>the<fiim "Two Heajrts'in;.^^ . . . Stpfe;--ifeA v^Tienria^'^^ marched in, a;fepuple 6f years ago; ... He weiat to Paris, whence he; has now come here. . . . n--.;; / .v
CENTRAL PARK' SCEN3E';
Snapshots of tlie Tayern on the Green, open-air ;;.meetlngtplace ' .of New York celebrities: Meyer Weis-gal in very animated conversation with Dorothy Thompson. ... At another table, Mauritre^ Schw'drtz and' one of the Shubfei-t' Brothers. . . . Chemjo Vinaver,^ fiamotis male choir leader, on the-efve.-pf his departure for Hollywood pn a. contract with. Warner Brothers. . . Walter Sorel, Europe's most famous palnlist, reading the hand of ^painter Max Band. . . , Vladimir Jabotinsky, Pierre van Paassen and Joe Brainii), fvvattJhihg
the dancers with a melancholy look in their eyes; . . . Dr. EmanHer Las-ker, the chess wizard) who is pre-p^ihg? f or;va_ ^chess^•'qpm hopes'; .to .prove that a , man in hia seventies can dp any..menta.l..wor^^ which'/a thirty-year-old -is capable. . .
JEWISH NEWS
The late Reuben Brainin's New York study hai been shipped in toto to. the" Jewish; Public Library at Montreal, where it is being set; up in .a special.room to be known as
jth^ Zionist headq York, by; apppihtmerit of Prexy Edmund;!; Kaufman . Emanuel ijeur' iriann hais' ii'een placed in charge ■ of .the.-lbari-raising effort in behaljf of 'the Jewish.•Agency..;... . A recent is-' sue- of-the.New Yorker devoted its entire, cover.:td the New York World's Fair.-. 'I . Oiily two .-spots were desig-.:.nated by name on ■ the pictunzation of th'4 exposition'^the Amusement Area; and' the ■Palestine -Pavilion's Ci-fe Tei Aviv...". . NewrYo Social WelfairJB Board has ^organized a se-. ties pf,visits by-social..Service v/orkr ers to the.Palestirie -Pavilion. . .The reason is that the structure of social welfare work in Palestine is considered to be among the moat.progressive arijrwiiere in the world. . .' Social workers .of. all denominatipns have^ proclaimed the Palestine Pavilion the most'interesting, from their point' of view, of air the exhibits at the Pair; . . . The first, annual conference cf Keren .Hatarbut, the Palestine Hebrew; Culture Fund of which.Dr. Simon Ginzburg; is the executive director, heard a rejpbrt revealing that 42 local" organizations have been es--tablislied. in the United States and
Canada for the furtherance of Pales-: tine- Hebrew literature; . '. The orr ganization in its one year of existence has sent nearly $8,000 to Palestine for varioiis literary purposes. . .
LITERARY NOTES ;
;;-'I!lp to publishers: Abe Goldberg's vvolume of-- silhouettes of Jewish leaders is appearing-in Yiddish soon,
and wpuld. make just as good reading in English. . . . Jacob Fishman is thinking about writing his memoirs,, which cover the golden era of Jewish constructive life in this country.
I. J. Singer', author of "The Brothers Ashkehazi,", is preparing a new tome^ a -novel laid in Warsaw, Ber-^ lin and" New/York. . . ". Pierre van Paassen's series- of articles on Han-i u's^en,. the .Je\y^h; soothsayCT^ is be-^ irig'considered for dramatization by
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;America's foremost play-Avrightst, Latest r6i)ort on Franz Worfel,\ihe, farnous. German author .whose death at the hands; of the Nazis has been'rumored tilne and again, is that he's in Lisboh await-iiig Clipper transportation to these shores. . .. Perhaps it's, {wishful tliinking, but somehow we place D^ore credence iia, the reports that he's still alive.- And when he gets to America he. won't have to worry about firiaricial.rna,tters.... liis novel "Embezzled HeaVen" has bden an-npuncied' as a •fprthcpming Book-of-the-Month.selection,,and should provide him with -breakfast, lunch and dinner for quite some time. . . Orchids to our confrere Al Segal on his beautiful cplumri describ^g.his visit to the/Vl^orid's Fair. *. '.Va^^^ JT a's forriier'^'%'aiestin'e ^ co^rrespbndent S!obodin,'who''T<^rote tlife best'sjrticle yet pilblished on the''Palestine'Pavilion. , ; . , V . . STAGE AND SCREEN _ - . . Just when the public will have a chance to see. Charlie Chaplin's much-delayed 'film "i^he Dictator"" is still a mystery, but the music he
has written for the picture will'be heard by San Francisco World's Fair visitors late this month. . . Walter Wanger, who is planning a film about, munitions manufacturers,; doesn't like to, be reminded of the photograph • Mussolini autographed to him some years .ago. ■. .That play cn iNijinsky, the famous Russian dancer, which Clifford Odets is pre-parinig for Broadway, may have Jphri Garfield,.as its star. . . .■ Paul Muni's departure from the Warner Brpthers' payrpU is taken as an indication that the W, B.'s have given up their idea of filming the life of Beethoven, which :Muni -has been' very anxious to play. ... Hollywood still makes many pictures in .two versions, anti-Hitler .references being cut out in-films destined fpr the ^ South American. trade. ...'.. This be^ cause the Nazis in Latin America have grown so bold that anti-Hitler pronouncements on the screen often produce riots in the audience.....
about' people; j, ;-V • ^ ' ■'.^ v(•■:7
The. reason why Dr. Israel Goldstein is not taking a vacation this year and is spending so iriuch time in' his study is that he is preparing a volume of addresses, and essays for winter publication ... Arnold Sch.on-berg, the ultra-modern composer, is bringing up his son and heir to follow in his footsteps. . . . Though the youngster is only two. and a half, years old he^s "already learning to play the violin—on a home-made instrument less than 12 inches long. , ; LflJ^ie. Howard has placed at the disposal of, the British government all the money he brought back with him from,.Hollywood, amounting to over l^alf a rnillion smackers. ..; . ■. Congratulations to banker Jules Bache on his approach to the status of great-grandpa. . . . His granddaughter Muriel,. ■who is the daughters-in-law of Giene'rnl John Pershing, is preparirig a njursery for early 1941. . .
Dr. Israel M;' Goldman
Natibiiial Dlreictdr' of iifational Academey of Jewish Studies
IGNOMINY eOMES THORKELSON; HE'S AWQMAN
WASHING'^ON.(WNS)^ongress-mati...Jacob Thorkelson of Montana is .BOW faced, with ,the prospect-of paying fpr postage if he wants vto send his . ariti-Sernitic sentirnents ,to his followers. ^ ...■■■r
pife tragedy, has befailed Mr:- Thorkelson. The anti-Semitic, pro-Fas-. cist. Nordic, legislator-.- has -been defeated- in the Republican..primaries in Montana's.first Congrressional district by—:a vfoipan.. , , ^
To add insult to tojury,.Miss,Jean-ette Rankin, the woman who brought melancholy to the house of Thorkelson, launched her caxnpaign only a month ago and yet was able to defeat the .man wha was once considered by Silver Shirt leader William Dudley Pelley.^ for. the presidency of the United'Statek
During '■■ Mr. ThorkelSbri's single term in Congress he irianajg^d to get many Of his ariti-Semitic speeches into the Congres&ionar Record" and then promtply sent copies of the'Record, postalge'^free, to his devotees. Once the ■ Congressman is removed from office, he will have to pay for postage.
Mr. Th'orkelson has one consolation, iiowever,—if it may be considered a consolation—his postage bill shouldn't be very high. Judging from the results 'Of' the primaries, he doesn't halve Very" many followers.
~JB ' Aire America's 4,006,660' Jew "^'"arS in Mfe'positiori of being t^ onll large body'ofJews iii t^ world*t: is" fre6. Every NJazl inpursiori ij [ Europe' aJddi greater emphasis ^ the ^Ositipri pf th^ Jewa i?i tiie Urii Jed States^ It Judaism is. "tp'b^^ alive until 'the 'day wiieri dawn dispelled the present dairlcniess' Eurppe^ * I'will. .be. largely, becaui Jewry has done it. , ;
.; This places' an; awesome respons: bility on the Jews of this couni To have the task of keeping alive an age-old tradition is to be a historic force.: We individuals, living our everyday lives, don't like td feel like characters in history books, hut that today is what we have become, like it or not. - ;. '
The job of keeping a people and its culture aliveis not one to be liii-dertaken lightly. It requires background and equipment. The laiTge majority of Ameirican Jews are Hot adequately educated to'a realization of Jewish values. There exists a need for adult Jewish education.
That need Will be filled to an extent by the National Academy for Jewish Studies which has just bisen announced by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The Acad-erhy, under the guidance of Dr: Loiiis Finklestein as " president and Dr. Israel M.drdldman as national director, wili atteniiit to create a naore informed Jewish laity. In November, it will launch a popular Jewish education movenient, functioning through some 100 affiliated Institutes' for Aduit Jewish Education through-| out the country. Credits will be awarded for achievement in Jewish studies.
The significance of the venture is summed up by Dr. Finkelstein in a statement: "It is necessary for the members of every American religious denorninatiqn to bring, to its pepple as effectively as possible the realization of. the importance of religious tradition for the preservation
of democracy.....The N.A,A.J.S.
will seek to strengthen the faith in God and in human dignity bysproad-iiig information regarding the Jew-! ish religious tradition. Jewish leiirn,-ing has. always been the foundatiqn of the Jewish faith."
It is to be hoped that this educational enterprise will find a whole hearted; response from Jewish adults throughout the country.
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