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: Official Organ of the Vancouver Jewish Administrative Council
Philip Lesser ____ Harry Musikansky
____Chairman Administrative Council
.__—Business Manager
2675 Oak St., BAy. 4210.
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vancouver, b.c., march 15, 1940
COMMUNITY DOES WELL
Within a few months the Jewish community of Vancouver has just completed two major drives which have proved very satisfactory and is a wholesome reflection on the community's understanding and responsibility of the needs of the distressed at home and abroad.
The quotas on both these drives were set at a high figure, yet we came near to securing it in the War Chest Campaign, but although the External Welfare Drive is not yet completed, we know we will not reach the quotf, set. However, we made a good showing in this drive, wimh is remarkable in a way as consideration must, be givento the fact that there was veiy little breathing space between these-two drives.
Our community has. three major drives annually. The Vancouver Welfare Federation, now the War Chest Drive; The Ex-teinal Welfare Fund Drive; and the United Palestine Appeal. Besides these, there are: numerous smaller drives, and other money raising efforts. The: Vancouver Jewish coimmuhity is not very large and in comparison with larger Jewish coinmunities compares very favorably in its benevolent efifoiijs. We have to be ashamed in any way, but 'can keep our heads up with the knowledge that we are doing our bit for those in need.'
With, regard to the War Chest and the External Welfare Campaigns, the thanks of the entire conmunity go't^^^^^^^ Eahn, chairman of both these drives, for his hard conscientious work, and his great experience which has been a big factor in the success of these two large money raising efforts. Thanks must also go to the captains and workers who supported Mr. Eahn by giving unstintingly: of their time and effort.
It must be remembered as time goes on with little sign of the war ending, there will be greater demands made on us for the support not only of ordinary cases of distress, but for the care of war-torn, victims. But we are confident the Vancouver Jewish community will meet any situation which m^y arise with the same generous.kind-hearted support for which it has been noted in the ■past. : —
Letters To The Editor
The Editor, ' ' Jewish Western Bulletin, .Vancouver, B. C.
Dear Sir: In the last edition of the Bulletin there was a letter signed "Disgusted" which deplored the indifference shovm by some members of our commimity towards the present drive.
Being actively connected with this drive and other drives, I heartily agree Virilth "Disgusted" and go further in saying that he was not dven strong enough. ?,f
lis it not time that we should|ex-pose people like this, who are able to do their bit, but give the crudest-excuse of not giving by saying they jare "Not Interested". Do these indiyid-uals believe in saving men, women and children from distress and hunger, or is it the greed of the almighty dollar that keeps them from giving rational-isupport? .
We hope these individuals will im-derstand whom are meant and will take this rebuke to heart, sending in reasonable donations in the future v/hen called upon.
SAM TENENBAUM.
THE POPE AND ANTI-SEMITISM
The Jews will never forget Pope Pius XI, who spoke out so forthrightly against racial kiws in Italy, who denounced anti-Semitism and said that "spiritually we are till Semites." His good right hand in formulating the Vatican's fearless policy was Cardinal Pacelli, who has succeeded him as Pope Pius XII.
Pope Pius Xn has been moving cautiously, for this is time of war—a time when heads of religions and States must act with calm and consideration. Now PiUs XII has given evidence that the Vatican's attitude towards radicalism has not changed.
Last week, „when Italy's new anti-Semitic laws^ went into effect, the Pontiff appointed Prof. Roberto Almagia, lone of. the victims otiFascistj^GialJegislation, to. restore Jsiicient i|^p^^ Vatican. It might not be stretching the facts tod much to interpret this as a rebuke to Italian anti-Semitism, a product of what the late Pope called"excessive nationalism" and of the influence of "a cross which is not the cross of God"—^the swastika.
This week Bishop Shell of Chicago expressed to the United Jewish Appeal the Pope's thanks for the U.J.A.'s recent contribution for the aid of Catholic refugees: ... His Holiness wishes to express to the donors his deep appreciation of their generous and noble gift and tell them how deeply moved he was by the co-operation and goodwill between the Catholic and Jewish people which our interchange of letters so significantly revealed."
"Co-operation and goodwill between the Catholic and Jewish people!" The Pope's phrase might well be borne in mind by a Catholic priest in Royal Oak, Michigan.
Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIBON
NAZTI STUFF
Is Hitler also, like so many of his adjutants, building up reserves outside of Germany against the day when the Germans will at last kick out. the Nazis? ... The suspicion is raised by the fact that before the war broke out, the Eher Verlag, of which Adolf is the head and the publications of which include Mein Kampf, used to ask English purchasers to pay their bills to the firm's accoimt in the London office of a bank of one of the now neutral coimtries .... And have we told you of the latest refinement of cruelty hatched in the fertile brains of the Gestapo? . . . . They blindfold their prisoner, stretch out his arms, and then put a pound of butter in one hand and a pound of steak in the other .... Then they remove the blindfold—^and the poor victim drops dead from the shock . . . It's news to the U,S. Navy, but the Nazis have been telling the world that a British battleship has sunk an American submarine named—of .all things—"The Madison Square "Garden" . . . Needless to say, nothing of the sort has happened, and no submarine of that name exists .... Anything to stir up bad blood, is the good old Nazi slogan.
LISTEN HEBE
Danton Walker claims that there's something to the rumor that Myron Taylor will take up with the Pope the silencing of Father Coughlln .... It seems that, what with all the excitement of an election campaign coming. Father Coughlin's speeches might produce nasty moods . . . Have you heard that New Jersey, in certain sections of which the Bund was doing quite well for some, time, is now becoming the centre of a Ku Klux Klan revival? .... Wlnchell wonders whether a certain lady now in Holly-
wood isn't Hitler's friend, the Princess Hohenlohe, and whether she isn't showing an imdue iriterest in California airplane production . . . . The resourceful press agent for "Margin for En-or" thought he had a bright scheme, which involved the distribution of millions of match booklets bearing the legend "Watch Hitler Bum" .... The idea was to make each match a miniature figure of the Fuehrer ... But the stunt never saw daylight, as the matchbook manufacturers prefer to keep out of international hot water ....
THIS AND THAT
Before his return to London, Dr. Chaim Weizmann arranged for the publication of a book that most probably will be entitled "The Jew" ... It will contain contributions by such observers as Pierre van Paassen, Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, Thomas Mann, etc. .... A comprehensive preface will be written by Dr. Weizmann himself . . . This book is intended to serve as the Jewish Blue-and-white Book to be handed to the statesmen who some day are going to sit around the peace conference table ... . Yehudi Memihin, whose relations with things Jewish have been rather strained, has now agreed to play his first New York concert this year for the Palestine Conservatoire of Music .... He is not only contributing his services and buying a box for his family, but is paying for his own standing room on the stage . . . Overheard with our own ears, so help us, the following sidelight on the lives of latter-day Marranos: "They keep a strictly kosher house, and do not even answer the phone on Saturdays—but they go to chapel every Sunday morning." ....
LEND US YOUR EARS
There have been all kinds of prophecies about what Governor Leh-
900 JEWS FROZEN TO DEATH AFTER
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STOCKHOLM (WNS).—Nine hundred Jews, including many women and children, who were en route; to the Lublin reservation for Jews • in Poland after compulsory deportation from their homes in the Koenigsberg district of Germany, were reported; to have died from expoisure in newspaper dispatches here. • 3
The Jews, who were ordered by the Gestapo to leave their homes without advance notice and forbidden to take any of their belongings, were crowded into open cattle trains and deported to Lublin. En route, however, de-ispite the freezing weather, they were quartered, in unheateS bams for the night. The following morning, according to newspaper reports, the 900 Jews were found frozen to death.
The reports described the wholesale depjortation of Jews ^rbm-other sections '-of,,Germany. a,nd, N^-qccu-i^ed Poi^(g J^iJa^n^c^e^HB^ deportees wei'e compelled to wiaak dozens of miles, driven-on by^ German soldiers and Gestapo ag'ents.
Five thousand were deported frbitt the town of Alexander near Lodz, and led by the community rabbi, wer^ forced to walk in the direction 'of Warsaw. Three thousand Jews were expelled from Konstantin on foot; The entire Jewish population of Tushin were forced to walk 40 kilometers and were then- told by Ges-o tapo agents to go "wherever your feet will carry you." ,
LITTLE THEATRE WILL PRESENT NIGHT MUST FALL
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On Monday, Tueseday and Wednesday, April 1, 2, 3, the Little Theatre Association will offer as its gala spring play/ the successful exciting drama "Night Must Fall," starring Alfred Evans in the role of Danny, the part- created by .Robert Montgomery on the screen last year, and for which the latter was awarded the highest acting merits from the New York critics. Written by the brilliant and prolific rEmlyiti Williams, this play ran for two years in London- and had an equally successful two years run on Broadway. George M. Cohen says, "The best thrill play I ever saw, and I've seen them all. It takes you by the throat and leaves you gasping." The characterizations are brilliantly defined by the author and under the impeccable and imaginative .direction of Mrs. Phoebe Smith, one of, the Little Theatre's most capable directors, together with an all star cast, the performance, promises to be a memorable highlight .in the history of the Association, and a* real treat for theatre goers. In the cast are. such names as Miss Mary Heynolds, Mrs. Pat Wilson, Miss Honor Kidd, and an excellent supporting cast.
Mr. Evans needs no introduction as his name has been on the theatre-hoards for many years. This role, however, is entirely new and a definite departure from such parts as his interpretation of Harry Van in "Idiot's Delight," and will be a tme test of pure character study.
■The play will be presented at the York Theatrev (formerly Little Theatre) on Commercial Drive.
You are cordially invited to the
INTERTAINMENT POLICY INAUGURATED BY VANG. AGHDUTH
: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
: '■. In keeping with this old adage the .Socia.1 Chairman of this Society will s^qn^or. a .^.eries of entertainment ji3uring,the year for the pleasure of Jts.members and friends.
The first of its kind will be in the form of a Stag Party to be held on Saturday evening, March 30, at the home of Joe Morris, 1796 West 11th Avenue. Refreshments and cards will round-up the evening's pleasure.
Organizations are requested to keep this date open.
TALMUD TORAH BAZAAR ?? KEEP MAY 15 OPEN ??
expires .... The latest is that he is tempted to accept the nonnination-v/hich in his case would mean the election—to the Mayoralty of New York City . . . .We are still ready to give odds that the Govemor and his lady will be glad to retum to complete privacy . . . .The other day, we are told. Professor Einstein was quite delighted when somebody mistook, him for Arturo Toscanini. ... On the other hand, Toscanini felt rather annoyed not long ago when some other body addressed him as "Pro-' fessor Einstein" . . . .Charlie Chaplin has decided that he wants a less obvious title than "The Dictator" for, his long-promised film about dictators .... If you get a bright idea just send it on to Charlie in Hollywood . . . Our own suggestion, to which Charlie is welcome, is "He Painted the World Red" .... Latest newcomer to the Metropolitan Mu-sexun of Arts is 60-year-old Arnold Friedman, a retired postal clerk who has long made painting his hobby .. . He made his Museum debut with a portrait of a beggar he found in his own kitchen, where Mrs. Friedman had been feeding him . . . .
ABOUT PEOPLE
Louis Rittenberg tells us that the late Sol Levitan, in what was probably one of the last letters he wrote before his death a couple of weeks ago, expressed his delight at the fine reception he received wherever he spoke on the part played by the Jew in American politics .... Sol, who, as you should remember, used to be state treasurer of Wisconsin, was an authority on the subject .... Not all the Frankfurters have confined their talents to the legal profession .... Otto Frankfurter, older brother of the Supreme Court Justice, is one of the advertising brain-trusters of a Philadelphia newspaper .... Leslie Hore-Belisha, we are told, is so modest that while he was in the British War Office he objected to nude statuary in
man will do after his present term'Jhis quarters, and had all such figures
removed .... Congratulations to Air jexander B. Klotz on his election to J the presidency of the New York University Law Review Alumni Associa-[tion .... And to M. B. Zerwick, ace political publicist, who just returned from a two-week trip to Kansas City i where he married Katherine Mattem, refugee star of "Reunion in New York" .... Max Factor, who's one jof the world's greatest authorities on i cosmetics, is collecting material for a movie short on the history of screen imakeup .... Comedian Pritz'Feld, a refugee who has gone far in screen-land, studies his roles by listening to self-made records of them ..... A young hopeful in the flisticuffs game vfhoia his trainer calls the second Kid Berg is 17-year-pld Harry Lazar ' ;0f England . . . .' Fannie Hurst, we hear, has a pet terrier whose hair is ko long that she uses hairpins to keep his bangs out of his eyes . . , . iProm the lowly harmonica Borrah JMineyvitch has now riser, to the lof-itier altitudes ..... What we mean is he recently bought an airplane .... |Catskill yacationeers feel right at Ihome at La Martinique, West 57th Street night spot, these days, what jwith Danny Kaye a feature of tiie ifloor show ... . Danny, who got his big Broadway break in the late Straw Hat Review", has lojag been a favorite on the borscht circuit .... JEven the Irish elevator boys in New York's Bond building, where the National Refugee Service is located, have by this time picked up enough German to annotmce the floors in Hitler's favorite language and to an-jswer simple requests for information jfroni Hitler's favorite victims . . . Do jyou remember how many years of urging it took before Hollywood finally agreed to put out that Haym Salomon short, "Sons of Liberty?" .... Now the Warner Brothers, who received the Academy Oscar for short subjects for this film, should feel as if coals of fire were being heaped on their collective head ....
PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
Baraeh Zeckerman
RECENTLY PROM EUROPE AND PALESTINE
V On The Subject of
Economic and Political Situation in Palestine"
Wed. March 20, IMO
at 8 p.m.
AT THE
COHHUNITV CENTRE
AUSPICES
POALEI ZEIREI ZION ORG. OF VANCOUVER
In the words of Hon. Dr. B. J. Manion: "The paramount objective of Naiiohal Government is the carrying on of Canada's part in the war, and the preparation for facing our many problems of the after-war. . . . Both old parties —and indeed all the important parties in the House of Commons—will be represented in it. No outstandin|r, able man, if he is needed, will be kept out because of his political afifiliations."
DOES CANADA TODAY NEED NATIONAL GOVERNMENT?
Yes, because the King Government by its record both before and after the declaration of war has proven itself incapable of rising above partisan politics. Their contracts, their pub-liq expenditiores, the Bren Gun scandal, their short-sighted refusal to allow the British Government to establish air-traihihg schools in Canada prior to war, stamp it as a partisan, wasteful and improvident Government.
WHAT NATIONAL GOVERNMENT WILL DO:
... it will fully mobilize Canada's financial, industrial s,nd agricultural resources . . .it will promote close co-operation with the British and Allied Governments ... it wiU appoint an overseas minister to the Crown in England ... it will encourage voluntary enlistment ... it wili stamp out political patronage, profiteering and waste ... H will deal fairly with all soldiers and their dependents both during and after the war ... AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENT IS OPPOSED TO CONSCRIPTION.
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