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By AL SEGAL
A lady writes to me about a recent event In a certain Jewish country club. There was a dance to which were invited certain young people whose parents were not members of the club.. .. "The way these children snubbed children whose parents don't belong to the club!" the lady writes. "Why don't parents try and teach children that if we all lived in Europe we'd all be tmmped on and made to feel we are all alike."
GARBOViTZKY ARTIST PUPIL IN RECITAL
Gregori Garbovitzky, the noted conductor is presenting Sydney Humphreys, a local boy, in a violin recital at the Kitsilano High School Audi-toriiun on Monday, March 4, at 8:00 p.m. Although this boy is only thirteen years of age, he has mastered many difficult compositions from the masterpieces of violin literature, and :ing brighter than the rest of us. I Plays with a beautiful tone and the know you have that mink coat but 7 inaturlty of players twice his age. Adjudicators who have heard him at the British Coliunbia Musical Festival have been amazed at his perform-sjices. He won second place in the class imder ten, at the age of five.
Yes, my dear lady, were I a parent of a snobbish chUd I should take hold of her: "Suzette, who do you think you are anyway? Let me tell you something. You, yourself, are just a very ordinary kid who would probably be a sewing machine girl if it hadn't been for your grandpa be-
HAOASSAH TO SHOW TWO FILMS IN AID OF YOUTH ALIYAH
It has just been announced that the local Chapter of Hadassah will show two excellent pictures "Green Fields" and "Homeland in the Making" in the Kitsilano High School on Wednesday, March 27. The proceeds of these pictures will go to Youth Aliyah.
you are, nevertheless, a mediocre young woman. It hmniliates me, your ■father, to have to say this but, between oiirselves, we must confess it's true.
"You owe everything to yoiu: old grandfather who was a diligent peddler to begin with and thus laid the foimdation for the fortune which makes you and me so comfortable. You're really no better than other girls but only more lucky on account of your grandpa, the indefatigable jpeddler.
"Suzette, I have a good mind to cut you loose and let you shift for yourself in-order that you may discover how little you are really worth, it would hurt you horribly, my dear Suzette, to learn that you aren't worth anywhere near as much as the poor peddler who was yom: grandfather. He came here, a homeless, 'riendless, penniless young immigrant j^nd made a good life for you and ie, without anything to work with except his character and his mind.
"Where would you be if I cut you oose to shift for yourself as yoax underprivileged grandfather had to do? V/hat would you ever amoiuit to if you had to make your own way?
"It's about time you got wise to yourself. You're just a pretty phony in a mink coat. I am really dreadfully distressed about you: To think that you may be the ultimate flower of our generations in America! I fear that yom* education has been bad, though God knows I sent you to the best schools.
"Your education, indeed, has been so bad that you don't know any values except the value of the things you have on your back and wear on your fingers and your wrist and on your feet. And, true, you do have a lot of nice things. You have the coupe I gave you for yomr birttiday, you have the mixik coat I put on your back when you were graduated, you have the closet full bf dresses . . . party gowns, sport clothes, afternoon wear, negligee, all that . . . and you have me, who am the damfool who has spoiled you by giving you everything. But, my dear Suzette, there is a big difference between having and being. You have a lot of things but you are nobody at all.
"Do you ever inquire into the mind and character of the individual you snub? All you know about her is that she doesn't belong to the same set we do, and, betv.'een you and me, that's nothing against her and may, in fact, be a point in her favor. And she has a squirrel coat instead of one made of mink.
"Her peddler grandfather didn't know how to get rich which was probably a very good thing for her soul and mind. On accoimt of that fact she may be forced to compensate herself by cultivating her mind and character. You are kept busy cultivating your hair, your eye-brows and yoiu: finger-nails, Suzette?
"Well, that's about all, my dear, and if I ever hear of you snubbing any one again, I'll spank you to within an inch of your life. (The trouble is that I never spanked you before. I should have started early. Spanking might have served to reduce you
(Continued on Paffe 4) See FIjALS TAEmL
JEWS IN POLAND BEING STARVED
PARIS (WNS).—Jewish leaders in Poland were being arrested by Nazis who released them only after payment of stipulated sums of money in foreign currency by the local Jewish communities, it was learned here. Information about mistreatment of Jews in various sections of Nazi Poland continued to pour in, official circles said. "Epidemics of typhoid and pneumonia are said to be raging in Warsaw and Lublin, particularly among the Jews as a result of overcrowding, lack of food and of adequate clothing for protection against the intense cold. Little medical aid is available and the Jews are excluded from all public hospitals. They are also forbidden to buy clothes, boots or bread. No coal is supplied them, with the result that they are obliged to use furnitiure,' they have left for firewood."
A Message to our Readers
The Bulletin Continoes - No Missing Issues
The Jewish Western Bulletin is tc continue publication. This should be welcome news to our community. At the beginning of this month a notice was inserted on the front page of this paper, intimating that The Bulletin would cease publication with that issue. There were dark financial clouds hanging over our heads, with no relief in sight. But The Bulletin Gommittee, with dogged persistance, kept working from every angle in an effort to keep the continuation of the paper. Finally, they were successful in having a contract signed for the publishing of The Bulletin for another year. The Bulletin Goinmittee should be highly commended for their untiring efforts in this direction. It would have been a dire calamity to the community if this paper had ceased publication, for The Bulletin for^a number of years has been of unequalled service to the Jewish jpeople of this city.- Vancouver Jewry through the years, has beeii led to expect service of every kind and character from The Bulletin, but it does not seem to have learned the lesson that it has an obligation of support and co-ioper-ation to the publication which is a necessary part of communal life.
Thousands of columns of majbter during the years have been printed and published for the benefit of local Jewish institutions at a great cost and expense to The Bulletin. There is an obligation on the part of a newspaper to print the news. Every newspaper must do this in the public service.
But institutional life demands more. It demands not only news, but tons of sale propaganda to put over its countless purposes. Organizations engage in numberless enterprises by which they sell their projects to the public. It is the urgent duty of every club or .organization which undertakes such projects to advertise. By advertising we mean pay for a fair share of advertising space in The Bulletin in conformity with the size of the project. This has not been done in the past for organizations have been advertising in a small miserable manner which does not produce the maximum result, but also is not any great benefit to this paper. In return for a small advertisement, lorganizations expect columns of publicity. This is fundamentally wrong and henceforth must cease. Without The Bulletin, orgiinizations would have a difficult time fimctioning properly, therefore these same organizations should recognize that they have ascertain .amount of responsibility in keeping this paper going. And a word to our subscribers. A newspaper like The BuUe^in in many places costs three dollars per year. We are not asking for this amount but we do ask that every Jewish family in this city be a paid subscriber. The Jewish West-em Bulletin can only exist through the support and co-operation of the Jewish Community in Vancouver.
List of Subscribers
Mr. Harold Kahn, Chairman of the External Welfare Drive, in a statement to the Bulletin said, "There has been a good response to the Drive as a whole, and so far results are quite satisfactory. However, there are a niunber of cards yet to come in and in order that we may reach our quota, I sincerely hope that those who
have not pledged yet, will give generously and whole heartedly".
Particular notice should be taken that all cards should be turned in by Wednesday evening, March 6 at the Commimity Centre.
The following is a list of subscribers received up till Monday evening. A further list will be published in the next edition of the Bulletin.
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VANCOUVER AGHDUTH SOCIETY INSTALLS OFFICERS
Installation of officers for 1940 and banquet, was held at the Community Centre on Sunday, February 25
The following are the newly elected directors of the Society for the ensuing year:
Hon. President—L, Zack.
Hon. Treasurer—Reverend N. M. Pastinsky.
President, A. Wosk.
Vice-Pres., J, Reed.
Treasurer, S. Gross.
Pin. Secretary, M. Miner.
VATICAN ATROCITY CHARGES CONFIRMED
GERMAN DENIALS
ROME (WNS)—While the Germans issued denials of statements made by the Vatican and London radios describing Nazi atrocities and persecutions in Poland, a statement issued by the Vatican charges mass executions and expropriations in German-occupied cities and villages of Poland.
• Authorized Vatican circles revealed the names of priests who have been the victims of firing squads. Many priests, the report states, are
Rec. Secretary, J. Green.
Insurance Chairman, L. Davis.
Board of Directors: L. Zack, M. Morris, M. Glucksman, J. Kachen-ovsky.
Mr. Jules Ablowitz, who acted as Installing Officer and Chairman of the evening, ably distinguished himself as a very capable host, and conducted the proceedings in an eloquent manner. Speeches delivered by the various officers and guests were rather conspicuous in their brevity and conciseness. The musical program was one of the best-ever offered, and was received with great enthusiasm by the large gathering.
now obliged to disguise themselves ■fh civilian clothes to be able to perform their duties.
At Bydogoszcz the German military authorities are said to have executed several hundred Polish inhabitants. At Szamotuly five young people are reported to have been shot before the eyes of a crowd in the village market place. At Kos-cian, the local curate, a land owner and 48 representatives of the Polish population were shot, the report declares. At Wawor, near Warsaw, in retaliation for the death of a German soldier and officer by a Pole who succeeded in escaping, 120 people are said to have been slain.
Germans declared in their blanket denial that it is not yet possible to determine whether hundreds of priests have been arrested in Warsaw as was stated in the Vatican broadcasts, but that if they were, the German statement said, it could have been only for political and not for religious reasons.
Basis for the recent Vatican broadcasts on Poland was receipt of information from Augusto Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, presented to the Pope last week, of an eleven thousand word document which contained details of mass shootings, manhunts by German agents, plundering and persecutions conducted with cold-blooded brutality and ferocity by the Nazis against Catholics in occupied Polish territory.
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Acting on the call of the National headquarters of the Gewerschaften Palestine Campaign, local Branch Poale-Zeire Zion organization have inaugurated the annual drive for the Histadrut, General Federation of Jewsh Workers in Palestine. The Bole of the Histadrut in the Upbuilding of Palestine The Histadrut was organized in 1922 with a membership of 4,400. Today the Histadrut counts 115,000 members engaged in all branches of industry, agriculture and the professions. Together with their families, these account for the bulk of the Jewish community in Palestine.
From its very inception the Histadrut set itself the task of building up a Jewish commonwealth based on the principles of co-operation and self labor. Today it can boast of a long array of accomplishments that
are source of strength and security »or the community and a mainstay of hope for thousands of homeless Jews in Europe who are eagerly striving to build their homes in Palestine.
Co-operative Establishments In agriculture, over 200 collective and co-operative settlements have been formed. More than fifteen per cent of the Histadrut members live in these villages. The settlements also help to absorb new immigration by accepting newcomers as members or by aiding them to learn new trades. Hundreds of children of German Jews have found homes in these villages where they are given both a general education as well as expert training that enables them to be absorbed in Palestine economic and social life.
In the cities the Histadrut has formed a great number of co-operatives that are engaged in developing new industries, in building homes for workers and in aiding colonization.
Special note should be made of the Kupath Cholim, the workers' sick fund, founded by the Histadrut. This organization maintains hospitals and clinics and provides medical care even for the most remote settlements. Various educational establishments are also maintained to provide for the cultural needs of adults as well as children. An outstanding example of this type of institution is the Max Pine trade school in Tel Aviv which teaches mechanical trades to the youth of (Continued on Page 2) See FAUESTINB
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