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J E WISH WESTERN B U L L E TIN
Fridays July 21, 1939
The Jewish Western Bulletin
Official Organ of the Vancouver Jewish Admimstrative Council-
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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 21v 1939
YOU MUST HELP ^ For almost two thousand yeairs, the menace of anti-semitism has esdsted. Scholars have made' exhaustive research to analyze the causes, and untiring efforts have been made to overcome this menace by the creation of friendship and goodwill between Jew and non-Jew. . ' . \
However, in spite of all that has been done, the fact does remain that today, anti-semitism still exists, and exists in a vicious and virulent form.
In 1915, the situation was a0 serious that the B'nai B'rith found it necessary to abandon thjB regular medical and fraternal benefits which had been a feature pf the Order similar to any other fraternal organization, and instead, organized a program of Wider Scope. This program was designed not for the welfare of members of the Order but £or all Jewry.
In conformity with this program, one of the first acts of B'nai B'rith was to organize the anti-defamation league. Since then, and for over 20 years, B'nai B'rith, through its anti-defamation league, has been the protector of Jewry all over the world. Thous-aiids of cases have been investigated falsehoods and malicious propaganda have been refuted, and everjrthing possible has been done to create goodwill between Jew and non-Jew.
Prior to 1933, manifestations of anti-semitism were those of isolated groups or individuals, but today there is a situation which must be faced of an entirely different nature.
Today, Jewry has a determined and unrelenting enemy with only one object—the ruin and destruction of the Jew. By every means in its power: strong organization, intimidation, the spreading of malicious lies and propaganda, the Nazig vomemment is doing all in its power to make a raging forest fire of anti-semitism which will destroy and exterminate Jewry.
These facts are well-known to all, and there is only one sensible course to be taken: for Jewry to fight and combat this menace with every resource in its power.
With this aim in view, the B'nai B'rith has established its office in Vancouver solely for the carrying of this work of the defense of our people in British Columbia. Nothing however can be done without money, and the B'nai B'rith takes this opportunity of appealing to the Community for assistance.
The annual picnic held under the auspices of Vancouver Lodge B'nai B'rith will be at Bowen Island on Sunday, August 6th. Proceeds will be devoted entirely to the anti-defamation work of the Lodge. Every member of the Community can help by attending this picnic. It involves no sacrifice. It means no individual effffort, but it does mean that when you attend every cent that is made will go to the^ work of the defense of Jewry aguinst its enemies.
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CHINESE HEBREW SCHOLAR IS MILLIONTH PALESTINE PAVILION VISITOR
The millioneth visitor to view the exhibit of Jewish pioneering achievement in the Holy Land shown in the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair was Mr. Li Jui cf Hankow, China, a Christian merchant whose deep interest iii; the Bible led him to make a serious study of the Hebrew language and literature. Mr. Jui is here seen inspecting a Meg-illah (Hebrew scroll of the Book of Esther) which, encased in a, silver filligree cylinder, was presented to him on behalf of the Palestine Pavilion authorities by Miss Ingrid Warburg (right), niece of the late Felix M. Warburg.
mix. Jui amazed the Pakstinian guides in the Pavilion by conversing with them in fluent Hebrew, and by his questions showed himself thoroughly familiar with the modem Jewish work of rehabilitation in Pakstine. While he has never yet visited the Holy Land, he told guides that he expects to spend some months there in a year or two.
When he registered in the Palestine Pavilion Visitors' Book Mr. Jui wrote his name in three scripts—English, Hebrew and Chinese. '
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. The announcement of the White Paper on Palestine might have been delayed if Ambassador Joe Kennedy had spoken out straight from the shoulder during the last week-end he spent with Prime Minister Chamberlain. . . As a matter of fact 3 days before the White Paper was made public there was rejoicing in American Zionist ranks, a very, very high Washington official having told the Zionist leaders that assurances had been received from London that no announcement would be made for a long time. . .. It seems, however, that when the British government asked Kennedy point-blank whether he thought that American public opinion would very much resent the White Paper, he implied that American public opinion had other things to worry about. . .. Well-informed sources insist that the British gov-•'^'emment timed the publication of the White Paper to coincide with the visit of King George to this continent, in the belief that America's interest in royalty would drown out whatever resentment the injustice toward the Jews might call forth. . .
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American Zionist leaders are be-ing^^. submerged with telegrams and cables from Revisionists pleading that Jabotinsky be given a chance to take ,oyer Weizmann's place. . . Don't b^. surprised if Stephen S, Wise, Louis Llpsky and Israel Goldstein take an imme^diate trip to Palestine. . . It is felt that the American Zionist lead-erjship should be represented on the spot in these momentous days. . . -Some of tbe best-known foreign correspondents will proceed to Palestine shortly. ... American editors expect the Holy J^nd to be hot news for quite some time. . . Pierre van Paas-sen's "Days of Our Years" will be published in England next month, but thie English edition will substantially curtail his attack on the British government for its anti-Zionist policies. . . .
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NBC reports that the most frequent request it gets from German listeners to Its short-wave broadcasts Is for renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner". . . . Apparently there are lots of people left in Nazi-land who like at least to hear about the home of the free. . . . Being ped-
dled around New York these days are nickel booklets bearing the title
"Hitler's Good Deeds".....The
puckers who buy them find they've purchased blankbooks. . . . Culled from The Nation: "In Italy people are beginning to grumble that things were better under Mussolini." . . . The man who presented the authorities with a great deal of material in this matter of perjury charges against Fritz Kuhn is none other than T. H. Tetens, who Is the gentleman we mentioned some columns ago as a one-man fighting battalion waging war against the Nazis. . . We are also happy to note that Uncle Sam is removing his post offices from German ships, where they have been most useful to Nazi spies, and that Federal agents are Investigating Nazi consular officials in this country. . . . It's about time. . . . THIS AND THAT
Nazi marauders have tried to set fire to the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New World's Fair, but quick action on the part of an alert night watchman prevented the consummation of the crime. . . . Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has informed the Palestine Pavilion that she has placed it on her program for her next visit to the Pair. . . . The Pavilion, by the way, is scheduled to receive a special award as one of the most original and artistic architectural achlve-ments In the Fair grounds. . . Reported from Washington: At a recent Polish Embassy, dinner the wife of the German charge d'affaires admired the Embassy dinner plates—whereupon a member of the Italian Embassy staff informed her that soon she'd be able to transport the crockery over to her own bailhvick. . . . Radio circles tell us that Gabby Goe-bbels' pet Englfsh-ianguage broadcaster, familiarly known as Uncle Willie, may be expected to appear on American air waves before long. . , . When Gertrude Scholtz-KIInk, feminine fuehrer of Nazidom, visited England recently she was picketed by Englishwomen carrying the expressive placard "No Nazi Klink for British Women." . . . That Nazl-Boliyian trade pact is just the first. step on Dictator German Busch's trek toward the Fascist axis, which wejve already told you to look out for. . . . We always knew it, but are glad to have the confirmation of some fam-
ylsed construction of the pale buff building until his v sudden death on April 7th; Lee Simonson, consultant designer; and Jacob J. Levison, consultant landscape designer, under whose direction the typical Palestinian greenery of the Pavilion grounds was assembled and planted. The coordination of the work of these four men has been the tack of Meyer W. ^elsgal, director of the Pavilion. ' Unofficially open to the public for the past two weieks although its formal dedication exercises are scheduled for Sunday, May 28th, the Palestine Pavilion has been attracting large crowds eager to see how Jewish pioneers have built up a country which only a quarter of a century ago was one of the backward regions of our globe. On entering the spacious courtyard the visitor immediately senses the romantic atmosphere of the Holy Land, called forth by falm-fronds,, orange trees, cedars and flowering shrubs. Dominating
this courtyard are the three bronze figures that symbolize the Jewish efiforts in Palestine—Learning, Industry and Agriculture. Beneath them stand the Hebrew words Eretz Israel, immediately over the huge main doors, built of Palestinian euca-Ijrptus wood and bearing the insignia of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The mainentrance leads Into the
ous psychiatrists that remonstrances, exhortations, expostulations and the eliciting of promises are. futile in dealing with people like Badolf and Bandlto — whom the psychiatrists don't name, but accurately describe as paranoid psychotic individuals. . . Note to city editors: That Hitler youth organization in Illinois is the fastest-growing Nazi group in this country. . . . Check on their financial set-up, and you may find a frontpage story----A fight on the Issue of
free speech seems to be brewing in Cleveland, with certain anti-Sem-, itic groups emerging as the "defenders" of the Bill of Rights in order to pave the way for a thorough-going anti-Jewish campaign of defamation. ABOUT PEOPLE
Dr, Aron Freimann, who from 1895 till 1933 served as librarian in the University of Frankfurt and the Frankfurt City Library, Is joining the staff of Yeshiva College. ... He will teach medieval history there. . . Insiders insist that Judge Irving Lehman, of the N.Y. Court of Appeals, will be the next Chief Judge of the State Supreme Court. . . Latest news on that new.afternoon paper New York Is getting is that its financial backer is the firm of Lehman Brothers. . . . Those who hoped that Justice Brandels would make any public appearance at a Jewish or non-Jewish function, however important, are doomed to disappointment. . . . The ex-Justice has definitely decided not to participate in any public functions. . .. We are willing to take bets that the successor to Mrs. Judith Epstein in the Presidency of Hadassah will be Mrs. Tamar de Sola Pool. . . .
Memorial Hall, where a basalt tablet commemorates the men and women who died while working for the Jewish homeland; on the opposite wall bronze tablets with silver lettering summarize the outstanding dates in four thousand years of Jewish history. The visitor next reaches the Hall of Transformation, built on a ^eries of ascending stairs that signify Jewish immigration and lead to a heroic statute of a Chalutz standing before a large photomural depicting the March of the Chalutzim. The 'entire right wall of this hall is given over to a huge inap of Palestine exe-jcuted In Palestinian materials, while ;the opposite wall bears large photo-'murals showing the transformation of swamps into farmland, bare rocks Into vineyards and orchards and sand dumes into the modern city of Tel Aviv.
Turning to the right, the visitor now comes to the Hall of Agriculture â– and Resettlement, devoted to presentations of the various types of agricultural colonization on the main floor and on a balcony. A colorful exhibit in this hall shows the fruits of each month of the year, displayed on twelve panels inscribed with the twelve slgrns of the Zodiac and the names of the months in Hebrew and English.
The Hall of Town-Planning and Communications features a large map of Europe and the Near East, designed to illustrate the theme "Palestine the Gateway to the Near East." This theme Is further elaborated In models . of the ports of Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jaffa. The town-planning aspects of Palestine are portrayed in maps of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, and in models typifying architectural trends.
In the Hall of Industry products of Jewish industrial plants are displayed; the fabrics, leather work and clothing draw particularly favorable comments from feminine visitors. The main attraction here, however, is a huge model of the Rutenberg Electric Power Plant on the Jordan River, and a row og glass tubes filled with the chemicals recovered from the Dead Sea; before the latter display stands a statue of Lot's Wife, recalling the. Biblical story of her transformation Into a pillar of salt during the destruction of Sodom ^nd Gomorrah, which once stood where the Dead Sea now lies.
CZECH FASCISTS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST JEWS
PRAGUE (WNS)—Two persons yrere seriously ixijured when a bomb, believed planted by the Czech Fascist organization, wrecked a building in Prague's old ghetto, near the section's principal synagogue. Uniformed Fascists paraded through tJie istreets shouting anti-Jewish slogans but were dispersed by Czech police. Similar demonstrations took place in Bruenn. Jews were banned from acting as justices of the peace, jurors, court interpreters or guardians under a decree listing persons "unable to hold office for reasons of public order."
From the industrial exhibit a stair-ease lined with Palestinian marble leads to the Hall of Culture and Education where books and periodicals published in Palestine are displayed. Here, too, are models and photographs depicting the Jewish educational system, from kindergarten scenes to a large model of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus. A special niche in this hall shows models of the stage settings used in the Palestinian theatre and puppets dressed in characteristic costumes.
The visitor next enters the Hall of Health, where a statue of a nurse holding a child forms the central point of the exhibit portraying the work done by Hadassah In the advancement of the health of the country. A large model of the new Roth-schlld-Hadassah-UniversIty Medical Center stands here; other exhibits describe the health work of, Qie Jewish National Council and the Workers' Sick Benefit Fund.
The Hall of Labor and Social Forms depicts the life of the Chalutzim In the communal settlements and the religious colonies, and illustrates the economic, cultural and health activities of the Jewish labor organizations. The exit from this hall, which leads out of the building Into the courtyard, is one of the most stirring spots in the Pavilion, featuring an illuminated giass painting of the rising sun with a Mogen Da-
00U6HLIN ASSAILED FOR PREACHING
ANTI-SEMITISM
WASHINGTON (WNS) — "Everj' Catholic with a brain ih his head realizes full well that if there is ever a trend towards authoritarian oppression in this country, his head will be on the block along with the Jew's," George N. Shuster, noted Catholic publicist and authority on modern German history declares in a feature article in the June Issue of the National Jewish Monthly, published by B'nai B'rith.
Assailing Father Coughlin for his anti-Semitism, Mr. Shuster points out in his article, "A Catholic Discusses Jews," that the radio priest's '|historical information is ; deplorably inaccvurate, that he descends .fre-(jjucntly to the level of sheer calumny, and that he preaches a gospel of hate rather than ' the Gospel of Love." A former managing editor of The Commonweal, leading Catholic weekly, Mr. Shuster voices the hope that the gratitude of American Jewry to the late Pope Pius XI. for his stand against racism "will lead to a prmer bond of luiderstanding between Jewry and the Catholic group." I "One of the most surpristag things in my experience," Mr. Shuster isTites, "is this: At a time when Com-punism seemed the most deadly ^nemy of Nazism, American Jewry, tiid not veer toward Sovietism to-jsven a fraction of the extent some of ^ lis had predicted." Describing the ad^ yancement of large sections of Am--erican Jewry from the New ;York jB^hetto to success as "a wonderful' human epic," Mr. Shuster charges, that anti-Semites such as Father poughlln and otiiers use such achievements to stir up the resentment > pf short-sighted people.
s The American Catholic realizes, Mr. Shuster asserts, that Catholics = in Fascist countries are sufferiiig,' despite their "aryanlsm" but he is also aware "just as thoroughly, that if or his own well-being he must see to it that no minority, above all not the Jewish minority, is treated uh-fahrly."
vid banner fluttering in its light, sym-iiolizing the never-dying hope of Jewish alestine for the dawn of a better tomorrow.
Across the courtyard a flight of steps beside a formal pool flUed with water lilies and other aquatic plants; leads to the Art Gallery, where Palestinian handicrafts are exhibited. On( the other side of a flagged patio court Is the special exhibit "Th Holy Land of Yesterday and Tomo" row," the highlight of the Palegtln^ exhibit, and open to holders of Pale-tine Pavilion Contributing Member ship Certificates. Standing here is' a large authentic model of the Temple of Solomon and six dioramas ilr. luminated by a unique stage lighting devised by Lee Simonson, designer of the dioramas.
The noted sites portrayed in stationary dioramas here are the old Talmudic city of Tiberias on th6 shore of the Sea of Galilee; the Holy City of Jerusalem, where the ancient blends with the modern; and the Dead Sea as seen from the Jericho Road. The. dynamic dioramas show three outstanding examples of reclamation: The.rise of the great modem metropolis Tel Aviv on a stretch of once uninhabitable sandy beach; the change wrought in the Emek Jezreel, transformed by Jewish pio-neei-s from a malaria-infested "Valley of IDeath" into a beautiful vale of plenty; and the development of the little fishing village of Haifa into a ^.modern, harbor city, the second-; largest port fn the Levant.
These are some of the outstanding exhibits ih the Jewish Palestine Pavilion, which stands in the World's. Fair grounds to testify to the un-: shakable determination' of Jewish'; Palestine to survive, that Israel's:, message of peace may be heard by-the world of tomorrow.
Lord Melchett is a very sick man, and will have to curtail all his pro-Palestine activities. . . . Our sympathy to Mitzie Green, young stage and night-club star who is suffering from a throat ailments . . . Grave doubt is expressed In many quarters on the authenticity of the kidnapping of George Palmer Putnam, publisher of "The Man Who Killed Hitler." . Rumors persist that it was a pub-iicfty stunt, though Mr. Putnam hlm-iself may not have known about it. . . Believe it or not, the story is going the rounds that Stella Adler, who since her nose-straightening operation calls herself Ardler, may team up with Harry Bridges, famous union leader of the Coast. ...
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