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No. Eleventh AvZand Oak St. ^    ; ; VANCOUVER; j|JO., JULY 22, 1938
PLAIN TALK
By AL SEGAL
Z    The' Reform rabbis (Central Conference of American.Rabbis) have
. organized a sort of vigilantes' posse to defend some of the rabbis against
, some of the congregations.
A committee of five-henceforth will go to the aid of Reform rabbis who "by reason of Iheir courageous espousal of ethical or religious principles" may have come into difficulties in their congrregatlons.
• This is to say the rabbis intend to fight for every rabbi';* right publiclv to epeak his cohsid6i|ed and honest oirfiajpns. This ilght is not alwai^ respeqted; in all con^egatlohiSi In some of thiem totalitarian presidents
^ and. itoards of irustees hold it tobe a self-evident trutt^^^^l^ ^should giye. out only such opinions as are ofiidally iapprove^ ^ lii tibese c^ rabbis a^e
; supposed to be but thfe voices 6t the .official coii^e^^^^ /matters oif js^cii(isincethey i kre only i x^GJl>bis) lean know nothing. Rabbis sfiould . trouUe themselves only about G<>d whom they know lit-"timately, about paradise whose every street;Uwy have chspted. ^ But'when ^it comi^' to matters o^«6ciai justice, ^qf pcAiticai: oVaix^ terrestrial IJhinfes thc^ ai^ out at
• ihoir territoiy llmd -arei expected to 7 take counsel Withrtheir betters.^; ;
Yet it has happened; in many a congregation that a^^abbt Jhaa vbrpught
(w«h6ur aiWngr^
,the board)! has lookedr^^critlca^ at .the local te^enient houses, for ex-^ ample. This angered the real estate board—«L result which to the cbngre-
VIENNA BARS JEWS FROM ALL PARKS AND APARTMENTS
VIENNA (WNS)—Exclusion of Jews from all state-owned gardens and parks In Vienna and its suburbs and their ' expulsion from apartment houses in the fashionable suburbs were ordered in two new decrees. The ban on Jews in the parks, which legalizes previous action by local authorities, was issued by the University of Agriculture.
Natfian^ardozQ Greatest
Je\vish Jurist Dies
EIGHTY JEWS OVER 80 BEGINLEARNING ABO'S
NEW YORK (WNS)—Thei strange spectacle of 80 aged Jews, ranging in age from 80 to 103, all of them residents of the Bialystbker Home for the. Aged and the 'Home of oid Israel bh' the lower East Side, beginnlDg the study of Englb^^^ was afforded Ne^ Yorkers when ttie W.P.Ai opened its first classes in English for for-
eigtiers rbkclusively for persons over 80. .All of the aged Jews are bearded and Yiddish-spiieaking but they insisted <m learning their ABC's so that they Jnight,^ become American citizens. Classes are;: being held in a Talmud Torah building.
ITALY DENIES BAN ON BOOKS BY JEWliADTHORS
Declares ItsJy Has No Intern tion of Embarking on Anti-Jewish Policy
ROME (WNS)—Italy is considering no measures against Jews excepjk anti-Fa£clst elenients, official clicl^f declared in denying a widespread re^ port that tiie ministry of popiila-^; cfilture had ordered a ban on thk printing, translation, circulation, sal^ and display of books by foreign Jew-*; ish aul^ors and oh the productibii of plays by Jewish authors r^afdless of their nationality. The denial al^ applied to a repo>rt that the ministry, had taken steps: to prevent the dl^ play and discburiQge the sale of bbbkl by Italian- Jesrish authors. pffibia| quarters  reiterated t the statement inaide by the informazione Diplqina-j^ tica, mouttipiece of the ioteign oSicb^ last Februaiyr 16th, 'which declari^ Italy had no Intention of embarkli^ 6n an anti-Jewish policy.; MeanwlidliEi^ several hundred'foreigpi.Je\yish;s.tii| dents ordered to leave Italian univet^ sities already haive quit, th^ countiy|
gatic^^S directors amply proved whsit always sjald: "That rabbis mind  their, own business .^Ich is God.
On ^uch embarrassing occasions a special meeting fof the board of di-^rectors always is called solemnly to , discuss the rabbi's, sin. Thus the rabbi is'made aware that; he is on the skids, even though he. is given only a severe reprimand:. "Rabbi, we; must Inform you that your recieht
.....sermon on tenei^iat hotiseB has hurt;
' the Jews of this community. ' We are ' paying you to represent us .not to hurt us and make riishus. We waiat you to rebaember that hereafteriiypu must consult usbefore you-talk on anything out of your line, It's only because  of the  kindness  of Mr;.' ' Clancy, preisident of the real estate 'board that the real estate people "didn't pass resolutions against'ypu; Some of Mr. Clancy's best friends arb Jew and-for that re kind to you. That's all, rabbi." The rabbi/fteelsk really'isn^ ■ There Is so much to be said.  If he spoke for an hour he'couldh't get all his indigniotton o^^   When he was going to the^^bbinfcal sfmlna^ he thought of belbgiiflami^ prqphbt in the world. • Nbw he to consume' the whble board ot direct tors with his wrath. He'^duld speak with a tongue of fire and cause them to wither under his heat and bloW away like ashes. ■ ^
He stands in the meeting room, burning to speak but afraid to speak since he can't afford it His wife is going to have a baby and he needs the $45 a week thejr pay him. He knows he will not be getting it much longer, but even fbr the little whilfe he needs it against the time she will be in the hospital. His head bums with the anger he should like to pour
out on them.
"Jews! .     Sons of the prophets! Ho! Ho! .. . Sons of tlie prophets!... That's funny! . ... Sons of the pro-(Continued on Page Four)
Tidhiis froni Every where
By PHINEAS J. BIBOlf
^ When Eddie Cantor returns from Europe on a mission to raise funds for the Youth Aliyah he will convert his Long Island estate into a home for 40 German refugees . . .; No one is saying much about it, but the 37-man American track team ^oing to Gennanythis month for a dbal meet includes nine non-Aryans — seven Negroes and two Jews . . . The Anaerican Hebrew is looking for a iiew editor .. . P. R. Adlerstein, the-present editoil', has resigned as.. of,]^, August 1st to.become an executive assistant to Joseph C. Hyman, executive secretary of the Joint-DistribU'^ tion Committee . 1. And now it can be told that F.R^Adl^^ is really lilanny'Adlerstein;;who was editorial
secretary on the A, H. for many ,^   _ .» , .      ....   ^ „     ,. _
'       .. - Mr. Jaffe's tour through Canada, The
years ... The new Zionist prexy, Dr. I „      „   , ^ - »' -J'.     I Council also expressed its continued
loyalty to the World Zionist Execu-
-At an extraordinary session of the National Council of the Zidoist Orf ganiZBtifflti of Canada held lit
hers of llie Comicli fr sections of the country, the resblii^^ of the 25th Zionist Convention against pooling of Zionist funds with jCpmmiml^ Welfare budgets was reaffirmed. The meetib^ dokded that ho exception be made witljifibfjsrence to the request of; the Tpronto^ tional Council members t»: ekempt liiie United Palestine Appeal ^Toronto for the year 1939 fromHie ap-plidaition of the resolution.
The meeting, uiider the chalnnan-ship of-Mr. Ai J. Freiman, pr^ident of the Cahadian Zionist Organisation served as "ah occasion for paying tribute to Mr. Leib Jaffe for his juhtir-ing efforts on behalf of thie UJP-A. iMrtr has -made- the campaign just concluded the most successful In a decade. A resolution was passed, expressing to the Jewish Agency^ Keren Hayesod and Keren Kayemeth, the; Zionist Organization's appreciation for their having xoade posdble
PORT CHESTER. N.Y. (WNS)— Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, justice of the United States Supreme Court since 1932, the second Jew to attain that high office, was carried to his ffnal resting place this week in the <3ardozo f6,mily plot at CJypress Hills Cemetery, Long Island, after private and almost austerely brief funeral services, at the estate of Justice Irving H- Lehman of the New York Supreme Court, where the noted jurist passed away in an oxygen -tent at the age of 68 following a seven month's illness.
Rabbi D. A. Jerssurun Cardozo, no relative 0|f the Justice^ who is associate minister of the Spanish-Portuguese Congregation, the oldest in America, and to which Cardozo and his family always belonged, officiated in the presence of a small company- of relatives and intimate friends.
Among those 'present were Mrs, franklin D. Roosevelt, Mayor. La Guardia and three  of Cardozo's .cbleagues of the Supreme Court.
Taken ill with a heart attack on December 13; he recuperated sufflci-entiy tb be nioved from Washington to. the Lehman estate, where he aj)-peared to be making a slow recovery until he' suffered'a relapse in June,
ABOARD; -*/R BSIDENTIAL SPECTAL TRAllf, (WNS)President Robsevelt led ihe nation in payr ing tribute to Jiistitce-Benjamin jN. Cardozo this week with a statement declarfBtg- t%t "the news of the jjauss-ing otrjb^tice' Card^^ came to me as a grebt.personal-, isliock.
. ."Years ago when he was Chief ittsticebf tfib hig^^^^ of Nbw
York, I! learned to admire him a^d to love Ihim,^ H^ hajd a great soul. Tlie whble IbaCidii^^ lias lost a <:onstbht
GERMAN-AUSTRIAN WAR VETS CONDEMN JACEHATE
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WNS)—Complete loyalty to the United States an strenuous opposition to any discrimination as to race, creed, color or religion were pledged.by 500 jdelegates to the national convention of the German-Austrian war veterans, an organization of naturalized citizens who fought In the German and Austrian armies during the World War. The convention voted to eliminate the word "bund" from the organization's name In order to {(void any
possible stigma of pro-Nazism.
5aifriendi'H=:
feUsjpreseiits Youth
Soloihbn Goldman, spent the first week after the ZOA convehtion in New York, conferring bh plans Within the next ten days he;will be embarldn^ for.JPalestine, 'to 'investigate personally the gravity; of the situation there ;..Before returning to this country he will also confer .T?ith Weizmanh . . . Dr. Gioldman's plans, for cultural activities include, aviiterary; quarterly Zionist review, iai which Ludwig Lewisohn, Maurice Sbznuel, Pierre van Paassen and A. HJ Priedland will be the principal collaborators . . .To Rabbi Saul B. Appelbaum of New York's Central Synagogue fell the melancholy distinction of being the first person to
RABBI TO SUE KUHN FOR 13,000,000
THE
ROVING REPORTER
By SLAPHAPPY BILL
NEW YORK (WNS)—A $3,000,000 slander suit against Fritz Kuhn, national leader of the German-American Bund, for his defamation of the~ Jews in this country "during his testimony before a state legislative committee last week is being started t»y Dr. Emanuel J. Jack of Yonkers, former rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Yonkers and former national chaplain of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. .Rabbi Jack said.he intended to sue Kuhn as an Individual and as head of the Bund. While acting as an individual. Rabbi Jack said he would ask $3,000,000 damages on the basis of $1 for each of the 3,000,000 Jews in the coimtry iind would donate the proceeds of his action to (Serman refugees. '
NAZISli
"YOURSTRUir
VIENNA (WNS)—It is no longer permissable to use such ordinary business terms as "dear sir," a:nd "yours truly" in business letters addressed to Jews, Nazi party officials ruled in new instructions to businessmen. In regulations prescribing the proper conduct of commercial relations published in the weekly organ of retail shopkeepers, Aryan merchants were instructed to begin letters to Jews merely with the name of the addressee and end with the signature of the sender.
say Kaddish for Justice Cardozo > . . The Rabbi was presiding over the message of Israel prog^ram over WJZ's National hook-up that Saturday night . .,. Four minutes before ••he end of the program the production manager asked the Rabbi to leave the air for one minute because of a special bulletin on Cardozo . . When the Rabbi learned of Cardozo's death he closed his program with the recital of the Kaddish, just forty-.Jive minutes after the Justice died... Clap hands for Mr. and Mrs. Louis ;M, Rabinpwitz. whose gift has made possible a series of fairyland scenes and characters in new murals on the . walls of the free children's ward in [the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn . . I We understand this is the first time a hospital's walls have been so dec-,
________ orated . . . Morris Freed of Los An-
There is a tradition among Sefar- ' geles, partially blind father of Com-dic Jews thait Spain had a Jewish ' poser Isidore Freed, has been so up-settlement as early as the day of . set by insinuations thM Jews are dis-King Solomon. loyal thai he haswr^^^^
IMPORTANT "
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tive and sent to the Vaad Leumi a message of dcefjest sympathy with the Yishuv in the. extremely trying condltionis it has been facing and, a pledge of Canadian Zionists to give the Yishuv their help and support to the utmost of their ability.
The National Council, also sent greetings to the Poxirth Maritime Youth Judaea Convention held In St. John during the Jul^ first week-end and to the first provincial-wide Herzl Memorial Meeting that took place In Watrous,'Sask:, on July 3rd.
OSCAB S. STRAUS II, who brought the ^'caU of youth" to the "CaU to Youth" when he fired niaestioiis at h& Dad on the program of the latter name recently. His Dad is the noted civic and religions leader, Roger W. Straus, co-chairman of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, and honorarjr president of the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods. The "Call to Youth" is a weekly program carried by the coast-to-coast Blue Network of the National Broadcasting Company and sponsored by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
ROYAl SOCIETY ACOQRDS RARE REGAL HONOR TO FREUD
LONDON (WNS)—A privilege hlth-rto accorded on^' to British kli?gs
was granted to Dr. Sigmund Freud, world-famous psychiatrist, when the charter book of the 280-year-old Royal Society was taken to his home for his signature. Freud has becfn a member of the Society since 1936 but because he had formerly lived in Vienna and is now forbidden to leave his house the book was taken to his home. It had never before left the organization's headquarters except for the signature of a king.
American Marching Song" . . . Down in the Cafe Royal, Secopd Avenue rendezvous of the Yiddish intelligentsia, they are celebrating the return of a prodigal son ... He is none other than Herman, the picturesque head waiter of the hostelry, who was so aroused by the anti-Jewish excesses of ;Hitler that he has returned to'Judaism, which he deserted in early youth . . . Representative Herman Koppleman of Connecticut may become a candidate for U. S. Senator as a New Dealer . . . Hank Danning, New York Giants' catcher, who was named for the all-star game when a foul tip from his bat injured Babe Phelps of the Dodgers, who had previously been selected, asked that the souvenir watch he was supposed to have received for playing in the game be given to Phelps instead . . . The WPA Writer's Project is considering an application from Louis Adamic for a ten-year ETi'ant to permit him to write a book on foreign nationalities in America . . .
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ATTENTION!
BETH ISRAEL MFN'S CLim
DATE OF FINAL GOLF TOUSNAMENT HAS BEEN
CHANGED
1. PLACE—Peace Portal Golf Course, Biaine, Wash.
2. DATE—July 31, 1938, Sunday.
3. TIME—Ten a.m.
4. ELIGMBILITY—All members of Beth Israel Men's
Club.
5. GUESTS—Ladies of Men's Club members.
6. ACTIVITIES—Plenty to eat and plenty of fun.'
7. TROPHY—"Alfred Evans Golf Trophy" for Lowest
I I
Net Score.
8. REQUEST—Please come and make a day of it.
9. REMINDER—Remember Nos. "1 to 8'/ above.
■
nember Nos. "1 to 8** above.
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The abdv« change has been made because the B'naf B'rith ^
Annual Picnic is to be held on Sunday, July 24th,' at Bowen ^
Island. The proceeds of the Picnic are to be used by the Anti- ^
Defamation Commission of that Lodge to fightt anti-SemiUsm. ^
The fight is thc^ fight of the Jewish people.  Help to make the ^
Picnic a success. ^
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- "Listen Slap-happy" the editor says, slapping me on the back, "things are quiet around here, why not" take a trip down South? Take a vacation Get an opinion of what our American friends think of the Jewish situation all over the world." I took his suggestion. Of course he did not sky how much I was to spend in Hotel bills.
My first real stop was Seattle. : I thought it better to stop here for a few days in order to get the low down of this great American country. One and all were enthusiastic about the generous way the United States were  admitting  emigrants from Europe. However, one of my Jewish friends pointed out that the United States has been the haven of rest for Jews who have found it necessary to leave other countrieis, for a long number of years. To prove this statement he handed me an extract taken from a letter George. Washington wrote to the U. S. Hebrew Con-gregaUon at Newport in 1790. Part of the letter reads: "It is now no more that tolerance is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.   For happily the govefh-ment of the United States^ which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as
casions their elfelctual support.
"May the Children of the stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit, and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants; while every ope shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him stand afraid. May the Father of all Mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his pwn due time and way everlasting happy."
The sentiments expressed in this letter of George Washington Is still being adhered to by the present generations in the U.S. But as one Jew told me,-"There Is no guarantee that some day the social doctrines of Nazi Germany may not come to America. We must be on the alert.  It might come about this way.   That out of the unrest resulting from disturbed economic  conditions  and political quakery, a dictator may arise in the U. S. who, with Germiaih examples and aided by foreign : money, will place blame for most of America's, troubles on the Jew.  That has besm done-in-other countries^ with resultant humiliation, .horror and bloodshed." Though my friend has shown the possiblity of such a thing happening in the U.S., personally .1 I think it is very remote.   But it Is up to every Jew, to be on the guard to fight Anti-Semitism with all his power In order to keep democratic countries a safe place for Jews to live happily, worship according to their ancient rites, help other nationalities and creeds to live their lives according to their own personal requirements,   therefore maintaining peace and harmony.
FASCISTS ARREST 14 JEWISH MERCHANTS INSPANMOROGOO
TANGIER (Vl^S)—Fourteen leading Jewish busineasmen in Laracha. Spanish Morocco, have been arrested by the rebel authorities and are being held for ransom. They were taken into custody under suspicion of having aided six Spanish Loyalist officers to escape into French Morocco. It was also reported that the rebel authorities are renewing pressure to eliminate Jews from commercial institutions, forcing many of the more well-to-do to make Involuntary contributions to the nationalist army.