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VANCOUVER, B.C., PSIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1937
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Archbishop of Canterbury
Scores Anti-Semitism
GUADELLA HONORED BY KING GEORGE VI.
LONDON (WNS)—A warning that anti-Semitism in Great Britain is reaching disturbing proportions and a plea to check it before it spreads were contained in the New York diocesan letter issuea by the Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, the supreme head of the Church of England. "I am concerned to notice some signs of the growth of anti-Semitic sentiment in this country," he wrote. "It is, I know, at present confined to a few very irresponsible persons, but unless it is checked
it may spread. I trust we may be"--
spared the shame of giving any sort of encouragement to the discreditable prejudice which has led to cruel persecution in other countries, and especially in Germany, of a race to which our Saviour in His human life belonged."'
Church to Take Up Fight This statement is believed to be the first step in an organized movement by the Church of England to combat anti-Semitism in England. A movement to this effect was launched at a recent conference of high church leaders at Sheffield where a resolution urging the Church of England to deal with anti-Semitism was adopted.
Palestine Symphony Go To Paris WithToscanini
May
JERUSALEM (WNS-Palcor Agen. cy)—So impressed is Arturo Toscon-ini with the Palestine Symphony Orchestra which he is now conducting that he plans to take the unit to Paris to play at the International Exhibition this summer, he declared. Expressing a wish to return to the HKoly Land as soon as^ possible,' tlife Italian Maestro promised that he would be here next November at any rate. Since his arrival in Palestine he has received a series of ovations probably unequalled in any other country. He has been especially pleased because most of his admirers have been laborers and farmers. Honored by Colony Toscanini was presented with an orange orch?.rd at the colony of Ramath Hashavim, as a token of the esteem in which he is held by the German-Jewish middle-class settlers there. A chorus of the village children sang their greeting, and the local council chairman Rosenoff an. nounced during his address that the land adjacent to the orchard would be used for the construction of a community center bearing Toscan-ini's name. Toscanini, attempting to reply, declared that he was too moved to speak. His wife was seen to shed tears as the announcement was made. As the chairman gave the honored guest a scroll commemorating the occasion, Toscanini, Huber-man, and other ceremonially planted saplings at the site.
LONDON—Philip Guadella, prominent biographer and former presi-r dent of the English Zionist Federation won the distinction of being the first Jewish appaintee of King George VI when the latter named hjm to the board of the London Hospital. Guadella was an intimate friend of former King Edward VII and was a visitor in Vancouver three years ago.
Palestine Entries Drop 50% In 1936
In
Loving Memory
JERUSALEM (WNS-Palcor Agency)—During 1936, 30,000 Jewish immigrants entered Palestine, as com. pared with 61,851 in 1935, according to provisional figures of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The immigrants were divided as follows: 5,213 were classified as capitalists, 10,880 arrived on certificates, 8,550 were dependents, 1,557 were students, and 977 were religious arrivals.
Council Chairman Names Committees
; The passing of Etta Koenigsberg has brought deep grief to the hearts of literally scores cf people. A resident of Vancouver all her life she has left her imprint upon it for in all that she did she gave of herself whole-
'. heartedly—unstintingly.
There is no Jewish activity in the community which she did not serve. We can say this unqualifiedly. Into each work, whether it was Community Chest, Council of Jewish Women, Sisterhood of Beth Israel, Administrative Council, Hadassah, her generosity of spirit was felt and to her credit must be laid much of the growth of our community.
There are few that have not known her friendliness, hospitality, rich humor and constant kindliness—to Jew and Gentile. They feel themselves, in this sad hour, greatly emuched thereby. Here was a Jewish life in the biggest sense of the word—embracing in its scope the sanctity \ Df the }io?ne, the tenderness of Motherhood and the urge to serve one's ] fellowmen. ;
To be deprived of all this is hard indeed for family, friends and] community—but to have had the opportunity to know and admire her,; must leave us very grateful.
Italy Compromises on
Controversy in Tripoli
Jews To Be Allowed To Close ShoDs For Half A Day On
The Sabbath
D'Annunzio Praises Italy's Treatment of Jews
ROMA (WNS)—Following the intervention of a Jewish delegation and the receipt of cabled protests from Jews in Italy, Governor Italo Baibo of Tripoli, Italy's North African colony, has agreed to permit Jewish merchants to keep their stores closed half a day on Saturday, according to reports received here from Tripoli. This concession is a compromise between Balbo's insistence that Jews keep open all day and the refusal of Jewish Sabbath-observers to violate the Sabbath. Under the new regulations the Jews must open their shops after mid-day prayers.
I NEW YORK—Italy under Fascism the best land in the world for Jews and the only one where anti-Semitism Is unknown, Aigo D'Annunzio, son of the famous poet, declared in an art!-cic in Progress© Italo-Americano.
Italy Agrees to Stop Palestine Propaganda
TEST CASE FRAMED FOR BLACK SHIRT LAW
Mr. A. G. Hirschberflf Appoints Chairmen of Committees and Personnel for 1937
Those who will be responsible for the efficiency and progress of the affairs of the Vancouver Administrative Council have been named, this week, by Mr. A. G. Hirschberg, newly-elected chairman.
The officers are as follows: Chairman, A. G. Hirschberg; First Vice-Chairman, P. Lesser; Second Vice-Ohairman, J. W. Herman; Honorary Treasurer, M. Koenigsberg; Honorary Secretary, Mrs. H. B. Kahn.
Serving on the four major committees will be Mr. H. Ablowitz, chairman, Community Centre Committee, assisted by S. Rothstein, S. Wasser-man, N. Brown, Mrs. H. B. Kahn and (Continued on Page 4)
LONDON (WNS)—Having doffed tlieir uniforms in accordance with the new public order law forbidding the wearing of political uniforms. Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist blackshirts are preparing a test case in the courts to determine the right to wear black shirts and ties under their coats without violating the law. Acting on the advice of legal authorities who hold that the law does not forbid black shirts under ordinary coats, the Mos-leyites are seeking a formal legal interpretation of the law. The police, upon whom rests the enforcement of the law, are eager for the test.
PLAIN TALK
By AL SEGAL
CANADIAN PUBUCATION TO COMBAT JEW-BAmNG
Thus this month (Jan. 15-19) the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in convention in New Orleans, applies itself to the biennial business cf making sure Reform Judaism still is alive. This time the tremendous inquiry is contained in the question, "Does Worship in the Reform Synagogue Meet the Needs of tlie Modern Man?"
I am no Orthodox Jew casting invidious slurs at Reform Judaism. Indeed, I am a dues-paying member ol a Reform Temple and, I am a Reform Jew.
I know it doesn't mean much to me. Certainly it is nothing I would care to die for, if immolation is the supreme test of a man's faith. If it came to that, if it were ordered that I must be burned for being a Reform Jew, I shouuld be greatly distressed for having to perish in vain. I am not aware that Reform Judaism is anything warm in my heart or anything bright in my eyes. Why, then, should I die for it?
Indeed, I scarcely live for it, save for that part of my life which is devoted to earning the $65 annual dues. On Yom Kippur I go to the temple but never can feel any of the elations (Continued on Page 2)
NOTED PALESTINE EDITOR SPEAKS IN SEATTLE
NATIONAL FUND MASS MEETING WEDNESDAY
A bird's eye view of the activities and accomplishments of the National Fund will be given at a Mass Meeting called for Wednesday evening, iTanuiary 20, at '8^5 p.m., at the Cen-
MONTREAL (WNS)—To combat the anti-Semitic agitation of certain French-Canadian papers, the Unity, and Good Will Association of Can- the Diaspora, ada has started a publication of Le Droit de Vivre (The Right to Live), a magazine edited in French by Arthur Larose. In addition to its title the periodical carries the slogan, "men are born free and equal in their rights," and "liberty and dem. ccracy are indivisible.
Ittamar Ben-Avi, chief editor of the Palestine Daily Mail, and at present touring the United States in order to clear up certain misunderstandings he believes exist in the public mind concerning Jewish-Arab disturbances in Palestine, was a guest in Seattle last week. Ben Avi has been wounded several times during his colorful career as editor of one of the Holy Land's leading journals, by hostile Arabs, but bears them no grudge.
He points out that the Jew's only aim and object in Palestine is to live in peace with his Arab neighbors on land which he is not "conquering" through bloody means but merely re-inheriting after years of absence in
Rabbi J. L. Zlotnik
tre, by Mr. K. Katznelson, chairman.
Of special interest will be Rabbi Cass' account of National Fund activities as he saw them last year on his visit to Palestine. Rabbi Cass will illustrate his address with pictures taken by him during his stay in the Holy Land.
Rabbi J, L. Zlotnik's long record of Zionist association will add exceeding value to his appearance on the program. As Executive Director of the Zionist Organization of Canada, as a representative of Canada to the World Zionist Congress in Geneva, as Field Worker for the Zionist Organization to South America he has gained enviable information of all phases of Zionism.
LONDON WNS)—A secret corol-lory to the Anglo-Italian gentlemen's agreement signed in Rome is reported to contain a pledge by Italy to discontinue her propaganda in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Egypt and elsewhere in the Near East. Italy is said to have agreed to end her broadcasts in Arabia from the Bari radio station which were said to have stirred up the Arabs during the recent Palestine disorders.
CONVENOR
Another Penitent
WARSAW (WNS) — Fed through generosity of the Jews of Nalewky Street, the heart of Warsaw's Jewish quarter, when he fainted from hunger, Jan Golubtchik, leader of the gang of anti-Semitic hooligans that had terrorized Warsaw's Jews, publicly apologized to them and announced that he was through forever with anti-Semitism. This is the second instance in the last few weeks of an anti-Semitic terrorist publicly proclaiming his remorse.
Intervention For Spanish Hostages Promised
Behind the Noble Prize Winner
FOUR JEWS HELPED BRING O'NEILL BEFORE PUBLIC
INTERVENTION FOR SPANISH
LONDON (WNS) — The tragic plight of German Jewish refugees in Spain is expected to be eased as a result of representations made in their behalf by the World Congress to Sir Neil Malcolm, League of Nations High Commissioner for German Piefugees, and the Spanish ambassador in London. Sir Neil agreed to take up the persecution of these refugees by General Franco with the League of Nations while the Spanish ambassador promised a spokesman of the World Jewish Congress that his government would attempt to differentiate between the German Jewish emigres and the pro-Nazi Germans in Spain. The Spanish envoy explained that the Loyalists had hitherto made no distinction between
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—Co7irtesy of Vancouver Sun
Young D'Annunzio said -that if instead of being unfriendly toward Italy, American Jews would get into closer touch with their brethren in Italy they would see that Italy is one of the few countries where Jewish communities are well off. ^ The Jews of America must understand that if their unfriendliness, bitter feelings and opposition should damage Italian interests they would thereby do injury to the only people among whom Jews find tolerance and complete cooperation on the part of the government."'
EX-EDITOR POST APPOINTED JURIST
WINNIPEG (WNS)—L. S. Matlin, a former editor of the Jewish Post, Winnipeg Anglo-Jewish weekly, has been appointed provincial magistrate in the Province of Manitoba, according to announcement by W. J. Major, Provincial attorney-general. Judge Matlin, a graduate of the Manitoba Law School, served as executive secretary of the Canadian Zionist Con. vention in 1927.
Polish Socialists Disapprove Anti-Semitism
WARSAW (WNS) — Emphasizing that only emigration to Palestine can solve the problem of Polish Jewry, M. Neidzalkovski, titular leader of the Polish Socialists, announced that
Germans and were holding all of,
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them as hostages. He explamed that . ...
TOSCANINI PLEDGES RETURN TO PALESTINE
JERUSALEM (WNS-Palcor Agency)—A sacred oath from the Bible was invoked by Arturo Toscanini to pledge his return to Palestine, where he conducted the first concerts of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, organized by Bronislaw Huberman. Before leaving for Egypt with the orchestra to conduct concerts in >Mexandrii>. and Cairo, the maestro wrote in Italian in the book of visi. tors of the Palestine Orchestra the 35th verse of the 89th chapter of Psalms: "My covenant will I not break. Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." He prefaced the inscription with the words: "My Palestine friends." Toscanini was referring to his promise to return late !:his year and perhaps every year to conduct concerts in Palestine.
By Bertrom Jonas
Eugene O'Neill, American dramatist, has received the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1936. In this article Mr. Jonas traces the share of four Jews in bringing Mr. O'Neill the fame and recognition he so richly deserves, tion he so richly deserves.—THE EDITOR. A couple of weeks ago we read that the Nazis had verboten the music of the celebrated composer Wolfgang Mozart because he had used a Jewish librettist. Knowing to what strange lengths the Aryan nonsense can be carried, we wouldn't be surprised to learn one of these days that the Nazis have ordered a boycott of the plays of Eugene O'Neill, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature. ONeill is a full-blooded Aryan. So far as we knew he has no Jewish Kinsmen. Nor has he a Jewish secretary or a Jewish wife. But if the Nazis decide to boycott him and his works it will be because throughout his notable career as Americas number one playwright he has been intimately identified with prominent Jewish figures in the American theatre.
Helped by Four Jews In a certain sense four Jews—George Jean Natham, Theresa Helburn, Philip Moeller and Lee Simonson—have a share in O'Neill's career. Nathan was the man who discovered O'Neill. Miss Helburn is the head of the Theatre Guild, which has produced most of O'Neills plays. Moeller directed all of the O'Neill works staged by the Guild, while Simonson designed the settings for many.
These four distinguished personalities of the American theatre, the Jewish big four in O'NeiHs dramatic career, so to speak, have each in his
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hereafter his government would permit all refugees vouched for by the High Commissioner and the World Jewish Congress to leave Spain. Sir Nc:Il promised to obtain League intervention with the Fascists in be. half of the Jewish refugees who are treated as Communists by the Franco regime.
CATHOLICS 0,K. BBOYCOTT
VIENNA (WNS) —The economic boycott against the Jew.s, which the Nazis and clerical anti.Semites have
firmer attitude toward anti-Semitism. In a press interview he said that Polish Fascists and reactionaries are u.sing anti-Semitism as a mask for their plots against the Polish republic. In reply to this declaration the central committee of the Polish Zionists announced that Zionists would .support all left wing parties in future I oloction:i because they are the sole i ( ppr,nr:it3 of anL'-Semitism.
' been pushing for ove ra year, won the appioval i.'f the official Catholic organ in its special Chiistmas odi-tion.
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