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Plain Talk
By AL SEGAL
- BEING A BAPTIST
A Baptist lady writes to invite me to come and join her church and be safe from the afflictions that keep {falling so dreadfully on Jews. She asks me to come over some Sunday and learn for myself how nice and ^peaceful it Is In a Baptist church. (Baptists never have to worry about pogroms.')
; The lady-feels sure that once I look ■over her^ proposition 1 yrm tu^ It .for my family's sake.
t "My family have b<|en Baptists nearly 100 years/' she says; as if to assure me'that being a Baptist isn't like being a Jew who doesn't know from today till toni^rroTv what's going to happen to him. Being a Baptist, she seems to say, is like li^dng in a safe old homestead on which the mortgage has been paid off.
The Baptist lady says sbe feels &ee to invite me to join her church because she likes my understanding attitude toward Jesus as expressed occasionally in this column,
I am grateful to her for offering me sanctuary in her church, what with the way the wild winds are blowing about my poor old head. Her church which I pass by every day fipqks so snug. I noticed that the other evening they gave a/chicken dinner there.
Proposed National Advisory Budget Gommittee Discussed By Administrative Goiiricil
.,-^Yet, if I joined her church, could,   ^. , , ^^ ,
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^ .left all other Jews out in the cold %hd enjoyed the warmth of the safe 'Baptist communion? I am not exactly ;a person who enjoys being a martyr ,but you just can't nm away from ^010* family when the house is about be foreclosed by the sheriff.
But I guess it must be very comfortable among the Baptists. I could ecome a Baptist and that would be bout the end of the matter. I wduld-t eveii be spoken of as Segal the Baptist. I would be a man who would lie judged entirely by the merits or ;Uie defects of his character. V The fact that as a Baptist I prefer to be baptized by total. immersion i would not reduce me in the least in the esteem of those who believe in baptism by sprinkling. My preference for the baptismal tank would not set me aside as a person in the least •different from the advocates of the ^baptismal font.  If the matter was jbrought up at all it would be only in a humorous/Vein.
(I have in mind how as a Jew I am a marked man because of differences that are mostly imaginary.) , As a Baptist I could be a scalawag with none of my sins being visited iiipon the whole Baptist church. I "wouldn't be described as that Baptist scoundrel Segal. For it would be widely felt that the great majority of Baptists were very decent people and why should they all be damned on account of one heel?
I could go to look for a job. and no one would find fault in me for being a Baptist. The Baptist faith is one of those approved by all industrialists who make a practice of asking applicants what their religion is.
Yes, being a Baptist is a happy identity.
Nobody ever makes speeches against the Baptists. As a Baptist I would not open my paper with trembling hands. ... "What are they saying against Baptists today? ... With a light heart I could hurry at once to the back page" where they keep lil Abner and Superman.
As a Baptist among the Baptists I wouldn't always be talking about the matter of being a Baptist. . . . "Do you think it will ever be good for us Biaptists?" . . . "What futture is there for us Baptists?" ... No! Nothing like that. Being a Baptist needn't be heavy on a man's mind until Sunday and even on Sunday he may decide to take an automobile ride instead.
(I know how it feels to be a Jew
Martin M. Cohn, of Toronto, an, outstandtog and interesting visitor ih yancouyer this week, on behalf of the Canadian Association of- Social-Workers; was the gue^^ at a no-host dinner Monclay eyeing of the Executive conuni of the Vancouver Jewish Administrative Council, prior to the general meeting of that body held at the Commuhiiy Centre at 8:00 pjn.     : .
A large group, truly, representative of Vancouver Jev?ry, attended this March meeting, on the agenda of which was' included a question of international importance in connectloii with the proposed setting up by the Council of Jewish ii^ederations j and Welfare Funds, inc., of a National Advisory Budget Service.
Up to the present day, since its or-gianization, the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, has been merely, a fact-finding agency, obtaining statistical facts of organization and finance for its member agencies, covering all Jewish organizations and institutions throughout the world which solicit f unds fqr their support. However, apparent popular demand during recent years has en-couTf^ed the C.JJP. and WP. to feel that they should further develop and submit for the edification of their member fund-raising welfare fimds what they would consider a fair, unbiased, pro rata, percentage all6tment of funids raised to be distributed amongst these various beneficiaries.
debate at/th6 annual meeting of the C.J.P. arid WJ*. held at Atlajita in February, which resulted in the submitting to all affliated agencle^, one of which Is. ffie Vancouver Jewish Administrative Council, referendum reports of the discussion, covering both the affirmative and negative points of view, with the request that after careful study and consideration a majority vote, either for or against the establishment of this Advisory Committee, be fiubmitted to them.
Following thoroiigh discussion by the members of the Vancouver Jewish Administrative Coimcll of this pertinent question, a standing vote . (Continued on Page 4) See COMMITTEE
MARTIN M. COHN Guest Speaker
ARMY CHAPLAIN WHO HELPED JEWS SEIZED
A German Army Chaplain has been arrested by the Gestapo because he showed kindness to-Jews, it was recently reported. The Chaplain, named Gruber, was arrested and: charged with having tried to influ-; ence prominent people in the Nazi'
GRATIFYING RESULTS |N WELFARE CAMPAIGN MilNISRWAY
i! The 1941 Vancouver Jewish .Exter-^1 Welfare Campaign is well under way and satisfactory results are being :turned into campaign headquarters at the Community Centre. '; The needs of beneficiary agencies, ^such as the; Johit Distribution Cbm-jWttee, United Jewish Refugee and iWar Relief Agencies, etc., have been greatly increased due to the: terrific 'demands on them for overseas relief. Vancouver Jewry is urged to remember this situation when workers call
Vancouver, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and Chapters to Participate
Marvellous Programme Arranged; Local Community Giving Support
pn them for pledges and are asked give generously. Their continued Interest and support is needed as the iVancouver campaign must reach its quota. ■ ■ ; Workers are requested to turn in all "feompleted cards to the Community Centre during the. week-end as an early wind-up of the campaign is ne-icessary.
Of vital importance to American
Jewry is the announcement made this
„ ^   J. J ^eek that the United Jewish Appeal
Party to prevent the deportation of4,..„ , ... ^t",
,   ^   Jl ,    ,   ,  ^ ^     will continue for 1941 with a combin-
TALMUD TORAH PURIM CELEBRATION SUNDAY EVENING
Jews to France and Poland. Before this, it was alleged he had helped Jews to escape to dempcra.tic countries. This is the first time the Ges-
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'IKin^ anS'IiTis ejtpecte^ tliat the'i^^^ man Army High Command will attempt to release Gruber.
The Bennan Family
Ail example of the service and loyalty of the Jews in the war is given by the Berman family of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Eight men in the family are now serving in the British forces, and a ninth has begtm train-|i ing as a cadet in line for a captaincy.
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL ANNOUNCED FOR 1941 IN UNITED STATES
BOB BOZEN» ConcIa,ve Chairman
ed campaign of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the United Palestine Appeal and the National iRefugee Service. #^Db]|tos^ the^PMti^.^ 4t had been anticipated that there v/ould be a definite dissolution of this
joint campaign, but through the unceasing efforts of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds Inc., negotiations were continued im-til definite understanding and satisfactory arrangements were agreed upon between the three interested agencies, and the combined drive as held in recent years was re-established for 1941.
whom   the   pressure   of dreadful events makes conscious of what he is every hour.) In my social convocations as Bap-(Continued on Page 4)
An elaborate Purlm. entertainment will be presented by the children of the Talmud Torah on Sunday evening, March 16th, at 6:30 p.m., in the Lodge Hall of the Centre. A cordial invitation is extended to all members of the community, and especially the parents, to attend.
The program will feature a one-act play in Yiddish entitled "Esther's Dream," which has been coached by Mr.' J. Yoimgson, assisted by Miss Sonia Jaffee, of the Talmud Torah staff. Mr. Zvi Schreiner, principal of the school, is in charge of the entire program.
The. following are those participating: Mildred Ringel, Alvin Gelmon, Helen Hammer, Bernard Morris, David jaffee, David Youngson, Louis Bokser, Annie Spiro, Becky Saper-steln, Annie Lederman, Riva Zeben-sky, Arnold Belkin, Harry Wolfe, Max Power, Aaron Tenenbaimi, Esther and Lily Weinstein, Pearl Kovish, Morris Hazan, Philip Swartz, Betty Etkln, David Zlvot, Harry Green-berg, Morris Cohen, Allan Diamond, David Fishman, Mitchell Slozberg, MoiTis Harrison, Jack Wolfe, Rita Gurevlch, Sally Dodek, Sally Tenen-baum, Esther Cammerman, Gerald Creamer, Nlta Aqua, Roy Slakov, Phyllis Toban, Thelma Barer, Madge Karbus, Rita Weinstein and Elaine Jaffee.
Thanks are extended to members of the Ladles' Auxiliary who provided Purlm treats for the children after the reading of the Megillah, on Wednesday evening.
200 Jewish Women Attend Annual Youth Aliyah Luncheon
Magnificent Sum of $1,100.00 Raised; Tables Uniquely and Beautifully Decorated
Recognizing the value and necessity of work of Hadassah during the war, 200 Vancouver Jewish women attended the Youth Aliyah annual donors' limcheon which took place at Uie Community Centre on March Sth,^ paying $6.00, $10.00 and $25.00 per plate for a simple menu. $1100.00 was realized, which will be augmented when all donations are received.
Under the capable chairmanship of Mrs. Freda Weiss, assisted by executive members the limcheon was most tastefully arranged.
On the head table there was a model hospital, made up in minute detail, with many windows of miniature size. Peering through these windows one can easily discern beds with patients in them, all in different postures. Each bed is covered with a spread on which is a small Mogen Dovid._
It also contained a receiving office, with doctors in white coats, blue and white clad nurses and on the front door post there wais a M'zuzah. Even details of grounds and trees were there.
This minlatiu-e hospital is a replica of the hospital to be built by Hadassah as a memorial to their late beloved National President, Lillian Frie-man. It is proposed to erect this hospital in Palestine as a base hospital for British and Palestinian soldiers.
Each patron present received a beautiful book mark having on it a photograph of the late Lillian Prie-man. On each of the other tables there were two blue candlesticks with white candles some distance apart from which were suspended foiu: inch letters depicting the words of the various activities which Canadian Hadassah Is engaged in the up-building of Palestine. The making of the
HAROLD PSSABL, Aleph Godol
miniature hospital and other decorations were the handy work of a prominent Jewish family in our community, well-known for their active participation and valuable assistance in numerous commimal projects.
The £^est speaker of the afternoon was Mrs. Maurice Silverman of Chicago, Northwest Regional President of American Hadassah, who was introduced by Mrs. B. Shapiro, local Hadassah President.
Mrs. Silverman addressed her audience for over an horn:, delivering an inspiring message.
Youth Aliyah movement has been going on for a number of years and because of dire conditions, efforts for Youth Aliyah will continue. It assists thousands of boys and girls from war stricken zones and speeds their way to Palesttae. These "Oiphans with living parents" travel across different coimtries, via Russia, the Black Sea, Turkey and Syria.
Musical numbers contributed by Miss Irene Stelner and Joan Park; duet, 'The Gandy Fairy" and "The March" from Tschalkowsky's Nutcracker Suite, were very much appreciated.
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A letter of thanks has been received from England thanking Canadian Hadassah for contribution of 5,000 pairs of socks for mine sweepers.
$135.00 has been sent by local Hadassah to the Air Shelter Fund for ichlldren in Palestine.
The raffle recently sponsored by Hadassah raffled on March 5th, of wrist watch and silk bed throw, imder chairmanship of Mrs. M. Resnlck, were won by: B. Harris, Hotel Vancouver, No. 1905, Bulava wrist watch; A. Shaw, 1646 W. 7th Ave., No. 1668, silk bed quilt.
R. A. F. ORDERS WRITTEN IN GERMAN
A strange quirk of the war was recently revealed by a report from the British Air Ministry. A Palestinian Unit of the R,A J", operating In Greece has been receiving its filght orders written in German—the enemy tongue. The Unit is composed mainly of German Jewish refugees who had fled to Palestine and enlisted there in the Royal Air Force, and it is necessary that its orders be translated into German for their comprehension.
Calendar of the Week
Sunday, March 16— 2.00 p.m.—Beth   Israel Religious
School Purlm Party. 6.00 p.m.—Talmud Torah Children's
Purim Party. 8.00 p.m.—A.Z.A. 7.00-10.00 p.m.—Library. Monday, March 17— 10.00 a.m.—Red Cross. 1.00 p.m.—Bride's Group Red Cross. 7.30 p.m.—Business Group
Red Cross. 8.00 p.m.—Pioneer Women. Tuesday, March 18— 10.00 a.m.—Red Cross. 8.00 p.m.—B'nai B'rith Ladies' Aux.
Baking Contest. 8.00 p.m.—B'nai B'rith Men's Lodge. Wednesday, March 19—
1.00 p.m.—Beth   Israel Sisterhood
Luncheon. 8,00 p.m.—B.B. Jr. Aux. 8.30 p.m.—Adult Education. Friday, March 21— 8.00 p.m.—^A.Z.A.   Convention Services Beth Israel Congregation. Sunday, March 23— 1.00 p.m.—A.Z.A. Convention Luncheon.
2.00 p.m.—A.Z.A. Convention. 7.00-10.00 p.m.—Library. Monday, March 24— 10.00 a.m.—Red Cross. 1.00 p.m.—Bride's Group Red Cross. 7.30 p.m.—Business Group
Red Cross.
Tuesday, March 24—
10.00 a.m.—Red Cross. Wednesday, March 26—
6.15 p.m.—Men's Club Dinner.
8.30 p.m.—Adult Education Classes.
I Commencing next Friday, March 21, Vancouver Chapter No. 119 of the' Aleph Zadik Aleph wiU be host to over 150 young men and women from Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and as far east as Spokane, when the Pacific Northwest Eleventh Annual Spring Conference of the Northwest Region opens in Vancouver on that date.
As a climax to many weeks of Industrious activity, the Conclave committee under the capable chairmanship of Bob Rozen have at length issued a programme so designed as to afford its participants, both young and old, three days of riotous merriment and to mark these, the closing days of March, one of the greatest events in the history of the Vancouver community and local chapter of A.Z.A.
By holding this Victory Conclave here Vancouver A.Z.A. is bringing into Canada much needed American exchange; perhaps, the amount of American money brought in to Canada is small as compared to the enormous expenditures made in our country's war effort, however^ it will be very helpful indeed. Vancouver AS. A. realizes this. This contribution is one of the best features of the grrand Victory Conclave.
Being so unique in its purpose as a spring activity, the success of the Victory Conclave is well assured. The
programme is as follows:
Friday, March 21:
All day registration at Convention .headquarters. Hotel Georgia. .   6:00   p.m.--Dinner   at Aleph's
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8:00 p.m.—Opening of Conclave with Sabbath services at Congregation Beth Israel. Sermon by Cdr Chairman, Albert Miller. Welcoming sermon by Chairman Bob Rozen.
9:30 p.m.—Social hour at* Centre. Refreshments by Jr. B.B.
Saturday, March 22: V-9:00 a.m.—Morning services at Congregation Beth Israel. Registration at Hotel all day.
2:00 p.m.—Bowling tournament at La Salle Recreations, 945 Granville. Two-man team from each chapter. City and shopping tours all afternoon for those Alephs interested.
9:30 p.m.—Grand Conclave ball in the Aztec Ballroom of Hotel Georgia. Music by Kenny Almond and his Band. Welcoming of delegates by an important civic dignitary, (semi-formal.)
Sunday, March 23: 10:00 a.m.-^Round
table discus-
sion of A.Z.A. activities in Northern Region. Chairman, Si Wexler, Regional Aleph Godol.
12:15 p.m.—Picture of all Alephs registered.
12:30 p.m.—Stag luncheon at the Centre, prepared by Ladies' Axudl-iary, the cost of which will be paid to the Auxiliary in War Savings Stamps. Prepared programme; Chairman, Advisor Dr. B. Bokhaut. 2:00 p.m.—Ping Pong and Table Tennis eliminations and finals, both singles and doubles, at the Community Centre.
4:30 p.m.—Extemporaneous Speaking Contest at Hotel Georgia. Cup to winner.
6:00 p.m.—Final banquet in the dining room v>f Hotel Georgia. Prepared programme. Presentation of awards to winners of competitions and presentation of War Savings Stamps to Ladies' Auxiliary, numerous Speaking Contest. Chairman, Advisor Harry Snider.
General registration for Alephs, Alumni and B.B. members to this Grand Victory Conclave is $3,00^ which includes:
(1) Couple admission to Get-Toge-ther Party, Friday.
(2) Couple admission to Grand Conclave Ball, Saturday.
(3) Single admission to Stag Luncheon, Sunday.
(4) Single admission to Final Banquet, Sunday.
Committee-chairmen for the various affairs mentioned are: Conclave Chairman, Bob Rozen; Co-Chairman, Al Miller; Get-Together Party, Alex Grossman, Harry Weiner, Ruby Silverman and Natalie Wolfe; Conclave
(Continued on Page 4) See A.Z.A. CONCLAVE