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VANCOUVER, MAY 20, 1938
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PLAIN TALK
By AL SEGAL
Cinna tke Poet
. 'Orson Welles' stream-lined, modem version of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" came to our town, and I ani still bemused by the scene in which Cinna the Poet is torn to pieces.
He was no Jew, but Cinna the Poet <^as offered in the Welles' version) looked to me more Jewish than Shy-lock; though in this case I may be like the Jew^who being asked to write an essay-dii'Siepharite wrote on "The Elephant and the" Jewish Problem.' We are alwa;ys seeing reflections of ourselves in the strangest places.
Anyway, Cinna the Poet's tragedy was much like our own. Cinna's bespectacled eyes seemed misty with dreams of brooks and rills and starlit nights. He was wearing modern clothing with baggy trousers and one I Could guess that when Cinna the Poet lyrasn't dreaming he pressed garments jfor a living in some Roman clothing Ifactory. Perhaps he dreamed even ||vheh he was at the pressing machine, l^d when his mind was absent (being Kir oS in a cloud) a pair of pants oc-Icasionally burned/
Cinna came upon the stage with lis- pockets full of poems. Things. (Continnetfr;^ Page Four)
Youth Federation to
Present Dramatic Night
Two Jewish Plays, One Russian and One English Play to be Staged by Talented Groups
The committee in charge of the Second Annual Dramatic Night of the Vancouver Jewish Youth Federation is to be highly lauded, first, on its wise choice of plays of diverse interest, and secondly, on its allotment of characteristic roles to capable and experienced young actors and actresses.
Of the four plays to be presented, two are in Jewish, one in Russian, and one in English. In the two Jewish presentations, those taking part are Soloman Pelman, Yetta Horn-stein, Anne" Marlove, Harold Orloff, Maurice Jaryis, Dave Genser, Bill Simmons, and Sam Korbin, in the first, Anne Sweid, Rose Rosefleld, Vivian Crystall, Arthur Simons, Bill Simmons, and/Arthur Zacks in the second.
The principal performers of the Russian play are Yetta Hornstein, Lottie Angel, and Yudith Victor. Gertrude Fouks, whose splendid acting in the recent 'presentation of "The Black Year" won highest commendation, has the principal role of the English play. She is strongly supported by Lillian Belkin a.nd Al Korbin.
The quality of the acting in all four plays is so consistently high that Carleton Clay, the experienced director of the group, is seriously
GRAND JURY TO INDIGT17 NAZIS ASSI!IES
FEDERAL GRAND JURY-NEW YORK (WNS) — Seventeen Nazis charged with being members of 4n international spy ring operating in the. ITnited States are expected to be indicted by a Federal Grand Jury here. Four of the Nazis are already
Judaean Oratorical Contest
to be Held This Sunday
HABOLD LANDO
"Energetic Drainatie ChairmaU*^
considering entering one of. them in the Dramatic Festival:
This dramatic treat of the year will be presented to the public oit Thursday evening,. May 26, in.the^ King Edward ^Hi^ School A^idit^ rlum.
f in custody but the United States Dis-^tricit Attorney's Office has assembled evidence linking 13 others to a report-theft of the secret code of the United States Air Corps.
BABYLON, Long Island (WNS)— An ordinance to bar parades any-•where in the township in which fls^s of ibreign hationis are carried is being considered by the town board of Babylon as a measure, to ban a contemplated Nazi parade. Protests against the parafle have been filed by the American Legion and the Knights iCf Columbus.
: idjW YORK (WNS)—For jiasting anti'-Semitic stickers on. the windows of 100 Jewish-owned stores in the Astoria section of Queens, Rudolph Fritz, a naturalized German-borh citizen, was fined $10 in the Long Island city court by Magistrate Joseph D'Andrea. ^
To Hold Convention In
y.
[rs. H. Kahn, and Mrs. J. J. Diamohd to Preside at Sessions
The 9th Western Intersta^te Con-trention of the Council of Jewish Wo-len to be held in Seattle, Washing-Ion, May 22r2& at Olympic Hotel.
The outstanding women leaders of the Pacific coast will be present to take part in this new, fine program, arranged by the Seattle and Ta-'^coma Sections.
There are many highlights, including several addresses by Mrs. M. Miller of New York, an address by Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Bottinger, daughter of President of United States, Mrs. Arthur (Goldsmith, a national director of Council, and other prominent speakers. Vancouver women are well represented on the program. .
Mrs. Harold Kahn, 1st vice-president of the convention, will preside at one of the sessions. Mrs. Jj .J. Diamond, president of Vancouver, will preside at one session, also Mrs. E. R. Sugerman is presenting a paper on the subject: "Is Britain's New Policy of Realism the Way to Peace?"
The hostesses of this convention are the Seattle and Tacoma sections, and one day will be spent in Tacoma.
Vancouver Council" members are urged to take advantage of this rare opportunity to attend this splendid convention so close to home!
The program is filled with interesting arid stimulating as well as very fine entertainment for the visitors.
BETH ISRAEL GOLF TOURNAMENT TO BE HELO SUNDAY
An eyewitness describes a baptismal ceremony in 1599 in which the Pope took personal charge ^f the ceremony. "Early last Sunday the Pope celebrated Mass in the Chapel of San
Jewish persons, three men and four women dressed all in red. "IJhese tpe Pope baptized himself in the presence of nineteen Cardinals, seven of whom he appointed as god-facers."
Members of the Men's Club and the Beth Israel Congregation will be privileged to participate in the first of the golf tournaments to be arranged by the Men's Club this summer, on Sunday morning. May 22nd, at the Peace Portal Golf Club. Mr, Sam Wasserman, chairman of the Golf Committee, announced this week that play begins at 10.00 a.m., and advised all participants to leave the city about 8.45 a.m. in order to arrive at the Grolf Club, a half a mile this side of Blaine on time. In addition to a variety of attractive prizes, there will be moving pictures taken of all participants on tees, fairways and greens.
Mr. A. Silverson and Mr. L. Bearg are in charge of establishing handicaps, and transportation facilities can be made through Dr. B. Mosco-vitch, Mr. A. Evans, or Mr, S. Wasserman.
The tournament will be held rain or shine, and constitutes the qualifying round for the beautiful Alfred A. Evans Golf Trophy.
Voltaire, the famous 18th century French writer, had some rather disagreeable pecuniary experiences with individual Jews. In one of his article^ be concludes that 'in short, we find In them only an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and en-
FASCISTS STAGE DEMONSTRATIONS IN BRUSSELS
BRUSSELS (WNS) — Shouts of "Jews, go to Tel Aviv!", "Out with the Jews!", and "Let's act like Germany and Austria" echoed through the streets of Brussels as groups of Rex-ists, Belgian Fascists, held a series of anti-Jewish demonstrations in many parts of Brussels. The Rexists paraded through the streets in defiance of an official ban while thousands looked on, seemingly amused.
PLAN MEMORIAL TO ISAAC RUBINOW
NEW YORK (WNS)—Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, executive vice-president of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, has accepted the chairmanship of the Isaac M. Rubinow Memorial doUec-tion, a project to raise funds with v/hich to provide the library oi the School for Social Work in Jerusalem with books, pamphlets and other relevant literature available in all fields of social service. The collection is to be .a memorial to.-the late Dr. Isaac M. Rubinow, executive director of B'nai ib'rith and one of the nation's leadiiig sociologists.
riched. them."
Still we ought not bum
Once again Vancouver Young Ju--daea presents its annual Oratorical contest, on Simday, May 22, 8 pjn., at the Commimity Centre. For several years now local Judaeans have sponsored this type of affair as part of its educational program. Each year the contest has been a decided success in more ways than one, in attendance, and in the standard of the material—both speeches and speakers—^presented. ;
Vancouver has produced many successful and able speakers. And nearly all of these speakers owe a very grreat deal of their success in oratory to the experience gained in events such as this. "That the standard of orators in Judaean oratorical contests is very high is evinced by the success of many of these past contestants in outside speaking where they have obtained recognition.
This year's contest promises to be very entertaining. In the past the oratorical contests have been far from dry and any who attended can vouch for the interesting times at these events.
In addition to the actual orating^ this year's Oratorical Contest will be supplemented with a well varied programme.
Remember! This affair" is not being staged to make money; rather it is being put on for what it is worth in educational and entertainment val-i-ue. To all the youth of the city it gives an opportunity to compete. To all the city it gives an opportunity to witness good oratory, to see and hear good entertainment, and to suppori the endeavors of an active youth or-ganizaiioii. AH Jews are -requested to support MAs Contest.
Lell> Jaffe and RaMi Margolis open United Palestine Appeal Campaign
Vienna Jews Raise 800,000 Schillings Dernanded by Nazis
The fathers of the American Revolution adopted as their first seal a picture of the overthrow' of Pharoah at the Red Sea, with the motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." According to one historian it was Hebraic mortar that cemented the foundations of the American Republic.
COUNCIL CAMP REGISTRATION
TIME: Boys—July 1 to 15; airls~-Jitly 15 to 31
Name
Address
Age................ Phone,
Mail or phone in registration immediately, Mrs. A. Boyaner, 5869 Willingdoh
Kerr. 3560
Holland Refuses to Admit More Refugees
VIENNA (WNS)—The Vienna Jewish Commtmity has succeeded by herculean efforts in raising the 800,000 schillhigs ($160,000) demanded of it by the Nazi authorities and has turned over the money. The Nazis insisted on getting this simi as a token" of good wiii because the Jewish Commimity was charged with raising a similar sum to finance the proposed plebiscite of former Chancellor Kurt. Schuschnigg.
Meanwhile, it was disclosed that Jews leaving Austria must make up their minds to leave behind virtually all of their property. Technically, Jewish refugees are supposed to be allowed to take 75% of their holdings with them but in practice they are deprived of their entire property. After a prospective emigrant has paid a 25% flight tax the balance of his assets are deposited in a blocked account from which he can draw only for payment of debts in Austria but which he forfeits once he leaves the country. Non-Jewish Austrians who leave the country are being told that once they go abroad they may never return.
The ghetto classes recently introduced into the high schools have now been extended to the grammar schools. All Jewish pupils in Vienna's elementary schools have been ordered to register in special Jewish schools. Rudolph Beer, former director of the world-famous Deutsche Theatre in Vienna, committed suicide. He had been ousted from his position a few days after the Nazis came into power.
THE HAGUE (WNS) — Holland will admit no more refugees because of an increase in employment, the government has armounced.Even eni-igres well able to support themselves will be barred. The sole exception will be a riefugee in danger of being sent back to a country from which he has been exiled. Refugees admitted prior to March of this year are not affected by the measure.
ARABS RELAX BOYCOTT ON _PARTmON
- JERUSALEM (WNS)—The Arab boycott of the Technical Commission on Partition virtually came to an end when a conferanes of leaders of the Nashashibi Party at Ramleh decided that while the.party would not officially appear before the Commission, Arabs would be able to testify in their personal capacity. It is believed that the Arab moderates and members of the clergy intend to participate in the .Commission's hearings.
JEWISH YOUTH PRESENTS PLANE T060VERNMENT
WARSAW (WNS)—The first of a fleet of planes to be presented by a Jewish youth committee as a gift to the Polish state was accepted in behalf of the government by General Leon Berbecki, chairman of the Polish League for Air Defense. He said the gift was a sjmibol of the fraternal ties among all citizens.
Two years before the French revolution (1789) the statesman Mirabeau urged upon his fellow citizens better treatment of the Jew. "If you wish the Jews to become better men and useful citizens, then banish every humiliating distinction, open to them every avenue of gaining a livelihood; instead of forbidding them agricul-aure, handicrafts and the mechanical arts, encourage them to devote themselves to these occupations."
$2600 Raised In Two Days by Enthusiastic Community
The U.P.A. campaign for 1938 was o£ficially opened on Saturday evening. May 15th, at a banquet in honor of Leib Jaffe and Rabbi William Margolis. Over one hundred were in attendance.
A great deal of enthusiasm was aroused by the speakers. Leib Jaffe stressed the iniportance of Palestine to Jewry in the present terrible days for the Jewish masses in Europe. He recounted the achievements of the Yishuv in Palestine, their struggles and triumphs and appealed to the Vancouver Jewish community to stand behind these front line fighters for Jewry. He brought out the fact that in all the communities in the Dominion that he visited, subscriptions were doubled and, in many instances trebled. He urged that Vancouver also do its duty, not only to the Homeland, but to themselves and their children.
Rabbi William Margolis, in an impassioned and powerful speech told the audience of the many problems before the Jewish people. Of the rise of faacism and nazitsm in Canada and other democratic countries. He urged his audience to remember the fate of <]^erman and Austrian Jewry, who in years gone by mocked the idea of Palestine, but now find it the only country of refuge. Now the rest of world Jewry must help them and Polish Roumanian Jews find a place in Palestine.
At the conclusion of the speeches by the guests, Mr. M. Soskin, who acted as toastmaster, asked for subscriptions. The total amount raised was well over $2,100.00.
On Sunday, at 1 p.m. Mr. Leib Jaffe spoke over CJOR. In the evening, he and Rabbi Margolis addressed a mass meeting in the Community Centre, five hundred dollars were pledged.
On Thursday, May 19th, a general meeting of the U.P.A. campaign committee will be held for the purpose of organizing a systematic canvass of the whole community. Everyone is asked to help the campaign by meeting the canvassers, with a helpful smile and a readiness to give as much as possible to this national undertaking.
COUNCIL LEADER TO BE HERE MAY 27
Mrs. Marlon Monteser Miller, serving as executive director of the National Council of Jewish Women, will be in Vancouver as the guest speaker at the Council's closing Luncheon at the Hotel Vancouver on Friday;-May 27. Mrs. Miller has had a distinguished career as an educater and an ex-
BIBS. MABION MILLEB
ecutive. An outstanding authority on child study problems, Mrs. Miller formerly associate director of the Child Study Association, and though relinquishing that post when she came to the Council, she remains a member of the Child Study Association's board of directors.
Mrs. Miller has written and lectured extensively on mental hygiene, child guidance and related subjects. She is editor of the Department of Child Training of the Delineator and has contributed chapters to "Guidance of Childhood and Youth." edited by Benjamin G. Gruenberg. and "Our Children," edited by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Sldenle M. Gruenberg.. . ■;