Press Archives,
Parliament Bldgs., Victoria, B.
Vol. 6, No?
Room 7, 342 West Pender Street
VANCOUVER, B.C., THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1936
Seymour 1909
$1.00 Per Year
Foreign Flashes
UNEMPLOYED MIGRATE
PRAGUE.—Several hundred unemployed Jews will be a-mong the 50,000 forest and agricultural workers to go from Czecho-Slovikia to Siberia to work in
B*nai BVith Auxiliary Attains Ninth Birthday
Work of Year Reviewed in Full, Many Activities Undertaken
Champ
Biro-Bidjan On Trial "Zi^^^^^. D^««
AtA.z.A..judaean Barney Koss
Debate, Tuesday J A RcQular FelloW
Resolved that the policy of _^
establishing a Jewish state in ^ . , ^ . '. , ^
Biro-Bidjan is desirable" is the Special Interview to the Bulletin From the Renowned
subject selected for the finals of of the inter-club debating to
Jewish Fighter
By ROBERT KEMP
On the occasion of the 9th anniversary of this, ''fg^f!.^ Tuesday .... tll^i^s^hSeri^e^e Auxiliary it is prop^ to bring before t^is Community; ^^^^^^^"Tl^
Jews have been unsuccessful in its wide and useful field of activities. Since obtaining; sponsored by the E'nai B'rith their efforts to obtain permis- its Charter, the Auxiliary has taken a keen interest iri; and is open to the public, sion to go to Palestine. all communal work and has contributed in a full mea- \ 'The competing teams are
- sure towards various undertakings in promoting thei ^-Z-A. and Young Judaea, wiillcu ^tix uvcx jum. xiguL.ug ct uu=,xuc^., witix xuii
FASCISM! growtJi and development of the jlwish Communky ii^^^^^f ^LlZ^t^^l
UNDERSTAND
ROME.—An appeal to Jews our City. to make an effort to understand Fascism and a warning to Fascists in other countries not to mix Fascism with anti Semit-isni were contained this week in an editorial in Regimo Fas-cisto, official organ of the Italian Fascist Party, of which Mario Levi, a Jew, is editor.
Barney is a slim, dark-complected, curly-haired boy, standing five foot seven. His appearance is neat and conservative. He is chatty—ease and affability are written all over him. Fighting is a business with him,
s
PRESIDENT
. .,. , ' —Maurice Belkin, Sidney Zack, The Vancouver Auxiliary has^ Harold Rome, and James i v -ni, i,- -d^
a very wide scope of interests. White. The troohv at stake intends to stick to it as long as it will have him. But
The fighting game is aces high with Barney. He
CONGRESSMAN
CONTRIBUTES
DETROIT. — Congressman John D. Dingell of Detriot, a non-Jew, this week made the first contribution in Michigan State toward the nation-wide drive for the raising of $3,500,-000 for the United Palestine Appeal to aid refugees to settle in Palestine.
JEW vs. JEW
WARSAW.—An open brawl took place before a Synagogue when members fought to prevent
MRS. J. GOLDEN
Warsaw
younger Qxford, Cambridge
...^...^^.^ prevent x%rr»ii tvt • •
boycott violators from entering Will Not PattlClpatC
^^P"""!!__ At Heidelberg U.
STATION TO OPEN Late cahle reports state that
TT?r>TTOAT T-A/T Universitics of Oxford and
JERUSALEM.--The open- Cambridge have both refused nig of the Palestine Govern- send representatives to Ger-ment radio station was today ^ ,^ Heidelberg University
^^alu^'""^^ ^""^"^ ^""^ ^Z""^ which will soon celebrate its 30th. The program provides 550th anniversary.
The "Cambridge Review"
and is giving invaluable assist-' is the H. I. Boyaner cup. If ance in many directions. It Young Judaea is successful in operates through its numerous winning, the trophy will re-Standing Committees, the chief/main in their possession, among them being, as follows :f Judges for the debate will be —The Scholarship Committees, Mrs. Norman Brown, Mr. Den-Anti-Defamation, CIothing:^^is Murphy, and Mr. Harold Service, Intellectual Advance- Freeman. The presentation of ment, Citizenship, Sick-visiting,' the cup will be made by the Membership and Entertain- donor, Mr. Harry Boyaner. ment.
The Scholarship Committee
consists of three sub-committees, each under a different Chairman. The U.B.C. Scholar- •. ship is under the supervision of> Mrs. Ben Shapiro, and it as-, sists in the education of a student who will later render! valuable service to his countdy, and at the same time we are promoting goodwill and under--standing between Jew and non- : Jew. Mrs. H. Swartz and Mrs. R. Nemetz assist Mrs. Shapiro. (Continued on Page 4) •
THE CHAMPION
Endorsation Note
At a meeting of the Administrative Council on Monday night it was resolved that all organizations contemplating soliciting advertising for programs must first obtain the sanction of the Endorsation Bureau of the Administrative Council.
he is planning ahead all the same. In Chicago, his brothers are already set up in the jewelry business and once he puts the ring behind him, he intends to move right in.
Marriage
"How about getting married, Barney?" I asked. According to Barney this event will have to be postponed for five or six years at least. He feels that fighting and marriage do not mix, but added, "There's not a Jewish mother in the world who does not want to see her child happily married, and my mother's no exception."
Views on Germany
Barney Ross is at a loss to understand how Jewish athletes have the heart to play in the Olympic games. No offer would induce him to partici-
Palestine IMi^y ^4ayed In The House Of Lords
r\ I J D" 1- pate. Of the tragic circum-
_ Uenmark S OiSnOp .stances he has little to say ex-
for speeches by the High Com missioner, a Jewish and Arab leader.
an
expresses its views in the matter as follows:—"to do so.
Royal Commission Demanded to Investigate Circumstances of Legislative Council
Hif<5 At Nazkm ^*^P^ "Things like that have mis /^l i^azism happened before and have al-
COPENHAGEN — Soundly ways turned out. The only scoring N^izis for-their subver- iiiittg we can do is to take it sive activities in Danish circles, into our hearts, and let it work Dr. Fugelsang Damgaard, Bi- itself out." ship of Denmark, spoke here at ^^33 Etching to get at Jim-a public meeting on the Perils McLarnin a|ain McLarn-of Nazism. He was accom- - &
paiiied by several noted pro-
in, he feels, has been
U.S. Clergymen Attend Institute
(send delegates) indeed, seems to me a betrayal not merely of
his and he
^ - - hopes for another bout this
Copenhagen. , summer in Chicago. Incident-
The professors described the ^,1^^ ^^^^ a meSt would net
f / ^, TT • r Strongest opposition,
fessor of the University of ,J . ^Lfh.r
(Special to the Bulletin)
...... . ........LONDON.-The British Government was aslced to- lizis''bast?heT ddmf ani '''vSik?" $25.^^
intellectual freedom but of the day by leading members of the House of Lords to ap- pointed out the forgeries of q>'5U,uuu.
voiceless victims of this perse- point a Royal Commission to investigate the circum- their writings, especially the as- -
:„ r^ ^ . „ . . . • found in the "Proto-
On Tudaf<;m ^uation in Germany. Courtesy stances under which a Legislative Council for Pales- Pepions , ^. „
JUaaiSm there can be, but no congratu- ^j^^^ ^^^^^ proposed. °^ ^^^^''^
ST. LOUIS.—One hundred lations. It is not with x.^o^ ^, ^ ^o«,.,«^ k„ -
and Mty Protestant clergymen gays that human liberty can be th^^^^rs of SbaJl TntSe ,
The Bishop and the professors then exhorted the public to do
attended an Institute on Juda- preserved. To-day Germany iw^S^^^^ 'DerelictlOtt Of Dutv' everything in their power to
ism held the past week at the hopes for English friendship; S°"'!,^""?^J^^^^ J nr D • • P"^ ^« ^n^ to all Nazis propa-
Temple Israel House where it is both wiser and more hon- Proposal was subjected to Charged To Bntain ganda. Rabbis Gerson Levi, of Chica- est to make it clear that it can LIIS^^S"! .ll^
Visitor To Lecture OnBialik
go, and Ferdinand Isserman, of be had on conditions, and only Snell taking the ead m attack- LONDON. - The British „ , . ^ . fhis city, were the Jewish on conditions. The great '^J^J^l.^tf^^tl t^lZt 9^'^"?""' ^^'^ Federation Conclave
speakers. Held under the aus- American Universities of Yale, P°^^^ ^} ^'f ^^fj^ "dereliction of duty" in carry-
Translator of Bialik to Speak on Jewish Milton.
poet, I. I.
pices V the Brotherhood of Harvard and Princeton have j^^j^^^^^^J^S
tr, . . . . , measure -—• ■ •■' -nir t^i r tr^-n-i
The Jewish
r>^^_,__^ r\..4.\l^^A Schwartz, will speak at the Program Uutlined community Centre on Monday
on the
Temple Israel, the Institute not yet announced their deci- j^rTotW^n^ML^fi^ld^ M^r" J^^.^^.^^o'^J ^ecfarat^^ ^-^^^ ^^^^.^^ ^ j_ evening, March 16th,
brought together leaders in the sions. i°*^l^^'. Mansfield,^Mar- to facilitate the_ estabhshment j^^^ ^^e nroPT;.ni heino- Wm,,- life and works of Chaim Nach-
Episcopal, Methodist, Presby-
ley. Mansfield, Jessel and Eli- of the Jewish National Home li'^LK^.'^l,/?™!
bank.
in Palestine, in an article in the
lated for the Western States re- man Bialik.
was repre- Manchester Guardian by Mrs.
conference of communal leaders at
Jewish 1- I- Schwartz is a well-
the St. known Yiddish poet, and has
a name by his from the Hebrew
Op
tometry Enriched With New Lens
11"^ Twll-fn ^nH^'^Sw;"; Entire Synagogue In The Government
al Unitarian and rJaptist / o> o ooti+^^ri k-., ^Ua ttoi-i x>Ut r>i u i i • ^ r ^i communai leaaers at tne c>t. "^""vvu xi«viic
churches.. . Muilich Immigrates Tut U^der'secrX of StlS .H „ ,
In opening the Institute ses- ^""^u" r^^^^i^.^/J^^^ i ,£iaiiour wnose ue March 28 and 29, were made translations from the Hebrew
sion. Rabbi Isserman pointed Exodus has become a com- ^L.tT^r^ R^^^^^^^ t'' - ^u ^T-?^^ Public here this ^eek by Dr. into the Yiddish. He has al-
out that this was the first time mon feature of present day ^hejroposa^^^^^^ activities Moscovich, local advisory ready published a volume of
in the history of the United Germany but the packing off "he C„Jrnment^b Palestine. , ^ . . , committee member, and Har- translations from the Hebrew
States that a large body of of an old established synagogue Ju^. Th Jre ^^no HM^^^^ Asserting that the British old B. Kahn, local representa- Poets of the Spanish period.
Christian Ministers gathered m Munich still offers an ele- uKeunooa ot authorities in Palestine had tive on the program commit- and his latest volume consists
west of the Mississippi to study ment of novelty. oeing aaopieo. ^ shown apathy toward their tee. The conference is being of Yiddish translations from
certain phases of Judaism. The Such a celebration of leave- „ Snell Questions pledges for developing the set- sponsored by the National the poetry of the late Chaim
particular subject for consider- taking was held in the Schwan- Why, Lord bnell asked, tlement of Jews in their Na- Council of Jewish Federations Nachnian Bialik. ation was the Talmud, which enstrasse, Munich, whence the "has the Government chosen tional Home which is a blemish and Welfare Funds. Besides his excellent trans-
Rabbi Levi discussed at length. Psalmen-Gesellschaft or Psalm this particular time to rekindle on the Government's record," nrncrmm r^nf.nf Nations Mr. Schwarts is favour-
-_ Society was moving to Pales- racial passion and distrust by Mrs. Dugdale said that the pre- ^^^^^^l^ ?'3X,-n J fil ably known as a poet by his
tine. the premature and unrequired sent policy is "justly causing !^ aimed at re-vitalizing the ^ . . , i,:^''Kpntiirkv"
The celebration took the importation of a Council which the loss of Jewish confidence." interest of laymen in the work " noou ar of
form of a final reunion of all nobody wanted. The Palestine The article subjects the pro- problems of social welfare a °" j °' YiddiTDoem^^ who have been connected with Government has failed to es- jected land legislation "for pla- agencies, and in enrolling arg- lecture Mondav evenino"
Dr. Harold Haberfeld of New the synagogue. tablish local Government in the eating Arabs" to severe criti- numbers of communal lead- u^jgr the auspices of the
York announced before the After reminiscing on the past districts wholly or predomin- cism, alluding to what the au- support of city, inter- , • y^:^^: vjon ind all
New York City Optometrical affairs of the synagogue, the antly Arab. Why impose res- thor calls "the singular method ^^V' regional and world causes, {^/^^^^ .^^^^.^j^ literature are Society, last week, his develop- congregants adjourned their sponsibility for a central go- of communicating this measure ^^'^^ stated. invited to attend
ment of a "teleopto" lens for session and pitched into the vernment, which is a more dif- to the Arabs." She adds that One of the most challenging _\__
use in preventing myopia work of packing all of the uten- ficult matter? Why create a "the negative policy is justly features of the regional confer-
(near sightedness). sils, furniture and other equip- situation that will arrest the causing loss of Jewish Confii- ence in San Francisco will be sections of the West.
This addition to the science ment, the library, the Scrolls progress of Palestine develop- dence. a symposium on the topic, "Is In explanation of the object
of optometry was declared an of the Law, the ornaments and ment?" "Considering the Jewish po- Philanthropy Enough?", which of the symposium, it was point-
invaluable aid—especially for all the accessories of the syna- It was the proposal of Lord sition in Eastern Europe and will be presented at a general ed out that the question is be-students and workers subjected gogue and Beth Haniedrish Lytton that a Royal Commis- Germany," Mrs. Dugdale con- meeting on the opening day, ing raised whether concentrate eye strain. were packed into huge trunks sion of Enquiry be established, eludes, "the Government's psy- Saturday, March 28. Judge tion on the salvaging phases
Following the lead of Dr. for transportation across the after he, Lothian and Mans- chological blunders are even M. C. Sloss. of San Francisco, of Jewish communal programs Leroy Hartman, Dr. Haber- sea to Palestine. Arrange- field spoke in opposition to the greater, especially after the re- chairman of the Far Western should continue to receive the field, also a Jew, is giving the ments have already been made Legislative Council. election of Dr. Weizmann as advisory committee for the Na- same, or even greater emphasis,
formula of his discovery to hu- at Haifa for receiving and re- Zionist Viewpoint President of the Jewish Agen- tional Council, will preside or whether there is a need for
inanity at large, thus renounc- opening the synagogue, which In the most eloquent speech cy a leader who has always during this symposium, which the development of a program ing all national reward for his will continue to do its work as of the day. Lord Melchett de- stood for co-operation with the will be participated in by that will stress more positive efforts. jt has for the last 40 years. (Continued on Page 4) Government." speakers representing various factors in Jewish life.