THE    CANADIAN    JEWISH    REVIEW
JUNE    12th/  1942
CANADIAN   JEWISH   REVIEW
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P. Cohen, Editor.
Rabbi H. J. Stern, Contributing Editor. George W. Cohen, Jfanager.
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JUNE 12th, 1942
VOL. XXIV, No. 36
Canada's Two Voice*
from
heart and spirit have remained in England, to comprehend thli state of mind.
The French Canadian, judging � from the results of the plebiscite, Is simply not Impressed .by the argument that Canada must be defended in Burma, West Africa. Egypt, Kamchatka and other foreign regions. When he is told that Canada is itself in grave danger, especially since the Japanese en-trance into the war, he retorts that this is all the more reason for keeping Canadian troops at home In adequate numbers in order to ward off any danger of invasion and sometimes suggests that England has set a good example in retaining plenty of troops on it* own s0fl to assure ft* own security.
Technically Mr. King has ob- ' tained a free hand to introduce a bill providing for oversea* conscription. About 63.5 per cent of the voters in the plebiscite marked a. crass.Jn _the "Yes" column of tfeeir balloU. But practically the plebiscite may have proved to have aggravated the difficulties of in-trodvdng overseas conscription. Tor French Canada has Voted overwhelmingly In the negative. And ft is the general French Canadian contention that Mr. King's promise �ot to resort to conscription for nvMSLii service, given before the outbreak of the European war and repeated several time* since the Mglmtegi of, the wssvwns a, pram-
ssi to the
ft is
al bargain about entrance
the terms of Into the war. The French Canadians would not oppose .this step, would submit to higher taxes and would otherwise support the war effort, provided that there would be no compulsory service for over-sens. The League for the Defense of Cansds, which proposes to continue h> work until the end of the war, has advanced the claim that the plebiscite has not relieved Mr. Kmg of his anti-conscription ob~ Hgattott, since this was a compact wjt* the French Canadians and the French Canadians have voted overwhelmingly against modifying
The Klng-Lapointe compromise worked smoothly enough during the piadd first phase of the war. There was no appreciable" demand
party also took anti-conscription
the   argument   has   gained
in that     eta
total war, that the limitation on the right   of  the   government to
sen ice
be swept away as a tetaid-mg factor. The French reject this interpretation of the situation and em the maintenance of what as a binding obttga-gevernsseat to re�y voluntary methods in re-men for overseas service. MS furnished a alga of volunteer* for serin the world. Its according to last year's a mtie less than eleven
4MMBO and 450,000
, navy and air force by
of enlistment, ta to pnpnlstUm, is in midwest-�, with 497 per cent
Is significantly in Quebec; with U81 per cent, and it. is a
that    this be still   lower
Pour)
tlon of Quebec, since there is. an Engllsh-spessting minority in the province that probably supplied more than its proportional share of volunteers.
Had the plebiscite revealed an equal distribution of "Yet" and "No" votes as between the English-speaking and the French-speaking sections of Canada Mr. King's mandate would be much simpler. But it has indicated a profound split along 'racial lines. It is for Mr. King to decide what is most advisable, In view of the results of the vote. Will the advantages of unlimited conscription outweigh the possibility of bitterness, of -wholesale evasion, perhaps of outright rioting in Quebes, with a consequent exacerbation of the racial antagonism' that has been an unfortunate element in Canadian history?
The   Csjftdlfr"   premier   is   not
under any obligation to introduce conscription for overseas service a* a result of the plebiscite. He has merely been released, by majority vote, from his pledge not to resort to It It still remains a matter of his Judgment whether and when and in what form to make use of the blank check which he has received.
Perhaps Mr. King's political difficulties have been enhanced by the outcome of the plebiscite. But his decision to. hold it can only re-
pledged word. He to
isJss as so iHitfh campaign oratory, to Jam through a coMdriptkm measure without consnltmg public opinion. Hb dedskm to consult the people directly is a welcome rarity in an age of dictatorship and of steadily growing CTftCCTtratton of executive power, even In democratic countries.
PENSION   PLAN   FOR
REFORM ftAUIS TO
GIVE SECURITY
from PtjQ3 A preliminary step was taken
in
1917 when the late Jacob H. SchJff, noted philanthropist* and patron of Jewish Iteming and scholarship, recognising tae crying need tor a pension ptea, contrQwrted HOOuOOO to frnpf^TT^nt OTfh a PTWR Many
difficoWes operated to hinder the formulation of a plan and the income from the Schiff Fond was used for rabbinical relief. The stamtkm became aggravated because congregations are exempt from taxes under the Federal So-cmf ^tecvrtiy ACT, *9*v clergymen' are excluded from its be&efits. We �re now ready to present a workable plan based on the latest and for
The   Joint
ber sad the for
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oc
of vhe  Union of the coofereoce ratfficatioB, of
la
to
the largest
elation of employers at tne of one of the largest
to  issue  the  policies, in the service of
of the   Union wffl get added protection not
under any other plan, ratification of at toast 19 per of Union  congregations, by tember 1, kmnssnry, so that a group   annuity   contract   can   be
Eegotiated covering all mbbis low  the  pension   age  of 15 otherwise eligible.
The plan contemplate* that the Union und tkt <><i�*^f��*^ immtf� At
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the dispoaH of the Joint Commit* tee on Rabbinical
totaling over $230,000 which have been contributed sad designated (or this purpose. Of this sum, $150,000 is to be given by the Cen~ tral Conference of American Rabbis from it* own pension fund, aad the rest by the Union of American Hebrew CongregaUons from the
every f rid ay
That fsf what ft seat me to fee free, I uttgnt have mad an anchor."
Time Magazine last week gave as a symptom of Britain's shift to the left the unanimous vote of the Labor Party for a post-war planned economy with nationalization of Britain's basic industries and services, including natural resources, transport, and farm land. Harold Laaki, the famous economist, key-noter for the resolution, said; "We seek to end a system in which the many are the slaves of the few. We seek to end a system which makes ordinary men and women not ends in themselves, but means to the ends of others. We seek in war, after victory, not a return to the Old World, but quite precisely the building of a new world. . . . Mr. Churchill has agreed that this is a people's war. We mean to win it, but we want from him a pledge that a people's war will issue in a people's peace."
Harold Laski once gave his views in an article in The Nation, of New York. In that article he said that there is need for a European revolution and that it is the historic mission of Great Britain to inaugurate its coming. To. the many whose idea of revolution is a terrifying one, and who will tread any path in the effort to evade its onset, he gave the simple answer that the revolution is, in any case, unavoidable. The point is whether or not its purpose will be beneficent. If it is not, Laski believes that the world will enter upon an era as dark as any in the human record.
Laski looks ahead to the future when victory in the war wiH be set in such a perspective that a great age of expansion will begin, with the opportunity for creative liberation for the spirit of man. Central to that future of the world is the handling of certain domestic British issues, after the abandonment of that_imperialism which regards colonial peoples as the fit subject of economic exploitation. If these issues are not handled wisely, whatever the outcome of the �war, Britain will drift rapidly to social revolution. In that case, this war will be in effect lost, for it will be impossible to maintain democratic institutions, and if they are lost in Britain, they will be destroyed the world over.
What the people are entitled to ask for as a stimulus to hope and exhilaration in the way .of safeguards in the postwar period, against the danger that the forces of privilege will prefer their vested interests to those changes which are required, Laski suggests the recognition of five principles.
The first I principle is the same as that Voiced in the recent resolution of the Labor Party, namely, that the mechanism of national credit, coal and electric power, transport and the ownership of the land belong in a sector of industry to be removed from the hazards of the profit-making motive. The second principle involves the radical transformation of the educational system, abolishing the present class division,
the further opportunities of training at university teveL The third principle is a great extension of the puhtk haattfa . KJPVUBS wlili special attention to tltt pvofciw e� wtrMim. The fourth concerns rehousta* of the population. The fifth
Is that assurance be given of economk planning against the recurrence of mass unemployment and distressed area*.
This program goes to the root of the problem oat of whkh the war came. Setting Britain's house in order through a real and continuous prospect of raising the standards of life for the masses will not only serve the country's best interests but win set an example to others in the mitigation of inequality.
Laski holds that social reform cannot wait until after the war, simply because its initiation now is an essential part of the strategy of victory. The needed formula is contained in a remark of Peter Kropotkin: "A revolution must from its inception be an act of justice to the ill-treated and the oppressed, and not a promise to perform this act of reparation later on. If not, it is sure to fail."
The claims of totalitarian war mean that only the beginning of fundamental change can be initiated and that the process wfll have to be spread over long years of peace, but the present time is a propitious time to start first because the war has compelled profound changes and induced a mood for big national experiment, and second because expectations of social justice have been aroused in the common people who are now paying the costs of war and they are entitled to ask for changes indicative of what the winning of the war should mean to them in a profounder sense than the essential victory over Hitter and Mussolini. The claim to be fighting for democracy and freedom must be supported by the broadening and deepening of democracy and freedom now in the midst of war.
This economist believes that the destruction of Mussolini and Hitler is imperative for the salvation of Europe, but those who attribute the war solely to the malevolence of these evil men do not understand this war which is a straggle for world-dominion between old empires and new, but whkh is also the proof that the operation of the profit-making motive can no longer produce crther a jttnt or a peaceful society. The overthrow of these evil men win not, in itself, end the causes that led to their emergence.
Laski says that it is not enough to want victory; it in essential to want victory for ends that make possible enduring peace by reorganmnc the foundations of the social order. The centra] problem for rulers is to understand in time that they have reached a decisive epoch when the economic and social foundations of life must be planned in the interest of the whole community. Failure to meet, the demands of tiie masses for justice Witt mean that the forces of privilege, panic-stricken at the prospect of the loss of privflefe, witt turn for help to Fascism, which is the use of the outlaw to defend themselves, and there wiH be a new dark age.______________________________________f-f-e.
Scktff   mad   already   tnentioaed,
"Spare-A-Dlme  Zionism"
Called Enou*h To Make)
Herzl Turn In HO* Orare
The pro-Zionist Jewish Chronicle, of London, England, says:
A tragic example of "beggarly" Zionism was provided by many of the speeches at the hastily improvised Zionist conference in New York. The Zionist leader, who used to chide the, British Government with whittling down its Basfoor promise, gave a demonstration of whittling that out-whittled all before. "As long as British policy in Palestine permits us to acquire land and bring in Jews, I am ready to put up wfth everything," he supplicated.
If, of course, this was really an artful reference to the "keys of Palestine," it was surely very impolite to dangle them in this way. And later he blushed like a maiden overwhelmed at the thought of a Jewish Army of a size worthy of the name and worth the trouble involved, declaring even at this late hour, that he would be quite satisfied with a small contingent
He forgot that the time is past when�^as was urged in these columns, before America was brought into the war� the opportunity should have been found to build up a Jewish Army from initial small British contingents. The hint that there had been- some sort of behind-the-scenes negotiations about the Army along these now belated tines was perhaps not the least disquieting feature of the gathering, which, with its spate of fulsomenesa from Dr. Nahum Goldmann, and the drench of theatrical sentimentalism anent Herzl's signet ring* was enough to make the great founder of Zionism turn in his grave,
Sacrifice Unites Aiutraliaiis, Native And Foreign-Born
The Australian Jewish Review, of Melbourne, says:
The welcome change in the official attitude towards refugees is a result of the stress and danger of the moment It is also the adoption by Australia of measures first taken by the British Government, who soon realised the valuable services which refugees could render in time of war.
It is hoped that the official attitude of confidence in the loyalty of the refugees wiH put an end to the confusion which has for so long persisted in the public mind. This, of course, was largely due to the propaganda of the enemy, who hoped to conquer the Empire by the method which proved so sue-cessful in Europe, viz., the stirring up of internal dissension.
The rise of anti-Semitism, the bitter feeling against refugees, in spite of their repeated offers of service, were clear evidence that enemy propaganda had certainly met with. partial success. If refugees now share the burden of Australia, it is to be hoped that there wifl be an end to afl the ignorance, jealousy and stupidity of tbe past.
A great unity of effort and sacrifice now unites a8 Aas-
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thfakabfr thai item ifeoala* ever be a idsn to
status of more and less privileged AwtraHane, The
wear the uniform of this country and serve it loyaBy most
surely be recognised as Australian citizens of equal states
when they return from the war.
We have every confidence that the moral conscience and fair-mindedness of the average Britisher will not allow services to be accepted without recognition. It was once a slogan: "No taxation without representation." We may be permitted to modify it to-day: "No service without recognition."
Rabbi Heller, after a description of the plan, "we are able to offer rabbis that which tbey nave never had before, protection and security in the sun-down of their lives after years of faithful service.1'
BIRO-Bl WAN   REGION GIVES HELf IN WAR
Poaie Zkm in   1903   sad   of Order of Sons of Zkm in 1911, � an organizer of the., �^vemeti f ft ti With Rfflfiflnflh colony in estine   in   1913.   He   helped
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tion of the Keren Hayesod, a estine fund, in 1921, and dent of the HIstadrnth, a cultural orgyT!*CTtfffHj in traveled  extensively  in
the
and
to
Dr.
from Pag* OneV
mslnlng la their factories for a whole week to complete urgent order*. The woman member for Biro-Bidjan in the All-Soviet Parliament, Leah Ushnyanskaya, herself set an example to the Jewish women by working in a factory to produce war material at the
schedule'* has, in fact, become the slogan of the Jewish workers of Blro-BidJwi.
The region has already sub-scrtbed 15008,000 rouble to the People's Defence Fund, apart front the numerous gifts of gold and silver articles sent to the Fund. The Jews have also sent ntUXX) artides of warm clothing to the Red Army, and tramloads of food to European
Day, last week, extra tramloads of food, gifts, and war products left Biro-BJdJan for the front
and attended many Jewish convention* abroad.
During the World War he helped organise the People's Relief Committee and the Legion.
He leaves a widow;  two Mordecai  Ooldberg   and Joseph Goldberg,  who is with   the   armed daughters. Or.   Natalie Penalty, Mrs.   Louis Mrs. Joseph Benjamin; two exs, Nathan and Edward
and two sisters, Mis. Robert
A funeral service was held at Temple Bnai   Jeshuran, eighth    Street    near Rabbi Israel Goldstein omrtntfng
SEES CHANGE IN
COMMUNAL
AGENCIES
ZIONIST LEADER HELD MANYOFFKtS
Onev
War Relief and vice prts*d�nt ef
the American Federation for Pol-
He listed   himself in   the  tele-book a* ^-GoWberr Abraham a fitting frsciipckm of a who since the age of 14, devoted himself mdefatigabty to the of the Jewish Na-
He outlined relief
itttee,-    ssM    Mr.    Pfassttt,
vatoaMe role ta tts in reoef over nsoc Mve year*.  The quality of that have been used hi its tratio*, the
of
the pentad pten rabbi b to
provide that tribute annually three per cent of his salary, with the coagregatiosi paying seven per cent
The Union and Conference, actteg jointly, are to pmy oe* to three per cent of his salary anauauy, depending on Ufte age of the rabbi
he   enters   the of the latter charge win
ia part out of the funds and the
in the budgets of the Union and Conference. A policy will be tesued to the rabbi pro-Tiding a retirement annuity st the ag� of C5 and death benefits before that age.
"At  tang  test"   �ondnded  the statement  by Mr.
Home in Palestine.
the son of SMfka Gnjesberj Goldberg, be csn� to New York in 1101. Since 1903 he many artkJes m Bngttsh. and Yiddish to Jewish publications. His books in the three languages included "Pan SemitimV "Collected Writings," "Concerning Our Era" and ''Literature sad Faith." Mr. Goldberg was a foandtr of
the
to the use af
certaisdy entitle It to a ptece in 07 kind of pUm that may be set va>~
BenJssBln Fox of ecutive  director   of   the hurst   Jewish   Community wss elected president of the tioaal Aawciatka of Jewish ter Workers.
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