Friday, February 14, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Twenty-two

of information and documentary
evidence on Klapprott," and
pointed out thati"we know of no
person more deserving of depor-
tation from the shores of a coun-
NEW YORK — Herman Hoff- try to which he has been con-
man, chairman of the board of spicuously unfaithful."

League Blocks Move
To Give Citizenship
To Ex-Bund Leader

President Truman Discusses
Palestine With JWV Commander

directors of Non-Sectarian Anti-
Klapprott, one time "Gaulei-
Nazi League, petitioned Judge ter Ost," or head of the Eastern
William F. Smith, U. S. District division of the Bund, has lately
Court, Newark, N. J., to file a been held at Ellis Island pending
brief amicus curiae in the case deportation. He was also indicted
of the U. S. versus August Klap- as a defendant in the Federal
prott, former Nazi Bund leader Sedition Conspiracy Case, along
now seeking resto"ation of his with Gerald Winrod, Elizabeth
Dilling and others.
American citizenship.
When Klapprott's citizenship
Julius L. Goldstein, anti-Nazi
League's General Counsel, is to was revoked, shortly after Pearl
prepare the brief.
Harbor, he apparently did not
Hoffman's petition informed raise objection to the judgment
the Court that the Anti-Nazi against him. As a matter of fact,
League "has an extensive file a number of Bund leaders whose

President Truman was urged to continue his "diplomatic sup-
port" in behalf of Palestine by Milton H. Richman, National Com-
mander of the Jewish War Veterans, on the occasion of a White
House visit when he expressed JWV's gratitude to the President for
'his repeated advoacy of a just solution of the Palestine question."
Commander Richman also praised the President's efforts in behalf
of displaced persons and urged that the U. S. make "existing immi-
gration quotas available for immediate use."

Rosenberg Records Interesting Data
On Jewish Community of Windsor

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uralization actions at about the
same time did not bother to Op-
pose these judgments—in some

cases, because they then firmly

believed in the ultimate :triumph-

at-arms of the Nazi cause.

CARPETING

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citizenship was ended by denat.

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A significant study of "The
Jewish Population of Canada."
written by Louis Rosenberg, re-
search director of the Canadian
Jewish Congress, contains some
interesting facts regarding the
Jews of Windsor.
Windsor's recorded Jewish his-
tory begins 1881 with a popula-
tion of four)Jews. Their number,
according to Mr. Rosenberg's
study, rose to 138 in 1901; to 1,114
in 1921 and 2,226 in 1941. The
latter figure represents a percent-
age of 2.11 to the total Windsor
population of 105,311.
It is interesting to note that on
a family unit basis Windsor has
595 families—this total being com-
puted on the basis of the number
of families covered by The Jew-
ish News circulation list.
Here are some of the facts from
Rosenberg's most scholarly study:
Jews first settled permanently
and legally in Canada in 1760 at
the time of the British conquest,
and the earliest Jewish settlers
were officers—in General Am-
herst's army.
The first Jewish synagogue in
Canada was that of the Sh'erith
Israel Congregation, erected in
Montreal in 1777.
The first mention of Jews in an
official census in Canada is found
in Lower Canada in 1831, when
107 JeWs were recorded as living
in that portion of the country. By
1901 the Jewish population of
Canada has increased to 16,401,
and from then onwards it grew
rapidly until it numbered 156,726
in 1931, forming 1.5 per cent of
the total population.
In 1941 the Jewish population
of Canada numbered 170,241, an
increase of only 8.6 per cent since
1931, compared with an increase
of 10.9 per cent among the total
population of all origins.
The proportion of the Jewish
population of Canada claiming
Yiddish as their mother tongue
has fallen from 95.18 per cent in
1931 to 76.21 per cent in 1941, but
this decrease has not been uni-
form in all communities. It is
highest in the prqvince of Mani-
toba where 89.7 per cent of the
Jewish population in 1941 re-
ported their mother tongue as
Yiddish, and lowest in Prince
Edward Island, where only 30 per
cent of the Jewish population re-
ported Yiddish as mother tongue.
The seven largest occupational
groups among the Jewish popula-
tion in Canada in 1941 in order

Form New Committee
For Brandeis University.

Formation of the Operating
Committee of the Massachusetts
Associates of Brandeis University
was announced by George Alpert,
Boston attorney and president of
the university's Board of Trustees.
TheLrew committee will func-
tion as The public relations arm of
the recently formed Massachu-
setts Associates of Brandeis Uni-
versity, a body of key leaders of
17ewish and communal affairs in

of size were trade, industry, cleri-
cal, occupations, professions, per-
sonal service, transportation and
construction.
Jews engaged in the various
professions in Canada have in-
creased from 3.61 per cent of all
Jews gainfully occupied in 1921
to 5.62 per cent in 1941. Never-

theless, Jews in the professions
still form a smaller proportion of
all Jews gainfully occupied than

those engaged in the professions
among the total population of all
origins.

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HE ADDED YEARS TO
YOUR LIVING

This man who was born one hundred years ago this week
spent most of those years working to make our lives easier.
Today, we are apt to take his achievements for granted—to
forget the wondrous changes he made in our daily lives.
The stenographer little realizes the drudgery of office routine
without typewriter or duplicating machine; the saleswoman
can hardly imagine a busy day without gummed wrapping

tape.

The list of his achievements is long and varied, but most of
us have some special obligation to Thomas A. Edison. Every
worker who finds his lunch-time sandwich fresh in its waxed-paper wrapping—every G.I. who crossed
an ocean safely with the aid of radar and submarine detection devices—can thank Mr. Edison.

But these specific contributions of the man become small and insignificant alongside his other gifts to
all mankind. For every one of us who sends a telegram or rides a street car—everyone who enjoys a

radio, a phonograph or a movie—can thank Mr. Edison. •

Some of these gifts have made our lives safer. Some have given us more pleasure. Most have made
our tasks easier. But all are eclipsed by his gift of electric light. For with that one invention ho,
in a very real sense, added years to our living. Those years are made up of thousands of evenings
. and since Mr. Edison's invention of electric
light, evenings—with their hours of relaxation, of
IN HONOR OF MR. EDISON .
reading or games or good companionship—have
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra this week
inaugurates • new series of popular concerts each
become the best part of our lives:
Tuesday night at 7.30 over WWI.

Evenings have also become a time for study. Men
and women today, fired by the example of Thomas
A. Edison, are using them to continue hie research
for even better ways of living.

T H E

DETROIT

And don't forget the Edison Institute Museum's
special ie.:Whit this week at Greenfield Villas..
9 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. Admission 25c. All Edison
power plants will also be open this week from
1-3 and 5-8 p.m. daily. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.
Call RAndolph 2100 foe details.

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