MONTREAL, (JTA) — The
Canadian Jewish Congress and
Chancellor P. E. Powell of Mc-
Gill University are engaged in a
dispute over the Chancellor's
public statement that he
opposed legislation "to force
integration and the elimination
of discrimination and other
forms of prejudice."
Powell made his statement as
the guest speaker at an anniver-
sary banquet of the Canadian
Council of Christians and Jews.
In the course of his address, the
Chancellor also dealt with
charges that a Jewish student
was discriminated against at the
university to the extent that he
had to receive marks of 80 per
cent or more on his high school
final examinations before he was
admitted to the university.
Describing the_ report_as
"nothing -more –thali a rumor,"
Powell told the banquet that
"the percentage of McGill stu-
dents who have declared them-
selves to be Jewish has increased
Steadily during the last five
years—from 22 to 25.3 per cent."
He added that the figures for
1962-63 had not yet been ana-
lyzed but that during the year,
the university had 2,414 Jewish
students, the majority of whom
had an average of less than 80
per cent on their high school
examinations when their appli-
cations were accepted. '
"I therefore consider myself
to be able to state that there
had been no discrimination
against Jewish candidates for
admission to McGill during
the five years to which the
investigation was limited," he
said. He then discussed his
personal philosophy ab out
anti-bias legislation.

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Asserting that such legislation
"may even generate sufficient
resentment to make a bad situa-
tion worse," Powell expressed
the view that "man's conduct
may be influenced or even regu-
lated by law but is it reason-
able to expect that man's mind
can be so influenced or regu-
lated?"
He said that what was some-
times c a 11 e d "discrimination"
might really be "merely a mani-
festation of a natural desire of
compatible persons to work
together. In business, as well as
religion, education and other
human activities, there is a
justifiable urge for compatible
persons to work together," he
pointed out.
The Canadian Jewish Con-
gress disputed Powell's stand
in letters to the editors of
Montreal dailies, asserting that
the governments of six Cana-
dian provinces had passed

Jewish National Fund Opposes Sale
of Israel-Owned Land to Tenants

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Oppo-
sition to a change in policy that
would have permitted the sale
of nationally-owned lands to
private interests was reaffirmed
here at a meeting of the board
of directors of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund.
The stand was taken in the
face of strong lobbying by
urban tenants and leasors of
other publicly owned or public-
ly administered properties, who
insisted on permission to pur-
chase lands they now occupy.
Earlier, Finance Minister
Levi Eshkol had intimated that
the Land Authority would con-
sider favorably requests for
purchase by ocaupants of prop-
erty under its jurisdiction. The
Land Authority is a partnership
between the Israel government
and the JNF.
The JNF board meeting also
appointed a committee to rec-
ommend simplifications of rela-
tions between the JNF and ten-

Jewish National
Fund

January 24 to February 24, 1963

Tasks •

• To avow full solidarity with the State of
Israel.
• To focus_attention on the activities of the
Jewish National Fund in building the
Land of Israel and strengthening its se-
curity with special emphasis on the new
and first Detroit Development Area proj-
ect in northern Galilee, on the borders of
Syria—the reclaiming and rebuilding the
settlements of Gadot and Mishmar Bay-
arden.
• To deepen JNF sentiment among . the
masses of the Jewish people.
• To mobilize the broadest possible support
for the JNF through the widest possible
use of Mrs traditional colle ction
methods.
• To place another thousand Blue - White
JNF Boxes in Detroit and Michigan Jew-
ish homes.
• To plant more trees in the Michigan Free-
dom Forest of 300,000 trees, in the new
Freedom Forest of 2,000,000 trees, which
is being planted by the Jewish National
Fund of America as an eternal monu-
ment of friendship and cooperation unit-
ing the people of America and the
people of Israel.
• To remind Jews to remember the JNF
their Wills, thus linking their names for-
ever with the Land of Israel.

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Fair Employment and Fair
Accommodation Practices legis-
lation "in recognition of a
widely accepted truth that leg-
islation can and does act as a
potent educational a g en t.
Similarly, the Federal author-
ity passed legislation some
years ago establishing a Fair
Employment Practices Act."
The CJC added that the very
enactment of such legislation
"proclaims that henceforth pub-
lic policy shall be one of em-
ployment on merit, to the exclu-
sion of such criteria as race,
creed, color, etc." and similarly
with Fair Accommodation legis-
lation. The CJC stressed that
"for most law-abiding citizens—
and Canadians are on the whole,
such— the very declaration of
this policy determines their
behavior pattern."
"Legislation attacks discrim-
ination as such, not the under-
lying prejudices," the CJC state-

PLANT TREES
FOR
ALL
OCCASIONS

ants regarding rentals, consent
fees for the transfer of rights
to a third party and permission
to make alterations on occupied
land. The committee is to study
how national lands might be
used to halt speculation in
urban areas. Such speculation
has pushed prices to astronom-
ical heights.
Some economic experts advo-
cate the sale of public lands in
urban areas as the only means
for knocking the bottom out-of
current speculation. They con-
tend that aside from discour-
aging construction and causing
destabilization of the real estate
market, the speculation is one
of the major causes of contin-
ued inflation.

Find. U.S. Jews
Born Abroad More
Sensitive to Bias

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Ameri-
can Jewish youth born abroad
show more normal behavior
patterns in their reactions to
anti-Jewish bias and discrimina-
tions than the American-born
Jewish youth, a Jewish scholar
declared this week in an address
at the 37th annual conference
of the Yivo Institute for Jewish
Research.
The comparison of reactions
was made by Dr. Victor D.
Sanua, associate professor of
psychology at Yeshiva Univer-
sity. He said the young Ameri-
can Jews born outside the
United States reach the way
they do because of their
stronger Jewish identification,
which . gives them g r eater
security than that possessed by
the Jewish youth born in this
country. However, he pointed
out, there have been, as yet,
too few studies in this field to
justify firm conclusions.
Another s p e a k e r, Leibush
Lehrer, chairman of Yivo's
scientific collegium, discussed
the reactions by second-genera-
tion and third-generation Amer-
ican Jews to the Nazi holocaust.
He found that the younger Jews
in this group show "greater
sensitivity to • the holocaust"
than displayed by the older
members of the group.

Permit Re-Opening
in Argentina of
Jewish Institutions

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BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) —
Eleven Jewish institutions, which
were closed down by police two
weeks ago as part of a general
crackdown on leftist groups,
were allowed to re-open. None
of the affected institutions were
affiliated with the DAIA, the rep-
ersentative body of organized
Argentine Jewry.
Among the Jewish institutions
affected by the tempory ban
were the IFT Yiddish Theater, a
publishing house, two cultural
centers and four schools located
in Buenos Aires.

ment added. "By doing so, it
corrects injustices and at the
same time, it weakens chances
for a further growth of prej-
udice." The CJC noted that "not
only does discrimination result
from existing prejudice, but also
more prejudice is bred from the
observed fact of discrimination."
"This is not one man's
opinion," the CJC statement
emphasized. "It is a belief
firmly held by eminent psy-
chologists, sociologists, politi-
cal scientists and lawyers, on
the basis of many years of
experience with 'equal oppor-
tunity legislation' both in
Canada and the United States.
The CJC stressed that a num-
ber of "outstanding citizens" of
Quebec had petitioned the
Premier of the Province to join
the six other provinces "in the
enactment of this type of 'edu-
cational' legislation" at the next
session of the Quebec Legisla-
ture. Both the Chancellor's
speech and the CJC reply were
widely reported in the local
.daily press.

Telshe Yeshiva Fire
Kills 2 Young Boys

The Telshe' Yeshiva College
blaze which killed two boys
Tuesday in Wickliffe, a suburb
of Cleveland, is being inves-
tigated by the Ohio State Fire
Marshall's Office.
The two-and-a-half-story frame
dormitory was destroyed. It
housed 65 boys studying to be
rabbis. Found dead in the base-
ment several hours after the
fire were Jacob Jundef, 12, of
Cleveland, and Sidney Gluck,
13, of Cleveland Heights.

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5 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, January 4, 1963

McGill University Chancellor's Views on Anti-Bias Laws Disputed