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SIDNEY ALEXANDER
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much larger work which has been
under discussion all of last year.
Neither Orthodoxy nor Reform,
we are told, "can help the Jews
formulate a program of collective
action that might nave Jewish life
from disintegration." Further-
more, those to whom the begin-
ning of Jewish wisdom is the fear
of anti-Semitism cannot be ex-
pected to derive much joy from a
program which advocates the max-
imum of Jewishnees compatible
with circumstances."
"Judaism as a civilization," Dr.
Kaplan writes, "call!' upon the
Jew to avail himself of every
possible opportunity to express
himself as a Jew, and not to con-
fine himself to a particular Jew-
ish hobby like some petty charity,
favorite temple or appealing Pal-
estinian project."
In his latest volume Dr. Kap-
lan describes the transition which
Judaism has been undergoing dur-
ing the last century and a half,
due to the change in the objec-
tive of general human striving
from other-worldly to this-worldly
salvation. He discusses the so-
cial etructure which Judaism must
evolve in thin country if it is to
help the Jew attain this-worldly
salvation. Furthermore. he de-
velops the educational implications
of the transition which marks
present-day Judaism, especially as
Jewish religious beliefs are af-
fected. He shows that the sci-
entific view of religion is the only
one which spells not merely mu-
tual neutrality but mutual re-
spect and co-operation.
Of the 11 important essays in
the new Kaplan book. the one
dealing with "The Twofold Chal-
lenge to Jewish life: The Corn-
muniet Challenge and the Fasc-
ist Challenge" is among the most
interesting and most timely. Dr.
Kaplan declares that Jews should
reek the maximum of self-deter-
mination and self-realization that
is consistent with loyalty to hu-

his plea across while the solicite
is watching Kelvinator's perform
ance on the Big Board at J. S
Bache; persuade 'em to trade
stack of blue chips for a check pay
able to the Campaign, upstairs

CONCLUDED FROM EDITORIAL PAGE

saw one Sunday morning near the
Wannsee, throwing dummy hand
grenades at each other, seemed a
long way from baseball on the back
lot, hockey on the village pond,
even from that thin upper crust
spectacular American sport
of
which is publicated and promoted
for cash.

The Abuse of Justice
How can we discuss legal rights

and wrongs with people to whom
"law" is party expediency or per-
sonal whim? Dr, Hans Frank,
you-know-where!
Reich Minister, sweeping aside
Unselfish himself, he cannot an the civilized conception that what
derstand the indifference of others is not prohibited is allowed, writes
Naive. Ile believes that, in every that when no specific law applies,
man, there lurks the spark tha Courts shall mete out punishment
can lie fanned into generosity. I
"according to the underlying idea
of the penal code or according to
healthy public sentiment." "Whose
idea?" Professor Mcllwain asks.
And whose sentiment? The official
organ of the German Bar simplifies
the matter still further; "A hand-
ful of force," it writes, "is better
than a bag-full of justice." What
accepted meaning can we find for
the word "justice" if it can be
made to cover jail and torture,
without charge and without trial,
whether at Oranienburg, or in
Siberia, or on the Lipari Islands?
Some sort of religious belief,
whether organized or unorganized,
is common to most of us. What if
"religion" means something ex-
clusive, something that makes you
cocky and ruthless, something to be
withheld from others rather than
shared with them? How can people
talk quietly and sensibly about

"The Eternal Road"

(CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PAGE)

miah are the Prophets.
The pattern into which the
lives of the Prophets, martyrs,
warriors are woven in this great
theatrical production is a mas-
terful and eloquently moving
interpretation of Jewish tribula-
tions and hopes. As suitable
for reading as it is for acting,
the play winds up with the
prophecy of hope, the assur-
ance of a great return of Is-
rael to his land. Because of
it, this drama is applicable to-
day as it was in the days of
Jeremiah. It concludes with the
final song:
"When the Lord brings back
the redeemed to Zion,
Then shall we be like unto
dreamers.
0 laughing upon our lips
shall rise
And praise stream forth with
our singing."
A great author, a great trans-
lator, a great producer are com-
bining for the dramatization of
a great theme. Their joint ef-
forts assure • lasting contribu-
tion to literature and to the
drama.

addressed the captain of the foot- he fails—which is not often—he
blames himself; takes it as per-
ball team thus:
"I'll sock you in the nose, and sonal defeat; is inconsolable.
A great "fraternal." Most pop-
I'll do as much to the whole team,
if you try any railroading at this ular K. P. in Detroit. But no office
seeker. Refused nominations more
election—see?"
Then, as now, Sidney was a lot than once. The Lodge had to elect
of man. And as persuasive. And him Chancellor Commander while
that year there was an upset, and he was in New York City on busi-
ness.
the outsider got in.
• • •
On his 50th birthday, last Octo-
Only last Sunday a car came ber, Sidney Alexander was guest
careening around the corner onto at a banquet in his honor. Present
12th St., without stopping. Side- were the City Fathers, civic lead-
swiped and almost overturned a ers, folk out of the blue book, and
passing automobile with half a many whose feet he had placed
dozen youngsters in it. Sidney, upon the first rung of the ladder to
whose own car was standing at the independence and security by the
curb, and who had witnessed the job he had found for them.
Close-Up
whole scene, climbed out and strode
The'soul of Don Quixote, fleshed
over to the reckless driver to re-
monstrate with him. Mister Reck- like Sancho Parma. A huge man,
less Driver got loud and nasty and broad shouldered, deep-chested, of
personal. So Sidney reached in, generous girth. Ready to hand out
collared him, yanked him out into his last dollar—as he often has-
the street and punched him in the te anyone whose story of need stirs
Dr. Jonah B. Wise is due for
jaw. Then he handed the Nasty him—(and he is easily moved).
Secret passion—philately and congratulations on the marriage
One his card.
of
his daughter, Elsa Helen, to
"So you'll know where to send numismatics. Has a wonderful col-
Malvin C. Hertzberg of New York.
the police after me," he said pleas- Iktion of stamps and coins. But
you've got to ask, to see them. And
antly.
• .•
if you want to touch the tiny,
Born in Chicago, Oct. 7, 1885; colorful tinted squares and oblongs
IDOMS.
brought' to Detroit by his parents —many of 'em rare commemora-
when he was 10. I tiven—you've got to go wash your
Graduated from the Jefferson hands first—you , and you and
School, he attended Central High YOU.
Never played a game of golf in
for two years. Quit to enter the
law offices of Adolph and Edmund his life, Disdains cards.
The Alexanders: Sidney, his
Sloman. Passed the bar examina-
tion in 1906, and was admitted to wife (Belle Meisner, daughter of
practise. In 1908 the order admit- the dean of bakers—remember
ting Sidney to the bar was set Meisner's, Winder and Hastings,
aside, when sonic personage, upon and hot thatch, Friday, before sun-
whose toes he had carelessly trod, down?)—and their three sons,
decided to make capital of the fact Gabe, Mart, and Sid Jr., live on
that Alexander hod not been grad- Edison. Gabe's a lawyer, in his
uated from high school, hence, lit- father's office; Mart is studying
0
erally was lacking in one of the medicine and Sid Jr., is still in
pre-requisities to admittance to high school.
No doubt other communities
practise.
"Go back to•high school, then," have their Sidney Alexanders.
Men
industrious in behalf of those
urged his friends.
"The law says—'must have equi- who lack the industry, or are the
victims
of such misfortune, that
valent of a high school education' "
manity. He insists that "neither said Sidney. "I've got it. And, in they are unable to make their way
the Communist nor he Fascist so- the second place I'm going to get themselves. Men who vicariously
cial philosophy offers a substitute married, and I can't afford to go suffer the pangs of the hungry.
for the ethical and spiritual en- to school. Besides which, I won't No doubt, here and there among
hancement which these activities go back in the first place."
us, Chivalry walks and strips the
can effect in the life of the Jew-
cloak from its own shoulders to
He didn't.
ish people."
For 20 years—until 1928—when drape around those of tattered,
Dr. Kaplan's chart for the he was 43, Sidney refused to go shivering penury. This is no
foundation for the Jewish com- back to school. Finally his friends threnody for something altogether
munity of the future promises to persuaded him to take the exams. departed. Hardly. Rather call it a
arouse ever-increasing interest. /le did. Passed with flying colors. paean, if you will. In praise of
He believes that anti-Semitism And hung up his sheep-skin and one great big blustering knight
must be attacked at its root be- his shingle in the office he has oc- with a heart as huge as he is him-
cause Jews will continue to live cupied since, on the seventh floor self, and as soft as a baby's. Who
where they are, with Palestine of the Penobscot Building.
has been no busy in behalf of others
able to accept only two to three
• • •
that he hasn't had time to devote
million Jews. His approach is
As Special Agent for the U. S. his talents to enriching himself,
realistic. Ile demands the extir- Fidelity & Guaranty Co.; as Insur-
—G. B. S.
pation of the fear-complex which ance Adjustor; on the Film Ex-
molds Jewish actions today. He change—in the two decades be-
HAYS TO ADDRESS
presents an outline which will tween 1908 and 1928—Alexander
FORUM AT TEMPLE
enliven Jewish discussion for pursued various vocations; had only
many months to come.
one avocation—social Service. At
(CO3: LVDEII I ROM PAGE ONE)
one time he ran the second largest,
Strictly Confidential
unofficial employment agency in international law in London a t
town; close runner-up to Fred the outbreak of the World War
(CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PACE)
Butzel, from whose office to Sid- When the Reichstag Fire Tria l
ney's ran the beaten path of the took place in Leipzig, and liberal
for Roosevelt next November .. . jobless. Wherever his business took
opinion in Europe and America
That's why Farley is putting such him he made it a point to inquire
apprehended that the defendants
terrific pressure on Lehman to get if the boss had an opening for a
who were generally believed to be
him to announce his candidacy for, man, a woman, a boy, a girl.
innocent would be rushed to death
re-election as soon as possible ... Placed hundreds.
by a typical Nazi trial, Arthur
If Al Smith really takes the war-
On the board of the Detroit Garfield Hays went to Leipzig to
path against FDR in the presi- Service Group, Alexander puts all
observe the trial in behalf of in-
dential campaign Lehman will be of himself into the job. During the
ternational justice. It is generally
in a tough spot ... Lehman's poli- Allied Jewish Campaign., devotes
believed that his presence through-
tical debut was sponsored by Smith days and nights to the task. And
out the trial, accounts in a large
and when the Happy Warrior was his days begin at dawn. No
measure for the acquittal—if not
governor, Lehman was one of his spell-binder—and conscious of the
the release—of the defendants
closest advisers . Now Lehman fact—his end is spade-work; per-
This action was especially cour-
will have to choose between Smith sonal solicitation. Out into the
ageous on the part of Arthur Gar-
and Roosevelt ... The same dilem- highways, not disdaining the by-
field
Hays since he is a Jew and
ma faces Governor Horner of Illi- ways; he'll tackle his prospects at
it was therefore at the price of
nois . . Turned down by the Sanders during the noon hour; get
personal peril that he came to
Democrats for renomination he is
Germany to perform a duty which
undecided whether to make an in-
the !Janis regarded as against
dependent race and risk the chance meeting between Roosevelt and
their interests.
a
Tarn-
Max
D.
Steuer,
who
is
of splitting his party in a crucial
There will be a period of ques-
political year . . . We hear that many big-wig, was part of the plan
tions and discussion at the close
Al Smith didn't take Dr. Henry to make peace between FDR and
of the lecture.
Mi.skowitz's advice to tone down the Tiger . .. The National Re-
his speech ... Moskowitz, husband publican Committee is plenty wor-
Reva - Al Charity Club
of Smith's late adviser. Mrs. Belle ried over the flood of anti-Semitic
Moskowitz, counselled different tac- literature being issued by anti-
The
Reva-Al • Charity Club's
Roosevelt
outfits
...
Stuff
like
that
tics . . . Robert Moses, ex-New
York secretary of State is credited has a way of becoming a boomer- monthly card party will be held on
Wednesday
evening, Feb. 19. at the
ang
.
.
.
The
State
Department
with having written much of the
Smith speech .. . Moses is also didn't like that plea by Senator Oakland Hall, 9428 Oakland Ave.
mar.
Westminster.
There will be
reported to be urging the Repub- King of Utah to open the gates of
licans to name Al as their presi- America to German-Jewish refu- prizes and refreshments at • small
admission fee.
dential standard-bearer . . . That

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Sequel to "Judaism
as a Civilization"

It was at Central High, when
the century was cutting its teeth, ;
that Sidney Alexander's fist first
flourished to champion a cause.
Those were the days when the fra-
ternitynominee had the election in
the bag and was as good as class- I
president as soon as his candidacy
was announced. But this particular
year the Independent was—to Man-1
ter Alexander's way of thinking—a
better man for the job. So Sidney

LET US MEET THE CHALLENGE!

Christianity when one group
adopts the degraded superstition
that the race to which Christ be-
longed is composed of mongrel
cosmopolitans? And what com-
munion can there be with those
who say, as does a leader of the
German Faith Movement, Ernst
Bergmann: "We cannot kneel down
before a God who pays more atten-
tion to the French than to us. We
hate the alien Christian God with
all our heart."
What communication can there
be with scientists who think that
the word "Aryun" is a race term;
who think there is such a thing as
race purity; who think there is
such a thing as fixed race sperior-
ity; who mistrust the pure sciences
and favor applied science, and yet
who think that discoveries in that
field made by non-Aryan scientists
are to be ignored because they
must be devices to degrade su-
perior peoples? The fact is, of
course, that the true scientist be-
gins at the opposite end of a prob-
lem from where the dictator be-
gins. The scientist is interested in
truth for its own sake. Ile wants
to build his chain of knowledge
and invention and discovery, link
by link, out into the void of the
unknown. He doesn't care where
the chain reasoning and fact
is going to lead him. But the dic-
tator forbids that sort of adven-
ture. He forbids curiosity. Ile as-
signs the scientist his conclusion
in advance, and tells him to sub-
stantiate it by inventing support-
ing theories and by neglecting
facts of a contrary nature.

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In these tljstant worlds which
have been describing, slogans and
taboos replace research and self-
criticism. A new jargon is elab-
orated to make old evils more pal-
atable—the "corporation" is in-
vented to conceal the elimination
of labor's hard-won right to col-
lective bargaining; the "Stakhan-
ov plan" to glorify the "speed up"
and the "stretch out;" "co-opera-
tion" and "unification" to cover
the dispossession of the minority
and the transfer of its belongings
to the party faithful. While
phrases like "protective custody"
and "for reasons of health" join
the older alibis like "shot while
trying to escape."
History itself is called back and
rewritten. A man who died for
his country in no longer a hero
if his mother or his wife was a
Jew. That is a long way from
the patriotism of a Washington or
a Lincoln, a long way from the
conception of history held by John
Stuart Mill or Lord Acton—too
far, I believe, for us to follow
even in our minds.
In short, there is a great gulf
fixed between the two conceptions
of life; and there is almost no
way of bridging it with words, be-
cause words no longer have any Intellectual and physical—that we
commonly accepted meanings.
can muster.
The danger of such a situa-
Therefore we welcome exiles
tion is obvious. With two such front their own countries who
utterly different systems, each have come to help us, who have
must necessarily aim to eliminate proved their abilities and value in
the other from the face of the the sort of free life we want to
earth. Mussolini and Hitler have continue having here, who were
often announced this war. Said not of a nature to recant or to
Mussolini in October, 1930: "The give up or to accept to be stifled
struggle between two worlds can and frustrated. Their presence
permit no compromise. Either we here, and the fact that they have
or they. Either their heads or been welcomed here, show that
ours. Either our state or theirs!" there are -common Ideals left in
I believe that in this struggle we the world and common languages
need all the strength—moral and in which to give them expression.

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They will remain good Ger-
mans and good Italians. For, as
Lord Acton said, "Exile is the
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nursery of nationality."
will also remain good liberals, be-
cause—Lord Acton again—"Op-
pression is the school of liberal-
Ism." We are glad to have them
here, recruits—or rather veterans
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adapt our form of society to the
changing needs of modern life.
without the sacrifice of essential
liberties and without interrupting
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