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Randolph 4102 Twenty years ago, when I was a young reporter going to and fro in Europe and Asia for the old New York World, and visited the Polish cities for the first time, I was so overcome by the desti- tution and the misery that I saw and that I felt in towns like Warsaw and Kalisch and Lem- berg and Lodz that I expressed the opinion, in one of my dis- patches, that in that land, in so far as the Jews were concerned, human life had sunk to its low- est possible level. I could not imagine that life could be de- graded still further, to lower depths. For in that country the Jews seemed to have been rob- bed of the last vestige of human dignity. There, in those' rabbit warrens of the ghettos, these labyrinthal mazes of poverty 'and New Year Greetings KAY CORSETIERE CORSELETTES GIRDLES BRASSIERES Made to Order 207 Metropolitan Bldg. CHerry 2633 L. October 4, 1940 bETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle 2 33 John R. 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Still great- er misery was possible, still more and abject humiliation could be inflicted on the Jewish people. I say inflicted, because I grew convinced, as I returned again and again, that it was not a question of an act of God or an ineluctible evil like a natural dis- aster, but that it was design. There was cool scheming and calculation in maintaining and constantly accentuating the sub- human living conditions for the Jews. And then Hitler took over Po- land. And now there are no mere words to describe the appalling condition of the Jewish people there. The hell of Dante has been surpassed. Not only the Jews of Poland but the Polish people in its entirety have pass- ed completely out of the sight of Western civilization. The Blackness of a medieval night of barbarism envelopes what was once the Polish Republic. And that night, is more somber, more gruesome, more starkly and fan- tastically inhuman than anything the world has witnessed from the days of the slavery in Mitz•aim to the martyrdom in Spain. All the horrors of the past are eclipsed. Helpless, bound hand and foot, as it were, without means of escape, the Jews of Poland, the millions of them, are delivered up to a cruel, sadistic foe, to creatures who take a delight in torture and humilia- tion and in the shedding of blood, who revel in the sight of human suffering. I call them creatures. I cannot call them men. I cannot call them human. I am ashamed to be of the same flesh as they. Poland is a house of horror. But not only Poland. The plight of inhumanity has spread all over Europe. The gates of hell have opened and the infernal forces have prevailed over Ger- many and Austria, Czechoslova- kia, two of the Scandinavian countries, Holland, Belgium and a part of France. Christian civili- zation has been blotted out in the better part of Europe. Great nations lie in chains. Immense and nameless is the suffering. The false gods of antiquity, the idols of the past, have been set up again—Mammon and Mo- loch. These idols whom the Is- raelites knew when they entered the Land of Canaan. This time these old gods take the form of the quasi-almighty leviathan state, which depersonalizes man, dehumanizes him, and, as we see. bestializes him. The peoples of the conquered nations of Europe are all in a concentration camp. They exist Happy New Year to All LASTAR ELECTRIC CO. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Commercial and Residential Wiring for Light and Power 3761 STURTEVANT Fleet Wing Gas and Motor Oils 12401 CLOVERDALE Phone HOgarth 3275 Best Wishes for a Happy New Year Loyal Tire 8 Battery U. S. 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THIS FAITH ASSURES US THAT THE NEW YEAR WILL FAVOR YOU WITH RADI- ANT HEALTH, UNMARRED HAPPI- NESS, AND DESERVING SUCCESS IN YOUR UNDERTAKINGS. HOGARTH 1060 I. B. DWORMAN, Gen. Mgr. Distributors of and toil and sweat and weep only to satisfy the needs, the whims and the lusts of the con- quering Nazis. They exist as slaves of the people who call themselves Herrenvolk, the dom- inant race, the overlords, who claim to be endowed with a Her- rennatur, that is to say, who consider themselves selected and endowed by nature and tradition to lord it over other, lesser breeds. Long ago they began dividing the human race into men and mongrels, and they launched their attacks against the Jewish people first. Not only because the Jews were the weakest min- ority and because defense of the Jews has always and in all coun- tries been the least of the pre- occupations of organized Chris- tianity, but also because the Jews, as a people, collectively, were a priori the most uncom- promising foes of Molochism and Mammonism, because the Jews as a group, paradoxical as it may sound, were not the weakest but the strongest minority. There is nothing strange or inexplicable in the Nazi hatred for the Jewish people. There is Season's Greetings K. SHAPIRO, Inc. Wholesale VEAL and LAMB 1531.3 WINDER ST. Cherry 1291 Sears, Roebuck & Co. DETROIT—AND EVERYWHERE