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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

December 6, 1940

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By Philip Slomovitz

DR. REVEL DIES

1,500 at Services for De-
ceased President of
Yeshiva College
and sent it to the London Times which published

"To to Be Pious, Wise, Just and Temperate"

it as follows:
"All Europe should unite to make war and NEW YORK (WNS) — More
As A few days ago, Faneuil Hall in Boston rang peace together, to prevent their being devoured, than 1,500 persons attended im-
or one by one, by the Monster whose rapacity knows pressive funeral services for Dr.
'th the challenge of liberty and the call for
active democracy. Prof. Samuel Eliot Morison no bounds, and seems now to have no other ob- Bernard Revel, president of the
wil f l Harvard, Governor Saltonstall of Massachu- ject but unlimited dominion and the total destruc- Yeshiva College and the Rabbi
Charles Douglas Jackson, president of tion of every other power.
a
Dr. Walter Millis,
"I really think that the conviction that they
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the Council for Democracy,
are now entering into a league for no other
Prof. Theodore Morrison of Harvard, were among
speakers. But the keynote was struck by the purpose but that of self-defense, and that their
noted Poet and orator, the Librarian of Congress, ruin must be the consequence of their aban-
doning it, would give them advantages which
Archibald
MacLeish.
There were
striking statements in Mr. Mac- they had not before; and if they were to begin
hick deserve to be recorded and immediately they might certainly have great
do res'
Leish
s a read.
hopes."
widely
Mr. MacLeish said:
The publication of the letter brought the
a confusion and a perplexity
following from Lieut. Col. Henry Alford of the
"There
is
which would be incredible were it not thatt
Travelers Club:
we know they exist because it is a princ
"Mrs. Maxtone Graham's letter shows that
nemies
of
liberty
to
produce
Napoleon
used to be called the "Monster" as
e
the
strategy of
early as 1798. There is a sequel to that which may
precisely that confusion.
The enemies of liberty are saboteurs in
amuse some of your readers. This is how Na-
. art
the things of the mind. They practice the
poleon's progress in March, 1815, from Elba to
of. the words and meanings
- Paris was repo•ted in the Paris newspapers:

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by which the partisans of freedom live.
by
"Consider, for example, the word 'democ-
y,' the word which is our cause, the word
racy,'
we must defend whatever else we lose, or
for, or do not defend.
t o fight
fa il
"Our
enemies would have us take the word
ean a world of goods and things and
to m
omforts
and amusements.
c
heard it said by responsible
have
men whose
whose loyalty cannot be put in doubt
be said of their intelligence
whatever may
and of their wisdom—we have heard it said
that democracy is dead in the country which
fought first, which is still fighting, against
nemies of democracy. We have heard
e
the
it said by the principal statesmen of a na-
tion which once was famous as the chon
of democracy that democracy is dead every.
where throughout the world. We have read
adenced prose that democ
in beautiful and c
racy has no place in the future which now
moves upon us like a wave.
"But what, to all these people, is 'democ-

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racy'?"
"Democracy is never a thing done, Democ-
omething that a nation must
racy is always s
be doing.
"The democratic faith which swept the
world—the democratic faith which men be-
lieved in and fought for, the faith which
men believe in and will fight for still, is not
a faith in things or goods or fortunes. John
Milton knew the democratic faith that men
will fight His democracy was a democ-
racy in which men believed. It is still a
faith more powerful than any other. All our
history has made this plain. Whenever in the
history of this Nation we have given our-
selves to the labor of creating upon this con-
tinent a life in which every man might have
have been con-
the freedom of his mind, w e
fident, and certain of our future, and as-
sured.
"What is necessary now is one thing and
one thing only—that the issue of democracy
be made precise and clear—that democracy
become again democracy in action, not de-
mocracy accomplished and piled up in goods
and gold. For democracy in a ction—the un-
endin g labor of creating liberty for every
man—democracy in action is a cause for
which the stones themselves will fight. . . ."

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"And as for you, citizens, it is of no small
concern, what manner of men ye are,
whether to acquire or to keep possession of
your liberty. Unless your liberty be of that
Lund, which can neither be gotten nor taken
away b. y arms (and that alone is such which,
springing from piety, justice, temperance, in
fine from real virtue, shall take deep and in-
timate root in your minds) you may be as-
sured that there will not be wanting one,
who, even without arms, will speedily deprive
you of what it is your boast to have gained
by force of arms. . . . For know (that you
ma y not feel resentment, or be able to blame
anybody but yourselves) that to be free is
precisely the same thing as to be pious, wise,
just and temperate, careful of one's ow - a,
abstinent from what is another's, and thence
in fine, magnanimous and brave—so to be
the opposite of these i s the same thing as
to he a slave; and by the w onted judgment
and as it were, by the just retribution of
God, it comes to pass, that the nation, which
ha ve been incapable of governing and order-
in g itself, and has delivered itself up to the
slavery of its own lusts, is itself delivered
ove r against its will to other masters—and
Whether it will or not 'tis compelled to serve."

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doors to its first class. Three
years ago, under the leadership
of Dr. Revel, the Yeshiva Gradu-
ate School was opened.
Born in Kovno, Russia, a son
of Rabbi Nahum Shraga Revel,
Dr. Revel attended the Kovno
Talmudical College before coming
to the United States in 1907. He
spent a year at the University
of Pennsylvania and then entered
New York University, where he
received an A. M. in 1909. He
studied at Dropsie College the
next two years, attaing his Doc-
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The Tiger has escaped.
The Monster has been three days at sea.
The Wretch has landed at Frejus.
The Brigand has arrived at Antibes.
The Invader has reached Grenoble.
The General has entered Lyons.
Napoleon slept last night at Fountainbleau.
The Emporer proceeds to the Tuileries to-
DR. BERNARD REVEL
day.
His Imperial Majesty will address his loyal
Isaac Elchanan Theological Semi-
nary, who died last Monday
subjects tomorrow."
morning at Mount Sinai hospital
Now, this is the way it works after every one after a week's illness. He was
of our elections. The eminent leaders are first
branded demons by their opposition. Then they 55 years old.
Burial for the founder of the
are gradually dragged down and down, until the
time comes for public recognition. Then the vic- only college of liberal arts and
tors and popular idols are suddenly restored o sciences in the United States un-
positions of recognition. That's the way it is in der Jewish auspices was at Mount
human relations. After all, to the victors belong Carmel Cemetery, Cypress Hill,
L. I.
the honors.
Hundreds of messages of con-
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dolence poured into the offices of
On Reading the Bible
the Yeshiva College and Dr. Re-
The call for a return to the Bible and for daily vel's home. Surviving are his
reading of selections from the Book of Books widow, the former Sarah Rabino-
has inspired the publishing of a pamphlet, "The witz of Marietta, 0., and two
Voice of the Bible," by the Keren Kaymeth Le- sons, Norman and Herschel.
In 1915, when Yeshiva Eitz
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A large number of appropriate Biblical quota- Chaim was merged with Yeshiva
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan, Dr. Revel
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In the course of his address, Mr. MacLeish
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democracy dare to subscribe to such a defeatist
viewpoint.
"And as for you, citizens"—carry ,m! Read
the words of MacLeash and Milton. Shout them
from the housetops. Say to our neighbors and
to your children and to posterity: We shall not
give up and we shall never yield to conditions
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Notable Days on Jewish Calendar

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Dec. 25 — Jan. 1
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Chanukah
Tuesday,
Rosh Chodesh Tebet - - - Monday and
Dec. 30 & 31

Fast of Tebet - - - - Thursday, Jan. 9
Rosh Chodesh Shvat - - - - Wednesday, Jan. 29
Chamisho Osor b'Shvat - - - - Feb. 12
Rosh Chodesh Ada• - - - ThursdayF and Fri&day,
eb.27 28
Feast of Esther - - - - Wednesday, March 12
Purim - - - - Thursday, March 13
Rosh Chodesh Nissan - - - Saturday, March 29
Passover - - - - April 12 — 19
Rosh Chodesh Iyar - - - Sunday and Monday,
April 27 & 28
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Thursday,
May 15
Lag b'Omer
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Rosh Chodesh Sivan - - Tuesday, May 17
When Epithets Give Way to Honors
Shevuos - - - Sunday and Monday, June 1 & 2
Tammuz - Wednesday and Thurs-
Mrs. Maxtone Graham of Edinburgh, in arrang- Rosh Chodesh
day, June 25 & 26
ing for publication the letters of the late diplo-
- - Sunday, July 13
Fast
of
Tammuz
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mat Colonel Thomas Graham, afterward Lord
- - Friday, July 25
Lydenoch, came across an interesting epistle sent Rosh Chodesh Ab - - - - Sunday, Aug. 3
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his ancestor by Admiral Robert Scott, dated Tisha b'Ab
- Saturday and Sunday,
Vienna, April 29, 1798. Mrs. Graham considered Rosh Chodesh Ellul •
Aug. 23 & 24.
the letter applicable to the European situation

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