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Women's Auxiliary of
Jewish Home for Aged
Mrs. M. J. Greenberg, president

Thoreau:. 'Under a government Gertrude Pinsky To
Gala Affair to be Held
which imprisons any unjustly, the
true place for a just man is also Explain Women's
By Home Relief Society
(Continued from Par,e 1)
in prison."
than a useful figure of speech. of the Women's Auxiliary of the
It is an evil and paralyzing Council Policies
On Monday, Sept. 28, an im-
In briefest words: Life is sacred Jewish Home for Aged, has ap- sophistication which represents the
portant meeting of the Home Re-
lief Society will be held at the
a nd suffering is the suffering of pointed Mrs. David Kliger war pagan master-state as a new
home of Mrs. Samuel E. Danto,
persons. , of human beings, and efforts chairman and will report thing in the world. It is, an evil
on Chicago Blvd. A luncheonette
the universe growS dark 1111(1 ex- On civilian defense and civilian sophistication that does not tear
istence becomes a blunder and activities at all meetings of the
will be served at 12:30, and all
loose from all the examples of
a shame unless the individual auxiliary.
inembei.s are invited to attend.
Pagan
antiquity.
Pllato
has
no
human being is free to seek to
The ways and means and din-
Mrs. A. Gordon has been named more to teach us than Hegel.
ner dance committees met at the
a void wounds and hunger and representative to the Women's Liberty is the new thing in the
humiliation and terror and is free League for Sabbath observance.
holm, of Mrs. Ralph Levy, chair-
world—liberty and brotherly love
man, on Lawrence Ave., for the
to seek in his own way . wha. t
and the right of every man to
purpose of making weekly reports
happiness or what salvation is
his
difference
from
his
fellows.
concerning progress of the an-
possible to him. Hence Thomas
That
new
thing
in
the
world
is,
name
and
fact,
those
fascoes
of
nual dinner dance.
Jefferson d id sweep away the
the lictors, those symbols of the as years and centuries go, very
Among the interesting reports
s ophistries of the Pagan ages
ancient
too.
It
came
into
being
given at this meeting was that
when he spoke of man's "Inal'en- brutish state-idol which had once
long
before
Athens
was
a
power
of Mrs. Max Rosenfeld, chairman
able rights" and declared those slain the ancestors of both Jews
or Pericles dreamed of. But it
of the year book committee, who
rights to be 'life, liberty and the
urged the turning in of all "ads"
pursuit of happiness." His phras- and Christians. But Jews evi- has always had to fight its way
as early as possible. It was an-
ing; we can now see, was not dently forgot Akiba, and Chris- wainst the pagan instincts of
nounced by Mrs. ,Jean Meyers,
rhetorical but most accurately tians forgot Telt ullian. And the world; it has never given—
that those wishing to insert a
thought out. Life, the absolute Americans of all kinds no longer even in America—more than a
fighting
chance.
If
this
"war
of
"memoriam," in the annual year
and unconditioned value is de- took literally the words of Jeffer-
book, in memory of their departed
valuated unless it is free to func- son and Lincoln and Thoreau. survival," as the President has
loved ones, may do so by calling
tion toward its inevitable end of The length and cruelty of the well named it, is won in an en-
No. 2935.
war is a retribution for our for- lightened spirit liberty may at long
the pursuit of happiness.
last come into her own.
From all indications the annual
Now it is doubtless true that, getfulness. And even now Amer-
dinner dance to be held on Sun-
What we are fighting for, what
ican
thinkers
and
scholars
write
according to the tag of Aristotle,
day, Oct. 25, at the Book-Cadil-
elaborate treatises in defense of we must all be willing to die for,
man is a political animal. He that which needs none and do not is found, as Milton for instance
lac Hotel, will be an assured suc-
cess. Plans for a gala affair with
cannot live alone. He must live sufficiently clarify nor passion- knew, as every instructed Jew
a well known orchestra, and a
MISS GERTRUDE PINSKY
in a polls, a city, a polity, a ately enough declare the fact that should not have forgotten, in the
great floor show, featuring top
society of some kind. But it has our tradition equates democracy spirit which Israel brought into
The Council meeting on Oct. headline stars, is on the schedule.
been throughout the ages a mark with liberty and is the negation the world. Thirteen hundred years 5. at the Jewish Community C.en-
Those desiring to make early
before the common era the Jews
of the pagan mind to abstract the of the master state.
ter will introduce Miss Gertrude reservations or pledges, call Mrs.
city or society from the individ-
If they were to do that they offered to Gideon, a victorious Pinsky, field secretary of the Na- Anna Moss, at To. 6-7394; or
uals who composed and constituted might render a very great serv- general. He replied for the first tional Council of Jewish Women,
Mrs. Samuel Arkin, No. 2213.
it and to lend to this entity a ice. If they were to make it time since man came into being: to the new members. Miss Pin-
Proceeds from this annual af-
you,
neither
"I
shall
not
rule
over
wholly fictitious value, a malicious clear that all examples of democ-
yky is a member of the Ohio Bar fair will be used towards helping
rule
over
you:
shall
my
son
metaphysical value. This meta- racy drawn from Greek practice
Association iind of the American the needy and less fortunate and
physical value has been symbol- or theory are sinister and pagan Yaveh shall rule over you." No Association of Social Workers. Be- the various war efforts that the
wonder
that
German
scholars
have
ized in various ways: . By ascrib- they might help to free the spirit
fore she joined the staff of the organization takes part in.
ing divine origin to kings, as in of human liberty. The word de- held this to be a later interpola- council, Miss Pinsky worked as
tion!
And
quite
rightly
Martin
ancient Egypt and contemporary mocracy is, of course, Greek. And
a volunteer with the Legal' Aid
Japan; by deifying . the head of the concept that the demos, the Buber devoted a magnificent vol- Society of Cincinnati and then
the state, as in the case of the people, were kratein, to rule, was ume "The Kingdom of God" to on the professional staff of the Congregation Bnai Moshe to
'high-
Roman Caesars, who were de- in this form a new one. But it is a refutation of this bit of
United Jewish Social Agencies of Celebrate Succoth Festival
clam' to be divus or god; as in notorious that the Greek city er" criticism. Doubtless there was Cincinnati.
danger
anti
precariousness,
hu-
the case of Hitler, whose name states were all built upon a foun-
Congregation Bnai Moshe will
For the last three years Miss
is used as greeting and binding dation of slavery and that the man nature being what it is, Pinsky has worked at the national usher in the Succoth festival with
under
that
experiment
of
the
and whose assuumption of infall- "people" who 'ruled" consisted of
office in the service to foreign services Friday evening. Prayers
ibility reached a climax just a a small group of free male citi- Judges when "there was no king born department and then as a Saturday and Sunday will be led
few weeks ago.
zens. It is the freedom of this in Israel" and ''every man did full time field worker. She is thus by Cantor David Katzman.
that which was right in his own
The thing is as ancient as sin. group which Pericles extolled in eyes." Nevertheless, when the very well qualified to explain the
Sermons will be delivered by
It is, perhaps, the sin of sins— that incomparable speech attrib- people clamored to Samuel that program, policies, and general Rabbi Moses Fischer and Rabbi
this deep malice which forgets uted to him by Thucydides. But he should give them a king he philosophy of the National Coun- Jiicob J. Nathan on alternate
that the individual is prior to even in this oration the sinister described to them (Sam. 1, 10-18) cil of Jewish Women at the Octo- days. The traditional succah will
society, that society is one of his pagan note is soon heard. For with amazing precision the ber 5 gathering for new and old be erected on the lot adjoining
functions, that there are no values he praises those first victims who changelessly corrupting character Council members.
the synagogue.
within society except such as had fallen in the Peloponesian of power and the temptation of
The Bnai Moshe Sisterhood will
war
because
they
had
held
that
:ecure the individual's freedom
the state to become the master hide their differentness or are begin its session of iictivities with
"vengeance
upon
their
enemies
and flexibility and happiness.
a social meeting Monday after-
rather than the servant of the
Whenever and wherever society was more to be desired than any people. Yet monarchy in Israel ashamed of it or refuse out of noon, Sept. 28, Mrs. Alex Fisch,
functions abstractly and seeks personal blessings." That has a was limited and constitutional the fear of life and liberty to the president, announced. Among
anything save the individual's not unfamiliar Nazi flavor. A from the beginning. The consti- support the cause of our nuirtyred affairs scheduled for the season
freedom to strive after his salva- little later in fact the historian tution was the Torah; the funda- people, are subtly allying them- is the inaugural dinner dance
tion, we are on the edge of that lets Pericles admit that what mental law was that any king selves with that foe whom their which will be held Nov. 1.
both ancient and contemporary Athens had conquered and was in Israel (Dent. 17, 18-19) 'shall own sons must fight and die to
defeat; they are false to that
holding was "to speak somewhat
sin and wrong.
write him a copy of this law in
Even serious discussions of plainly, a tyranny; to take it a book . . to keep all the words essential American spirit which
spoke through Thoreau: "A minor-
Plato and Hegel and Marx are perhaps was wrong, but to let of this law and these statutes to ity is powerless while it con-
sinister. It is sinister when an it go is unsafe." Quite so might a do them, that his heart be not forms to a majority." And it is Call TWinbrook 2-1 170
agreeable acquaintance asks you not immoderate German today lifted up against his brethren." profoundly symbolical of all that
TONS 5 0 0 TONS
cursorily: "Are you an American speak of Norway or Greece. But And through the history of is here urged that the majority
Genuine 3rd Vein
the
authentic
pagan
background
first or a Jew first?" For im-
the kingdoms of Israel we find to which Thoreau conceived him-
plicit in that use of the word of the National-Socialist state is sin and apostasy and the violation self as belonging were those
POCAHONTAS
"first" is the concept that the brilliantly illuminated by the of this constitution. But we never American men and women who
NUT—PEA U SLACK
individual "belongs" to the State famous debate, recorded by Thu- find its principles denied. Falling could not and would not rest
for
BLOWER FURNACES
and not that the state is a func- cydides, • between the Athenian off is followed by re-dedication until the slaves were free.
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tion of the individual and will be Lonquerers and the people of the and from Nathan in the day of
We need no intricate reason-
righteous and happy in the meas- island of Melos who, like the Swiss David to Jeremiah in the day of ings nor an zippeal to pagan ex-
PEOPLE'S
ure in which the citizens who or Swedes of today, desired to Zedekiah we find royal transgres- amples in this crisis of human
compose it and create it are men remain neutral. To them the sion corrected by the public activ- affairs. Liberty is life. Love
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who obey honor and conscience Athenian ambassadors said blunt- ity of prophetism. This example is life. Slavery and hate are
Est. 1900
111d truth and God. The state in ly: "You know as well as we was deeply rooted in the con- literally the creatures of death
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iself can have no ethical worth. do that right, as the world goes, sciousness of those Englishmen
Its . ethical worth is that of the is only a question between equals who executed Charles Stuart and and the lust for death. ''Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thy-
individuals who consent to its ex- in power, while the strong do in the "glorious revolution of
istence. The sources of value are what they can and the weak suf- 1688" drove his brother James II self," the prohpetic scribe wrote
3,000 years ago. And he wrote:
in the free conscience of the citi- fer what they must."
from that throne anti country.
S'Ye shall love the en-dweller,
The
people
of
Melos
appealed
zen. Once every schoolboy knew
The Anglo-Jewish tradition of the ger, for you yourselves were
the verses of an eminent Eng- to the judgment of the gods; they libertatrianism, of the supremacy
co-dwellers (gerim) in the land
lishman of the eighteenth cen- warned the Athenians against in-
tury: ''What constitutes a stituting an example of brute of the individual conscience, is a of Egypt." Ile did not write
state?" And the ringing answer: force. The representatives of single tradition from Milton 'tolerate" or 'tolerate on condi-
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Men, high-minded men." The that Athenian 'democracy" re- through John Stewart Mill, who tion that he assimilate to a norm
schoolboy knows the verses no plied: - Of the gods we believe, warned against the tyranny of arbitrarily set." Ile wrote "love"
a
majorities,
to
Jefferson,
Thoreau
—love
him
in
his
own
nature
as
WINDOW SHADES
more. His father knows the and of men we know, that by -
Lincoln. The English speak- he is. Such is the spirit of lib-
verse and the sentiment no more, necessary law of their nature, and
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ing
peoples
re-allied
themselves
erty and of life itself which our
1101' the everlasting fact that the they rule wherever they can. All
Cleaned and Repaired
we
do
is
make
use
of
that
law,
with
the
libertarian
tradition
of
enemies
are
determined
to
ex-
only foundation of any progress
that man has ever made consist- knowing that you and everybody Israel. This cannot be repeated terminate. Such is the spirit of
LINOLEUM
democracy which we defend. It
ed not in machines or gadgets else, having the same power as too often or too insistently. The
Inlaid and Battleship
have,
would
do
the
same
as
"War
of
survival"
is
a
war
for
needs
no
elaborate
justification;
but in the high-minded man's We
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possession of liberty. Yet that is we do." The end of the matter the survival of this tradition it is clouded by too many words;
the Anglo-American tradition, the was, again as every schoolboy against a pagan revolt. Whoever its ultimate source is in the un-
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corrupted
mind
of
man.
t.radition of Milton and John used to know, that the Athenians limits his liberty of conscience
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Stewart Mill and John Brown conquered the island of Melos and is a defeatist in this holy war.
It would be well if, as often as
and Henry David Thoreau and of slew all the men and sold the
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hiolog:cal and the psychiaal sense.
ing and dying for. But if the of the appalling illiteracy of our biological and the physical sense.
age
that
any
one
at
any
time
concept and tradition of liberty
and,. above all, the individual's saw in the reappearance of pag- Life is multiform, flexible, devel-
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