September 25, 194,,

DEMOCRACY

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Women's Auxiliary of
Jewish Home for Aged

Thoreau: - Under a government
Gala Affair to be Held
Gertrude Pinsky To
which imprisons any unjustly, the
true place for a just man is also Explain Women's
By Home Relief Society
(Continued from Page 1)
in prison."
Mrs. M. ,I. Greenberg, president
It is an evil and paralyzing Council Policies
On Monday, Sept. 28, an im-
than a useful figure of speech. of the Women's Auxiliary of the
portant meeting of the Home Re-
In briefest words: Life is sacred Jewish Home for Aged, has a )- 1on
sop nsticati
I which
. ' • represents the
lief Society will be held at the
a nd suffering is the suffering of pointed Mrs. David Klige ' r . war pagan master-state as a new
home of Mrs. Samuel E. Danto,
iiersons, of human beings, and efforts chairman and will report thing in the world. It is an evil
the universe grows dark and ex- on civilian defense and civilian
on Chicago Blvd. A luncheonette
sophistication that does not tear
istence becomes a blunder and activities at all in eetIngs
will be served at 12:30, and all
'
of the loose from all the examples of
a shan't(' unless the imlividual auxiliary.
members are invited to attend.
Pagan
antiquity.
Pllato
has
no
human being is free to seek to
The ways 1101 means and din-
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on
has
been
named
.more
to
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teach
us
than
Hegel.
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to
the
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in
the
.
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a
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is
the
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humiliation and terror and is free 1, ,!,. ,nc. • for Sabbath observance
home of Mrs. Ralph Levy, Chair-
.
world—liberty and brotherly love
,
to seek in his own way what League
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the
right
of
every
man
to
happiness or what salvation is
purpose of making weekly reports
his difference from his fellows.
Ode to him. Hence Thomas
concerning progress of the an-
possible
Jefferson did sweep away t he name and fact, those fascoes of That new thing in the world is,
nual dinner dance.
ophistries of the Pagan ages the lictors, those symbols of the as years and centuries go, very
Among the interesting reports
s
given at this meeting was that
when he spoke of man's "inalien- brutish state-idol which had once ancient too. It came into being
power
before Athens was a But
it
of Mrs. Max Rosenfeld, chairman
able rights" and declared t hose slain the
ancestors of both
Oh Jews or Pericles dreamed of.
of the year book committee, who
rights to be ''life, liberty and the . , ,,_ . .
hristi
ans.
But
Jews
evi-
has
always
had
to
tight
its
way
urged the turning in of all "ads"
pu rsuit of happiness." His pleas- a n'l t
was no t dently forgot Akiba, and Chris- against the pagan instincts of
as earls' as possible. It was an-
Mg. we can now see,
And the world; it has never given—
nounced by Mrs. Jean Meyers,
rhetorical but most accurately th in , forgot Tertullian.
that those wishing to insert a
thought out Life, the absolute Americans of all kinds no longer even in America—more than a
"memoriam," in the annual year
and unconditioned value is de- took literally the words of Jeffer- fighting chance. If this "war of
hook, 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
lion toward its inevitable end of The length and cruelty of the well named it, is won in an en-
No. 2935.
the pursuit of happiness. war is a retribution for our for- lightened spirit liberty may at long
From all indications the annual
Now it is doubtless true that, getfulness. And even now Amer- last come into her own.
What we are fighting for, what
dinner dance to be held on Sun-
according to the tag of Aristotle, , lean thinkers and scholars write
day, Oct. 25, at the Book-Cadil-
elaborate treatises in defense of we must all be willing to die for,
lac Hotel, will be an assured suc-
man is a political animal. He that which needs none and do not is found, as Milton for instance
cess. Plans for a gala affair with
cannot •live alone, lie must live sufficiently clarify nor passion- knew, as every instructed Jew
MISS GERTRUDE PINSKY
a well known orchestra, and a
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 hasour tradition equates democracy spirit which Israel brought into
The Council meeting on Oct.
been throughout the ages a mark with liberty and is the negation the world. Thirteen hundred years 5, at the Jewish Community Cen- headline stars, is on the schedule.
Those desiring to make early
before the common era the Jews
of the pagan mind to abstract the of the master state.
If they were to do that they offered to Gideon, a victorious ter will introduce Miss Gertrude reservations or pledges, call Mrs.
city or society from the individ-
Pinsky, field secretary of the Na-
tails who composed and constituted might render a very great serv- general. He replied for the first tional Council of Jewish NVomen, Anna Moss, at To. 6-7394; or
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-
wholly fictitious value, a malicious clear that all examples of democ- "I shall not rule over you, neither sky is a member of the Ohio Bar fair will be used towards helping
metaphysical value. This meta- racy drawn from Greek practice shall my son rule over you: Association and 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 1Vorkers. Be- the various war efforts that the
ized in various ways: By asenh- they might help to free the spirit wonder that German scholars have fore she joined the staff of the organization takes part in.
big divine origin to kings, as in of human liberty. The word de- held this to be a later interpola- council, Miss Pinsky worked as
- is, of course, Greek. And tion! And quite rightly Martin a volunteer with the Legal. Aid
ancient Egypt and contemporary mom,y
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
Roman Caesars, who were de- in this form a new one. But it is a refutation of this bit of 'high- United Jewish Social Agencies of Celebrate Succoth Festival
&lanai to be divus or god; as in notorious that the Greek city er" criticism. Doubtless there was Cincinnati.
the case of Hitler, whose name states were all built upon a foun- danger and precariousness, hu-
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
.
and whose assuumption of infall- •people" who 'ruled" consisted of under that experiment of the office in the service to foreign services Friday evening. Prayers
ibility reached a climax j 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
tens. It is the freedom of this in Israel" and ''every man did full time field worker. She is thus by Cantor David Katzman.
few weeks ago.
The thing is as ancient as sin. group which Pericles extolled in that which was right in his own very well qualified to explain the
Sermons will be delivered by
It is, perhaps, the sin of sins— that incomparable speech attrib- eves." Nevertheless, when the program, policies, and general Rabbi Moses Fischer and Rabbi
this deep malice which forgets uteri to him by Thucydides. But .people clamored to Samuel that philosophy Of the National Coun- Jacob J. Nathan on alternate
that the individual is prior to even in this oration the sinister he should give them a king he 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 described to them (Sam. 1, 10-18) 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 with amazing precision the Council members.
t he synagogue.
within society except such as had fallen in the Peloponesian changelessly corrupting character
The Bnai Moshe Sisterhood will
:ccure the individual's freedom war because they had held that (f power and the temptation of
and flexibility and happiness. "vengeance upon their enemies the • state to become the master hide their differentness or are begin its session of activities with
a social meeting Monday after-
Whenever and wherever society was more to be desired than an y rather than the servant of the ashamed of it or refuse out of
functions abstractly and seeks personal blessings." That has a people. Yet monarchy in Israel the fear of life and liberty to noon, Sept. 28, Mrs. Alex Fisch,
anything save the individual's not unfamiliar Nazi flavor. A was limited and constitutional support the cause of our martyred the president, announced. Among
freedom to strive after his salvo- little later in fact the historian from the beginning. The consti- people, are subtly allying them- affairs scheduled for the season
tion, we are on the edge of that lets Pericles admit that what tution was the Torah; the funda- selves with that foe whom their is the inaugural dinner dance
both ancient and contemporary Athens had conquered and was mental law was that any king own sons must tight and die to which will be held Nov. 1.
sill and wrong. holding was "to speak somewhat in Israel (Dent. 17, 18-19) 'shall defeat; they are false to that
plainly, a tyranny; to take it write him a copy of this law in essential American spirit which
Even serious discussions of perhaps was wrong, but to let a book . .. . to keep all the words spoke through Thoreau: "A minor-
Plato and Hegel and Marx are
go is'unsafe." Quite so might a of this law and these statutes to ity is powerless while it con- Call TWinbrook 2-1 170
sinister. It is sinister when an it
not immoderate German today do them, that his heart be not forms to a majority." And it is
agreeable acquaintance asks you speak of Norway or Greece. But lifted up against his brethren." profoundly symbolical of all that
TONS 5 0 0 TONS
cursorily: "Are you an American
Genuine 3rd Vein
first or a Jew first?" For im- the authentic pagan background And all through the history of is here urged that the majority
of the National-Socialist state is the kingdoms of Israel we find to which Thoreau conceived him-
plicit in that use of the word brilliantly illuminated by the sin and apostasy and the violation self as belonging were those
POCAHONTAS
"first" is the concept that the famous debate, recorded by Thu- of this constitution. But we never American men and women who
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individual "belongs" to the State cydides, between the Athenian find its principles denied. Falling. could not and would not rest
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tion of the individual and will be
We need no intricate reason-
of Melos who, like the Swiss and from Nathan in the day of
righteous and happy in the meas- island
or Swedes of today, desired to David to Jeremiah in the day of ings nor an •tppeal to pagan ex-
PEOPLE'S
ure in which the citizens who remain neutral. To them the Zedekiah we find royal t•ansgres- amples in this crisis of human
compose it and create it are men Athenian ambassadors said blunt- sion corrected by the public activ- affairs. Liberty is life. Love
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itself can have no ethical worth. do that right, as the world goes, was deeply rooted in the con- literally the creatures of death
is only a question between equals sciousness of those Englishmen and the lust for death. 'Thou
Its ethical worth is that of the
who executed Charles Stuart and shalt love thy neighbor as thy-
individuals who consent. to its ex- in power, while the strong do in the "glorious revolution of self," the prohpetic scribe wrote
what
they
can
and
the
weak
suf-
istence. The sources of value are
1688" drove his brother James II 3,000 years ago. And he wrote:
in the free conscience of the citi- fee what they must."
from that throne and country.
"Ye shall love the co-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 Iffiertatrianism, of the supremacy
•o-dwellers (gerim) in the land
lishman of the eighteenth cen- warned the Athenians against in-
conscience, is a of Egypt." He did not write
tury: 'What constitutes a stituting an example of brute of the individual
Milton
from
"tolerate" or ''tolerate on condi-
The representatives of . s single tradition
gate?" And the ringing answer: force.
John Stewart Mill, who tion that he assimilate to a norm
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Men, high-minded men." The that Athenian 'democracy" re- through
warned against the tyranny of arbitrarily set." He wrote "love"
schoolboy knows the verses no plied: " Of the gods we believe,
a majorities, to Jefferson, Thoreau —love him in his own nature as
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more. His father knows the and of men we know, that by -
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verse and the sentiment no more, necessary law of their nature, and Lincoln. The English speak- he is. Such is the spirit of lib-
erty
and
of
life
itself
which
our
lair the everlasting fact that the they rule wherever they can. All mg peoples re-allied themselves
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enemies
are
determined
to
ex-
we
do
is
make
use
of
that
law,
with
the
libertarian
tradition
of
only foundation of any progress
Israel. This cannot be repeated terminate. Such is the spirit of
that man has ever made consist- knowing that you and everybody
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too often or too insistently. The democracy which we defend. It
ed not in machines or gadgets else, having the same p ower a s
Inlaid and Battleship
needs
no
elaborate
justification;
we
have,
would
do
the
same
as
"War
of
survival"
is
a
war
for
but in the high-minded man's
the survival of this tradition it is clouded by too many words;
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possession of liberty. Yet that is we do." The end of the matter against
a pagan revolt. Whoever its ultimate source is in the un-
the Anglo-American tradition, the was, again as every schoolboy
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his liberty of conscience corrupted mind of man.
tradition of Milton and John used to know, that the Athenians limits
is
a
defeatist
in
this
holy
war.
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Stewart Mill and John Brown conquered the island of Melos and
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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ing and dying for. But if the of the appalling illiteracy of our biological and the physical sense.
concept and tradition of liberty age that any one at any time
and, above all, the individual's saw in the reappearance of pag- Life is multiform, flexible, devel-
passionate concern for his liberty an force and guile and arrogance oping; the higher the creature
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had not become enfeebled in the and murder a new thing under the more intricately organized and
differentiated
it
is
seen
to
be.
the
sun
and
a
'wave
of
the
Western World there would have
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in ample time such weapons as •1111 father and mother of her ism derived from it plays into
they had and marched into Ger- citizens and must be obeyed even the hands of these forces of
many. Nay, they would have in injustice and even in murder. death which are represented by
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be
said
to
be
the
process
of
dif-
note,
the
authentic
American
as-
pinch-back Caesar proclaimed his
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assault upon the sacred liberties piration toward a better world at ferentiation, of the right to be
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Jews,_for_instance,
who
last,
as
that
note
was
sounded
by
of men and brought back, by
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