Page 21 THE JEWISH NEWS March 27, 1942 give him the money so he could get out. Well, we are out, and we have money. All of us have a great, great deal of money. All of us are incredibly rich. All of us drink coffee for breakfast, eat meat every day of our lives, and vege- tables, and sweets, and butter and cream. All of us have salt and pepper and mustard and paprika to make things taste good. All of us have clean clothes to wear, and shoes with soles, and soap to wash By DOROTHY THOMPSON ourselves with, and coats when it I repeat what I said in 1933: namely that the assault on the Jews is cold, and coal, and oil and gas was only the first step in an assault on the human race; and that the to heat our rooms, and electric fans to cool them. All of us can move— sufferage of the Jews of whom there are only 15 million in this world from one part of this town to an- would be multiplied by the sufferings of hundreds of millions of oth other in some kind of a vehicle, people. But the world was deaf and it refused to listen. and from New York to the country There is no such thing possible as are no more Jews to loot, there are and even from New York across the destruction of the personal, hu- always Poles, when there are no the Continent—and that is what man, civil and property rights of more Poles, there are Czechs, when being rich is in the world today. one branch of the human race there are no more Czechs, there For hundreds of millions of civil- alone. The abrogation of law with are Dutchmen, and Frenchmen, ized Europeans, just this consti- respect to one section of the popu- and Belgians, and Englishmen. And tutes paradise on earth. Now the extent to which you lation involves the abrogation of after that there are Latin Ameri- 1 give to your co-religionists or to the law altogether. It establishes cans and North Americans. The Diaspora of the Twentieth any other- people in this world will a principle, namely, the principle of the right to torture, exile, loot, Century is universal. If the Ger - depend wholly upon how much and expropriate whomever you mans win this war. there will be imagination you have. If you are don't like. It makes a pecuniary more English exiles than there are trying to save money, you are mak- ing a terrible mistake. Give it asset out of prejudice. When there Jews in the world . away. If you think you cannot Personally I have always regretted that the Christian world, whose give any more than you have, you religion is perhaps more peculiarly and more viciously assaulted than are wrong. You can. You can spoil that of the Jews, did not undertake the relief of the Jews, leaving the your children less than you do, and relief of the Christians to the Jews. But that may be because I am a it will be very good for them. There is Palestine to be defended. Christian and I think we would have fared better under that arrange- I regret the policy of appeasement ment. Besides it would have required a greater imagination than the with terrorists that has left it so human race seems capable of. However, one constructive thing may should undefended. The British c_asualities are the people come out of this horrible war—this war whose have known that no good would who wander the earth homeless—people of all races, all creeds, people come of that. But no good will who are yellow, and black, and white. We may have at long last realized come of its fall either. So let us not through the intimate community of our common suffering that there is criticize the past. We cannot undo just one body and just one soul in homenity- that all men and women the past, we can only try and in- have eyes and ears, noses and stomachs; that if you prick them they fluence the future. There are Jewish refugees who bleed; if you tickle them they laugh; that deprived of food for a certain must be established, who must be number of days, they die; that they respond to love with love, to loy- distributed, jobs must be found for alty with loyalty, to hate with hate. If people would learn, as a result them in those vocations and trades confidence and the friendship of all this, that a crust of bread, and the where they will encounter the least of one's fellowmen is better than palaces and millions, and fear of one's resistance. They must not become fellowmen, then this agony would not have been wasted. I doubt that public charges or public nuisances the human race will learn this, but some of us will. By and large in this because if they do all of you will suffer. Loans roust be made to world, nobody is sorry for anybody else. competent businessmen with which EXCLUSIVE DOROTHY THOMPSON urges that we wUM,VINWWW.M, RETREAT FORWARD 6202 HAMILTON quitted!'" He said, "It's the jury. Your case is won or lost when you pick the jury." And I said. "How do you pick a jury, Clarence?" and he said, "Never pick a rich man. Never pick a Presbyterian — they think everything is pre-ordained. Meth- odists are good, they are simple souls. Catholics are good — they know all men are sinners. Jews are good—all of them have suf- fered, if not physically then men- tally." And then he said what I just said before I began this story. `Always remember that nobody is sorry for anybody else, they are al- ways sorry for themselves. The guy that will acquit the defendant is the one who can imagine himself In the position?' I beg you. to imagine yourselves in the position of • the Jews today. There are 15,000,000 Jews in the world. Six and a half million of them are in North America and the British Empire, and the other 8,500,000 are in the most desperate circumstances. The evil genius of Hitler degrades them even below the rank of the other victims whom he has degraded, and the humiliated try to find some sop for pride in the power he gives them to humiliate Jews in their turn. were from Molyneux and mine were from Best's. and we ate food prepared by a famous chef. And today she is carrying a coal scuttle into the street, to scoop up horse droppings with which to fertilize a bit of land, in which to plant pota- toes with her own hand, so that she does not starve. She does not happen to be Jewish either. That can happen to any of us in the world as it is at present But there is something wonderful about my friend. Everybody in the village they can become employers, creat- ing work, as well as taking it And above an, we must draw to- gether to defend and to rebuild this democracy. It is very, very late. Let us tell each other the truth: we are being defeated Our world is being defeated. There are two ways to face this reality. One is to retreat backward over the abyss; the other is to retreat forward. We had better retreat forward in a big way and along all fronts. We really have nothing left to lose except our lives. Ladies Auxiliary of the Mower Untgegeurd Vereia The Ladies Auxiliary of the Mawer Umgegend Verein will have a bridge and mah-jongg luncheon on Wednesday, April 15, at 12:30. at Fyfe's Auditorium, proceeds go- where she is is terribly poor—al- ing to the Red Cross. Mrs. Joe though all of them were well off Kasmer is chairman of the affair. only yesterday. A hundred dollars of American currency is an incred- ible windfall. And she gathered together the people in this village when my money came to share it with them, and one of them had a visa for America, but he had no money with which to get to the nearest point of embarkation for America, and so they decided to they are desperate. I ask you to encompass that possibility for my- Now it seems as though money, social position all those things in which people falsely put their trust would always save us. But if there is anything we have learned, it is that only the sym pathy of others will save us if the worst comes to the worst And so we better :ay up an enormous trust fund of sympathy that we have given to others, in the hope that if necessary we may be able to draw self. a little interest on it for ourselves. The other day I sent s little money —as much as I was allowed to send . Philip SlomoT itz Editor, The jes-ish Pees 2114 Penobscot Building ran Detroit, Dear Slor.csitz: It gives me pleasure to greet The Jewish ::ens, particularly since, as your pros- pectus states, it aims •to hold high the banner of democracy, religious freedom and rood will a--,ong all faiths; to fight a,,,,eirst fraud, deceit and ads -representa- tion". 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