Friday, September I I, 1942
THE JEWISH NEWS
peasement. The sinister and tra-
gic meaning of such a year as
1933 or such a year as 1938 would
have been apprehended• by all
free men; they would have taken
up in ample time such weapons
as they had and marched into
Germany. Nay, they would ha -tie
marched into Italy when first
the pinch-beck Caesar proclaimed
his assault upon the sacred lib-
erties of men. But Jews evident-
ly forgot Akiba, and Christians
forgot Tertullian. And Americans
of all kinds no longer took liter-
ally the words of Jefferson and
Lincoln and Thoreau. The length
and cruelty of the war is a ret-
ribution for our forgetfulness.
By LUDWIG LEWISOHN
Long and learned books are
being written to defend democ-
racy and to prove that the demo-
cratic wax of life is good and
should prevail. One-scholar seeks
to prove that the democratic life
is life according to the reason and
that the various forms of tyranny
represent the unenlightened will.
All those who write in this vein
analyze the various extant the-
ories of the state from Plato to
Hegel and from Hegel to Karl
Marx.
Ominously they assume, how
ever subtle and sub-consciously
that there must be a State, ab
solutist and unitary; the names
of Rousseau and John Stewart
Miil and Henry David Thoreau
are rarely and faintly mentioned
in these discussions. Even a rea-
sonably well educated citizen may
well ask in the face of these in-
tricate discussions: Am I to risk
the lives of my sons for the pres-
ervation of one kind of absolutist
state which will grant margins of
liberty against a type of absolu-
tist state (Fascist or Communist)
which will grant none? Only, un-
luckily, he does not formulate his
question. Were he to do so, he
might some fine day in justifiable
rage literally stamp under his
heel all those portentous sophis-
tries and say: The war must be
DR. LUDWIG LEWISOWST
fought and the war must be won
because unless, with due and de-
We need no intricate reasonings
cent regard to the equal right nor an appeal to pagan examples
and security of my neighbors, I in this crisis of human affairs.
can do as I please, life is simply Liberty is life. Love is life. Slav-
not worth living!
ery and hate are literally the
Danger in Victory
Does he say it? Or has even
the educated American citizen,
Jew or Christian, become so con-
fused and intimidated that part
of his consciousness is enemy ter-
ritory. There, in that terrifying
fact, lurks the danger even with-
in the victory which we are sure
to win.
We are fighting and sacrificing
,and dying for liberty. And it is
7indeed the one thing worth fight-
ing and dying for. But if the
concept and tradition of liberty
and, above all, the individual's
creatures of death and the lust
for death. "Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself," the pro-
phetic scribe wrote three thou-
sand years ago. And he wrote:
"Ye shall love the co-dweller, the
ger, for you yourselves were co-
dwellers (gerin) in the land of
Egypt." He did not write "tol-
in the channels of particular
groups or classes or creeds.
Sometimes this prejudice shows
itself along economic lines—
sometimes aiong political lines—
LONDON—"In the opinion of
By HON. A. H. VANDENBERG
sometimes in retroactive so-called many great scholars, the first
U. S. Senator From Michigan
hospitals of the world were es-
"purges" based upon old differ-
Because the event is more sig- ences of honest opinions before
Pearl Harbor. Sometimes it is
nificant this year than ever be- rooted
in ugly racial and religious
fore, I am glad once more' to ex- bigotry—and, let it be said in
tend my New Year's greetings this connection, that "bigotry" is
through The Jewish News. While by no means a "one-way street."
it is fundamentally important to Surely the war effort can lift
our peace-time democracy that America above these ennervating
racial and religious tolerance
should protect these freedoms,
• these needs become absolutely
indispensable to our effective,
national unity in time of war.
In whatever degree we divide
among ourselves, we help the
enemy; we prolong the conflict;
we jeopardize the earliest pos-
sible victory; and we soil our
war objectives. Unfortunately
there are many prophets of dis-
unity — often conscientiously
blinded by their own zeals-
abroad in America. They too
often undertake to write the
specifications of patriotism with-
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Inhumanity to Man.
"The hospital was one of the
great contributions of Judaism to
the world," he said. "The eternal
message of hospital duty to the
weak and the suffering is now
challenged by infamous, godless
tyrannies. On the outcome of the
present conflict between them
and the free nations hangs the
whole future of man."
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tablished in Jerusalem, not in
Athens or Rome," said Dr. J. H.
Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the
British Empire, in a speech at
the annual Hospital Service in
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Le Shone Toro
Tikoseru
•
Division of
A HAPPY
divisions! Simulated by a glor-
ious Army and Navy in which
ALL TRUE AMERICANS are
admitted to the privilege of
COMMON SACRIFICE for the
COMMON CAUSE, without re-
gard to any of these relatively
petty, prejudiced things which
too often threaten to divide the
rest of us, surely we can be
ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR
ONE in defense of ALL THE
FREEDOMS that are our birth-
rigl.t! There is but one legiti-
mate passport to this UNITY—
a LOYAL AMERICAN HEART!
My wish upon this Jewish New
Year is that such a UNITY may
be America's invincible benedic-
erate" or "tolerate on condition tion in the difficult days to come.
that he assimilate to a norm ar-
bitrarily set." He wrote "love"
—love him in his own nature as
he is. Such is the spirit of liberty
and of life itself which our ene-
mies are determined to extermin-
May This Be
ate. Such is the spirit of democ-
racy which we defend. It needs
The Year of
no elaborate justification; it is I
Vic tory-
clouded by too many words; its
ultimate source is in the uncor-
rupted mind of man.
(Copyright, 1942, by Seven Arts
Passionate concern for his liberty
Tailoring
FIRST HOSPITAL WAS
FORMED IN JERUSALEM
Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu — A Happy New Year
.
P. H. DAVIS
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