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- Feature Syndicate) GREETINGS 5703 DERMER'S KOSHER RESTAURANT 60 Cadillac Square had not become enfeebled in the Western World there would have been no blundering and no ap- 420 Michigan Theater Bldg. During the NEW YEAR M. 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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 Page Thirty-sever ay It With U.S. WAR 'BONDS and STAMPS .—Paul Faust AUCTIONEERS' OUTLET The West Side Bargain Department Store 3448 GRAND RIVER AVE. Incorporated Coal and ice 1635 WESTMINSTER TO. 8-8800 1563 National Bank Bldg. 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