Judge — May 1938 — page 52: what you’re looking at

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If He's Lucky, a Million Men Will Die! | E was top man in his class when | EH he graduated from college. It was prsaicted he'd have an exception- ally brilliant career. And here he is, on the way to ful- filling those predictions. Do you know how? By working on the develop- ment of a more deadly and inhuman poison gas! He might have been the scientist destined to find the cure for cancer. He might have held the key to the dis- covery of a preventive for infantile paralysis. He might have saved mil- lions from agony, and heartbreak, and twisted limbs. But the world couldn't spare him for that. He’s needed to make poison gas. If he succeeds, a million or more men will die horribly when the next war comes. Behind the lines, planes will zoom over cities and towns, and children will fall down strangling from one breath of air that a second ago had been clean and sweet. Death will have the greatest picnic of all time... .. when and if the next war comes. Will it? That’s largely up to you— you and all the other decent people of the world. You'll have to fight hard to preserve peace. You'll have to keep your wits about you in order to resist extremely clever appeals to your emotions, and extremely ingeni- ous propaganda, You'll have to thraw the weight of aroused public opinion against the handful who want war. So far, in the world’s history, this handful has had things entirely its own way. And in the future ? ? ? WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT... World Peaceways is a non-profit agency the purpose of which is to solidify the desire most people have to abolish the whole silly business of war. We feel that intelligent efforts can and must be made against war and toward a secure peace. If you think so too we invite you to write to World Peaceways, 103 Park Ave., New York. (This space donated by THE JubcE) 48 In Witness Whereof (Continued from page 39) There is no doubt in my mind as to the timeliness of your editorial. What I do doubt, and seriously so, is its tactfulness, or better still, its diplomacy. The Jew, mere! because of accident of birth, has had to ad- just himself to a hostile world. His chief virtue, of necessity, has to be meekness. As it is he has been ‘accused of too much ag. gressiveness. 1 do not believe that action by a Jewish leader would result in Hitler's removal from power within six months or within six decades; Hitler himself will bring that about. What I do believe such a course of action will accomplish would be an intensification of retribution against the Jews so unfortu- nate as to be under Nazi control. While 1 do not advocate the turning of the cheek, I do not believe that the Jew should take recourse to suicide. Jack Peart, New York, N.Y. An article that should be preserved for posterity. All I could add, that anti-semitism 1s also anti-civilization and is an outright denial of the Christian Faith. To resist it, is the task of every conscientious Christian. Rass Huco H. Kein, Cleveland, Ohio. Most timely, and a great piece of work. LowELt THOMAS, New York, N.Y. It would be a great privilege to have Mr. Justice Louis D, Brandeis head a committee of distinguished Jews and non-Jews in 2 moral drive against Nazism, Fascism and Communism. I feel that he would render a service to the ideals of American democracy as well as to the cause of the Jewish people. Rasst LEON Spitz, Ozone Park, N.Y. In so far as the editorial calls on the Jews to show a more militant attitude toward the movements of oppression, | go along with it. I do not believe, however, that they should resist as Jews, but rather as liberals, as progressives, as human beings, as people whose ultimate fate is bound up with the survival of democracies. To resist purely as Jews is to give the Hitlers of this world exactly the answer they are looking for— namely, that the Jews do represent a distinct group with distinct economic and racial in- terests. I do not believe that this is so. Our Jewish culture is enormously important in the world’s history and the world’s future, but it can survive in the survival of Westera democratic culture as a whole. Max LERNER, New York, N.Y. comicbooks.com