Judge — June 1938 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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IN WITNESS Permit me to express my appreciation to you for a humorous magazine in which the fun is clean and wholesome. I am glad I subscribed and thank you for your attitude. Rosert R. KNOWLES, Superintendent of Schools, Sterling, Colorado. Surely THE JUDGE has come into the lime- light without any diffusing attachments and I hope it becomes more brilliant than ever, if such is a possibility. Have just perused the last number and like especially the “High Hat” feature. FRANK M. HOHENBERGER, Nashville, Ind. Please, dear Jupce, have two (or more) Crossword puzzles in each issue. To a de- votee, they are one of your charms. Mrs. F. L. Morcan, Los Angeles, Calif. Keep on with your gay Crazy Golf page and please know that out in Illinois one who struggles daily to defeat “Old Man Par’ is giggling with you every month. Luare Lewis, Bloomington, III. One minute you crusade for the deliver- ance of a crushed minority race, the next you're backscratching the country’s potential fascists by paying tribute to a frontman, Alf Landon. Are you trying to be funny or con- fusing, or both? MicHaeL REILLY, Denver, Colorado, I join in prayer with my fellow Irishman, that not only a Baruch, a Lehman or Sulz- berger might be touched by the gravity of the Jewish plight that prompted this Irish- man to call for action, but that his call might arouse the spark of decency and gal- lantry in every healthy and well-to-do Jew to render more than lip service or to part with some crumbs, but to give of his means and might, in the measure commensurable with the needs of the cause. The Great Leader will then surely arise, not by self appointment, but out of an expression of a collective will engaged in battling the ene- mies of Prophetic Civilization. HARPER PERETZ Sunnyside, N.Y. “The Judge on the Bench” is highly cred- itable as to its object, to bring relief to the Jews, but it has little if any value in its methods of procedure. Dr. ALEXANDER LYONS, Brooklyn, N.Y. I believe thoroughly in fighting for our rights as human beings,—"attack as well as defend.” Leaders are not selected as a rule. They are evolved. When one appears on the scene, he will be recognized and followed. Meanwhile, I believe we shall have to fight under the best men we have, as well as we know how. ALEXANDER FICHANDLER, New York, N.Y. Though I am a Jew and would like to fight Hitler, 1 am first of all an anti-Fascist. As a Jew I would like to fight Hitler be- cause I am attacked. As an anti-Fascist I want to fight him, evén. if I were riot at- tacked, because he destroys everything that makes life worth living for me. And if I were convinced that Mr. Brandeis or Mr. Baruch, who are mentioned in your print, would fight not only because they ‘are at- tacked, but because they feel. that Hitler attacks all principles of democracy, human- ity and dignity, then I would gladly agree with your opinions. But I am not convinced at all. On the contrary, 1 know of thousands and thousands of Jews who have even f- nanced Hitler, and who would never attack him if he had not attacked them. I think the anti-Fascists are better partners than those wealthy Jews who don’t care for these ideals. I would, of course, extraordi- narily love to join a spiritual and military Jewish army to fight—not Hitler—but Fas- cism, but only if we would fight the Jewish Fascists, too. Dr. Heinz LIEPMANN, New York City. To fight bigotry only on the basis of anti- Semitism is to Confuse the issues. Bigotry is anti-human, anti-civilization, anti-American, anti-democratic. To the writer of your edi- torial I would say: No one voice can still the force of hatred, particularly when it is the voice of those who might be expected to defend their own rights and interests be- cause they are the direct target of attack. But the conscience of our nation must be aroused to realize that those who do not appear to fall into the scope of poisoners of the wells of information may be the ones who drink from the fountains when the final draught is consumed. If intelligence is to be awakened; if ignorance is to be erased; if bigotry is to be destroyed; if hope is to be stimulated; if the decline of Western Civi zation is to be halted, these will come only in the wake of a concerted effort on the part of enlightened leaders, irrespective of race, color, creed, or previous condition of servi. tude. Louts B. GREENBERG, Youngstown, Ohio. People have failed to realize that the Jew is merely in the vanguard of the oppressed, that he is a straw in the wind, for invari- ably. in every case, first Jews are attacked and ‘then other devotees of democracy and freedom and civilization. We are not the only ones who have suffered. We find our- selves in the same boat with some of the finest men and women that Europe has pro- duced, Tt is not a Jewish crusade. It is a cru- sade for all men and women who love peace, democracy, freedom, and tolerance. Antta LipmMAN LEBESON, Winnetka, Ill. The reaction to THE JUDGE ON THE BENCH for April and May has been so overwhelming it is impossible fo reprint even a fraction of the letters received. On these pages we are re- printing significant excerpts from some of them. We shall continue to do so from time to time. WHEREOF Thoroughly admirable considering that it was written by a non-Jew! However, | am very much afraid it would call into existence yet another Jewish Suicide Battalion—a group ready to die the death of martyrs. For whom? For the “common good” of cultural advancement? Why call upon Jewry for mass self-immolation? What about all the other petsecuted minorities? The spirit of Judas Maccabeus is still alive . . . but that does not mean there should be needless martyr- dom. PAUL MARKER BRANDEN, Hollywood, Calif. Well-written and stirs within one the strongest emations, yet 1 wonder if in view of a lack of unity of interest and purpose among our people any single individual could play the part of a “Moses.” Perhaps if a reconstructed Palestine as a Pegs National home in the fullest sense of the word were a present reality we would have that unify- ing factor. Until then I am afraid it might be but a futile gesture with adverse reper- cussions. But the time is ripe for some lead- er outside the group to stand up and say in the name of humanity, decency, fairness, and all the finer things in life that a halt must be called to the actions of a Hitler and his like. uDGE J. M. Braue, The Municipal Court, Chicago, Il. The editorial is a splendidly written piece of work. You know that the author wrote it with a feeling straight from his heart. R. M. WERTHEIMER, The Jewish Review and Observer, Cleveland, Ohio. The Jews know the tutility of fight and the uselessness of apology or explanation. Neither method wins—because both attitudes are false to fact. ‘Actually, the “Jewish” problem is the problem of the non-Jew. And that is because, when hatreds abound, the problem is the hater, rather than the hated. There is hope that Christendom (after a few more millen- nia) will be “converted” to Christianity— and all of us together to a common Humani- ty, wherein Sell Respect and Mutual Respect will have become matter of course. CHARLES FLEISHER, New York, N.Y. Why not call upon the leaders among the Christian people to spend some of theit en- ergy and some of their idealism in helping the Jew to destroy the slander and calumny of Mr. Hitler who maligns and crucifies both Jew and Christian. It is not for the Cardozos or the Baches or the Warburgs or the Rosenwalds to fight the battle alone. It is for all men and women who believe in the teachings of the Son of Man to stand beside the Jew in his hour of need. LILLIAN BurkHart GOLDSMITH, Los Angeles, Calif. I must remind you that the attack upon the Jew is also the attack upon Christianity. The entire Judean-Christian concept of living is being challenged by a new paganism termed “Nazism.” The fight, therefore, against the present darkness must be a joint one. Jew (Page 37, please) comicbooks.com—