New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1928, Page 4

- RABGH HADIS HITS NOGK PATRIOTISH Doos Not Fear to Be Assailed 85 Radical Collective hagnicide, which permits soclety to put a man to death and the kind of patrtism which talks of *“Dagoes” and “Huns” was se- verely flayed by Rabbi Gershon Hadas In an addyess to Everyman's Bible class yesterday morning at Trinity M. E. chuxch. Rabbi Hadas said in part: “I have been regpled, as you have very likely, by addresses by radio and In the newspapers, apparently by political leaders here and there, on the need, the wrgent need, of patriotism, and it oapurred to me| and was brought hgme to me the| utter lack of need of a certain kind of patriotism which, a8 T saw it, was being preached in America today. “Yet to my mind that is the crux of all of our civilization in these Jays; all that we have in religion| and patriotism—the ability to dis- tinguish between good, and bad, be- tween just and unjustg between holy and profane things. “Too many of us go through this world very much as we go through a department store. There are dia- monds and jewelry there and fine zarments, and we go out hugging to' our breasts a paste diafmond worth | 30c, and the reason for Jt is that we | are not able to distinguish between what ts good and what s poor. “We in this world today live, as| a brilliant preacher once called it. in | an age of substitutes. You will find| it everywhere. We are: building a, synagogue just now, and I have had contractors tell me about substitutes for marble and substitutes for gran- ite and substitutes for wood and subatitutes for Rlmost every kind of material. There are sulmtitutes for furs; there are substitutes for leath. er; there are substitutes for he; taces, and §o on down the line. “I call upon an architect to draw plans for me. I expect those plans convicts. It is a judge who renders the verditt and it is the hangman who pulls the noose—all because they happen to be agents of in- dividuals. “There was a governor in Massa. chusetts, Governor Andrews, who for a long, long period refused per- sistently and consistently as a Chris- tian to render unto Caesar the things that are God's. He sald, ‘I will not, so long as I am in office, sign a death warrant for any man. I will not so long as I am in office give a life to Caesar for no purpose.’ Such 1s true patriotism. “And what about collective homi- cide? Wars usually begin by a group of men. There is a poem by Alfred Noyes to this effect. I can- not quote it, but it is about ‘half a dozen men in shining coats’ sit around a table, and they determine that for the best interests of man- kind they ought to go into war. A larger group of men—one hundred Congressmen — decide the same thing. Half a dozen officers carry on the war, and we are at it and into it. I say as a Christian or as a religious man, as a patriot, I can- not give that thing which belongs to God, and that is human life. “What is another thing that be- longs to God and not to Caesar? What is the next thing to the hu- man body—and perhaps above the body—if it is not the human mind? You remember from Genesis how God breathed his spirit into man so that he should live, Man's mind, man's thought is the finest thing in this world; thereby we come nearer to God. “There are three things as re- gards a human mind that belong to God and not to Caesar: One of these things §s human thought, an- other is the privilege of human speech and the third is the privilege of untrammeled assembly. “A good Connecticut Yankee once said (a Hartford Yankce about whom every one knows Mark Twain) as a joke, but meant it quite seriously, that ‘we have in America freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and we have in America the prudence to use neither'; be- cause in America, despite a great deal of talk about freedom and v, the things that count the most, the things that are most im- portant, are suppressed. The things danger of xpvolution. Heart God “There is another thing that be- lengs to God and not to Caesar—a third thing, and that is the human heart. That belongs to God and to none else. It belongs to the king- dom of God and not to the kingdom of Caesar. And by that I mean the sort of patriotism that will teach me ‘my country, right or wrong'; the sort of patriotism tHat will teach me ‘my country, and let others go hang'; the sort of patriotism that will ‘teach me or teagh ‘my child that other natious are “Huns,! ‘Dagos’ or.‘Sheenies’; thé sort of patriotism that—not directly’ but indirectly— will create in my mind the notion of a superior and inferior people the sort of patriotism that will go directly against the Prophet Malachi, against every prophet of all times “There is a single God who is the father of all. All are his children, all living under the same sun and skies and will be buried in the same earth. We all have the same sort of a soul within us. One who denies Ing constantly to create barriers be- tween natibns, by passport restric- tions, etc., and interference from one slde and another, making it more difficult for men, humankind to be together, to live together, to under- |stand one another, so that onc nation |1ooks upon another with suspicion land jealousy—that, I say, is an un- Christian attitude. “I have said these three things are of the kingdom of God and be- |long to God: The human body, the {human mind and the human heart. |Then what 4s the kingdom of Cacsar? Where does Caesar come |into this? What are the things that are Caesar's? Well, there is no such thing. This whole world of ours is |the kingdom of God. Everything ithat we do; everything that |think; everything that we love, all, all is of the kingdom ot God. There is no place for the things that are Caesar's in all of this. And 'so we %0 back, if we want to learn what iare the realities of life; if we arc to choose between things that are and things that are really mak shitts in life—especially as |our duties in social affairs and as |regards our duties in patriolism- {and discover just what are our loyal- ties to God. Let us take care of and all the other that is denying the kingdom of God. | I say that nations that are striv- | we | ACHESON OUTLINES " NEAR EAST RELIF 186,000,000 Needed to Carry Out Organization Program | Barclay Acheson, director general | ot all the Nears East Relief overseas | work and representative of the na- |tional exccutive committee, gave an ‘imtcrr-s!ing address at the morning service of the First Congregational church, this city, yesterday. Speaking of the needs of Near | East Relief to complete the undes | writing campaign which it is now | conducting, Mr. Acheson said in part e board of trustees of the Near | East Relief has authorized a money | raising campaign to meet its entire tinancial obligation, which is fixed |at $6,000,000. Approval of this | budget brings to a climax a philan- | thropic enterprise upon which $104,. 000,000 has been spent during the past twelve years, and which has saved more than 1,500,000 lives. | *The refugee and orphanage work | of Near East Relief has been, with- out qucstion, the greatest and most successful overscas philanthropy ever undertaken. Its effect on the | peaceful solution of many great in- ternational problems is a matter of | history. “The orphanage side of this hu- | manitarian enterprise is now near- |ing its completion. A total of 132,- 000 orphan children have passed through its institutions and 32,000 such children are still in fts care. | “The remaining commitments ot this work can now be appraised and definitely ~ scheduled. Plans have oeen formulated that will both con-, serve the results already achieved and insure the carrying out of all present commitments to the orphan children and the communitics in | which they live. ‘It s recognized that American |honor _in involved in completion of this work. Our total budget of $6,000,000 has been deter- | mined on the basis of a careful de- the proper | gantic scale 2 mary activity o 2 & single year as many as 15,000 chif; pdren were placed in supe ¥ subsidized homes. The speed of thif hom#-placing work depended part]y on ‘the health- of the'chilgren add partly on the economic recovery'of the native populations. “Although during the past 10 years the Near East Rellef has su- pervised the outplacing of vast num- bers of children, 32,000 orphans still remain in its care, partly in institu- tions and partly in supervised homes and trades.” PO b it “The latter ' stages of fhis’ great | work will require the establishment of a larger number of supervisory. centers like the Working Boys' Homes in Cairo, Aleppo, Naszareth and Jerusalem, where the children who are supporting themselves can be advised and assisted. “For mutual helpfulness,the grad- |uates of the Near East Relief jschools are being enrolled in local chapters of an organization called the Ngar East League, which. is un- jder the supervision of American ad- vistors at 15 centers throughout the Near Eastern countries. This ad- | visory relationship will be contin- | ued as long as it id necessary, being graduates themselves, “Certain othér phases of ‘the {American orphanage work will have to be continued for Bome years, | There are reveral grounds of de- | pendent children, such as the blind and crippled, for whom the Near {schools which are partially self-sup- porting. There training schools for nurses, which have proved exceptionally useful %o the local governments, and which | will gradually be taken over by these |governments. There are vocational {schools for some of the higher trades, which will have a full quota of orphan students for at least three {years to come, but which can gradu- |ally be transterred to local control, “In general, I regard the orphan. age phase of Near East Relief's | work as nearing a successful and | gradually supplanted by the develop- | ment of leadership among the young East Relief has introduced training| n iafactor completis ore Pd‘oubl t& figa Near East Relief's rémarkable glc- cess in the work lles in the golden rule spirit of servica which has animated it. Embracing in its sup. porters. all creeds and political be- liefs, its work has been done on a broad platform of universal accep- tance. Without this bread humani- tarian platform, the jealousies of changing governments, hostile re- ligions and antagonistic races would have made the saving of a million lives imposstble. Neither govern- ment por religious sects can phject to the pure and simple principle cf | sij the golden rule. . H “Committees represcnting :§ 000 organizations which have bealously supported Near East Rellef, in mak- ing thelr reports at the annual meet- ing, have promised the continued co- operation of their membership un- til the budget of $6,000,000 for the completion of the orphanage work are the American |- h“fil It is expected that the : be completed within, the next 18 months, “rql for $6,000,000 is the of the Near East Relief to'the generosity of the people of America. We must have the full amount stated for the children. We cannot believe that the generous hearts of our supporters will fail us in this our final plan. We have faith that it will not and that thousands even who have never given will see in this last request an opportunity te hage in completing & philanthropic ui‘ never surpassed in scope and ficance. The emergency 'was unavpidable, the outcome is divine.} Gillett and McDonald To Explain World Court Senator Frederick H. Gillett, re- publican, of Massachusetts, a mem- ber of the foreign relations commit- tee of the senate, and James G. Mc- Donald of Now Tork city, chatrman T the foreign policy sasoclation, will be participants in the Tuesday [program of the “Voters’ Bervice’ sponsored by the National Broad- (casting Company and the National League of Women Voters. The pro- gram will be broadcast st 7 o'clock through the NBC Red Network. Many Connecticut League mem- bera are planning to listen in on the program, which will be devoted to the discussion of the world court, denator Gillett recently intreduceq o resolution §n the senate which had r purposs the continuance of .q&hu for. the eatrance of the mited’ Btates info the court. The league is supporting this resolution, Mr. McDonald keeps & close watch on international affairs, and is recognized qualified speaker on the subject. 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I do not kmow whether| human mind and human hinking loyalties will take care of themsclve 1 shall be able to build according|are frowned upon. | “We talk today a great deal about to that 1deal; but If T begin with a| “Ministers are cold. ~ Human ithe ‘new frcedom.’ Wo falk today substitute where will T land? 1f my| thought does not belong to God. about the ‘new forms |SUP 3 Bl aim in life is not the highest ideals, Your place is to talk about sex mor- I pray you, I appeal | 'l-ast year the work of Near East not the highest reality, what will the | ality, about gambling, etc. and 1o {to you to bring hack again the ol | RClief cost more than $3,000,00, | reality itself be? What.will my life| preach hell and damnation, to talk |frecdom, the frecdom that . was|Which was given by voluntary con- be? | about the things that touch the vi- |known during the times of Wash. |tributions from every state in the “Someone pointcd out the other|thlity of our social life. I say to (ington, the frecdom that wag known | WfON. Ap increase of 100% 1 you if ever there is a place where PASTRY FLOUR - The Sour for fancy cakes all fine pastries | tailed study of the number of years | each will require to carry out the policy that every child shall be self- supporting at the nge of 16. Caught la ' during the tinfe of Jefterson, W | these conftibutions within the next day that we have gotten: a substitute for our souls; we have gotten sub- stitutes for our conscienges: we have human thinking ought to be un- trammeled, if ever there is a king- dom where human thought ought to {want none of the many restrictions |and interferences with human i | which to my mind are neither Chri; two years will enable the organiza- tion to complete its entiro orphan- |age commitments and carry fin eod —is delicl od> 1LB i ke 2P A LENTEN BARGAIN [ atence to e - A LENTEN BARGAIN gotten substitutes for our honor; v\ol have gotten substitutes for our in- tegrity. People tell there are things just as good as souls; peo-| ple tell us there are thimgs just as g00d as consciences; paople tell us| there are things just as good as in. | tegrity; but you know and I know | be free, it ought to be right here in |tian nor patriotic. work of education and training to an this church, in any church, in any| “These words of mine are radical. |adequate conclusion. house of worship. Human thought |These words of mine here and there | “The early work of Near East is holy. in the community will be condemned | Relief, which was largely emergency “Some one said to me, ‘Will you |as the words of some onc who is at- | fceding of the refugces, has cvolved | permit_then, thought untrammeled? |tempting to destroy the liberty that into an educational and child wel- |' Will you permit, then, men to talk 'is America. Never fear! This great | fare cnterprise of unprecedented | z to us; they are|about the government and against land of ours was foupd and founded | proportions. | ::ifie;::‘:;u;:,h;‘:o:c 5o substi- | the government without any restrics by God; planned and planted by | *As a result of its early work for!| tute for the highest ideals. [tion? T say, by all means. There God; guided and guarded by God. It rofugees, the American relief work- No Sabstitute For Patriotism | i3 only one thing against which a Wwill not bof"destroyed. Never fear! “Let us go on to patriotism. T (democracy ean defend itself, and No word of mine, no word of your have said there is not a substitute| that is against injustice and un- Will destroy it. America’s destiny is heen rescued in Armenia, Persia, | for patriotism. What is patriotism? | Tighteousness, permitting the king- | assured! ; Syria, Turkey, Palestine and Greeea, | o think a moment. Just bear|dom of God to be disregarded. "I seo hefore me a vision of Amer- | Au_orphan city of 18,000 children | | with me for a mament. Ramble| “Weare not intercsted in the ica—not of America which s all was established in Central Armonm[ [ through your Bible, ywour new tes \Sale(y of the democracy for the Pressed out into the picture of a and scores of similar centers sprang | ment, and discover a verse that will { safcty of a democracy depends upon melting pot, but of America made up {up in other arcas. These institutions | fit for a starting paint in my talk | the justice and the righteousness of f r\lll!er§ and cl\llxz:\vlolns,v of alhecame great educational organiza- | on patriotism. Is it not the verse: | that democracy, You will have Ercatness and a glory thal will lead tiods, without cqual or precedent | ‘Render unto Caesar the things that | revolution when there fs un.|the world, an America which will be [anywhere in the world. | are Caesar’s and unto God the thmg‘ll"ifih!"ou!nem. when there is no re- |in reality a kingdom of God. | “But it was recognized from the that are God's'? |Ligion or when religion does not = {start that the best place for a child | “Now that is just exactly the|count. Butlet these things function| The first clock was invented in [is in a home, rather than an insti- verse that a politician vsed the oth- | in your democracy and there 1s no |36 by Pope Sylvester. | tution, and home, i er day In a western state to preach | a,damnable kind of patriotism— that you render unto Caesar every- | thing we have and render unto God the leavings. That i8 not what Jesus mennt; that is not what the saints of history meant, and for no reason on earth will I grant that it is what you as a Christian mean by that verse. | “And what are the things that arc God's? What are the things that belong to God? Let us seo: The very first thing that belongs to God is lfe itself. You will agree with me. The holiest thing, the most sacred thing, the first thing, the thing that we cannot replace and that we cannot understand is hu- man life—the human body created in God's image According to an- clent law we were not permitted to desecrate the body even by tattoo- ing, to injure the body in any way, shape or form. “Nor ar we to give to Caesar that body; nor are we to give to Caesar the privilege of destroying that body —whether individually or by homi- cide or any corrective licensed hom- icide. 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