Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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M A S M I D I leuSecl to I ' ead Ljc ou With the earth in turmoil seething, And with all of Mankind breathing Blazing fires of hate and malice with each breath, With his decent moral level Being sucked down by the Devil, And with Justice on the road to certain death. Then the moment ' s ripe and ready For our wisest and most steady Individuals to give some careful thought As to how to quell these forces Operating to divorce us From the values we ' ve continually sought. So here at Yeshiva College, Famous dynamo of knowledge. Where true geniuses are commoner than clay. This problem ' s been dissected, Not an angle ' s been neglected, And the findings now are ready for display. Therefore if you ' ll kindly wallow In the pages here to follow. It would profit you no little bit to find Through article and story. Poetry and allegory. The advice Yeshiva offers to Mankind. MYRON L. REIS

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LjlimpSeA of a f- ost- l Uar Jrcler BY RABBI MORRIS MARGOLIES ' E ARE HEADING directly into World War III, even before we have achieved victory in World War II. The groundv ork for the coming catastrophe is sv iftly being laid and the handwriting on the wall is becoming increasingly legible. No exag- gerated pessimism is required for an alarmed view of the present trend of things. To anyone who will only observe and digest, it is obvious thcrt the dark forces of reaction are feverishly at work on all fronts — economic, political and social. They are busily engaged in a Herculean attempt to push the clock of time backwards — back- wards into the abyss of slavery, tyranny and bigotry. They were at work in Africa when the Girauds and Peyroutons ascended to power; they were at work at Red Cross headquar- ters where Negro blood was being segre- gated; they were at work in the State de- partment when it decided to continue the appeasement of General Franco; they were at work in the United Stales Senate when the Anti-Poll Tax bill went down to defeat; they were at work in Downing Street when Winston Churchill declared that he had not become His Majesty ' s first minister to pre- side over the dissolution of the British Em- pire; they were at work in the last election when Ham Fishes were returned to Con- gress; they were at work simultaneously throughout the country when the 40-hour week lie was being broadcast by 95 per cent of all American newspapers. And they are still at work now, only with doubled energy, greater insistence and more savage determination. They have grasped the situation fully and have planned their mode of campaign accord- ingly. They have correctly understood present day compulsives and have taken measures to adapt them to their own ad- vantage. The tragedy of the situation con- sists of the fact that the forces of liberalism and enlightenment, those forces diamet- rically opposed to the means and ends of the exponents of reaction, ore blind to their own grave peril and are currently in a state of torpor which bodes ill to the cause they represent. In their dormant con- dition they fcdl to realize that extreme situ- ations call for extreme measures and that powerful antidotes are imperative when the patient is exceedingly ill. The patient IS exceedingly ill and has been thus for a long time. In 1914 his illness headed into a crisis which lasted four years. Then, instead of pjerforming a badly needed operation to destroy the virus, the doctors resorted to the adminis- tration of palliatives, which, though they temporarily tempered the malady, were destined to aggravate the inevitable crisis of the future. We are now in the midst of that crisis and seemingly have the intention of administering another palliative. Only this time even such superficial measures may not be applied for, as was above indicated, the forces of reaction are hard at work and their growth in strength is co- extensive with the growth of the malady ' s proportions. It is therefore in their interest to oppose even the administration of pal- liatives. It is readily recalled that both Fascism and Nazism followed socially pro- gressive governments and to a certain ex- tent were products of those governments. And what was Social Democracy in both the Germany and Italy before Hitler and Mussolini but a goverrmient of palliatives ' What was the New Deal but an administra-