The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-11

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 sumed. with handicap no doubt
 owing to physical destruction and
 economic loss; but life was resumed
 pretty much as before. All this is TOW different. This is not mere
 war between nations. It is a re-
 ligious war-war of the type that
 we deemed forever thing of the
 past. It is a war between ideas
 ideas as far apart and as opposite 1 as the poles. Satanic
 It is not too difficult to character II ize succinctly these two contrast ing philoSophies, but there may be
 a problem of language in painting the contrast adequately. The word which comes to my mind as most descriptive of the manner, method, performance and purpose of the Nazi is the word Satanic. As for us. we are enlisted to preserve the values for which and toward which the human race has been struggling since the dawn of history. That his-
 tory has been long, painful grop- ing from darkness to comparative light A slow upward march from Ithe day of the cave-man, from the rule of lust and brute force, to the reign of reason and of law. In the course of several thousand years of recorded history, interrupted by relapses, by intervals of terror and
 dusk. mankind had evolved to a
 state which we have been pleased to cal! civilization.
 Perhaps the, greatest single ad-
 vance in that.iOng progress was the Ienunciation nearly 2,000 years ago
 of the Golden Rule. Then came,
 starting at Runnymede in the X11Ith Century in the victory of
 dhe barons over King John and,
 Tn their securing of Magma Carta,
 the first limitation on absolutism.
 As the Dark ages receded before the
 Renaissance we bud the begin nings of investigation. or search for truth. of what within the last two or three centuries has become scientific research.
 All Men Free - Equal
 With our War of Independence came the further decline of the belief in the divine right of kings, indeed Of the right of any man to rule others without their consent We proclaimed the principle that all men are free and equal. These ideals were buttreSsed in our Bill of Rights-the first ten amend ments to the Constitution-to guar antee, the civil liberties: trial by jury, Freedom of. worship, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedomecf the press, all of which may be summed up in the phrase, freedom of thought, or freedom of conscience. The only restrictions on our liberties are those which we freely impose on ourselves for the general good. A system of justice Is designed to protect the humblest against oppression and arbitrarin- eSs is inherent in any society of free men.
 Over there they have lost all that beginning with and including the Golden Rule. But they have also lost some other liberties which even l back in the days of our revolu- ticnary forefathers it was never deemed necessary to safeguard; such as, for instance, the right to move, 10 choose ones friends and l associates, to select ones livelihood, 10 enjoy the fruits of ones labor. All these, too. are gone over there. In short, the new order" has drought darkness, darker than the darkest ages of mankind, im- plemented moreover with modern which in decent hands would make the world a better place to live, in, but which in the hands of monsters multiplies the horror thousand fold