The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-23
AN EDITORIAL
By Captain Joseph A. Griffin
Assistant Post Chaplain

When we have unpleasant task to perform we
are prone to get it with in the quickest time
possible and with the least expenditure of surplus
energy and without wasted effort! On the other
hand when we have agreeable task to perform
tend to draw out the pleasure as long possible
We are looking forward to garnering the full .
fruits of the hardships and sacrifices of in a
lasting and just world peace 1T must not happen
again" are the words the tongue of the common
man, as he goes into the armed forces, sweats in
industries accepts the deprivations which war
imposes.
The cruelties, sufferngs, and carnage of the last
war to purge the world of the unholy desire
Of nation forcing its philosophy its unwilling
neghbor What happened in the aftermath? The
common man is not sure what happened. When
Lloyd George, Clenenceau. Orlando put their heads
together things which should have been done were
not done and things which should not have been
done done. The seeds Of the greatest war in
history allowed to germinate and grow Some
body, something failed him This time the common
man is determined it must not, it can not happen
again.
Racism AS A Basis
Despite all efforts to preserve peace-appeasernent,
concessions pacts, treates-the Nazi party went to
war on a basis OF racism, with underlying currents
of chauvnistic economies and politics.
The racist doctrine may be summarized a. fol-
lows:
various races of men that inhabit the globe.
2 These essential differences derive from the
blood of each race which is the "soul' of the race
g. Aryan blood has given rise to all the real
during culture of the world. The Nordic race is
the present day counter part of the ancient Aryan
race
q The higher or more noble races among which
the Nordic race is supreme, predestned by
ture to dominate the inferior
The Nazis have adopted pantheistie concept Of
the universe and adapted it to their theory. They
reject the Christian and Jewish concept of per-
sonal God, the Supreme Being Who is Creator Of
the Universe and hence distinct from it. In place
of the personal God the racsts conjure up God
whom they identify with nature
New Moral Code
With this law of racial superiority accepted as
fundamental and the blood of the race considered
the ultimate source of all value they have logically
evolved a moral code. Whatever tends to pre-
serve and prepetuate the purity of race is good;
where as whatever tends to polute the is evil
Procreation of pure Aryans within without the
bonds of matrimony is good; procreaton from mixed
bloods is evil. 1t is theory that leads logically to
inbreedng and degeneracy. AS theory it is far
cry from the policy which has made our nation
great and strong
The Christian virtues of love of neighbor mercy
and humility are denied as weakness and corrop
ton On the other hand the virtues of honor loyalty
and pride when the God of nature is served and the
laws of race superiority furthered, alone con-
sdered worthy of humanbeings.
The doctrine is unscientifc The "Aryan Race
is an arbitrary classification based similarity Of
language among various peoples. In the light of our
present knowledge it would be imprudent to at
tempt definite and universal connection between
blood and lngual relationships. The Prussans them
selves are Slavc-the "Bororussians."
Bismarck once remarked: when will we be
Ja1iv my
Professor Boaz of Columbia says: People
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