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Hitler Referees A Dangerous Race Adolf Hitler, potentially. In one of the moHt dangerous men on earth. I to commands a peace-time artny of 1.000,000 men, the second largest In the world He rules 60,000,000 Gertnan.s with an absolutism that even Hirohlto, deified gmporor of 90,000,000 Japanese, cannot rival. Hitler is both President and Prime Minister of the Reich. As Der Fuehrer?"The 1 soider"?he heads every civil, Judiaial and military function of the nation. A single nod of his head might plunge ICurope into war. All this Is the fantastic dream that came true la the beginning it was Hitler's father who was ambitious. The illegitimate son of an Austrian peasant girl. Alois Hitler began bis career as a cobbler and wound up as ( a fairly well-to-do minor customs ofli( iaI On April 110, JSK9, at Mruunau, Aits11 ia. his third wife ho re him his fifth ? hihi, a hoy who ' was christened Adult. My the 11 tile the child w as ready to go to school. (In* family ittid settled in I.in/., in I'pper Austria \Iois inlil his son to study hard, so that some day In*, too. might become an honored sei\ant of Kmperor Franz Josef. Adolf would have none of It. A good purl of the lime he played truant At home he read popular histories of Alexander the Great, Charlemagne and .Julius Caeaar, or Hpent his night hours drawing by lamplight?"waisting good oil," lias father grumbled. When Adolf wua 12, 1)in father died. The boy never was graduated from elementary school, and spent live years after his father's death as the idle, spoiled pet of his devoted mother, Klara I'ool/l Hitler. Finally, when he was 18, Adolf stirred himself. With a packet of drawings under his arm and $15 in his pocket, went to Vienna. First at the Academy School of Art. and then at the Architectural School, he was dented admittance. These two snubs were succeeded by tragic news from home. Klara Hitler was dead. Adolf, who had been ardently devoted to his mother, was stranded in the Austrian capital without funds. For the next three years his home was a flop-house, a one-room dormitory crowded with steel-mattressed beds. lie earned a meager existence as a hod-carrier arid factory assistant Wlu rever he went, Hitler saw Jews, "and the more 1 saw. the more clearly did I perceive how apart they were from the rest of humanity." In the Austrian capital. Ilithr began to hate not only the Jews, but the whole racial hodge-podge of Czechs, Magyars, ituthenians and Serbians that made up the polyglot Hapsburg empire. For the first time, ho begun to dn-am of a mighty country, composed of out; race only?the htonae, bluoeycd Germans. At night, black-haired, grey-eyed Adolf Hitler began visiting beer taverns and talking vaguely of the party he would some clay found. Two years before the war, Hitler moved across the Austrian border to the German city of Munich, where he earned a fairly comfortable living as house-painter and limner of picture* ; i...". .it els. War came in IP 11. in spite of his Austrian < iti/a nship, Hitler c-ag.-rly v < >1 u a c Mild WrtS Uceeptetl as aj i! : n! ? r ... tie Bavarian i south German! army lie >ei ved as a messagei' r. ..ml was at no time in lle-j '' hi 11 m su periors n? ver ad j \aiic?d I.im 1.1 >.md the rank of lame' i ei per.i!, ciie step above a private. Ildlei ecu rci d ! loin the war with a ..imh; wound tro:n an ? xplodiug 1 -h< . 1. a ml a d iur;i;i,ni. the 1 roil C ross, | F'l i f' 1.is- Hi-. own story,-that he u"'. it tor the single-handed capture "I tift'ol) i'l'iull llielt, lliis 11' ver been \ i nlii d Gii the e\ i' of the Armistice, the Kai>er IP d A German republic was *et up under the socialist Friedrtch ' I'll" rt The country teemed with bundled-, oj small groups, seme violently i "i.imunist, seine reactionary. A> a spy fur the reactionary army. Iii:ii i wa-c under orders to discover a polite al party which soldiers and < x >o.Ui' is could use to further their own etuis destruction of the peace lie.dies and possible restoration of the monarchy. In BMP. Hitler became Committee Mouther .No. 7 of the tlu-uiaii German Workers' party. He was made "drummer." or chief propagandist of the mo\emont Gaunt, and with a now forgotten pointed beard, he bcreauiod himself hoarse against the humiliating punt war treaties In uh many us fourteen speeches a day. Soon the army wan convinced of the party h reliability. Soldiers and ex ho hi tern swelled tin* party's ranks, and the organization name una changed to The National Socialist (Nazi) Gorman Workers' party. Hitler, us the most conspicuous fig ure of the movement, became Its Iteud Money poured In from expatriate Germans, who dreamed of the day when the Fatherland would once more be the equul of other nations. Other funds came from capitalists, who feared tire growing power of the Communists ("apt. Krnst Koehm, afterward for many years Hitler's best friend, began to organize tint Storm Troops, recruited from the unemployed and armed by Industrialists. Filled out with pistols, bludgeons and kniterings, Koehin's forces brawled in the streets with Jews and Communists By 1 93 1 the number of casualties oil hot.li sides had risen to as high us 15,000 a year. In November, 1023, Hitler was ready for his first utfeQtnpt on the life ot the German republic, lie headed a revolution of Storm Troops in Munich. The revolution was crushed by the lo<ul police after one day and Hitler fled, leaving behind him sixteen dead comrades. Finally captured, he was sentenced by a pro-Nazi court in April of 1934 to servo five years In the comfortable model prison of f^andsborg. Jailed, Hitler penned laboriously at his political and philosophical autobiography, "My Struggle" ("Meon Kampf"). Written in more than 800 pages of script, it was later to sell over 1,000,000 copies, and to serve as the Bible of the nationalist, pro-German, antiFrench, anti-Russian, anti-Jewish, anti-Deinocratic Nazi party. Out of jail nine months later. Hitler despaired. In his cell he had told frequent visitors: "It will take me live years to get things going again." Opportunity, indeed, arrived just live years later. 111 1930, the whole world tumbled into an economic abyss. Germany's internal structure, weakened by reparations payments, was in a state of near collapse. To keep the n-'pyblic alive, Chancellor Unletting was forced to adopt socialistic measures. There was talk oi a division of landed estates. Property owners, big industrialists and small lanners alike, became fearful. Nazis did all in their power to prolit by tli?; difficulties confronting the government. Financed by arms-makers as well as by othyrs, Hitler furiously attacked "weak democracy," reparations and the Jews. The latter, whom he attacked with almost irrational anger, he blamed with responsibility for all of Germany's troubles. Above everything, he promised to protect property and to win back Germany's place in the sun. Street fighting went on. Nazi pamphlets and broadsides were distributed by the ton. Organizing and ' propaganda for the party cost an estimated $8,000 a day. Hitler, a genius < in the held of demagogic oratory, spoke everywhere. To millions of bewildered Germans, he seemed the personification of the abused German people --"The Little Man." Finally, the Nazis won a great vie-* lory in the 11? ii listag elections of 1932. On January 20. 1922. four years ago , thN week. President Paul von Hind* nburg made Hitler Prime .Minister of t he lleii it. For the Nazi leader it was a dn am' 1 Otio- true. For bis enemies, it was 'he !> -.-inning of a nightmare. (>n M't'ii L 1'1 -, a docile, parliament voted 11 it i e r ;i> dictator of the "reI'tibLi I'- neural i< forms of governnr nt wit i:ored and died. Jews were hounded at e\e.r> turn. Youths in Germany were taken from the school room to th?? military training camp. Then, in 1934, the 2.500.d,V-man Storm I roop became too powertul. threatening the army itself. Hitler, tin one-time Reiehswehr spy, decided quickly. On June 30, murder by ins command raged through Germany. I.rn>t Koehm, leader of the Storm Troopi rs. was routed out of bed at '? a. m. and shot, not improbably by Hitler himself. Der Fuehrer had been be.-t man at Koehin's wedding scarcely six weeks before. And so it went. Brutality followed brutality in the "blood purge." In the end. exeiutions prevailed on a larger scale than Hitler himself had cither dreamed of or intended When the massacre was over, more than 2,0 were dead, some shot^^Bmo chopped to death with axes. After his friend Krnst Koehm died, there was no one in all the world to call Hitler "Adolf." To this da}. even his highest lieutenants never address him as anything but "Herr Chancellor" or "My Leaded* Hitler exists today as a supreme contradiction. The leader and Idol of millions of Germans, he is a man without friends. The supreme exponent of nationalism, ho was a man without a country from the time of the Munich revolt J In 15123, when his Oerinau cltizeuablp \s us revoked, until 1932. when he automatically became a German by accepting a Hinall post In the govethineiit of Bavaria ( Holder of one of the biggest Jobs in the world, he Heldoin begins work before lu o'clock, and works only four da>8 a week When occasion demands he works for 12 or 1* hours at a ?tretch, but auch effort* leuve him exhauated for daya afterward/ Horn a Catholic, he la at the head of u party that favors a new form of pugunism. ^ In a land flowing with beer, he touchea no liquor. Ho Uvea In seeming almpllclty, doea not amoke and eata practically no meat. ilia amusements are few. IJefore he became dictator, ho went to as many us two ot* even three moving pictures a day. Now he goes but little less often. He needs music "like a drug." lie has been known to interrupt even thei mibl important cabinet sessions to attend the opera or a musical comedy, j Although he was definitely a "lady's man" before 1923, he is seldom seen with women. Most of ilia biographers attribute his bachelorhood to the fact that he has come to devote all his energies' to the revlvflcation of Germany. Konrad Ilelden, a German journalist, holds that Hitler practices celibacy simply becuuse ho cannot make any woman love him, in spits of his great prestige. John Gunther, a veteran American foreign correspondent, assorts that Hitler's undoubtedly tremendous affection for his mother left him cold to other women. Despite his scientifically ridiculous racial theories and his infamous Jewbaiting, Hitlers claims to fame are many. He has restored the German people to a place of equality among nations. One by one, he has repudiated the clauses of humiliating postwar treaties. Aided and abetted by German munitions interests, he has created a first-class army. He has reduced unemployment in Germany from 0,000,000 to 1,000,U00. As ail organizer and propagandist lie probably has no equal anywhere in the world. Hut the cost has been terrific. He lias alienated all democratic European countries. Perhaps even Mussolini, his ally, does not trust him. At home, the German people aro undergoing tremendous sacrifices to maintain Germany's gigantic army budget. Food is notoriously scarce. Taxes are high, and getting higher. Foreign correspondents assert that Hitler is refereeing a dangerous race between rebellion at home and the only thing tliat will forestall it?war with some foreign power. Which will win? Hitler says: "There will be no revolution in Germany in the next l,0oo years."?The Pathfinder. DeKALB NEWS NOTES Westville, Feb. 25.?Rev. Grover C. Robinson, of Kershaw, conducted morning services at Bethany Sunday. Cyril B. Busbpe Is spending this week in Now Orleans, Igi., attending a meeting of the National Superintendent's association. Mrs. Cyril B. Busbee and little daughter. Carolyn, are visiting relatives in Homerville, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cole and daughter. of Kershaw, were visitors Sunday afternoon of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Truesdale. of Iloykin, visited Mr. and Mrs. Sam C. Truesdale Sunday. Miss Minnie Hodges spent, the week end at her home in Marion. Mr. and Mrs. \V. R McCain and little daughter. Jean, of Waxhaw, X. C.. w en--guests of Mr. and Mrs. 1,. D. Broi'ttii . Sunday . Mr and Mrs C IT Ogburn and children visited Mr and Mrs. 1.. I'. Ogburn. near Kidgeway, Sunday. -Mr. and Mrs. Charles MeCaskill, Charles Mifashtil. Jr.. Clara and Marguerite MeCaskill. of Litchfield, Conn., visited relatives here last week. Clara Rush returned home with them, having spent the past several weeks as their guests. Miss Ida Roberts, a leather in the Columbia city schools, spent Friday night :is the guest of her sister. Mrs. J. H Civ burn and Mr Civ burn Square dancing whs enjoyed at the 4-11 club house Friday night. Mrs. N. 15 Workman and son. Boyd, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Nye Workman, Sunday. Sam C. I ruesdale and son. Sain, Jr. attended the boxing match at the Armory in Camden Friday night. Misses Llla Dane and Lola Halle Hilton, of Camden, spent Sunday with their parents. Mr and Mrs. J. C. Hilton. Sr. Rose Yvonne and Charles Arant, who are spending tin winter with their grandmother. Mrs. S C Rose, spent thi" week end with tto ir mother. Mrs. Juatiita R. Arant. in Page* land C. L Ogburn and Carl Owens attended a tractor school and dinner sponsored by the JpfT Hunt Road Machinery company, in Columbia, Saturday. Billy Civ but n spent the week otul with his grandfather. W L. Roberts, in Kershaw. Defiant Catholics, angered by the police slaying of a girl, 14. worshipper in a church, took possession of the churches of Vera Cruz, Mexico, Wednesday and defied the police and the government to put them out, and made demand ^or the repeal of antichurch laws, l he church bells wore tolled Tuesday evening for the first time in ten years. ? YELLOW FEVER HERO DIES AT HIS SANDY RUN HOME One of the real heroes of America? a man who risked his life in the quiet of a Cuban camp that the world might be set free from yellow fever?died' at his home in the Sandy Run section' of Calhoun county Vriday night. He ( was Charles G. Sonntag, a member. of that brave band of men who vol* i unteered, under the leadership of Dr. Walter Reed, to submit themselves to the bite of infectious mosquitos to find the one that bore the yellow fever germ. Some did not survive the test, J but Mr. Sonntag, though he became severely ill with the dread disease,; finally recovered and lived to see his government award to him a special medal commemorative of his service beyond the call of dflty. Monday, he will be buried in Arlington with full military honors. Sixty-four at the time of his death, Mr. Sonntag was in his 2U"s when he and others of the Reed group underwent their ordeal. Without the flare of trumpets, without the roar of cannon and without the urge of self preservation he quietly went into a screened tent and waited for tho tnos-' quitos to bite, knowing that it meant almost certain death. Ho was willing to die that others might live, and thousands and thousands have beenj through the conquering of yellow,! fever, made possible by the noble experiment which Mr. Sonntag survived. rnassuming, Mr. Sonntag went through life in the same quiet way' in which he had calmly made the test in Cuba. The Walter Reed hospital in Washington was named for the leader, but it Look many years for the govern-ment to show its appreciation of the heroism of the private members ot the party, Not so long-ago-?since 19X0?a special medal was struck and presented with proper ceremonies to those few still alive. It was posthumously awarded to others of the group. A pension, however, had bees previously voted. For'years, Mr. Sonntag had farmed in the Sandy Run section. He waai member of the medical corps of the army when he had volunteered alter the Spanish-American war for the yellow lever research experiment. Mr. Sonntag is survived by bli widow, Mrs. Hattio Pou Sonntag o( Sandy Run; one sister, Mrs. Marie Owings, of Denmark, and one brother, Otto Sonntag, of Washington. The body left last night for Washington. Ain- Iia Earhart is planning to siaT on h?>r around the world flight at the equator, on or about March 15. Quit Paying Rent . . . 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