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Observations Abroad
(Note: This column will seek to bring you each month
one or two articles based upon observations made in
foreign countries. Through explanations, comparisons,
expositions and criticisms of customs, personalities, and
institutions of our fellowmen in distant lands, we hope
to help you to arrive at the understanding and apprecia
tion of them—E. A. J.)
WHO IS HITLER?
By Dr. Kurt Volz
“The little man,”—“world menace”; “messiah of ab
surdity -“reactionary”: “demagogue,”—“adventurer”;
“desperado,” “would-be dictator”; “drummer of jazz
orchestra,” -“fanatic”: “product of jazz age,”—“mys
tical nonsense monger”; “drummer boy,”—“mischief-
maker!” “dapper quack doctoi,”—“German Rasputin”;
“clown,”—“terrorist of the streets”; “brazen charlatan,”
—“mad apostle”; “bolshevik,” “monarchist.
This is but a little selection culled at random from
American newspapers and magazines within the last
few weeks. These pleasant epithets are all highly con
tradictory, hut what does that matter if they only fill
the bill to confuse the people and to hide the real facts?
They also have a strangely familiar ring, and remind
us of the press reports when Mussolini made his hid
for power. Those who told the truth about the genius
of II Duce ten years ago, and predicted his fame and
lasting influence on world affairs were laughed off
as morons and lunatics. Again with Hitler the word
has been passed along.
However amusing Hitler’s pet names may he. they
indicate the amazing ignorance in which the public is
kent about this epoch-making personality.
Adolph Hitler was horn April 20, 1889, in Braunau
on the Inn River. The greater part of his childhood
he spent in Passau and Linz where his father was a
customs officer.
Hitler finished hish school, and having a marked
talent for drawing, wished to become a portrait painter.
When he was thirteen years old, however, his father
died very suddenly of heart failure and two years later
his mother died also, so that at the age of fifteen he
found himself forced to earn his own living. He went
to Vienna. He could not continue to study art, of
course, and had to try his hand at various ways of
making money.
Born onlv a few hundred feet from the Bavarian
frontier, Hitler loved Bavaria, and in 1912 he went to
Munich. In the first part of August, 1914, he enlisted
and at the end of September, 1914, he went with his
resiment to France.
Hitler remained in the army throughout the war. He
got the highest war decorations. As the first man in
his regiment, he received the Iron Cross, first class, which
ordinarily was only given to officers. He was wounded
three times severely, and on October 14, 1918, he was
brought in. totally blind, as a result of gas-poison
ing, to the hospital. He remained in that condition
for several weeks and it was during that time that he
became conscious of the revolution.
Well again, he became in 1919 a member of the
German Workers’ Partv in Munich. It wasn’t long be
fore his influence was felt and before he was instru
mental in changing the name of the party to that of
the “National Socialist Party.”
On February 24, 1920, Hitler made is first public
speech, in which he outlined his ideas and his program.
Having attacked the Socialist-Democratic parliament he
was sent to prison and it was here he wrote his well-
known book Mein Kampf (My Flight).
Hitler is not married.
Hitler is essentially a man of peace. His vast pro
gram for the reconstruction of his country economically,
politically, socially, and culturally, leaves no time for
war. He is the German Man, who is neither a Reac
tionary nor a pseudo-Fascist, "but the leader and prophet
of Young Germany.
Many Americans would be Hitlerites if they were
Germans. Hitler and Mussolini mark the beginning of
a new epoch in the history of man.
(To Be Continued)
PIONEER FOOTBALL TEAMS
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kind enough not to inform me of the fact until the game
was over. We only had two ends and I could not well
be spared.
In another Tuskegee game, Ben Hubert, now Pres.
Benj. F. Hubert. Georgia State Industrial College at
Savannah, butted three opponents out of commission.
One of the victims needed three stitches to close a gap
ing wound in the forehead.
When we needed three or four yards to make a first
down, Charles Hubert could always be depended upon
to set it for us. Of course, his figure then was more
svelte than at the present time.
The new game is more scientific and spectacular than
the old. I doubt though whether the mass plays of to
day could equal in roughness the turtlebacks, tandems
and wedge plays of former days. Then we specialized
in power plays, although the double, triple, backward
and lateral passes were often used. Cut backs and re
verses were also employed not however as prepared
plays, but from necessity. It was a case of cut bac
or he smothered. The rules in those days permitted the-
runner to be pushed, thrown over the line or dragged
by his teammates after he was tackled, even over the:
goal line for a touch down.
My last year of play saw the advent of the forward
pass. It was so restricted that the pass must cross the
center of the line. A quarterback sneak was impossible.
The quarter was forced to run five yards towards the
side lines before he could turn toward his opponents’'
goal.
The game was played in two thirty-minute halves and
it was considered a disgrace to be pulled from the game
except for serious injury.
SEE GEORGE SMITH AS BUD. THE HALF-WIT.
IN “SUN UP”—NOVEMBER 19.