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THE M A R 00\ TIG ER Page 5 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 (Continued from Page 3) 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.