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TEAWAY LAIDLAWN
LAST WEEK
OF
SALE
FINAL REDUCTIONS
TO CLEAR
ALL
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
No Slump In Religion Since the depression began in the United States one bank in levery six has failed, one in every 145 hospitals has closed, and one in every twenty-two business and industrial concerns has gono bank-| rupt
Only one out of every 2344] churches has had to shut its doors.
Paying Its Way
REMNANTS & ODDMENTS bodies in the
SALE ENDS POSITIVELY
ON
Was
BERLIN UNDER THE NAZIS
DULNESS REIGNS BY
HITLER'S DECREE
A JOYLESS CITY
(By Norman Hillson.)
Berlin. land where; most of the great
The Kurfurstendam at night. Almusicians were of Hebrew origin.
The unemployed workman is un
forced. Expensive obstrusive. He stays within the
The slump, in fact, has brought blaze of light. An air of galety, la religious revival, bised admitted albeit rather ly on the old adage about the de cars driven hither and thither with four walls of his bleak house, for the vil being sick, and la 1952 church still more resplendent women within. street-corner lounging habit never membership In the States reached The most luxurious night life in the spread beyond the Rhine. How by far the largest Agure in its world with cabarets and restaurants much he suffers is his own affair, for
pandering to every whim and he history.
must not complain, lest the The grand total of registered appetite. That not so very long ago. truculent young Storm Troopers
1992
At this moment the Kurfursten-name him Communist, Socialist, or church members in 60,886,443, an increase of 1,100,000 dam at night is dark and bleak. The agitator, and haul aim off to the restaurants and cabarete for the nearest concentration camp or pri- over the previous year-
most part have the shutters up. son to think things over. Those haunts where foreigners were It is only natural that you should There are 236 separate religious induced to dance because the at-see large numbers of Brown Shirta bodies in the United States, of mosphere was slightly naughty in in the streets, although not so many.
sub which the Roman Catholics, with the heavy German fashion areas in the days immediately
sequent to the election which la membership of over 20,000,000, closed.
Diminutive taxis here and there brought Hitler to power. are by far the largest unit.
The greatest increase in mem-take the place of the erstwhwils Tenton's Love Of Uniform.
Their appearance is sometimes a bership is claimed by the 25 gigantic monster cars by Benz or largest Protestant bodies, with a or Rolls-Royce. You walk along little strange, sometimes a little realise startling. Their uniform consists net gain of 929,252 members, or 90, the Kurfurstendam, and per cent. of the total increase. The that the spring has gone from the of top boots, breeches, brown shirts,
and curious caps, a cross between.. largest individual increase (356,year.
There was a time, not so very farine kepi and the porkple hat which 609) is among the Baptists. The Jewish congregations remain con-away, when Berlin was the gayest brought Lord Midleton fame in the
city in Europe. To-day it is by way last century. stant at just over 4,000,000.
Church membership in the of being the dullest. Hitler has do-. But unhappily the equipment, of the Nazis is not uniform. For ex- States has advanced at a greater creed a war against joy. rete than the growth of the popu- Night Life Under Eclipse ample, there is no special colour for ar ordinary. lation, being 82.8 per cent, as It is strange how our European breeches. Thus in compared with 65.8 per cent. 33 dictators set their heads against squad you can see black, blue, brown, citizens of the State" and "No Jew, years ago,
outward forms of pleasure. It was yellow, and even white breeches. therefore, may be a member of the The church is paying its way the same when II Dace possessed Moreover, the laundries play the Sir Shou-son Chow and family nation.". He found a great vogue Per capita contributions in 1932 himself of supreme power in Italy very dickens with the dyes of the desire to thank all friends and In- for Jewish writers. He noted a show only a small decline as com He made the Romans go to bed at brown shorts, with the result that stitutions for the many letters of growing public taste for the sordid pared with the prosperity years. ten o'clock. Everything was closed every other man has a different
down so early, there was nothing shade of shirt, an
unhappy result condolence sent them in their re- and the unmanly, and for an un-
lelse to do. Now the regime in Rome which I am certain Herr Chancellor Your Daily Smile cent sad bereavement, and also for healthy sexualism, which he at-
is not so severe, perhaps because Hitler Geflores. tributed largely to Jewish influence. the floral tributes sent and atten-There was of course a whole series Bulletin.
Fascism has cast off its swaddling It has always on my iripression, ever since the first days of the dance at the funeral.
of War novels which were really
It is rumoured that a corporation clothes.
I think there is no better texti-Brown Shirt movement, that it owed fevered caricatures of war. In part recently instead of forwarding a
mony to the ingrained ideas of dis a great deal of its success to the fact stood for a passionate and cheque merely sent it.. they
cipline in the German people than that it permitted the young Ger- in the way in which the Berliners man to wear a distinctive dress. military State, for which he had
2nd
SATURDAY. SEPT.
DO NOT BE TOO LATE.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The China Mail intelligible reaction against the
...
Hitlerism,
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the
Hong Kong, Monday, Aug, 28, 1933. himself been so proud to fight. But "Can you give me any idea as to have accepted this new regime of That desire is inherent in
the jumble of mud, blasphemy, when this house is going to be almost Calvinistic severity. If it Teutonic character, and is well ex cowardice, introspection and phy-finished 7" asked the future owner, was originally induced by terrorism emplified by the fantastic tunics and sical degradation which became impatiently. "I've arranged to be there is no question that the new accoutrements affected by the duel- their stock-in-trade found a counter-married 25 soon as the house is decroes of dulness' are being iming sections among Heidelberg unt
¡plicitly obeyed
versity students. The growth of Hitleriam ia part in the writings of many coun- completed."
The Berliner consumes his tall Thus in the streets of Berlin you psychological, social, and economic tries; and this indiscriminate de- "Don't worry about that, sir," re-i at least as much as it is political basement of military experience was plied the building foreman, giving glass of pale beer and goes home see beardless youth swaggering in The suffering and despair of the undoubtedly one of the sharpest,
knowing wink. "We'll hang on to about the time London is settling all the glory and importance of a down to the enjoyment of the even-brown short. It is impossible to post-War years have provided the causes of the rise of Hitlerism, just the job as long as we can.
military
ing. The jeunesse doree who used believe that most, of these youths sail in which it has flourished; but as contempt for the
to be the life and soul of the night know what their leaders are aiming its roots go down to a subsbil be-juniform in Italy helped to give birth
TWO REASONS.
now at, or
what the destiny of their longing to an earlier period. The to Fascism. But Hitlerism did not
"I don't see you in church last dens of Charlottenburg are philosophy of the present Chancellor stop at this revolt against the unsight," said the parson who was wearing brown shirts. Hitlerism is country is going to be as a result of
One comes of Germany is intensely personal, manly and the obscene. It extended noted for his very long sermons, too important to admit of dancing. its excessive chauvinism,
from Berlin The abolition of titles and decora- and his peculiar mentality was to ajits natred against all who were "How's that?"
feeling that vast city has suddenly-tions under the republic was a mes- great extent formed in the years responsibly engaged in conducting "Too wet," was the reply. preceding the War. Before 1914 be the affairs of the civilian Republic "But it's always dry inside," pro and quite completely lost its intel-aure which did not it in with Ger- lectual and cultured life. The Ber-man mentality. Their restoration had already identified the future of which had been founded at Weimar, tested the parson the German nation with the destruc- and which showed readiness to re-
in theatre, once so ambitous and in- has won enormous moral support to spiring, is now definitely dull and the Hitler cause. You see this re- tion of Marxism-which for himnounce the methods of Imperial retort.
heavy. Half the play-houses are flected in the Berlin population, for and for the present regime in Ger- Germany and live on terms of good
shut. The minor opera houses. are all the old distinctions of rank and- many means international Socialism will with other countries. "Marxist" Still Patting Them to Sleep. and Communism. He had also al-Germany never really accepted the An American borer has become a shorn of the high qualities both of class have come back, and wherever music and performance which were you go you find people paying de ready become B fanatical anti-Treaty of Versailles with any more preacher,
invariable in other days.
fence to old-time gradations in the Semite. He saw in the Jewish fullness of heart than the Nazis;
Įsocial scala. doctrine a rejection of "the aristo-but the republican regime became cratie principle in nature" and a identified with a position of relative; CUSTOMER: And what is this denial of "the eternal privilege of humiliation. The fall of Germany $450 diamond reduced from? force and strength." In his early was of course caused by the aggres JEWELLER: That's the regular years in Vienna this young decora-sive Imperial policy which anta- price, madam. tor's assistant came to the conclu-gonized. the Western world and
"That's another reason," was the
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TAKING HIS WORD.
CUSTOMER:
Jewish Patrons Of Drama
The reason is not far to seek. The!
Nothing
is really cheap In taxi-cabs, except
and
Jews have always been, the patrons Berlín
of art, letters, and the drama, and even in these days of revolution no Jew dare take any part in such a taxi-driver is grateful for even a
But you have a 'activities in these days. First often pfennig tip. But even so, you
Facts You Did Not Know.
Secondly, they are regarded as the the mean streeta waiting in vain for enemies of the people. The Jews prospective clients. The ordinary 'contributed to a large extent to build
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sion that the Social-Democratic embarked on war against impossible sign in your window that says "Cut all, they have lost their money. see scores of taxis on the ranks in Press was preponderantly controlled jodda; but unfortunately the German Diamonds!" by Jews." Thus an overbearing nation tas persuaded itself that it racial hatred took and held first was not mainly responsible for the
up the commercial and intellectual place in his beliefs and in the outbreak of war, that its army was
greatness of Germany, but in the movement which has followed them never defeated, that it 'accepted the
present frenzy of anti-Semitism all with such faithful discipleship, and peace proposals of President Wilson
Water hose that is kept warm in those things have been forgotten. Fave Hitlerim an unenviable ele-jon the basis of his Fourteen Points,
In fact, the houses inhabited by ment that it shares with none of the and that the terms of the Treaty of freezing weather, by automatically other dictatorships. He seems to Versailles were a travesty of those controlled electric heat has been in Jews in the Charlottenburg district have been born with the double points. Nazi propaganda has had vented for automobile service ata- keep their shutters up, and in the West-end on Saturdays and Sun- nature of a South German day-much to do with this conviction, now tiona.
days, where the Jewish colony wes dreamer and a Prussian realist. firmly held by the majority of the
His character developed into a population, whether Nazi or anti- The government of Yugoslavia la so prominent, you no longer see somewhat sombre compound of Nazi. Herr Hitler both fostered planning to electrify state owned Jews in cafes or restaurants, or even moodiness, love of action and ruth- and exploited it, and turned it mines in five provinces at a cost on the streets. They seem to have lessness, and he believed himself to against every Government that did estimated in excess of $17,000,000. disappeared as if by magic. be "deing the Lord's work in fight- not openly denounce the Treaty, to
LONDON SCIENCE
MUSEUM. Director Retires After 13 Years.
Lordop. Colonel Bir Henry Lyons, the Director of the London Science You do not get the impression of Museum, is retiring this year from
ing the Jews." After the War, in the victorious Power. They on A novel device for stores enables poverty in Berlin And yet hunger, the post which he has held zinca which he served with courage in the their part did not recognize the hold a purchaser to look through an en unemployment, and every starva- 1920...
The museum is a fine white German Army though an Austrian it was gaining over the German tire carton of eggs at once to deter- tion linger round every corner, in subject, he saw installed in the mind, and did not show that open-mine their freshness before buying, spite of the avowals of the Hitler building in South Kensington, one party. How can you expect univer- portion of which was opened by highest and most profitable posts in minded willingness to re-examine Germany the people whom he most its terms which might have added of them against cruel acts of say prosperity-it a country burden the King in 1928. Since then, the detested. Be believed and a great immensely to the strength of the savagery which have degraded Ger-fed with millions of unemployed, and skill with which the various scien number of Germans believed with Scheldemanna, Stresemanns, and many in the eyes of the world. The with little hope of reviving trade tific facts and mechanical devices Com In a world which is rather disgustare displayed" bas caused the him-that in the general monetary Brunings of the pre-Nazi regime. drive against Socialists,
and economic confusion of the post-As things are now, that regime is, munists, and Jews has drawn addi-ed at the excesses of the Nazis? museum's popularity to increase
The Unemployed Workman rapidly War years the superior dexterity of outwardly at any rate, entirely dis- tional force from the economic con- the Jews won them a preponderance credited in Germany. And Nazi ditions of the moment. Insbility to The expensive hotels which used In 1921 visitors numbered of influence in the financial, bust-violence, suppressed by men who find work and pay is tearing at the to cater for rich tourists are empty, 450,000. By 1929 the figure was ness, and political world, and in the realized that extreme nationalism vitals of Germany. Those who be and business is positively deplor-well over 1,000,000 and last year direction of the theatres, cinema, had been the primary cause of the long to the dominant party ruthless able. But the ordinary cheap beer it rose to 1,241,528,
One particularly enterprising and Press. He considered their isolation of Germany before the Warly wrest places from the hands of gardens and cafes are moderately influence to be malgin; and accord- and would bring isolation again, those who do not. But the Hitler full. The frugal Berliner makes a section of the museum is the ingly the fourth point of the pro- burst in revengeful fury against all regime, however natural some of single glass of Munich beer last out children's gallery, where modern gramme of the German Workers associated with successive Socialist, the causes of its rise, has actually the whole evening, while the string scientific developments are Party as Herr Hitler called his or: Liberal administrations. Neither been established by violence, and band plays selections of melodies by plained in simple language and followers in 1920-became "None unimpeachable patriotim nor solid legalized terrorism is still necessary non-Jewish composers--selections illustrated by models and
not always easy to come by in a grams-Reuter. but members of the nation may be service has sufficed to protect many to its maintenance,