Evening star., 1920-12-19
WORRIES GERMANY
ANDDEF|ES ALLIES
Ebert's Government Does
Not Know What to Do
With the "0rgetsch."
HAS 100000 ARMED MEN
Escherich, Its Organizer, Asserts
That It Has Been Formed for
Maintenance Of Order.
HAS 100000 ARMED MEN

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily Nevx
Copyright. 1929.
BERLIN, Germany. December 49,
The object Of our movement is to
bring about a peaceful reconciliation
between the extremists on the right
and those on the left. and to make
the German people once more a
united nation that has only the well
faro OF the fatheriand at heart"
Thus. IN part, reads the constitu-
ton OF the Organization Escherich." !"
or. as it has been dubbed by the pub
lie, tho "orgetsch.'' But the. para
graph following the one quoted above
shows that this is only the sugar
coating in which . bitter pill is hid
den.
1--WE consider It our holy duty, how
ever" this paragraph reads. -te sup
press by armed force. II necessary.
any attempt to interfere with the ex-
isting government, no matter whether
1t comes from the royalises or the re-
actionarie&."
Despite this loyal pledge to the gov
ernment Herr Escherich. the organ
tier OF the orKetsch. openly admitted
and that. nothing would make him
happier than to see the Wittelsbachs
return to the throne OF Bavaria
GoveInnaent Embarrassed.
AS with 80 many other problems.
the German government does not
know what to do about the orgetech.
The left wing parties. including Pres
ident Ebefts0 own, the social demo-
Gratis. decry it.as an ant.government
movement and demand its disband-
ment. The right wing parties. on the
other hand, declare It q harmless So
ciety, and demand that the govern
ment not only tolerate it, but en-
courage 1t, arguing that 1t is spread
ing the gospel OF loyalty 90 the re-
public.
Recently the government found it
did. something. 1t also undid some
thing. Thfe IL what happened:
First. Tho government, as the gov
ernment OF the German republic, is-
sued q statement declaring that the
many complaints against the or
getsch. particularly those denounc-
ing 1t as an antf-government organi-
zation. had failed to furnish q just
reason for ordering. it's disbandment
So far as the government had been
able to establish, the. orgetsch had
not the slightest plan of working
against the tnterestsi OF the republic.
Second. The government. aa the
sia. issued proclamation, ordering
tho immediate disbandment Of the or
getsch as an organization endanger-
ing the safety Of the state (staats-
gefaehrlich). and forbidding the hold@
ing of public meetings and the pub
Ncation and posting of Advertisements
and posters for the purpose Of solicit
ing funds and new enlistments.
Heavy penalties were fixed for all
violations of this order.
~Next National Emefgeney.e
poa,,lf ~ fhooo
declarations was that the orgetsch
made full use of the first for propa-
ganda purposes and completely ig-
nored the second. Only today I came
across half-page advertisement in
a large provincial paper published in
Prussia appealing to ablebodied men
of all classes to Join the orgetsch
and be ready for the next great ma
tional emergency"
In Mecklenburg, which is q hotbed
of reaction, the government openly
encourages the orgetsch, and when
the left wing parties. which constitute
a small minority in the Mecklenbure
diet, put in a resolution, several weeks
ago. to do away with the orgetsch,
they were openly laughed at and fiat
ly turned down by the representatives
of the local government.
The orgetsch is strongest in Ba-
varia. where 1t was founded by
Escherich. Two hundred thousand
men. all said to be armed and well
supplied with machine guns and light
artillery, as well AZ ammunition,
would respond to the call OF Esche-
rich. the .uhcrowned king Of Ba-
varia," at any moment. should he see
fit to issue one. There, too, the gov
ernment closes both eyes to the fact
that this army OF armed civilians ex-
lists In violation OF the peace treaty.