The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-30
BY FREpERICK KUH

Copyright. 1881, by United Press)
 Berlin. June so.-{UPl FascisIn and cornmunisnd, the two extremes of political action threatening the life of Germany as a republic have grown to almost unbe1ievab1e pro portions out of the economic de- bacle of the last two years.
 With each rides a twin brother violence.
 The signs of poverty and discon- tent rampant through the nation ex- plain the stampede of hungry work men, the deimotalized section of the and mortgage-ridden farmers into the two, camps of extrernism. Anse
 On the one hand is the former painter and decorator, Adolph Hit Ter, leader Of the brown -shFit fas- cists, known as the national social ists. This pied piper Of Munich has increased his nleager following Of s00,00O followers in 1928 to a vast army estimated at 10,000,000 to-day, all following his militant fascist bag pipes, his siren song Of how he will come to power, repudiate the war guilt lie" and all war debts and lead Germany on to the place she once held in the sun as strong military power.
 On the other hand are the com munists, threatening to make a Ger many a duplicate replica of red Rus sia, with the neutral repudiation of all debts and war on the capitalist system. The communists are esti- mated to have g strength of 6,0oo.- 900.
 It is obvious to the outside world that if ,either of these factions be- comes dominant, the family of na- tions has much to fear from a Ger many that would no longer play ball." but might add further to the worlds financial and political trou- bles..
 With fascism and communism con- trolling nearly half the total Ger man electorate, one Of the imme- diate results of this expression of economic despair and chauvinism has been political violence, leading to d toll estimated at 800 dead and many thousands wounded since the first of the year.
 Newspapers nowadays refer to a state of guerilla civil war" in Ger many, and although President Hin denburg's March 2S decree ordered ruthless suppression of the disturb ances by police. The violence has in VI hSdSSQ 5AAC0 bAGA. A IlSn ESelCn- shwer officer told the writer that if the police are unable to cope with the outbreaks, the army might be assigned to the task this autumn and winter.
 The spectacle of troops patrolling the German cities to keep order and put down strikes and food riots would be disturbing to the saner ele- ment of Germany and would pro- vide further ammunition for com munist and fascist agitators.
 Both communists and fascists have been denouncing the Hoover debt proposal as snare and a de- fusion. They contend that if 1t is enyprced, 1t will merely delay the day of reckoning by the forces of reyolu- tion and counter-revolution, but if it fails, it will hasten that day.
 In recent weeks, because of the reduction of the dole, communists have organized unemployed raids on town halls in various districts, mo- tably Westphalia and Saxony, where they forced the burgomasters to hand out uncurtailed doles.
 Meantime, the finished unemploy- ed in Berlin, Cologne, Frankfort and elsewhere have almost daily been pillaging foodshops, snatching saus- ages or bread and fleeing before the poMce arrive. Even the elaborate been helpless to stem the rising tide of distress.
 Even the children of the poor in the Berlin schools, who had been getting wholesame free meals, now are given only a roll and cocoa. How ever, like other cities, Berlin runs about 40 soup kitchens, besides dis tributing cheap clothes to the poor.
 Windows of the larger five and eight room apartments Everwhere are plastered with "Zu Vermieten" (for renD signs, because the occu- pants are unable to pay the land lord.
 Doorbells in the residential dis trict ring all day long as a stream of beggars, unemployed laborers and even former merchants or brain workers come beseeching the house wives for food and aims.
 The cities and villages are inun- dated by peddlers. many of them for the first time women, selling every thing from pretzels to neckties. Among the most popular are those operating stands on street corners. where, for 50 prennings (about 12 cents) customers may have lurid horoscopes read to them.
 Innumerable shrewd persons, as we'll as regular clairvoyants, sud- denly appeared aware of the lure of fortune telling, especially to the needy. because poverty breeds su- perstition and many of those in despair seek the feeble narcotic of promise of better things ahead.
 The peddlers and the fortune tell
 
 manifestations of human ingenuity in staving off privation and hunger since the chances of livelihood at