The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
JEWS IN CRAVE
PERIL IF HITLER
WINS ELECTION
Fears of Pogroms Already
Aroused by Threats in
Germany.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
soripps- Howard FOREIGN Editor

united states are awaiting the OUT
come of the German national cleo
tons next Sunday.
Already Jews in certain parts Of
Germany report they are living in
constant fear of pogrom, and If
Adolph Hitler and the anti-Semitic
groups about him win, Jews
throughout the country, it is be-
lieyed, would be in deadly peril.
The American Jewish committee,
headed by Cyrus Adler of Phila-
delphia. and on whose executive
committee is Benjamin N. Cardozo,
recently appointed United States
supreme court justice, warns that
the danger is not confined to Ger
many, but is world wide
Bitterness on Increase
The existing economic struggle, it
declares, inevitably carries usual
Bitterness in its train. And if Ger
man Jews are made the scapegoats
in Germany now, the movement
likely will spread to other lands to-
morrow. Jews nowhere will be inn
mune.
The Hitlerites are regarded as
the outstanding threat to the Jews
of Germany. This party frankly
includes as one of it's principal
planks virtual outlawry Of all Jews.
only a member Of our people
can be a citizen" the program OF
the National Socialist party (the
Nazis) declares. Then it defines
who Our people" are.
"A member of our people can be
only one who is of German blood,
without regard to his religion.
Therefore, no Jew can be a member
of our people" Continuing, the
pogrom asserts:
amy one who is not citizen may
live in Germany only as guest, and
must be subject to legislation
adopted for the governing Of for
eigners'
Barred From Office
Jews could not hold office. If
there are not enough jobs to go
round, Jews and other foreigners"
"are to be expelled" No other for
eigners" could enter the country and
these who have come in since Aug.
2, 1914, must leave.
Decades ago the American Jew
ish committee declared in a state
ment to the writer that German in
tellectuals favored the Jews in the
fight against ti-Semitism. Today
however, owing to increasing compe-
tition in professional fields, "the in
tellectuals are among their most
bitter foes"
THE universities are the CEN
ters of anti-Semitic agitation. Writ
ers, professors, teachers, physicians,
lawyers, are the advance guard OF
anti-Semitic activity it is in
the courts, schools and all other de-
partments of public life"
Sentiment Is Spreading
Jews in Germany, it was stated,
are being boycotted. Merchants and
employees already are hit jewish
rituals are taboo In certain SeCJloIlS.
Weimar, the town of Goethe and
the birthplace of the present con-
stitution, has been in daily fear OF
pogroms; throughout Thuringla
anti-Semitic prayers were recited
daily in the schools at the behest OF
the minister of the interior.
The elections of next Sunday will
be to name a German president.
The leading candidate is the aged
Marshal Won Hindenburg. His chief
opponent is Adolf Hitler, the fiery
Fascist. Hitler's party is the sec
ond largest in the country and is
said to be growing fast.
The conservatives want linden
burg. But so desperate is the
plight of the masses, that anything
can happen. Hitler's pledge to re-
pudiate Preparations, tear up the
treaty of Versailles, restore Ger
many's prewar frontiers and run
out the Jews unquestionably has
widespread appeal.