Evening star., 1933-07-09
|STORM TROOPERS
MADE ADVISERS
PrusSian Premier Halls State
Council Next to Cabinet
in Importance.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. July "a new constitu-
ton for the Prussian State Council, in
which storm troop members were Off
cially recognized as among the chief
advisers Of the state premier, was pro-
mulgated today by Capt. Wilhelm Goer-
ing. right-hand man of Chancellor
Hitler in the National cabinet.
Capt. Goering, who also Is premier
Of Prussia, hailed the new state coun-
Gil as the most important organ OF
government next to the state cabinet" !"
Under the new constitution. this
council, which formerly had functioned
almost tantamount to a senate, or up
per house, will hereafter merely listen
to the pronouncements of Capt. Goer-
ing, make observations concerning them
and then adjourn.
Article 10 OF the constitution de-
clares that the state council does not
vote" that it merely advises the
state ministry anent the conduct OF
the states affairs"
Must Serve Without Pay.
Membership is composed of the
PruSsian cabinet and SO persons ap-
pointed by the premier, among them
chiefs and subchiefs Of the brown
shirted .Nazi storm troops and black
shirted shock troops. Representatives OF
the churches, industry. business, SCI
ence and labor also will be included.
The constitution provides that the
members must serve without pay and
| that while in the past the state coun-
| Gil met publicly, now meetings will be
secret.
With the suppression for three
months today of the newspaper Taeg-
| nche Rundschau the struggle for Prot
estant' church control entered new
and bitter stage.
The newspaper had cited an article
Of a church pronouncement drawn up
in 1887 at Schmalkalden, in which Mar
tin Luther participated, declaring that
the churches alone possess the right
Of choosing pastors and other spiritual
officers and that mo earthly power can
take this from them"
Criticism Held Unjust.
This was regarded as unjustified
criticism of the removal of church.
men by State church commissioners.
The Taegliche Rundschau also had
backed Rev. Friedrich Won Bodel-
| schwingh. recently elected by non-Nazi
| church groups as eVangencal RelchS-
bishop. 1t also had reported the ar
rests of pastors who delivered sermons
criticizing appointment of the state
church commissioner.
Meanwhile. Ludwig Mueller, NaZi
church leader, issued an appeal to the
United Prussian Church not to disturb
the work of unification now in progress
by "unobjective talk and action.
August Jaeger, Prussian church COM
missioner, issued an order to police
chiefs and provincial and district gov
ernors declaring that the governments S
action regarding churches, while in
nowise interfering with religious life
was essential to safeguard the national
| unity created by the chancellor.
Since the state in its own interests
as well as the interests of the people
and the church cannot tolerate opposi-
ton of this kind" said his decree, but
on the contrary must regard attempts
a. such opposition as treason to the
people and the state. request you to
see to it very sharply that my orders
and those of my deputies are not
sabotaged'
He added such attempts would con-
stitute revolt against the state authori-
ties which must be suppressed i'm
mediately."