The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-25
CONDITIONS IN EUROPE AS OBSERVED
BY AMERICAN EDITOR

Grove Patterson, editor of the TOldee,
Ohio. Blade. and vice-president of the
American Society of Newspaper Editors, IS
home from a summer spent IN Europe. Mr.
Patterson is a close student of European
affairs and one of the ablest editors in this
country. His views of conditions IN Ger
MANY and Russia, as summarized by cor
respondent of Editor and Publisher, are
enlightening to the public generally.
Mr.. Patterson sums up conditions in Ger
many with the statement that Hitler and
the government will finally be controlled
bv the small number of capitalists and in
dustrialists Of the country or by the masses
~ the other extreme, which will result in
government similar to the Russian Soviet
regime.
Commenting further on the situation in Ger
many, Mr.. Patterson said:
Dorothy Thompson, in recent story in the
Saturday Evening Post, says the trouble with Ger
many is national hysteria induced by defeat ana
the subsequent hardship and humiliation suffered
at the hands Of vctors drunk with power What
- ever it is Germany is in the worst shape today
that it has been since the war Not the worst shape
as far as economic conditions go, perhaps, but It
is in intellectual and spiritual Imprisonment
Mr.. Patterson asserted more than $4,000 per-
sons have been locked up because they nave oeen
opposed to the policies of the Nazi government or
because they are Jews.
The editor branded as untrue stories that some
Americans have brought back declaring that every
thing is normal in Germany.
IAN political parties other than the Nazi party
have been iquidated," he said "Nazi men have
been put at the head Of all civic and military or
CARNATIONS Chambers of Commerce, trade asso-
Citations educational societies. every place of pow
er and influence is now Differed by Nazi party
men, The old leaders fired Where nation
has long been beaten and depressed it is not hard
to control it with power. There not prisons
enough in Germany, but soldiers barracks used
for prisons. You can be sure of this: When Amerl
cans come back and say everything is all right and
normal in Germany they have been sold gold
brick by Nal leaders,
Mr. Patterson emphasized the alLinclusive boy
colt which Hitler has imposed against Jewish mer-
chants and business men.
"As long ago as March the German government
officially ordered boycott against all Jewish places
of business" ne said mo Jewish business man
can belong to a merchants association and no Jew
ton. The government has ordered the withdrawal
of subsidies paid to Jewish religious and charitable
organizations. Jews are forbidden to enter B&-
varian universities and barred from Leipzig UNI
versity for 10 terms
whole blocks of Jewish citizens lawyers, doc
tors, other professional men and tradesmen have
been literally driven out of business in order that
nOn-Jews may have their places. In addition to the
thousands merely in prison, several thousands have
been beaten and some killed by Nazi troopers and
Nazi hoodlums
"All of this, of course, is generally known
and has been printed, but what is not generally
known is that there is no diminution no letup of
these conditions of persecution. There is a pre-
vailing opinion in the United States that the VIC
lent attack, not only on Jews but on all liberals,
radicals, and opposing party men has blown over.
1t has not blown over at ALL 1t goes on, and it is
fundamental part of the Hitler policy"
Contrasting the Hitler regime with those in Italy
and Russia, Mr.. Patterson declared Germany is
in the hands of a cruel, brutal and mendacious
dictatorship that has not the intelligence and conf
mon sense of the Italian dictatorship and is worse
than the Russian government because of its greater
brutality and prejudice"
Mr.. Patterson asserted that although living cor
dtions in Russia are bad, they show an improve
ment those prevailing when he visited that
country in 1882.
Things in the Soviet Union are bad and will be
bad as long most of us live, though living cond
lions seem to be on a slightly higher level than OF