Evening star., 1935-08-18
NAz|S ACT TOEND
ALL OPPOSITION
New DEGREES Issued Against
Masons, Jews and Sile-
sian Confessionals.
Rr the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August l7.-New DEGREES
to crush further the possibility oi
anti-NaH opposition were issued to-
day against Free Masons, the Comics
sional protestant opposition) Church
Synod of Silesia. and Jews.
Hans Hinkel, Naz commissioner for
culture, with DR. Paul Joseph Goeo-
bells. propaganda minister, announced
strict regulations for reorganiSing
Jewish cultural groups into one Life
Union Of Jewish Cultural Societies. '
Provision was made for their close
supervision.
Jewish artists, 1t was indicated. can
perform only before these groups
end individual organizations must
toin the union before September IS
Afterward, the union will be super
yised by Hinkel,
Confessionals Dissolved.
Semi officially. it was announced
through this wav the national So
cialist state is giving non-Aryans all
possibilities for their own cultural and
artistic life"
Secret police in Breslau ordered the
Confessional Synod of Silesia dissolved
on the ground 1t had miSled the pub
lie. This may be the first step to-
ward undermining the Confessional
groups in the same way the Stahl-
helm. war veterans organization. has
been dissolved.
Members OF the synod have con-
sistently fought the Naz program for
uniication of the Protestant church
headed by Reichsbishop Ludwig Muel-
Ter.
May Herald New Drive.
Church circles believed the action
may herald new drive against dis
sident ProtestantS. Silesia. which Is
mostly Catholic, has few ConfessionaI
members compared to other districts
With a decree by Wilhelm Prick
minister Of the interior, Masonry be-
came dead in Nazdom. He called for
immediate disbandment Of all existing
lodges throughout Germany, including
the Saar.
Frick acted under a decree issued
bv the late President Won Hindenburg
for safeguarding the people Of the
state. charging the lodges have en-
gagged in "suoversive activities" He
ordered conhscation of property OF all
lodges The step had long been ex-
pected.
New Office Proposed.
Belief was expressed by Walter
Dare. minister Of agriculture. in a
book published today that the office oi
every German marriage clerk should
have superintendent Of breeding at
tached to it.
In his volume. The New Nobility OF
Blood and the Soil" Dare demanded
appointment of the superintendent
or guardians of breeding to make sure
that al marriages shall be eugenically
above reproach.
Nobody need feel shocked he said
''if We evoke experiences in breeding
animals for our guidance in this mat
ter. Certainly human dignity Is not
offended if animal breeding and hu-
man breeding are compared to each
other
Urges Four Glasses.
Darre urged that candidates for
marriage be divided into these four
classes:
/. One class consisting of only iC
per cent of the girls who are pro-
nounced fit for marriage each year
made up Of maidens whose marriage
in every respect seems desirable and
hence should be given every possible
assistance.
2. A class, which Darre believes
will be by far the largest, composed OF
girls to whose marriage there is fun
damentally no objection from the view
point Of possible offspring.
3. To be comprised of girls who
morally and legally are At to marry
but whose hereditary predisposition
indicates they should have no chill
dren. Their marriage is to be per-
mitted only If guarantees can be given
they will have no children.
4. To be composed Of girls against
whose marriage there are fundamental
objections They must be forbidden
to wed, Dare said, for otherwise the
conception of German marriage will
be dishonored."
Discussing illegitimate children,
Dare said, Prom the viewpoint of
improvement Of the race the first
consideration Is that of hereditary
value, that is, origin, and only in the
second place does there enter the
question of legitimacy or illegitimacy."