The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
Rx WILLIAM c. UTLEY


IS LII that l am, am through you;
~ all that you are, you are
~ through me. Never has there
been a closer bond between a
leader and his followers than between
you and me-"
So spoke Adolf Hitler, the Reichs-
fuehrer, to the German people, person.
fed by an audience of 25,OO0 picked
Brown Shirt Storm troops on the third
anniversary of his appointment as
chancellor January 30.
For three years now the Relchs-
fuehrer's will has been the iron-clad
law of the land. And it's all right with
him. John Gunther, the distinguished
foreign correspondent of American
newspapers, in his new book about die
tators, says that when the throngs
raise their right arms in the NaZl
salute and cry, "Heil, Hitler" Adolf
Hitler replies, Hell, Hitler"
II was on March 81. 1888, that the
Reichstag gave the Hitler cabinet the
right to govern the nation by decree.
So. late this month the NaZi dictator
begins his fourth year under that dele
cation of authority, an authority ne
has used to the fullest extent OF its
boundaries, if, indeed, such authority
NAV be said to have limits. And the
Reichstag has been swallowed up by
the shadows of oblivion. 1t has gone
for a year without meeting.
Going into its fourth year, the Hit
Ter regime faces many difficulties OF
economy and currency, but few OF
political nature No matter what hap
mems. the National Socialist party is in
no danger of a downfall. 1t speaks
with the mouth OF the German people,
for vast majority Of them are salts
fed that it is what they want. Prop
uganda machines enormous in their in
fiuence are building its doctrines as
part and parcel of the generation to
come.
People Lose Political Freedom.
Freedom is not privilege that Nail
ism has earned for the Germans, unless
it is freedom from hunger and free
dom from moral and military subjuga-
ton to the nations which 'won the
war" Freedom of political expression
does not exist. for the law says that
there can be but one political party
the National Socialist party. Freedom
of the press died completely with the
press laws of October 3, 1888; now any
Journalist who violates the rigid cen
sorship or, indeed, even fails to inter-
pret the news as the government wants
It interpreted, is deprived of his means
of livelihood. Freedom of worship is
hardly more than a memory.
But national leaders who asked for
four wears in which to return Germany
to prosperity have much to point to
with pride. When Hitler became chan
ceIlor there were 6,013,612 workers I'M
employed. and at the end of 1885 there
were only 2,5O6,S06. This change has
been brought about by schemes of the
state in creating labor.
Most of these schemes operate on
enlv the most precarious footing, how
ever. There has been much juggling
with finance. Industries have been
forced to return workers to employ
ment. whether they were needed or not,
until the burden is nearly back-break-
ing. Banks have been forced to subscribe
TO great loans, one after the other, and
these loans have been used to prime
business on the theory that in the nor
NAL production cycle the money would
find its way back into the banks; one
good scare to brighten the public into
boarding it's money even for short
time would collapse the whole system
with the German treasury in the posi-
ton which it is. The money being spent
is money which does not exist.
Refugees Aid Solution.
In addition, millions have been re-
turned to work by the German plan
of rearmament which, after few
years, will be completed; for these
millions the employment problem is
not being solved, but postponed. An
other 100000 have been taken by con-
scription into the army, and still an
other 100000 are serving in the gov
ernment-maintained labor corps.
Some 100000 refugees from the hard