The times-news., 1938-12-30
HITLER Held
OUTSTANDING
PEACETHREAT
Leading Men in Science,
Art, Religion Designat-
ed for. Year


Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Ger
many, described as the greatest
threatening fore" that the demo-
cratic, freedom-loving world faces
today" has been selected by
Time magazine us the Man oi
the Year" for 1888, the. magazine
revealed yesterday.
The editors of the magazine,
who annually select 1.-THE man or
woman who has effected the most
dramatic change in the 'coursc OF
history during the past year,
gave as it's principal reason for
the selection the signing of. the
peace of Munich.
Greatest single news event OF
1888 took place on September
90, when four statesmen met al
the fuchrerhaus in Munich to re-
draw the map Of Europe" ;" the
magazine. said.
Hitler on that day reapcd the
rich harvest Of an audacious, de-
fiant, ruthless foreign policy he
had pursued for five and a half
years. He. had torn the treaty OF
Versailles to shreds. He had re-
armed Germany to the teeth. he
had stolen Austria before the
eyes Of mortified but apparent
ly impotent world.
"All of these events were
shocking to nations which had de
feated Germany on the battle
field only. 20 years before, bnt
nothing so terrified the world as
the ruthless, mcthodical, Nazirdi-
rected events which during the
late summer and early autumn
threatened a World war over
Czechoslovakia. s.., .......
when without loss Of blood h"
reduced Czcchoslovakia to a Ger
man puppet state, forcing dras-
tic revision Of Europe's defensive
alliances, and won n. free hand
for himself in eastern Europe by
getting nds-off' promise from
powerful Britain land later
Franco, Adolf :. Hitler without
doubt became 1885 man Of the
year.. s,..ss: =. > y ;...-
The magazine pointed. out that
other: world figures-Prime Min
ister Neville Chamberlain, Of Brit
ain, President Roosevelt, Premier
Mussolini, DR.. Eduard; Benes, of
Czechoslovakia =, either We're de-
feated in their efforts or faded
in Importance as the year drew
to a close" -. = >. 2. -
Chamberlain's "peacc with hon.
or" seemed. ito have achieved
neither, the magazine said; Presi-
dent Roosevelt was beaten on the
purge" issue; ,Mussolini played
second fiddler to-. Hitler; { DR..
Benes abdicated and Chang Kai-
shek, last years "nnan Of the
year" was driven into the! inter-
ior Of China where he "faces the
possibility of becoming only a
figurchead in an enyeloping COM
munist movement"
Generalissimo Francisco Fran
co. head of the Spanish insurgent
government. wa smentioned as a
possible imam of the year, if he
had won the Spanish civil war on
his great spring drive, but now,
the magazine says, victory still
J eludes the generalisSimo and war
WEAKNESS and disaffection on the
rightist side makes his future
precarious.
Secretary of State COrdell Hull
also was mentioned as having
Crowned his trade treaty efforts
with the British agreement" but
the magazine said that at the end
of the year at Lima, Peru, where
the eighth Pan-American confer
encc ended last week. "his plan
of continental solidarity for the
two Americans had few Of it's
teeth pulled"
Other important figures Of 1888
mentioned by Time included:
"Undoubted crook Of the year
the late Frank Donald Costcr
(born Musical, with Richard
Whitney Former president of the
New York. stock exchange, now
in Sing Sing PRISON. as runner
up.
'."Sportsnan of THE year was
tennis Donald Bulge, champion
of the United States, England,
France and Australia.
"Radio's man of the year was
youthful Orson Welles. who in his
famous; War of the Worlds
broadcast scared, fewer people
than. Hitler, but more than had
ever been frightened by radio be-
playwright : off the year was
Thornton Wilder. whose first play
on Broadway rQur' Town) was
:: . a big hit. To Gabriel Pascal.
producer of 'Pygmalion,'. first
full-length motion. picture. based
on the wordy dramas Of George
Bernard Shaw, went the title of
cineman of the year for having
! discovered a rich mine of dra-
matte material e..
"Men of the year outstanding
in science were three medical re-
searchers who discovered that
NICOTINE acid was a cure for hu-
man pellagra: Drs. Tom Douglas
Spies of Cincinnati General hos
pital, Marion Arthur Blankenhorn
of the University of Cincinnati,
Clark Mel Cooper, of Waterloo,
Ia.
"In religion, the two outstand-
ing figures of 1888 were
pona pins XI (Who) spoke with