Evening star., 1938-11-18
Persecution Of Jews
Nav Doom the Nuzis
Atrocities Held Likely to
Result in Sowing
Civilization
70 thA Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The recent press announcement that
Adolf Hitler will shortly unveil statue,
Of Heliogabalus following the discovery
by Nazi antiquarians that the Roman
Emperor was of German birth and that
his murder was the result of Jewish
plot arouses curious interest in present.
day German psychology. The alleged
discovery" probably rests upon no base
more substantial than that it is true
that in certain aspects the "kultur" pre-
vailing in the court of Heliogabalus in
the third century closely resembles that
of Berlin under the Nazis. The revolving
Roman soldiers, who decapitated their
Emperor and threw his body in the camp
latrine, had reason enough for their
action without any outside prompting.
His short reign had been marked by
rapacity and cruelty as we'll as unbridled
indulgence in vice.
The Nazi school of thought shows the
same inexplicable lack of capacity in
defending the massacre OF inof1enslVe
German Jews by pointing to the killing
VI 11cII VOI ny -OAN
Polish Jew. Ordinary intelligence would
prompt them to keep absolutely silent
about the Paris tragedy. The mem
ton of that episode is certain to
bring to mind for comparison the hor-
rible murder of Engelbert Dollfuss, for
which crime Hitler and his merry men
have now accepted full responsibility by
honoring the assassins and actually I'M
prisonipg those who in their official
capacity punished the murderers Of the
Austrian chancellor. The Won Rath kill
ing also makes men realize the extreme
nature of the barbarities which could
develop in the mind Of a mere boy an
urge sufficiently strong to make him
murderer-one with no possible chance
Of escaping from the scene of his crime.
Again it is being implied that parallels
to Germany's crime of today may be
found in medieval history. That, too, Is
unsound. To match its ferocity we must
hark back to the mass murders OF Joshua,
probably apocryphal. What about the
French Revolution?" it may be asked.
That was an uprising of semi-starving
multitude who had seen wasteful luxury,
Haunting extravaganza, indifference to
the sufferings of the poor, paraded
before people dying Of hunger and cold.
The massacre of st. Bartholomew
day? That was an act Of fanatical faith,
a manifestation of a religious belief.
The ancient College of Sorbonne under
took to justify the massacre upon the
ground that the Huguenots were an
influential and actively PROSECUTING sect,
whose every convert was doomed to
everlasting torment. Those converts
were increasing every day with appalling
rapidity. The massacre brought forth
congratulations from every Catholic
country of the world. The Pope blessed
its authors and struck medal in COM
memoration Of the purge Of heretics.
What country will congratulate Hitler,
Streicher and the rest?
Only one modern ruler could have been
absolutely depended upon wholehearted-
ly to praise the Nazi massacres. That
was King Kofi Of Ashanti. He was driven
from his throne by the British and died
in 1884. His "kultur" was that Of pres
ent-day Germany under Hitler. Koi
painted the mud walls of his palace
with the blood of 1900 slaughtered vir-
gins Perhaps he is waiting for Hitler
and his pure Aryan" associates to well
come them to Avernus.
If the massacre of the innocents in
Germany leads America to tread the
path of duty, momentous chapter OF
human history will be written. large
proportion of living men believe that
900 years ago the Jews played vital
part in the redemption of mankind. 1t
may we'll be that today, in an entirely
different role, they will save the civiliza-
ton of Europe.
HOWARD PITCHER OK1E.
November 16.