y^^^ECAUSE of what is happening 

 ^~-/-/ in Europe today, Adolph Hit- 

 _y y lers "Mein Kampf" is prob- 

 ably the most remarkable book of to- 

 day — remarkable because back in the 

 middle twenties Hitler told exactly 

 what he and his National Socialist 

 German Worker's Party intended to 

 do when they came to power. He 

 set forth his intensions not only of 

 restoring the 1914 borders of Germany 

 but of going beyond and annexing 

 additional agricultural- lands to the east. 

 For anyone attempting to understand 

 the background of the present struggle 

 and the Nazi point of view, this book 

 is indispensable. 



With shocking frankness, Hitler 

 wrote nearly 15 years ago that regain- 

 ing the regions to the south and east 

 that were lost by Germany in the 

 World War will not come about 

 "through solemn appeals to the dear 

 Lord or through pious hopes in the 

 League of Nations, but only by force 

 of the sword." The Nazi movement, 

 he said, must endeavor to eliminate 

 the discrepancy between the large Ger- 

 man population and the country's small 

 area. 



The astounding thing to the reader, 

 is why the European democracies, if 

 they really wanted to stop Hitler, 

 waited until this late date. He gave 

 them warning as early as 1926. 



This ama/ing book, the new un- 

 abridged anU complete translation, re- 

 veals the German Fiihrer as a fanatical 

 patroit, rough and ready fighter, idealist 

 and puritan with a consuming hatred 

 of the Jewish race and liberal doctrines. 

 His super-will and determination to 

 unite ail Germans in the border areas 

 under one Reich, subjugate the Slavic 

 people, whom he considers inferior, 

 and rebuild the German Empire as a' 

 ^reat continental if not a world power 

 dominates this writing. 



The story of Hitler's struggle and 

 rise to power reads like a Horatio 

 Alger novel. He was born in the vil- 

 lage of Braunau on the Austrian-Ger- 

 man border, the son of a successful 

 minor civil service official. The elder 

 Hitler wanted his son to follow in his 

 own footsteps but young Adolph was 

 stubborn and shunned the formal edu- 

 cation his father planned for him. He 

 preferred painting and drawing and 



determined to become an artist. Hitler's 

 father suddenly died when the boy 

 was 13 years old. His mother passed 

 on a few years later leaving him an 

 orphan virtually penniless. 



He drifted to Vienna, capital of 

 Austria-Hungary where, rejected by the 

 art academy because his drawings were 

 considered inferior he joined the ranks 

 of the unemployed. There followed 

 five years of poverty, hunger, odd jobs 

 and sleeping in flop houses. During 

 these years he read and studied history 

 and social problems, argued, debated 

 and became a political revolutionist. 

 Later Hitler went to Munich where 

 he joined the German army, became 

 a corporal, and after the war returned 

 to Munich where with other young 

 radicals he developed the Nazi party. 



One important departure from Hit- 

 ler's program for the German restora- 

 tion was the recent alliance with Russia. 

 In "Mein Kampf" he argues for an 

 alliance with England and Italy, rec- 

 ognizes France as Germany's natural 

 enemy, and relentlessly attacks Russia 

 and bolshevism. The insight into the 

 problems, intrigues and schemes for 

 making Germany a world power, de- 

 scribed in this book, is astonishing 

 because Hitler thus far has achieved 

 his ambition in such large part. 



War is just as unpopular with the 

 rank and file of German f>eople as is 

 true in other countries, yet it is prob- 

 ably a mistake to assume that Hitler, 

 whose methods peace-loving people in- 

 stinctively abhor, does not have a sub- 

 stantial following in his own country. 

 The attitude of many Germans was 

 summed up by a visiting economist. 

 When asked for his opinion, he said : 

 "Germany was weak and helpless after 

 the world war. Hitler has made us 

 strong. And we like it." — E.G.T. 



The new and complete translation of "Mein 

 Kampf" is published by Reynal and Hitch- 

 cock, New Yori City. It contains 1000 pages 

 including comments by the editors. 



Farm Supply Meet 



Peoria Oct. 18th 



Illinois Farm Supply Company will 

 hold its annual meeting in the Pere 

 Marquette Hotel, Peoria, Wednesday, 

 October 18. Annual reports of officers 

 will be made and a program of enter- 

 tainment is being arranged. Chester 

 C. Davis, member of the Federal Re- 

 serve Board is scheduled to speak. 



Mileage — Roy Mack tramped from 

 New York to San Francisco this sum- 

 mer for both world's fairs. His only 

 food was milk. He used 350 gallons 

 or about 11 miles per gallon. 



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Dame Fortune smiled on the Will 

 County Farm Bureau nine in the play- 

 off at the Sports Festival Sept. 1-2 

 when it took a close decision from 

 Tazewell in the final game to win the 

 state championship 4 to 2. Both teams 

 played outstanding baseball, Tom Hoerr 

 doing the hurling for Tazewell and 

 Lefty Schuldt for Will. 



Several tough breaks counted heavily 

 against Tazewell, the first of which 

 came in the sixth inning. With a 

 man on first and third, Kramer hit a 

 long double along the right field foul 

 line. It rolled into the crowd in right 

 field. Both base runners romped home 

 but when Will county protested that 

 ground rules provided for only two 

 bases on balls batted into the crowd, 

 the baserunner from first who had 

 scored was brought back to third. This 

 proved the turning point of the game, 

 for Hoerr grounded out, third to first, 

 for the third out leaving two men on 

 base. An argument developed over 

 whether or not the ball was dead but 

 ground rules customarily limit hits 

 and base-runners to two bases when 

 a ball goes into the crowd. 



This break kept the score standing 

 at two runs each until the tenth inning 

 when aided by a hard grounder to 

 third which took a bad hop, together 

 with a hit by Lester Case and a passed 

 ball through the catcher. Will county 

 got two more runs. 



Some feeling developed at the close 

 of the game against the base umpire 

 for the sixth inning decision on the 

 hit into the right field crowd, but 

 peace was restored. League officials 

 present felt that no protest of the 

 game was justified. 



In the preliminary playoffs, Fayette 

 defeated Winnebago 15 to 4, Tazewell 

 nosed out Sangamon in a 14 inning 

 hair-raiser 9 to 8, and the Boone county 

 nine behind the outstanding hurling of 

 Paul Foglesong lost to Will county 7 

 to 4. In the second round Will county 

 defeated Fayette 8 to 2. 



Sangamon county won over Fayette 

 in the consolation game Saturday 

 morning score 9 to 3. 



Will county's series of victories is 

 a tribute to the coaching of veteran 

 Bob Seely, former star in the American 

 Association professional League. Seely, 

 Manhattan newspaper publisher and 

 road commissioner, has handled the 

 team for 10 years. . 



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