Show I 1 t 1 I I j NICK CARTER BURNED German Youths Sacrifice Tales of Patriotism By KARL H H H. VON WIEGAND U. U S S. S Staff Correspondent BERLIN Feb 11 Thirty Thirty thousand volumes of Nick ick Carters Carter's lurid Indian Indian In dian dlan Tales Tales' a and d other literature of ot the yellow backed variety have gone up in smoke on on the altar of ot pa pa- This This' was staged by the schoolboys of East Berlin who chose this way of ot expressing their realization of ot the serious crisis through which Germany Germany was passing and of ot the demands demand m made de upon t the youth of at the land The spot s selected ted for tor this bonfire was the historic r field the he one time scene of ot the Imposing I military spectacles with which the kaiser delighted to to dazzle the eyes of ot j his subjects and the he outside world but It Is not known whether there was any connection between the place I and the deed in the mind of ot Young Germany who made this sacrificial I offering In an Impassioned speech the leader of or the group pointed out outto outto I to the hundreds of ot his assembled comrades comrades the symbolical significance I of ot the act and promised them in the name of ot the municipal Juvenile bu bureau bureau bu- bu reau that the burned books would bU 1 be replaced by others others of a more edifying and elevating ele character i I When it was WS too late some practical practical minder r Berliner suggested I that however howe praiseworthy the deed it it could have been consummated In just just justas I as ts efficient but far tar more expedient I manner by turning the tabooed lit literature literature lit lit- I c ov over r to the paper paper mills mUla and nd 1 thus hus helping to counteract the present present I I print rint paper scarcity carcity which would J have ave been a practical but not a I I I spectacular solution of the matterI matter matter- aJ j jand I I 1 and trici youth 1 is always spectacular |