Object to Liederkranz Club Allowing Hitlerite Meeting in Its Rooms

The meeting of the German-American society, called the Friends of New Germany, composed of Hitlerite sympathizers, announced to take place at the Liederkranz club on Saturday evening has become an object of controversy. Violent objection was made to the club’s rental of its room for use by a Nazi society, as there are German-American Jews in the membership of the club. Benjamin Weil, president of the Liederkranz society, is of German-Jewish extraction, it was pointed out.

The steward of the Liederkranz. club, when interrogated, declared that he had no record of granting the use of club-rooms to any such society.

An indignant Jewish matron, however, volunteered the information that “a Jewish member of the club told me the Hitler society was meeting there. When I told him he ought to be ashamed for allowing it, he said it was no affair of his as long as they paid their hundred dollars rent.”