The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-21
GERMAN WOMEN
 FORWARD WORK Of Colonization In the Country's
 Dependencies A BRUTAL MURDER CASE Body of Young Glri Is Found In Pool of Blood In Bakery Whore
 She Had Been
 Employed. 98j
BY STEPHEN BURNETT.

Berlin, November 2o.-German women are proud of their colonies, and are de- termined to help forward the work of colonization, with all the energy and thor oughness which are so prominent fea- ture of the German character. With this end in view, a number of women founded in 1907. the German Colonial Women's Union. In 1908 this union was affiliated with the German Colonial Society, and since that time has borne the name, "Womens Union of the German Colonial Society,"
 The aims and objects of the Women's Union are
 l. To interest all classes of women in colonial questions.
 2. To help with advice German women and girls who desire to settle in the col- onies and to promote women's emigration to the colonies.
 g. To promote education in the colonies.
 ( To preserve and strengthen the eco- nomical and intellectual ties of the women in the colonies with those at home.
 The woman question in the colonies,
 which originated from the lack of Ger
 man women there. has a special impor-
 tance with regard to those German colo
 nies toward which the emigrant directs his steps, but is particularly important for southwest Africa
 Means are provided for establishing German families there, where the in- fuence of the German women is valued to such an extent that the intermarriage of white men with native women is checked, and the sprtnging up of mixed
 race, constituting a danger to the colo
 nies, is prevented.
 The Women's Union has made a great point of sending out governesses for children, practical helpers and capable
 maid-servants. They are not sent to un-
 certain, but to secured positions. Settlers
 and officials alike apply dhrough the
 agency of the government, to the Women's Union, as for the most part
 neither the employers nor the girls are In
 position to bear the heavy cost of the
 passage out.
 Tho German Colonial Society has de-
 clared itself ready in recognition of the
 
 ems emigration into the colonies, to bear the cost of the passage.
 The seat of the Women's Union Is in Berlin. At present there are S8 branches
 with nearly 5,000 members The work of the branches is not only the acquisition of new members and the stimulating and 1 awakening of the colonial interest in womsn's circles of all classes, but they have also created their own spheres of work in the colonies.
 For instance, one branch proposes to found kindergarten in southwest Afri- ca. another gives a public library, third supports a mission station, and so on.
 The older Women's Red Cross Union,
 which was founded ten years ago, has undertaken to provide the colonies with
 hospitals and nursing sisters, and has al-
 ready proved great boon.
 The police are investigating another case
 of brutal murder, which again raises the
 question as to whether the authorities
 should permit leaving young girls alone
 in charge of shops where the till Is likely
 to be of sufficient value to attract burg
 lars-a question which has been engaging
 the attention of the public recently in
 consequence of the perpetration of more than one murder under these circum- stances
 The present crime was committed in a bakers shop-a branch of large estab- lishment-where young girl named Alice Rakowski, who was alone in the place evenings, but was accustomed to return to the head offices and sleep with other girls during the night. was found dead on the shop floor in pool of blood. The circumstances showed a terrible struggle must have occurred.
 The girls at the head office were alarmed at her absence all night, and a number of the employees proceeded to the
 branch shop at an early hour on the fol- lowing morning, only to find the girl dead and the till broken open and emptied. The callous nature of the crime was sufficiently indicated by the presence on the back counter of a cup and plate,
 marked with blood stains, from which the murderer had evidently taken a meal, after he had committed the crime. The police believe that the affair was not wholly due to robbery, and are in- clined to connect 1t with a certain young man who had often been seen with the girl, and who, according to a statement made by the woman at whose house he lodged. returned home at three o'clock in the morning with blood stains on his clothes, and told her he had been in an accident. He left the house again before the woman arose for the day, and has not been heard of since.
 Germans want their adventurous Grown Prince to quit flying. His Imperial High ness, who is already the hero of trips in
 the Zeppelin airship and the Wright aero plane, is besought to keep out of aerial craft, until their safety is more generally recognised. Admonitions to that effect are addressed to him this week by the ''Reiohsbote," a Berlin daily, whose chief claim to distinction Is that 1t Is the fav- orite newspaper of the Kaiserin. We are being deluged with communi- cations from readers.y says the Reichs- bote, asking us to exert our influence to induce the crown prince to have more re- gard for his personal safety. Aerial nav igation Is still very dangerous. If an &C., cident should befall his Imperial High ness. even with only a broken leg or arm serious consequences might ensue, not only for him but for the Empire. We hope he may be persuaded to desist from any more flights. without in any way prejudicing the interests of aerial nayi- gation by the withdrawal of his support. As the Rsichsbote Is understood to ar- rive every morning with the Kaiserin's coffee 1t is probable that the warning to
 the Grown Prince will form the subject
 of some motherly counsel at the break
 fast table in Potsdam.
 Berlin's latest novelty Is an onyx-black taxicab driver. who is none other than the son of the celebrated African ohiaftain. Morenga. Morenga, junior. has been