Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-28
Prussj;an Officials Fall
From Their High Dignity

, for employment: and now these after
tramping the streets by day. they
swagger at night IN the Respondent
gsrb of Hungarian circus Hussars.
WORST OFFENDERS
These postmen are the worst offend
ers After them come Small officials
In the ministry of the interior, munic-
pal employees and-in the province
clerks In the Ober- Presidents offices,
and secretaries 20 high-hyiug Land
rats" So that hundreds OF ill-paid of
ncials play PaRliacci-whinos IN small
orchestras swearing undying love ON
suburban stages, and are kicked by
highly-paid clowns in the rings OF cir
cuses And young lady clerks accom-
pany them. and having filed away the
letters and counted the cash, lying
headlong TO the nearest stage, where
they sing sentimental songs, and make
love TO brother officials while talented
professional ladies In default of en-
gagements are obliged To- pawn their
Jewels
Naturally, war is In the afr. Let
ters of denunCiation and defiance hE
to and fro. Newspapers print sensa-
tlonal discourses on Der Mdgistrats-
beanie I'm Fraucnkostum.' and explain
that one worst offender is clerk IN
the municipal "Magistrat' who, act
ually appears as a kinematograph
model. so that pictures showing him
disguised as a funny charwomau may
be seen nightly In the ChaussecstraSse.'
The Charwoman-b urcaucrat aihrmS
that he Is not paid for posing Il did
t." he explains. TO obliEo my friend
who makes kincmatograph films But
such explanations only increase the
professionals anger. and there Is
universal clamor that the abuse snail
end.
GERMANS ARE UPSET
You may despise this tale of mere
local quarrel. as a matter of no im-
portance. The philosophic German,
however sees in IL an issue really
grave. Hitherto respect for Herr Off
cial has been the base, buttress, aud
impregnable fortress Of the whole
German social structure. Up I'm to-
day the "Beamtcr" has lived upon q
misty. remote Olympus, to which only
the least roVorent citizen dared even
TO uplift his eyes. And now from this
Olympus he has fallen into an AVernus
OF shame. The "Beamtcr" Is a kline
matogrBph model. The "Beamtcr' is "a
circus man! the "Beamter" kisses the
cook on a picture postcard. THE
"Beamter" was seen yesterday stand
ing on his head I'm the beer garden
at TeltoW, and people laughed at him!
Is IL a wonder that Germans feel that
they have reached n crisis In their his
tory and that even the wisost heads
are distracted by the problems in
volved?
Think they say Of the questions
raised in the caiustry OF etiquette
alone! You enter, for instance, Post
office number 70 I'm Zimmcrstrasse to
purchase a postcard and seven one
cent stamps In response, a naughty
official eye glares silent scorn, and at
once a secluding glass shutter ga hang
cd contemptuously In your face. As the
rude man Is an official YOU accept his
Insult with humility and walt respect
fully while behind YOU stands queue
Of eight-and- twenty other respectful
Berliners. all waiting with patience
until Herr Ohicial turns his profile
YOU discover that he Is none other
than the man with the red Roatee
beard who capcred so humanity the
night before on the stage OF the "Chat
Noir' Under such uneXampled cir
cumstances what should you do?
or suppose, when you are loling
comfortably In a chair at the Chaus-
seestrasse kinematograph show, there
flashes across the winklng sheet dis
gulsed as a comic burglar, some junior
clerk at the foreign office whom you
have hitherto treated with awe be-
cause he can speak seven languages.
Ought you 20 remove your hat. quench
your cigar, upset your "Weissbier" in
sheer agitation OF spirit. and behave
a. N you were In the foreign office
tselt3 or ought you rather
These uncomfortable puzzles. and
many other cognate problems, are
troubling the heads Of the visest Ger
mans; and IL would be presumptuous
Tor a foreigner 10 essay their solution.
But they have given a new interest
10 hnenatograph shows. ana promise
consolation for the horrors OF buying
stamps at postoffice number e.
HAMILTON DAVIS.