The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-07
 WHEELER GIVES BEER EVENING"
Professor Falls Naturally Into
 German Customs
NEW BERLIN UNIVERSITY
Raintiars by American Artists Are Be- ing Purchased by the Art Galleries
 of Germany aad Other North Europe Countries.
By MALCOLM CLARKE


 Berlin, February 6.-Gpecial.) )-Prof. Eeuiamin Ide Wheeler of California, now filling the Roosevelt chair in the Berlin university has achieved popularity in Berlin by his ready acceptance of Ger man customs An instance is the Beer Evening to which the American educa- tor invited those who have been attend ing his lectures on American Universities and other educational questions.
 The large attendance of guests proved the popularity he has obtained during the short time he has been at Berlin university, Professor and Mrs. Wheeler did the honors of the evening and every thing passed off merrily. By Professor wheeler's request only German students sonss were sung.
 The Californian has attended several similar entertainments and enjoys them thoroughly. He can say "prosit'' with quite the correct accent now.
 The Koiser has been particularly friendly with the wheelers. and has had several informal talks with the American professor. uuizzing him about America and Americans in a style which ndi- eates that His Majesty would be able to make fine living as an interviewer should it ever become necessary.
 The list of German universities is to be increased by a first-class university at Frankfort- -op- Main. The necessary endowments are in hand and it will take high rank. Today there are no fewer than twenty-one universities Sn Germany. The oldest is Heidelberg Gsss A. D.; the youngest strassburg, which. was created after the Franco-Prus- sian war The others are Leipzig, Ros- took, Greifswald, Freiburg, Tubingen, Marburg, Konigsberg, Jena, Wurzberg, Giessen, Kie, wittenberg, Gottin- berg, Munster, Erlangeh Berlin, Breslau, Bonn and Munchen.
 The greatest university of Germany is Berlin. It musters over seven thousand students, and has amagnifcent profess sorial roll, including men like Wilamowitz Moelondorf, in the classical department; Fischer, one of the greatest of living chemists; Nernst. in physics; Delitzsch, , in Orental philology. and the great Har- mack lectures on church history. Here at least one year of the students life should be spent. But it would be as well not pass the first year here, or at least before the student is a fair master of the language, otherwise one is apt to get lost. Choosing then small university like Heidelberg, which is the German university town in perfection, or the lovely town of Freiberg, in the Black Forst, one would commence his stu dents life under the most favorable cir cumstances Munich, also, is quite de- sirabie university, and is second to Berlin sn size.
 An announcement reaches me from Dresden which indicates that Germany fs getting some compensation for the draining of her art galleries of old mas ters by American millionaires. The Dres- den picture gallery is about to acquire two new works by an American artist, MT. Boileau, who studied in Vienna and Munich and whose work finds much fa- var with German critics.
 The modern section of the local gallery, 1nGuestionably the finest in Northern Europe, already contains a number of naintings by American artists. Of recent years quite number of young Americans have come here to study art, while the music students are legion.
 Both in music and art the Americans are taking high place.
 In, Germany the organization of labor has produced good results. /The 7e0 labor exchange offices, which have been set ,p in that country fill about two millions of situations annually. The Public Labor Exchange office in the town of Munich fills 200 situations daily, and that in Stuttgart thousand week. The Ger man system, however, is faulty. for while the exchange office finds the men, it leaves employers to discover their charac- ters..
 The talk of an agreement as to the restriction of naval armaments between Germany and England will not down. heard on sepl-official authority that the recent visit of Sir Ernest Cassel. King Edwards friend and financial adviser, was for the purpose of sounding the German government as to the possibility of an Anglo-Gernlan agreement based on free hand being given to Germany in Mesopotamia and limitation of German naval strength in the Baltic and North seas. My informant adds that the pour parlers, which began in Berlin, have since been transferred to London.
 Emigrants from Germany during 1909 numbered 26.000. an increase of 6l00 com pared with 1908 and a decrease of. 570O compared with 1907.
 The Parseval Airship company, of Mu- n4ch, which on May 1, next. will begin a Aaily series of excursions, has fixed the price at 200 marks per passenger. The airship vii, be one of the largest in Eu- rope, having a cubic capacity of 6500 me- tres, with motors of 200 horsepower.
 Tho excursions will last three hours, and as the airship is expected to travel at an average speed of 50 Kilometres an hour, the distance covered will be 150 kill ometres The excursions will be- made to tngolchen. Hohenschwangen. Kaufbeuren- yvoerishofen and Donnauwoerth.
 Tn addition to these short excursions, long distance voyages will also be made on the condition that the towns visited will undertake to make provision for the safe landing of the airships Such long distance excursions will cost 800 marks per passenger
 With reference to statement published recently regarding consumption of horse and dog fish in Germany. the Morgan post publishes official statistics, accord ing to which 136675 horses and 6S@ dogs were slaughtered in Germany in 1908, showing as regards horses a slight in- crease on the figures for 1907, but de- crease of ten thousand on those for 19O6 and as regards dogs decreases of go on