The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-23
KAISER WILHELM
AIDS THE WOMEN
He Believes That New Fields
of Opportunity Should
Open to Them.
EMPEROR AS A GODFATHER
NE WILL STAND SPONSOR TO
THE SEVENTH SUCCESSIVE SON
OF ANY OF HIS SUBJECTS, BY
OLD CUSTOM.
~ STEVEN BURNETT.

~ STEVEN BURNETT.
Especial Cable from the international
News Service.)
Berlin, July 23-The Kaiser, who
some years ago emphatically declared
that woman's sphere should be limit
ed to the three KS" Kirche, Kinder.
Kueche-(church. children, kitchen)
has Of late become an ardent. advocate
of women's rights.
He is now following the develop
ments of the modern feminist move
ments with closest attention. Hither-
to he has been very reticent on this
subject SO far as his public utteran-
ces are concerned. but among his in
innate friends he has frequently dis
cussed it,
1t appears that the Kaiser is alto
gether on the side of those who
would open up new fields of activity
for women. He would remove all OBJ
stscles which stand in the way OF
women earning their daily bread.
Women, he believes. are now COM
PEELED to enter all branches OF trade
and all professions open to them. He
would fit them educationally for ev-
cry walk in life. He would open all
grammar schools to them, and gradu-
ally all universities.
On the political side of the ques-
ton, however, the Kaiser's views are
not SO advanced. With regard to
women's claims to participation in
politics the Kaiser would appear to be
very doubtful, and recent develop
mcnts, especially the suffragettes tao.
tics in England and America, are view.
ed by the Kaiser with dislike and sus.
picion, and make him doubtful wheth-
err women are qualified to participate
in the political contests of the time
In a word, he would fit women for
the battle of life and do all in his
power to elevate them intellectually
and moyally.
One of the quaint customs of the
German court is that the Kaiser
stands godfather to the seventh sue
cessive son of any of his subjects
who asks for the favor. The success
sion of sons must be unbroken, for II
a girl comes between the claim can
not be made. What happens wheT
twins are born, and one of the twins
is girl, is a question that has had
to be decided more than once before
now.
| Fifteen years ago tile then minister
of the interior issued formal edic
that the birth OF twin-sister, no mat
ter when 1t occurred in the success
sion, did not invalidate the claim. The
rule has been observed until the pres
ent week, when the Kaiser's civil cab
met, by the application of farmer
who has no fewer than eight son,
running and twin sister born will
the fourth boy. has cancelled tn,
ministerial edict. The obligations i'm
posed on the Kaiser by his sponsor
ship do not 60 much farther than /,
small money gift. and, of course, tn,
honor which may be useful to the la,
in after life, but 1t is clear that Their,
must be some limit to the privilege
AS it is, the Kaiser is satisfied witt
the three or four hundred god-child
rem. not half a dozen of whom he ha
probably ever seen.
Commercial feeling between Germ
any and France is troubled. TIL
cause is the rise in the import dut,
on French champagne which took ell
feet on July l. Before that dat
French champagne paid a duty o
$3.50 per 100 Kilograms; from July
it must pay a toll $45 for the sam
weight. Some Frenchmen see in tn
raising of the duty an answer to tn
recent revision of the French tariff
which imposed higher duties on Gel
tain articles of German export t
France; but this supposition falls t
the ground when it is remarked tina
In the same revision considerable
has been exercised by France in r.
spect of important German exports.
The truth is. as the German go,
eminent has candidly stated in Pari!
the Empire wants money, and in pal
ticular cannot afford a loss OF nearl
three-Quarters of a million sterlinf
which the Empire has suffered on tn
revenue from champagne in the las
couple of months.
The development of the troubl
must be awaited. but now few Gel
man commentators criticise their go,
ernment's action as likely to SO,
more or less prolific grains of mi.
trust will affect the import into thi
country has also to be seen.
Probably more German champaign
will be consumed, though not by fol
eigners. who. as a rule. find 1t sugar
and heavy. The Germans have neve
been able to get the French flavol
which is due. am told by connei.
seurs, to the chalky nature of tn
French soil.
Russia Is putting forth strenuous e
forts to get abreast Of France an
Germany in the field of aeronautic.
Funds are being collected. air pilot
trained and aeroplanes constructed.
school, of aviation will be opened i