The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-15
A PARADISE FOR
THE POLICEMAN
Why "C0ppers" of Germany
Have Such a Happy
Time.
NOTICE BOARDS HELP OUT
MAKING OUT REPORTS HIS MAIN
DUTY.
NOTICE BOARDS HELP GU

Baltimore, April 14.-Some one has said
that in Germany it takes one half of the
nation to control the other. Certainly no
foreigner visits the country without being
struck by the immense numbers of the DO
lice and the innumerable regulations they
nave to put in force. "Verboten" ct is
IOrbidden1 seems almost the national
motto of Germany. In a twenty-minute
walk in Berlin park you can count at
least % notice boards, all forbidding some
thing or other.
You win find, for instance. that you
cannot sit down on any seat you like
Some seats are marked For Children"
some For Nurses and Children Only"
others For Adults Only" There are sep
arate paths for cyclists. pedestrians, rid
ers, light vehicles and heavy vehicles, for
children and for ladies walking alone
There are notices forbidding people to
walk on the grass and others forbidding
dogs to walk on the grass. The German
dog is said to be SO thoroughly accus-
toned to obeying police regulations that
any dog found on the grass is bound to
be a foreign dog.
The German policeman carries q small
library Of books inside his blouse. He has
to make innumerable Inquiries and re-
ports. No one in Germany can engage
servant without supplying the police with
particulars as TO her name, her age, her
nationality, the color Of her hair. her
complexion. the state of her teeth, the
points.
She, too, has also to send in a report
Another report has to be given when she
is dismissed. telling where she is going
and giving all the personal details over
again.
When a householder changes his place
of residence the police have to be in
formed of his income, his future abode,
the number OF his family and other
things, t. use the hsllowed phrase, too
numerous to mention. When q foreigner
comes to German hotel or takes house
he soon finds a policeman swooping down
on him, pulling out a little book and in
sisting on full confession.
In Germany one is forbidden to leave
the front door unlocked, to hang bed
out of the window lin Britain you may
hang yourself there), TO play the piano
after II, to cross a bridge on the wrong
side TO "ramble about in droves after
dark to shoot with a crossbow or blow
pipes in the street.
You must not break bottles or jugs in
the streets. too. If they do get broken
you must not leave the pieces anywhere.
Whether you are to pick up the. pieces
and carry them always with you the reg
ulations do not say. You must not leave
them there and must not put them any
where else.
But usually the regulations are very
precise. Bulldogs and other large dogs
must always make their public appear
ances in muzzles and be led by leash
not longer than 10 inches, ana they must
walk not on the pavement but In the
street If your dog banks in the street
after 10 o'clock a policeman soon runs
up. shouting: "That-dog-mus
bark" If your children are making a
noise in the street he soon lets you know
that too. Mattresses must not chat with
customers. Their skirts must be or a
certain length and their collars OF GER
tain height.
Your clothes must be seemly. In Ber-
lin not long ago a Highlander set out Tor
a party in full Highland evening dress.
He met the inevitable policeman. TO
the question, What are you doing IN
those clothes?" he returned the answer,
Wearing them"
''Why?" CThe German policeman al
ways asks "Why?'O
ITO keep myself warm.
In the end the Highlander was escorted
hack to his hotel in a closed carriage.
II needed the British ambassador to per-
suade the police that there is country
in which Highland dress is not regarded
as unseemly and to get the usual fine
withheld.
For an these crimes have a definite fine.
The water troughs in the streets are
marked For Horses Only" If you mis-
took them for public baths or fish ponds
YOU would not puzzle the police. Every
possible and impossible. IS
provided against in the bulky manual OF
police regulations that every town issues
The manual by the way, points out pre-
ciseiv what breakages you may compel
your servant to- pay for and what you
may not.