The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19
DRINKING HABIT
 WORRIES KAISER
Advises Army and Navy to
 Cut Out Liquor
GROWN PRINCE WEAK
When It Comes to Resisting Charms of Women-Judge Unger Says That Citizens May Shoot
 Brutal Policemen

Berlin. February 1s.-(Special.)- )-The Kaiser is stil greatly worried about the drinking habits of army and navy officers. He has gone to the extent of advising them to cut out liquor and to sign the pledge.
 The importance of maintaining steady nerves under modern conditions of war was the text of a speech delivered by him at the Murwik Naval college. He said he was aware that drinking was an old inherited habit of the Germans. but they must free themselves from ii by self-discipline. Formerly young men thought 1t smart to consume great quantities of liquor. As young officer he had occasion to see instances of this but without ever joining In the revelry himself.
 Those were exploded notions. They were well enough for the good old times but not now. Nerves will win the next war;" added the Kaiser. You will see from gunnery practice at tar get ships the effect of modern gun fire on board ships You will see the terrible destruction it works. There firm nerves and a cool head are wanted and needed"
 He suggested that they should quit tippling and join temperance societies.
 It has been recognized for some time that the crown prince is prone to be impressed by the charms of the oppo- site sex, and apparently he has yet to learn the discretion In this respect His tour in the east has afforded several instances of his instability and during the voyage of the mail steamer Prince Ludwig in the Indian Ocean, his con- duct on one occasion caused passen- gers embarrassment. A fancy dress ball was in progress. when, to the beWilder- ment of the dancers. 1t was suddenly brought to a close at the unexpecte.] early hour of II. Subsequently it leaked out that this was done bv order of the crown princess. who had been greatly piqued to discover that the prince had been paying exceptional attention to a sprightly young American girl. He had, in fact. entered his name on her programme for nine dances, four of which, however. the couple did not spend in the ballroom
 A few days ago Judge Unger of tho local criminal court delivered a re-. markable dictum to the effect that citizens may shoot brutal policemen. up the case of an innocent pedestrian named Hermann, who died of wounds inflicted by the police dur ing the Moabit riots, the judge said
 Policemen who were patrolling the streets for the purpose of maintaining law and order were undoubtedly en- gagged In the lawful performance os their duties The legality of their ac- tion came to an end when, as has been proved by the witnesses, a man who was making his way peaceably through the streets, was struck down with the sabre. In my judgment man who was the object of such brutality would not be acting contrary to the law if he de- tended himself by means of a well aim ed revolver shot"
 At court martial held at Kiel two engineer petty officers of the torpedo boat D. ' were sentenced to seven years penal servitude each for brutal treatment of a, stoker who has died from his injuries. The socialists say the men should either be shot or hanged.
 One of our inventors has devised tel escope eyeglasses. They are intended for short sighted persons by the very simple means of enlarging the image on the retina: They are especially de- signed fer that class of n,ar-slghted signed for that class of near-sighted people who cannot wear the ordinary simply corrected glasses. The monocle combination consists of two parts uni- ted in a single metal frame, a front ob- jective lens or collector and 0 second nearer the eye to disperse the rays at the proper angle to make the correc- ton for the degree of myopy in ques- ton. When properly prescribed and made the two lenses have such leration to each other that there Is no distor- tion, astigmatism, or colored border to the image obtained
 Another man has invented what he calls police eyeglasses. On tn, side next the face they have small contave mirrors. They give the 'vearer. if hc mss normal sight. an image of what is going un t,lind him. me, are rro- pa :ed .or Ire secret DO i;c.
 The Lokalanzeiger has been collect ing the opinions of persons of distinc- tion here and abroad as to what they consider the greatest achievement of re- cent years. Professor Metschnikow, of Paris, awards the palm to the discov- cry of radium, and hopes that various governments will encourage men of science to pursue their researches In this direction. pr. Charott thinks the work of Shackleton the most merito- rious. Emile Jacob. a privy councillor, considers aviation the greatest. Mdme. Filosophow, the Russian feministe, places the admission of women to par liament in the first rank, and next to that aviation. M. Maizeres is inclined to place the peace movement first Ella Pepin, the Russian painter. takes much the same view. The list concludes with the views of Moisant whose tragic death Is still fresh In the memory. With unconscious irony he wrote, few days before his death, the greatest conquest of the age is the triumph of the flying machine.
 A wife who had been an actress abandoned by her husband, who left the priesthood to marry her, has appealed to the public for help. The man ap- pealed to the public for help. The man has returned to the church, and the
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