Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-18
WILL bt HUI tI6hI
Warm Campaign Is Expected
in Germany.
ELECTIONS TO REICHSTAG
Morocco and High Food Prices to Be
Principal Issues.
TO TEACH MUNICIPAL TOPICS
First Academy for Training City
Government officials Is Started
at Dusseldorf.
ELECTIONS TO REICHSTAC
TO TEACH MUNICIPAL TOPICS
Special CanIegram to The Star.


BERLIN, November 1S--Two months
from now Germany will be In the throes
of one Of the most interesting elections
to the reichstag she over has known.
The conduct Of them and the campaign
that precedes them will be very similar to
a presidential campaign in America. From
now until January IL all parties. from the
conservatives on the right to the social
democrats on the extreme left. will be
busy disseminating propaganda. Mem
bers. when the reichstag closes for the
Christmas vacation. will visit every town
and village in their constituencies, max
ing speeches to prove that the electors
friend is Schmidt. not Muller, and shak-
ing tho brawny hands of agriculture or
campaigns will be conducted in the press
Of the empire.
III this electoral agitation the govern
ment, departing from the attitude of neu-
trality proclaimed by Prince Buelow. is
first IN the field with n circular to
the landrats or district projects, telling
them carefully TO watch publ opinion
and forthwith meet it with practical re-
plies" When advisable artio les are to be
inserted in friendly journals for the pur-
pose, and, If needful. leaflets are to be
printed and distributed among the people.
Some of the Issues.
The electoral issues arc chiefly Morocco,
dear food, coupled with demand for a
relaxation of the tariff, reform of taxa
ton. including the imposition of an inner
itance tax. and popular demands for cur
falling the political power of the Catholic
Centrum as an ally of the conservatives.
It is impossible to foresee the results of
x1a fonS h.rf 1Trr h,t
there Is strong swing Of opinion in the
empire toward liberalism and the left.
Not that the national liberals will return
to parliament in any force. but 1t is
thought that popular spirit will be shown
in a great increase of radicals (pro-
gresSiveSD and socialists
Considerable discussion has been arous-
ed in Berlin as to the methods pursued
by certain benevolent society leaders for
raising money for charity Lately public
. o'clock teas for the benefit of the poor
have been held In one Of Berlin's most
famous night resorts. The other after
noon q tea was given in the Pavilion Mas
Gotta which, with the adjoining Palais dc
Danse. is the chief center OF the city's
midnight revelry. Ordinarily the Pavil-
Ion does not open it's doors until after
most people have gone to bed. Its at
mosphere. morally and physically, is one
OF champagne. cigarette smoke and
patchouli. The piquancy Of the tea was
heightened by program Of songs and
recitations by actors from the cabaret
theaters.
Audacious Entertainment.
A Berlin cabaret program is not exactly
adapted to repetition in a drawing room
in any event. According to the Tage-
blatt, the specimens offered on this &C.
casion were among the most pungent and
audacious of their kind. Another paper,
after remarking that the entertainment
was of a kind that can only be tolerated
after midnight" suggests that there IS no
undue squeamishness In raising a ques-
ton as TO the propriety OF charity enter
tainments in this form. That the ques-
zion should have to be raised at all is the
interesting thing-a suggestive common
tary on the lack OF any uniformity OF
standards In the worlds Judgment of GER
tain very elementary questions of con-
duct
The first German Academy for Munich
pal Government. a high school Of uni
versity status for the training of munich
pal government officials. has just been
opened At DueSseldorf.
The course of studies will be both theo-
retical and practical, and will extend over
variety of legal financial, administra-
tive. economic and other subjects apper-
tanning TO municipal government.
The long-standing controversy between
the supporters of classical and mod
ern' education has resulted IN the estab-
lishment OF commercial schools and col
leges (realschule) wherein the classics.
especially Greek, can be entirely dropped.
The minister of education now has come
forward With an edict applying to all
higher government schools and aiming
generally at wider and better acquaint-
ance among the scholars Of classical
time and attention given merely 10 gram
mar.