Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-16
WILL LEAVE BOSTON IN JUNE
Purpose is to Investigate European
Methods of Trade.
TO TRAVERSE SEVERAL NATIONS
Subject of Anti-Modernist Oath Still
a Live One.
TO BE DISCUSSED IN REICHsTAG
Race of Airship for Prize of Hundred
Thousand Dollars to he Held In
June and to Cover Large
stretch of Territory.
BY MALCoI.M CLARKE.


BERLIN, April 15.--CSpeclal to The Bee)
The various business or commercial
bodies here and in other parts Of the en-
pire are making extensive preparations for
the reception and entertainment OF the big
delegation of American business men who
are expected here. 1t is the first party
of American business men ever to make a
tour Of Europe to study business and
economic conditions and will sail from
Boston June - for a trip through this
country, England. France. Belgium. Aus
tria- Hungary and Switzerland
The party of 100 will also include dele
cations from the commercial organizations
and municipal governments of New York,
Philadelphia. Baltimore, Cleveland De
troit, Pittsburg. st. Paul and other cities.
Special trains will be used to carry the
party from one city to another. On not
more than two occasions will it be neces-
sary to travel by night. In order that
those who wish to stay in London during
the coronation may do so, an early sailing
has been arranged, the steamship COM
pany having changed the date of the lver-
MIA to June II.
Two things are in view, the most i'm
portant OF which is to make it possible for
group of representatives of American
business men to see the best that leading
European cities are doing in commercial,
Industrial transportation, municipal and
other fields. The second object is to eY<
tend an invitation to the commercial bodies
of Europe to send delegates to the Inter
national Congress of Chambers of Com
merce at Boston In 1912
Artificial Man Invented.
Otto Windham an Inventive genius liv
ing here. has, after years of struggle sue
ceeded In making. an artificial man, who
can walk make all movements. speak,
sing, laugh and whistle. II is a life-size
figure and so natural an imitation as to
be completely deceptive a yard away.
"Oecultus." as the figure is named
obeys words of command, such as
March, and HIATT" and he answers any
questions put to him. II is not an Illusion
or. a trick it is a pure piece of mechan-
ical. work.
AntI-NOdernist Oath Again.
Twenty-three members of the upper
house of the Prussian Diet have given no
tice Of an Interpolation on the subject
of the anti-modernist oath in Prussia. The
government will be asked whether profess
sors in the universities have taken the
oath OF their own free will, whether the
government considers the oath consistent
with the oath of office" which professors
take on assuming their professional func-
lions and whether the standing of tae
universities is not impaired when their
members impose upon themselves obliga-
tons such as the anti-modernist oath con-
tains.
Air Race for Fortune.
An air race, In which the prize will
amount to 100000, will take place from
June TO June 90 1t is called the Euro
pean aviation circuit. The course begins
and ends at Paris. but between the start
and the end aviators will journey from
Paris to Berlin, then back to Brussels and
across to London, then southwark again
over the sea TO Paris. In this course visits
will be paid by air to Rheims, Liege, Han
over, Hamburg, Bremen. Vessel, Utrecht
Lille, Calias, Brooklanss. Brighton and
Rouen.
Prizes will be awarded only to those
who finish first, but at each stage there
will be opportunities for winning. At GER
tain places along the route the aviators
will only be required to touch ground
while at others they must stop their en-
gines and dlsmount There will be
larger number Of contestants I'm this tour
nament than in any other contest OF the
kind.
Enriched His Lost Love.
Here is romance in real life which re-
Gently came to public notice. II is an in
stance in modern chivalry The hero is
an old merchant widower, with a grown
up family. She is the young pretty and
vivacious daughter of a clergyman. The
man she Is in love with is an infantry
officer, but with 20 private means. Here
YOU have the cast I'm as pretty little ro-
nance as has been enacted for a long time
past. The old man made love to the girl
whose father encouraged his suit. The girl
rejected her elderly lovers advances and
frankly confessed that her affections were
already engaged and that she would have
been married were 1t not for the lack Of
means For a fortnight the man OF money
was greatly detected; then one morning he
sought an interview with the girl asked
her TO forget that he had ever made love
to her and insisted on her acceptance. re-
luctant though she was OF a gift OF
$4,000 She has since married the officer
Catholic TeetOtaIers.
This empire has a Total Abstinence So
ciety Of Catholic Teachers. with a mem
bership of 1000 In connection with the
last Euoharistic congress held at Cologne
the Priests Abstinence union held ses-
sion. attended by 800 German priests and
theological students