Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-06-03

ORGANIZATIONS nave undertaken CALL
paign against the unwritten military
law, prohibiting Jews from becoming
officers in the Prussian army. A reso-
luton, unanimously adopted by two
leading Jewish organizations, the
Union of German Jews and the Cen
trail Association of German Citizens of
Jewish Faith, at a meeting at Frank
fort.On-Main reads:
CONTRARY to the custom of all other
civilized states, soldiers of the Jewish
faith in the Prussian army are at a
disadvantage. in the matter of promo
. ton, as compared to Christians and
the Christian sons Of Jewish parents.
The assembly protests against this
condition as uncon stitutional and H.
legal, and expresses the hope that the
competent authorities will succeed in
abolishing this shameful and oppres.
sive injustice and in bringing about
the fulfillment of the law"
Though considerable inroads al
ready have been made on the tradi-
tional view, which regarded the high
er posts in the army and the COM
missions in the better regiments as
the prerogatve of the German nobility,
immediate favorable action on the
resolution above set forth is not re-
garded probable.
i
The Berlin Elevated Railways Co.
has joined with the Consolidated Ber-
lin Street Railways and the Perfect of
Police in the warfare against the pro-
jecting hatpin, posting in the cars an
order that women passengers with
long hatpins must place protective
guard over the end of the projecting
pins. In spite, however, of the orders
and the warnings of the suppos eddy
all-powerful Perfect of Police that
women endangering the safety of
others by long hatpins would render
themselves subject to arrest, no
abatement of the menance can be no
ticed and accidents from this source
are constantly reported.
. .
dangerous but successful balloon
where the aeronaut. Wilson. fearing
that his balloon would be driven by
an adverse wind into the River Elbe,
which is very broad at Altoona cleo
ed to come down in the middle of the
city. He pulled the ripcord when the
balloon was above the city fish mar.
ket, coming down successfully and
safely amid the fish dealers in the
uncovered square.
The equestrians who exercise early
every morning on the riding paths of
the Tiergarten, Berlin's central park,
are to have an additional attraction in
the shape Of military music provided
for them by order of the emperor, who
himself, when in Berlin. takes an early
morning gallop there every fine day.
A band from one of the regiments of
the guard is to be stationed in future
at the Hippodrome. circular open
space, surrounded by a tan bark path,
where dozen riding paths emerge
from all directions.
Here every morning gather hum
dreds of officers OF the general staff.
anxious to preserve their Waistline
while detailed for office work in the
capital, together with active retired
officials taking their constitutional"
ladies with their attendant grooms,
and many professional men, such as
bankers. lawyers, doctors and actors.
who indulge in this form of exercise in
order to counteract the effects of their
sedentary occupations. The emperor
is usually accompanied by a consider
able number of attendants, including
his principal aide-de-camp, the chief
of the royal stables, two or three per-
sonal orderly officers, a bodyguard of
several gendarmes, and a number of
grooms.
b
A scheme of compulsory physical
training for the municipal officials OF
Schoeneberg has just been introduced
by Herr Dominicus, the newly ap.