Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-05-27
TALK THROUGH
THE WINDOWS
German Representatives in
Reichstag Have Started
Playing Politics
ELECTION EARLY NEXT YEAR
Bavarian School Finds That 1t
Was an Englishman Who
Invented Telescope.
tBy Special Leased wire to New Mexican,

tBy Special Leased wire to New Mexican)
Berlin. May 27-The Reichstag
which resumed its sessions this month
is still busy with important legisla-
tion, including the bill to consolidate
the three systems of workmen's in
surance which was taken up on second
reading after long year in commit
tee. The forthcoming elections, how
ever, overshadow every other interest
and deliberations are being conducted
and speeches made, according to the
German phrase, through the win
dows." with reference to their effect
on the impending struggle. The cleo
tions, which a few months ago, were
promised for this spring, have been
repeatedly put off and according to
present intimations will now be held
at the latest possible date late in
January, the present Reichstag being
permitted to live out its entire consti-
tutional term. 1t has had a most
checkered career, beginning it's exist
ence under the auspices of the Lib
eral. Conservative "Unholy Alliance"
of Conservatives, Antisemites and Ma
tional Liberals. devised by Prince Won
Buelow to oppose the long dominant
clerical centre, and carried on, after
the collapse of this block upon the
financial legislation of 1909 and the
fall of Buelow, by the chancellor, Won
Bethmann-Hollweg, with loosely
| jointed coalition of Conservatives,
! Clericals and Antisemites. This ar
rangement has worked fairly well, in
spite of predictions of an early break
down and dissolution two years ago
For several months, the various
parties have been nominating their
candidates and arranging alliances
with other organizations. The Ma
tional Liberals and the Radical Pro-
I gressive party. have arranged to sup
port common candidates in the great
er part of the empire, and to make
their fight on the so-called ''two-front''
basis-in other words, opposing the
Conservatives and Clericals in one
direction, J and the Socialists in the
other. The Conservatives and Cleri-
calls will pull together. avoiding use
less nominations where they can Sc
candidate by assistance ON the first
: ballot. Bebel has announced the poll
cy of the Socialists to be the nomina-
ton of candidate in every district. in
iorder to get as imposing a general
vote as possible, but in reballots his
party will evidently assist the Liber.
ais as against the government parties,
1t will be hotly contested election.
Englishman Invented Telescope.
Leonard Digges. an Englishman, and
not Calico nor any of the Dutch
claimants, is put forward as the real
Inventor of the telescope by Count
Carl Won Klinckowstroem, Munich
scholar. in report just published.
In 1t he gives quotations from manu-
script, discovered by him in the Brit.
ish Museum, written by the mathe.
matician William Bourne. about 1876
and citing quotations showing that
Digges made use of the telescope al
least forty years before Galileo or
the Holland scientists. Bourne cites
a lost treatise, published at London
in 1911, entitled "a Geometric Prac.
tise, named Pantometria,' in which a
l full description of the lenses used
e by Digges is given.
Servant Problem.
In order to solve or make less vex
e ing, the household servant problem
t in Berlin, composite committee rep
iresentative OF the interests of mis-
tress and maid has been selected un
der municipal auspices at mass
J. meeting. 1t will draw up a formal
agreement to serve as general basis
! for the relations between employer
and employee. Some Of the questions
usually leading to strife which are tc
} be dealt with are those of wages, pay
g ment of board during employers, alb
', sence, hours of liberty, compulsor,
o references, summer vacations, treat
r ment during illness and the settle
q ment of state insurance dues
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