El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-27
IS
PLANNING
To VOTE
Elections, Often Postponed,
Are Promised in the Near
Future.
SERVANT PROBLEM
rs PERPLEXING ONE


reichstag, which resumed its sessions
this month. is still busy with import
ant legislation, including the bill to
consolidate the three systems of work
mems insurance, which was taken up
on second reading after a long year
in committee. The forthcoming cleo
lions, however. evershadow every other
interest and deliberations are being
conducted and speeches made. accord
ing to the German phrase. through
the windows" with reference to their
effect on the impending struggle.
The elections, which a few months
ago were promised for this spring,
have been repeatedly put off. and ac-
cording 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
constitutional term. 1t has had
most checkered career, beginning its
existence under the auspices of the
Liberal-Conservativ .Unholy ALI
ance" of Conservatives. Antisemites
and National Liberals, devised by
prince Won Buelow TO oppose the long
dominant clerical center, and carried
on, after the collapse of this block
upon the financial legislation of 1903
and the fall of Buelow, by the chan
=
loosely jointed coalition Of ConservaZ
tives, Clericals and Antf-semites. This
arrangement has worked fairly well.
in spite Of predictions of an early
breakdown and dissolution two years
ago.
Nominations Are Made.
For several months, the various par
ties have been nominating their candi-
dates and arranging alliances with
other organizations. The National
Liberals and the Radical Progressive
party, have arranged to support com
mon candidates in the greater part of
the empire, and to make their fight
on the socalled ''two-front" .basis-in
other words, opposing the Conserva-
tives and Clericals in one direction,
and the Socialists in the other
The Conservatives and CIericals will
pull together, avoiding useless nomi-
nations where they can secure the
election ~ the other party's candidate
by assistance on the first ballot. Bebel
has announced the policy Of the So
cialists to be the nomination OF a can
didate in every district, in order to
get as imposing a general vote as
possible, but in rebal1ots-his party will
evidently assist the Liberals as against
the government parties. It will be
holly contested election.
New Inventor of 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, a Munich schol-
ar. in report just published In it he
gives quotations from a manuscript.
discovered by him in the British Mu-
ceum, written by the mathematician
William Bourne, about 1875 and citing
quotations showing that Digges made
use of the telescope at least 40 years
before Calico or the Holland -scien-
lists.
Bourne sites a lost treatise, pub
lished at London in 1911, entitled "A
Geometric Practice, named Pantome-
tria," in which a full description Of
the lenses used by Digges is given.
The Servant Problem.
In order to solve or make less vex-
ing the household servant problem, in
Berlin, a composite committee repre-
sentative of the interests of mistress
and maid has been selected under mu-
nicipal auspices, at a mass meeting. It
will draw up a formal agreement to
serve as a general basis for the rela-
lions between employer and employee
Some Of the questions usually lead
ing 70 strife which are to be dealt
with are those of wages. payment of
board during employers absence, hours
of liberty, compulsory references.
summer vacations, treatment during
Illness. and the settlement of state in
Surauce dues