Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-27

provision IS the temporary opening Of the Dutch and Bergian frontiers 10 dead meat. The new Importation. however is to be carried on by the munic pal authorities, since it is in the towns that the scarcity is most keenly felt, not by the usual ordinary meat importer or butcher. The praise worthy object of this stipulation is 10 secure that the meat will be sold at a low price to the poorer classes. Non-agrarians, however, continue their claif fer a permanent relaxation of the laws which will allow of the important of meat--dead, alive and frozen-from the Argentine, Austria lia; and New Zeland, as these are hte only countries which are able permanently to supply the deficiency in full measures.
 Though the Kaiser's brother, Prince Henry of Prussia set the example many years ago by choosing naval career as his life-work Germany has always had trouble getting young men of noble families into the naval service, while practically every sprig of nobility has no higher ambition than that of becoming an officer ill one of the crack regiments of the army.
 Recently, however, there has been a change and in few years we may perhaps see the naval officer being envied by the less fortunate officers merely serving in the army. 1t is said that the Kaiser himself is res ponsible for the change, and that it is his intention to make to make the men in command of his ironclads the most exclusive body of men in the whole empire. As a matter of fact, the Kaiser has been heard to express the opinion that since Germany has become a colonial and naval power it is of the utmost importance, that the officers on her cruisers and battle- ships should be recruited among the noblest families in Germany. While the principal duty of an army officer, he says, is to prepare himself for possible fight and know all there is to know about important garrison towns, while it is the duty of the naval officer from the youngest en- sign to the admiral in command to represent his country abroad. and this is task worthy of the bluest Ger man blood
 The salaries and chances of promo tion in the navy have therefore been raised and improved until the Ger many navy today offers career which from a practical point of view $ quite as allurlng as the very popu- lar service with the army.
 Perhaps the young naval lieu- tenants cannot make so much show as the handsome grey-cloaked youth who set the pace in all the high jinks of Berlin; perhaps, too, the army lieutenantcy is still to remain the best key to the merriage market, but on the other hand a naval career offerse many advantages to the young scions of nobility, whom the Kaiser desires to draw into naval service.
 The naval career is cheap, an im- portant consideration in a country like Germany where so many of the noblest families are poor. While the officer in crack guard regiment never reaches point when he is self
 supporting and many thousand of dollars must be advanced for his maintenance by his relatives every year, the naval officer comparatively quickly finds himself in a pos tion to exist without hunting for rich bride or "skinning' his own family. He. serves only three years as a cadet after which comes one years prODatlOndry SeFV-Ce' ana then ne lSt l made a lieutenant. After twelve l years service he is sure of a cap | taincy and when he is still in the be- 1 ginning of the forties he finds himself in command of a cruiser or battlesh' p where he is practically an autocrat;
 position which strongly appeals to
 most Germany counts and barons.
 In few years, the world will f find the Kaiser's navy commanded by
 officers every one of whom is at
 least Freiherr ven something.