Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-09
Our Berlin Letter
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Ihe decision of the highest tribunal aorogating Police President von Ja- gow's edict against the wearino of hats by ladies in the theatre is ro- garded by male and female theatre Vlsltors with different feelings Last august Voh Jagow issued orders that any alrector permitting ladies to wear mats Ill the boxes or stalls of his theatre should pay fine of s25 for each offense. The directors appealed eo the Minister of the Interior. who stayed the order until the biobost court had decided on it. From the mere male point of view there were excellent reasons for the edict and like othefs, have more than once spend half the time Of performance Ill dodging some huge or fantastic structure before them to get an occa- slonal glimpse of the stage. Legally. however, the theatre directors are in the right; the law is that police or ders are only sustainable when upset tlng them would cause injury to the community. Such a contention could hardly be maintained in the present case. AS one director said, the police might as we'll forbid the people with unusually long bodies from going to the theatre, and quoted the example of a friend whom those behind shout ed at to "sit down. until he rose from his seat and showed that he had been sitting all the time. The fair Berliner is naturally pleased by the abrogation of the order, for she will not have to go through the com pllcated process of fixing on her hat again after the performance.
 i The death of the last King Fred erick of Denmark, of whom the kais- CT thought very highly in spite of their differences of opinion regarding 1 the value of ginds in modern states. King Frederick being the most demo- cratic king Europe has ever known, will make no essential change in the nature of the relations between either the courts or countries of Germany and Denmark, but change is bound to come when the Kaiser dies and his son ascends the throne. The Ger psa|l a Gsqwn4 Rrinet is pot only the brother-in-law of the new King of Denmark, but also his closest friend, and like Christian K, of Denmark, he is highly indignant at the atrocities committed by the Prussian author ities in the annexed Danish province of Schleskig, which make every thought of reconciliation between Germans and Danes impossible.
 The relations between the two peo- ples, as far as Denmark is concerned at any rate, are still governed by memories of the wars of 1S4S-50 and 1864 and the loss of Schleswig Hol- stein to Urussia. Resentment is kept alive by the ill-advised policy of the Prussian authorities in treating the Danes of Schleswig as rebels and sus- poets and by provoking constant series of small incidents through the expulsion of Danes on polltlcal grounds A curious anomaly of the political status of SchlesWig is the existence there of a number of peo- ple. Danes by race and language who are citizens of no country at all their fathers having lost their Danlsh nationality and neglected to acquire that of Prussia. The result or thls unhappy want of status is exposure te all sorts of annoyance from the Prus- s;an authorities. Under the late King there was an improvement in the re lat;ons between the two courts. Chris tian TX. had a long memory ano avoided Berlin, but his son, the late King. paid an official visit here ane Christian X, and the German CroWl Prince are said to have pledged ont another to use every effort to Drlns