Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-30
berlin B y! WANTS 4 II !! MEET
Next Gathering for. Olympic
Games May Be in That City.
CLERICAL PARTY IS. SPLIT
Caused by Pope Approving. Associa-
ton Of Catholic Labor Unions.
CRIME DECREASES IN PRUSSIA
Falling Off of Twenty-rhree Per
Cent Shown by Court,and
Prison Records.

BERLIN, June 23-An Invitation TO
hold the next Olympic games IN Berlin in
a new 100000 stadium will Be- extended
to the international Olympics.eommittee
at it's coming meeting in Stockholm. 1t
has been understood that GerTH5ny would
be awarded the games as soen5as Berlin
was in position to offer suitable accom-
modations and as this condittbh has now
been met by the patriotic offRT- OF three
Berlin organizations to assume the finan-
cial responsibility for the construction Of
the stadium the American athletes will
probably gather here on their next trip
across the Atlantic. -
AT the last meeting of the German i'm
perial- committee President Won. Podbielsky
announced that the Union Club: the Berlin
Steeplechasing Association and-the Berlin
Racing Association had offered to build
the stadium and to raise the money by a
bond issue of $3OO,OOO. The German
Olympic committee, in which all branches
OF athletics are represented,- hopes as
soon as possible to take over these bonds
among the various organizations repre-
scented. Count Siersstorpff, the German
representative on the international COM
mittee. was thereupon instructed to ten
der the formal invitation at Stockholm.
Crisis in Clerical Party.
The off-season in politics has: been en-
livened by the outbreak Of what appears
to be a serious crisis in the centrum or
clerical party. 1t was occasfohed by
declaration of the Pope giving his ap-
prevail to the so-caEed Association of
Catholic Labor Unions, the smaller of
the two Catholic labor organizations of
the country. Most of the Catholic work
ingmen are organized in the Christian
| labor unions, which contain about $780,.
600 members, while the association is
| said to have only about 10000. The
Christian unions are not exclusively
| Catholic, though by far the larger part
OF their members belong to that church.
Their chief ann Is to oppose socialism.
| and they regard 1t as necessary to admit
success in that direction. In this point
| party. + ---,sI|s II I - ;,
The association, however, strongly con-
| dennis the interdenominationai charac-
| ter of the unions and demands that la
Dor organizations be fully under the con-
troll of the Catholic Church, and a wing
| of the clerical party, called the Berlin
movement" supports this view.
Friction in Labor Circles.
Friction has been growing between the
two labor organizations, and still more
between the i&a corresponding wings OF
litS*SeferufN.H Haty: .tECEGkiy~T1eTT Noeieii
one of the 1ptD1nii,slSf peprssentatives of
the'9party irsthe chstas, Resigned his
seat because ne WAS mot IN harmony with
the policy Of minimizing the clerical char
/ acter- Of the: party. The*present crisis
was brought -ontby the ,aSaqciation, which
recently sent an address OF homage to
the Pope, Containing. it was said, a sharp
attack on the unions. and it was in an
lsswsE 70. this that the Pope uttered his
lcopdenna item. afsths latter, pronouncing
I fhsk fundamental principles false.
Since this declaration was made the
/ in which they use exceeding sharp Ian
Euage against the asSociation, saying
among other things. that its address to
the Pope was the climax to a long cam
paign of SANDER on the part of the as
ISOLATION against the Christian unions"
| and that the Supreme head OF the Cath
olic Church has never been more dis
| gracefully deceived about the nature and
character Of the Christian labor unions
| in Germany" The whole matter has
| stirred up vast deal Of animated dis
cussion in the press Of all parties. There
| is even considerable talk OF probable
split in the clerical party. -
Decrease in Crime in Prussia.
| Court and prison records show that
there has been q steady decrease In the
percentage Of crirninality in Prussia in
the last ten years. Whefe formerly I0b
persons out of. each 100000 were SEN
fenced annually for some sort of crime,
the number dropped last year to 5s5 q
decrease of % per cent? A most crafty
! ing feature is that fhe majority Of the
decrease was in. the item of feIonies. The:
| number Of woman criminals also showed
q great falling off.
| Close upon the heels Of the announce
ment of the crown princes plunge into
| literature as the author. of a book of
| hunting experiences 1t Is learned that
| Princess Eitel Friedrich wife of the en-
perors second son. has designed cal
| endar which is to be sold for charity this
| fall. A series OF water colors from the
| princess brush including views Of Cas-
ties Eutin and Charlottenhof and pic
| turesque Brandenburg landscapes. illus,
| trate poems. in part. written BY Princess
| Eftel and, in part, by her poetic cousin,
Princess Foodora Of Schieswig- Heistein.
| Woman's supposed weakness in philos-
| ophy and the higher reasoning received
| a brilliant disproyal In the contests held
| in connection with the anniversary cele-
bration of the University of Goettingen.
| or the three submitted only one was
| found worthy of a prize, a philosophical
work on The Perceptival-T theoretical
| Principles Of Positivisn." This was
| awarded the highest possible prize. and
| when the envelope containing the name
| OF the author was opened was found to
be by q woman, Miss HedWtg Martids OF
Rostock.