The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-07-02
And Will Build a $500, 900
Stadium
WILL GET IT
1t rs Expected, and Was Even Wait
ing for Guarantee. of Quarter
Politics in Germany IiycninS Upon
Labor Question.
by The Associated Press. !

CBy The Associated Tress
Berlin, June 9.-An invitation to
hold the text Olympic games in Ber-
lin in a new $780, 900 stadium will be
extended to the International Olympic
committee at is coming meeting in
It has been understood
that Germany would be awarded the
games as soon as Berlin was in a pc
sition to offer suitable accommoda-
tons and as this condition has nov
been met by the patriotic offer Of
three Berlin organizations to assume
the financial responsibility for the
construction Of the stadium, the
American athletes will probably gath
er here on their next trip across the
Atlantic.
AT the last meeting of the Ger
man Imperial 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 bono issue Of $500, 600. The Ger
man Olympic committee, in which
all branches Of athletics are repre-
sented, hopes as soon as possible to
take over these bonds among the
various organizations represented.
Count Siersstorpff, the German rep
resentatiVe on the international com
mittee, was ~thereupOn instructed to
tender the formal invitation at Stock
holm.
The off-season in politics has been
~enlivened by the outbreak Of what
appears to be a serious crisis in the
Centrum. or Clerical party. It was
occasioned by a declaration of the
Pope giving his approval to the so
called 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
100000 members, while h associa-
ton is said to nave only about TO-
geo. The Christian unions are not
exclusively Catholic, though by far
the larger part of their members be
long to that church. Their chief
aim is to oppose Socialism, and they
regard it as necessary TO admit
protestants in order to have the best
success in hat direction. In this
point they ave the support Of the
Clerical party. The association
however, strongly condemns the inter
UNCONVENTIONAL character of the
unions ana CtHldnuS Inal iaDOT or
organizations be fully under the con
troll Of the Catholic church, and d
win of the Clerical party called the
Berlin movement supports this
view.
Friction has been growing between
the two abo organizations and still
more between the two correspond
ing wings of the Centrum. ONLY
recently Herr Rocren, one Of The
prominent representatives Of tn
party in the ReichStag, resigned III!
seat because he was not IN harmony
with the policy Of minimizing tn
; clerical character of the party. The
present crisis was brought on by tn
Association, which recently sent al
address of homage to the Pope, con
tanning, it was said, a sharp attaci
on the unions; and it was IN ansWeI
, to this that the Pope uttered his con
domination of the latter, p~rOnouncint
their fundamental principles false
/ Since this declaration was made tn
Christian unions have issued a state
5 ment in which they use eXceedlnSI,
( sharp language against the assocla
: ton, saying among other Things ina
its address to the Pope was the eli
max to a long Of sLande
! on the part of the association agalns
the Christian unions, and that tn
: supreme head of the Catholi
church has never been more disgre
4 fully deceived ABOUT the nature an
!, character Of the Christian labo
, unions in Germany. The Who'll
. matter has stirred up a vast deal @
! animated discussion in the press Q
l all parties. There is even consid
cradle talk Of a probable split in TN
Clerical party.
q Court and prison records show tina
p there has been a steady decrease j
q the percentage Of crinlinaliy in Prux
g STA in the last pten years, Wher
formerly 759 persons out Of eac
100000 were sentenced annually fo
I some sort Of crime, the numbe
: dropped last yea to SIS a decrease {
n % per cent. A most gratifying fea
/ t.xo- ic that the ma iardtN of The IL