The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
PRINCE MAX WANTS TURK EXPULSION Play Modern Peter the
 Hermit OPPOSES HIS FATHER Father Tried to Make Lawyer and Soldier Out of Him, But Prince
 Determined to Be
 Priest
OPPOSES HIS FATHER


 Max of saxony wants to be modern Pe- ter the Hermit, with the difference that he lives in the 2oth instead of the 11th century, was born at Dresden instead of Amiens, and wants to expel. instead of the infidel Saracen. a kinsman. the infi- del Turk The prince is preaching in quiet, but fierce way crusade against the unbeliever who despoils the lands sanctifed by early Christianity. The shame must be wiped out. The time has come, he says, for the Turk to abandon Macedonia and Crete and all Europe; yes, even the Greek literal of historic Asia Minor. It Is big proposition But Prince Max, a pious man with small un- derstandng of politics, sees no inseper- able bar.
 q Max Wilhelm August Albert Colgov odo. pr. Jur. ct Theol. is the youngest brother of King Friedrich August of Sax ony and son of the late Queen Maria Anna, Infanta of Portugal. It was she who first nstiued into youthful Max the ChriG<en piety which led him towards holy orders, and gave him his chance to be modern Peter the Hermit. To this vocation he pressed against many ob- stacles. old King George, The Fero- cious,' his subjects called him, had not the least intention to let son enter the church. He bade Prince Max bear the same civil and military education as all other Saxon princes. and Prince Max had to study law at Leipzig, where he pro- duced a dissertation on "The Constitu- tonal Position of the Mark of Upper Lausitz" which made him a doctor of law. When Prince Max was duly a doe tor of law King George tried to make him a soldier. He packed him off to uhlan regiment, and told him, that if he drilled, drank and swore as his papa, he might, like his papa. end his days gen. eral.
 Prince Max was sorry Uhan. He be- trayed indeed meticulous soldierly care about uniforms. But when one day broth CT officers found in his cover of "Grein's Cavalry Tactics" the writings of St. Gregory Thaumaturgos, they doubted his genius for war. Greek and theology were already the princes interests Old King George, who persecuted all men. duly persecuted scholar Max, but Max stood steadfast. He said he was made for priest. And he dropped his Uhlam com mission and blossomed out author of two learned works. One was entitled "The Holy Martyr Apolonius of Rome, and the other "A Defence of the Moral Theology of St. Aphonse of Liguori Against the Attacks of Robert Grass mann.'' Grassmann was a theologian and mathematician who died in 1901, after his attacks upon the moral teaching of St. Alphonse. the founder of the Re- demptionist Order, had brought him into the law courts. On the strength of these writings Max became Professor of Canon- ical Law and Liturgy at the Dominican University of Freidburg in Switzerland, and that post he holds today.
 But Prince Max with his royal blood has not the unaspirng soul of the every day professor. He wants the world to remember him. And what better way of earning remembrance than by expeing from Christian soil the profaning Turk? It was Greek studies which brought Prince Max to this He is one of Fre- burg's best Grecians he wages war on academic Greek and on the pseudo-Hel- lenic pronunciation introduced by Eras- mus in the 16th century, and he wants his students to learn a Greek which real Greeks will not mistake for German. These studies have saturated him with the Greek spirit and Greek ideals. Thrice he travelled in Greece. When after the third visit he arrived at Constantinople and saw Moslem crescent gleaming on the cupola of Santa Sophia, he under went "a marked break in life" He felt the call of Peter the Hermit, call from heaven to erase forever the stain of inh- del feet from the footprints of the dis ciples of Christ.
 Prince Max began his Peter the Hermit crusade in 1910. He came to Berlin and delivered two lectures on Hellenics. The first call which was called "The Mean ing of >Greek Culture to Christendom was perfectly inoffensve in part; but it ended with<a fiery anatehma on Europe for upholdihg Turkish mastery in Chris tian Crete. That caused trouble. Kaiser Wilhelm was then deep in his Turcophile plans, and he gave hint to King Fried rich August of Saxony to restrain his in- cendiary brother The king agreed. He is no politician or bookman, and could hardly tell the Koran from Heine's Book of Songs. But he has mighty ideas of Kaiser Wihelm's wisdom. and he gave Prince Max the maxim Pas trop de zele.' The princess second lecture said nothing ugly about the heather Turk: but 1t sneered at the great powers for ignoring the true interests of Christen- dom. and aliying themselves freely with Asiatics. unbelievers and enemies of Christ
 Prince Max then got i'll. When he re- covered he was more Philhellene and Tur- cophobe than ever, but he kept his cru sade to Switzerland. He even took a strong line in defence of Italy over Trip oli, and propounded the proposition that any blow to an infdel is service to Flu rope. Therefore whatever Italy's mo- tives might be. the Tripoli war is cru sade. The good fathers of Freiburg were wrath. Although Rome condoned the war; they secretly look on it as the pirat- ical enterprise of agnostic high finance. Max thereupon abandoned the pulpit Ma xthereupon abandoned the pulpit crusade. and he is now preaching his Turcophobe gospel in a subtler and he hopes more dangerous way.
 It Is among rulers that the new crusade Is to be preached. The prince has great position with Europe's Catholic sover- eigns. Being without inside knowledge of the springs that move diplomacy and being convinced that all men have his own crystal soul and passion for verity. he hopes by lecturing monarchs to expel