The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-10

simultaneous com petitions for novices. Olympic elimination meets will be held May A, the athletes thus selected will compete at provincial or sectional meets during June, which pr. Kraen lein will attend to pick his candidates for the courst of training at the Sta diunl.
 Emperor William should arrest his son, the Crown Prince, and shut him up in a fortress is the drastic rem edy suggested by Berlin weekly as the best solution of the situation creat- ed by the Crown Prince in taking a stand against the Emperor in the mat l ter of the accession of Prince Ernest August of Cumberland to the throne of Brunswick.
 The editors suggestion recalls the fact that Frederick the Great, when Crown Prince, was actually arrested and kept under strict surveillance by his father, King Frederick William l., and that the old Emperor, William I wished to send his son, later Emperor 1 Frederick, to a fortress cell The present conflict between father and son is, in fact, an old Hohenzollern l tradition that has been handed down with striking regularity from one gen erattoni of the dynasty to the next These conflicts have, however, lost much of their sharpness. Nevertheless. 1 1t IS only sixty-three years since the SA0 4A14t411ls ezl a. time when he was still heir apparent to the throne of Prussia flung his sword to the ground before his brother King Frederick William ". with the bit ter remark: Nobody can honorably | serve longer under you'' Hardly ten years had elapsed when William him self, then king of Prussia, found his own son, afterwards Emperor Freder- fck, at variance with him and siding with the Diet in refusing to make heavy military appropriations.
 It was a welI-known fact that the present Emperor himself was, during the brief hundred days reign of his I dying father, vigorously opposed to him in many of his measures, and William did not hesitate to show this by complete change of policies as soon as he ascended. the throne. All things considered, therefore the pres ent conflict between the Emperor and the Crown Prince is but a. mild repe- tition of the old Hohenzo1lern tradi- lion
 l Socialism continues to spread. in Ger many, despite attacks from without l and dissentions within the party Pig 1 ures just published for 1913 of the number of Socialists in city councils
 boards of aldermen, township boards and other organs of local government show such a remarkable increase thai
 the Crown Prince may well fear to see realized in his reign Herr BebeIss pro-
 phecy that he would live to reign over a nation in which the Socialists vii
 be in majority.
 On March 31, 1912, there were 10,
 AZ Socialists distributed in the vari-
 ous local government organizations;
 a year later the number had Jumped
 to 12,o01, an increase of ,559, or near Iy 15 per cent These numbers woulc
 be far higher were straight manhood
 suffrage substituted in Prussia for tht
 present Prussian class franchise. T
 is figured that the number of Social
 ists aldermen would then be almost doubled, and that many of the9 big cities of Prussia would be in the
 hands of Socialist councils, as severa
 of the non-Prussian towns in Germany
 already are.