Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-25
SAY FORCES OF MILITANTS
ARE DWINDLlNGS VERY FAST
THE Pankhurss Must Go" Forms Ralyng Cry of New SUI
tragette Organic ation-Ger Morasts and Artists
bat Nude Art-Other Foreign News

the question of what are the limits
, OF propriety in nude art.
After long campaign for the
protection of the youth against filth
IN word and picture" as the rnove-
ment is termed the moralists have
succeeded in getting a bill before Par
lament for law stamping as inde,.
cent pictures which might arouse the
PHARMACIES Of unripe youth"
The Goethe Association, an organs
ization OF artists and literary men
and women. has risen in protest At
q recent meeting DR.. Ludwig Fulda
referred to the recent decision OF the
Imperial Supreme Court in the cases
arising from the eonfiscation by the
police of n great quantity of posts
card reproductions of famous paiuts
ings. This court held that the provis-
ION of the law stamping as indecent
works which tend to cause offense to
or inJure the feelings of modesty of a
normal person. clearly contemplated
normal adult person, and that pie
lures were not necessarily indecent
from the mere fact that they might
arouse the phantasies of unripe
youth" The court also ruled thet
nudity is not In itself indecency. T.
| latter ruling, said DR.. Fulda, was in
dubitably a vote of confidence in the
1t'dlpI VI all iHllBS.
The measure to which the Goethe
Association objects seeks to counter
act the ruling of the Supreme Court
1t provides that adults may legally
| take offense" at pictures, books. etc,
which they consider a menace to
youth. The term normal person" lie
replaced by person." and the pro-
vision of the existing law requiring
that criminal intent be shown Is
dropped. y
DR.. Fu1da. as well as the speakers
who followed him at the protest meet-
ing, declared that the proposed Law
would put all Germans into the
nursery" 1t constituted an unreason-
| able guardianship of adults in its
efforts to guard children. Tt would
mean that works of art would be
/ judged from the viewpoint of the ini.
mature and that would mean, in turn
that art would be throttled. The
Goethe Association, said DIR. Fulda,
| was also interested in the welfare of
the youth and in their protection
against evil influences, but this Was
| the work of the family. The unripe-
/ ness of youth must not be made the
standard for judging works of art.
| Defenders of the proposed law de-
clare that. apart from the recent post
! card considerations, which are gen.
orally admitted TO have been rather
ludicrous exhibitions of misused zeal.
both pictorial and literary art have
extended protection in Germany. The
new law, they point out, is chiefly
designed to do away with immodest
exhibitions In shop windows.
Aeroplanes viii be used to bring
diamonds from the mines Of German
Southwest Africa to their shipping
point. The air route will save both
time and money, since it will at once
do away with the necessity of tra-
versing difficult jungle paths and OF
sending n troop of soldiers with each
shipment to protect 1t from robbers.
| TOXIC, April Notwithstanding
the failure of the Japanese Diet To
agree upon the budget, which was the
immediate cause of the fall of the
Yamamoto Cabinet. the governme1f
viii advance funds for the susldyscf
tri-weekly steamship service
through the Panama Canal to New
York, feeling sure that the next ses.
sion Of the Diet will ratify the &C
tion.
Latest plans provide that the new
line shall start from Yokohama anc
proceed to New York via Seattle,
Panama and Colon. On the return
trip the steamers will touch at New
| Orleans, Panama and Seattle. This
original idea to make Boston the
terminus has been abandoned for The
present. Arrived ut Yokohama, the
steamers will continue on to Hong
Kong via Kobe, Moi and Shanghai.
On the way back to Yokohama they
will call at Manila and Kobe. japan
considers the Chinese and Philippine
connections necessary to make the
venture profitable
The Nippon Yusan Kaisha. which
probably will receive a subsidy pf
about $4,000 annually will place
nine 10,000-to ton steamers In the Pan-
anna service. The government has
selected Seattle as the Pacific port OF
/ call because ii finds coal cheaper
| there than at Honolulu, and some
port Is considered necessary on the
voyage of 1860 miles from Yoko-
| hama to Panama. The voyage from
/ Yokohama to New York, via the Suez
| Canal, takes over eighty days, but
the Panama route will require but
forty two days. K+