The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01

q (Coypright, 1914, by Curtis Brown.)
~ ERLIN, January S1.-(Special)
N Students duelling is threatened
H. and thousands of bloodthirsty,
ce-slashing young men are sadly de-
dressed. They say that the age of chiv-
Ilry is dead; and that the age of sophists,
Economists and calculators has succeeded.
| me sophist, economist and calculator is
he rector of Greifewald university, who
Kinks that detection in duelling should
fhad to expulsion; and another is the i'm
Eerial supreme court at Leipzig, which
In a decision has put harmless student
hlnensur' duels on the same level as ordi-
larry, dangerous duelling. But worst of
|Sll are certain sophists, economists and
|lalculators among students themselves.
Fhese have just fought a bloody duel for
Fay in a moving picture factory. Others
% further They shirk the duel. but win
|eishonorable scars. They so to skillful
nrgeons, who armed with lancets, anti
|1eptics and anaesthetics, carve painless
bounds on the students faces; and the
ftudents go home and pose to their cred
ilous sisters and sweethearts as heroes
if bloody combats
g The moving picture revelations are
rowing most fatal of all; because the
ffenders were genuine corps students;
md a whole corps was implicated. This
1as the Heidelberg "Cheruskia'' corps.
|ln organization which particularly prides
self on its sensitive and chiyalrous honor
]tandard. For the base sum of 1925 each,
Two '.Cheruskia' students repaired to the
f1oving picture factory and fought a fierce
tmensur'' duel, ending in a sanguinary
.abfuhr.' An "abfuhr' is the end of the
fuel through the wounding of one COM
1atant. While the moving picture ma
hine whizzed and ratified, the brave lads
arved up one anothe,es faces in the
lnest style; and the ''paukdoktor' sewed
10 the wounds. The whole "Cheruskia'
Iorps stood round. quite as in a genuine
1uel: and was taken into the picture
| This incident has made first-rate aca-
4emic scandal. The 'Cheruskians" make
lhe excuse that the two duellists We're
Remembers, not present members, of the
4orps; and they swear that the 50-odd
ftudents who attended had nothing to
70 with the business, but accidentally
happened to be in the moving picture
Factory when the duel was fought" This
obvious lie has not improved things. for
love of truth is one of the principles of
tferman student corps life. Two other
ttudent corps the '"Teutonia" and 'Zaer-
ingia," now denounce the ..Cheruskians'
Is base and unworthy comrades; and tha
k-oburg IL. Co. which is a union OF
1iifferent corps, has expelled the "Cherus-
HANS for four terms. 1.-The "Cheruskia''
Auellists say that the moving picture pro-
brietor did not par up the promised $12l
ZACH.
/ Instead the whole "Cheruskia" corps
has had to pay the moving picture man
10 destroy the films. Naturally the
tcanda1 is first rate; and naturally the
honorable institution of the "mensur'
Is badly imperilled.
The painless scars revelations has
hea1t the .'mensur" another blow.
Mensur" duels are mainly fought for
The sake of the scars. In after life
a he scar is a patient of nobility; II
shows the world at sight that the man
with the ridge on his cheek went to
\ university and was member of a
selrists when they start their official
Dareers. Few German administrators
bf note are without scar, big or
Amall This fact encourages falsifica-
lion. Cynics say that men who were
hever at universities fake" their scars.
But nobody dares to suggest that a
kenuine university student who had
fair chance to get scar in fight would
descend to taking. And now the con-
ksary Il proved. A Hamburg doctor pro-