Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-22


takes a deep interest. People who
know Oskar best predict that he will
be heard from in any future war Ger
many may have. He will be twenty
six years old in July. while his bride is
just a half year older. She enjoys
the double distinction not only OF
having been born in the year when the
Emperor assembled the throne, but on
his birthday, January q.
Too many university students is the
odd complaint being voiced in both
Germany and Austria.
The trouble in Berlin and Germany
as a whole concerns the medical stu
dents mainly. The flood of them
has grown so rapidly that the minis
try of education is puzzling ove3
some way to lessen 1t. Two or three
remedies have been proposed. one O
which Is to limit the number of for
eign students at each university. This
would be an extension of rules pro
mulgated a year ago. A large in
crease in entrance and tuition fees
and a raising of the standards of ad
mission have also been suggested. The
recent contentious between physi
clans on the one side and state insur
ance boards on the other have showr
how overcrowded the medical profes
sion In Germany is.
In Austria, the complaint is general
The Associated Press correspondent /
Vienna reports that Professor Wett
stein, rector of the University Of
Vienna, in a recent appeal to the Aus
trian Diet for funds for a studentsI
home, declared that scores of studenti|
were living under such conditions Of
poverty that they were half starved
and sometimes without shelter. III
some instances, he said, the studen
was unable to go to his room at q!
during the day as it was used as i
workshop. They were actually FORCED
to spend their spare time in cafes ane
cheap restaurants.
The overcroWded conditions. AMI
the strife for education among yount|
men who are quite unable to meet tn /
expense of 1t even by working Will
at college, are reported throughout
Austria. The cause of 1t is said Il
be the competition for government
positions. 1t is frequently said tina
tories for turning out state officials
and the latter are increasing at
rapid rate. The professions. too, ar
overcrowded, and 1t is the experience
of many men who have struggle
through university course againsl
tremendous handicaps to find thai
when once equipped with a PROBES
sional education they still face man
years of hardship before they reaiiz
comfortable living.
When the Atlantic Pool conference
renews its deliberations in London
August 9Th, it will still, notwithstandil
ing its earlier sessions in Berlin, Lon
don and Cologne, find itself facing on
problem which is apparently no near
er solution now than at the close q
| the first meeting of the conference
This is the attitude of the British line
doing business with Canada as to thei]
quota under any renewal Of the ex
listing pool. The present agreemen
! which expired January LIST last, ha
| been renewed until the London con
ference, but failure to reach an agree
ment there would mean the end of tn
pool.
The Canadian lines demand, 1t II
learned, that their Canadian business
of the last five years be taken as IN
basis for the quota to be assisne
| them. This business, however, ha
fallen off sharply in the last year
dropping, in fact, to fifty per cent. e
the former figure, and the other mem
bers of the pool object to any diyisio
of business that does not take thl
decline into account. Director Bali
of the Hamburg American Line pro
posed that the half of the five-yea
! average be taken as a basis for recK
oning the Canadian lines quota, VIII
the proviso that as soon as this busl
ness should show an increase OF twenS
" per cent the lines in question shoul
be entitled to revision OF theia
quotas upward.
| Representative of the Cunard Lin
advise the acceptance of this proposal
The Canadian representatives the
asked for time to consider, which wa
granted by the conference adJournlne
The Emperor has given anothe8
proof of his versatility by designing
fountain for Homburg, near FRANK
fort ON the Main, where the Empress
is accustomed to spend several week
each wear. The municipal authorize
of Homburg were about to open
competition for design for TN
Elizabeth Springs. when the Empero
heard of it and he himself drew de
sign which is now being carried out b
a Berlin sculptor. 1t will represent
Greek altar, from which the waite
gushes worth, while above STANDS 1
nymph with outstretched hands.
The Emperor also designed the pa
yilion now standing over the Kaiser
In Auguste Victoria springs In HON
burg, personally drawing the plan
and following their carrying out Wit
warm interest.
The Crown Prince is initiating hi
father in one respect-that of takin
a deep interest in things not I'm
mediately connected with his futur
career as ruler of Germany. His mrs
book was devoted to his hunting ad
ventures in various countries; ans
lust now it has become known that n,