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Baron Inveighs Against Der
lin Night Life, Citing
London as Example.
DIPLOMATS CANNOT
WE'D FOREIGNERS
BY STEVE BURNETT.

~ ERLIN, Germany March 14-The
X Prussian Landtag has never been
very popular body in Berlin.
dominated as it is by reactionary
Junkers, and it has now become more
hated than ever since it has placed a
TAX on all announcements and more re-
Gently made an attempt to read a cur
tain lecture on Berlin's gay mode of
living and even to pass a curfew law.
The average Ber1iner is a jolly crea-
ture, as fond Of gaiety as any human
being in existence, and for some years
ii has been his ambition to make his
city the pleasure resort of Europe. That
ne has succeeded even beyond his wild
est expectations is plain to everybody
VINO visits Berlin, for not even Paris or
budapest can boast Of night life SIM
llar TO that Of Friedrichsstrasse and.
inter den Linden.
IN Paris il is the foreign visitors
VINO crowd the all night cafes and
caDarets, while the Partisan himself
goes quietly home after his aperitif or
aIter his dinner demi tasse, but IN
Berlin the natives themselves turn
night into day and burn the candle at
DoLn ends This fact aroused the anger
on the members of the diet and a GER
tam baron Schenk Zu SchWeinsosrg the
OIher Gay delivered laundering philip-
plea against our immoral habits, which
resulted In our legislators adopting a
police to exercise their fun authority
10 save US from utter moral destruc-
Lion.
Praises LOndOn's Morals,
England the baron said. sets an ex-
ample to all Europe which can do no
better than to follow in her footsteps
lie then gave glowing description Of
the moral atmosphere of London where
everybody is in bed an hour after mid
night, because no restaurant is allowed
10 keep open after half past twelve.
.nm Nnanun - Co.
on expenses, providing he would go to
London and visit a previously prepared
list OF night clubs and truthfully re-
port on them in a public speech upon
his return to Berlin.
50 Tar the baron has not accepted and
II IS quite certain that before another
month has passed we shall hear moth
ING more OF proposed curfeW regula- Z
Mons. The authorities are fully aware 1
LhaI the surest way Of driving the
people OF Berlin wild is to try to Inter
1ere with their amusements. which .
are, aIGer all more strenuous than
harmful or immoral
Diplomats Can't Marry FOreirners,
prompted by mis- fear that American
wives OF German diplomats might cause
Lhelr husbands to betray to them inn I
porJant affairs Of state herr Won Kid :
erleu- Waechters secretary Of foreign
.tLLalrS caused a law to be passed for /
bidding German diplomats to marry
foreign girls. The law is still on the
statute books and has just claimed its
Won WesendOnk, secretary to the Ger
man legation at Tangier. He is a de-
scendant Of the woman whose love in
splred Richard Wagner to compose his
Tristan and Isolde" He has become
engaged to the daughter of the Portu-
guese minister to Morocco. Herr Won
W esendonk. who was reminded of the
existence of the law forbidding his mar
rage by the foreign department. i'm
nediately resigned, but he viii not suf-
Pr, for the kaiser has ordered that an /
)ther position be made for him in the /
)ffice Of the secretary Of the colonies.
Fortunes Growing.
In the future, Germans who have al
ways been very eager to criticize
American milliOnaires who made false
ffidavits as to their financial position
n order to escape paying their full {
hare Of taxes viii probably keep silent {
or 1t appears that the honesty of our
is about on a par with f
hat of their American brethren. '
The authorities had long suspected
his and when the time came to collect ! i
he first instalment of the supertax for T
he increase Of the army and navy, Z {
hey were shreWd enough to promise a S
ull pardon to all persons who have IN o
he past deceived them as to the size o
f their fortune and income. T.
The result has been astonishing I k
rom practically every city and town t