The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-31
BERLIN news LETTER

Berlin, Jan. 31.-Criminals generally
turn out to be towards on the battle
field, according to observations in the
cases Of 225 men with Jail Or prison
sentences in their record made during
the campaign of Italy in Tripoli by
DR.. Consiglio, chief of staff surgeon
with the Italian army and reported in
a German medical paper. DR.. Con-
siglio says:
The abnormal mar is unfit for
m~ethodically disciplined effort in times
Of peace. In war, where the demands
Of discipline and the strain of sys-
tematic preparations increases, he dis
plays invariably ooner or later a re-
action against his surroundings, which
manifests itself chiefly in morbid lack
Of discipline, disobedience, insubordi-
nation or even desertion. The moral
strain and the violent manifestations
OF war induce in such men physical
disturbances, ~excitative crises. hys-
teric and eplleptic attacks and acute
insanity. They lack the possibility
respond to the multiple demands Of
the instant and to the continued
physical and intellectual strain.
while the habitual criminal, al
though impulsive and aggressive to-
ward superiors and comrades, gener-
ally is cowardly in battle, there are
among the occasional criminals, those
who have gone wrong through drink
or love of adventure, many who dis
tlnguish themselves in warfare. But
even these relapsed regularly into
breaches of discipline and were USE
less for ordered effort.
The soldier adapted to modern
warfare capable of continued effort,
able to retain his cool presence of
mind In battle, is a man who has
shown himself in time of peace to be
an able, we'll disciplined citizen. The
line seems to be past when the blind
courage Of adventurer, unconscious Of
danger, constitutes an especially valu-
able element in deciding the fate of
nations
Claims Of the German army officer
to the possession Of a higher grade Of
personal honor than that of the ordi-
nary civilian, emphasized in so many
ways since the Zabern affair, and to a
certain preferential treatment before
the law is found to have recognition
in the police regulations Of Cologne,
and 1t is probable that an interpella-
ton will be brought in the Diet ask
ing whether similar police regulations
are in force in other cities in PruS-
STA.
In Cologne the policeman renders
himself liable to punishment if he dis
regards "the consideration due the
military calling" In cases Of mis-
demeanor he is, under no circum-
stances, to arrest an officer, "since it
is more cOnsonant with the general
interest that a violation of police
ordinances remain for the time I'm
punished and be later the subject of a
reprtmant than that a conflict should
be occasioned between officers and
police officials"
An officer may be arrested for
felony, but wen in this case the
policeman is empowered to leave the
offended at liberty. The police Off
Gals must consider carefully that in
arrestlng an officer they are not deal
ing merely with a person, but that by
the compromising of the officers uni
form of the army of his majesty the
KING is involved, and that only extra
ordinary circumstances justify such
an arrest and abSolVe the policeman
for it." 1t is wen provided that MEM
bers of the so-called vice-squad whose
duty 1t Is to control women of, the
streets, shall not modest such women if
these are in the company Of officers.
DoAS HlHSI VI bIuuS"lCk, SOu~lu-
law of Emperor William and two
months a sovereign, has lost no time
IN starting a career of palace building.
One new place for which designs are
now ready is. planned as a summed
residence for the duke and Princess
Victoria Luise and will stand in a
magnificent forest belonging to him
near Brunswick city. Another place
near Bl~ankenburg will be rebuilt for
a hunting seat. The dukes building
activity Is probably due in part to
rivalry with the crown prince, whose
protest against allowing Ernst
August to ascend the throne Of Bruins
wick has not been forgotten. The
crownprince and crownprincess are
now building a residence at Potsdam,
but Ernest August, with his great per-
sonal fortune, will be able to eclipse
this.
The town Of Friedrichshafen. on the
German side of Lake Constance has
decided to commemorate Count Yep
pelin's 18th birthday by founding a
museum to show everything available
concerning aerial navigation by dirigi-
Bile balloons. Many Of Count zappelin's
manuscripts, drawings from books,
and reduced models Of his airships
will be placed on exhibition. Count
Zeppelin made his first balloon ascen-
sion in, the United States during the
Civil war.
The Swiss estate of August Bebel,
the late German socialist leader, has
been appraised by the tax office at
Zurich at, $780, 600. He had other
property in Germany probably worth
$4,000. The terms Of his will have not
been made public.
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