The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-02

gArtiCfc obviously FROM an AuthOri-
~ tative Source-Says II William II ad
Been Born Eaborer He Might Have
Persisted as Tramp-Worries Other
Crowned Heads.
Significant indeed are the signs of
the times when the most resolute of
junkers and most loyal Of monarchists
seriously and publicly discuss the
question of William Won Iiohenzol-
lern's sanity. For many years, indeed
ever since early in his reign, oppo-
nents have impugned his sanity. They
have recalled the acknowledged strain
of insanity which showed itself In for
mer generations of his family and
have also stressed the well-known fact
that for nearly all his life he has suf-
fered from Il chronic and most severe
affection of the ear, which might read
lily involve lesion of the brain. But
now ii is not his foes but his friends
who are saying these things.
The most sensational o. such ut
terances appears in that stanchest
of monarchist papers, the "Beriner
Staatsbuerger Zeitung," which gives
conspicuous place to a communication
obviously from an important and au-
thoritative source. In part it follows
"A mere layman is generally quite
incapable of detecting any mental de-
rangement, or, if he does perceive it,,
of giving the sufferer suitable treat
ineflt. When SEINE twenty years ago,
/ visited an asylum for the insane in
the Rhenish provinces, and was shown
by the director through all his wards,
/ was SO strangely affected that actu-
ally began to doubt my own mental
sanity, and finally asked if there really
existed any mentally normal men.
The director was open to conviction.
1t seemed as though he had expected
my question or as though he himself
had often thought of it. incidentally,
ten years later he himself became in
sane.) He replied that perfectly nor
NAL men were in fact very rare. But
to this circumstance he attached little
Importance. In the world there go
about men who, though abnormal, are
not suspected of insanity. Confined
In the asylums are the patients who
are dangerous to the community |
though some of them may seem sane.
THAT the violent insane are danger |
Gus to the community needs no de- |
tailed explanation. Many patients
need only the temporary care Of an
asylum.
The Ex-kaiser's Mania.
The ex-kaiser suffers from psyche
pathic vagans, or travelling mania. An
internal unrest urged him to lead d
vagrant life. Men afflicted with this
disease are not capable of performing
heir duties in regulated work. Had
William been born as laborer he
night have persisted as tramp. AS
member of the middle class he could
AVE become, under certain circum-
tances, a capable commercial trav-
Ter. His abnormality became danger
us for the community only through
he circumstance that, in accordance
18th tradition and usage. he had to
dept the calling of his father and
Fad the destinies of a people Of co.
10000, which he was not able at all
do. That the thing went wrong was
ally not his fault, but the fault of
e monarchiaT German constitution,
h1ch does not intrust the direction of
e reich to the most capable but TO
e man designated by birth.
when the ex-kaiser fled to Holland
S passion moved him to disregard
areX. with his big travelling auto !,
lobile holland is little country
nd the imperial car ran at a speed of {
0 kilometers anshollr- and the i'm |
erial horn signal sounding every- 5
here made the Hollanders nervGls 2
he Dutch government thereupor. a
'ithout moments hesitation, in u
srned the kaiser III its Amerongen e
astIe. The order for confinement was
automatically made, for the alleged J
aason that only in this way could the $
'utch government assure the kaiser's |
lfety The confinement TO the prem /
es of the castle was for the patient II
le hardest blow of his life Since r
rem he has spent great part of the o
ay roaming about in the wood and in "
re meadows, or reading books of G
'avel 50 as to procure for himself
Institute for his passion. c;
Nut on Travelling. W
Travelling was to such IL degree C
xed idea of the kaiser tint when af 81
hrs of state ar the fact that there ca
as no one 10 be visited, made travel r.
& impossible TO him he sometimes al
Used night IN his parlor ear, which de
God in the railroad preserve, only five dl
inutes from his new palace. under III
e pref ext that he had to he in Berlin al
an Impossible hour the next morn tn
e At the beginning nf the summer 70
rs lie INDUCED inlthis strange SO
huntil one evening in June~the M
>a,ld tlip conn 2p ~ flen no wi