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Show GERIII ARMY DUliATES AGAIIIST JEW An Unwritten Military Law . Prohibits Hebrews From Becoming Oficers.. BERLIN, June . Oermaa Jewish organisations have undertake a campaign cam-paign against - the . unwritten military law, prohibiting .Jew from becoming officer ia the Prussian army. A resolution, reso-lution, unanimously adopted by two leading Jewish orgsaixations, ths Union of German Jews nnd the Cen tral Aesoeiatioa of Oermaa Citixena of Jewish Faith, at a meeting at Fraak-fort-on-Maia reads: "Contrary to the ewsteoa ef all other civilised states, soldiers of the Jewish faith ia the Prussian army are at a disadvantage, ia the matter of promotion, promo-tion, aa compared to Christiana aad the Christian sons of Jewish parents. The assembly protests against this condition con-dition aa unconstitutional and illegal, and expresses the hope that the competent com-petent .-authorities will succeed in abolishing this abameful and oppressive injustice and in bringing about tha fulfillment ful-fillment of the law.,r Though considerable inroads already have been made oa the traditional view, which regarded the higher poets in the army and the commissions in the better regimeate ns the prerogative preroga-tive of the German nobility, immediate favorable action oa the resolution above set forth is not regarded probable. . War Against Long Hatpin. The Berlin Elevated Bailways company com-pany has joined with the Consolidsted Berlin Street railways and the prefect of police ia the warfare against the projecting hatpia, posting ia the ears aa order that women passe a gets with long hatpins must place a protective fuard over the end of projecting pins, a spite, however, of the orders and the warnings of the supposedly all powerful prefect of police that women endangering the safety of others by long hatpina would render themselvee subject to arrest, ao abatement of the menace ,eaa be notieed aad accidents from this source - are eonataatly reported re-ported ' A dangerous but successful balloon landing is reported from Altoona. where the aeronaut, Wilson, fearing that hia balloon would be driven by aa adverse wind into the River Elbe, whieh is very broad at Altoona, sleeted te eome down fa the middle of the city. He pulled the rlpeord when the balloon was above the city flahmarket; seating down eaeeeeefully and eefelr amid the fish dealer ia the uaeevered square, ma Bide to Monte. Tha aquestnian who exercise early every morning on the riding paths of the Tiergarten, Berlin's centra park, are to have an additional attraction in the shape of military music provided for them by order of the emperor, who himself, when in Berlin, takes aa early morning gallop there every fine day. A band from one of the reayment of the guard ia to be stationed in future at the Hippodrome, a circular open spaee surrounded sur-rounded by a tan bark path, where a dozen riding paths emerge from all directions. di-rections. Here ovary morning gather hundreds of officers of the general staff, aaxious to preserve their waistline while detailed de-tailed for office work in the capital, together to-gether with active retired officials taking tak-ing their "constitutional," ladies with their attendant grooms, and many pro-fessional pro-fessional men, such aa beakers, lawyers, law-yers, doetera and actors, who indulge in this form of exercise in order to counteract the effect of their sedentary seden-tary occupations. The emperor is usually usu-ally accompanied by a considerable number of attendants, including his principal aide-de-camp, the chief of the roval stable, two or three personal orderly or-derly officers, a bodyguard of eevera! gendarmes, and a number of grooms. Compulsory Physical Trainllng. A scheme of compulsory physical training for the municipal officials of Sehoenberg hss just been introduced by Herr Dominicus, the newly appointed lord mavor of the beautiful western suburb of Berlin, in order to counteract the evil effects of their long hours of desk work. All ths yonnger officials are greeted an hour 'a leave oa one day every week, during which tkev nre put through a course of athletic exercises in ths playground of - one of the city schools under the direction" of the school's gymnastic instructor. Every official ia expected to participate ia the trailing if the medical officer reports him phvsicallv fit to undergo the exertion, exer-tion, aad regular attendaace ia compulsory. compul-sory. . Herr Dominicus, who waa formerly in chargs of the eveaing continuation school ia Strasshnrg, effected by a similar sim-ilar scheme a vast smount of improvement improve-ment in the health of the seholsrx. He first stsrted gvmnastie elssses for the tailors' apprentices, who. he considered, consid-ered, by reason of the close confine ment of their oeeuoation, stood most in need of physical training, with suck excellent ex-cellent results that the master shoe-makers shoe-makers cam and requested him to do the same for their vouns? workers. He fore be left Ptraesburg Herr Dominicus hsd the satisfsetioa of seeing physical instruction made compulsory for the scholars of all the continuation schools ia the city, whieh all bova are compelled com-pelled to attend until their eighteenth year, aad he haa already secured its partial introduction ia the Schoenberg continuation schools. Polo Buying Land of German. The perennial struggle between Oct. maox and Pole, for the ownership of ths soil in the caster provinces of Prussia fiads a striking illustration in the fart, just made public, that about 42.500 acres of lead in the provinces of Poeen, East and West Prussia, aad 8ileia have passed from Oermaa into Palish hand withia a veer. This occurs twestv five years after tb Prussia a government iastign rated its great ays-tern ays-tern of colon in ng iirrmaaa ia the Polish provinces, a nolirv that haa eeet soms thirg tike $O,t)0O.000. - - The efforts of the gwvement have beea partly counteracted by Polish ae-tivitv ae-tivitv ia buvicg mad. T here are special Polish basks for sssisusg Pole ia ac quiring parcel of land, nnd tbeir work ha been so effective thst for some veers mast of the land bought bv ths Pruseiaa settlement commission for dividing up nmong German peasants hss beea ae quired from Germans themselves. Ia order to enable the commission to carry forward ita settlement plans ia a systematic sys-tematic wsv aad extend the borders of Oermsn settlements already established, the diet, or Prussian legislators, passed ia 1908 a law nermitting the commission te disposes Polish landholders, within eertaia limits, eader ths Isw of eminent domain- This law, however, haa sever been enforced. The continued acquiai tiou of Oermaa lan da bv Poles has called forth a strong demand that it be put lata operatioa at esce. |