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DECORATION FOR DOMESTIC SERVANTS KRUPPSCANDAL EMBARRASSES ARMY El AS THE CAM ERA -RECORDS INTERESTING PEOPLE AND PLACES IN FAR CORNERS OETHE WORLD u - ;, - ,-, Tr : : ; , -f . : M- FOR RIGHT SOLUT - Italians Are on Right Track', Declares Signorina .Bianca . Palucci, ' v ; New Order, Catering to Char acteristic Love of Distinc tion, Effective October I. ALBANIA PRESENTS DIFFICULT PROBLEM RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT FOSTERS DRINK NEWS FROM FOREGN CAPITALS FEMINIST PROBLEM IN FRENCH GOVERNMENT PROVIDES DECORATION ION FOR HOUSE SERVANTS I, By Henry Wood. 1 ftlnlltit L'reHH luaed Wlra.l . Rome. 8ept. 6. Italy will be the -first country in the world to solve success fully the present humanity-wide probleni of "feminism." The honor, too, will be great, for just as the reorganization of the state was the great problem which i the entire world left to the eighteenth century to solve, so the establishing of the right political, social and Industrial position of woman la the task that the , nineteenth century has inherited from all of its predecessors. This was the declaration today of Signorina Bianca Puuluccl, the highest recognized authority In Italy on the question of lis women. Italy, says Sign orlna Paulucol, has already found the only basis on which the probleni can ever be solved, she has already set her self hard to work at the task, and whlla not a word reaches the outside world of what the women of Italy are doing 10 solve those questions which are making a world-wide' noise iri other countries, they are Bearer their goal' than the women of any other ;vountry. r " Bex Cooperation Essential. lit brief, 'Signorina Pauluecl says that the problem of feminism will never be nolved by the fight now being made by women In other countries to wrest from the men what they declared to be their rights. It will only be solved when both sexes, realizing the Importance of the Question, set themselves jointly tit tin: task and work together harrnonioutly for the best solution of the question. This rhe says is the secret which Italy has discovered, and this is why Italy, before any : other country, will soon have suc cessfully solved the problem. "While on this side and (tie other side of the ocean," said Signorina Paulucci today, "people, arc fighting for ami against women, while they are bringing forth new doclrim-s and new theories mi tlic nature and character of the problem all of which have the fatal error of be ing so absolute that they kill the very end they try to attain, Italy has given pi oof of more common sense. "She has organized a league for the securing and preserving of the rights of women that places for its basis perfect concord and harmony between the two sexes, and that welcomes as members men and women alike. Italians Form Xieague. '"The intelligent women who have been the promoters of this organization, which now represents the entire femin istic movement in Italy, sacrificing vol untarily every personal ambition, have descended to a basis of practical reality, and have believed it wisest to offer the highest positions in the organization to men. This Lulgi Luzzattt, former prime minister, is now its president: Professor C'esare Vlvante, famous scientist, is its secretary, and thus all of its most im portant departments, such as the section for the protection of minors, the section for securing tho right to enter the pro fessions and the government service, as well as the section for the securing of suffrage have at their head some Sen ator, deputy, or other distinguished man. "Perhaps it has been easier to do this in Italy, easier to secure this basis of cooperation of the sexes, than in other countries, for the simple reason that this recognition of woman's rights has exist ed for centuries. Perhaps In no other country of the world has woman enjoyed for so long a time in her private life thai dignity and that recognition of her moral equality which tlie laws have de nied her. and which has enahled her for centuries past to dedicate herself freely to literature, the sciences and other pur suits so largely regarded as the exclu sive field of men." Minister of War's Idea of Em- ployment tor netired Army j Officers Is Derided, Hy Frederick AVerner. IB the inter, intloiiHl News Servlre 1 Berlin, Sept. 6. The German Michel la certainly a very patient and lons-suf-ferlng: person, and so great Is his docil ity that It is not to be wondered that our rulers have come to the ConcTusion that there Is no end to his patience. Our new minister of war, however, went a little bit too far when he expressed the opinion the other day that German mer chants should be proud to offer easy and well paid positions to army officers, whose days of military usefulness had passed. Merohajiti Deride Idea. The minister's Idea, the only ono-he lias had so far, by the way, ,ince he took up office, has been greeted with derision. Our merchants as a whoI; think that they, contribute even now far more than their share' towards the main tenance of the, army, and probably no persons are less fit to fill commercial positions than our officers, whose con nection with the mercantile world has hitherto been limited to seeking put and marrying the daughters "of merchants rich enough to pay their debts. Kaiser Displeased. It is .pretty afe to prophecy 'that the present minister of War will iiot con tinue long in office after this (lad initial blunder, which .lias seriously displeased the kaiser, because It has placed retired officers before the'publlc as beggars to bo saved from the poorhouse by the very people whom they are in the habit of In sulting every day, and because it has given the press, or, at least, part of it, a welcome opportunity tot what the man In the street thinks of tfje character and capacities of our haughty officers. s SOCIALISTS OPPOSED TO PROPOSED BIRTH STRIKE Berlin,. B?epti' 6.r-The Socialists held a meeting" today to discuss the position they should tak against the proposed birth atrike f 'BocjAl 1st women. Rosa GERMAN MERCHANTS DO NOT WANT RETIRED OFFICERS IN EMPLOY lvi -J fiTS'ir J-: iL-, vJr J h,;-;1 h;C4:;' Iff Imm feaswgj. a-. . . . ? mm ''A Photographs copyright by International News Service. Top, left to right The king and queen of Spain, after an afternoon on the sands, 'prepare to motor home. The absence of an armed escort iH George W. Guthrie, United States ambassador to Japan; Mrs. Guthrie and Miss Guthrie on the verandah of the American embassy in Toklo American embassy to meet the emperor. Bottom, left to right Harry G. Hawker, English aviator, who is trying to win the $25,000 prize offered by an English newspaper to anyone the English ana Scottish coasts In a hydro-aeroplane in 72 hours with stops only at nine established controls; Ambassador Uuthrie on his Tokio in the royal carriage, accompanied by an escort of imperial guards. TO PLACE ALBANIA FOOTING Archbishop Sereggi Declares , Work Must Be Done With Discrimination and Tact, n.v Camilla Cianfurra. (Ily the lutiTtiutlonal News Servlro.) Rom, Sepl. 6. Monslgnor Jnmes Se reggi, the Albanian archbishop of Scu tarl, was a recent visitor at the Vat- lean, where he was received by Pope Pius and Cardinal Del al, the papal secretary of state, to whom he made a full detailed report of existing condi tions In the newly born state of Al bania. Later, in a talk, the archbishop said the world must entertain glowing hopen as to the future of,Albania, as it will bo yeai before his unhappy country can enjoy the wessings of civilization State Org-aalxatlon Difficult. According to the archbishop, the or ganization of the stute will bo one of the hardest problems which modern civ ilization has confronted. Whether peace will be restored to that country, and Whether it will be organized in a way that will prevent discord depends whol ly on the spirit with which they under take the extremely delicate task. "Albania, or rather the territory with in the borders fixed for the new nation by the ambassadors' conference in Lon don." Archbishop Serreggi said, "can m compared to a group -of children with whom their tender mother must deal ac cording to their needs, their age and mental development. Will the nations most directly Inter ested in the future of Albania set aside their aspirations for economical and po litical expansion and confine their ef forts to Insuring the welfare of the country?" Scutari la Desolate. The archbishop refused to give his views on the surrender of Scutari to the Montenegrins, saying history would in due time reveal many facts of whlcltthe world is still ignorant. "The old Scutari," he said, "Is now a wilderness of dilapidated buildings and black ruins. The marks of the long siege Will ie visible for years to come, and some of "them Indelible. The cathe dral was hit by 40 shells from siege guns of large caliber. t "Today a ragrged population of men, women and children, impoverished by the last 'sys of Ottoman rule, roams through the ruins helpless from months of suffering." Luxemberg ana Clara Zetkin, the two most famous women leaders of the So clallsta, strongly opposed thei birth atrlke or the proposition to make the question- one of thei big topics !on the program of the party convention, which is to be held on September 14. .Miss Zetkin declared that the reduc tion, of cannon food for the govern ment would, also , effect a reduction of the number of revolutionists.' , . It in dividual families decMe to limit the number ef children, she Bald, it waa a personal matter, but etie waa opposed to making Jt a party policy, V . ;,( ., ON SOUND DIFFICULT PROBLEM El TO BLAME 'FOR EVILS 1T0IATI (United Pre Leaned VT'.re.l St. Petersburg. Sept. ti. Startline proof of the tremendous increase in thO consumption of intoxicants in the past 10 years, and incidentally of the enorm ous financial success of the govern ment's linuor monopoly, Is presn, n'd lr offlclal statistics published today :n connection with the new budget. The liberal press calls It "the drunken bud get.". The annual cule nt' alcohol is stated to have grown from 1 To.ii6o.o6o gallons to 210.000,000 gallons, and it is estimated that In the current year the total Income from this source will be J400.000.000, or more than one-fourth the entire revenue of the empire. When the government monopoly of the sale of spirits was established in 1895. It was confined at first to four governmental departments, but within a decade it has been gradually extended to the whole of Russia, with the excep tion of a half dozen of the smaller out lying provinces. Since the establish ment of this system the government has sold to the people of Russia nearly 3,000,000,000 gallons of vodka alone, and sociollglsts agree that the amazing prevalence of drunkenness and crime among the lower classes is attributable almost solely to this fact.. At the time the government piously announc ilMhat RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT HNT EATING RINK HAGUE PEACE PALACE WHICH WAS DEDICATED if . , , 5 JT W This costly edifice ln.,tbe Dulch : recognized on dedication day , rgrand, crosB of the Order of in taking over tlie liquor business it was a tnated let's by the hope of financial advantage than by moral and hygienic considerations. They said the private sa lnonkeepei s were ruining the people, and that the government must step in and prevent so much Intemperance. Th-; result has been just what oppo nents of the project predicted syste matic alcoholization of the Russian peo ple Graphic Illustration of the system was furnished In the recent official in quiry among school children of Ekater inodar. Out of 5721 pupils it was learned that 3 per cent drank. Of these -5 per cent bad taken to drink at the ae of S; 20 per cent nt the age of 7. and 11 per cent at tin- age of 6, while many were found who had Ueen supplied a steady diet of vodka at 4 years of age. A recent medical congress here as cribed the aldrming spread of mental diseases among all classes to excessive use of intoxicants, and the official jour nal of the ministry of Justice admits that "the general connection of atcotiot Ism and criminality among the mnsses Is becoming evident." Figures are given showing that In districts where the con sumption of spirits is above the average, there is always an Increase in crime. The appalling Increase of suicide also Is attributed to the government's sys tematic alcoholization of the empire, it being almost In direct ratio to the sale of intoxicants. In the past 10 years sui cides have risen from 23 in every mil lion to 35. In larger cities the figures are even more striking. In Moscow in the past six years the number of su! cldis has iniadriipled. and In St. Pete ra iling It has increased from 5 in every 10,'ino inhabitants to 16.4. More than 300 piihlfc school children who are al lowed to buy intoxicants because the government sells them took their lives last year. i. capital is largely the gift of Andrew by Queen ' Wilhelmina in decorating Orange Nassau. , 4 ... ' 1 J" KRUPP SCANDAL IS A TO PRESTIGE (Hy tbo International New Sfrvlee ) Reiiin, Sept. . While the Krupp affair was disposed of by the courts with as little ceremony as possible and while there Is a certain amount of sym pathy with the seven poor fellows who were made scapegoats it cannot be con cealed that nothing has been more harmful to the prestige of German of ficers than this hurried trial, which off ic-laily -demontUrntud tUa fact tha-t German officers with their sensitive and delicate sense of honor did not for a moment hesitate to lie In court. They lied in the most clumsy and barefaced manlier and when It became evident to everybody that they were lying th.y found no other cxcush than that they had olJeyed the Instructions of then lawyers. The Krupp process has added a new chapter to the great novel, "The Cure of Militarism" or "A People In Anns'' a people In arms, indeed, but lo i; l orders for these arms the great firm of Krupp, whoso leaders arc personal friends Of the kaiser, have "lipped" German officers to betray military se crets in order to be able to calculate how much they should ask for these in struments of murder for which the German people are forced to pay thous ands of millions every year. V LAST WEEK Carnegie,, whose munificence was the -American , steel king . with the , 1 OF GERMAN OFFICERS ci.n a notable feature of this picture; just before their departure to the making a lti, 000 mile flight around way to the Imperial Palace in JAPAN LAYING PLANS OF ASIATIC STATES Constant Communication With Neighbors Cited as Evidence of Preliminary Steps, Fly FiJilcrick Worncr. (Br the International Newt Herrtce.l P.erlin, Sept. ti I'nder the heading "Japan's Monroe Iioctrine," the Yoko hama correspondent' 6F a" Berlin" paper has been making some revelations ubout the .Japanese which have not only aroused great Interest here, but which will surely interest Americans even more. The Japanese, he says, are carefully laying the foundation of a great Asiatic empire, a federation of states among which Japan will occupy a position very much similar to that which J'russia occupies within the German empire only even more predominating. With this purpose in view Japan is in con stant and most vivid communication 'who all other Asiatic nations. Recently 18 yikiing Japanese from Honolulu came to Dia Nlhon under the guidance of their teacher. They were given a. most cordial official reception by the Yokohama Chamber of Com merce, at Tokio they were received in a private audience and given valuable presents by the minister of foreign af l aii s. Prom India the famous Hindoo priest Marmapal.i is on his way to Japan to participate in a memorial festival In honor of i he late mikado in the Shofo kutsi temple ill Tokio. An official Jap anese commission has Just returned from China, wln-re it lias been studying social .nd economic conditions and sim ultaneously a number of members of the Japanese senate have been Investi gating political onditinus in the heav enly republic and making preparations for :. Chino-Jupaticse entente or alli ance. A very larfce number of Japanese men of war are stationed- along t lie coast of China and a Japanese general Is study ing military conditions In the southern provinces of China. LORD R0SEBERY AND QUEEN MARY RULE KING I . ndon, Sept. .6. Inrd liosebery has popped in a way rather disconcerting to the members of the British cabinet. When King Ueorge went to Balmoral, Lord Hoscbery was not even in Scot land, yet he arrived at Balmoral only a few hours after the king. He remained there more than a week, ilu'ring which time the king dispensed with the attendance of members of the cabinet. This, Is the first time that a "prominent unofficial" politician haa been at Unlmoral to the, exclusion o all the king's -responsible advisers 'but Lord Kosebery is now -regarded as the real keeper of the king's conscience. - It Is significant that his visits are rarely mentioned in the court circular. It la truly said that the British throne is now ocoupled by a trinity of which the members are the king, the U ueen and Lord Kosebery. In the order of their Importance many would arrange them as the queen. Lord Rosebery and the king; There Is little doubt ' that Queen Mary in her quiet way la one of tbomoat masterful women In Europe. ; 1 FOR IG FEDERATION Ity George Iufrwne. (Bj tlie International Ner Herrlra.) Paris, Sept. !. No people In the world, I am sure, are as madly in love with decorations and orders as we Parisians, and all of us who are not fortunate enough to have been decorated are pain fully conscious of a yearning for a cross, a star, vr even a modest ribbon. The government, knowing this, la most lav'sh with tlie decorations It haa power to bestow; but, as it cannot pos sibly make every one of us a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, It has Just In stituted a new order, and. as our gov ernment is a democratic one, It Is only proper that the new order should be in temled for the humblest class of cit izens, the servants, who, by the way, are no more humble here than anywhere eise in the world, where thev know that they are really our masters. Hut, anyway, we have now a new dec or.it ion for this privileged class, which we sincerely hope will prompt them to give up llieir present custom of leaving us without notice. Decoration for Domertlca. The degree instituting the new order of Distinguished Domestic fervlce pro vides, according to a law passed, appar ently unpercelved last July, that all do mestic servants who have faithfully performed the duties of their estate, ai.d whose conduct is irreproachable, shall receive a medal like the one be- .1 .... 1 1 folO,fnt .l.rlra -hnn .. - sistants. and commercial employes gen erally. This will entitle them further more, to wear a trl-colored ribbon In their buttonholes. The conditions for obtaining the dec oration are the following: The appli cant must have served in the same house or family for a period of 30 years, and must have earned the commenda tion of their mHsters or mistresses. If they have not been able to serve in tho same family or house, they may, never theless, obtain the ribbon, If it was not their own fault. Certain Exceptlona Made. Servants may exceptionally receive the distinction if they have been only 20 years in service, if during that period they have regularly paid a certain fee to the national pension fund, or belonged lo a mutual aid society, or an approved insurance organization. Thirdly, they may obtain the distinction if they hav brought up four children or more until the age of IS. Finally, no time-limit whatever is necessary if the servant, male or female, has rendered exception al or heroic service to the family to whom they are attached, or have given proof of extraordinary devotion and fi delity. A circular has been sent to all pre fects by the ministry of labjjr to call thHr attention to this decree, and it wili be Incumbent on them to collect the names of those entitled to the distinc tion in their respective districts. Thn first promotion to the Distinguished Do mestic Service Order will be made on October 1 this year. PiCCADILLY FLAT CASE L Question Raised by Keir-Har-die Creates Furore in House. ' of Commons, Hy Phillip Everett. (By the luternatlonnl News Serrlce.) London. Sept. 6. There have often been times when proceedings In tha house of commons have been almost un bearably dull and respectable, but no one can say of the session which ended tho other day that it has been lacking- In sensations, or even in scandals as far as we ever have scandals In this coun try. In this respect, as in many others, we are gradually loslny our old-fashioned insularity and scenes have taken place at Westminster during the last ' few months which have been almost as lively as any of the Hungarian or French parliaments. At the very end of the session, before we had quite forgotten the Marconi muddle a new scandal threatened to crop up, and was only avoided by the firm attitude of Mr. McKenna. I refer to the so-called Piccadilly flat case, out of wiileh sensation loving Tory papers tried to make political capital. Insinuat ing that the immortal flat in question was under government protection, Juat as houses of ill fame are said to be un der police protection In New Ygrk. Mr. McKenna's open answer declar ing that no member of either the gov renment of the hourie of commons were Implicated in the affair put an end to the attempts of the sensational press to create another political scandal; but ru mors now began to circulate that high and nobie personages were involved, to whom the arrested woman had acted a procuress, .and immediately a labor, member, Mr. Keir Hardie, jumped up . and asked the minister if he were will ing to. declare that no names of noble lords had been found among the evi dence, a question which the mlnlater skillfully avoided answering, leaving,:;, probably ' very much against bis Inten tion, the bouso of lords under a cloud of suspicion. That the question will come up again later Is beyond any doubt, especially, as It is now said that the woman who w4 convicted of running an Illegal reaort. and who was aupposed to be serving hrr sentence. Is walking about freely. In the meantime we ars assured that snore of people of our htgheet aristoc racy, and among thsas even a duke, ars -living In a state of terror and hardly dare look at their morning papers, last they discovert that tbeir crimet hava been found, out, Admiral Ostcrhaua VmK Father. Berlin. Sept. Rear Admiral llual Osterh&uft, United fcttats navy, was tit Uerlla recently with his wlfa, .frofu south Germany. The admiral ramw Kurops primarily to, visit Ms r''t father, whom ha found hale and vl -'tr out deaplt his (1 years. S VERY FINE MATERIAL ONDON GOSSIPS J v : ' :. 'V-' ' " .- x.i