Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1929, Page 14

MOMRHY OPES INGERUANY WK (TDefeat of Law Against Kaiser’s Return Due to Petty Squabbles. By Radic to The Star. | BERLIN, July 6.—The failure of the so-called defense of the republic law) to obtain in the Reichstag recently a two-thirds majorigy needed for its pro- longation may perhaps be tagen too| seriously abroad. The defeat of this| measure indicates no revival of the| sentiment for the restoration of the| monarchy in Germany, but is solely to be attributed to petty party squabble.: It is true no legal restrictions stand be- | tween Wilheim and his return to thel fatherland from Holland after July 22 Nevertheless, the {ormer Emperor is €x-| MRS. FRANK R. DAVIS ceedingly unlikely to take ‘his step, for| Of 8610 Fifih street, council seeretary his reappearance in this country would be welcomed by no party and would likely result in bis losing what small| remnant of politieal support he still| enjoys in the Reich. | The defense of the republic law was| an exceptional measure, passed at a time of nighest political excitemest, | after the assassination of Walter Rath- enau in June, 1922, when it seemed highly unlikely that the German re- public ‘would long survive that great statesman’s death. But this law, i'ke the Monroe Doctrine, has live its raison d'etre fundementally The defense of the republic law was originally passed to defend the Weimar cBnstitutionn from attacks of the mon- archists. It is now chiefly used to suppress Communist and Facist plots for the dictatcrship. It is :ndeed open | to question vhether such a law de-| serves to be kept alive after Germany | again attains a period of relative “nor- maley.” The principal argument raised in its favor is that it svpplias a cefect of the ordinary .aw, *hich does 1ot| provide for the punishment of insults | and abuse cast on the republic and its officials. This loop will be covered in| new penal code, which is ow s:0wly being drafted. Would Extend Law. The Mueller cabinet has proposed to extend the defense of the republic | law for three more years, after which | it was thought that the penal code would have completed rendering un- necessary any exceptional —measures | such as those passed after ‘Rathenau’s| death. As, however, the defense of the | republic law effected a constitutional change, it required a two-thirds ma- jority in the Reichstag. The coalition parties in the German Chamber themselves could not muster sufficient | votes. It was necessary to call on the Economic party for aid. This party, representing the small shopkeepers, | while unrepresented in the coalition, has generally assumed an attitude of benev- olent neutrality toward the government. The Economic party refused to agree | to prolong the law for three years, but | undertook to support it if it extended only until the end of 1930. The govern ment accepted the compromise, and eordingly the bill secured the required | two-thirds on its second reading in the | Reichstag. Between that division and | the third reading, however, the govern- | ment introduced a bill putting a tax on | homesteads. This angered the Eco- | nomie party, which endeavored to black- | mai! the cabinet by withdrawing sup- | rt for the defense of the republic | aw unless the objectionable bill was taken back. The government declined to be bullied, however, and on this in- significant party disagreement the de- fense of the republic law after seven years of existence went down to de- feat on the third reading. New Defense Bill Planned. Minister of the Interior Severing an- | nounced that when the Reichstag as. sembles again, probably in August, a new bill for the defense of the repub- lic will be introduced. But this will be without the famous “Kaiser paragraph.” and therefore will need only a simple majority for its passage through the Reichstag. The revised measure will not be pointed l{llflll the monarchy— the ex-Kaiter will be as free then as | apparently he is now to return to Ger- many—but against the specter of dic- tatorship as conjured up by and Hitler. Not Bourbonism, lcomism, seems to be lominant in the Socialist party in Ger- many today. This fear finds expression again in the Socialist speeches. Otto Wels, party chairi annbunced at the Socialist party congress in Magde- | burg, in May, that if there is going to be any dictatorship in Germany it was the Socialists who are going to do the dictating. The Prussian minister of the interfor, Grzeximki, declared at Frank- furt am Main last week that if it came to a dictatorship in Germany it would | be formed by trades unions and the Republican Reich's banner society, and actually threatened that the enemies of the republic would be strung up on a lamp-post. Dr. Stresemann. in his Reichstag speech a week , pointed enviously to the spectacle of Mr. Hen- derson anq Sir Austen Chamberlain fointly recelving Ambassador Dawes at the Pilgrims’ banquet in London as an example he wished they would follow in Germany. He might, perhaps, have gone further and pointed to the habit of defcated presidential candidates in the United States congratulating their victorious rival as something tha ht fitably copied in Germany’s pub- lie life. For here the party defeated at the polls starts talking ominously of sett up a dictatorship by and this, in turn, leads to counter threats of lamp-post hangings. (Copyrisht, 1929.) o Golf has become so popular in Lon- of the Washington Y. been designa to | fag_ telephone facilities. | witng amounted to more than 1,000,- W. C. A, has represent the nine local chapters of the association at the annual national cor’crence of the Y. w. at Sliver Bay, N. Y. Mrs. Davis will leave Lsre fomorrow for the meeting. She {8 past president of ;flz{:'e%-‘rhm of the Washington LUMBER FIRM HEAD DIES BY OWN HAND §. Pickens Anderson Kills Himself in Plant Garage at Charleston, 8. C. By the Associated Pres CHARLESTON, 8. C, July 6—8. Pickens Anderson, 55, president of the Anderson Lumber Co., and Anderson Spool and Bobbin Manufacturing Co., died today in Baker Sanatorium as the result of a self-inflicted pistol wound. Shortly after 11 o'clock this m members of the office staff heard a shot in the garage of the plants and found Mr. Anderson in a critical condition. He was taken to the sanatorfum, but died in & short while. 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Waugh, the ear and throat March, was away when the Cleveland | B“nn’rce'. h' bl“l“enuofl by the L ) Wi y :lool:::ngt X-ray films stored in the their lives in that fire, Dr. Waugh said today, were 20 physicians with whom | he had been associated, and he still | feels the keenly. A valuable col- | lection of his research data was burned he sald, and as the records cannot be he regards their destruction T UNITED STATES and scientists throughout on problem of isolating collections of X-ray films so that they wotld be safe from fire. In Edinburgh, he said, an investigation of the subject was un within 24 hours after the Cl nd fire and similar steps were taken in Paris, Vienna and else- where. This wi he observed, per- hmtg‘u only good springing from the Dr. Waugh said that the amount of sickness which he observed in the Balkan Staf in ly Vienna, was 3 e Austrian people, he said, are suffering widely from malnutrition. Foodstuffs ordina- rily supplied by Hu are lacking. The women and children of Austria are el ted, he said, bel on the E‘,’,‘“‘ starvation, and conditions in | ngary, Jugoslavia and adjacent | countries are hardly better. Dr. Waugh observed that tuberculos! is of the throat was _prevalent lln all the EBuropean countries he visited. Sees Soviet Trend. If relief is not afforded in some | ding was ruined by way, he asserted, the malnutrition in | reached $26,127,375.91. Austria will progress to a stage where | . | department from the first six months Among the many who lost |it will affect the mental condition of | of this year, recel%u always | crease of more t the people, as under-feeding doss. The mental depression resulting from starvation and suffering will make the Austrians easy converts, Dr. Waugh CANAL TOLLS TOP | SE OB IR $26,944,499.77 Received by U. S. From 6,413 Commer- cial Craft in Panama. 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