The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
Much Time Il Wasted In Factories,
where some Men Drink a CAL
Ion of Lager Day.
INQUIRY By THE EMPEROR
THAT MAY RESULT IN EXCLUDING
BEER FROM INDUSTRIAL PLANTS.
Ten Per Cent. More work Done by Ar
tIsans who Are Not Permitted to
Drink the National Beverage.

BERLIN. Dec 1.-THE Emperor, among
a variety Of new subjects engaging his at
tention, is looking into the relations OF
the German wOrkmen's productiveness and
the use OF beer during working hours. His
Majestys inquiries among employers and
students of social questions indicate that
he regards the beer now drunk regularly
on factory premises as appreciably detri-
mental TO both accuracy Of workmanship
and amount Of product. A movement is on
foot 10 exclude beer from the factories.
Several works have already educated their
operatives 20 dispense with the morning
and afternoon beer recesses- IL is quite
common for a workman TO drink ten pints
a day I'm the shops, while the average is
not much below a gallon day, especially
among the holders.
an American firm making electrical APP
paratus here has kept records of the work
done before and since the prohibition Of
beer The result is 10 per cent. increase
in product per man. Part of the increase,
however, is due to the time saved. The
theory of the firm is that beer drinking in
working hours makes a man physically and
mentally inactive, and that consequently,
he is less capable of doing his best work,
especially toward the end OF the day.
XXX
The Foreign Office officials tell the cor
respondent of the Associated Press that
Germany has not the remotest idea of
Selling a Venezuelan harbOr in order to
obtain satisfaction of her claims. Germany
has not any government claims, and those
connected with the miStreatment or sailors
and Germans resident in Venezuela are sub
staatially settled. Germany might push
some private business claims, but she re-
CARDS the whole matter now as Insignificant
particularly because OF the constant mis-
understanding of Germany's intentions by
American and British newspapers.
XXX
Baron Won Kardorff has been elected
chairman of the tariff committee. The gov
eminent desired that DR.. SPAIN, the Cen
trist leader. should be chairman, but the
Centrists declined to take so much respon-
sibility. Hence the Conservatives put for
ward Baron Won KardOrff, who is an ex-
IRENE Agrarian. Twenty or the twenty
eight members Of the committee are SEEM
tngly in favor of the principle OF the BILL
XXX
The Russian agents and German manu-
facturers are getting up much material for
use in agitating against the tariff measure.
The influential Muenichener Allgemeine
Zeitung, National Liberal, noting that the
imports of American writing and calculat-
ing machines are largely increasing, the i'm
pOTlS OF the idlNtI dlole dAAodheAAS "
s50.00G marks from January to october.
urges Quadrupling the duties on these ma
chimes. The new tariff increases the duties
from "a to 60 marks per metric hundred
weight.
Inquiries made among the textile manu-
facturers of the Freiburg district with ref
erence TO the shortage of the American cot
ton crop indicate that they much doubt
that the United States crop is really short;
but they add that, If the report is true, it
Will mean disaster to the cotton industry
OF Germany, which is already working on
reduced time. Some manufacturers say
that even the short crop of cotton may be
found sufficient for the demands OF an al
ready dull market. The supply of cotton in
Germany will suffice for two months.