El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-19
GERMANY HAS
HIGH COST
PROBLEM
Government Measure to Al
leviate Conditions Fails to
Satisfy People.
DETERMINATION OF
WALES THREATENED

Berlin, Germany, Oct 19.-Govern-
ment measures for alleYiating the dis
tress caused by the enormous price Of
meats, have failed utterly to satisfy
the popular clamOr for some reduction
IN the price OF living. municipalities
and commercial bodies We're prompt to
declare them inadequate to meet the
situation. prices in the European cOun-
tries from which imports are now al
lowed under the concessions being in
themselves so high that only a slight
reduction in prices in Germany can be
expected under the most favorable cir
cumstances.
Pressure from the Agrarian parties,
on which the government depends for
existence, and from the military eX-
perts VINO insist that Germany at what
ever cost must be placed in a position
TO supply its own meat at home in case
of war, was too strong for the adOp-
ton Of the means generally regarded
as the only effective one, namely, to
render possible the import of frozen
and chilled beef from nOn-EurOpean
countries
Predict determination of Whales.
The early determination Of whales
and seals was predicted at a congress
of German doctors and scientists re-
Gently held in Munich Professor Sara
sin, of Basel, showed that in 1910 a
single seal fishing company had
brought back from the Kerguelan is
lands $500 tons of oil made from the
sea elephant, while in the same year
four ships killed 1920 of these ami
o
and killed 3SS,34S head and 119,947
were killed in the North Polar seas in
that year.
This heavy reduction of the seal life
of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans has
been brought about by the Introduction
of the system proposed by Otto Sverd-
rup the Norwegian polar explorer, BY
which whale and seal fishing was un-
dertaken on a new and more profitable
system than that hitherto in vogue.
SYerdrup found that whale fishing
could be more thoroughly commercial
lied by sending along with the actual
fishing vessels a large steamer fitted
up as an oil recovery station, thus max
ing it unnecessary for them to sail to a,
station on some remote island after Sc
curing the whales. This method OF
fishing has proved so successful that
some 80 Companies have been organ
lied to operate on Sverdrups plan.
The vessels are fitted with wireless
telegraphy, and equipped with the most
improved whale cannon. Seals are also
hunted in the same manner.
According to professor Sarasin, this
method of hunting is rapidly extermi-
mating the seal herds. as well as the
chief species of whales He thinks the
Greenland whale has probably already
been eXterminated, while the blue
whale and the Finland whale are also
especially sought after by fishermen.
Professor Sarasin appealed to the
powers to try to reach an international
agreement to establish certain closed
zones or regions, which might serve as
breeding places for whales and seals.
SOciaIistic Growth In Germany.
The result of the Socialist convention
at ChemnltZ gave rude awakening TO
German Conservatives who had main
tanned that the Socialist party was not
dangerous in spite Of its great num-
hers, because 1t was and would remain
e minority in the German nation. The
convention not only did much to unity
the party, but also by. failing to con-
denim the alliance with the Radical par
- n.-T n~-Ha r. nawu~
elections, left open the door for cooper
alton with non-Socialist parties in COM
ing elections. Socialists with progress
sive allies may become strong enough
to control the German parliament
though they themselves may never
emerge from the minority.
A break with the old autocratic sys-
tenn of party control under which the
committee of nine men, was made when
the convention decided to elect an ad-
visOry committee of S6 members, one
from each of the districts into which
the Socialists divide the empire for ad-
purposes.
Only one decision Of the ChemnitZ
brought down general ad- ]
verse criticism from the nOn-SOcialists
and from a respectable minority OF the |
Socialists themselves. This was the SX-
clusiOn from the party Of Gerhard Hill /
scholarly man who has won /
fame by his writings on |
socialistic and economic subjects. his |
offending consisted in advocating an |
eventual federation Of all European I
states, with a protective tariff and /
adequate colonies, both Of which are /
taboo to the orthodox Socialists.
Germany to Send Exhibit.
German participation at the Panama (
exposition at San Francisco is -practi- |
ca1ly assured, it is understood here, I
though neither the government nor the /
commercial bodies interested have yet /
taken a formal decision.
nell = q
foster in every way friendly relations /
with the United States at a time when 1
German American cooperation, particu- /
arly IN the Tar east IS extremely de- \
sirable and the fact that the fair viii be /
Yeritable clearing house for the com !
nerce not so much Of the United States j
IS OF the nations on the Pacific coasts \
)f South America and Asia.
Quarrel Over Conservation.
A sharp controversy over principles /
IF conservation Of natural resources Is I
Dill revising and undermining the laws i
Of water rights in Prussia. 1t is one /
If the most important measures which (
Will occupy the attention of the Prus-
sian legislature at its coming session
The bill declares the most important /
streams in the kingdom to be state
property and provides an estimated
revenue from the rivers. after paying
III expenses Of keeping them in order,
# from S6,0OO,00O to 100000 annually
The committee which has been con-
ilderfng the bill is composed almost eX-
,Iusiyely of representatives of the big
andhOlders and has given the measure
form which has called forth sharp
protests by imposing a fixed charge for
III water taken from the rivers by fac
Ories and cities, while the farmers are
% be allowed to take free of cost all
hat they need for irrigation or other
purposes.
Commercial bodies are highly dissat--
SIZED with the bill in its present form ]
ND a great meeting OF protest, attend
d by delegates from all parts of the
has just been held in Berlin.
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