The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-02
GERMANY TO BUILD
new NAVAL STATION
Project Will Be Started at Cux.
haven, as Result of EN-
peror's Recent Visit.

Berlin. Special: The emperor visited
suxhaven before leaving for Corfu ana
held conferences there with high navai
officers; n he has now decided to es-
tablish a war harbor there. Al present
the only naval harbor on the North sea
Is Wilhelmshaven. which Is not capa-
cious enough to accommodate more
vessels than are comprised in the nrst
squadron. AS it has just been decided
to transfer the big new cruiser won
der Tam" and several others from the
Baltic to the North sea-, 1t becomes
necessary to increase the haroor racii-
tiles on that coast of Germany. The
change Is dictated by the fact that
Britain has the larger part OF its naval
strength, in the North sea, and It
come to be In axiom with German ma
val men and laymen as well that the
German navy will find Its chief use
In that sea II 1t should ever come INTO
action.
Race Suicide.
That race suicide is encouraged by
socialism is the opinion Of Prof. julius
Wolf, the economist of Breslau univer-
sity. He attempts to prove this by
studying the election returns or dif-
ferent parts of Germany in comparison
with the birth rate. He found that the
birth rate in Berlin in 1908 was only
23.9 per 1000 Of the population, n that
90 DEL CcUI VI liz u -
ported socialist candidates in the pre-
vious year. For the whole province OF
Brandenburg, the birth rate was Z8.4
and the socialist vote was 4O.6 per cent:
| On the other hand. in the province OK
| West Prussia the birth rate was $50
and the socialist vote only Z per cent,
| while in Posen the figures were 29.f
per thousand and 9 per cent respective
iy. Professor Wolf does not confne
| himself merely to demonstrating his
| opinion with statistics, but also tries to
| show that the irreligious or atheistlc
opinions of most socialists are unra-
vorable to the production Of large fami-
lies. The socialists meet Professor
VOLTS views by pointing out that n
comparison Of the W almost purely
agricultural provinces of West Prussia
and Posen with Berlin Is unfair n
misleading, since 1t is a we'll known
fact that socialist. opinions spread most
easily in crowded cities with large IN IN
dustrial establishments, where the
struggle for existence Is sharp. More
over, this struggle itself, say The So
cialists, makes for fewer marriages and
fewer births.
"Test Mining"
A new method for discovering depos-
! it's of ores, Goa n oil has been found
by Prof. Jakob Koeningsberger. After
taking tests in many b~oreholes with
the most varied local surroundings, he
found that the rate at which the
earth's crust grows warmer at lower
levels Is far from uniform. He gives
the average rate at about GA feet for
one degree Fahrenheit, but near a sea
coast it requires as much as 200 feet
in some cases to get one degree higher
temperature. 1t was found, however.
that over coal deposits the rate Is only
At to IS feet. Oil heats the earth still
more rapidly, causing a gain OF one
degree for every Is to 20 feet. 1t Is be-
lieVed that Professor Koenigsbergers
/ investigations will prove OF great use
in prospecting for mineral and oil de-
posts, since 1t will be possible to deter
mine by taking the temperatures IN a
borehoIe several hundred feet deep
whether it is approaching valuable de-
posts; and 1t will not be necessary to
waste large sums Of money in boring
very deep holes without discovering
anything.
Pole Campaign Expensive.
It is a costly and unpromising strug-
gle hat Prussia Is waging to conve
the Polish provinces into German ter
ritory. 1t has cost the government not
less than $4,000 for every German fam
lily brought into the two provinces, and
the Germanization Of the Polish popu-
lation Is making no progress whatever,
Notwithstanding the. settlement Of Ger
mans In the two provinces from other
parts Of the country. This conclusion
Is warranted by the annual report just
published Of the settlement commits
sion, the public board having charge OF
the work of buying Polish lands and
parceling II out and selling 1t to Ger
mans. From a total of 900 acres OF
land bought in 1905 the purchases OF
the commission dropped last year to
only 2 ,076 acres, and Of this latter
amount only 2,970 acres were bought
from the Polish owners. All the rest
was bought from Germans. The total
cost of the governments land pur-
,hases since the ear 1886. when the
commission began it's work, has been
above $50, 900, 900. During this period
10, $40 families, consisting Of 141, 200 per
sons, have been settled on the land
parceled out by the commission. More
han one-fourth Of these families
however, were already living in the
two provinces. Making an allowance
for this fact, 1t appears that the num-
Der of German families brought in was
anly 14,72S, and this number includes
nearly 5000 families of Germans from
Russia. Many people think that the
success of the commission has beer
very disappointing considering the