The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-04-25
SOCIALISM CAUSES
SUICIDE OF RAGE
AS Shown by the lnvestiga-
tons Of a German
Professor.

tiOiIo VI WI llI0lL
Professor.
BERLIN, April 20.-The Emperor
visited Cuxhaven before leaving for
Corfu and held conferences there with
high naval officers; and he has now
desided to establish a war harbor
there. At present the only naval
harbor on the North sea is Wilhelm
haven, which is not capacious
enough to accommodate more vessels
than are comprised in the first squad
ron. 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 be-
comes necessary to increase the har-
Dor facilities on that coast OF Ger
many. The change is dictated by the
fact that Britain has the larger part
Of It's naval strength in the North
sea, and It has come to be an axiom
with German naval men and laymen
as we'll that the German navy will
find Its chief use in that sea II it
should ever come into action.
That race suicide is encouraged by
Socialism is the opinion OF Prof.
julius Wolf. the economist of Breslau
University. He attempts to prove this
by studying the election returns of
different parts OF Germany in COM
parison with the birth rate. He found
that the birth rate in Berlin in 1908
was only 2S9 per 1000 Of the popu-
lation, and that sixty-six per cent Of
the Berlin voters supported Socialist
candidates in the previous year. For
the whole province of Brandenburg,
the birth rate was 2S,4 and the So
clalist vote was 4O.6 per cent. On
the other hand, in the province Of
West Prussia the birth rate was SS.5
and The Socialist vote was only seven
per cent, while in Posen the figures
were 1877 per thousand and nine per
cent. respectively. Prof. Wolf does
not confne himself merely to demon
strating his opinion with statistics,
but also tries to show that the IT.
religious or atheistic opinions OF
most Socialists are unfavorable to
the production OF large families. The
Socialists meet Prof. VOLTS views by
pointing out that a comparison of the
two almost purely agricultural prov
noes of West Prussia and Posen with
Berlin is unfair and, misleading, since
1t is a well-known fact that Socialist
opinions spread most easily in
crowded cities with large industrial
establishments, where the struggle
for existence is sharp. Moreover, this
struggle itself. say the Socialists.
makes for fewer marriages and fewer
births. NJ
A new method of discovering de-
posts of ores, coal and oil has been
found by Prof. Jakob Koenigsberger.
After taking tests in many boreholes
with the most varied local surround
ings, he found that the rate at which
the earths crust grows warmer at
lower levels is far from uniform. He
gives the average rate at about sixty
four feet for one degree Fahrenheit,
but near a sea coast 1t 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 forty-seven
to fifty-fve feet. Oil heats the earth
still more rapidly, causing a gain OF
one degree for every fifteen to twenty
feet. 1t is believed that Prof, Koen-
igsherger's investigations will provo
Iof great use in prospecting for min
eral and oil deposits, since 1t will be
possible to determine by taking the
temperatures in borehole several
hundred feet deep whether 1t is ap-
preaching valuable deposits; and II
will not be necessary to waste large
sums of money in boring very deer
holes without discovering anything.
1t is costly and unpromislng
struggle that Prussia is waging tc
convert the Polish provinces into
German territory. 1t has cost the
government not less than $4,000 fol
every German family brought into the
two provinces, and the Germanlzatior
OF the Polish population is making nc