El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
.URBbH6R0HTH
is RAPID IN
GERMANY
It Takes the Lead Also in
Public Comfort and Pleas
ureS.
NEW TREATMENT FOR
CANCER IN GERMANY

Berlin, Germany, Aug. S.-German
cities are in process of rapid growth.
not only in popula ton but also in all
sorts of public undertakings to add ia
the comfort and pleasures of life. The
rapid pace at which city halls, school
houses. hospitals. asylums and parks
have been built has necessarily caused
also a correspondingIy rapid increase
in municipal indebtedness. According
10 the latest statistics issued by the
Prussian. government, the aggregate
Indebtedness Of PruSSian towns of
more than 10000 inhabitants, increased
from S7OS, 100000 to S1,077,O00,00O, or
above 50 percent, during the five years
ended March 81, 1911 During this pc
Rod the municipal debt of cities with
population OF ZOO,O0O or more, eX-
cept Berlin, increased from S17S, coo, 600
to $351,OO0,000. The debt Of Berlin is
now $l03, 100000. 1t increased only
further big increase is now planned.
Priests Are Sentenced.
-Four Catholic priests have just been
sentenced to six months Imprisonment
by the military court at Diedenhofen,
Lorraine, under peculiar circumstances.
In April they were called out along
with the reserves for short period of
military training As they were not
regular reserves, but substitutes, they
appeared in a body at headquarters
and asked TO be excused The captain
=
and added: As long as you are under
my orders no God can help you One
Of the priests was also sent up to
headquarters to answer the grave
charge OF having, in a petition to the
district sergeant. used the word re
quest" instead of beg"
Finally the four men drew up a
statement of their grievances and sent
1t to the commanding colonel of the
district, concluding with the words:
If the matter is not settled in a man
compelled to have it brought up in the
diet Cthe new legislature of Alsace-
LOrraine).
This was looked upon as contrary
TO military regulations, which prohibit
the handing in of joint complaints by
several persons, and the threat was
looked upon as an insult to the mill
Iary power, as well as resistance to
authority. The colonel carried the mat
ter before the appropriate military
court, which fully sustained his view,
and had no option but to inflict the
minimum punishment of six months
Imprisonment
New Cancer Treatment.
\ new treatment for cancer, which
scribe as yet as a treatment and not
as a cure" is being tried in Prof
CZerny's Samaritan hospital at HeideI-
berg with results even more favorable
than we're anticipated.
The treatment is based on a discov-
cry made in Investigating the effects
of Roentgen and radium rays upon
cancer 1t was found that these rays
transformed lecithin, a phosphorized
fat found in the tissues Of the body,
into cholin, a substance Wen known
70 chemistry ana II was con1ectured
that il was this cholin which broke
down the cancer cells.
Experiments upon animals appeared
to confirm this theory, and Sc patients
in the Samaritan hospital then re- !
ceiyed injections Of cholin- In every
instance an. improvement was noted. 1
1t is yet too soon to say whether COM
pleCe cures can be effected, but the I
physicians in charge are hopeful
GasOline-EIectrie Railway.
A "gasOline-elect street railway Z
traction in Germany. The power sys-
tenn consists of an ordinary gasoline /
engine geared direct to a dynamo, /
which feeds an electro-motor connect !
ed with one Of the aXles of the car. /
The first road of this kind has just 4
been put into operation at Grunau, on /
the Spree above Berlin, and it is de- 4
scribed as highly successful Further I
operation, however, must be carried on 4
to test fully the financial results. II 4
these are wholly satisfactory many
small towns, it is predicted, will in /
Travellers Checks Taxed.
A decision OF interest to Amer
lean travellers has been handed
court at Leipsic, which rules that the I
travellers checks issued by a number {
or American institutions and widely ]
used by American tourists in Europe 1
are subject to the regular stamp tax
on commercial paper when cashed in
Germany. The decision was taken in
the suit brought by the German
branch of an American expressing COM
pany to recover $3.50 stamp taxes col
lected by the Hamburg taxation au-
thOrities on travellers checks so
cashed. the supreme court holding
with the courts Of lower instance that
the sOcalled checks are in reality
not checks but bills of exchange The
will hereafter have to pay
the stamp tax.
Tickets Printed While You Wait.
The Prussian State railways have
at the larger railway stations +
a machine which prints railway tick
cts while you wait" enabling them
to dispense with the great stock of |
tickets to all towns in the same en-
Dire necessarily kept on hand under !
the old system. A turn of a large
wheel to the name of the desired sta
ton and a pressure on lever and the
ticket with its cost plainly printed on
il. drops from the machine. BY a self
connection, the ticket SELL
er at the end of his period of duty can
tell exactly how many tickets he has
sold and the amount of money he is to /
turn over to his successor, while for
nerly he had to take inventory of the /
entire stock each time he went off
1uty, his successor having also to
check up tickets on hand involving !
sometimes an hour or more hard la