The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-06-03
BY the Associated PrS.o

No. AE1t N8ftk-
est possible way to hose money IN
Germany is TO buy 3 Zeppelin. accord
to- the annu2! report OF the Ger
Affship Company just made pub
nc. Exactly fifty per cent of the
sfoo.eoo invested by the
took wings with its three big airships
IN 1912. The loss Of the Schwaben
ward spring ard q rainy midsummer
are held cGipabie for another large
sum: the unwiliinsness Of the public
TO travel by way Of the clouds IS
blamed not at all, for 1000 passengers
paid their way on the aircraft and. in
addition, ~unnunbered hundreds of ar
my officers were carried gratis.
The report of the company's loss
reads not unlike the resume of Il lean
year on the farm. April and May.
tanner months for Sky-piiots. brought
little sunshine and much cold weather.
Tickle winds blew about the sheds
and for many days none OF the big
ships stirred from its aerial moorings.
June and July were fair-and the
Schwaben vas destroyed. For forty
days during the height of the best
season factories worke day and night
TO replace her. When the Hansa was
finally launched" the best of the fly
ing weather had passed. However.
the Schwaben and the Hansa made
1t3 trips " hem from April to
December, and the Victoria Laise.
third and last of the air fleet, made
thirty per cent more trips than both
of them combined, OF 225 in all, be-
fore She was placed out of commits
sion in November.
The winds will be shorn Of their
tercrs in the future, however, by re-
volying airsheds which ian be SO ma
nipulated as to bring out a ship in
the teeth Of In air-cnrrent Of moder-
ate velocity. The high military value
Of the Zeppelins. nor than anything
| else, perhaps, is responsible for the in
nOvation, as the army demands air
vessels that may be used under all at
moSpheric conditions.
What the Zeppeiins will cost in thu
event Of a big war, rather than tht
benefits they Will accomplish, is az
5 item in the latest estimate Of the cos
of Germany's next war. Captain
5 Henke, Of the German General Staff
has been studying the financial en-
5 Of such q war, and has made publi
his deductions. With 3.ee0, 000 mel
in the field, he estimates thai tn
Fatherland would spend $4,000, 600,
6D0 a year-more than twice the pres
ent national debt. This s%tupendou
7 figure represents nearly 8. per cent G
: the earning capacity of the entire ma
ticn on q peace footing, Capital
Henke estimates.
This conclusion is reached by com
pairing the costs of the ~Franco-Prus
sian and Russo-Japanese wars. |
y the FrancO-PruSSian var 1t cost Ger
d many $1.43 a man a day to keep il
Il forces in the field; Russia paid 81
a man a day during the Manchuria
q campaign. Germany would spend q
g much as Russia, Captain Henk recE
ems. bat would be able to afford i
k The earnings of the German peopi
# Captain Henke places at ~$1,140,oOo
600. is in times Of peace. WIKI
]. they would be with 1900, 600 me
d taken from the workshops to the heI
IS ne dOeS not estimate.
- Emigration from Hamburg ar
= Bremen is heavier than it has been
'!o years. During April more than 43
- 600 persons left for the United Stat
from these two ports alone. Ihis VI
nearly double the numbe that left
April, 1912-seventy-six per Gel
= more, to be exact. Not since II
- tidal wave OF emigration in 1916! h;
"a the exodus been SC great.
Two causes are assigned for the a
of tive emigration. First, political vi
TO certainty and rumblings of war fro
e. the Balkans echoed throughout Eas
4 ern Europe for monthS) have Gauss
Z. the less Warlike 10 long for nom
where peace appears to be mo
stable. The volume Of emisrati'
svelled from Russia and Austria, &c
IN the face CT every discouragetns
"a the governments could Place in t
IN way Of their subjects. Many perSs
III were called to take up arms temp
rarily IN both countries, and IN Rt
u STA direct obstacles were placed in t
ne path Of ~ould-be emigrants.
n -.
The second cause is the prevail
We low sfeerage rate to Canada- This
re the outErowth Of q rate war anne
NJ several steamship companies /
he fare has feen haved down to l.
ITS than $40. thus making 1t possible
anybody 30 go.
he From Prussia come statistics
eat gladden. The hearts Of the forces {
m Gagged in worldwide battle with
berculcsis. Not only has the onws
march OF the white plague bt