The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-11-23
GERMAN NJ. DIS.
TO GO ON STRIKE
KICK AGAINST THE SICKNESS
AND ACCIDENT ASSURANCES
ASSOCIATIONS BEING EsTAB-
LISHED.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Berlin, Nov. 21.-More than $1,000
German physicians from small town
and country districts have decided to
sional brethren in Great Britain and
declare a doctors strike against
sickness and accident insurance asso-
Citations established under the imper-
ia1 insurance laws. They complain
against certain regulations under the
laws, which they say initiate against
them, particularly one depriving the
patient who is a member of an or
ganization of any say in the choice Of
the physician by whom he desires to
be treated. They object, too, to the
wide discretion given to the organiza-
tons in the matter Of contracts with
physicians
The decision to declare a strike
against these regulations was reached
at a meeting in Berlin of more than
500 delegates from all over Germany.
More than two-thirds of all the
Germans are members Of insurance
organizations, which have their own
contract physicians and the remain
ing medical field is over crowded. The
number of medical students in Ger
many has risen from $500 in 1905 to
$4,000, an increase utterly dispropor-
tomato to the increase of population.
The result is according to statistics,
that half of all the physicians have
incomes less than 81, yearly.
The doctors of Berlin, Dresden,
Hamburg. and other large cities did
not join in the movement, owing, it
was said, to the desperate competition
among them.
Navigation improvements,
Berlin is not usually looked upon as
an important seaport" for almost as
much water passes daily through it's
water mains as through the little
river Spree ON which it is situated.
The navigation interests of the Ger
man capital are so important, how
ever, that after opening a large new
harbor on the eastern side OF the city
only a few weeks ago at a. cost of
about 100000, the municipality has
just decided to build another one on
the western side which will cost al
most as much. 1t will cover, includ-
ing warehouses and grounds used for
harbor purposes, seventy-f1ve acres.
This step is taken in anticipation of a
very large increase in canal and river
shipping after the opening of the
new canal at Stettin, now nearing
completion.
In view Of its improved shipping
Berlin looks forward to a more rapid
development of its manufacturing and
commercial interests
Award In Doubt.
Victor Stoenler' the AVIATOR, who by
setting up a new worlds record of l.
376 miles for a days fight, proved
that Germany may be considered a
worthy rival of France in aviatoria1
accomplishment, may lose the $25, 900
prize which 1t was supposed he had
won by the feat This was offered by
the committee in charge of the ma
tional aviation subscription fund for
record in excess of the hurricane flight
or Brindejonc des Moulnais from Paris
to Warsaw. Objection has been raised
in the committee, on the ground that
Stoeffler's flight was not made all in
one direction like BrindejonCs, but
that the last 435 miles was made by
flying back and forth between Darn
stadt and Muelhausen in A1sace. The
aviators point out that the general
conditions of the contest as adopted