The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-11-26
Industry and the Arts.---A Side Light on the
Industrial and Intellectual Germany Of Today
k Perhaps, Question, Whether Anyone not Native Of Country is Ably
Qualified to Review That couls Progress Industay AMI Intellectually
HoweUG ae Ac vsmsns AMI Attachments Of the Germany Of Today
Like an 0,en BokIhe Common Property OF the World
Prepa cd and Read By w. E. L.

have been over two anil half Til
lion bushels, instead Of eight hun
dred AMI ninety-one million. nine
hundred aud fifty thousand bushels
If the farmers of this country.
whom j. j. Hill has been educating
of late years in bis optimistic AL.
dresses, had grown as much OATS
to the square acre, az did the man
With The hoe III Germany. The DIAL
yield IN the United States this year
would have been 80 per cent of the
worlds "at cI"p. instead of the ap
pr"ximaie 30 per cent. that il was.
This IS equally true with refer
-nc- to the barley aud rye harvest,
aud the potato output.
The debt We owe to the scientific
farmer of Germany Is due to the OBJ
vi"us fac, that he has mastered the
simple, yet complex science of
plant nutrition. Humanity requires
hr-e essential things which are ab.
solutely necessary for Its existence,
namely: food, drink, aud rainenl.
The plant Kingdom. in order to
thrive, requires three things that
mau may beStow on it for it's nour-
lshment, namely: nitrogen. potash
and phosphorus. Germany has ap-
proximat-ly all the deposits of pot
ash extant. aud recently. as usual.
her scientists have discovered that
instead of importing nitrogen aLd
phosphuric acid from the Western
hemisphere. she can get nitrogen
from the air, from coke ovens. aud
from the Justification IF peat and
ligmi,e. Thru the recent Thomas
tiiIchrist process it has bec.me pos
-ihle for them to get phosp h"ric acid
rs a ln-product of smelling, the
vi,rlfied cinders or Stag being con-
verted into what is called phos-
nha,e flour" The result of these
recent discoveries and conditions
are, that Germany sows more COM
n+rcial fertilizer than the Unit.
I'd States. England and France
combined. And Fundamentally. is
It not true that we look to Mother
Earth AS the chief asset of a great
nation?
The astu.e bismarck one said that
every healthy, able bodied man has
right TO say to the State that 1t
shall give him woik. And that
idea has been developed to such an
extent. that befole the present
Institutes, there were fewer than
2 per cent. of the the wage earners
If Germany looking through the
want ADJ columns. In England
aud the United States the Kelly
army" of unemployed is, at pres
Ell, 10 per cent.
The one thing the Kaiser has inn
pressed upon his people is Industry
and Spartan simplicity. Wherefore,
your shrewd business man OF Ber-
I'm rises at six in the morning
simple breakfas, of rolls and a
.leni tasse of coffee, lis behind his
desk before half after seven. and re-
mains there until his work IS finish.
Ell, even tho it he till 8 or 9 o'clock
IN the evening. As all instance of
his frugalny, he will, when pa! lug
bill 10y check, deduct the amount
It costs TO mall the check. Should
he receive a postage due" letter
even tho il might cmutain money
order. or an order for his firm, ne
will let it go back for pre- payment.
Such Is his uuwrltten law of bust
less.
1t Is written that the Sherman of
Germany. the great Won Moltke,
kept his household expenses down
10 $75 per month. and if that meagre
sum were exceeded the household
vent hungry. Like that famous
eccentric rnuiti-milllonalre of Mime
apolis. who died not long ago. he
VAS very economical in the use of
caudles. aud would use il cloth in
stead OF clean linen for his pill ow
slip. We do not know if cellu did
collars were in use those days, but
it they were, it Is not IN .'kely that
he made use vi theul.