Evening star., 1914-09-29

commence IN transactions thdt no one
wants to invest in securities and goods
while the interest of the loan office al
the present time is smaller. namely
61s per cent.
Comparison With England.
when one compares with this the
business conditions in England. where
| money is given out by the state without
any covering by the banks, where one
| can get his property only to the extent
of per cent on account of the existing
moratorium, where exchange Is not
paid and not discounted, while our
government bank during the last four
weeks has taken up discounts for al
most 1.O0O, 900 marks. one must see how
wonderfully fortified our business life
is, and that we have not only re-
markable general staff of war, but
also a not less important and not less
active general active staff of business
Thank God, everything goes we'll
with my family. My daughter is nat
urally exceptionally active as far as
her strength permits. She has Volun-
tarily undertaken course as n9lse -.
and will exert herself to better effect
from the fact that 1 have established
in an empty room in my house a nos
pital of six beds for the wounded
MY wife is likewise active in the
large number OF welfare commissions
which have for their principal purpose
the care of the families of those calieo
TO the field and the persons lett oy
soldiers fallen in the war AS an IN
cIdent to what mas been done III this
direction you should know that today
in Berlin no person need go hunsry'
not only because any one can OBTAIN
for himself and his family Tor ten
pfennigs a nourishing meal. cohsistihS :
of soup, vegetables and meat but also
if the ten pfennigs are not there ne
can still eat, because thousands are
willing to give without hesitation the
amount necessary for the meal.
Families Free From Want.
Every one who has gone into the field
is certain that his family is free from
the want of food while he is in the
field fighting for his fatherland. In
deed, there are people whose families
at the present are ten times as well
off as they were in peace when they
were out of work"
Aside from giving this statement Of
financial conditions in Germany. and
the information that his country's re-
sources as to men and money are al
most unlimited, DIR. Caro's letter dis
closes for the first time that Great
Britain, by blocking the importations
of nitrate of soda from Chile, very
nearly deprived Germany of one of the
essentials of powder manufacture.
One of the discoveries with which DR..
Caro- himself has been identified, the
production of lime nitrogen, has. how
ever, taken the place of the nitrates
which formerly reached Germany from
Chile. After detailing the recruiting
conditions. and stating that with the
excess of young men in Germany
there are millions and millions of
trained men who may yet be sent to
the front" Dr.. Caro- added:
"You can readily understand that at
such an exciting time l am not exactly
inactive. / have, first of all. charge of
a powder factory and projectile factory
in SpanG,au, where 1 control the explosive
materials that are about to be used. Then
belong to a commission in the ministry
of war which has the task of providing
the country and the army with the nee
essary raw materials during the war.
am also associated on two commissions
formed in the ministry of agriculture
which sit permanently in order to assure
the harvests of German agriculture in
this and following years, and. 1 can state
to you with happiness and pride, that
in this connection the production of
nitrate of soda and the reduced produc-
ton of sulphate of ammonia, by the re-
duction of a coke business. lime nitrogen
is left as the only principal source of
nitrogen"