Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1914-12-04
Germany Leads
Worlds Nations
in Development
Possessing Only One-Fifteenth of Eu-
ropes Area, 1t Raises Large Part Of
Its Grain.
NO MAN WITHOUT WORK IN TIL
FATHERLAND
Law. Under Which Cities and Mun:ci
palities Exist Differ Widely From
Our Own.

Washington, Nov. 3U.-oome OF the
salient facts Of Germanys remarkable
growth and development in recent
years are contained in statement
given to the press today by Gilbert H.
Cro.venor. Director and Editor of the
National Geographic Society Of Wash
ineton. The statement 10 as follows:
"Only Belgium. Holland Japan and
the United Kingdom have denser pop
ulations than Germany. That country
manages to crowd population Of 67.-
100000 people into a kerritory SO
small that you could add New England
to it and still have an area smaller
than the state of Texas.
Possessing only one-6fteenth of the
area of Europe, Germany produces
one seventh of Europe's wheat. one
fifth of its oats. one fourth of its rye.
and one third of its potatoes.
The average farm. in Germany is
very small. Out of total of $780,
100 farms nearly one half are smaller
than 2N acres. and less than 100000
are larger than Is acres. Of our own
5,737.O00 farms more than three
fifths contain upward to fifty acres.
THE Germans use more commercial
fertilizer than any other three nations
on earth, and yet with all the coaxine
resulting from intensive farming and
small YARNS. Germany is not able. in
ordinary times. to produce enough
foodstuf to meet the demands of its
people. 1t imported farm. produce to
the value Of quarter Of billion dol
"a -
recent year, and groceries and con.
fections to the amount of $l20,000.-
900 above the exports of those com
modities. The balance of raw mater.
ials was $lO0,000,0O0 against the EN-.
pire.
Wonderful Foreign Trade
In the past quarter of century nc
other nation made such wonderful
bid for foreign trade as Germany
While the trade of the United State.
increased us per cent in that tim.
and Great Britain's increased 100 pc,
=nt, Germany's increased 800 pc
cent. The secret ~ this success lies il
the efforts to meet everv condition o
very market into which Cerma,
goods went. Germany's merchan
marine in Is years rose from negli
gible quantity to 1850 ships, with /:
net register tonnage of 3.l53.O00 ton
and employing $4,000 sailors.
Germany takes different view o
railroad rebates from that of the Unit
ed States. A small shipper is alway
required to pay higher rates than tn
big shipper and goods passing through
Germany get lower rates than good
shipped from one German point t.
another. Railroad rates on expor
merchandise are much larger tina,
domestic rates. When the Nurembur,
toy makers want to assist the Ham
berg-kriss Kringle the freight rate i
1888 per ton; when they want to as
sist the New York Santa Claus it i
only $5.83 yer ton.
Every Able-bodied Man Gets Work
THE theory of the German govern
ment is that every able-bodied man i
entitled to work and that the Govern
men must find something for him t,
do If he cannot find it himself. Where
ever there is disagreement betwee,
laborer and his employer it must b,
settled in court created for this pur
pose. Neither party is permitted b,
law to offer or to accept a compro
mise.
THE people of German cities liv,
on,,d surroundings of the law that ar,
different in theory and practice from
our own. In Berlin, for instance, it /;
forbidden in apartment houses t.
water flowers except between I'll.
hours Of 4 and 5 in the morning; nj
one can play piano before in III.
morning or after 9 at night; no bed
ding may be aired from front win
dow; bathing at night is forbidden
one may not employ servant withou
complying with police regulations o
change his residence without polio,
sanction. The German justifes thes.
things on the ground that while the,
may sometimes interfere with his con
venience. by and large they protec
him from annoyances much create
than those that they entail. He says
Trey give him freedom from annov
ances without his household that ar,
infinitely more bothersome than III,
restraints they impose within hi
| hcuaehold"