The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-03-17

| WAS IOfced TO stop work and to dis
| charge the wOrkingnen on account
| of lack of coal. The two great sui
! phur mines near Palermo had to close
! up for the same reason. Train ser
+ vice is also curtailed. The lighting
! of streets in many Italian cities is
stopped at p. m. to save coal.
Our taxes after the war, while
| higher than now, will not be higher
] than Italy's were before. They are
not going to be so high that we will
| have, to raise wages and salaries. We
| shall probably introduce a few mon
| opolies and other indirect taxes; and
/ we are going to have a comm ercia1
| field such as we never have had be-
! fore. 1t is estimated that it will take
! Germany six or seven years to recuper-
| ate from the war. The F'rankfurter
! Nachrichten believes that the total
| debt merely from the war will be be-
| tween 100000, and 5O,OOO,OOO,-
| 600 of marks, with consequent interest
| charges annually of from 1000 to g.
500 millions of marks. That, plus
the state taxes, will increase the ag-
gregate annual interest to be raised by
$500 1000 millions of marks.
||Prof. Julius Wolf, our best known
economist, states, that Germany's
| debt is well balanced by the state and
national possessions, railroads, for
| ests, domains and mines. He be-
Iieves that the Entente Allies. are so
much worse off that ALTERS the war
they will be broken, and that Ger
pany will have 6. commercial field with
little or no opposition from her pres
ent enemies One prominent mem
Der of the center party estimates the
probable indemnity, which the En-
tente Allies in case of defeat will have
to pay, at Sc, 100000, 1000.
During the winter of 1914-15
about $4,000 of the German students
did active service at the front This
| means 76 per cent. of all male stu
dents of the universities and technical
colleges. Last summer 54 900 or 80
per cent. of all students served in the
army Only $4,000 students attend
/ ed the lectures during summer 1915.
The humber of foreign students de-
creased to 1000, while $500 females
attended the lectures.
1.-THE birth rate in Germany during
the war has decreased about 20 per
cent. In September, 1915, 2,3O3|
children were born in Berlin; in Sep
TENDER, 1914, the birth rate was 2, 996
children. The birth rate of Berlin
per thousand in 1914 was 1873 in
1915, 1873. Fortunately, the mortal
ity of children has decreased during
the war In September 1914, 644 ba-
bies died in Berlin, in. September 1915
only 262 babies died in the capital
THE Entente Allies have fortified
Salonil1i. A comp1zte 80 miles long
circle Of trenches surrounds the city
and 1900 cannons have been placed
within the fertilization SaIoniki is
today a first class fortress. like Ant
werp or Warsaw
/ 1.-THE British have told the world so
many times how the Germans tyran-
nize the BeIgians and as an illustration
of this untruth I can assure you that
today $4,000 F'renchn1en live at Brus- |
sells, free to pursue their business
of oft
prietors and managers of hotels, fur
nfshed room houses and restaurants in |
Brussels. Thousands of French girls j
work in stores or factories. All they |
are forced to do is to, report once a |
week at the police station and pro-
duce their passports. The inhabitants |
of Lille northern France, attend with |
the greatest pleasure the concerts of |
the German military bands in the
parks and in the churches When the I
war started the city of Lille was just |
building a theatre. The Germans have
now finished this building and give
German performances. The inscrip-
ton in sandstone over the entrance |
reads Deutsches Theater. This does
not look ~ if the Germans were in a /
hurry to evacuate France.
cat present pound, of steak in Ber-
lin costs 25c, veal, 38c; pork, SOC;
bacon, 64c; ham, 5Sc; lard, soc; dozen /
fresh eggs, soc One pound of beef
steak in Vienna costs At cents. Ac-
cording to London newspapers the av-
erage prices of food in Great Britain
have raised At per cent. since the war.
Professor Boas, our famous specialist
of stomach diseases, states that the
scarcity of animal food in Germany
benefits these person, who were In
cIined to overeat. They do not have
to go to Carlsbad to take the spa, treat
ment for reducing their obesity.
''The diet of the people is becoming
a strictly vegetarian diet. The endur-
ance of vegetarians on long marches
has been dem onstrated during the war.
Further, this eminent specialist states,
that diseases of the stomach and bow
els seem to be no more prevalent than
before war. This proves that the
war bread has done no harm In
deed, he claims the present simple ana
thrifty mode of living has improved
the general health. The only diseases
which shcw a small increase are cam
Ger and gall stones. The following
incident shows that there is no famine
nj Germany: At the beginning of each
school year in Mannheim the weight
of each new pupil is carefully record
ed BY comparing the figures of 1914
and 1915 it was found that the average
weight of 500 school children was in
both years exactly the same"
People VIII Do Wen
in these times of high and rising pri-
ces if they watch the advertising coll
umns and see where they can save
Radford B. Smiths Satur-
day Sales are always money savers
for those who take advantage of them.
Try it,
German marks were quoted at Cen
eva at 81, new low record.