The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-03-14

II Is Sdl0, maze by lIUIFluudl SldICS
of the empire, in which the income
tax is reserved. By an ingenious sub
terfuge, however, when an increase in
the amount of property is accompa-
MED by a cOrrespOndingly increased
income, mainly, when property incre-
ment represents hoardings from an
increased income, the rate of taxation
is doubled. 1t is admitted that this
will rebound to the advantage of Law
ish spenders who live up to their war
profits, but it is said that this is I'M
avoidabIe.
The German authorities are about
to take action to see that the soldiers
who fight are not discouraged by let
ters from home. The best means OF
preventing tell-tale letters from reach
ing the enemy seems to be to ask
the women at home to keep their feel
ings and worries to themselves. "All
sensible persons deplore," says the
Berlin Tageblatt, that so many rela-
tives of soldiers, principally women,
are inclined in their letters to give
an exaggerated description of the
hardships they have to suffer. In do
ing so, these women commit an act
injurious to their country. The state.
which at the present time has become
all powerful and which systematically
has suppressed all individual initia-
tive, has the duty of providing for the
families whose heads are away fight
ing, but the families have no right
whatever to give the soldiers who have
worries enough already, tragic de-
scriptions Of their annoyances and sui
ferings, most of the petty kind, at
home.
Professor Langstein, director of the
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria house for
combating infant mortality in the Ger
man empire, believes that it will be
possible to reduce Germany's loss in in
fants to or per cent, Sweden's
present rate, and thereby gain about
10000 in population annually. He
relies largely on education to accom-
plish this result-educatiOn beginning
with children in the folk schools and
extending to include every person who
has anything to do with babies, moth
ers, nurses and physicians. He advo-
Gates a mild form of sex hygiene in
structiOn in the schools, as well as
theoretical and practical education as
to the care of children which shall ex-
tend from the lowest to the highest
schools.
Admiral Won Pohl, who retired on
account of i'll health from the posi-
ton of commander of the German bat
tie fleet, died in Berlin. Hugo Won
Pohl was born at Breslau on August
25, 1856. He received a commission
as lieutenant at the age of twenty-one.
Vice Admiral Won Pohl was appointed
chief of the admiralty staff, with head
quarters at Wilhelmshafen, in 1909
In February, 1915, he succeeded Adj
miral Won Ingenohl as commander of
the German battle feet.
The United States instructed Am
| bassador Page at London, to make in
quiries at the British foreign office
regarding the removal Of SO Germans
Austrians and Turks from the Ameri-
can steamship China in Asiatic wa
tiers, and to demand the release of
the prisoners if they were arrested
on the high seas as has been indi-
Gated.
A great fleet of Zeppelins flying to
America and bringing food back to
Germany is a possibility if this war
lasts several years longer, an author
ity on aeronautics declared Seems
like a dream" he said. But war
that has seen submarines go from Will
helmshafen tc Constantinople. and
Zeppelins and aeroplanes play unex
pected roles, may see some even more
startling developments in, say three
or FIVE years"
General Won Beseler, the conqueror
of Antwerp and Novogeorgievsk and
| present governor general of Poland.
writes: NE gift from home is greeted
with greater joy by our officers and
| men than a package of tobacco, cigars
or cigarettes. Tobacco is our best
| friend in the field, as it helps to light
en- our sufferings and shortens many
sad hours
The failure OF an important bank at
Essen, Germany, is announced 1t is
| believed that many Of the men in the
Krupp works have lost their savings
Vice Admiral Reinhard Sch eer has
been appointed commander Of the Ger
man battle feet in succession to Ad-
miral Won Pehl.
The German government has not re-
jected the British proposals for pro-
viding Belgian industries with raw ma
terials, declares the Norddeutsche ALL
gemeine Zeitung, commenting on Sir
Edward Grey's letter to the Belgian
minister in London on this subject
The German government still has the
| proposals under examination. the
| newspaper states.