The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-11-06

most SIarLUnS lnuICIL1GllLo VI AAA
trickery and deception is contained IN
q, statement issued today by Ralph M
Fasley, which exposes, fully and lot
the first time, how Germany for over
two decades imposed upon the world /
the most colossal fake in history. by |
q deliberate scientific propaganda, IN |
(which she was aided and abetted ny |
certain paid OF unpaid American writ |
ers Germany Actually succeeded IN
putting across the claim that she han
done more for the labOrtng classes
than any other country; that she led
the world in industrial efficiency, SCI
entific inventions, medical discoveries,
and IN music, literature and art. mt
Hasley's statement is based upon an
Investigation Of Germany's claims to
supremacy in social progress by Gus
Havus Myers, the research expert and
historian, an analysis Of Hun claims
to leadership in scientific invention 10y
Bennett ChappeH and in chemistry by
Townes r. Leigh, and on a study OF
Teuton claims to pre-eninence. in mu-
sic by John C.. Freurd, editor of Mu-
stcal America, and in literature and
art by T. Everett Harre, the novelist
Instead of having done more for
the up1ift of the working class than
any other nation, as she has claimed,
Mr.. EasEey proves THAT German work
ers labored for longer hours and for
shorter pay than those of any other
country; that the undetermined Ger
man social insurance schemes netted
the beneficiaries less than one dollar
each week, and that the farm loan
schemes benefited chiefly the Junker
landlords; that in Germany poverty
abuunded and the appalling rate of
infant mortality and child suicides
-was equa1led only in the AuStro-Hun-
ga1tan Empire and Russia. Germany
Is shown to have been far behind
other nations in science, medicine and
the arts, and her TnuCh-extolled pros
perity, Mr. Easley declares, has been
based on the robbery of the inven-
1ions and discoveries of other nations.
''Warfle Germany was preparing ar
mics and manufacturing cannon for
her intended onslaught Bor world do
ultnfon she was engaged at the same
time IN g. peaceful offensive designed
to win from America an overwhelIn-
ing and sIbservient, admiration and
esteem which should dfsaITn our in
7--+edgnatSon and render us inert when
says Mr. FIasley '"To ca1noufage her
iba1eful preparations and sinister in
tentions, Germany during those years
presented herself as a nation, which
by industry, thrift and the practice of
homely virtues, had not only become
prosperous in peaceful industry but
had evolved a social paradise for the
working classes
loan Systems Farce.
0Ir. Easley presents facts concern
ing Germany's so-called social insur.
sJnce laws, and shows that, according
TO the AnntIiche Nachrichten des
GReichs-V ersicherung Amt, of Berlin
the average invalddfty pension in 1911
was S46.51 a year---less than 81
week. The average sickness pension
WAS $4S45 a year---also less than 81
week. The average old-age pension
was $S9.75 a yeaT---afbout 76 cents
week The average widows and wild
overs pension was $3.50 a year.
about 30 cents a week. The averag
widows sickness pension was 1889
year and the average orphans pen
sion $19,07 a year. These were tn
pensions in a country where the poor
possible scale, needed at least $140 t
$155 a year for the cost of the baree
subsistence
The mutual farm loan association.
according to official German Figures
Benefited chiefly the feudal baron {
Junker landlords. Farm work in Gel
many has been largely done by VIZ
7 men, who earned 38 to As cents a da
and by children who were paid
cents a day
TN the United States the ten-ho,
workclay was established in 1910 an
the eight-hour wora1day received Coz
gressdonal sanction in 1862" continue
Mr. Easley 'Up{to the very begi
ming 'of the war the general workd
for highly skilled trades in Gerrna.
was ffty-seven to sixty hours a we
and in other trades twelve to fou
teen hours a day. The average yes
1y earning of unskilled workmen
Germany was 1910, and of skill
workmen 1878. Against these ear
e.. ings, the average annual family {
penditure, according to the Germ
Imperial Statistical Office, "
&531.7O.
Overworked, Hnderpaid. and und
fed, the mass of German workers /
ed in foul, wretched tenemer
Against AN infant death. rate of ]
per thousand in New York in 10
The infant death rate in German cit
averaged 100 to 25s per thousand.
SaxoRy there was an average of Ell.
child suicides to every one in
United States, and in Berlin fifteen
every one in New York city. Agai
the claim that there was no pove
or unemployment in Germany,
Easley gives figures showing that
fore the war there was an aver
Of III applicants for every 100 j
and that pauperiSm as a general G
dition increased year by year throu
out the German Empire.
What Germany Has Not Done
Scientific Invention
In refutation of Germany's swe
ing claims that she led the world
invention, Mr.. Sasley quotes an
ticie by Bennett ChappeH, in WI
it is shown that America has led
the Inventions which have revoluti
lied modern life. Among Ameri
achievements Mr., Easley cites the
lowing; Submarines, airhlanes,
pedoes, automobiles, highN explosi
machine guns, telegraph, Ateleph
harvesting machinery, gaS engi
railroads, typewriters, eIe$tricit!
all its forms, and modern$ prin
presses;
Germany has claimed pre- nins
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