The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-03-06

has MADE the lOl oI IHe euuSaleo
classes a sorry M and those who are
about to begin their studies have little
to encourage them to persist along
those lines. A dismal picture of the
effect of their present disabilities is
drawn by Josef Hofmuller in the Sud
deutsche Monatschefte, from which it
was summarized in the Frankfurter
Zeitung and has been printed in this
country in School Life, the official pub
LEGATION of the Bureau of Education.
Three immediate effects of the wal
are presented as deterrents to the
exercise of really ambitious effort. AS
the higher military career is now out
of the question, the military calling
ceases to exist for graduates of the
higher educational institutions. This
makes thousands of positions formerly
occupied by officers n~on-existent. The
wiping out of the German navy affects
similarly the positions formerly held
by naval officers. More thar that,
many of the young officers who other
wise would have remained in the mil
itary service are compelled to resign
and look for positions in civil service.
Then there is another factor.
Through the annexation of Alsace-Lor-
raine, the Ge~rman-Polish, the German
Czechish, and the German-Danish ter
ritories, the offices hitherto held by
Germans are lost to them. Moreover,
the German officials in those provinces
become dependent on similar places
which must be vacated for them in
Germany. This ~aggravates the out
look of a larger number of young Off
Gals, who will thus be placed in sub
ordinate positions under them.
The third element which will affect
the educated classes is pointed out to
be the impoverishment of Germany
which will cause the practice of strict
est economy in all branches of state
and public organizations, and will af-
feet the number of positions, the sal
aries, the chances for a pension, and
the like. The impoverishment is
shown also to be ~trenching on the so
called free callings.. 1t must find ex-
preston in a tremendous DETECTION of
capital and a large emigration of la
Dor. The various technical callings,
the large branches of industry, the
banks, the insurance agencies, private
officials down to the lowest-salaried
office clerks, will be thus affected, it is
said. Retrenchments are also expected
in the luxury, and primarily in the
literary and artistic callings like archi-
taot1rA muCip Iitaro f11ra SIN
opera, stage, and various other theatre
calls, but also in the more expensive
and therefore better. recompensed
house industry.
Professions Are OVercroWded.
"The so-called better professions are
already overcrowded as result of the
oversupply of labor" says the writer.
"This surplus will be increasing in
the course of the next few years in the
measure as the number of positions
will be each month decreasing.
''In the year 1914 the Bavarian kul-
tur-minister, Won Kindling, speaking
about the prospects of the teaching
profession, gave the following official
data regarding the length of time it
took candidates to be appointed to Of
fees: Philologists, (ancient) 10 years;
mathematicians. 10; p~hilolOgists.
(modern) 13; students of German lit
erature, 10; natural scientists, 10;
craftsmen, y. 1t is surprising how
anybody yet finds courage to take up
teaching when it is necessary to wait
for an appointment till the thirty-ffth
! birthday RAGi1nC tho co gpv of on &c
sistant is 10 marks per month and the
length of service in that capacity ap-
prOXimately five years. A young per-
son must thus expect to draw %
marks per month only when he reaches
the age of 81. Cat the present time
a maltster in a brewery draws zoe
marks a monthly
"Warnings against the taking up of
medical studies issued by the Munich
military board of physicians appear
in the press at the present time. The
prospects of physicians have been
most discouraging by a wide exten.
sion of health insurance which re.
stricts private practice by the ever
increasing quack treatment, the immi-
grafton of German physicians from
abroad, and from the endangered ter
ritOries in the west and east. and by
the abolition of the posts of ship physi-
clans. Since the beginning of the war
5000 physicians were certified i'm an
emergency. Because of a considerable
oversupply the physicians suffer ma
terially from financial STRESS"
The lot of the lawyers, the writer
points out, is not a happy one, for
young lawyers are already asking for
out-Of-work donations. The few for
tunates receive 800 marks per month
and only recently gymnasium gradu
ates were advertising in the newspa
pers and were glad to secure score
tarial positions in some district courf
for an nnual salary of 2.400 marks.
AS for the church, many officers have
already applied for admission. hut thu
prospects fer advancement are IN