Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1920-05-07

The economic distress of Germany
has made the lot of the educated
classes a sorry one, 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 1t
was summarized in the Frankfurter
Zeitung and has been printed in this
country in School Life, the official pub
lioation of the Bureau of Education.
Three immediate effects of the war
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 nonresident. The
wiping out of the German navy affects
similarly the positions formerly held
by naval officers. More than 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 German-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 larger number of young offi-
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 at
feet the number of positions, the sal
aries, the chances for Il 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 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-
lecture, music, literature, journalism,
opera, stage, and various other theatre
calls, but also in the more expensive
and therefore better recompensed
house industry.
Professions Are Overcrowded.
1.-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.
I'm 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, IS; philologists,
(modern) 49, students of German lit
erature, 10; natural scientists, 10;
craftsmen, II. 1t is surprising how
anybody yet finds courage to take up
teaching when it is necessary to wait
for an appointment till the thirty-fifth
birthday. Besides, the salary of an as
sistant is 10 marks per month and the
length of service in that capacity APP
proximately five years. A young per-
son must thus expect to draw %
marks per month only when he reaches
the age of "a. Cat the present time
a maltster in a brewery draws 900
marks monthly
warnings against the taking up Of
medical studies issued by the Munich
military board of physicians appear