New-York tribune., 1920-08-29
Even in the Biggest Schools Scrub
women Receive I 1igher Wages
Than the Teachers

League) of German science, which
has just memorialized the national
government in regard to the pre-
carious situation of many agencies
Of research and general culture. The
sum Of 20,000,000 marks is asked for
Immediately to rescue research insti-
tutes from threatened ruin. 1t is
argued that there is also urgent need
for more money for Libraries and
laboratories, owing to the great ad-
vance in prices. 1t is pointed out
that in most cases the entire sum
appropriated for such institutions is
absorbed by heat and light and the
cleaning of rooms.
Music and the Stage
Fundamentally important insti-
tutes," says the league, "like those
for experimental therapeutics at
Berlin and Frankfort, those for can
Ger research at Berlin, Frankfort
and Heidelberg. can make but slow
progress in investigating the theory
of immunity and the origin of can
GER. Important sections like that of
bacteriology at the Berlin Pharma-
cological Institute had to be abol-
ished. Hygienical scientists were
unable to continue their investiga-
tlons of tuberculosis, combating cpl
denies, and the best kinds of dwell
lngs. The psychologists have no pos
sibility whatever of carrying for
ward to completion precisely their
important experiments in nutrition.
Owing to the enormous prices Of
animals for purposes of experiment
tation the great German research in
stitutes must confine themselves to
few minor Investigations with frogs
and dogs, and to collecting stats
tical material"
German music and the stage are
also caught in the ice-pressure of
hard times. The Philharmonic
Chorus, the principal choral society
OF Berlin, has just voted to disband.
after an existence of thirty-eight
years, owing TO the great expense of
giving concerts. A concert that
would previously have cost 1000 or
5000 marks rose last year to 5000
marks, but would now cost 10000
marks; while a concert on a grander
scale would cost 100000 marks. Nj
kisch has found it necessary to raise
the price for his ten philharmonic
concerts for the next season from s5
to 24O marks. Other musical organ
l1atlons are threatened with extinc-
ton. 1t is even reported that the
famous Gewandhaus Orchestra at
Leipsic, long led by Mendelssohm, is
IN serious danger of dissolution.
Important theaters, too, are in
jeopardy. At Stuttgart the State
Iheater got along before the war
with a subsidy of $4,000 marks; but
it had to be raised during the war
to 10000 and after the revolution
to 100000 marks; but the theater
now has deficit of 100000 marks.
And this is one of the most ia
nous theaters in Germany. At
Coburg the city council has voted
to assume 60 per cent of the deficit
of the former Court Theater. but
declared itself unable to ccntinre
bearing such burden. Many thea
ters of less Importance than these,
which had been dependent upon mu-
nicipal subsidies, will have to close
their doors permanently owing to
the increase of expenses
From all that has been said here
it is evident that Germanv's in
tellectual and artistic life is in an
extremely grave position. The Geo.
nomic machinery of the country was
so severely strained by the war
that the people are now forced TO
grapple with the mere bread and
butter problem of life; and Ger
many's whole intellectual position
in the world, held with justifable
pride for centuries, is in danger of
being undermined and permanently
destroyed.