New-York tribune., 1922-11-12

For foreigners the following addS
tional charges above the tariff prices
were proposed: s-
Per cent
For Americans ns........,.,. 900
For EnRltshrnen. ......-......... 9ose.
For Frenchman .~~.~.......s.- soc
or l,u.ch e0A
For Italians. ....... soc
For Swedes 1896
This tariff was rejected by tho
Bremen authorities as too exorbitant.
1t undoubtedly is, for the average Ger.
man, earning between 10000 marks and
10000 marks month, cannot afford the
frequent expenditure of 1000 marks or
doctors fees and medicine. In many
cases, particularly in the interior of
the country, physicians request pay
ment in kind, chiefly foodstuffs and
groceries. Private practice is being
rapidly wiped out, as most people be
long TO "Krankenkassen." A physi-,
clan starting practice in Germany to-
day must make an outlay Of at Least
100000 marks. Modern equipment re
quires another 100000 marks. An x
ray outfit costs between on& and a half
and two million marks, to say nothing
of the costs of books and journals and
incidental expenditures. Very few
German physicians can afford to run an
auto. They must either walk or ride
up and down stuffy, crowded trolley
| cars. This involves great loss Of time,
money and energy.
There are too many physicians in
Germany. Before the war there was
| one Doctor for every 10000 Of the
population. Now there is one doctor
for every 1900. Before the war thou
| sands of physicians held positions with
the navy, the merchant marine, in other
| branches Of the government service
and in the colonies. ALI these Jobs
have been wiped out by Germany's de
feat in the war. The German physis
clans are, therefore, organizing and
are demanding legislation that will i'm =
prove their lot. German medicine.
which occupied and still occupies e
most enviable position in the world OF
science. In bound to suffer greatly be.
cause Of these conditions.
Bar Association Fee
Too Great for Lawyers
/ Recsntiy there was an Interpolation
in the Prussian Diet asking the gov
ernment as to what 1t intended to do
to help the lawyers- There are some
$4,000 lawyers in Germany. Of this
number $500 are In Berlin. Not more
than $500 OF the $4,000 belong to the
German Bar Association. The rest
cannot afford the fees. OF these $500.
not more than 100 can afford to en-
ploy more than ten employees. Not
more than 80 per cent of all lawyers IN
Germany can afford TO employ more
than one or two assistants. Because
of the depreciation of German ex-
change and the low fees, thousands Of
lawyers are leaving the profession to
become clerks, government employees
or business men.
Very difficult indeed is the situation
of the student bodies of colleges and
universities, although the number OF
students in German universities has
vastly increased since the war, es-
pecially in the technical and business
departments. This promises to have
a good effect upon the democratiza
tion of German universities, which
have always heen strongholds of re
action.
1t is hardly necessary to emphasize
further the very real and progressive
impoverishment of the broad masses
Of the German people. If old, imperial
Germany can be charged with large
share of the guilt for the World War
III is Germany to-day who charges
her former enemies with keeping the
world in turmoil and tanning the
social and economic disintegration
produced by the World War. The
point Of view of German democracy
and particularly of German labor, car
be summarized as follows:
The anatomy of Ger1nany's economic
and industrial organization is sound
but in cannot continue to function
both in its own interest and in the
interest Of the world if Germany is to
be kept in her present position of pay
ing impossible tribute as the price OF
German defeat. No people, however
guilty, will consent to indefnite cco'
nomic exploitation and ensisvement
Especially is the continuance of this
/, exploitation dangerous and unwise be-
cause it threatens the industrIe' ;,ne
economic prosperity and welibeine
Of the entire world.
The problem is net to keep Germany
down but to promote her economic re.
covery and make her again an integra
part of normal, prosperous, universe
economic structure, of which she i
such an important link Germany can
not be destroyed economically withoua
dragging the whole of Europe into ths
abyss Of destruction, nor can Europ,
resume normal existence with Ger,
many in the throes of social, politiea
:. land economic confusion. The Europea,
governments viii have to choose be