San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-07
GERMANS MAKING
A LITTLE PROGRESS
IN SPITE OF CHAOS
Scientists Continue Work
and Make Discoveries
Of World Importance.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN.

Copyright, 1898, by The San Antonio Light.
Berlin, Jan. 6.-Europe has not made
forward step in the last year and
Germany is headed toward the abyss.
Despite this, TeutOnic science has
demonstrated that it still is worthy Of
support. A German engineer, Schiefer-
stein, has invented a new system of vi
bration which utilizes machine energy
far better than ever dreamed, from
the simple moving machine TO the
finest electrO-mechanism. 1t lessons the
loss of energy and gives new motive
power to industry. An American COM
pany has purchased the patents which
will prove more important to the world
so far as economy is concerned, than
any amount of new laws and new
treaties.
The Krupp firm has decided to de-
liver all goods 10 Russia payable from
the proceeds of the future harvests.
This may lead from money chaos TO a
system of free exchange.
German scholars and research stu
dents have succeeded in curing and
obviating the danger OF the spread of
sexual blood disease They have deter
mined that the malady which since 1916
has decimated entire provinces can be
engendered in animals by artificial cul-
tiyation of germs and thus have pro-
vided an easy method of serum treat
ment which now has the disease I'M
der control.
Postwar distress has developed the
fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, with
out which Germany would be obliged TO
import even more foodstuffs, this in
creasing her unfavorable trade balance,
and destroying all possibility of paying
her creditors.
Despite this, France continues 10 de-
mand in PREPARATIONS in kind, 10000
tons Of nitrogen, equivalent TO 100000
tons of wheat and bases that demand
on a statement that Germany does not
need nitrogen. How ignorant European
countries are Of the needs Of their
neighbors.
As these scientific advances are use
full to the whole world, and not TO Ger
many alone, so the spirit of research
and technical science is being animated
toward new creations and a people
often wrongfully discredited is opening
new vistas for humanity in many
spheres.
Remember this when you hear whines
and angry curses coming from Ger
many and think the Germans never do
anything else. No statistics are yet
available regarding the cost of the
fruitless conferences at Cannes, Genoa,
Tue Hague. Spa, Moscow, London and
finally Paris.
In January, 1922, bread cost ten
marks, an, egg two and half, a quart
of milk five, a pound of beef, "a, a
tram ticket one. good coal per ton, 430,
cast iron 5000. In January, 1923,
these prices are respectively: Bread 80,
egg 05; milk 200, beef $40, tram 90,
coal $4,000, iron $4,000. The dollar
has risen from 1S7 to 400, the gold
mark from 45 to 1900.
The weekly minimum cost OF liv-
ing has advanced from 1900 to $4,000
marks, the floating debt from 265,000,-
600 TO 1,600, 900, 100000 paper marks.
Only blind folly can believe that a
land sunk to such conditions is capable
of producing within its borders enough
of an industrial surplus TO heal the
sickness of an entire cOntinuent
That this land can produce anything
more than is absolutely necessary for
itself sounds almost like a miracle, yet
il is true,