Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-06
GERMANY CLAIMS
It CAN NO LONGER
STAND PR|VAT|ONS
Emergency DEGREES Tell Peo-
pie Nation Has Reached
End of Capacity.
HEAVY SACRIFICES ASKED
TO PAY OFF PREPARATIONS
New Tax Measures Calculated to
Raise $500, 100000 in Add.
tional Revenues.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 6.-The time has
come for Germany to tell the world
that liberation from "unbearable repa-
rations burdens" is imperative, the
government declared today in an APP
peal to the people published stimuli
taneously with a series of new emer-
gency tax DEGREES calculated to yield
nearly $500 100000 in new revenues.
I'VE must call cur last reserves and
tell the world that we have reached
the limit of cur capacity to bear priva-
tions," the appeal declared.
Heavy sacrifices are imperative If
the solvency of the nation is to be
maintained. it said, pointing out that
expectations of an end to the eco
nomic crisis this Spring were not
realized and that Germany alone can
not save herself from the common
distress aff1icting even the nations
which were victorious in the World
War.
Cites Economies.
Germany's purchasing power, the
document said, is diminished by repara-
tions payments and she is compelled to
increase her exports against which other
nations are raising increasingly higher
barriers in the fierce war for world
markets.
I'VE are often It'd that Germany has
not econcmized enough the appeal
said. "At the present 1uncture that is
not true. Including tooay's DEGREES we
have saved 1900, 100000 marks (about
$345, 000,0 in expenses, and so far as
we can see now our 1881 budget is bal
anced."
The government is under no illusions
regarding the severity Of the sacrifices
demanded from the nation and its citi-
zenS, the appeal said, but these are I'M
avoidable.
1T is better to take from those who
have than to risk discovering some day
that we can MT meet our liabilities. We
have dony everything possible to meet
them, and have taken up much foreign
capital, but this is no longer possible"
Fourth Time In Year.
The dreaded ak Of government econ
omy fell for the fourth time in Germany
In II months today with the publication
OF BrueningS emergency DEGREES, signed
yesterday by President Paul Won Hinden-
burg.
They provide for the raising in the
aggregate of about l $50 0o0, 900 marks
(about $4,000, 000) to balance deficits
in the budget by making further slashes
In government expenditure and in civil
service salaries and by the imposition
Of supplementary income tax and new
taxes on sugar, petrol and cigarettes.
Roughly one-h?[f OF the necessary
amount is obtained from salary cuts
and by reductions in the amounts al
lotted for public relief and other finan-
cial adjustments. The other half is
produced by supplementary taxes both
on earned and unearned incomes with
the provision that persons whose in
comes from both sources do not exceed
10000 marks (about $3,840) annually
pay only one tax.
Disabled Veterans Exempt.
Only totally disabled war veterans
are exempted from additional taxation
under the DEGREES.
The supplementary income taxes, or
so-called "crisis tax" will hit prac-
tically everybody living in Germany.
On earned incomes 1t ranges frtm l
per cent on salaries of up to $500
salaries of $4,000 marks about $8,640).
They become effective July l and ex-
tend until the end of 1882, but some
alienation in the course of next year
is regarded as a possibility.
In the preamble to the DEGREES 1t Is
declared that the government will seek
authority from the Reichstag to intro
duce 40-hour working week and to
make overtime dependent on special
permit from local authorities. The
measures are believed to foreshadow
the introduction of voluntary labor
service" from the ranks of the jcbless,
but willing workers,
Working Without Parliament.
How deeply these measures will affect
the Fatherland's economic life. time
alone will show. Chancellor Breuning'S
cabinet is governing without Parlia-
ment and is conscious of the power it
holds so long as President Won Hinden-
burg approves its acts.
With the DEGREES effective July l, II
Parliament meets as intended In Oc-
tober there will be a useful interval to
permit judgment as to how the new
laws will operate. However. clamor Is
arising in various quarters for speedy
convocation Of the Reichstag in order
''to strike the deadly weapon of en1er-
gency decres out Of the governments
hand"