The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-28
Money That Poured
 Into Germany Spent
 For Wrong Projects
Fork Barrel Politics" Played By the Borrowers and $2,5OO,OO0,OOO Expended From Which There Can Be No Return

i Germans borrowed from 100000 American investors through Amer ican banks.
 That Is the opinion of men who have watched the amazing devel- opment of Germany in recent years and are in e position to know.
 Although the government has made Q general denial of extrava- 260, 100000 marks of borrowed for luxuries such as sports The tacit admission of .extrava- gance, 1t admitted that more than settlements for workers was con- tained in an order from the min istry of labor providing for fu- ture restrictions in the size and equipment of workers flats.
 "In recent years too large and too expensive apartments have been built" the order said. It was de- clded that in the future the gov- ernment would aid in financing construction only if the building was constructed economically enough so that rents can be paid under existing social conditions.
 Tn the newer buildings the space is limited to from 32 to 45 square meters for the average size family. Central heating is omitted in some of the newer structures. The min- istry of labor emphasized that sun balconies and hot water might be left out, but each workers flat will still have . bath room.
 Since 1924 Germany has been seized with q veritable mania for building. The records show that for the six years ending with De- cember. 1880, building permits is- sued alone in cities over 60,000 population totalled 620,000. This spring. 25,000 apartments were un- der construction in Berlin.
 The German fortunate enough to be able to live in the new buildings is the best housed worker in the world. l visited the Britz settle- ment on the outskirts of Berlin, c vast series of modernistic and arr tisticaily finished buildings, in maroon, rnauve, and cream stucco placed in Q garden setting.
 The settlement Is as large as Q town. It contains HOO flats in Q series of apartment buildings and 900 dwellings In semi-dstached houses. The average rent for one and Q half room and kitchen is 50 marks ($12) monthly; for two and q half rooms and kitchen 70 marks. All such quarters have bath rooms.
 The siemenstade settlement con- tains 1900 flats which rent at an average of 55 marks Q month, with 10 marks extra for central heat and hot water.
 These are typical of hundreds of such developments throughout Germany, some of them with com munity laundries and other extra equipment.
 The governments part in the construction of the settlements is indicated by the fact that of D. 880, 0,000,000 marks spent for res- idential construction in Germany in 1880, 1.156.0O0,0 ,000 marks was advanced from public funds de- rived from special taxes.
 Critics maintain some of the buildings were constructed where they would do the most good polit- ically while proponents Of the gov- ernment claim that good housing for industrial workers in the large cities was aimed to quiet discon- tent and to halt the spread of Communism.
 There are several explanations of the building craze in addition to the fact that there was no con- struction in Germany during <he World war. After the war the so-