New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1915, Page 11

the man, is gone ana the expenses of his upkeep are being met by the government. In the second place the woman now has more than one source of income—her share of her husband’s pay and what she herself earns. This applies of course only to the working woman. Doing Men’s Work. Some fifty thousand women in Ber- lin alone are doing men’s work. The greater part of them at the same time receive from the state at least something toward their support. The exact ratio of the present family in- come to that of, say, fourteen months ago, is unobtainable, but it is bhe- lieved in a large number of cases to be nearly as great as before. With the family’'s chief expense away, it has been possible for the women to establish almost a record in saving. Thus the July deposits in Berlin savings banks this vear were 12,365,000 marks, as against 8,730, 000 marks last year. The withdraw- als reached 4,105,000 marks, in com- ‘parison with 9,286,000 marks in 1914, an unusually high figure caused by the war scare. At the. Berlin Municipal Savings Bank alone the 107,681 depositors during the vear ending August 31, 1915, banked -7,618,615 'marks, an average of about 70 marks, where the average in 1913 and 1912 was only 57 marks, and in 1911 60 marks. In 1912 the savings books averaged 478 marks, in 1913 the figure rose to 487 and in 1914 to 506 marks. This aver- age dropped in April only to 467 marks after 10,500,000 marks had been withdrawn by depositors within twelve days, and 18,000,000 and 30,- 000,000 respectively had been put into the .two war loans. PLANS T0 LIVE T0 BE 130 YEARS OLD Former Chinese Minister to U. §. Now Seventy-Five ' CONFLICT ON WAGES IN GERMAN EMPIRE Opinions Differ Regarding Pay and Cost of Living {Correspondence of t™s Assoclated Press.) Berlin, Oct. 31—Labor statisticians, who have been watching. the situation clgsely and critically as the months of ‘war have passed, agree with a fair degree of unanimity on the general effect of the conflict on wages, but disagree to some ‘extent on the re- lation between the ‘w. i g - 1 aEes DA ode i Iel heihow sliporenido) savslatvells and the cost of living—as to whether known physician fifial““@me ;f'°trkmgm.“ns ‘;ag ‘3’; ‘;E‘" To keep these poisons and toxins e a8 fast as prices of £o0dstUllS |'well flushed from the stomach, liver, s L 2 in the Kidneys and bowels, drink = Defore Airngd ‘:gr,“e‘ it :“d e '“elnmn ® | preakfast each day, a glass of hot iy r fma S}rlxa s’ r? eS,t at:t € WO- | water with a teaspoonful of limestone Ty poatumatler, 1oday. &re Ie: | pnosphate in it. This® will Cleanse, SHHne fay, =ov Sy and Sven One. purify and freshen tae entire alimen- indred per cent. more an ey tary tract, before putting more food ever did before.. In most cases the S oRthe s omah advance Is nearer to one-hundred per |-"qo¢ ; quarter pound of limestone et ‘iz“:ofifii“:'?t seventy . because | phosphate from your pharmacist. It WOR. to o, there s ot oof | s inexpensive and almost tasteless, R 5 P- | except a mourish twinge which is not D y for over-time work, wages;“npleasam_ Drink phosphated hot high 5 i are eolgher than usual and help 1S | [ ¢o ovary morning to rid your sys- J vile poisons and toxins; Neither Great Nor Even. ftemiotithoss ¥ rent their information. Ji oihen eklilon trades that sunply |ERe e e e ordinary needs—the printing and 2 7 carpenter trade for instance—the ad- | YOU felt before your blood, nerves and vance it is agreed it is neither so great | MMUSCles became saturated with an ac- nor so even. The printer is making cumulation of body poisons, begin this from three and five marks a day treatment and above all, keep it u_p! mdre than he used to do:.the brewer -8 50ap and hot water act on the skin, is getting an even 10 marks more a cleasing, sweetening and purifying, so week; . the leather worker, like the limestone phosphate and hot water earpenter, can be gauged only by his Defore breakfast, act on the stomach, ?pacny. liver, kidneys and bowels. | ! The benefits accruing, to the un- ;'_'__' Everyone Should Drink Hot Water in the Morning Wash away all the stomach, llver, and bowel poisons before breakfast. To fecl your best day in and day out to feel clean inside; no sour bile to coat your tongue and sicken your breath or dull your head; no constipa- tion, bilious attacks, sick headache, colds, rheumatism or gassy, acid stom- ach, you must bathe on the inside like voubathe outsde, Thisisvastly more | important, because the skin pores do ! not absorb impurities into the blood, Dayton, Ohio. Merchants everywhere tell our 800 salesmen that business is booming. Farmers have had two record crops, at big prices, with big demand at home and abroad. Stocks of manufactured material are short, and labor is in great demand. Exports largely exceed imports. Factories are busy, many work- ing overtime. . More freight cars are needed, and steamers are taxed to capacity. skilled workers simply cannot be es- timated because; they are so-variable.| and so dependent upon employers’ gegerosity, chance circumstances and the ltke. The authorities are agreed that these workers have been less benefitted than any others, but find it countless lips the story of the diffi- culty of making both ends meet. His own experiences with the cost of liv- ing has made him loathe to believe that the war has been an unmixed benefit' for the worker who stays at | home. People are living better, and spending their money more freely. (Correspondence of the Associated Preas.) impossible to determine the degree of 1 benefit. Costs Advanced Faster. Alwin Koersten, Secretary of the Central Employment Bureau of the Berlin trades, who might be termed ; forms his opinion from: facts ! figures gathered from all parts of the walking statistical office, and who O. Becker, | of German Employment Bureaus, who Workingmen’s Situation Improved. Quite of a different opinion is Dr. head of the Association and | German Empire, and who, in conse- Shanghai, Sept. 21.—Dr, Wu Ting- fang, the former Chinese minister to the United States, although he plans to live to be 150 years old, now con- siders himself out of public life, and for the next seventy-five years will be This country has the best money in the world, and more of it than ever before. is constantly in close touch with vorkers of all kinds, is positive that living costs have advanced faster than wages, and that the “war materials” jworkers are the only ones whe have ffept up. +He ds convinced that food prices ve risen from 80 to 100 per cent. o aster than the wages either of junskilled labor or of those branches of. skilled labor not engaged in mak- g-war materials. Though far from beirig & pessimist, his inclination is to | ook at the matter from the stand- | pofnt” of the many who have had a jnimum of gain out of higher ages. " #:Prices Outstrip Wages. !"Max’ Steffen, héad of the huge em- bloythent agency of unskilled work- ien, even less than Mr. Koersten be- feves' that prices have outstripped ges; chiefly because he is in closest jguch. with the great mass, of men, hnd women, on whom the effect of the ar has been more to give them work han to raise the wages they had been 'tt“lg. He has seen most of the thousands ho drift into his enormous estab- shment placed where they can earn | plains, roughly to two things. In livelihood more readily than ever | the first place the: biggest eater and pefore, but he also has heard from | most expensive member of the family quence, believes that the general sit- j uation of the workingman has vastly improved and that his wages, by and large, have gone up faster than the cost of 'living. In arriving at this decision he takes into account the situation of the un- skilled workers and in agreeing with Mr Steffen that their wage increases | have not been appreciably great, be- lieves that the more and more favor- | able status of the country worker, in conjunction with the rapid decrease in’ non-employment, over-balances higher prices. ‘Women Are Gainers. The women, far more than the men, have been the gainers in the un« skilled trades, and to them, it is be- lieved, is due the large and unex- pected increase in savings deposits which the banks have recorded. A portion of them—the minority it is estimated—have, it is true, had to go to work -alongside husbands and brothers who are not serving in the army, but a larger portion are com- paratively prosperous. This is' due, as Mr. Koersten ex- just an onlooker, regardless of whether the Chinese republic is turned back into an empire. “The folks up at Peking are run- ning things. They haven’t asked my advice and they probably wouldn’t act on it if T gave it,”” said Dr. Wu, when ked for his comments on the mon- archial movement. Views on Government. “In my recent book on America T told what I thought about the Ameri- can government, the Chinese govern- ment and governments in general. I could’t say any more than I said in that book and I haven’'t changed my mind since I wrote it,” the venerable diplomat continued. 1 Dr. Wu’s book called, “America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat,” contains a chapter re- iewing monarchial and republican forms of government in detail. He says: “It may be pertinently asked why China has become a republic, since from time immemorial she has had a monarchial form of government. The answer is that the conditions and circumstances in China are peculiar and are different from those prevail- ing in Japan and other countries. In Japan it is claimed that the empire was founded by the first emperor, Jimmu Tenno, 660 B. C., and that the dynasty founded by him has con- tinued ever since. It is well known that the Chinese imperial family is of Manchu origin.. The Ching dynasty was founded in 1644 by conquest, not by succession.- Upon the recent over- throw of the Manchu dynasty it was found very difficult to find a Chinese, however popular and able, who pos- sessed the legal right of succeeding to the throne. Jealously and provincial feelings placed this suggestion abso- lutely beyond discussion. Disagree- ments, frictions, and = constant civil wars would have ensued if any at- tempt had been made to establish a Chinese dynasty. Another fact is that a large majority of the intelligent people of China were disgusted with the system of monarchial government. 'hus it will be seen that for the sake of the peace and welfare of the na- tion there was no other course for the people but to take a long jump and to establish the present republic. The law of evolution has been very active- 1y at work in China, and no doubt it will be for hér ultimate good, and therefore for the benefit of all man- kind. China is now an infant republic, tut she will grow into a healthy and strong youth.” Dr. Wu's Home, The home of Dr. Wu is a modern granite house, located in a large garden, rich in palms and luxuriant tropical flowers. At the lodge gate a tall Sikh, wearing a read turban, greets visitors and bids the drivers to proceed along the gravelled road leading to the port-cochere banked with potted plants of various colors. The entrance leads into a wide hall. At one side of this is Dr. Wu's study:; at the other a large drawing room urnished in beautiful blackwood pieces of Chinese designs, and with white walls relieved by silk banners bearing quotations from the Chinese classics. In the center of the room is a great round table of blackwood with mottled marble top. 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One learns how to live sanely as one advances in years.” “And you plan to make Shanghai your permanent home?” | “'Oh, yes, at least for the present. I am happier here than anywhere else. After my long years abroad I returned to ]’r“kmz still with enthusiasm and | new ideas which I desire to see put ]mm effect in China. But I found the atmosphere of Peking too conserva- much out of the world currents, and were too unwilling to consider new ideas. I chose Shanghai as my pres- ent home because it is so cosmopoli- tun. There are people here from all over the world and for all over China. It is a busy commercial cen- ter, a clearing house for modern thiught. I find inspiration here and em happy in watching China work out a government under which she resources.” | Are the ladies of New Britain | interested in a special af- ternoon for ladies’ clubs or parties, at the AETNA BOWLING AI‘I‘EYS TEL. 1112-3