GERMANY'S GREAT PROGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 88, 13 December 1913, Page 4

GERMANY'S GREAT PROGRESS.

V reently published report by the Con iul-Genral at Dusseldorf regarding tin

rade of Germany, emphatically ex-

presses the view that Germany's marvellous progress is undoubtedly due to the excellent educational facilities offered, the excellence of the technical J high schools, colleges, and universities, and to no small degree to the effect of the above-described continuation school training, which turns out a more intelligent, better trained, higher class working man. The present success of Germany may he put down to thoroughness iu all things,thoroughness in organisation, the undoubted advanages of army training and army

discipline implanted in every young! German at the right age, and to the; educational advantages offered to him' at a nominal cost by the Government! during the last thirty years, during! which time Germans have been striving hard, and not always favored by natural advantages, such as a large sea-i hoaijd, to attain to the prosperity which] they are at present enjoying. Germany's imports and exports in 1880j amounted to 0300,000,000, as against

£950,000,000 in 1912, V,v Koenig says. and reminds us that Germany lias kept her second place among the nations in commerce, though the United States of America is rapidly catching her up. Germanv imports £150,000 worth of foodstuffs, whereas the United Kingdom imports nearly twice as much food, in spite of Germany having 50 per cent, larger population; Germany is, 1 therefore, from an agricultural point of view, far more self-support-ing than Britain as regard foodstuffs. It is a noteworthy fact that Germany's cereal harvests have increased from I 14,700,000 tons in 1880 to 2o,100,0()0 tons in 1912, mainly owing to more scientific and better fanning. Wherever one turns one sees higher incomes and increased prosperity.