Show GEHJ1AN INSURANCE Germanys new pension law for providing provid-ing for superannuated workingmen which law was so warmly applauded by humanitarians humani-tarians is not working satisfactorily in truth it is producing a good deal of dis satisfaction It provides 50 a year for a workingman of good record who complies with certain conditions ons of these conditions con-ditions is that the man must not go into business for himself another is that ho must live to the age of seventy years a third is that he must have paid his assessments regularly and while these aro small they extend over a long series of years and in the aggregate aggre-gate would amount to more than the pensioner would receive in the natural course of events Not many workingmen expect to live to be seventy years ot ago and as a matter of fact not many do live to that age If the veteran of seventy has been at all frugal he will not need the paltry pal-try 50 a year which the state proposes to pay him during the year or two that he may keep above ground As the laboring people think the matter over and get it through their head that the socalled insurance in-surance can possibly do them very little good they are disgusted with it the consequence con-sequence will probably be the early repeal of the statute and the abandonment of the scheme |