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Show Short-Sighted Germans Statistics derived from investigations investiga-tions conducted by the German government gov-ernment show that Germany may very properly be designated as the "Land of the Shortsighted." Nowhere No-where else In the whole world is there a country where there Is a larger percentage of .near-sighted people. Of the German states where visional defects are most pronounced, Saxony was discovered to be at the head of the unenviable list. There, out of every 1,000 adults, more than 200 are affected with myopia. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna. |