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Show GERMANY FACING SERIOUS PROBLEM Baltimore. Md . Dec. 20. That Ger-manv Ger-manv is facing a serious problem be cause of the great drifting of the people peo-ple from the rural districts into the cities and industrial centers, was the statement made in a lecture at Johns Hopkins university yesterday by Prof Carl Rathgen of the Colonllal Institute at Hamburg and Kaiser Wilhelm r. change professor at Columbia university univer-sity this year Prof. Rathgen said that whereas In 1882 something like 19,000,000 people in Germany were engaged In agricultural agricul-tural pursuits, today the number was less than 18.000,000. |