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Show f HUNS NO LONGER I 1SHT0C0L0RS Lamentations Everywhere Over Increasing Distaste for Military Service. WASHINGTON. Juno 6 German ouths no longer rush to the colors with the enthusiasm that marked thf mobilization of 1914, according to an article in the Berlin Vosslsche Zeitung telling of the wartime impairment of the German education system. "The spirit of voluntary service which at the beginning of ihe war re vealed itself in its fairest aspect has now disappeared," says the article. Everywhere Ev-erywhere wp hear lamentations over the increasing distates shown for military mili-tary service." Scholastic standards in the public school have fallen so low, it is said, that "promotions no longer represent any definite standard of accomplishment." accomplish-ment." Scholastic efficiency has suffered suf-fered considerably because pupils subsisting sub-sisting on war diets for long periods are found to be generally undernour- Juvenile delinquency has spread Jo an alarming extent, and it is announc ed that "already the number of violent crimes committed by youths in Ihe city of Berlin is more than three times the number reported in 1914. ' "Thus," concludes the article, "dark shadows are falling over the brilliant picture of 1914. Every disciplinary influence, every effort of the still fundamentally fun-damentally sound German nation must be exerted to oppose this tendency , and to lead the children back to the path of rectitude ." |