Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-20 | Page 27 | Best Citizens Leave Germany

1ST CITIZENS LEAVE GERMANY Five Million Preparing to Leave Just as Soon as Possible i Berlin, Feb l. (Correspondence of the Associated Prase )t Students of I economic subjects assert that vt b ast 1 6,000,000 Hermans am preparing to leave tbo Fatherland for tho United States, Mexico and South American states a3 soon as they are able to ralso passage monoy, or obtain admission In 'the case of the United Slates. A majority of tho would-be eml- 'grants have expressed a preference to 'go to South America Official und unofflclul quarters have dlaplayod considerable uneasiness over the claes of men who aro now amlgral 'Ing or preparing t' emigrate. The head of the government Immigration office auid: "Tho most able-bodied, enterprising, stalwart sons of German aro leaving The very poor, tho Communists, the radicals, the Bolahevlki. generalV mo remaining with uj. It is the family of tumo sulotance which is i i-ut." GAVSB OF EMIGRATION One. eause Ot this emlgrntlpn Is conceded con-ceded to o tho war taxes and pnr- ilcqlariy the income tax, which virtu-ally virtu-ally prohibits ibe aalarled nun from laying something aside for the rainy day. Theae men generally no longer patronise the banks. They nre hoarding hoard-ing a little bit of salnry each month, against the day they can emigrate. In spite of the general agreement ambng political economists that Oer- many Is overcrowded and that unlcas LdiOOl readjustments are made with-1 in one year the nation will be able to support only 50 per cont of the present population, suggestions have been made that the government take immediate imme-diate steps to regulate the number and lUOllty of emigrants. With this In view a new law is being drafted. EU CLAM TlnN I l I OS It is argued that this tide of emlgra-j lion could be turned back upon tier-many tier-many to good purpose. Germany's arid lands. If Irrigated or drained, would be capable of supporting 10,-000,000 10,-000,000 additional persona, it is I ml and tho government has been urged to make these hinds available to the numbers now flocking into the cities. H lr Max llirsch, who. writing in the Berlin Tageblatt, says: "Ucrmans who IH are preparing to emigrate at this turn H should, for the sake of the Fatherland. H ret onslder." Unrestricted emigration H eventually will result in a weakened. H probabl anemic German race, he H believes, in view of the character of H the men who are leaving. H Others fear the exodus will result In H an "Impaired German culture" and H suggest the advisability of state aid for H the Intellectuals who have been hard- H est bit by economic conditions. H Under the present German law an H emigrant is permitted to take out wltBl him 10,000 marks tax-free. A motor vehicle tunnel 6000 feet H long Is proposed between Boston and East Boston. oo r ' ;H There are no road rules nor sPCetd limits in Chile outside of the cities. H