Crime and Immorality Rising in German Towns
—Herr Von Puttkammer, Prussian minister of education, has been inquiring very carefully into matters connected with his office; and he finds that there has been a steady increase of crime and immorality in the great towns of Germany during the last ten years. This unsatisfactory state of things, he declared in the Reichstag, had not been without its effect on the teachers of elementary schools. He had no fault to find with the majority of the school-masters; still the tone of the class had degenerated in all the chief centers of industry, with the exception of Berlin. This was to be attributed in a considerable measure to the increased facilities for drinking which had been provided by recent legislation, and which had injuriously affected large sections of the community.—Independent.