They refused, of course. There is no restitution in such cases. Money cannot take away the pain. Substitution is impossible. The extreme of human sacrifices are of no avail. Such deeds call for severe penalties from society. The nation would rock with protest of the people if railroads were to countenance drunkenness in engineers. Yet the locomotive is held to its iron rails and all humanity, warned against it, stops and looks and listens. The driver of an automobile has no limits. He may climb curbings, smash fences, break through plate glass windows. No penalty judges have power to give for wanton disregard of ordinance can be too severe for the drunken driver.

FIX GERMAN TAX LEVY
Total Taxable Property 1,950
Billion Paper Marks.
Seventy Percent of the Aggregate is Given as Real and Personal Property—13 Billions Held by the Poorest Classes.
Berlin.—The total taxable property held by the German people amounts to 1,950 milliards paper marks, according to estimate made by Reconstruction in its current issue. Seventy percent of the aggregate is given as personal and real property, 11 percent as town property, 14 percent rural, 2 percent mining, and 3 percent as goods, ships, metallic currency, etc. 