The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-18
cost Of L|v|NG
GROWING LARGER
PRICE OF MEET AND BREAD Is
SOARING AND GERMANY IS
PERPLEXED.
BEBEL REBENlSCENSE5
DIRECTOR REMNANT MAY RESIGN
FROM DEUTsCHEs THEATER
TO ENTER LIGHT
BEBEL REBENlSCENSE5

comparatively few years ago was one
Of the countries In Europe where llv-
ing was cheapest, the rise In the
cost Of all the necessaries OK life has
recently been enormous, and is telling
severely on all classes In the En-
pire, except the very wealthy. Meet
ings Of protest and suggestions are
now being held almost daily ia every
town and city.
The pressure, OF course, is felt most
by the poorer classes. who must buy
retail and In small quantities, but 1t
is rapidly affecting the middle classes.
A woman OF the working class tells
me that while two years ago she could
keep herself. her husband. and his
aged mother on IS week, she has
now TO spend nearly IS for the same
amount OF food
Two friends Of mine who live to-
gether in Berlin and hold good posi-
lions tell me their weekly bills for
housekeeping have risen An the Last
year by at least one-third.
Take the case OF bread alone. Last
year the working classes got six
pounds of bread for ten cents, while
| now they only get four pounds tor the
I Same money. Other Heesssar!es have
| risen, some more, some less, but the
result on the whole, especially when
! the increased pressure Of taxation Is
! taken into account. IL to arouse feel
! ings that sooner or later are bound
| to find expression In tuIuults If not
| violence.
! AS to the causes and remedies, opin-
| ions differ. Popularity the rise Is De-
! lieved to be due to the new taxes I'M
! ~, nd ~, ri r a r.
, policy of the government, There Is a
| general demand. therefore, for q d.
| minut1on Of the duties on foreign
! grains for throwing open the frontiers
| for the admission Of Argentine meat:
and in some quarters for Ii campaign
against the cartels which correspond
| here to the trusts In America AT the
present moment each city is anxiously
celebrating the local measures 1t car
| adopt to lessen the evli az 1t anects
! the poorer ! ART Of their populations.
Debers Autobiography.
! The sa1u,1. soiune OF i>eDols auto
biography has appeared 1t deals with
events down to the close of 1878, the
year in which special laws were pass
ed against the spread Of socialism
Unlike the first volume, the second
portion deals mainly with the history
Of the party. and Is poor in those
Items of human interest which gave
fascination to the other. Probably
the most amusing anecdote Ia the
one dealing with the time when both
the author and Iiebknecht We're con-
fined In the same fortress.
Both prisoners were very fond OF
tea, which was not allowed them. In
some way, Bebel became possessed
of small spirit lamp, and In one
of his walks in the garden OF the
fortress he cut d long stick. Lieb-
knecht occupied the cell next to his
and the windows OF both cells opened
into the same courtyard.
When Bebel, in secret, had brewed
his tea, he fastened glass OF tea
into a net which he had himself knit
|, ted. and, hanging this on the end OF
his long stick, he dallied IL In front Of
Liebknecht's window, In the same
manner the two prisoners exchanged
newspapers.
Tho final volume Of Bebers remi-
months.
ReichstAg 10 Act.
a subject wnlca will undoubtedly
agitate the Reichstag. and failing al
other International conflict Will dom
mate the election campaign Is the
, meat scarcity and the failure OF the
, potato crop. The grain harvest In
? Germany was fairly good, but there
Ia dearth amounting to famine o1
all kinds of fodder for cattle. The
vegetable crops have failed entirely
The price Of potatoes Is already
pressing severely on the poorer
. classes, with whom, as In most coun-
, tries, the tuber is staple article oil
: diet.
The price of meat, which has beer
| high for some time. has not yet riser
: appreciably, but the fodder famine
if no remedy is found. Will compe
the farmers to sell their cattle before
/, they have attained the proper weight
, with the result that, when the supply
thus thrown on the market II alb
sorbed. there will be a genuine meal
famine. since farmers are not buying
fresh stock which they are unable
to feed. The consequence 10 q pref.
ty general demand from the great
municipalities that the frontier
should be opened to foreign mea'
and the fodder duties suspended. The
government replies with considerable
truth. precisely because there is q
scarcity. foreign countries have nc
supplies to sell.
Reinhardt May Resign.
Max Retnhardt Is thinking OF Civ.
ing up the position Of director OF tbs
Deutsche's Theater, which he haa
filled with such distinction and adj
vantage. He proposes to devote him
seaf to the work he Aoves best
stage production and management
apparently In connection with ligh'
opera. He has shown what he car
do in this line by his ma9nifcen,
production OF Offenbach's Belle
Helene" at Munich. whick - the tall
Of the theatrical world, and the stag
ing OF Richard StrauaEs "Rosenkava-
Her at Dresden. Tempting offert
from abroad--some say America
are admitted to be Turing Reinhard
from the Deutsches.