The Adair County news., 1920-08-11
few MA KS e
War IN .lAMbU2G
Streets Are Clean, Houses Fresh
Y Painted ard People Mel
Dressed and Fed
BUT THERE IS MUCH [lISERs
About 10000 Are Out Of Work, Prices
Are High, Homes Scarce and
Discomfort GeneraHPeo-
pie or Rations

Hamburg. - Travellers from thai
United States landing in hamburg
find 1t difficult to realize that taTrfv4uF
has been at war for six years Ths'
streets are clean, the houses GreshEy
painted, and the people one SEES IA
the streets look better dressed arei
quite as well fed as the average pen
son on the streets Of New York.
The Hotel Atlantic is flied VITA
Americans who pay about 20 per cent
less for their rUomS than they wuuIG
In New York, although these 5teS IRE
more than double that paid ~ tieIrlRl
travellers. The restaurants .si1I ~ fes..
which are now oprn until e:r era
O'Clock at night, are crowded with .r1O.-
pie who appear 10 have pIrnIy of
money. The women. are plainly
dressed, and the rich gowns of r,r,-rar
days have vanished. The A.ster. q
charming lake in the centPr Of fhe
city, is covered with smaIn yachis.
canoes and rOwb0ats.
Clothing is very expensive, a. bust
ness suit costing 1900 marks, :or-j q
pair Of shoes 500 to 1000 marks.
Wooden shoes for the poorer ti.rSSeS
cost from "a 10 80 marks. an,I- arg
much worn, especially by boys
The government issues new paper
money every day in 5, 20 and 20 HlaTB
notes. Business men have t.. -oa-rT
pOcketbOOks the size OF Ri,s'7flJse'
valises to hold the bills.
The working men earn FROM 10 tes
60 marks a day, which barely suf'"ee
to keep them and their families. p rrF
citizen in Germany has to have ear liz
for bread, meat, sugar, butter, m8r=7a-
rine and soap.
Pork Sells at 20 Marks Pound
Meat is 6 marks a pound, and pnrs5
20 marks, butter 60 marks, eggs
mark 20 pfennigs each, and a CONE
mon kind Of bread > marks pfenniSS
for flyepOUnd loaf. For Americans
who get 40 marks for a dollar these
articles are cheap. but for the 8erlRaR
they are very dear.
Plenty Of food of all kinds, inCigIGL
ing tea and coffee, can be bought by
what is called in Germany the under
hand system. The restaurants ali
have supple, on hand for customers
who can pay high prices, and WIEN
the police hear any hotel OF restauE'ag
has too nue. rC0d they make a raid
| and cOnfiscate il.
The working people, ana more ssps-
cially the SaIaried educated classes.
professors, school teachers, clerks ETC.
cannot affOrd to pay for extra food fOS
| their families and this is one Of tne'
chief causes of the present discomfort
which is prevalent throughout Ger
many. The only cOntented people arc
the prOfiteers. called "Scheibers," who
rank from the millionaire contractors,
who have licenses from the govern
ment to purchase entire cargOes az
| they arrive on ships or in freight cars
on the railroad, down to the small
"Scheiber' who makes a living by
eluding the police.
Nearly everybody Is trying to do q
little prsfteering to augment his i'd
come
Strikes occur almost daily in Ham
burg, as the wOrkmen are continually
demanding increases in wages.
10000 Unemployed in City.
The rathaus, or town han, which
was spattered with bullets during ;hs
recent Kapp revolution, is now pro
tected by barbed-wire barricades tn
prevent 1t being seized by another
revolutionary group.
It is estimated there are 10000 us-
employed in Hamburg at the presenk
time, of whom about 10000 are sea-
faring men thrown out of work by the
German merchant marine They are
paid 8 marks a day, which makes q
heavy burden for the taxpayers, VIE
will have to give up 40 per cent 81
their incomes under the new law caao
ing into force soon. Several enco5yB-
tiers have occurred in the streets be-
tween the unemployed and the ReichS-
Wehr, as the new soldiers are called
who wear gray uniforms and caps,
carry rifles and short swords, aRS
have orders. If attacked to shoot and
throw hand grenades and if necessary
to use machine guns, which are al
ways kept in readiness for an OUT
break.
Some of the more desperate char
acters among the unemployed have
formed themselves into bands and 50
around the city at night holding ID
people in their houses, in stores and
on the streets. The Reichswehr have
orders to line these bandits up against
a wall and shoot them when they are
caught redhanded.
The housing problem is a very DIFF
dcult one In Hamburg, as thousands
Of workmen have GENE into the city
from the smaller towns VITA tfHlr
families. the unemployed allowance
being larger here than IN their own
districts.
The American Express company and
the international Mercantile mR11e