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The New York herald., 1922-02-19
By a Former Captain.

I was a regular Captain of the In
fantry Guards in the war, and have
wife and two children to support.
My father was MaJor-General who
fell at Chateau .Thierry. Ours is an
old noble family of Pomerania. had
to resign my post with the Reichswehr
this year, when great many officers
were dismissed upon the demand of
the Allies. -
For two years more I am to get
about two thousand marks a month
from The Government. What will hap
pen when those two years expire /
don't know, but I have already set
TO work to prepare for that date. ]
am taking a course in Spanish, agrt-
culture and accounting, and hope to
be able to emigrate to the Argentine
Republic in about a year. AS for the
passage expenses, hope the mark will
rise in value until then, so as to al
low me to pay for the passage of my
family out of some $4,000 marks !
inherited in 1912. But what are co.
900 marks now? Then they were
worth $4,000. and now $500! If nee
essary shall ask my uncle. who lives
in Argentina. to lend me the passage
money and .et me work the loan off
later on.
I am devoting few hours a day as
local agent for a chocolate factory.
make about so to 70 marks a day. So
my total revenue is about $500 marks
(s17.50) month. We manage to live
on that with the greatest economy
but it is hardly necessary to say that
cannot save a single mark. I am
glad enough to manage to keep out
of debt. got the employment with
the chocolate factory because friend
of mine reminded the owner that it
was due to the efforts Of the company
under my command in 1919 that the
Spartacists we=e driven from his
quarter of the town.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

Special Correspondence to THE NEw YORK
HERALD.
Copyright, 1929. by THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Berlin. Feb. L.
Just what it means that the
middle class is dying OUT in conse-
cuence of imitation in central Europe
has never been satisfactorily de-
scribed. Statistics that invoke a
comprehensive picture of conditions
do not exist. Unquestionably life for
all but the wealthy in Germany is
severe. Yet the measure of severity
is not necessarily physical. A "class"
does not die out literally, it does not
actually starve, or even go over en-
masse to work usually performed by
other Glasses" 1t "dies" as a class,
il loses the freedom to maintain its
traditions and standards.
The following little economic biog-
raphies have not been chosen to prove
anything, but to answer question
often asked of a man in Germany:
Glow does the middle class really
live?" There unquestionably are
families in more intolerable straits
and many in better circumstances.
Just how typical these cases are will
not be known until scientific re-
search has been made.
Though at the time Of writing a
mark was worth about half a cent, it
had relative purchasing power in
Germany of between one and one. and
a half cents. If salaries are trans
lated into this scale one arrives at
an approximate comparison with
American conditions.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
By a Mail Carrier.

I have worked fifteen years for the
post Office. and am married. We have
two children, one twelve, the other two
years old. 1 get bonus because of
the children, and so earn, taxes de-
Quoted. 1.460 marks $3.50 month,
but when / have paid insurance fees
and union dues only 1850 is remain
ing. This is not enough to keep us
alive, and we are now negotiating for
a slight advance.
We eat sparingly. I do not get to
see butter any more, but we have mar
garine, and usually manage to buy
meat once a week. for Sunday dinner.
and occasionally we have it twice a
week. simply cannot save pfennig,
and practically my entire income Is
used up paying for food. Fortunately
my rent for our small apartment Is
kept low by law, and it costs me only
"A rarks month.
What is hardest is to go without
getting new clothes. A new suit for
me would cost to-day 1900 marks
($6.25), so 1 make what possess last
as long as ever it can. And as for
the theater, naturally I never go, and
the children are better in bed than in
a movie. At least, that is what l al
ways tell them.
The only schools that are free in
Germany are the grade schools, and
there is no going beyond (what COR
responds to the eighth grade) without
paying some tuition. Even the con-
tinuation schools. attendance in which
Is required after a child has left the
grade schools, costs a small sum.
And though 1t Is what used to be con-
sidered nominal, no expenditure is any
longer nominal for me.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

earn 2,1S450 marks a month. But l
receive of this only 1860. the diff
ference standing for taxes, which are
deducted every month (193.40) and my
health insurance and pension assess
ment.
My brother and pay little for
rent. We have two rooms. kitchen
and the share of a. bathroom in a
larger apartment which cost only AZ
marks a month. My own food. cloth
ing and light come TO about 1900
marks a month, food alone 1.400. We
have meat twice week. no milk. but
get cheap butter occasionally from
relatives in the country. And do
the cooking for my brother when |
come from work and before l go. l
do all the washing for us both, make
all my clothes. and earn quite tidy
sum from outside sewing-sometimes
as much as 1000 marks month, or
the price of good blouse. But more
than once l have worked all night
without any sleep.
love opera. and last year my
brother and / managed to go four or
five times to the Municipal Opera IN
Charlottenburg. paying 21 marks each
for tickets In the gallery.
Before the war / earned 81 marks
| ($925) a week and with some home
work to help laid up 1000 marks
| ($50O) that has been used up. In
those days a suit cost 40 marks in
stead of 1900 marks.
I recently received an increase II
salary, but in reality I have less than
last year or two years ago and apou'
half what earned before the war
When / am i'll 1 draw "a marks 9
day and have a physician free, and II
! l sho11d be an invalid at go. viii ge'
"a marks a month from the state.
Ny brother earns 1,425 marks, OF
less than it costs him for food. Bu'
he gets some outside work as electri-
clan at the post office. Last month nc
made over 1000 marks in this way
and could buy an ulster. Next yeai
he will be promoted and get 800 marks
month more.
We sometimes get little money
ahead, but do not try to save 1t pu'
eut it into some article for the house
~ that way we keep its value.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

cal Society has recently five da charge
of from 20 to 80 marks for poor pa
tients, the rest to be charged according
10 their wealth. But, on the whole,
my income in fig Tres is only about
three times more than before the war.
/ am a bachelor. Formerly / never
thought twice about money matters.
I ate what / wished, journeyed where
pleased. At Christmas, Easter, Whit
suntide and in the summer 1 Travelled
either in Germany or abroad. My
father left me some property and
saved in addition about half my in
come.
To-day what buy of clothes and
food costs me over fifteen times as
much as before the war. I use up my
entire income for meals and upkeep
and come out even now only by cutting
down on personal expenditures.
never eat in restaurants or go to the
theatre or have bottle of wine with
my meals. / have meat three times
a week and have to keep strict ac-
counting Of what my housekeeper
spends.
The property my father left. and al
1 added to it by savings. was so in
vested that to-day 1t also is worth only
one-fifteenth Of it's earlier value. If
should have to retire from practice
which is likely in a few years, it will
keep me about two and half years
And when it Is gone shall have moth
ing left, SO far as I can see, but to put
a bullet through my head.
A friend a long time ago assured me
that the dollar would rise and woul(
do well to speculate on the Stock Elk
change. l answered that as a physf
clan 1 wanted to keep myself in trim
for my practice and not to be finger
ing market quotations nervously every
day and to be losing sleep at night
That was when the dollar stood at so
When it reached $50 1 began to be anx
ious. But now TO play the market
is the only way I can make up wha
my patients cannot pay me. For it will
be months before my income is more
than three times it's peace figure, ant
my cost of living is steadily rising
even to more than fifteen times what
1t was a few years ago.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
TURKISH MINISTER
ON PEACE MISSION
Suggests Commission to GoU-
ern the Straits.

CoNsTANT1NoPLE. Feb. 1S (Asso-
ciated Press) The restoration of peace
in this disturbed part of the world de-
pends solely on allied good WILL declared
fussuf kemal Bey the Nationalist
Foreign Minister, to the correspondent of
the Associated Press to-day Denial OF
turkeys rights to existence will stiffen
the determination of the entire nation.''
Commenting on the present status OF
the Straits, he said: ''1he presence of
allied troops takes away the nominal in
dependence enjoyed by the Sultans Gov
ernment. Why should the Straits be
under allied occupation. instead OF under
commission which would represent all
the countries bordering on the Black Sea
that are vitaIly interested in view of
their geographic position?"
Kemal Bey stated that he was going
to the allied capitals for the purpose of
| making clear that Turkey desired peace
along the lines OF national aspira tions,
falling which she will continue the
struggle.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
BY a Pastor.

My family numbers six. I myself
am in good health, but my wife suf-
fers from tuberculosis as a result of
years of undernourishment during the
war. I continue to support all my
four children. The education of the
two oldest sons was hindered by the
war and the second was wounded in
the arm and permanently famed. My
youngest son showed steady tempera-
ture two years ago, and so received
an invitation to visit q family in Den
mark, where he passed six weeks.
In 1913 I had property worth $4,000
marks lover $4,000, but now it has
all been spent. I received a yearly
salary then Of $500 marks (s1,770)
and to-day of $4,000 marks (s175).
paid in taxes then So per cent. of my
income, or $50 marks $500, and now
10 per cent, or 5000 marks ($17.50)
I kept servant, who cost me in
wages and insurance 342 marks a year,
but now, in view of the fact that a
servant costs over 1900. all the house
keeping is done by my wife and 1S
year old daughter.
We were accustomed to having meat
at least once day, now we have 1t
once a week, occasionally twice. We
used to heat and light four rooms.
now 1t is two. I had no difficulty to
clothe my family so long as suit
cost 80 to 100 marks ($20 to $3.50 and
shoes Is marks (s3.50), but now with
the cheapest ready made suits at
$500 to 1000 marks and shoes at 900
to 400 marks have extreme difficulty
in keeping myself in decent apparel.
I was wont to buy all the books
wanted, now can purchase none. ]
could write all the letters 1 wished
now must limit myself to the utmost
| since postage for a town letter Is 1.25
marks. for the country marks and
for abroad 4 marks. I need q tele-
phone for my duties, and paid for a
full rate service. Last year I was on
party line, this year I must give UP
my telephone altogether.
L used to take MY family to the
mountains every summer to spend four
weeks, and now there can be no vaca-
ton whatever. not even in the coun-
| try. My wife's illness makes this re-
striction weigh on me as a tragedy.
1.-THE Prussian clergy are paid ac.
cording to schedule and length of service
under the system retained since the sep.
aration from the State in consequence
of the revolution. 1t is one of the
problems of the present how even the
| low salaries are to be provided nov
! that Government support is to be lost. ]
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
By the School Director.

am AZ years old, am married and
have three children. / am In charge
of the public schools cf one of the
German provinces. My annual sal
aIy is nominally $4,000 marks. but In
reality I draw $4,000. rhe remainder
being deducted for taxation. So I get
1000 marks month, or about 135
marks a DAY, which is about as much
as a single man of my tastes would eat
up in days visit to Berlin. We have
servant, who costs 600 marks in
food and 200 in wages a month. My
wife reported to me recently that 1t
was not. sound to pay out 20 per cent.
OF our income for servant, and that
she would do her own work hereafter.
German houses, unlike those in the
States. are not built to be managed
without help. II my wife had all the
work to do alone It would mean keep
ing in order eight rooms CAmerican
county, cooking for five persons and
having entire care of three daughters,
only one of them of school age. And
as go away from home for stays of
several days It would involve her tend
ing the furnace. I declined this sac
rifice, and we decided instead to sell
my collection of Persian art I OBJ
tanned 10000 marks for 1t, or less Gin
gold). than what the collection had
cost me years before when I acquired
fl during long stay in Persia I was
living abroad during the war and lost
my furniture, so some of the 10000
marks went into a dining room set
The rest will furnish us with a maid
for a little over two years
Before the war (wlen I was still a
bachelor) my income was 10000 marks
(s2,360) a year. What I now earn
buys me almost exactly one-third as
much as I used to receive, and I have
two adults more and three children to
provide for. My wife and I succeed
in keeping going only by the most
unabashed scrutiny of every outlay.
Before the war I gave many lee
lures and received from 100 to 200
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

marks fS25-s50 per each appearance.
To-day am not paid much more than
200 marks. Forty per cent. Is then
deducted for taxation, and the bal
ance. 12e, marks, has a purchasing
power of about So.
/ recently was asked to recommend
a director for a German school in
South America. The salary. translated
into marks. was about 100000 a month,
or thirty times what / am receiving.
But living in South America obviously
does not cost thirty times more than
here. am not inclined to take the
post myself. 1t seems to me more of
privilege to stay in my home coun-
try and work with it to better times.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
GREATEST RANGE FINDER
OF WAR IS EXCEEDED
British Device Will Locate
Enemy at 22 Miles.

spcciul Cable to THE NEw York HERALD.
Copyright, 1922, bD THE New YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
London, Feb. 1S.
A huge range finder, larger than any
thing used in the world war, has been
developed here by Messrs. Barr and
Stroud and has been adopted for coastal
defense work. 1t is metal tube
hundred feet long and is mounted on a
carriage, which swings on circular
track like a turntable. In the center
tube there is a control chamber from
which Is manipulated intricate adjusting
machinery with reflectors at the end OIL
the tube.
The new range finder Is three times
larger than any used In the war and en-
ables observers to find the range OF an
object as far away as twenty-five miles.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
By a Department Store
ForeWoman.

1 am Il. charge of thirty seam
stresses in the dressmaking depart
ment in one of the largest department
stores In Germany. I am 35 years
old and single, and live with my
younger brother, who is telegrapher
at the post office. have been working
ten years in the department store, and
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
BATES MAY FIGHT
LODGE FOR SEAT
Indications Point to Battle for
Nomination.

Special Dispatch to THE New foRK HERALD.
BOSTON. Feb. 1S.-Signs are multi
plying that Senator Lodge is going to
have a battle this fall in his effort to
be returned to the United States SEN
ate and that dissatisfied Republicans
will attempt to nominate former Gov
ernor John l.. Bates for the toga.
Joseph Walker, former Speaker of the
House and Roosevelt Republican, an
nounced to-day that Mr.. Bates, in his
opinion. is not only the strongest man
IN Massachusetts to-day as Republican
candidate for Senator but that he can
defeat Senator Lodge.
Il have no present intention of run
ning," declared Mr.. Walker. but 1 be-
lieve that some other candidate than
Senator Lodge should be found
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
OUT FOR KENYON SEAT.
Charles e. Pickett Announce.
Iowa Candidacy.

DEs MONIES, Feb. 1s.-While Senator
Charles A. Rawson, appointed yester-
day by Gov. Kendall to succeed Sena-
tor William S. Kenyon of Iowa, re-
signed, prepared to leave for Washing
ton next week. Charles E. Pickett Of
Waterloo, Iowa, announced he would
De candidate for the Senatorship at
the June primary. Mr.. Pickett is a
former Representative from the Third
Iowa Congressional District and is a
lawyer.
Dispatches from Washington renorted
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK
session laws ordinances and the like both
&c New York York State well of the other
original the 1900 Some volumes extremel,
of New York. 1894 printed by Brad
ford copies; fourth laws of New York
of six copies; Duke of Yors charter
New York; of New York revised by Smith and Livingston
with margin by Smith ordinance for establishing
177s and the only known copies of varou
session laws.
s.siusad Catalogue mailed on receipt of One Dollar
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
By a Physician.

Before the war charged most Of my
patients 20 marks an office visit.
Now can charge the same class OF
patients only about so or 70 marks.
Only In exceptional cases do / re-
ceive 100 marks The Berlin Medi-
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

that Col Smith Brookhart of Wash
ington. Iowa. also will make the race
for the nomination at the primary cleo
ton
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
Mark Only Half a Cent, but
Purchasing Power in
Germany Greater.
ALL FEELING THE PINCH
Teacher, Captain, Pastor,
Physician and Others Tell
Their Troubles.
ny RAYMOND SWING.

syeciol Correspondence to The NEw YORK
HERALD.
Copyright 1929. by The NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
IvaIs
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-11
New Wells in the Hickman

The Hickman pool Of the western
Usage had another good weeks ad-
ditional production the past week,
notwithstanding the blizzard. with
three competitions. These are the
Gypsy Oil company No. in south
west 32-27-Gc making 1900 barrels
from the sand at 2,S57-2,9O7 feet,
following shot OF 100 quarts Of
nitroclyccrin; the Gypsy No. IN
5-26-6 is making 1000 barrels from
the sand at $3.50 to 2,S93 feet fol-
lowing "a 1oO-quart shot; ana the
Carter oil company No. IN the
southeast Of 9-26-G is producing 965
barrels from the sand a: 2,sG5 to
. 2,S93 feet.
New locations In the Hickman in
clude the Skelly- Phillips No. in
the southwest Of 25-27.5, the Mar
land RoXana No. 10 I'm the uorth-
west of 6-26-6, tho Cosdon No, Z IA
the northeast OF 6-26-6 and the
Gypsy No. 10 in the northwest OF
32-27-G. both Cnsdcn and the Gypsy
have the rig material on the ground.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-11
TN THE OIL FIELDS
otf,,, sz41 W. H. PECK Residence 2442

3j feet, but the east side OF the anti
cline is 80 deeply covered by coll
and alluVium that no estimate OF the
total eastward dip is justltiable. To
tho north there are no outCrCps
across the flood plain of the SAT-
Fork, which is three miles wide,
and TO the south the scattered out
crops do not reveal the character
of tho structure.
AN eastward dip Of 50 feet at the
surface indicates an eastward dip
of more than one hundred feet at q
depth OF $500 feet. IL this struc-
turo has the usual ratio Of surface
to subsurface slopes. Tho exposures
are entirely INADEQUATE to afford
data for reliable structure map, but
the unusual dip to the east Is suffl-
Cient justification for drilling n well
to test the oil-bcaring possibilities
Of the deep sands
when the above was first printed
oil men and geologists flockCd to
the spot and searched FOR tho east
dip but II could not he found. Enid
and CARRIER men persisted In the
hunt and the eastward eloplug
stratlfied beds as described by
Hnappcn we're located six miles west
in JS-25-iw. Immediately and quietly
the open acreage was DlocNcd up.
Some Of the leases that could not he
secured on a drilling contract were
purchased.
The telegram, which IS dated
March 3, follows: "Kuappen states
Salt Fork anticline IL I'm township
20, range west, not IN range Q Ms
stated Ia press bulletin. Regret error
In statement" 1t is signed 10y Smith
director
The salt Fork antlc,lne is 10 miles
south and four miles west OF tho now
Deer Crock oil field. II is five
miles north and ~ miles west Of the
new Tonkawa field. And It SIS t3
miles due north OF the town of Car
Der. II is located at q big bend Of
the Salt Fork river.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-11
Elimination of 4,S00-Acre
Limit Causes Company
Consolidation

pONCA CITY. March l0.--Au-
nounccmeut Of the consolidation OF
tho Francomu, Tom James and
EcunCy- Clcary oil companies with
the Marland oil company here
brings out the further fact today
that other companies, with prOmi-
ncnt subsidiaries, viii follow this
plan thus resulting in but one over
head. While no announcement has
been made by the Marland OIL COM
pAny Il is understood that the con-.
solidatiou was made possible be
cause OF tho action Of the Indian
department at Washington eliminat.
ing the provision which held each
separate oil concern or individual
20 leases on $500 acres Of Indian
land. Recently this provision was
eliminated aH 10 the Usage, Dtoc,
PoncA and Tonkawa reservations,
thus permitting each company 70
lease all lands possible,
There have been other consolida-
tions since the lease limit provision
was eliminated o few months ago,
and In each instance this fact has
made il far easier for such a merger
10 occur, especially where the con-
solidating companies all held acre
age i'm the Usage. Practically all
the Otoc reservation has been leased
FOR oil since the acreage limit was
removed and the big part Of II H.
held by the larger companies, In
the OtoG tho Marland company
leases are being held by the Alvorn
OIL COMPANY
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-11
Change Affects Many Men

The consolidation Of the Fran
coma, Tom James and Kcunoy-
Cleary companies with the Marland
affects several men, who have been
prominent here and throughout the
Mid-Contlnent field, and no an
nouncemont has az yot been made
a. 20 their future associations with
the parent company In the list
are +. B. LOwrance, local head, and
Robert T.. Clark Of the Tom James
company; j. X, Cloary, Frank Ken.
ney and w. l.. Keuly OF the keuHcy
Cleary company, and Charles l..
Martin OF the FranComR.
Until they came 10 Ponca city q
few years ago, LOwrance was a
prominent contractor al Memphis.
where Clark was associated with
him; Cleary was Tulsa newspaper
man; kenney a regular army Off
Ger and kenly a World war lieuton-
ant-Hll overseas veterans, As was
also Clark Martin came here from
Little Rock, whore no was prominent
for years IN city government post
lions,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-11
CoSden Pipe Line ConpdhP
Luying Three NeU Lines

Construction Of 92.mile, siN-lnch
pipeline from Beggs south to the
Lyons * Deanor pools, in 16-ll-li
has been started by the Cosden Pipe
Line company, 1t was learned Fri.
day. The now line, which is now
being strung, will parallel the old
four-inch line ot that company,
which VIII probably he taken up a
"a later date. h. X. Graham, head
of the Cosdcn pipeline department,
stated yesterday that they expected
20 complete the line within the next
10 days.
Cosden has also started tho build
ing of a four-inch line from the Bur
bank poS uorthward TO Frankfort,
in the Usage, and another fOur-inch
limo from Norfolk to ingalls,. in 19-4.
The increase in pipeline facilities
will enable tho Cosdcn company 70
meet the increased crude require
ments ocCasionCd by the installation
Of a new high pressure still IN It's
West Tulsa refinery.