The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-12-06

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Tonic and Blood E,sricIae,'
will feed q tubercular child for Two
Weeks and milk now costs 60 marks
will give you fivc-hour ride on the
fastest train; it will bu yyou five good
square meals (but you must do with
out champagne). One thousand marks
will also enable you to rent fairly
good furnished room in any German
city for One Month! Think of it,!
The largest denomination Germany
has today is the Ten Thousand Mark
certificate. If the mark falls still fur
ther, Germany will soon need One
Hundred Thousand Mark notes, but
let this be as it may. 1t is enough for
us to know that 10000 marks ere
worth but little more than three of
our dollars. On account of the short
age of currency of large denomina-
tions, it is very hard to get 10000
mark note changed in Germany even
at the large banks. Imagine man
in New York or Chicago running all
three dollars! And three dollars just
begin to represent some value to us.
Some Of us have to work whole
day to earn this amount. Others
spend it in one evening for an opera
ticket, or for taxi fare.
But in Germany-and only in Ger
many-the equivalent 10000 marks
will buy all sorts of things, from dia
mond ring to couple of choice shares
in any good German industrial con-
Germ. 1t will also cnabel small Ger
man family to live tolerably we'll
(with strict economy one month! An
American family has more or less of
hard time living on SO day!
Everything is far cheaper in Ger
many today than it ever was before,
not excluding the peaneful days prior
to 1914. But the German receives so
little wages today, compared to the
cots of commodities, that to him every
thing is exorbitantly out Of reach. And
1T does not take prodigy to know
twenty thouand marks month is
nothing when shoes cost five, suits
twenty, and overcoats thirty thousand
marks.
Right now every German is wor-
Shipping the Almighty Dollar. He las
already begun to take only dollars in
payment for his wares or services in
many instances. If the government
did not prohibit the buying of and
speculating in dollars, every German
would Immediately dump his paper
marks on the exchange market for
what they would bring in dollars. 1t
is one salvation for Germany that
speculation in this respect is some
what curbed.
1T is also true that many profit and
grow fat at the expense of their fell
low men. Large Industrial enterpris-
cs in Germany are declaring enormous
dividends, and many director or
Stockholder. is paper mlliardaire.
But, as is always the case, the unbear-
him who has the money with which
to pay. but upon him who has it not.
And the big, underpaid, overworkcd
majority has it not.
AS for the American coming over
with the hope of reaping gain from
the buying power still left to the
mark (Which the German should but
does not get), my candid advice to
him is stay at home; he isn't likely
to be welcome under the present cir
cumstances. And if he has by chance
still batch Of paper marks which he
considers a part Of his assets, let him
dispose of them. | know a man who
bought ten thousand dollars worth Of
marks about four years ago. He paid
SIX cents for every mark, and for his
money secured little more than
100000 marks, which was still quite
a bit of money in those days. His in
Vvestmcnt, however, cost him $9,95O,
Tor today hi, paper is worth scarcely
fifty dollar! Almost unbelievable.
isn't it? Nevertheless, it is appalling
ly true!
There never was bigger soap bub
BILE than the Gcrman-mark investment
scheme into which thousands of Am
orleans fell and fell deep. Only the
lucky tourist who passed through
Germany or sojourncd there last sum
mcr succeeded in bencfting somewhat
from the valuta. Don't aggravatc
him by asking him what his hotel
bills were, or what he had to pay for
stop-over in Bavaria, or what the
customs authorities did to him)-but
some things were givc-away cheap,
anyhoW.--The Dearborn Independent.