New Britain herald., 1922-04-28

avishness was to be seen anywhere. ] With this economy feature, Germany has been able to conduct the Great War for 4 years without outside sup | plies. And with this economy, Ger many is today getting over the effects | of a vanqnjshed nation. and staving off complete bankruptcy, by eyereis- ing the most comprehensive economy possible.
 I Prices Low But No Demand. Sugar In Germany today costs 2 marks per pound ca months ago 1t was marks), a great deal cheaper than in England with the commodity at pence a pound. or even than our 6 cent price in the States. still, sugar is used very sparingly indeed and l dare say, the masses hardly use it at all. In that way Germany's own su- gar crop covers the small demand and no sugar is imported. But should the population of Germany consume sugar as we. do. the demand would be so much greater than the supply. and prices would soar to the sky.
 MIX 6 Cents Per Quart Milk, at present, costs about 6 marks quart, one-sixth of New York's price, Still people here use it in diminutiye quantities. In the best of coffee Establishments, enough is served to color or discoor the bey- craze, without any attempt to add richness to it. Real coffee is to had at 60 marks q pound-chcap enough yet the masses to this day use cheaper substitutes made from barley or oats. Real tea is also a luxury 10 the German masses. different kinds of weeds and vegetables being used as substitutes. And the same all the way down the line-economy, economy, economy.
 Low Wages.
 This great ability to exercise econ omy, and the Germans love of his country. with the slogan first let us save our country" has made it pos sible for German industrials to pay pitiable wages to the workman. which together with the governments aid, enables them to produce goods cheap CT than any country can attempt, eX- cepting perhaps Austria in few lines.
 The workingman's wages are so lit- tie that they are spent entirely in food. The German nation is recuper- ating after the years of starvation during the war, but the food is of much inferior quality and whole .someness. The children go around with wan faces, on account of ma- nutrition, and lacking such food as milk, real cows butter sugar and the like.
 Bread Supply Subsidized.
 The government has been all along subsidizing the bread supply and the population, till recently received weekly, pounds of rye bread, at one fifth of New York's cost. Now the price is somewhat advanced, but still below our level in the states. It is rumored that the government will soon withdraw the subsidy, but this will not much affect the economical Germans. They consume compara- lively little bread and eat a lot of po- tatoes, which now cost 4 marks per pound, months ago F marks. For the masses the cost of living is go- ing upwards, while with us and Eng land the case is reverse
 The housing question is also hand led so that the government kept down the rent Up to the present very low a very little above the prc-war level, at the expense of the house owners, who could not even maintain the buildings from the small proceeds There is now project to advance rents 50 per cent This will mean a demand of the labor 10 raise earnings to cover the higher costs of rent.
 No Money for Clothing.
 With his present wages, the work man, especially if he has a family, can only feed himself and family. The clothing and other necessities of life cannot be covered at all by the wages. So that the workman today is not dressed as well as before, and what is more, he has been obliged 10 discon- tinue saving a part of his wages and putting away penny for a rainy day Unemployment in Germany would spell great troubles. Some pessimis- tically inclined Germans even say that it would lead to Bolshevsm, cspe- cially if the Russian Communists will manage to fan the flame. Germany has a standing army of 125,000; she is also allowed, beside the regular po- lice, a so o-called police of safety" of 125, ,000 men, all eX-soldiers. The pessimists claim that the quarter mil uon of armed men could not ouell a large movement--if it were started throughout the coun-