Evening star., 1923-11-11
Soaring Bread Prices aroused
Berlin Crowds to ReuOlt Pitch
CapitaI Waited All Week for Revolution
to Break Anger Based on Vide
spread Starvation.

more is paid in New York and even
Cologne. Our farmers and traders
must not suffer any longer under this
system Let us therefore establish
an honest price for bread, consohant
with the real value of the dollar"
Increase Due 10 Error.
But such honest men in high places
are not beloved, hence we read the
following morning that the increase
in the price of bread was due Ito an
error in calculation" and that the
price would be reduced to eighty bill
lions. The wife of the simplest work.
ingman cannot buy the most absolute
has at least eight hundred billions
In her purse, and guest at
reception is regarded as niggardly
If he gives the servant only twenty
billions for helping him don his over
coat.
Two days later. however, the price
OF bread was again raised to 1885, 900, :
100000 and the dollar was quoted at
$50, 100000. And since the trebling
OF all prices is expected the people
are selling stockS-thus creating Il
temporary bear stock market--and
buying everything from shoe polish 20
automobiles and oriental rugs. Stable
currency, which has been promised us
FOR months. and which was to induce
the peasants to surrender their prod
their barns since the harvest of 1922
still has not appeared. Here also is
daily apparent an incompetence which
delies description, and the majority
or expert observers already fear the
new currencieS, whichever name they
may bear, Will be subject to the same
danger of imitation whose conse-
quences for the paper mark were
galloping consumption.
A scandalously big army of civil
N fc orIy; \
paid weekly steadily increasing sums
In the Ruhr alone two million un-
employed must be supported because
the government is unable to reach
an agreement with France and Bel
gium over conditions for the resump-
ton of work. To create order from
such chaos requires a different meas
use of intelligence and creative abil-
ity than that which Chancellor
Stresemann's rump government pos
seSSeS. Everybody feels that this
government must soon fall.
Scores Strexemnnn.
The Bavarian march along the
Thuringian frontier under the lead
ereship of Capt. Ehrhardt was such
successful bluff that timorously
uncertain Stresmann. who declared a
few weeks earlier that it was i'm
possible to rule without the social
lists, now throws the socialists over
board.
1t is doubtful whether he under
stood that letter of Bavarian Cardinal
Faulhaber. Whoever understands Ro-
manish dialects sees that the Vatican
gives it's apostolic blessing to former
Prince Rupprecht, who is regarded in
all Bavaria as king, and obligates
him to milder methods, and especially
to end anti-semitic pogroms.
The disarming of socialist troops
in Thuringia, which was ordered by
Gen. Won Seeckt, would make it pos
sible for Ehrhardt's troops to march
to Berlin. The proclamation of an
autonomous Rhine republic will per-
haps give the signal for further
separation. A second movement
could come from Westphalia- Han
over and the lower section of the
North sea coast, and the third from
thoroughly organized and monarch
Istic east Prussia.
Copyright. 1927