Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-23
EUROPEAN CABLE news REVIEW

on the outskirts of Berlin amid sur
roundings more squalid than those of
primitive man.
with as many as four children, evict-
trent, have survived the winter in one
or two underground rooms furnish
ed entirely from rubbish heaps. Dis
carded steel cots were used as beds.
The cooking utensils consisted of
patched up pots and pans. Shredded
carpets covered the dirt floor Logs
and pine box boards had been hewn
into rafters which kept the dirt from
cavlng down upon the occupants.
city authorities have undertaken
to find new abodes for the colony.
There is a Jobless village of more
than 1000 inhabitants living in one
room tar paper shacks on city prop
/ erty.
While the German prohibitionists
are attempting to gather ten million
signatures to petitions demanding
! that the reichstag pass local op-
tion bill, the hard pressed wine grow
ers of the Moselle and adjacent dis
tricts are increasing their propaganda.
"Drink German wines as a patrio-
tic duty" is their slogan.
Inspired by their success in induc-
ling the reichstag to abolish the ex-
Use tax on wines and champagnes,
the wine growers are looking for-
ward to a complete sell-out of their
! accumulated stocks, especially since
! 100, 600 American tourists are expected
this season.
Adjustment Of the excess means
a loss Of $25,OOO,OOO to the federal
and state governments this year.
President Won Hindenburg, who cell
ebrates his sixtieth soldiers annivers-
airy on April 7, looks back upon n
life of Spartan simplicity and rigid
military discipline.
At the age of II he entered the
military academy of Wahlsthdt,
where, as he described in letter to
his folks, "the comforts of home are
none, and the food is frugal, so that
going to bed hungry has become a
custom"
In another letter he requested ten
Christmas gifts, "a red bandana, u
pocket knife and Cooper's The Path
finder" but the book is still lack
ing from that section in his library
devoted to his favorite American
author.
After three years he was trans-
ferred to the academy at Grosslich-
terfelde, where conditions were more
modern, but the regulations there
were still more rigorous and there
was no chance for a mollycoddle to
survive.
Seven years Of cadetship completed,
he was commissioned lieutenant in
1886. Shortly afterward during the
Austrian campaign he received the
first and only wound he suffered
during his entire military service.
/ The German sausage manufacturers
association is complaining that the
! price of sausage ingredients is so
high that the popularity of the favor
ite German trio4-wurst, rice bread
and beer-is being jeopardized.
/ The association has petitioned the
government to abolish, the tariff on
salted pigs, livers and castings, inn
ported principally from South Amer
lean and eastern Europe. The liver,
with home grown animal fat, is the
principal ingredient of leberwurst
Changed conditions in the Latin
quarter, increased cost of board and
lodgings, have produced a French
counterpart to the American univer-
sity student working his way through
college. Heretofore work has never
been popular with the French un-
dergraduate but French readers now
are becoming accustomed to news
paper advertisements like the follow
ling:
/ Student in his last year seeks JOB
as floor cleaner, water and polisher,
or any domestic work reasonably
well paid which will leave early
morning free.''