The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-21
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Cheap Wine Can't Keep Him Abroad

IT takes more than beer at 3
Il cents a glass. wine at 5 cents
a quart. rent at $3.50 month,
and women who do your wash at
9 cents a day, 70 make a natu-
rallied American regret his ale
glance to the flag with the my
rad stars and stripes.
Adolph Marer. II. Of 1929 East
Market street, borr in Hungary.
has returned from a visit 10 his
native land. and with tales Of the
oheapness Of labor and liquid re-
freshment. but he always ends up
those stories with, I'm glad I'm
back. You couldn't hire me TO
live in Europe"
He has seen wine so thick you
could cut it like jelly and still he's
tickled pink at being able to sit
on the front porch Of his home at
night and see Market streets arc
lights.
For folk may call indianapolis
a g o'clock town." but Marer re-
lates of cities in Hungary where
they have no street lamps and
where he went TO bed at 7:30
p. m. for want Of something bet
ter to do.
TINE people are so poor over
Il there. 1 tipped the wash
woman who cared for my shirts
IS cents and she kissed my feet.
She said it was as much as she
earned in three days. You see,
they live on black bread, pota-
toes and beans" he explained.
The public utilities Of Hungary
can't be called "gougers. for they
only charge 3-cent-fares, but 3
cents 70 a Hungarian worker is
one-half days labor.
They don't see piece Of meat
in two months. and yet chickens
sell for but cents each-not
pound. Coffee and sugar and fruit
are costly" he declares.
On one occasion Marer went
into a Hungarian bank to obtain
small change for note valued at
about $3.50 in American money
We can't change it." retorted
the banker.
why not?" Marer asked.
Its too small. We can only
change big money" the banker
replied
Il let it go at that" Marer re-
lated, but I knew the banker was
lying. He didn't have the change
and was ashamed to say so"
THE ancestral ways of living
i when Marer was a boy are
just as they were when he left the
"old" country. Cobblers use wood
en- nails for shoes. Funeral pro-
cessions are still headed by grave
diggers.
He visited Rumania and Czecho-
Slovakia. The Czechs he found
least affected by the depression
of the countries visited.
War widows and mothers of
dead soldiers are the tobacco SELL
ers of the country. A visitor al
ways buys his cigars and smoking
tobacco from woman who lost
man in service. But 60 per cent
of the money one earns goes back
to the government in taxes. The
war widows pay no taxes. Builders
of homes are exempt from realty
taxes Tor twenty-five years, he
said
Marer was In Berlin the day
Hitler received his ballot beating.
1T was not riotous as the
papers might have you believe.
In fact, it was quieter than some
of our elections" he says.
ID UMANIA'S slicing of a por-
N ton of Hungary is a thorn
in the side of his country.
They can't wait until another
war comes so they can get that
land back. Senator Borah. who
favors the return of Hungary's
territories to her would be hero
il he went there. His stand
against Rumanian aggression
makes him a beloved man." Marer
said.
But would I like to live there
again? I should say not. We're
much better off, depression or no
depression"