Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-02 | Page 18 | Culture is Threatened by High Cost of Baths

Culture Is Threatened by High Cost of Baths BERLIN Nov SO 80 By Dy A A. P. P P.- P. German culture Is seriously threatened threatened threat threat- ened by the high price of soap An I ordinary cake calco of or toilet soap cost thirty h million l marks r October b 5 r h eg which was about out 16 American cents estimated on the rate of exchange for that do day Laundry dry soap Is proportionately pro bro pro proportionately high and tho press Is filled with complaints that the average av- av family cannot maintain decent dec decent de de- de- de c cent nt sanitary conditions In the home under such prices Starch and other laundry supplies are also soaring Public baths are operating only spasmodically because of ot the scarcity scarcity scar scar- city of coal and many of or the private private private vate bath parlors have also shut down Few apartment houses have any hot water as central heating has been generally abandoned and 1 t the e price of coal and gas make I b bath a luxury in la the tho average me ite t I 5 I.- I.