Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-18 | Page 25 | Invasion Decidedly Alters Manner of Living for All the Middle Class Germans

Invasion Decidedly Alters Manner Manner Man Man- Man Man-I ner ner- er of Living for All t the e Mid Middle le Class lass I Germans I IBy I II By y B BOB DORMANt DORMAN MAN I nER HERNE Germany TerritorY Territory of ot the the Ruhr fluhr March 17 Bernhard Bernhard Riehl doesn't doesn t know what It is all alt about Bernhard spent four years in the trenches He didn't know what that was about either H He lie only knew that the war ended and that he was safe sate and could return to his wife wite and children There were sev seven n of those children then There are nine now Bernhard thought that with the war ended he could work worl and enjoy the simple pleasures that were his before a power-hungry power monarch at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to conquer a world But Germany But Germany didn't pay id Bernhard t doesn't understand that either High finance Is Js out of his lIu line Plaster PIns Plas ter and mortar are all he knows Suddenly the blue uniforms he Knew BO so well vell six years ago were all around aroundhim him The French had hai occupied the Ruhr In order to make snake Germany pay he was told What that meant he hA didn't know But he did know this this that that while his wages Jumped per cent everything every every- thing he bought Jumped to COO per percent cent Today Toda Bernhard gets 1000 marks an hour and works seven forty-seven hours a II week rJ His total pay b for the week 19 Is 47 marks Of this he must pay to the government 10 per cent leaving him marks a week to support I his wife wite and nine children about 1 51 a week according to exchange rates at this writing Hero llero Is Js Bernhards Bernhard's s menu for the day clay for himself and family Breakfast Bread margarine chick chick- orv ry coffee cortee Lunch Pea Lunch Pea soup or potato soup or bean bEl soup soul and bread Dinner Dinner Potatoes br bread ad Jam There are millions of ot Bernhards In InG InThe Inea G Germany The ea upper per classes live In luxury The Bernhards tho Bernhard tho masses of ot Germany Ger Ger- many many border border close on starvation