Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 12 | High Costs may Drive Germany to Prohibition

MH COSTS LI DRIVE GERMANY F : TO PROHIBITION People Still Eating Black War Bread While Bulk of Grain Production Goes to the Making of Beer . ; BERLIN, Aug. I (By A. P.) Oer-. Oer-. many heart may never chance sufficiently suf-ficiently to adopt prohibition voluntarily, volun-tarily, bat the feeling seems to be growing In various quarters that economic econ-omic necessity may ultimately drive the fatherland Into a place alongside the United States. Economic authorities pre drawing Stat St-at en t Ion to the fact that the worker I finding himself, IncreaKing'y harosaed by high prices and relatively low wage. The prohibition Usue, they assert, as-sert, thus promises to hinge upon the Inclination of the Individual, since thel government's spirits monopoly Is recog- nlsed as on of the nation's chief sources of revenue, a fact which would look large with the country as whole In the question of wiping out the alcohol al-cohol Industry. ' - Among the smomallen pointed to as facing ths Germans Is the fact that fey necessity many still eat the dark rown war bread, while the In tost statistics sta-tistics show that nearly .000,00 kile- ; grama of grain and other, mcxia aluiXs . are used annually by the dl?tllrlea. Medical experts attribute the reap- ' pea ranee of scurvy In Oermany to this scarcity of potatoes, and economic experts ex-perts not that more than 4X1,000. 000 kltvrama wera uaad for dlatllllna ptir-poeea ptir-poeea In 11, tha laat year for which auch atatlatlc ara available. fiplrlta ara lncreaalnly In demand for Induatrlal purpoeea, and tha irov arnment la eald to be Inclined to aup-port aup-port thla departure for the aake of reducing th Importation of fuel thue . replaced. Coupled with theaa feature of th situation la tha hlah price of drink. A lltra of Munich bear coata about 29 marka, enough to buy a quarter of pound af meat, which tha working-man working-man Is at preeent unable to afford mora than once In a fortnight. Th j eheapeat win, with ths tax, rum over II marka for half a glas. . Th scientific branches alao are feeling a pinch In ths higher price of Xlcohol. which coat 11000 per cent more than half tha war. Academic rlrclea aea a grav danger In thla to ratJarmanyg famous chemical and phar- TT maoeutteal Induatrlea alnca It threat-' threat-' ana to fore thouaanda of atudents In theaa lines ta give up their careers because they cannot afford to pursue thalr studies. ' t A plague af rata and mica I Infesting Berlin, and atiingent meaaurea ara ad- vacated ta rid the capital .of Us ua- welooma guests. v Daylight saving was enforced on thsj ' lata Csarlna of Russia while aha waa Imprisoned at Ekaterinburg, according to her diary which la now appearing aerially In tha Berlin press. Ths guards required her to put the clock ahead two hour In order to save electricity, tha thermometer In her room was ameared ever so shs could not tell the actual temperature while tha windows 1 wars painted white to prevent her ob- i serving ths weather conditions.