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Show v GERMANS WASTE ' MUCH TIME INLINE Purchase of Few Postage Stamps Involves Long Wait Y GU8 M. OEHM Unitaal Pr.ee Staff Cerroagenoent. ! BKflUX. Kept. America army veterana. wall trained In tha art of landing In Una for hour it mo. would feel perfectly at noma In flermany that days. The 0rmin who really want to t anything from an of flea, a tir or anythlnr aim liar, a pan da moat of hia time atandtng In Una. Tha mora purchase of a few poat-age poat-age atampa involvaa anything from thirty mlnuteg to two hours aland- I Ins In Una. I Tha poor houaewife who wants to I uy a little margarine or butter M for har hungry huaband a pond 1 houra and houra In front of a Itttia r mark rt waiting har turn. If ona X Iairs to pay taxea. gaa hllla, buy rallmad tlckota or anything which Involvaa tha trnnafer of money ha must stand ftt laa. , Tha Horlinar Zrttung am Ulttag. commenting on thla terrlhlo altua-tion, altua-tion, comparea It with Naw York, vthora, according to tha paper, "tha housewtfa enters a a to re, buy a what h wania pays for everything at tha cashier' a counter and In flva 4 tnlnuiea la through with har entire en-tire day'a marketing." No wonder, ihe paper adds, that America grows richer and rtrher and atronger. "In Herlln the butter a ho pa are r-lnaed from 1 to S.H tha paper say a, "when they are open one recetvea only one quart or a half-pound of mHrnarine no more. Each person is served in order, and each quan- tlty of one-half pound la weighed separately and wrapped before the , next person Is asked what his desire de-sire may be." .The paper declares that from 1, to a thla nutter could be wrapped, weighed and prepared for distribution. distribu-tion. "But there la no consideration for the public. One must atand for one hour to buy a dab of margarine, marga-rine, one hour for a postage etamp, ao that tha loat houra during which one cannot work and therefore cannot can-not earn money add to the Dum total to-tal of the high coal a of living, the money Vataatropha and the general unaatlsfaetory condltlona In German Ger-man y." |