Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-05 | Page 28 | Should Have Spent Them before War

Should Have Spent 'Them Before War By OU M. OCHM. United Press taff Correapendeirt. ' BERLIN, Aug. 4 (By V. P. Oer-many Oer-many baa d.v.loped a new Indoor port figuring- loat what wonderful things oae could buy before tha war with tha same amount of marka ene lay out for trivialities today. For instance, when the German today to-day paya out 57.000 marka to have his suit ptssssd he haa a tot of fun figuring fig-uring out that since he could buy a complete eult before the war for 70 marks. th 17,000 marka whloh tr. spende for cloning would bay. brought htsa tit sew suits la Ute etdea aare. The oost of a bad pencil today equal prewar cost of th. furnishing of a complet. living room, blronm with two beds and well .quipped kltchra. The price o fa little boa of matchM today equate the prewar price of ten pairs of ten pair, of good ahov A clgaret .quale the price of a gooef piano, and the single Individual little match with which a German lights his cigar eneta aa rhueh today In paper marks aa a prewar pound, of meat and a pound of butter. I Everytlme a German eats a cherry he doea so with th. realisation that there goes a M-mark note," And as for strawberries, he can t even think of the ISO marks each one sets him beck. ' Kvery puff of a clgaret. he figures, meana five marks gone up In smoke. And he gets gray-haired when he think, that every time he rldee his elevator lo the top floor he doea so at 1000 marka a trip. Most of them walk. I