Show GERMAN LIVING COST HIGH laborers and men in professions in many cases fail to make both ends ineat berlin why germans emigrate to the united states is shown by figures j issued by the imperial statistical office regarding the struggle for ex istance in germany A ear ago the office caused families in different parts of the em pire to begin keeping a systematic account of their incomes and dis bur elery family received an account book in which it was re quested to keep an itemized record of money spent on food clothing fuel medical attention presents education amusements etc A teacher and his wife without children whose income was con to save 30 another teacher and his wife also childless earned and spent their deficit was caused by them spending more tor food and 40 more tor en than the other teacher A married policeman with two chil dren of 10 and 16 had an income of and saved ao 90 while a married clerk with two children aged four and five earned anad ended the year a deficit of ao 50 A married couple with three children the fa ther being a brewery workman earned and saved 35 the fam ily spent only on food the account books sent by the va rious families revealed that in order to accomplish the above results the most spartan economy was required in most cases not a single farthing was spent unnecessarily the statistics attract special inter est in view of the new internal reve nue taxes on various commodities which will shortly come into effect making articles such as tobacco ci gars cigarettes coffee tea sugar matches beer cognac and gas man ties dearer |