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Show BILLIONS FOR EGGS Market reporting is a dangerous calling in these days of high living costs in Berlin. Erich Dombrowski, the editor on the Berlin Tageblatt, who is held responsible by the courts for everything published in that paper, pa-per, was charged recently with "attempting "at-tempting to raise prices articifially." The case presented against him was that the Tagblatt quoted eggs at 150 billion marks each, when the official offi-cial price fixed by the government was 20 billion marks less. Dombrowski testified that he and his representatives had tried to buy eggs at 130 billion marks, but that dealers would not sell them for less than 150 billion each. Consequently in their opinion, that was the market price. The court was inexorable. It held ; that since the government fixed the price of an egg at 130 billion marks . that was the price, and the publica- 1 tion of a higher price was a crime against the government for which the editor was fined 30 billion mark;'.. DOUGH AND DOUGH A paper in a neighboring town that shall be nameless, publicly and pious- !y i "turns thanks because the women 1 of that burg "are not a-hamed to ; have dough on their handi and flour 1 on their nos".", " The giils of this' to-vn p-VY'lor their noses just as often of-ten and just as well as any girls on: eaith, and they cair't get their hands on enough dough, so far as that goes. Mayvill-i Independent. I |