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Show GERMANS PLUCK FOREIGN GEESE; Teuton Editor Deplores ! Practice of Making Visitor Pay More Dv MAXIM1UAV HMtDEX Oennany'A Ixtdlng PubH.lst BfpeolM ( able to The standartl-Mxamlner. standartl-Mxamlner. (Copyright, 1922. by The Ptandard-Examlner) Ptandard-Examlner) BEKlvIN. June 3 Discrimination jagainst foreigners is creating lncreaa-1 jed bitter feeling against Ormnnv. The) Present situation Is like that In which ,a celebrated doctor sent a woman pat-lent pat-lent to take the baths at a mineral spa. He gave her a aealed letter to a doctor there, telling her that It described de-scribed her symptoms. The lady, inclined in-clined to hypochondria, could not resist re-sist the opportunity to learn her true condition She opened It to r. id "Dear Colleague. I am sending you a golden goose which I have plucked Do you likewise." READY FOR PIA'CKIM. In many countries today a foreign PajHDOrt Is retrurrlel a murh ri Inf. ter describing the bearer as a golden bLrd which the natives should and must pluck Formerly the treatment of foreigners was a reliable criterion of a nation's culture and patriotism. Extortion of money from visltorn was not required at every turn Such abuses were reported in France even during and after the war but a regular reg-ular system now has developed throughout Europe which xnn. be summarized sum-marized aa "when we catch people trom high exchange countries they must pay for our low exchange In law and morals a person n.ust pay only for damage of what they art personally responsible and certainly certain-ly It la not the fault of the American tourist If the dollar buys 70 times more marks than tight ears ago nor is it the Swedish globe trotter's fault if with four crowns In his pocket he becomes a millionaire on crossing the Russian frontier. The Relchmark and the soviet ruble although a new issue is-sue of the latter on May 1st Is worth lO.nno of the old- have Inherited only the name and not tho value of their aeeeubed predecessors UNJUST AN D IN.H RIOUS. Making 20 pc-r cent of Europeans whose exchange is high, pay for tho sufferings of 80 per cent whoso exchange ex-change Is low Is not only unjust and often Injurious to their own com morcc but degrading to the nations that permit such unworthy practices. Every week brlnas me heaps of complaints com-plaints from plucked birds of passage, pass-age, mostly half amused, but man-furious man-furious Hotel keepers raise prices t i Americana when the dollar rises but do not lower them when it falls An American land-1 at Bremen, and Buffer-ling Buffer-ling from sea-sickness calls a doctor who prescribes un osplrln tablet and charges 2.000 marks for a ten-minute visit. An Englishman orders tickets for a ball and the messenger reports thut only boxes are left at six hundred hun-dred marks When the Bnglishman telephones to re-serve one th - I hearing the accent, says "Oh. an Kng-llshman. Kng-llshman. then the price is 2.400 marks u place" In Borne towns theatre tickets are four or ft- times de-arer to foreigners than to Germans The cheaper tickets for the Germans give admission only when papers are produced pro-duced proving nationality, thus the foreigner cannot evade tho tax bj sending a German to buv the tickets. APPROVED BY MANY. Of course, notod thinks rf refunding refund-ing the tax when the foreigner prevented pre-vented from going, gives his ticket to a German friend Worse yet, this thing is approved by most people and praised as a proper economic defense Women unable to afford butter .and Sugar for their husbands and children chil-dren become enraged when they learn foreigners can afford these luxuries as the price Is negligible to them when reckoned in their own money and f sk whv shouldn't in"- Py mor ' Bocause It Is wrong. It is dishonest to sell the same goods or the same work at different prices according to the purchaser's nationality and also because be-cause the state treasury does not profit from such flcecln DOOR TO FRAUD OPEN. Who knows for Instance, that the envied dollar man did not buy marks when they were much Jcarcr than now" 1 recently met one here who La very poor, but came to claim a small legacy Because of his paf -port hi was obliged to pay foreign prices everywhere. ev-erywhere. The same thing happened to a German woman who during the war married an English prisoner and now Is suing for her mother's-estate Such things occur every- day. Who can assert these extra prices always go urn In the books of the tux collector' collec-tor' Who can sav that the tailor wh" charges a foreigner 2 0.000 marks foi B suit of clothing does not enter 1 at the German price of eight thousand thous-and ? The door is opened wide to fi md and helps the demoralization of all business which is often Shady en- i VFESF ARE PEUCKJoD. This can be effectively fought only through diplomatic channels. Nobody would object to u high passport vise fee nor a reasonable fax on foreigners foreign-ers but everybody complains against paying four to six times more for the same article because their name Is Smith instead of Muller We muet not slip back Into tho days when a foreigner was regarded as an enemy and fair game for profiteering Only Ci ase submit quietly to plucking The belief that the distress of three hundred million people can bo allev-SXJ; allev-SXJ; Sy charging a few thousand traveler, trav-eler, enormous prices Is Juat aa childish child-ish a-s the communist muddle head SSnand thai Amschel Rothschild of Frankfort should divide his fortune u irh all This wise banker when the demand ! wi made, turned to his cash-lei cash-lei and said: , .w - "Give this man three marks, that is his exact share." |