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Show BERLIN FEELS HOUSE SHORTAGE Changing Sky-line Evokes Comment From Postwar Post-war Visitors BERLIN July 29 (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press) Berlin's changing sky- line is one of the several outward man- ifestntlon-' wh.ch are provoking com- I ment by post-wnr visitors who vivid- ' ly recall the elty'S pre-war appear-' nnce, both with respect to tho cleanliness clean-liness of streets und the uniform height of bulldbgB. This period of transition Is having the effect of creating among the OAP-Itol's OAP-Itol's inhabitants sort of grouch, due to the disheveled condition of manj Of the main thoroughfares, and also i species of envy with which the hin fallutln.' " tourists are viewed by tho natives NATIVES OBJECT. The natives soMn to reel that they are not only being crowded out but i bilged tO p more for such lodgings as are available, on nccount of the fas- ci nation which the. high ofters of for-i elgners seem to have for Berlin landlords. land-lords. The prevailing houalng shortage alpo Is reflected In ihe dearth Of office ac- commodatlons and the uapltol's once rigid building law a prescribing the heights of buildings are Boa bringl fflVen more liberal lnt rpn tatlOK. j As a n:-jlt. there Is scarcely a street in tho central section of thai metropolis whloh Is not Cluttered u, by clumsy scaffolding or whose sidewalks side-walks are not barred to pedestrian1 The municipality i act opposing ap- j plications for permits tor added stories stor-ies on nil sorts of DMIldlngB primarily because the remodeling process Is, giv-1 ing needed employment to thousands of workmen ( iry is iMinv. The functions of public waste-pa pi containers pla.oti at regular Intervals along the main streets in pre-war days i are now being usurped by womr n ana children who BWOOp down on scraps of uauer and discarded newspapers. which later are sold as waste paper. This profession WOUld have been Impossible Im-possible In the days when Berlin Was B0 immaculately kept, as the natlvej or stranger who dared to throw H pft-per pft-per onto the sidewalk or Into th" street would have promptly r,in ln, one oi the many "verbotens" of by-jgone by-jgone days Altogether, Berlin no longer Is the "spotless" town thai it on -f WaS, despite de-spite the (not that the street cleaning department is costing more than 3"Hi i timex the sum formerly allowed In th-j municipal budget. |