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Show LIFE IN BLACK FOREST HAPPY American Writer Enjoys Luxuries and Fails to Find High Taxes BY H,MAM BIRD-Special BIRD-Special Correspondent of The Stand ard-r.nmlw r. (Copyright. 1922. by The Standard-Examiner. Standard-Examiner. TKIBERO. Baden. Sept. 2. "In the heart of the Rlnck Forest " might, to the ignorant, call up visions of wilderness, wil-derness, savage beasts, and nocturnal marauders. But, timorous reader, be reassured You would be far inoro likely to meet u bear or a pums in a City park, where now and then they escape from the zoo nnd bandits are much more common In tho Bols Do Boulogne than hereabouts. We are In a luxurious hotel. We have a private bath, with a shower A little pink-shaded reading lamp Is beside each twin bed. and a steam radiator underneath the window would be drowning out the guitars that waft mellow harmonies from tho distance, but ..for the fact that It is J midsummer and radiators Get! Bel Dank make music only when lull of j Bteam. Below ntalrs there Is a bar with i dark oaken tables and deep leather chairs and when ou sink Into the cushions after the long climb up the j hills from the rillroad station a smiling smil-ing fraulein places a "weln karte" bo-fore bo-fore you. MAKES ON El THIRSTY. Let's see: Rhefnwelh, Mohelwcln, pfalz'.vein. franzoeslsehe sin dwein, no Here we are: Liquor. Hello, what's that? Black and white 2f. mk Let us calculate about three centJ, ! six black and kwhite, bitte. fraub ln. ! It is brought Six tall glasses with) a portion of reddish fluid In each none too generous as to quantity but what can you expect at the price? Bottles of mineral water accompany the glasses. But the color of tiie liquid arouses suspicion. .No Scotch ever had that brick tinge. Y e taste with misgiving It Is certainly not Scotch. What horrible substitute ha,s been palmed off on us7 We call the manager and register a kick This, we tell him. is a reputable reputa-ble first class hotel catering to a distinguished clientele It run not afford to sell imitation Scotch. If he has not Scotch, very well, but Bcratcb it off the card GOOD KENTUCKY BRAND, The manager is apologetic "We had Scotch .when the card was printed but it is pone Hut what I am scrying scry-ing Is really good whisky." Wi sternly object again. One of us demands to see the bottle The manager, with more apologies, gets it We read "James E Pepper, Lexington. Kv." ith some difficulty we restrain our impulse to stand up and cheer. We give the manager the Impression that our wrath is sllghth appeased We kick each other under the table. We bite our lips to keep from laughing laugh-ing Some people might scorn us for not knowing what we were drinking, until we saw the label But, scornor, nave you ever gone to a dark pantry shelf and taken a nibble of chocolate thinking think-ing It was cheese7 And who wojld dream of finding prewar American orhialrv in the 'heiirt of the Black Eorest ?" NO TAXES AS YET, Thus far we have not met any of those horrible taxes Wherewith the German state Is said to overwhelm the hrgaln hunting tourist. Wo p i 700 marks a day for room anil bath with board. With bath it is only 550 and 1 5 per cent extra ;or service in lieu of tips The horrible tax Is another an-other "j per cent, but not of the whole sum. only on one-fourth of it, supposing to represent the Nalue of j the room alone. Bv rything Is on the same scale. Our railroad tickets from Freiburg to Trlberg, a three hour Journey half I the time with two engine? puffing on the Steep mountain grades, costs U ss J than 15 cents each The railroad s total revenue from that tr.nn could not have been over $5u. All th-i laws Of finance and economics arc being flouted In the daily life of YPc German Ger-man la , u.i r i.d nobody appfiars to be any the Wore for It. I have taikej with le man merchan'.s who si-frankly si-frankly and I believe honestly th it their prices for goods are lower than prevailing wholesale rates. If the;-sell the;-sell in : a suit of clothes (pure wool. Kood tail r ng), for 6000 marks ney are naMng a profit of pfrhups J500 mark" :n 1 at they paid for it. But to replenish their sto k :h y pay, soy 000 mi r s 'But Lput ip nonsens.," one exclaims. ex-claims. "Why should a merchant sell un artielc for C000 mark? and then turn rpund and buy t again for 1000?" it ii nonsensical, indeed, under on laws of business. But tnat Ij how busltttrs i "-.inducted in Germany today, to-day, .id the Ignoring of "business comnvji c.) -. ' i- v. Iiul Ik retarding the total "economic collapse" of German Ger-man v |