Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1918-06-21 | Page 7 | Piano not Necessity

Piano Not Necessity. A Berlin musical instrument dealer was prosecuted by the antlproflteerlng authorities for selling at $500 a renovated reno-vated second-hand piano for which he paid only $175. The charge was that he had committed "usury" In connection connec-tion with an "article of dally necessity." neces-sity." Tho courts refused to agree with the official view that pianos were a "necessity" for the soothing of war nerves, and said that the tradesman had a right to sell a piano, like and , other "luxury," for whatever he could Set for It.