Show COST OF LIVING WHERE THE DOLLARS IS WORTH TH MARKS AND OVER recently a letter from germany has been submitted to us by one of our readers and as newspapers generally only quote what the american traveler r can get tor for hits his good american colars we thought it would be of interest to th the e public 1 c how bow the low exchange affects the working man over there the letter dated december comes from frankenberg a manufacturing fac turing town of about twenty thousand the writer the wife of one of the workers in a large textile factory states my husband is one of the best hands 0 of the weaving department part ment and he be makes ous figure but when the week is over it scarcely covers the most necessary demands at the prices w we e have to pay for food and everything elsea loaf of rye bread 1900 gram 2 lbs ibs CO costs ats marks and at that we can get it only on oil bread cards which each family receives from the community center the same with coal we are allowed one hundred weight just every four weeks the happy days of living in a warm room and having all to eat that one wants seem to be over in germany those rolls that we used to buy two for five pennies cost now 20 marks apiece potatoes 12 marks a pound rice ilce marks sugar marks pork marks beet beef marks a pound milk costs marks a quart to have a pair of shoes soled makes in an awful gap in the purse for it costs cos tb s 1500 marks and a pair of new shoes costs to marks the poverty of the people mages the heart ache my daughter kathe was at the beginning of december assisting the school board doctor she had bad to undress the children to get them ready for the examination about halt half of the children had no shirts to over cover theirl their bodies just rags pinned around aro un them it made kaethe sick to see this perhaps some borne of the parents are to be blamed tor for such conditions but I 1 dont believe many tor for the long years of war have just stripped the households |