Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1921, Page 34

_THE EVENING STA‘R WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2f, 1921."" rats NIGHTMARE LIFE REIGNS IN BERLIN Residents Eager to Spend Money Before It Is Worthless. 3 I 00000 Hi IN RUSH FOR BARGAINS Expensive Automobiles and Jewel- ry Being Purchased by the Wealthy. BY GEORGE WITTE. T i BERRIN, Germany, October 31.—Al- most $Vernight life in Germany has become a nightmare. The tempera- ture of the German people is close to 105 dégrees, and their actions are alarmitigly feverish. They appear as though-they do not know what they are dging or what is being done to them. ,They see Germany “going to the dogs,” 11ke Austria, and &rs hor- rified at the prospect that Berlin may i : , Keep the Wheels of Industry Going " Give Labor Steady Employment become a second Vienna, of whose misery they are hearing realistic tales worthy of Edgar Allan Poe or Feodor M. Dostoyevsky. er.” Whether they in- vest the savings of a lifetime in a plece of real estate, the taxes on which are innumerable, or in a score This is the great question confronting our co‘untry' today, to prevent business depression, a financial crisis, panic and starvation. We believe we have solved this problem. The fundamental cause of this existing condition is the lack of the pub- lic buying. We are convinced the public will buy if the PRICE AND QUALITY is right. They will buy heavy, too, as their wardrobes are bare. They have waited long for PRICES TO COME DOWN AND QUALITY TO o We are announcing our fall opening to you with pride and satisfaction as we do not believe that there is a style made which we could recommend to our trade that we have not bought. We are going to make this fall opening the event of our business ca- ' reer. Our Mr. Freeny has recently purchased an enormous yardage of the ) finest foreign and domestic materials for suitings and overcoatings . obtainable in an endless selection of the most desirable patterns ever shown by us at a price which will permit us to tailor them to your order at a very attractive figure. In order to make this opening an event extraordinary and %o give full time to all our shop employes this winter, we have cut our percent- age of profit 13. This is not a sale. This is a permanent pledge which we make the men of Washington in order to give them QUALITY CLOTHES AT PRICES WHICH ARE IRRESISTIBLE by sacrificing a large per- : centage of our profit in order to give labor full-time work this winter. E merely shrug their shoulders and say: “Heaven knows what will happen to German money. If it goes down to nothing we at least have something to show for the funds we intended to save for a rainy day.” Department Stores Hought Out. Whole department stores are literally being bought out by the m fore in the history of the country. A salesman of one firni.tells me that in- side of a week more than 400 orders have been placed with his concern for motor cars costing anywhere from 200,000 to 600,000 marks (approximately $2,000 to $6,000 at current exchange rates). 1f the present panic continues and the value of the mark keeps decreasing one of the world's greatest cities, just as Vienna did two years ago. The other side of the picture—the #ide of the foreign visitors—is just the opposite. Taxi Needed In Cashing Draft. Americans—and many of them have arrived in the last few days—who have come here with a draft, say for $1,000, have to hire a taxicab to take the marks . Englishmen, Scandinavians and others whose na- tional money s anywhere near normal are buying heavily in Berlin. Berlin at the present time is to for- eigners what Warsaw, Vienna, Riga and other large eist' European cities were directly after the armistice. It {x just one grand bargain sale, with men and ‘women in a mad rush to get real bar- &gains. CUBA PLANS BUDGET CUT. House Approves Report of Mixed Commission on Expenses. HAVANA, :Cuba, October 21. — Budget reduction was approved to- night by the house of representa- tives. It voted to accept the report of the mixed legislative commission fixing government expen approximately $48,000,000 for the cur- rent fiscal year. With various execu- tive department authorizations, in- cluding credits for public works fin- ished and in process of completion, the cost of government will be in- creased to $65,000,000. —_— ‘The craze for sport has taken {ts hold on English girls and they have equaled, and in many cases excelled, the opposite sex in soms of the most popular games. \ "The W.M. Freeny Co., Inc. Tailors - | e and Direct Importers of We Will Do Our Bit. Will You Do Yonrs?' t BUILDING | | ASSOCIATION | Pays 6 Per Cent I | a1} Pays 4 Per Cent || i \‘ | on shares withdrawn be- [ fore maturity i Al T Vl Exclusive Woolens R i " 611 14th Sticet N.W., NearF Americas Ph z/sic _ | WHEN NATURE WONT PLUTO WILL >] <