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Farmer Hans Schweiger explained his position last week: "My farm will yield 6,000 marks this year, from which I'll have to deduct 500 for taxes, 500 for the blacksmith, and 1,000 for seed and fertilizer. That leaves me 4,000. A pair of shoes for my wife costs me 800. I consider myself lucky when some city fellow brings me a few nails or machinery to trade in for bread and potatoes." Said Farmer Friedrich Sticht grimly: "Before the farmers starve, every single city dweller will starve first...
...Author. Manhattan audiences know Franz Werfel as a playwright, author of Goat Song, Schweiger, Juarez und Maximilian. But he started up Parnassus as a poet. A Jew, a native of Prague, Werfel wears his hair a la Beethoven, is highly thought of in Europe. Other books: Verdi, The Man Who Conquered Death, Class Reunion...