Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1920 — THEY’RE PAYIN’ REAL 'KALE’ ON RHINE NOW [ARTICLE]

THEY’RE PAYIN’ REAL 'KALE’ ON RHINE NOW

The American doughboys on the Rhine were brought to earth with a hard thud from their fairy-tale life in a profiteers’ paradise when Uncle Sam started this month paying off in dollars instead of marks or francs. . . Previously one had to show an order from the United States (o/'get dollars from the quartermaster. No longpr does* the buck private show his contempt for Herr Erzberger’s overworked printing presses by lighting his cigarets with a’ fifty-mark note. _ — , r :. With “regular money” in his' khaki pockets his Yankee thrift has. returned. Fifty, Or even 1,000 marks didn’t amount to much, anyway. J v But the. American greenback? well, that’s different. I " II"- I ■■■ Mrs. A. C. Merry, who has been quite sick for a week, is reported to be somewhat better today. • ■ ■