JOKES IN GERMANY.
WORKMEN AND BEER. EFFECT OF TAX ENACTMENTS. (Times Air Mail Service). LONDON, June 27. Jokes about taxes provide the. only amusement German workmen can afford these days, owing to increasing deductions from their pay-packets for Stale dues, says the Sunday Referee. Beer-drinking has had lo be cut rigorously. Many have to he content with one stein in an evening instead of the customary score or so. In a Berlin workers’ beer-hall one night, recently sat three men, economically sipping their one stein each. A fourth man entered, trumphantly ordered three "goes” of beer at once, and drank them off. “But . . . tlie tax!” gasped his comrades. “How can you afford it?’’ The three-stein man smiled. "This week.” he said, “they made a mis lake and gave me my taxes instead of my wages.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20253, 23 July 1937, Page 9
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135JOKES IN GERMANY. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20253, 23 July 1937, Page 9
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