Gymnasts and Profiteers

Fifty thousand acrobats are gyrating in Munich in the various events of the National gymnastic meet. Representatives from turn-vereins in North and South America, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Switzerland answered when preliminary roll was called.

Hundreds of thousands of spectators flocked to Munich for the exhibitions. The municipality was at its wits' end--not how to accommodate the throngs--but how to keep down the price of beer. For the Brewers' Association had agreed among themselves to triple the price of Muenchener, and not until the Bavarian government intervened was the normal level reaffirmed. (For Ludendorff's speech see page 11.)