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December 11, 1920.
BACK FROM FOUR MONTHS'
TRAVELING IN EUROPE
P. R. Buchinski, Chicago Piano Dealer, Says the
U. S. A. Is Best Land of All.
Peter R. Buchinski, piano merchant with a large
and well-equipped store at 5054 South Ashland ave-
nue, Chicago, where he sells instruments manufac-
tured by the Brinkerhoff Piano Company, has just
returned from a four months' trip through the war-
torn sections of Europe as well as other European
countries. He spent most time in Poland but he
was also in Sweden, Denmark and at Dantzig, which
is a free city, an international port open to all na-
tions.
''Conditions are so messed up in Europe at the
present time that one hour in good old Chicago or
anywhere else in the United States is worth more
than a month in that unhappy and uncertain part
of the world," exclaimed Mr. Buchinski to a Presto
representative on Tuesday of this week, when asked
about his impressions of Europe. "Poverty and
blank despair stalk side by side over there, and
ignorance, is the victim of both money sharks and
bolshevists.
"Socialists from Russia, from Germany and Aus-
tria are fighting the good people. Russia was fight-
ing and got licked by the Poles, who chewed up the
men of General Wrangel, who is Russian, but not
bo'.shevik. Now bolshevist Russia is again organiz-
ing to fight the Poles, who all along have been want-
ing to have peace, but who have had to fight to pro-
tect encroachments upon their territory. When T
left, the Russians, now bolshevik, and who had
signed the armistice for any amount, were reorganiz-
ing to renew war on Poland.
"Conditions were very bad. The people that
should work did not want to work; the men who
would have worked were all at war. The bolsheviki
want everything for nothing. Poland, like the other
countries near it, has nothing to export but every-
thing to import, and financing systems are in the
hands of the money sharks, who are skinning Amer-
icans most of all when they catch them over there.
"These money sharks have demoralized the value
of the Polish mark as cash. The mark is practically
valueless -today. The American dollar is quoted at
410 marks, but the sharks buy up all the dollars at
500 marks each. The American dollar is heaven.
They also buy up all the francs they can get.
"Now when the American citizen wants to pay
his boat passage back home Polish marks are not
accepted as cash; he must buy the ticket in francs
or dollars. He can not get the francs or dollars
at the banks; that form of cash is all in the hands
of the sharks, who gouge him out of many times the
value of a ticket. And these sharks are the very
fellows whc will be seeking to land on our shores
soon.
"Polish peasants are ignorant, of course, and they
are victimized. People in the cities have no coal,
no lights; they are freezing- and starving. Musical
instruments are not thought of over there. My trip
opened my eyes to the selfishness and crudities of a
large percentage of the Europeans. No fixed prices
for anything; always bargaining, haggling. Twenty-
five marks for a cigar in one store; 12 marks for
the same make and grade of cigar in the next-door
store; such methods to me, a good American, made
me sick and disgusted me more than I can express."
ARTIST IS SATISFIED WITH
HER WEAVER GRAND PIANO
Miss Lowe, Well-Known on Concert Stage, Sends
Pleasant Letter to York Industry.
Miss Lowe, the well-known pianist, who is using
the Weaver piano, made by the Weaver Piano Co.,
Inc., York, Pa., for her concert and recital work
this season, under date of November 4, 1920, wrote
to the company:
"I wish to take this opportunity of expressing to
you my sincere praise of your splendid piano, the
Weaver Grand, its beauty of tone and its complete
perfection in everything a piano should be. It gives
me the greatest of pleasure to send you these few
words of praise and to wish you every success."
The piano Miss Lowe uses is exactly like those
furnished on regular order for the Weaver Grand
and is made in only one size and only one quality.
The customers who allow Miss Lowe's opinion to
guide them to the Weaver are assured of the same
quality which has been so widely praised by so many
of the world's leading musicians.
The Weaver Piano Co., Inc., has been approached
to greatly increase production of Weaver Grands.
In this connection the company replied: "It is abso-
lutely against our policy, however, to build more
Weaver Grands than can be produced under the
exacting conditions that have all along surrounded
the making of all Weaver pianos and for that reason
there can and will be no radical increase at any
time."
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