Show TEllS WHAT Iris li GERMANY HAS B I Only Rich Get Meat and Eggs Prices Arc Way Up B Newspaper Enterprise Staff Correspondent Corre Ants March I 1 have spent nine nine- te n days a s in Berlin and eleven other l important cities of Germany invest invest- g ing food supplies and political condi condi con con- di ons found that masses ot of the thc p people tai fake starvation n. n and political unrest is ct lee food situation Is best set forth followIng compIlation ot of information mation furnished me from ten German Ger- Ger mn man cities by Emanuel food lood controller for all Germany The government food laws give each person calf a a. pound ot of bread and a pound i potatoes dally daily ounces ot of butter or other tats fats I each week I fifths ewo ot of a pound ot of meat each week eek I One egg every two weeks I One pound and a a. halt half ot of sugar each month third LOne pound ot of oatmeal each i month and a halt half of milk dally daily lor or I babies under one year Half pint of milk daily for sick per per- per per- sons No milk for tor others OFFICIAL CARD NEEDED Government food cardS are necessary necessary sary to secure all these things only ge geese se being excepted save in the rich agricultural regions where the farmers farmers farm farm- ers find it impossible to ship food to tl the big cities because ot of the breakdown break break- I d down wn ot of transportation I The rhe masses of the German people I are subsisting on cabbage carrots p potatoes white beets and bread O he the rIch are able to secure meats and butter and eggs by paying enormous enor- enor us prIces Butter is now 7 to 9 a pound hickens are 10 each A A. fat goose is 25 Steak is 4 a pound Horse meat is 60 cents a pound Sugar Is 14 cents a a. pound Genuine coffee 12 Eggs 33 cents each Soup meat a a. pound Germanys Germany's 1918 crops were only a third of the normal yield before the thew war w r said This was due to th the bad weather and the wide spread ti influenza among the farmers the shortage ot of farm labor and horses and cattle and the failure ot of fertilizer The refusal ot of a a. millIon and a half of Rusan Rus- Rus an prisoners to work after the signing signing sign sign- ing ot of peace between Germany and Russia added to the food shortage RULERS DECEIVED US The old government deceived the public about the crops Germany now faces actual famine with Its Imports stopped from Poland Russia Rumania and Lind West German provinces i German workmen are now subsisting subsist subsist- ing on 1100 food calories a day a compared with before the war American workmen have haye calories 1 da day dayI I This means that the German workman workman work work- man today gets less than quarter one of t the producing heat food tood than does the American j Thousands of our women and children chil- chil dr dren n are dying for lack ot of nourish nourish- men ment t. t T i visited man many food stores in Frank Franl I fort and nd other cIties an and found them em practically empty Many ot of the meat markets and bakeries are closed because because be- be cause they have nothing to sell Industrial workers are becoming more discontented daily over the food conditions in Berlin Nine hundred thousand former workers are arenow arenow now back on civilian allowances During During Dur- Dur ing the war they were allowed approximately a pound of bread dally daily Each is now reduced to a halt half pound I Before the war the German workman workman work work- man earned an average ot of and spent halt half ot of it for the family's food tood Now he earns and spends four four- fifths ot of it for bad food Since the revolution and the overthrow overthrow over over- throw ot of the militarists German labor laboris is more insistent in demanding higher wages and most proprietors ar are granting their demands fearing Bol- Bol and confiscation ot of all indus indus- tries Labor leaders are a unique plan for payment of war claims and the lowering ot of taxes They propose propose pro pro- pose that every manufacturer who has hasa a government contract shall return to the new government 80 per cent ot of his war profits The proposition is likely to be adopted NO GREAT STORES The supposition that German factories factories fac- fac tories have stored enormous quantities of manufactured goods during the war preparatory to entering world competition competition com com- petition after the war appears to b be I untrue With millions ot of factory workers in inthe inthe the army thousands ot of factories worked short handed and on war work Germany is practically stripped ot of raw materials and cannot become a great industrial competitor until the world furnishes her materials Practically ev every ry factory has its workmen's council cooperatIng with the soldiers soldiers' councils in an effort to control the new government It will require many years for tor Germany Germany Ger- Ger many to restore its railroad systems to prewar standards During the war roadbeds and rolling stock ed Now they are further crippled by bythe bythe the armistice demands German railroad service is now the worst In the world Passenger trains seldom average more than ten miles an hour Civilians are often forced to watt walt for two da days s 's at a railroad statIon before they can board a train because ot of the congestion caused by the movement movement move move- ment ot of troops In every respect Germany is in a abad abad bad y ay and the masses realize that their plight will wll be still worse when the paying paying- of damages es he begins ins |