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Show MILK Mi ARE REDUCEDJIN BERLIN Use of Tickets Equalizes Distribution, but People Peo-ple Feel Distress. SINGER CARRIES HAMS l " Renowned Basso Brings1 His Own Food on Return Re-turn From Denmark, By International News Service Correspondent. Cor-respondent. BERLIN, Sept. 30. Milk tickets have 1 now been in use for more than three weeks, but although they undoubtedly1 are very useful and help to secure a more just distribution of milk in Berlin, , they have, nevertheless, in some respects proved a great disappointment to those' who hoped that when tickets were Intro- , duced we should no longer see those longj lines of women and children outside the places where milk is sold. I If the milk tickets have failed in this ! respect, there Is only one reason, which! is, however, a very plain one, and that; is that the quantity of milk coming into j Berlin is gradually decreasing and hasi I been decreasing for many weeks. This I condition again is due to the fact that, the milch cows all over the county, from , which this city draws her milk supply,, are in a ery poor condition, owing to lack of food and attention. ( A recent census of dairies In Berlin , shows that a man who received liXKM litres of milk daily now gets only 12no litres, although the same number of farm- , ers are under contract to let him have, their entire output of milk. Another is , only getting 1000 litres dally, instead of; 2100 litres in September last year. Get Skimmed Milk. The attempt is now to be made to let only babies and small children have whole milk, while others will have to be satis-fled satis-fled with their ration of skimmed milk. Bufe the housewives of Berlin are protesting pro-testing violently against this, claiming that milk skimmed by modern methods contains no more nourishment than as much water, and that to put them on skimmed milk rations immediately after reducing the butter and oleomargarine rations to one-third amounts to starvation. starva-tion. At the Stettiner Barn h of the other day arrived Germany's most famous operatic basso, Johannes Foenns, of Frankfurt. Returning Re-turning from Denmark, his native country, coun-try, where lie had spent six weeks' summer sum-mer vacation, he said the Danes are roiling roil-ing in gold and divide their time between speculating on the stock exchange and spending their easily earned money, while Copenhagen and every resort are full of wealthy Germans recuperating after their hardships at home and regaling regal-ing themselves with food, so as to bo able to face another period of semi-starvatlon semi-starvatlon when they go back to their business here. Carries Two Hams. The singer wsb loaded down with provisions pro-visions of all kinds. Travelers returning to their homes in Germany from Holland or Denmark are allowed to bring with them food for their personal use, and he had taken full advantage of this. Slung across his broad back (he is six feet three tall) he carried two big Danish hams, his trunk contained a whole tub of butter and about half a hundredweight hundred-weight of sausages, and he carried a dozen packages of various sizes, all containing con-taining food. The food dictator, Herr von Batocki, is doing his best to cheer up ( the people. Concerning this year's liar- i vest, which was favored by the weather, , he says: The crop is considerably bigger than that of an average normal yenr. The bread rations will he increased, and the closer the blockade the more intense in-tense will be our food production. The meat ration, which is now uniform for the whole empire, will probably be further increased, and altogether we are provided wilh everything we require re-quire until the budget of 1 11 7-1 8. 1 have every reason to hope that Hungary will send us the surplus of her rich harvest in return for Gorman Gor-man manufactured goods, as a result of the negotiations which have been conducted for some time at Budapest. Hardship Encountered. But complaints about serious defeta in the organization of the potato distribution dis-tribution are not abating. Ixical export prohibitions, which are still allowed to remain in force in a multitude of communities com-munities throughout the country, nre serf-ously serf-ously hampering the even distribution of this article of food, which Is the mainstay main-stay of the poorer part of the population, popula-tion, the working classes and the minor officials. wliOKe salaries are aliRolutely insufficient with the present prices of food. The Berliner Tageblatt publishes a typical typ-ical letter from a reader, who says: I have a small plot of land near Berlin, nnd in obcliencc to the public pub-lic warning that every inch of land must be brouuht under cultivation, 1 planted mine with -early potatoes. Naturally, I wanted the crop brought to my house In this city by rail, ho that I might have enough potatoes pota-toes for myself and family. The railroad rail-road , however, refused to transport them, owing to the local export prohibition, pro-hibition, and even when the loral council declared t he potatoes to lie my own property it had no effect. As J did not want the wholfl crop of about 'J"0 pounds to rot 1 had to carry them to Berlin on my hack. J?,a ''h ,1f itirnev cost me owr a mark and a half ?.d cents), so that my own pot a toes cost me five marks (?) ? a hundred poundw. aside from thf time and labor. I shall certainly not repeat re-peat the experiment. |