Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-25 | Page 6 | Hard-Pushed for Food

HARD-PUSHED FOR FOOD. Since the internment of several thousand thou-sand German soldiers in Holland, the authorities have been compelled to reduce re-duce the allowanco of dog meat, now one of the staple articles of food of the Dutch people. One of the jokes passed along from generation to generation gen-eration in the United States tells of the use of dogs and eats in the making of sausage, and we recall a ghastly form of the joke when the wife of a sausage manufacturer disappeared and was supposed to have been thrown into one of tlft big rendering vats by her husband. Leutgert was the name of the manufacturer, and Chicago sausage at once became "Leutgert," with the result re-sult that few people could be induced to purchase the Windy City brands, and siomacns ail over the country turned at the very thought of sausage. But the use of horse" and dog meat in Europe Eu-rope is no joking matter but a stern reality, and no doubt the starving people peo-ple of many localities are glad to get it in sufficient quantities to relieve hunger. We have never been reduced to such straits in the United States, and we hope the day will never come when "Fido" and "Old Dobbin" are used for soups and roasts, although the American Indians declare dog meat is "heap good," and once in a great while an attempt is made to sell horse meat in the big cities. It is different in Europe, Eu-rope, where some of the people prefer game when it is "high" and extremely offensive to the nostrils of the average Yankee. We are beginning to believe that if Germany goes through another war winter, rats and mice will be esteemed es-teemed a great delicacy before spring. We hope the situation will not be- come so desperate in Holland, and we dare say that the government at Washington Wash-ington will make strenuous endeavors to furnish the Dutch, people with grain of some kind before they are reduced to the last extremity. Whatever may be the outcome of the present peace talk, it is certain that the central powers cannot hold out very many months. Not long ago we saw a statement to the effect ef-fect that food was so scarce in Germany Ger-many that when the surrender is finally made the United States will be called upon to supply the Germans with food in order to keep them from starving. This is possible although improbable, for the Germans have taken possession of all the grain in Europe upon which they could lay hands, leaving its lawful owners to endure the pangs of hunger. This ate especially true of Rumania and the Ukraine. Had it not been for the Czecho-Slovaks it is quite probable tho Berlin government might have secured grain from Siberia, where there la said I to be much wheat stored. As it is, the i food situation in Petrograd and Moscow is much worse than in Berlin or any of the other German cities. After looking over the wholo field, Americans can take pride in tho fact that there is no suffering in Great Britain, Franco and Italy on account of lack of food, nnd that our soldiers as well as the heroic men fighting under the various entente flags are well fed. Tho Englishman still has his roast beef and leg of mutton, mut-ton, and the Frenchman and Italian are fairly well supplied with tho Btaples they uso in timo of peace. In any event, they are not compelled to eat horse and dog meat.