Show LACK OF COAL IN GERMANY CAUSES CAUSES' EARLY CLOSING Many Factories s to Be Closed and Street Lighting ShutOff Shut ShutOff ShutOff Off in Several Cities By Associated Press COPENHAGEN Sept 8 Difficulties ties with the winter supply of fue fuel fue In Germany already are being felt The Theora Theora ora era of voluntary or compulsory selection selection tion sJ f the fittest establishments for survival in various branches of trade and nd industry already has opened and business will be concentrated in these while others will shut down those supplying heat and light Butchers Butch Butch- ers favor keeping their places open lato late two afternoons a week otherwise to close with the sun The jewelers plan to keep open only on those days when artificial light Is unnecessary which during the north German Getman winter are very few The city of Stettin al already already already al- al ready has suspended eq street lighting enon en- en on account of lack of coal The German press and public are for forthe forthe forthe the moment far far more keenly Interested in problems of fuel and food than in politics Discussion of questions of constitutional reform except for angry orders to President Wilson to keep out of German affairs has p practically disappeared disappeared disappeared dis dis- dis- dis appeared from German newspapers since the the reichstag committee went home and the problem of the potato is isnow isnow isnow now the topic of the day Farmers are proclaiming an abandonment of the compulsory administration of the crop and anti of maximum prices and the return to the system of comm commercial supply and demand as a sole panacea to in insure insure insure in- in sure the necessary supply for human consumption demands an anI immediate Increase in the potato ra ration ration ration ra- ra I tion to ten pounds weekly at a reduction reduction reduction tion in the price and declares that It is Impossible to work wet and sustain life on the proposed ration of five and a half pounds of potatoes 1950 grams of bread grams of meat and eighty grams of fat points out that this year the scanty harvest of oats and barley will not permit of a supplementary ration of oatmeal and grits by which alone people tided over last spring |