Show MANY IS HUNGRY BUT ESCAPES S STARVATION TAR Affecting See ce c Rel Related ted by Visitor Visitor Visitor tor to Berlin Frank W. W Rostock Y Cincinnati Post N. N E. E A A. A Correspondent ent in March 1 It 1 It It was wit with feelings of doubt and and wonder t I crossed the German frontier a aLike at eun eum Like others about to ente n nJ- nJ and waiting for tor m my passport bv by the German c consul ery very person whom I met mel wa bound bund from the new hat chat conditions in that count county countr y ike f many Dan was wail pictured as a country countr f 1 r ng men wom women n and children plots and holdups I It depicted as a place to stay out of of ne to venture into y the first Germans at appeared to be he Je pretty prett well weir fed S they th were spry oil ol r foot toot dust d fast and efficiently and were us Qu cu Almost In instantly those e s s-of s f doubt and wonder were dis- dis Perhaps folk in the interior tb bev different but they acted just ordinary people here n a-n any is s not starving But Gets Gers Ger- Ger s hungry especially especially for a af ae a ae e or df f diet Lack of sugar anda anc and a y of wheat and milk the average German to a diet of ol dark colored bread coffee made almost anything but coffee and tiles bits FOOD F FOOD OD AT PREMIUM bd d food is at a premium taut Hut who have plenty plent of ot money can canas hase as asel almost an anything ing they wan wands want wan is ds are issued for bread po- po and meat Sugar and butter butt r Milk I lk is unobtainable ex- ex rO fo Children under 6 and for sick ns hue tie the well off oft may eat their n restaurants sometimes as many manye manya e e meals a day common folk subs subs' sub- sub n nods nods' s' s which the ordinary lean icon family would regard as ration rations i the homes of the work workers rs called at the smaller milk and stations to get an inkling of the Im of distribution The average r J who ho is paid about 2 2 marks pu our ur uror For or 20 marks a da day finds the mIot supplying food for his fain falu- to say nothing of ot clothing medicines I THING H G FABULOUS st thing h g of ot all aU kinds kinds commands touT bus us prices Shoes are almost unas un- un as ble The cost of medicines is high New Kew clothes are not to be beh h of Amusements belong to tosy hoof has sy the family of a worker in in Berlin This the poor district A mother t two small children were eating noonday meal It n consisted of ot ll potatoes a. a few onions few onions coffee out of roasted barle barley and some f 1 dark oark colored bread For the ing 1 meal the potatoes remaining from noon were ere to be warmed up 4 cc e was wab to be warmed over and rp p prepared from water cabbage Island Is i. i and a small slice of sausage tat t was to be on the bill of fare faree be e ext ett day They were saving bof goose to eat on Sunday Sunda br breakfast this family had barley i k bread with jam and a bit of oft t 10 o'clock there was the g lunch of bread and a little littlee e t was the day in and day out of oft the workers worker's family When he added a bit of ate late On chocolate days the one of the children joined before a confectionery GET lE E GET GET GOOSE MEAT t en comes goose da day day- Theis The TheIs Is the German national bird Iwas was vas a time lime when this well fed fedt tufted bluffed t with TV food until he nearly iwas was the pride of Germany Now oi ose comes to the butchers bulcher's with wilh loW low coating coaling of fat The goose which all Germany spreads is read and devours ours with wilh great greal ling Ing of lips is js as scarce as other I And the worker instead of ot bete be- be te to purchase a whole goose I c cut t just as in America we b buy y or pork I Ic meat costs what in Germany a a. fabulous sum Bum One Onel l' l costs 12 marks I over 6 Is permitted to toe lo to e a piece of meat about II IIa of a mans man's fist For children children an n allowance of ot half a pound e J Until children become a aLthey athey they are permitted to 16 have a athan ore re than a pint of or milk a day 11 and 2 23 years a little I less ss than a a. pint and between 2 24 and 4 years about halt half a pint Children between be- be between be be- tween teen 4 and 6 years drink condensed milk i iThe IThe I The butter allowance per person person weekly measures about the size of ot a ahen aI I 1 hen egg gg A somewhat larger allowance allowance allow allow- ance is made for tor margerine flutter Butter ranges In price from 20 lo to to 30 marks a pound COAL SHORTAGE j I And nd then there there- is the coal shortage This affects everybody very body to a greater I extent than thau any of 01 the other sh shortages I 1 cannot say that I 1 ev ever r was really 1 warm wann warm in Germany except when taking I a bath And from the he bathtub bathtub- I generally generally generally gen gen- leaped into Into an Rn atmosphere t which which- chilled ed me to lo the bone bon This Thra condition cO dl has has' made the weekly bath unpopular in many G German Germa homes The coal allow allowance nce has been en cut to about sixth one-sixth of what it Yo was s in normal normal nor nor- nor nor-I m mal l times Rooms in inmany many good goodho hoI hoj ho ho- hotels j I are re never heated Rooms In 11 others others oth oth- fOr ers are made are made lukewarm lukewarm Hotels Hotels' save Hotels sa save sae e t their heat for tor the lobbies dining rooms and You get a I go good d when impression Impression Impression- when you you- you register but the I chills follow In the homes of ot evenI even the wealthy W persons fire often burns I ia in only one room In the homes of the the- workers fire tIre bUrns only when there here fa is absolute need for tOI It I The children in to all cases are the greatest sufferers sl ff I watched them In Inthe inthe j the shops and on the tIle the streets I Tv met th them m at the doors of or schoolhouses and I again at the doors of churches when they Were sere ere dressed in their Sunday I. I best best- Some Som of them had fairly good I but the th gr great at majority were W re clad Whey They wore Vore little cotton suits frequently partially made Q of pf paper paper pa pa- per flimsy looking stockings and oc occasionally occasionally occasionally oc- oc I saw an overcoat Girls wore wor the skimpiest of dresses and with ith the ex of Sundays few wore hats even in very ery cold weather I And nd yet t they played prayed around like our OUI children at home romping over over the I piles of ot hardened snow They laughed just like our cl children laugh All An had I become to o c cold d and hard hard- hardI hard hard- ships I i I TOTS NEVER GET CANDY The They ne never ner never r thought of eating ealing candy Their folks could not afford to b buy y It Ian times limes I watched groups I stand tand before the windows of of- candy canay shops pointing pointing- at the chocolates on on display I but never going Inside to buy Often 1 I also noted notel stoups groups of older persons person gathered before the game ame s windows Irhe They just jus t stood and looked and looked and and then they went away But ev even n In these these days das of desolation I the times times' are not lS hard as they were during the war I T have before me the records of the food dispensaries of Hanover Hano The darkest days of ot the war taking the records for a basis fell in Jul July 1917 In that month food was distributed cd at cost to perI persons persons per per- I sons datI dally daily in Hanover This dwindled dwindled dwin dwin- died to daily in July 1918 and to I daily in Ma May 1919 At present distribution is made to about aboul persons persons per- per perI sons in two weeks 1 I And while while the average German erman is struggling along with his weak soups his tiny allowances of meat coffee made from roasted roasted barleys barleys or roots the is waxing wealthy wealth at atthe atthe atthe the expense of those who have money and are willing to p pay pay- The is a a. produce of the war Several were ere pointed out to me SMUGGLERS B BRING ING FOOD IN These men are food smugglers They purchase foods in Holland Holland France France or orI I Belgium and then Ihen through bribery and I other practices smuggle smuggle gle them into Germany German where they sell at enormous prices to those who ho have money These same alad smuggle out of Germany German such articles as they can purchase cheaply cheap and which can bf b be sold in the ausland at a profit Thus they get the the Germans coming and going It was on my way back lo to Holland that I saw the story of Germanys Germany's food i shortage presented by two station lunchrooms the one at Bentheim a n aGerman aGerman I German border city cily cit and the ether at atthe Oldenzaal the first elt city cily you OU reach In Holland after afler passing through Ben- Ben Bentheim I In Bentheim there were on display sandwiches made of heavy brown bread and thin slices of what whal looked like raw ham and sections of sausage There also were doughnuts dou They looked appetizIng but bul the appetite vanished when one bit into them They were made of alm almost st the same I ingredients which h went Into the heavy I bread and were cre an unwelcome gray I In color I And then at Oldenzaal in Holland I Heaped leaped hi high h on immense platters foods of every description Sandwiches Sand Sand- with wilh real meat sausage or I cheese packed between the halves of of I great rest buns cream puffs putts that squirted I a i. i rich delicious golden stream when you ou bit into inlo them and were covered with wilh a coating coaling of chocolate such as I 1 you ou ou can get gel only in Holland real coffee cof- cof tee fee real beer real soft drinks drinks- |