Show r jutiAZLN MAGAZINE SECTION 'iV German Papers Testify £o Increasing Popular Dis- content at Prevailing: v t ‘ M - £ f - ?" vv Vt s y y Potato Crop Slim Per Cap ita Allotcance Cut to : Less Than Pound Daily Other Food Scarce '’ "a Con-ditio- - L READ In ‘ ns - f ' vo three-quarte- rs " J Mi ' -- - dant ‘among farmers' and their wives" At' the same time reflect growing' discontent in thk towns under the discipline of the food control' 111:-feelin- the-pa-pe- rs In a The Berliner long lecture on the exceases of '‘nervousness’ in war time says that it is Upper left— Interior’ of a v mu-overwhelmed wjth complaints about the Berlin “Bread commissions these uicipal bakery in Berlin There were originally 170 of these “bread commissions” fpr dealing with kitchens are duplicated in other e and adjusting individual-demandand German cities a moving right now the number has Increased to 200 ' ‘J They 'are mainly composed of teachers coffee van serving soldiers geese with a certain number of paid assist' ants and according ‘to the impounded for use of Berlin's is “especially the young iP hungry street cars in : Berlin conwomen among them who fail to form the right conception of the wishes of veying grain to the municipal the citizens” The' public is invited to believe that all its complaints are most bakeries bottom portable ikltchen carefully considered and that justice used by the German arndei'’ Is inevitably done' and the writer pro' ceeds: s “Be honest Is it not true that the 1 public— to put i mildly— often fails to behave properly when visiting the offices-of the bread commission? One often hears of provocative behavior which in some cases assumes extremely drastic forms One of our readers tells not to forget that ft Is not tho official us that he has seen women with posi- but the law that refuses thia - or that adtively Insulting Insistence-demanrequest'' ''r ditional bread tickets which accordPotato Crop a Disappointment to the not could regulations simply ing The potato question Is one of the be given to them One really ' ought leading problems that are' worrying tho officials Intrusted with the task of seeing that the workers back of the Lokal-Anzelg- er j - - : - - f "f s i - V-- : Lokal-An-zeige- rlt - - - j j ' - ’ ' -- A' : ’ : VAMOW- Ji-f : V’ ' w “ - - I Menocal Friend of U S Starts Second Term With Constructive Program front are kept In trim for the production of- the war material heeded by the men on the fighting lines f Earjy in the season it was announced that the potato crop would be a record-breakand aome of the restrictions covering 'the use of this ‘staple were removed but later Herr Batocki admitted that the crop would be smaller than' that of last year' and since then the' consumption of potatoes has again been placed under severe ' regulations On October 19 the ‘Berner Bund print ed ' the ' following dispatch from Berlin: "It is announced-officiallythat the estimates J of the ' size of f the : potato to date have Induced the crop made-uwar food bureau to take measures1 In order' to insure a supply of edible potatoes to ' the population under all circumstances' Therefore' 'it lias'' been ordered that until August 151917 the average per capita consumption of potatoes shall hot exceed-- pound and a half 'per day Only 'persons' doing hard labor will' receive an extra allowance and their daily ration may hie put rat two pounds ' i Without exception all use of potatoes r and potato' starch (flour potato starch ' for (fodder is forbidden' “The exact result of the harvest will only he known when' a census of the crop Is taken In case' this shows the crop to have been betten than can be taken for granted today the regulations now Issued' will be modified” Then ' on November 20 a cablegram from Berlin printed in the New'-YorTimes' announced that it had been decided to cut the ' daily potato ration for of a city people to' - er - ’ : - - 'D : ’v--- ' -' 'i - l - far-reachi- ng : 1'resldent Menoenl 'nnd government Jbalaee at Havana Havana Cuba 'Jan S— There Is no States greater admirer of theG- -United Menocal of than President Mario Cuba who starts his second term of office with a vigorous constructive program for the republic Among the important developments plannedareby the good president and hie cabinet roads the extension of the school system the encouragement of agriculture the development of public works Already there exist many fine stretches of automobile road In Cuba particularly in the neighborhood of the larger cities It is planned to ultimately connect existing stretches of road and create a continuous highway from one end of the Island to the other President Menocal sees Cuba today more prosperous than at any time in '- - - history The president of the Cuban republic was BO years old on the 7th of last September He attended the Chautauqua Institute and the Maryland Agricultural college and graduated from 'Cornell university as a civil engineer in the class of ’St: He constructed the section of the Cuban railway from Chmaquey to Bants Crus del 5ur In 1895 he Joined the forces of Maximo Gomes in the revolt against Spanish rule He- distinguished himself as a soldier ' For a brilliant cavalry charge at the-- battle : - - ’ k three-quarters Country folk 'are pound on January to get one pound' a- day: durihg Janu-ar- y and February’ andt a pound and ( a half thereafter' Persons dolng Ahard manual labor are to get two pounds' In a lengthy article printed In 1 several ' German newspapers ‘Professor Auhagen an agricultural expert 'predicted that It would be quite impossible to provide a daily ’'ratlonof one pound-’othe potatoes per head however (asserts that population the ' grain harvest Is ' good' the supply of rye being much larger than a year ago and the' supply of i barley k being above the average' He estimates the oats harvest belng at least 80 per cent larger than last year' and'as ‘exceeding the average by several 'million - - : - Her m - - ? ' - of the maximum prices Yorwarts cites the case of a woman milk dealer who was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment and a fine of 88S7 for having charged a fraction of a cent a quart more than the real rate ( ' Although the census of meat animals taken on September 1 showed a material Increase In- the number of hogs and cattle in the country the meat supply seems to be as limited as ever and there is no talk of a increase in the ration How possible the eagerly publle seeks to obtain anything that resembles meat Is illustrated by the from a story In a following recent issueexcerpt of Vorwarts “A butcher in the Prenzlauer Strasse sells bones under the description ‘sheep's feet' st 6 cents each The manager of the business caused It to he known that he was in to obtain a i) unlimited supply position of sheep’s feet from the public slaughter house Would-b- e customers flocked from far and near to get a substitute for meat to give a relish to their One reader Informs us thatvegetables she paid 24 cents for four feet weighing of s pound but they were only bones! Now the highest price fixed by the police for bones Is 13 cents a pound so the question arises: Are the bones in sheep's feet bones or are they not? The fact however remains that the public is made to pay In an unheard of manner" Fined for Smuggling Oxea A report from the Bavarian city of Passau tells of the trial of three persons charged with having smuggled six oxen over the border into Bohemia last June Two of the accused were fined $4760 each and sentenced to two months’ Imprisonment The little city of Hanau In Prussia has decided to fatten 150 hogs for the use of Its citizens and is also planning to go Into the dairy- business for Itself If this Is possible under the national regulations One of the latest combinations effected by the war food bureau is the “War Company for Dried Vegetables Limited" which embraces all German concerns engaged in the drying of vegetables and similar activities Stress is laid upon the importance of gathering all the available nuts In the fatherland for the purpose of Increasing the fat supply In the following appeal which appeared in the semiofficial North German Gazette on October 16: "The time when the beechnuts fall draws near Beechnuts contain oil and all owners of woods and forests should in the Intereets of the fatherland see that no beechnute lie ungathered or unused: The war committee for oil and fat will pay all collectors of beechnuts at the rate of IS cents for every two pounds of fresh nuts “A collecting station must be opened in every place where beeches abound The school children must be asked to act as gatherers and every family whose children engage In this work will be permitted to retain fifty pounds of beechnuts for its own use If gathering is conducted with seal 'enormous quantities of beechnuts may be harvested and when crushed the nuts will produce much oil which le both tasty and nutritive "Whoever delivers beechnuts assists in putttlng an end to the fat famine" Deterioration ef National Physique Recent Investigations by scientists in connection with the lengthy discussions In the German press regarding the effect nf the food shortage on the physique of the people and especially of the children of the empire have resulted In conflicting reporta Dr Lommel of Jena could not trace any unfavorable effects nor could Dr Thiele of Chemnlts who examined 1055 schoolboys Similar results are reported from Mannheim and towns In connection with late from Berlin In which Field Marshall von Hlndenburg Is quoted as appealing to the farmers of Germany to do their utmost to Increase theout-pu- t of fats andr other' foodstuffs and reminding them that "It is a question of life and death for the German people and the empire and that it is Impossible to keep workers on an ' efficient basis unless they have a Justly apportioned amount of fats' ' reports on the food' situation In Germany found In recent Issues of German London and Swiss newspapers shed considerable light upon the hardships being endured by the kaiser's subjects These reports are reinforced by a special wireless dispatch from Berlin November IS and giving the details of the Industrial organisation of all Germany to be put 'into effect by Major General Groener the new dictator of seems to civil life in the empire than authority’ have still greater dictator food von the Batocki Adolph and who is to have charge of the matter of supplying food to the millions of persons to be enrolled in the "army back of the front" The Berlin Post announced early in November that General Groener was to control the appointment of all officials connected with the food administration and that Herr von Batocki was expected to retire but this 'report has not been confirmed A notable feature of the situation Is the candor adopted by the German officials when discussing the food problem and the freedom with which the press discourses about the officials and their reports The" London Times points out that the occurrences in the reichstag during the recent debate about potatoes moved that Berlin correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung to admiration at the way in which llerr von Batocki abandoned “concealments and deceptions" and admitted in particular that the statistics foisted upon the public at the beginning of the war were inaccurate Public Irritation Disclosed Excerpts from German papers printed in London journals show that in nearly all of the discussions on the food question the admission is made that public opinion generally is be-irritable The coming increasingly efforts to diminish the inequalities between conditions in the towns and the constant agitation against the producers are said to be causing abun- - ! ’ V A-- SECTION ’ 4 ' of Victoria de Las Tunas:where he received a wound President Menocal was breveted a division generaL ? During the American Intervention he was appointed chief of municipal of Havana Later he assumed full police in the decharge of the Choporra estate of the velopment Cuban -- American Sugar 'company President Menocal Is easy : o£ ap proach and lacking in : ostentation of is composed of any kind His cabinet strong vigorous enterprising- men all of whom have been distinguished annals' of tlie‘ iIuuL - : - in-lh- e - f : 1 " y ' - ‘ A" - f - A ' I V 5' A 4 tons He arguesthat horses must' re- -' hope that at' last the authdrities might (that oats must have learned ’'something from expericelve other ( fodder-axivito' the' place ence a as ood f be restored whlchitheld“informer'-eenturIesbsBerlin '9111k' Supply Cut oni r If America” ' Under the new milk regulations ef- -' fore thepotato-pamMs rie Netier a' well kiiown' German t ective since - November!' the: dally writer' (no w-- acting as a vpiunteernutse sjupply” assured ' to' r Berlin ‘ amounts in a hospital fbr: soldiers ( recently but 300900 quarts' compared with wrote Yn (long!(ar tide for the Frank-- f something’ more thaii'lb00000 quarts in’ urter : Zeitung describlngf her “potato normal times Most of Berlin’s ‘ 2600' experiences" and excoriating' the food! retail inilk deal era willnprpbabl y have authorities '?for the: clumsy and( arbi- to "go out of buslnessas the' bringing trary Way: in- which the v matter"' of 'in of the' city’s7 supply has been put about-70dealers supplying the hospitals "with potatoes into the- hands'-ocentralhad been handled7 du ring the JIrst two and thedistrlbiition ' is to becommentwinters 'of the- war and7 expressing the ized its ‘much as possible'’-I-- - ‘ ' - e IVo-TfcM- e - ( : - - - - - "s V'-i ' I - r l f 0 ixig-upon- “ V the milk' situation the - October Vos-slsc- he said: "‘In Greater- Berllit (arid no doubt in other-bicities top there Is no more milk to be had except for children and sick'- persons :' The reguiatidns for the sale of ' milk in Berlin determine that all nillk' shall toe distributed to the dairies by a central committee The gets t pfennig importer of 'a cent)! for every quarL which may "retailed at a'hlgher price than not'be 8 - cents : After the children' and invalids have:b en‘ supplied the surplus milk will be skimmed' for making butter and the- skimmed- milk distrlb- iited to those possessing milk cards" In noting that the authorities seem determined to prevent any overstepping Zeitung-O- f 28 - ' - - ! - (one-quart- er - - : - - Professor Klttner of Wurttemberg Chariottenburg however reported thst the weight of the children on an average had declined two pounds while' their height was two centimeters short It may apparently be concluded that the effect upon the children of large towns is worse than on those of small municipalities In tho opinion of Dr Zadek the mixing of- bread with potatoes is dangerous He believes that the Increase of the death rate by 8 per cent in Berlin Is due to the shortage of food The state of health of the women of the laboring classes old persons consumptives and those from anaemia or nervousness suffering la growing daily worse In addition to the lack of food psychological depression the shortage of sleep and overexertion also account for this Hard let of War Widows A Swiss mechanic recently returned from Berlin where he had been working in a machine shop is quoted ah follows by the Berner Tagwacht: "The condition of the workers is becoming worse from day to day Complaints ‘about insufficient nourishment are heard everywhers The wives of the soldiers and the war widows are the worst off of alL Scarcely Is the death nolce received when the running after compensation begins The women are chased from office to office Quite ofteh their requests are refused and they are told that they ought to look for work in the munition factories At home they rent out everything they in case the furniture is not already in the pawnshop "The food supply is Insufficient In is every respect and undernourishment more widespread becoming constantly Every day you see long files of buyers lined up in front of the places where food is sold some of whom bring chairs with them In order to be able to hold out during the long wait You get soup and milk only on the doctor's orders "As a matter of course under these circumstanses the feeling of 'Ill-wand bitterness toward the government is growing and worst of all there Is talk of tho future war between the sexes due to come because the women are now occupying whole fields of inreserved for the men dustry formerly and thus not only exercise a depreciatupon wages but also endaning effectexistence of many thousands" ger the ’ ill ‘A- - J |