Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-12-30 | Page 7 | Kaiser Probably in Earnest

KAISER PROBABLY IN EARNEST ("Butte JUIner.) Although the German government is exercising rigid censorship in relation to news of the domestic condition in its country, there are many signs which indicate that tho curtailment of tho food supply oye rthere Is becoming becom-ing most irksomo to the people. When the amount of bread that a person can consume every 24 hours is regulated, and when one is deprived of butter and meat upon so many days a week, and this condition has lasted for months, any individual is likely to get heartily tired of it. A dispatch received from Berlin this week announces that the people over there are to have another non-smoking day, which will make the second since the war began, The purpose of this is to provide more tobacco for the men at tho front. The German people are naturally great coffee drinkers, but the Miner has never noticed any statement in the dispatches as to how the supply of coffee and tea is holding out in Germany, Ger-many, but it seems fair to suppose that both these articles,- which in these days are greatly looked upon as necessities, ne-cessities, must be getting very short. In the last Issue of Cartoons, a monthly magazine, there are some drawings taken from German papers which seem to confirm the general impression im-pression that the food situation, al-' though a little better at the present time, has been, and still is, pressing, and furthermore peace would be very welcome to the average subject of the kaiser. Putting all these things together makes it look very much as though the German government was not just bluffing bluff-ing In sending out its recent peace overtures. ov-ertures. It now seems reasonable to believe that at heart the kaiser hopes something some-thing may come of them. If so, he must be rather disappointed over the manner in which all the entente en-tente nations have received his proposals. pro-posals. rn