Show LONG BUTTER BUTIER LUES LINES picturesque scenes witnessed in berlin today people resort to all AH manner of tricks to get extra supply of bell butter work working g C classes a get it well to do go without ut the hague 11 ims picturesque picturesque and some ames w what hat pitiful scenes here long lines wait at the doors door of german butter she p a are described in a dispatch to tb the new rotterdam courant from its berlin or correspondent spon dent ao As thia newspaper p la Is sympathetic with germany it ft cannot be accused of presenting an eci excitable tuble and exah aerated Ke rated account each as the germans germana complain of in allied journals the correspondent begins by quit ing from a story told him by a me briend it I 1 got in with a little persuasion kerams 1 I A line as waiting they we would old not at let in me 9 go in front of course or but I 1 pretended I 1 only wanted beget vegetables bles so I 1 got through the lin line 0 and after securing vega vegetables t shies I 1 asked basked with a very innocent an cerit fc face tor for a qua quarter ter of a pound of butter I 1 hid it an fn my coat ho went out and joined at t the end of I 1 the line without much more or trouble I 1 got a second quarter of abound a pound the correspondent comments comment that la Is how we get along in berlin today that Is what we must do to capture a little lat fat or a little butter only with nith cunn cunning 1 as or patience can we butter our bread in long straight lines the people stand tor for hours before the butter shops shop some get nothing a some m welter e an fn b buttor iter lie he who has no ne need of 11 halt butter goes out on he the 11 hunt or aldo for it as for ape aport housewives tell with pleasure and pride how bow much butter they have captured I 1 myself with my family had bad to go without but ter tor for days till I 1 t tumbled ald 0 on ft cua can was ning ruse whereby I 1 secured a jouni and how bow I 1 bragged about it many macy butter and cheese shops ari are closed bract practically 1 rally the whole hole day A paper in th the window announces u s when the tha sale will begin and long before the specified time thim a crowd collects mostly noth mothers e Is and children some little ones a or are th there wre to capture a 1 littlee ter of a pound on III their air own h chooh k did III the salesmen sal esmin kilow ow t there in were seven evil hauld from one house home th they e y would get noth ing so BO they cline cheerfully raully ignore each other during the long wait A poh policemen rome keeps keep order in the waiting lines in the good old day such I 1 lines 1 so collected oil led to buy tickets for foi a caruso carol concert I 1 now ow butter better or was some other her necessity Is all we ve think of 0 th the cause aa ot of this singular situs tion la not far to in seek ask in peace time to z ay y nothing ol 01 war time germany an adi does not p produce ind u c enough 0 ugh butter foi fee home consumption lack of fodder and speculation culaton combined to drive ur or bricea vi A scarcity ot of fat accompanied the scarcity of butter to do without these two would be a ill disaster tee for in the german working people so BO the he sour gov eminent took the matter up and a ae butter better like fat 1 is free from pluto ratio cratic in influences fluen ces the govern government ent it tie r ceded d ed the butter should be to airey airly i ri dl aided vided ded a and fixed in low m maximum wo fir accordingly rd 1 y the r result e sult Is that the working classes get butter butler and the well to dc go without the working mano man B gift goes herself or henda her children tc le stand for hours in line she has th IN limits whip b hand and now a w that but patience te and ad nol hat money 1 a the determining ilg factor the social side eido of this regulation has thus reached it ft e goal but not be the financial the prices are so BO low ion that imports import fro from denmark and ad hoi land are almost out of the question and the government I 1 ie now faced with the dilemma plenty plent of butter at panic prices or little butter at I 1 low price in b official rh clot of MI it 1 la hoped the thai the situation will 1 boon be easier they hope aaen to get the benefit ol al a big potato harvest the tha iv I increase v tr ir the farm stocks and th the amm hmm imported sit cewe from the balkans but he how to dea with the dio disagreeable tact fact that the fix ing of maxi maximum scare price automat leal I 1 diminishes the supply aval able aall til remaina remain an unsolved problem |