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Show German People Eager to Work Lack of Food and Materials Pre vents Their Working With Old-Time Vigor. HAVE HP HATE FOR AMERICANS Hope to Citablleh Friendship Detween two Countrlei, Says Qerman Agent Country at Pretent Hat Nothing for Export New York. The (lerinnn people nro Miner In work nnd readjust tliemnlepi nnd pay their war IniKmiiiltlea, but they tiinnot do no mill they hnwt help In the wny uf food nnd mnterliils, no eordlni: to Otto J. Mnruni, the (Ivrmun uKinit for nn American lather com-j.nny com-j.nny In Milwaukee, who recently nr-rhed nr-rhed from Oermnny. lie mm Hint tlo (lemma workmnn Ik bo underfed tlmt bo cannot poMlhly do n proper du)'K work, iml tlmt tho hluh prlnm for nil tho iieieMtltlM there, combined with the pity of the laborer with the imirk at Its prisent low rule of wilue, Is niiiKliiE ImiiUhlps nnd k'rent sufTerlni; inniinK the working cliiMes tint can ncnrcely bo renllxeil. "lhe Ullors who come to (lermauy, put up nt tho bet hotels where there Is plenty nf good food, and make n Nuperlklnl Inspection of some of the more nccellilo illMtrlcts, cannot Judk'o or thu lack of food throuk'botit tho country," enld Mr. Mnrum. "Deformeil children nro noon eerywhero where the worklui; people lle, hut one falls to tnko Into couthlerutlon that their whole orumiUm U undermined nnd that they will iiIwhjs bear tho marks of whut they lme sufTeml In the last few yenrs. Nothing for Export. "There Is nothing nt present for export, ex-port, partly because of tile Brwit dearth of coal for factories mid miinu-farlurlm; miinu-farlurlm; puriKmeii, and also becuuiio there ure m few raw muterlals, Uho raw nmterliils now available (111 only n ery wnull percentnBe of the domestic needs. The people are Htrhlug to nt-tain nt-tain their old time eltlclwic), hut 1U-tne 1U-tne costs must (to down In order tlmt wine may he reduced for proAtublu I orndiiitlou. 1 lie Mime general problems tlmt con- front other countries now ure present , In (lermnny In n more aggravated form. For Imtnnre, the hoiulnic prob-lem prob-lem hnd renched u iiiueli moro ucuto Mate limit here. The government made I an effort to ntljust IhU by obliging those with more rooms In their residences resi-dences than were nctUHlly needed for , Hi fir own families to In Wo others Into i ilielr homes us renter, of course but slnee tloy are allowed the use ot the kltcheiin nml laundries nnd other parts of the houses the arrangement hns miide for great oonfutlon unci much discontent. -lho hlKh prices for nil building jnuterlnlri uud tlio high wages for Oforkinen have made it almost pro- lilbltlre to build nny but tho Blmplest Btrectttres. IIoweer, It Is llleed Hint by full conditions must lmpriH Bomewlnt nml prices will bo reduced. Price on Mil coinmodltles are most exofbltnnt. Men's milts tlmt were n few )enr nto 120 marks are now brlnttlUK bm hlili ns 2,000 to .1,000 iiwrks. SIhhw which were IS to 2fi liwrks are now 400 to ftOO. Only tho profiteer run nfford such price-, nnd there ure protlleers In (lermsny ns well ns elMwherc. All meat, Hour, Kuiwr, butter, milk and other necessities neces-sities nre still rationed by the noern-meat, noern-meat, nnd It Is milto likely that this will continue for some time. Trade With Italy. "Trade has been 'Minblbdied with Italy nnd relations will; that country nro Rood, nnd gradually Improtlm;. If the people of this country could net real facts nnd correct statements, there would hu little, If any, III fcellnc between be-tween the two countries. The war feeling feel-ing Is rapidly disappearing and In (lor-many (lor-many there Is none of the hnto that Mime of the newspapers speak of. There exists the best of feeling throughout flcrmnny for tho Americans Ameri-cans In general. "lhe Influx of tho Senegal negmei to I'm nU fort and other places In normally nor-mally rnimed no end of III feeling nnd misunderstanding, with keen bitter-tiess, bitter-tiess, Tho negroes wero quartered In the school house nnd other public buildings nnd so much disorder resulted result-ed that finally tho Krench were obliged to n-moe them, "The (lermiin people are mainly law abiding, nnd lhe bolshevlkl will mnor tnko ii strong hold there. The great muss of peoplo nro good workers nnd ory Industrious, If xImiii n chance, nnd nre not nt all In )mpthy with tho methods of (he present disturbers of Iturope. Their ambition Is to become be-come a steady, prognwwho country, but they greatly need assistance to build up and grow strong again. Their cool Ileitis are now owned by Trance ; tlelr farm lands hut a deteriorated, nnd much of their manufniturlng urn-culnery urn-culnery Is gone. It Is next to Impos-sIIiIh Impos-sIIiIh for tho farmers to operate, ho-cause ho-cause of the scarcity of farm labor nnd the cost of that unllnhlo, Ihero Is u great shortage of potatoes, ns the potato llehls of l'osen itre now owned by the ToUsli nation." |