Show german germ ailia 1 people eager er to work lack of food and materials prevents their working with old time vigor HAVE NO HO HATE FOR AMERICANS hope to establish friendship between two countries says german agent country at present has nothing for export new york the german people tire are eager to work and readjust themselves itald n nd pay their war indemnities but they cannot do so until they have help in the way of food and materials according to otto J marum the german agent for an american leather company in milwaukee who nho recently ari ived from germany ile he says that tn the german workman Is so underfed that le ile cannot possibly do a proper days work and that the high prices for all the necessities there combined with the pay of the laborer with the mark at its present low rate of value Is causing hardships and great suffering among the working classes stat can scarcely be realized the visitors who come to germany put up at the liest best hotels where there Is plenty of good food and make a i inspection of some of the more accessible districts cannot judge of the lack of food ti throughout the country s ald sald mr marum deformed children are seen everywhere where the working people live but one falls to take into consideration that their abole or organism is undermined and that they will always bear the marks of hat bat they have suffered in the last few years bearg nothing for export there Is nothing at present ent for export partly because of tile the great T eat dearth of coil coal for factories and manufacturing fac turing purposes and also because there are so FO few raw materials the raw materials now available fill 1111 only i very small percentage of the dom domestic estle needs deeds the people tire are striving to attain their old time effi efficiency clency b but u t alv ing ng costs must go down in order silv that in t awes may be reduced for profitable production C tin ill same general problems problem q I 1 that 1 I n t confront other countries now ire present in germany in a more aggravated form for instance the hou housing Ing problem cm had reached rea a much more acute bdate than here bierc the government made an effort to adjust this by obliging those with more rooms in their residences residence than were actually needed tor for their own families to take others into I ato their homes as renters of course but since tl abey y are arc allowed the use of the kitchens kit ellens find and laundries and other parts of the houses the arrangement has made for great confusion and much discontent the high prices for all building materials and the high wages for borkman have bave made it almost pro bibi tive to build any but the simplest structures however lIo weNer it Is believed that by fall conditions must improve somewhat end and prices will be reduced prices on all commodities are most exorbitant mens suits that were a few years ago marks tire are now bringing as high as 2000 to marks shoes which were IS 18 to 25 marks are now to fot only the profiteers can afford bucl prices a and nd there are profiteers in germany as well as elsewhere all meat flour sugar butter milk and other necessities are still rationed by the government and it Is alte likely that this will continue tor for some time trade with italy trade has been established with italy and relations with will that country are good and gradually improving if the people of this country could get real facts and correct statements there would be little if any III feeling between the two countries the war feeling Is rapidly disappearing and aad in germany there Is none of the late hate that some of the alie newspapers papers speak of there exists the best of feeling throughout germany for the americans in gener general 11 the influx of the lie senegal negroes to frankfort and other places in germany caused no end of III feeling and misunderstanding with keen bitterness the negroes were quartered in the school houses houes and othor other public buildings building and so much disorder resulted that finally the french were obliged t to 0 renloe them the german people are mainly law abiding and the hol will never dever take a strong hold there the great mass of people tire arp good workers und and cry industrious it if given 1 a I chance and tire are not at IIII all in sympathy with the methods of the present disturbers disturb ers of europe their ambition Is to become a steady stead progressive ive country but they greatly need R assistance to build up and grow strong again their coal fields art cirp now dow owned by france bleir larin farin lands hands have deteriorated and diduch of their manufacturing ma ina chinery cisi nery is gone it Is next to impossible for tile hie farmers to op operate orate because of tile lie scarcity of form farm labor and the hie cost colt of that available there Is it preat great shortage of potatoes as the potato fields of boren tire are now owned by the polish ration |