Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-10-14
Is Germany ) Supply
Of Foods Becoming
Danger ously 10 " !!
Correspondent Ayers That Germany
is Beginning to Feel the Short
age of Foodstuffs.
(By Associated Press,1

ss s& Barlin Food prices continue To-
soar and It is no exaggeration to say
that practically the whole German
people are now on short rations. but
to their honor be. 1t said that indiyid
ually they bear the hardships imp posed
upon them by the war in the most
wonderful manner.
Though I have talked with people.
OF all classes down to the very poor
est. who are existing On q few potas1
toes and d few ounces Of bread u day.
i have failed to hear q single com
plant. Everybody realizes that Ger
many is struggling for her very exist
'ence and that all hardships must be
cheerfully borne.
4 The press, however IS less retic cent.
Catholic papers all over Germany are
loudly complaining Of the high prices
OF food They describe the economic
situation in terms a little less bitter
perhaps than the socialist press, but
none less aloquently Great changes
have taken place In the mode OF Living
iii Germany, as may be gathered from
the extracts of d housekeeping page
published BY a Catholic paper In
Westphalia.
Meat Now Very Scarce.
IA -, ;, 1. r,,x. :, e,, -,
lily had only once a supper OF potatoes
and coffee. In 1914 it had NETT for
supper seven times, in June this year
1t had no meat at all.
Y This family has had to abandon co.
Goa In June, 1914, bread was eaten
with every meal: /: this year the family
had bread only four times. The con-
sumption of sugar has had to be re-
duced. 1t has fallen from 16 pounds
to eight pounds.
Another family used 16 gallons OF
milk In June, 1914; in June of the
present year the quantity consumed
was only five gallons.
The Catholic Journal laments that
there is a lack Of meat and Of every.
thing that is appetizing and nourish-
ing. Meals are monotonous and fa-
tiguing. The body suffers even In
cases where there Isl q sufficiency Of
nutrytiye substances. The family
lives, but at the expense OF it's
health. IS
Parents Stint Themselves.
It is the fact that the young genera
tion Is being linderfed, which worries
Germans more than anything else and
almost daily You see III the papers ap-
peals to parents to stint themselves
as much as possible in order to give.
their children sufficient food.
The war has opened the eyes of5the
average German in regard to the vir-
tues Of the German woman, whom he
hitherto was inclined to look upon as
a rather inferior being whose sphere
was rightly degned BY the kaiser as
being that OF the three X Kirche,
Kinder Kueche Church, children,
kitchen).
Now the entire press Is singing the
praise Of the German women, and
even conservative, oldsfashioned
paper like the Deutsche Fageszeitung
says q
.The degree Of a nations culture
depends on the character Of its wom-
en- and the woman Of Germany en-
bodies in the truest form the German
spirit In all its grandeur and with all
its little weaknesses. She has been
the medium through which all that is |
great and noble IN art, science and
literature has been given to Euro-I
pean civilization.
Ton the other hand. German econ
omists and e2sperts have been deyotzl
Ing their attention to this problem
from the outbreak Of the war. They