Bridgeton pioneer., 1915-07-15
GERMANY SAVES
HER FOOD SUPPLY
Fashionable Diners Out Must
Have Bread Tickets.
CARDS PREVENT BIG WASTE


Dairy Lunch Rooms In Berlin One
Can Find as Great Variety of Foods
as In Any American city-Whits
Bread Only Food Hard to Find.
Germany is not starving. Food Is
plentiful. Shop windows are filed
with meat, fruit, fish, cake, biscuits,
bread and other varieties of food.
Prices vary little from those in New
York and London. The only food one
has difficulty in finding is white bread,
but everyone here is SO accustomed to
the Xxx" or war potato bread that
white bread is forgotten luxury, says
Carl W. Ackerman writing from Berlin.
In the fashionable restaurant and
dairy lunches one can find as great a
variety Of foods as in any American
city. At the first class hotels meals
are as reasonable as they are In the
leading American hotels.
Everybody, however, eats by bread
card and no one wastes food. In the
restaurants and hotels diners order
only what they can eat. That is the
way the civil population of Germany
has adapted itself to the war.
My bread card was issued the first
day of my arrival 1t entities me to
250 grams Of bread for three meals.
That amount is equal to ten good slices
Of five cent loaf of bread in America
and l have found that it is more than
l care for any day. The daily bread
cards are about four inches square
Around the borders are little square
perforations which can be broken of
and exchanged for twenty-five grams
Of bread each. In the center are In.
structioHs saying that the card is not
transferable, that it is good for only q
certain day and that it Is my "daily
statement of bread allowance"
Permanent residents of Berlin re.
ceive their bread cards every week
from the municipal authorities. The
weekly cards are about nine inches
square. They must be carried to the
bakeries every time one purchases
bread or they must be taken to the
restaurants If one "dines out"
Housewives Enthusiastic.
German housewives are enthusiastic
over bread cards, and the American
women who maintain pensions here
say they wish Germany had Away:
had such cards. They declare the cards
prevent an enormous waste of bread
and they prevent the maids from tax
ing bread away without their mistress
consent.
While food is plentiful the German
government is doing everything posi-.
BILE to conserve the supplies and the
people firmly believe that the United
States should continue to send food
into this country.
Every American who comes to Ber-
lin, according to Ambassador Gerard
wants to see the kaiser. A few weeks
ago a New Jersey minister appeared
at the embassy with letters Of intro
duction to the ambassador.
well, what can 1 do for you" asked
Gerard.
WELL" replied the divine hesitating-
ly, nothing at present. 1 just wanted
to come in and see you"
You're the first American in tive
years who hasn't asked to meet the
kaiser" said Gerard.
Germany's Xxx" bread looks like
brown bread and tastes like white
bread
That's the way the German scientists
have put the bread problem on sci
entific basis. Xxx" bread gets its
name from Kreigs-kartoffel brot,"
which, translated, means "war potato
bread" 1t is bread made of a mix
ture of wheat and potato flour, and it
is considered just as nutritious as
whole wheat bread.
Early In the war the United States
department Of agriculture imported
some potato -four from Germany to ex-
pertinent with it. 1t is understood
here that the American scientists have
found the Xxx" bread made Of 30 per
cent potato -four and 20 per cent wheat
-four more healthful than ordinary
white bread.