Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-19
DECLARES F0OD
IS NOT SCARCE
AMONG GERMANS
American Banker Warns
English Not to Be MiSIed
by Statements That Kais-
er'S Subjects Are Starving,

I London. April IAN American
banker who has Just returned from
Berlin, talked with a party of Engtish
newspaper men on mis- arrival n Ion
| don.f lie gave them rather differan,
! idea of the state of affairs i'm Rerlin
than that conveyed by most VI ths
English newspaper comment. He said
You English should not be do.
cciyed by newspaper statement,
| reaching you from various continentai
points TO the effect that Germany \
on the brink of starvation. have
lust closed my house in the fashion.
able residential part of Berlin. Nv
! household budget was not more than
25 per cent higher on March 10 than
! il was year ago. Various staple ar.
! ticlcs OF food cost more-as they do
in London. but hardly one is beyond
! the reach of the ordinary middle clasg
householder. or even Of the humber
classes. Everybody must have a bread
/ ticket. and there is no shortage If
| bread. My family of four and two
servants never used the whole of our
/ tickets for the week. The potnto flour
bread is only slightly less paatablp
! than the old time wheaton loaf
Confidence Uushakcn.
AT present no German Is capable
even OF dreaming of the possibility Of
defeat
| II find also "A vast amount OF fool.
ish misapprehension IN England about
! industrial conditions in GERMANY
Trade does not seem to me to have
been materially dislocated. The shops
appear to have their regular flow Of
customers. The coffee houses. the
restaurants, the theaters, the concert
balls, the picture palaces, and other
establishments dependent on public
patronage seem to be doing as wen as
eight months ago. The coffee houses
which have cabarets are always
crammed
rs 1t generally understood here
that Germany is at the moment short
Of artisan labor? Unemployment is
almost non -eNistent. Wages are high
A skilled man who used to get only
81 or sl.25 a day can now earn $3.50
or SO. Everything connected with the
output Of munitions Is working at ut.
most capacity day and night, Sundays
and holidays. without cessation. New
factories have sprung up like Inush.
rooms to produce goods heretofore
imported into Germany
Girls DO Mems Work.
"a German friend OF mine who
used TO make furniture and found his
business temporarily shelved by the
war is now making shrapneL employ
ing women and girls in place of the
men who have gone to the front
1T is also wrong 20 conclude, as |
sometimes read i'm the English news
papers, that Germany is so near the
dregs of her resources; that BOYS Of
- are being dragooned into the army
Nothing of the sort A German lad
Of my acquaintance, a fine athletic
fellow of is. has not been summoned
although he is ready to volunteer
They do not need him.
In short, to the casual obserter
there is no outward sign that Ger
many is on the verge of famine in
either men, provisions, munitions or
money. The plentifulnesst OF money
is almost the only bluff that Ger
many is putting up. The money so
beautifully IN circulation. is paper
currency of value as low as twenty
five cents. flowing from the imperial
treasury like water
The Germans in my judgment
thanks to far-sighted precautionary
measures and natural frugalty, can
never be starved into surrender They
can be inconvenienced- they are now
but that is a different thing.