Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-29
YANKEE BANKER BACK FROM BERLIN SAYS
 NJ FAMINE THERE
Had Resided in German Cap- ital and Found Food Prices Fairly Moderate and Elm Ployment Market Good.

LONDON. April 2s-An American banker who has just returned from Perlin talked with a party Of English newspapermen cn his arrival in Lon don He gave them rather diner ent idea oflthe state of affairs in Ser lin than Chat conveyed by most of the English newspaper comment He said
 You English should not be deceiv ed by newspaper statements reaching you from various continental points to the effect that Germany is on the brink of starvation ] have just clos ed my house in the fashionable ress dential part of Berlin My household budget was not more than twenty-five per cent higher on March 10 than i, was a year ago. Various staple srti .cies of food cost more-as they do in London but hardly one is beyond the reach of the ordinary middle-c,ass householder or even of the hum0ler classes. Everybody must have a bread ticket and there is no shortage of bread. My family of four and ,wo servants never used the whole of-our tickets for the week The potato-aour bread is only slightly less palatable than the oldtime wheaton loaf
 At present no German is capable of even dreaming of the possibility Of defeat
 T find also vast amount of foolish misapprehcnsion in England about in- dustrial conditions in Germany. Trade does not seem to me to have been ma terially dislocated The shops appear Go have their regular flow Of custom CTS. The coffee houses, the restau- rants. the theaters, the concert halls the picture palaces and other es.ab lishments dependent on public pat. ronage seem to be doing as well as eight months ago. The coffee houses which have cabarets are always cram med
 "Is it generally understood here that Germany is at the moment short of artisan labor? Unemployment is al- most non-existent Wages are high. A skilled man who used Co get only Sl or Sl.25 a day can now earn S2.50 or S3. Everything connected with the output of munitions is working at ut- most capacity day and night sun days and holidays without cessation. New factories have sprung up like mushrooms Co produce goods hereto fore imported into Germany.
 A German friend of mine who used to make furniture and found his busi- ness temporarily shelved by the war is now making shrapnel employing wo- men and girls in place of the men who have gone tO the front
 'it is also wrong to conclude as ! sometimes read in the English news papers that Germany is SO near the aregs Of her resources that boys of fifteen are being dragooned into she army Nothing of the sort A Ger man lad of my acquaintance. fine athletic fellow of eighteen has mol been summoned, although he is ready to volunteer They do not need him
 Tn short, to the casual observer there is no outward sign that Ger. many is on the verge Of a famine in either men, provisions, munitions or money The plentifulness Of money is almost the only blun that Germany is putting up The money so plen tiiully in circulation is paper curren. cy of value as low as % cents. flowing from the imperial treasury like wa ter
 The Germans, in nov judgment thanks Go farsighted precautionary measures and natural frugality. can never be starved into surrender They can be inconyenienced they are now but that Is a different thing