Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-12-06
GERMAN sPTRIT INDomTABLE.
Americans, Returning From Ger
many, Tell Why Teutons
Must Win.


many, Tell Why Teutons
Must Win.
We publish today parts Of a story
told in the Chicago Daily Tribune by
Or. Harry NJ Richter and his wife
who q few days ago returned to Chi
cago from Germany where they
spent a long time. The purpose is
to convince the public that the news
paper stories telling OF Germany
starving and ready to make peace
under all circumstances are more or
less the products OF imaginative
minds.
We let DR.. Richter speak in tho
following:
Il make the statement calmly
that Germany, should the war CON
tinue five years, viii lave solved the
food supply, as to fats and meats
particularly. in n manner that is not
only Characteristic but not be marvel
ed at by those who know modern
Germany.
The True Meat Situation.
Take the meat situation: if Eng
land only knew the real Germany OF
today she would not pay so much
attention to the starvation system on
which she is waging the contest with
the central powers. II is quite true
meat is scarce just now At that
! Mrs Richter and | were permitted
so gramms OF fresh meat daily more
than half a pound, and, while moth
! ing is wasted, we had plenty of food.
SO has all Germany, considering the
abnormal conditions into which all
! the warning nations have been thrust.
THE answer to The shortage OF
meat and all fats Is characteristic OF
Germany. The government forbids
the slaughtering of all young calves
and pigs. Why? To provide breed
ing basis for a larger supply. Tenn
porarily the shortage, which in no.
wise approaches q famine, as has
been printed is endured that four or
/ five years from now there may be an
abundance.
Looking Five Years Ahead.
/ What the war bride precaution
means to the replenishing of the
human race in some OF tho warning
nations Germany's treatment OF the
meat bearing beasts means to the
permanent meat supply OF four or
five years hence Germany Is doing
everything this way. While there is
supreme confidence that they can
never be whipped, the government is
! providing for any emergency. It
is, in TACT, preparing now for war
conditions five years from now.
should the war continue that long.
She is preparing, rather, for war
conditions twenty years from now,
while not anticipating, OF course,
such a piotracted struggle.
80 IL.
far as foodstuffs so, viii be prepared
to continue the fighting q hundred
years. It is merely part of the
German efficiency.
But as late as September l paid
cents pound for bread and 16
cents peck for potatoes. At that
time the price of vegetables was
lower than in Chicago today
q" Five years from now Ger
many will have solved the problem
OF living entirely of herself so far
as the necessities of life go and liv-
ing at moderate prices, war or no
war.
Mrs. Richter, for illustration, has
six cousins in the trenches. One Of
them is but II years old. asked one
Of the officials why so many young
men OF seemingly tender age are in
the army
"The reply was that they couldn't
keep them out.
Germany has hundreds Of
thousands Of prisoners and hundreds
of thousands are working, volun-
tarily.
I lay particular emphasis on vol
unfairly. They are not forced to
work, but are given their choice, and
when they work they are paid more
than the German soldiers receive in
war The soldier gets 33 pfennigs a
day; the war prisoner SO pfennigs
day, and in some cases moro.
I'm one locality the farmers got
together formed an organization,
and offered tho prisoners so pfen-
nigs day. With all the young men
gone to war and many OF the older
ones, Germany Is short OF labor and
the war prisoners are supplying that
need which the women do not fill.
The Mental Attitude.
The mental attitude Of the Ger
mans as compared with the
French was clearly illustrated when
Rumania came into the war Last
year Germany purchased 100, 900, 600
pounds of wheat from Rumania.
| When Rumania threw her fortunes
in with the allies the Germans said
That's good. Last year we bought
our wheat OF Rumania. This year we
take il for nothing
Germany simply discovers a SUBJ
stitute for the things they depended
on before and were cut short of by
the war, or goes and gets what she
needs in the occupied districts Of the
enemy. For instance, she replenish-
ed her supply of copper and oil in
Serbia. The Germans Immediately
discovered Serbia hat only scratched
the surface in the copper deposits
Now Germany is mining more copper
in Serbia where the Serbians had
abandoned the fields than the ma
tives had ever dreamed was there.
What Next!
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