The Seward gateway., 1916-06-29
TELLS CONDITION
 or GfRMANY'S FOOD
By WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD

By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD Special to Gateway by United Press)
 ROTTERDAM, June 22-The Ger man government is regulating the food supply for the poor but so far i, has not taken in hand the con uol of food for the rich.
 The many travellers from Germany who gave their ideas of the German fcod situation to me here all com- p.ained that the wonderful, scientific food conservation scheme of the Ger mans broke down when it came to dealing with the food of the rich.
 This is why there are food riots in Germany. Injustice exists and civi- ians of German towns realize it.
 Poor people must stand in line for hours before meat shop, prowdul they have five or six marks for a pound of meat, said one German l met in Rotterdam.
 Maybe the meat supply in the shop will hold out until their turn comes in the line and maybe it won't. But rich people can hire a servant whose sole duty is to stand in the meat line every day, from 1 o'clock in the morning until the days supply of meat for the rich mans household is secured
 And even if the rich mans servant fails to buy meat, he and his family can always go to hotel or restaw- amt and get meat on every day in the week except Tuesday and Friday.
 The authorities may frown on a household going to a restaurant every day, but there is no law against it and if the householder doesn't want to be criticized for doing this he has only to go to a different restaurant every day and his mpatriotic practise will not be noticed"
 The idea seems to be growing among the middle and lower classes in Germany that the only fair way to .cal with the food conservation plan is to put all civilians on ration basis, each person being granted only a certain quantity of food every day and each individual being sure of re- cejving the full quantity.
 "In war like ours" said this Ger man, who had sociaHstic leanngs, "there ought to be no rich or poor. Everybody ought to be on the same basis and many Germans think it is mOustrous that the poor should suffer more than the rich.
 "We all feel that if the war goes on every person rich and poor ought to be supplied with a daily ration ticket. With this ticket a poor man will be certain of receiving all the food he needs for his family and the rich man will not be able to secure any more than the poor whether he eats at a hotel or at home"
 It is to placate the poor and the middle classes of German towns that the government soup wagons pass pass through the streets.
 The restaurants and rich hotels of German cities where a man with money enough had only to go in and express his desires in order to have them fulfilled, became sources of irri- tation to German civilians.
 The government therefore tried to bring restaurant conditions to the people by establishing the food wagons.
 In many households cooking is al- most thing of the past. House keepers wait for the passing of the food wagon and run out with recep- tacles to purchase the current meal, which usually consists of war bread and vegetable soup.
 The food wagons, however, while they may satisfy the hunger of the populace do not, gathered in Rotter- dam. satisfy the popular demand for