Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-07
PEOPLE UNDERFED
BY THE GERMANS
Weekly Ration Hot Sufficient t
Maintain Bodily Health
and Vigor.
8 OUNCES OF MEAT A week
Food Allowed to Germans and Inhab.
itants Of Territory Occupied by
Germans Is Lacking in Energy
Producing Elements.

Washington. Information concern
Ing tho weekly ration now being nj.
lowed tho German people AMI tho civil.
isn population of tho occupied pnr-
lions OF northern France and Belnlum
have boon received hy the Unito,i
States food administration. In food
value the ration Is Insufficient prop
e'ly to maintain bodily health and
vigor.
The German ration Is as follows. the
amount being those allowed per per-
son per week:
flour, 3.45 pounds; potatoes. 7.Ol
potnds; cereals Goats. beans and
peas). ounces; meat. SIS ounces !;
sugar 3 ounces butter and margarine,
IS ounces; and other fats. IS ounces
Stated in terms of American house.
Keeping. these items amo,gt tn sufIi
cient -four 70 bake AZ pounds ~
broad; one.haf peek Of POTATOES: a
cUpfu Of beans. peas and oatmeal !;
one-half pound u meat; t. dominoes
OF sugar: individual pattics Of but
tcr; and an equal amount of other
fats,
In Northern France.
For the population Of that portion
of northern France occupied by the
Germans. the allowance is rs follows
SnCiriant fAr IF
bread: Ono-ffth peck Of potatoes: one
cnpfnl cereal. L. Ia onnces of bacon
and lard: and 10 ,lominocs of sugar.
Here meat, butter and margarine
are MI replaced hy bacon and lard.
Tho allowance Of -four and cereals
are slightly Increased. Int tho allow.
ance Of potatoes IL less than half the
German ration. while sugar is also re-
dnccd even below the meager German
allowance.
The ration for tse civilian popula.
ton OF the occupied portion Of Bel.
rium Is similar 10 that of northern
France. except bacon and lard are re-
piaced ~ meat and butter.
The German ration, compared Wifi
the ration used rs standard for pur.
Doses OF comparison By the food al
nlinistration shows that In body buila-
Ing protein tho Germans have Al Of
a pound, and tho standard ration l.GS
pounds, In fats. the Gcruan ratios
contains 40 ~ pound. as compared
with standard Z pounds. In carbohr.
dratcs. the German rafion contains Ill
pounds, as compared to 80 bounds for
lhc standard ration. In totnl calor-
los, the German ration aggregates 10
o. az compared 10 Ilooo in The stand
ard ration.
The standard ration Is regarded az
sufficient only sor a person in n sod
ontare occupation, or one jnvolvin@
relatively slight physical labor: and
vet II provides two and onc-half times
AZ much bodybuilding protein, AMI
nearly twice rs much fat. aud nearly
Two and one-half times rs much carlo
hydratcs ms the German ration.
Ration Not Sufficient.
In the ration for northern France
tbs substitution ~ hfcon and lard
makes the weekly allowance Of pro-
tcin equal only ihree-fonrthS az the
Gcrnlan ration. and only one-third Of
tho standard ration
In tho whole, II may be said that Tor
q person In an occupation requiring
only moderate degree Of artiyl,
these rations provide considerably less
than tho amounts requisite tn main.
tan bodily health and vigor.
The greatest efficiency Is IN energy
producing foodsiuifs, although The lack
Of bodybuilding proteins is pnvsiolog-
i"ally more important and iahle 70
have more serious and more perma.
nsnt results.