The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-17
SHORTAGE Of CLOTHING IN
GERMANY GROWING SERIOUS
Virtually All Raw Material Ext austedEPeople Stand M Line
to Obtain Cards Granting Them Privilege 10 Buy Shirts and
Other Needed Articles.

Situation thoroughly declare there are
ONLY Two things whichaGermany will be
Iaple 80 export when peace comes. One
is 8, sloek Of Womenss high priced SILK
and women,s leather gloves.
The other Is a limited supply Of medi-
fclnes and dyestuffs. The belief that
ESiermany has storehouses filled with
unlimited supplies ready to- be dumped.
upon The world markets is not based or
facts. Before the war Germany manu-
featured a great many tops. The first
christmas of the war there were thou.
sands of new toys displayed. The sec
ond year OF n var the new supplies.
had dropped at least hal in number,
and last Christmas there was not a new
toy displayed any place in Germany
There were not even toys made espe-
cially for that Christmas. Every toy
shop offered for sale only the toys
which had been manufactured a year
before.
No Linen in Reserve.
Last fall one Of the big retail stores
OF Philadelphia sent q buyer to Ger
many to purchase 81, 0OO, 600 worth OF
linen for delivery after the war. The
firm had heard that Germany had prac-
tically unlimited supplies which sha
was ready to sell when peace was made.
1T desired to get in ION the ground
! floor" and contract for German linen
before other buyers arrived. This mer-
chant was much surprised to find that
he could not purchase as much as
s10e, 900 worth of linen already made.
" he found firms willing to- take a
y ,O00,O00 to manufacture the,
to understand that it would be some
months after the arrival of peace before
the linen could be delivered.
n German government. however, is
makln extensive preparations for the
control of all exports and imports after,
\ IN q Wa r. T(nfnTnE r 1nff T0oylipN rhaH n a Il,
which business men and financiers were
discussing was about as follows;
Inc government planned to conf1scate
all German ships. The owners were to
pc paid 10 per cent on their capital
invested. The government was to send
commissions to neutral countries. es-
peciaHy to the United States and South
America, to purchase raw material.
eIern1an merchants. were to be forbid
den from making my purchases out
side of Germany. These government
commissions We're to buy cotton n
WOOL alta fixed price for the govern
ment, The, government controlled ships
We're to carry these materials to Ger
many. where a government import de-
partment WIS to take them over and
sell at a profit to manufacturers. Then
the manufacturers We're to be prohib-
tied from selling goods to any one
except the government. The govern
ment was to pay from 8 to 10 per
cent to tlic firms for manufacturing The
articles, ard then the government waa
to do all exporting. Even German citi-
zcns We're to be prohibited from pur-
chasing anything outside of Germany.
II z German wants IN automobile. or q
safety razor, or q shirt when peace
comes, he will have to wait until Ger
man manufacturers make them.
Hope TO Pay Wa Debt.
l}y this system of controlling all in1-
ports and exports the government plans
So.p::%pG the enormous war debt which
las been accommodating since August
1914.
While the ford conditions in Ger
isan8 are terrible when compared with
conditions III other countries, the gen
efai e~coNonlic condition is even worse
Nhite the people can raise potatoes
'un either foga, aud in this way add tt
the FOOD sss0GlSs on hand, there is nc
ilosssihfe method Of increasing the sup
ply of clothing aud materials now ir
5tf1aaity. This III the reason the gov
eminent is SO careful in Regulating tht
clothing cards. They are SO cautious
now that when any one desires to buy
new towels, for instance, one has t.
bring the Oh WORKOUT towels to tht
city magistrate and give them up be
fore permission is granted to3buy new
ones. The same applies to stockings
shirts, Clothing and other pieces o.
wearing apparel.