Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-02-13
Food Shortage in Germany Has Become Acute in Last
 Few Months.
MOST PEOPLE LIVE
 ON POTATOES, BREAD
What Meat Is to Be Had Is Too Tostly for Any but the Well-tO-DO- Coffee Cannot Be Obtained. and
 There Is No Animal Fats.
Staff Correspondence the Associated
 PreSS)

1 (Staff Correspondence the Associated Press)
 1 Stockholm, Jan. 20.-Food condi- tions in Germany have changed great Fly for the worse in the last five months.
 The Associated Press correspond ent, who had been away from Ger many since the first week in August, has just returned from a stay of three weeks in Berlin. He found that many staples of food had altogether disappeared from the market. Others had become so dear they were beyond the reach of any but the well. to-do.
 Daily allowances of potatoes had been reduced to ten ounces, and either shortage of flour or the disorder in distribution has resulted in crowds of buyers standing in front of baker, ies for hours.
 Maximum prices for foodstuffs con- trolled by the government are still very low for potatoes and bread, and comparatively low for meat that is to be had. Potatoes cost only 72 cents a bushel of 60 pounds, and bread q little less than 3 1-2 cents per pound, but potatoes alone are not sufficient for people who have but little bread and potatoes to eat, and they make out with turnips. It had been hoped to allow one egg person every two weeks. but only one egg a person has been allowed in five weeks.
 Another serious situation has been caused by the appropriation for con- trol by the government of all canned vegetables.
 No Animal Fats.
 The weekly allowance of meat of all kinds in Greater Berlin runs from , 1-2 to 3~4 ounces. The cheaper meat costs 32 cents a pound, and the dearer 72 cents.
 One of the most serious things con- tinues to be the lack of fat. Tlo weekly allowance of butter and mar garine together is a little less than that three ounces to each person. Vegetable oil is expensive. The AS sociated Press correspondent paid s3.12 for about two-thirds of a pint of hazelnut oil to be used for frying Goose fat costs $4.S0 case of l7,3O5 ounces, and is the only fat except vegetable oil that can be bought without cards. This irsufficiency ot fats in the daily rations shows itself in almost continuous feelings or hunger.
 There is a deadly monotony about meals in the average house. hold. Breakfast generally consists of rolls, marmalade often made of pumpkin, and a decoction made Of roasted acrons, rye, chicory and wheat. not that goes by the name of coffee. There is no real coffee left. Some tea at high prices is still to be obtained, but the poorer people use of brew of Linden blooms, raspberry leaves ar leaves of other herbs or trees. For the "second breakfast" there is dry bread.
 Dinner generally consists of dry potatoes and salt, some kind of boiled vegetable, and perhaps two days in the week there is a little meat. flsn takes the place of meat on other days unless one can buy a goose at $l.65 a pound. They cost $2 pound just De- fore Christmas. Ducks bring $l.44 2 pound, and turkeys $1.32. mems $l'OS to $1.20. Comparatively little game comes on the market. Supper is the big problem of the average household. Generally there are m left-overs from the noon din, ner, and if there are there is no fat to frv them. The usual German sup. Der before the war consisted oi cheese or sausage, bread butter anu heer. There is now no cheese and no sausage; no butter on four or five days of the week; no. more Dottleo beer. and many saloon keepers ref2se to sell beer to be consumed off the premises. The beer, moreover, is all but undrinkable. Only bread and fisn are to be had, and here the problem
 of cost is a great one for the aver age German family.
 The writer paid in Berlin $1.2O for ordinary lake trout. and S4 cents a i pound for small fresh water bass 1 Dried salted fish costs 36 cents nound and smoked eel $1.92 to $40