Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-02-08
GERMANY'S FOOD SITUATION HAS
 BECOME ACUTE Only Reason There Is Less Clamor Is Because Of Bet ter Organization. NO ONE:; sTAB WING; MANY ARE H 5 x . CcsR T Y 7: Peer Transportation Facilities Add to Seriousness of Food Shortage,
 Which Grows More
 Serious.

(Correspondence Associated Press)
 Berlin, Jan. 12.-Back last spring, when butter first began to run short and the waiting lines first began to form. two housewives were quarrelling over their respective rights in line. They quarrelled so vocfarCusly that they attracted the attention Of po- liceman.
 Laboriously he separated the pair and, when he had placed them far apart, he addressed them and all the other women in the long butter queue;
 Stop the controversy. Don't fight You're not going to starve, but you are going to go hungry
 His words were more effective in the original German because of the similarity of the two verbs. "Ver- hungern werder ihr nicht, aber hun gern wohl.''
 The policeman was no prophet, yet, in March of 1916, he almost exactly outlined a situation that now exists.
 There are no longer butter lines, and a few potato lines that began to form during the last month of last
  ganization has done that, though it has failed to supply any more butter than there was on hand in the spring, or any more potatoes than there were in November.
 On the contrary, there is much less butter than there used to be, a fact which is attested to by the comparison of 50 grams allowed each person per week now, as against 23O in the spring. There are less potatoes. and the visible supply at very best will last until next July-when a new harvest will be in.
 A summary of the German food situation today shows very little but ter with little if any prospects that there will be more in the immediate future. An equally small amount Of margarine or other substitutes for butter. A supply of meat that does not bid fair to increase because there is so little feed on which the cattle can be nourished and fattened. A minimum amount of sugar, since less than the usual supply of sugar beets was raised in 1916, and part of the supply has to go toward making CuSllllCdlo. All dliIiOSl Soi.1piStC A'ii ure of the potato crop, so that the bread ration is to be stretched with barley instead of potato flour. to the consequent diminishing of the beer production. An almost negligible supply of coffee and a very slender amount of tea.
 On the credit side of the ledger stand the vegetables that were raised in great quantities during the past summer, and that with German thoughtfulness and system have been dried in great quantities, and will be available for the winter. Likewise 1 there are great quantities of marmel- ade, or near-marfelade, which have been stored up as substitute for but ter. The substitute is very poor, but better than nothing.
 The average German will insist that Rumanian stands on the credit side oi the ledger too, and that it is a big Item. But it is extremely probable that the amount of food, found in Ru- mania is far smaller than had beer anticipated. Turkey, Bulgaria, Hun gary and Austria, all also have g claim on whatever there may be Though Germany is running the mili. tary situation in Rumania. Germany IS very far away. Her authorities nave known for weeks that there was Il -c - "~.Dcot from Rumania, ant nave tried to break the evil news