South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-06

up and the temperature in our fat
was below zero. Ice was thick on
the windows ard we nearly froze
before we could get dressed and get
something to eat.
feel afraid for the Americans
IVA Berlin. think there are about
200 there now. IL may be. before
winter Il over. that il will he prac-
ticaIly impossible for them to buy
anything And there always is dan
ger that the money sent TO them
never NyilI reach them and. i'm Ber-
lin. 1 really don't know to whom
they would turn for help.
was glad 20 get out when did.
] would not have remained so long,
but ] wanted 10 finish my musical
course. Just as soon as that was
done ] was ION my way" realize
now how foolish I was 20 stay as
long as I did.
Food Restrictions
In telling Americans or the-restric-
tons governing the buying OF food.
sometimes il is hard TO make them
understand just how severe those re-
strictions are.
Every person i'm Berlin-alI over
Germany for that matters regis
tered. Each person is allowed 10
buy only i'm certain stores.
I bought my bread i'm one store.
nay butter in another. my canned
goods i'm another. my green goods
my meat-an i'm certain stores.
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and go into any store and buy.
Every store was given each week
enough supplies for the card which.
+ il was known. would DE presented
at that store Occasionally. by pay
ing three or four times the ordinary
price. ! could get an extra bit OF
butter or meat. through some per
son being away for a few days and
not presenting his or her card. But
7 this was risky for both the store
: keeper and myself I would have
, been sent to prison and ne would
/ have had his shop closed. But graft
Of all kinds went on just the same,
/ even with the danger.
4 policeman stood at the door of
every store and permitted only So
many people in the store at one
! time
People stood in line for hours TO
/ lie permitted TO buy their portion OF
supplies I could not take my bread
/ card and go 10 my store and buy my
/ bread / would get there at about
$50 a m. and stand in line some
, times until noon before I could get
TO the store 7 have seen lines eX-
tending for two squares before
stores.
Cod Liver Oil as Food.
could only get so much at a
time. too 1 could not take my
bread card for the month and get
my four weekly allowances all al
| once must get one a week.
could not buy more than one pound
of beans. of peas, and such things
at a time. We were not permitted
TO store up anything, even goods
not perishable.
7 know Of one big corporation in
! Berlin which made counterfeit
! bread cards and sold them to peo-
pie hungry enough to take the risk.
They were discovered of course
and there was a bic scandal in the
paper The corporation was fined
80. 900 marks. Every person found
TO have voluntarily aided i'm the de-
ception also was fined or imprisoned
Speaking CT medicine, reminds me
| that, in Berlin, to help cOunteract
| the starvation of the body through
having no fats or oils in the body
| many persons are taking cod liver
oil regularly. II is very expensive
a bottle holding about four ounces
costing about 70 cents. But it does
| help that terrible. empty, hungry
! "dried OUT feeling that you get
when you never eat any fats at all
7 took it for several months and
sometimes. I think if it had not been
for that 7 would not have pulled
through.
Tomorrow Marie Brown will
write about What They Eat in
Berlin.'O