White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-11
Germany Seems on Verge
of Nationwide Starvation
Writer from Personal Experience Says Millions of People in
Land of the Kaiser Have Not Had Satisfactory Meal
for More than Year--Niasses Gaunt with Hunger

An article of more than ordinary
interest comes from the pen of Marie
Bonini Brown, who is writing series
Of articles dealing with her expert
ences In Germany. Her observations
as published in the Salt Lake Herald
Republican throw light ON conditions
abroad and bring out come interest
ing facts. Speaking of the food sit
uation In Germany, the writer says:
IF only had what know is be-
ing put into our garbage can at
home.' was my wish for long months
before left Germany, so hungry was
L. Since I have come back to Amer
lea. have heard number of people
say that Germany never will be
brought to her knees through hun
ger. Perhaps she will not, but II che
doesn't. and her present starvation
diet is continued, 1t will take three
generations for Germany to come
back to the vigorous, strong nation
she was.
''The evidences of hunger and
near-starvation on every side are ter
rible. Food is 60 high and SO scarce
that there are millions of people in
Germany who have not had one sat
isfactory meal for over year.
when I see how the German peo-
Iple themselves are suffering, l SIM
ply shiver when I think OF the pris-
oners OF war.
"I have gone to the market day
after day, and / tell the truth when
/ say often I saw nothing for sale
but buttons and fly paper.
I'VE paid 10 marks, SO pfennigs-
s2.50-for a cake OF ordinary soap
tc begin with. For weeks / have
lived without soap to wash my face
or wash my clothes. We were per
mitted hot water only twice a week
Saturday and Sunday. and, believe
me. I found that Saturday might
bath grim reality instead of joke
during the winter.
I'VE paid $25 one day for a duck
just common. small duck, not even
rocked. And once ! ate crow --ol
rather, tried to. Yet have
heard German women say with res
ignation, The war won't be over un.
; Ill we have to eat rats Thank
heaven ] got out of Germany before
that happened Butter was s2.5C
pound and each perscn was per
mittod less than one-fifth of pound
week. Each person got one loai
of bread a week Bread is marks
so pfennigs-62 cents loaf, one
loaf weighing a little over two
pounds. The bread is almost black,
and sour and hard.
"There was no coffee in all Ger
many, a substitute said to be made
from roasted barley being used in.
stead. l could not drink it. And
there was no tea. substitute being
made of apple leaves. l could not
drink that.
I'VE had to use saccharine instead
of sugar, and that Is so hard on the
system that I stopped using 1t. pre-
ferring to go without.
I'VE paid so cents pound foI
peas. and from Is to 80 cents each
, for eggs. Each person is allowed
three eggs a month. 1t Is almost i'm.
i. possible to get beans.
II did not Jest when ] said was
hungry for the contents of our gor'
baee can at home. l knew, at the
, very time that ! was going hungry
there was enough left over from
every meal at my home table to more
, than feed me. | have learend a les
son against waste.
"You can see the hunger In the
faces of the people on the streets
/. They are gaunt and haggard, Beg
= gars who come to your door for bit
of bread.
/, "Old men and women, too feeble
' to work, too feeble to stand in line
for hours for bread as those who ge
II must do, totter along the streets
fairly fainting In their tracks. Th'
suffering because of hunger is hears
Q rending."
r The above is only a small portion
of the article as printed in the tier
( aid. relative to food situation in Ger
5 many, but 1t is enough to cause th'
0 people of this countrysto take heo'
0 of the literature sent out by the fas'
s commission of the United States gov
0 ernment.
nl Germany was once land of plent.