The Big Sandy news., 1917-11-16
PEOPLE UNDERFED
BY THE GERMANS
Weekly Ration Not Sufficient to
Maintain Bodily Health
- and Vigor.
8 OUNCES OF MEAT A WEEK
Food Allowed to eermaus and Inhab-
itants OF Territory Occupied by
Germans Is Lacking In Energy
Producing Elements.

Washington.--1nformation concern
Ing the weekly ration now being al
lowed the German people and the civil
Ian population Of the occupied por-
ions OF northern France and Belgium
have been received by the United
States food administration. In food
value the ration is insufficient prop
erly to maintain bodily heG and
ylRor.
The German ration is as follows, the
amount being those allowed per per-
son per week:
Flour, 8.45 pounds; potatoee, TO5
pounds; cereals Coats, beans and
peas), Z ounces; meat, sS ounces /;
sugar, 3 ounces shutter and margarine,
2,S ounces; and other fats, 2.s ounces.
Stated IN terms Of American house
Keeping, these Items amount TO sufii-
clent -four to bake Az pounds of
bread; one.half peck of potntoes; n
cupful of beans. peas and oatmeal I;
one-half pound OF meat; - dominoes
Of sugar; @ individual patties Of but
ter; and an equal amount Of other
tats.v
In Northern France.
For the population OF that portion
Of northern France occupied by the
Germans, the allowance is as follows !:
Sufficient -four for five pounds of
bread one.fifth peck OF potntoes; one
cupful cteal. - 1.8 ounces OF bacon
and lard; and 10 domlnoes Of sugar
Here meat butter and margarine
are al replaced by bacon and lard.
The allowance Of -four and cereals
are slightly increased, but the allow
ance Of potatoes Is less than half the
German ration. while sugar is also re.
dneed oven below the menger German
allowance.
The ration for the civilian popnla-
tlon of the occupied portion of Bel
GUM Is similar to that Of northern
Frnnce, except bacon and lard are re.
placed by meat md butter.
The German ration, compared with
the ration used as standard for pur.
poses OF comparison by the food ad-
rnlnlstrntion shows +hat in bodyb build
Ing protein the Germans have Al Of
pound, and the standard ration los
pounds. In fats, the German ration
contains .43 OF a pound. as compared
with standard pounds. In carbohy-
drates. the German ration contains AT
pounds, as compared 10 90 pounds for
the standard ration. In total calor.
les, the German ration aggregates TO-
542 MS compared to $4,000 in the stand
ard ration.
The standard ration is regarded as
sufficient only for person In sed-
entary occupation, or one involving
relatively slight physical labor: and
yet 1t provides two and one-half times
ms much bodybuilding protein, and
nearly twice as much fat, and nearly
two and one-hnlf times as much carbo-
hydrates as the German ration.
Ration Not Sufficient.
In the ration for northern France,
the substitution OF bacon and lard
makes the weekly allowance Of pro
teln equal only three-fourths of the
German ration, and only one-third of
the standard ration.
In the whole, 1t may be said that for
n person in an occupation requiring
only moderate degree of activity,
these ratlons provide considerably less
than the amounts requisite to main
tain bodily health and vigor.
The greatest efficiency is in energy
foodstuffs, although the lack
Of bodybuilding protelns Is physiolog-
cally more important, and liable to
have more serious and more perma-
nent results.