French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-02-15
>RTAGE OF FOOD IN GER
MANY HAS BECOME ACUTE.
Many of Food Have Disannear.
ed Alt0 DecoctiOn Of Roast.
ed AeOra and Chicorv

~ NVnu1I1Ons termany nave
changed greatly for the worse in the
last FIVE months says the stockholm
correspondent Of the Associated Press
who had been away from Germany
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 markets, others had grown
50 dear that they are beyond the reach
of any but the well-tod do, the daily al
lowance of potatoes had been reduced
to 10 ounces, and that either a short
age Of flour OF disordered distribu-
ton of it among the bankers had re-
suited in long queQues of buyers
standing for hours in front of the
bakeries. -
Maximum prices of the foodstuffs
controlled by tho government are still
very low for potatoes and bread, and,
comparatively low for meats. Pota-
toes cost only 70 cents the standard
bushel of so pounds and bread a lit
tie less than La cents a pound. But
potato allowance is insufficient for
persons who have little bread and po-
tatoessto eat, Gnd has, to be eked out
with turnips.
1t had been hoped to allow one egg
a person each two weeks in Greater.
Berlin, but the last one-egg allowance
ewas made some FIVE weeks ago and
another is not promised until FebrI-
ary. Since the end of August there has
been no cheese on the market.
Another serious reduction of avaiIa-
bic foodstuffs has been the expropria.
ton for control by by the government
of all canned vegetables. Four or five
weeks ago the dealers were permitted
to sell fractional part of their stocx
but only two cans on each bread card
Dealers are to be compelled to open
each can before selling it so az to
force the buyers to consume it at once
sEd not hoard it.
The weekly allowance of meat of all
kinds in the Greater Berlin municiEat-
itieS runs from 5 Ia to 8 3-4 LOUNGES.
The cheapest varieties cost about so
cents pound; the dearest 72 cents.
The weekly allowance of butter and
margarine together is a little less than
three ounces a person. Oil is so ex-
rensive that tits out of the reach OF
the great majority. The Associated
Press correspondent paid $3.12 for
about two-thirds of a point of hazel
nut oil to be used for frying. Goose
fat costs $3.50 can of II 3-5 ounces
and is the only fat, except vegetable
oils, that can be bought without a
card. This insuficiency of fats in the
daily ration shows itself in an almost
continuous feeling of hunger The
most bitter complaints came from
soldiers at home.
When the writer last visited the
front, in July, the mans rations were
ample in every respect, and there is
no reason to believe the same is not
true today.
There is a deadly monotony about
meals in the average household. Break
fast generally consists of rolls, mar
malade (often made of pumpkins) and
q decoction of roasted acorns, rye,
chickory and what not that goes by
the name of coffee. There no real
coffee left Some tea at high prices
is still to be had, but the poorer peo-
pie drink a brew of linden blossoms.
raspberry leaves or leaves of other
shrubs or trees For the second
breakfast 'there is dry bread.
Dinner generally consists of boiled
potatoes with salt, some kind of boil
ed vegetables, and on perhaps two
days of the week, tiny piece of meat.
Fish takes the place of meat on other
days, unless one can buy a goose at
S156 pound, duck at $1.44 pound.
turkey at $1.82 pound, or a hen at
$1.OS to $1.2O pound.
Supper is the problem in the aver.
age household. Generally there are
no potatoes left over from noon, an3 II
there are there is no fat in which to
fry them. The usual German supper
before the war consisted of cold
meats, sausage, cheese, bread and but
! ter and beer. There is no meat, no
cheese, and no sausage, no butter ,,n
four or five days of the week, no more
bottled beer and many saloon keepers
refuse to sell beer to be consumed
off the premises. The beer, more
over is all but undriukable.
There remain, tao4 w bread and
fish, fresh smoked, drteu or canned