South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01

very veiny and rather tough. There
was no fat. IL was not until after
/ had eaten il that I learned the
animal had died-from starvation,
I prObably-and. sooner than waste
/ IL, the people ate it, Some Of the
! residents of Leipzig objected. but
others said they may as well eat it
as eat other things, horse meat for
instance.
| But horse meat is good. II. too,
T. tougher than beef, but it has
good. rich taste. I certainly would
not want To- eat IL, only through
necessity, but many n good meal l
have made OF IT,
| When you take your meat card
10 get your allowance, you are not
permitted 10 make a choice of what
you want. You take just what the
butcher gives you. Sometimes it is
so tough you only can boil il, some
times il can be roasted, if you have
enough fire.
One thing I never would take.
though, preterring to go hungry -
that was ground meat. You did not
know what might be in it. I would
not have been surprised had they
put the rats the Germans are dread
ing will appear yet on their tables,
or cats or anything else
Buying Chocolate.
on this trip with my girl friend.
which we took Just before we were
| "interned" in Berlin, the little town
OF Leubech stands out in my mem
DRY, almost with a halo around il.
That was where / bought the first
| candy / had had in two years.
Leubech is a little town. almost a
village, noted for nothing in the
world, containing nothir IF inter
est. but / never will fort it, We
were walking along the s.reet when
we saw. in a shop window. cakes of
j chocolate. We hardly could believe
our eyes.
We walked in and asked the
price. and we bought some. We
were permitted each, only one small
piece, about what would be bought
for 10 cents here-we paid so cents
for il. gladly
We walked out of the store,
around the block, and back again
and each bought another portion.
Out we went. around the block
again, and each bought another por-
ton. Out we went in our dizzy
round. thankfully clutching the
precious chocolate we already had,
our minds full of hope of greater
quantities TO come, our eyes watch
| ing for some German official &c
come up and arrest US.
Six times we walked in that lit
tie store and bought chocolate until
the patience Of even that good-na-
tured shopkeeper vanished and,
when we came in the seventh time,
he said stsrnly. ''Verboten."
But We did not care. We had
riches untold in the six squares of
glossy sweetness.
There is another silly thing
sold us those extra portions willing
~. smiling at our returns. but would
not sell US even two or three pieces
at one time.
The Port OF Crippled Ships.
In Ham burg We had a wonderful
experience. Walking just outside of
the town. we topped a little hill
and there below us lay thousands
and thousands of lights-just like a
| big illuminated town.
"Oh. doesn't that look like New
| York p" I said. And we immediate
| " started for them.
Ii was still early evening. but we
could not distinguish what the lights
4 M a ~ o. he
| lights. "A man stopped us.
Upon questioning him, he told us
that we were near the harbor and
that the lights were on the hun
dreds OF ships which were being
| built and repaired
After showing him our passports
and giving him all information
about ourselves. he p lrmitted us to
go through. and to go out on a lit
tie boat, one of those which took
the wOrkmen back and forth from
the shore to the boats.
Never in my life have 7 seen
more beautiful sight than those
boats. all illuminated They were
spread out until. just as I said they
| looked like a city. The man pointed
ouA the bAS SNIP tire 4HlpfIdNOLf
which was lying in the harbOr.
He told Us hundreds OF thousands
OF men worked on these ships, the
great majority OF them crippled
from the war. or so incapacitated in
some way that they could not fight.
He also told us that every time the
men were brought back To shore
several were killed every day i'm
the mad rush to get back TO land.
The men hang on the sides OF the
boats. for there are only few
boats and no man wants to wait too
long to get home.
We only stayed an hour or so. but
| il was wonderful-simply the sight
| OF so many ships. Since then. I
have wished our aviators could find
that harbor and destroy the ships
with bombs-if they could do il
without injuring the men. would
not want the workmen hurt. but il
would be a wonderful thing TO Grip
pie Germany by destroying all those
ships
a nuu1he Of tir,es SINE the Tint