The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-10-06

butter, Ia pounds bread. 1-A-pound
sausage or Dther cold meat, 1-z-pound
meat, pound OF potatoes. 1-2-pound
|of vegetables. 2-3-pint OF soup, l
pound Df fruit. 1-2-pounn OF pastry or
cake, 1-A-pound OF sugar. eEgs and
Certainly every one may not have
kept to thiS daily menu. Some conn
planned Of loss OF appetite, which Is
only known IT to-day from hearsay.
Some ate. however. double the
amount, with adj the tricks OF gas
ltronomical art.
New Roses for Old BeAas-
And today? Daily we have to bore
new holes In our belts. In order that
they may fit our ever contra citing
waists We would now consume daily
lin Bc-lin, II things went in accord
ance with the rationing: l pint of bad
substitute without grain OF coffee.
49, milk equality unknown), 1850
pound of butter and margarine, H.
pound Of bread, 1-7-pound of sausage
apart from cold meats). ILL neigh
ing" 1-25-pound OF meat together
with so grammes of bones). L.
pound potatoes, 1-4-pound of vege-
tables when one is iucky), l pint OF
soup, lS-pound of barley and barley
greats, IA pound fruit ("Polish" at
2 10 marks per pound), 1-4-pound OF
pastry tslime and froth), Ito pound
of sugar. IA of an egg, 2-3-pint Ger
man CCamomile) tea.
Naturally one cannot simply add
1.-The number of ounces together and
compare the results without further
ado. But still one arrives by this
method at at least an approximate
comparison between former days and
now. Formerly 100 ounces and now
. hiy-ex
a third of the quantity OF food in
peace time. A calculation free from
any objections would naturally have
to consider two further fac1orS-the
working out of the total daily quantity
OF foodstuffs OF various kinds in the
mum Der of Galleries, and Furthermore
the additional quantities, which near
ly every one can obtain at the back
door in addition to the quantity ra-
toned by the authorities. Ii we were
only to be allowed the quantities &C
cording to the foodstuffs card fTie,
there would not be sufficient hunger
paws to suck. nor after the confisca-
ton OF woven materials still fewer
hunger cloths at which to gnaw. The
quantities of products, which are dis
posed of by illicit trading t'schleich-
handefD, however, defy all statistical
grasp and one is only left to suppo-
sition. How large these must be is
indirectly evidenced by the total guam
tity OF foodstuffs which is rationed TO
the people officially, and which Is too
much TO die on and too little to live on.
Endless Chain OF DEGREES.
Last year, DR.. Michaelis endeavored
to control the production OF foodstuffs
better by means of the imperial eco
nomic card ttreichswirt-schaf
|te'D to no purpose. He only added
another bureaucratic link in the end
less chain of DEGREES, enactments and
provisions, without attaining even the
slightest advantage. On the contrary
conditions have only become worse
Evidence: the very fiimsy menu which
is served up TO US daily.
The greater Berlin victualing union
yesterday decided to allow the people
forty-nine ounces of foodstuffs and
forty nine ounces of jam as substi-
Itute for the smaller ration of bread.
This does not mean much, as in the
first place this ISOLATION prize is
only intended for the time up to the
18th of August and secondly in the
extra qualities are included the baker $
goods substitutes which were expect
ed and which have been partly de-
liyered already.
1t would be OF far more value il
the supplies of fruit and vegeta bles
were made more accessible to the pub
lie. Fruit is practically impossible to
obtain this year. Neither cherries
bilberries, currants nor gooseberries
1t is as If the fruit trees had declared
a general strike and everywhere had
borne no fruit One the other hand,