Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-17
(Rockford Republic.)

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ed in getting something to eat than it
is about reading the war new about
the armies of the kaiser. Not one
half has been told of the true con
ditions as to food, because the Ger
mans do not want tne world to know.
Indeed, the situation is terrible"
This is the message, based on per-
sonal experience and observation
which DR.. Oscar j. Henry, recently
returned to Rockford after nearly a
score of years residence in Germany
has brought to America. During the
first two years when Germany was at
war with France and England and
Russia, and up to the time of the &C
tual breaking off of diplomatic rela-
lions with the United States, DR.. Hen
ny remained in Germany.
How will the war end?" was ask
ed Dr. Henry.
"It will come," was the quick re-
Spouse, when the mighty pressure
of the allied armies bends back the
German lines on the western front,
which will rouse the starving Ger
man population to revolt against the
men at present in control. Discon-
tent and dissatisfaction are already
prevalent throughout Germany. No
n but he who has been there and
seen for himself realizes what the
Germans have had to endure"
No Beer for Two Years.
For two years." said DR.. Henry,
~'the Germans have had no beer.
a say this positively. They rather
mock at America, which they claim
has no legislate prohibition in order
to make it's people stop drinking to
save the grain. we have only to be
Informed that grain must be saved,
and we voluntarily stop drinking
beer
1T is this spirit of obedience that
so far has held the German people
together. But they have had to en-
dure too much. The bread becomes
no better; there is hardly any meat
n grumbling is to be heard on ev-
cry side. 1t is this discomfort which
will produce the pressure from with
in, once the allies pressure from out
side pushes back the kaiser's lines,
that will overthrow the Pan-German-
is party and bring about peace"
At End of Resources.
Germany, according to DR.. Henry, is
at the end of it's resources in man
power, and the end cannot be far
away. Every sel~f-respecting German
is in the army or has been killed off.
Every family has paid it's toll to the
kaiser's gods of war. In the larger
cities, however, there are a few men,
who by one trick or another, have
managed to stay out Of the army, and
are getting rich out of the war.
Tho Bread Ration.
When DR.. Henry left Germany the
bread ration for each individual was
IL h., or 250 grams, a day, which
has since been reduced so grams.
This is a black bread, he states, n
palatable and made from various sub
%stitutes. OF meat each individual is
allowed but half a pound per week,
such meat as it is possible to buy
is often only neck pieces, the better
cuts going to the army. Coffee there
is none, but a substitute which Meth
er looks, tastes nor smells like cot
fee. For months Germany has been
in the grip Of a sugar famine, and the
authorities have allowed each per-
son but one pound per month. Pota-
toes are very scarce, too, because so
much Of the crop goes to feeding the
armies and making flour substitutes.
Each person is allowed but one-tenth
of a pound of butter per week.
Dried peas and beans are utterly I'M
known to civilian Germany, because
they go to the army, and the mere
sight of fruit would create much as
constituent in a p~resent-day German
market. Milk is allowed only to chill
dren and invalids.
Soldiers Not Well Fed,
THE soldiers are not we'll fed"
said DR.. Henry. ut is only those in
the front line trenches who get plenty
Of food. The others are but meagrely
fed, and frequently say they wish they
were back in the front line where, at
least, they get enough to eat. In
short, the whole of Germany, civilians
and soldiers alike, are hungry for
a good square meal"
Crime on Increase.
It is not an untruth that crime is
on the increase in wartime Germany,