The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-01-04
PEOPLE uNDERFED
BY The GERMANS
Weekly Ration Not Sufficient to
Maintain Bodily Health
and vigor.
8 OUNCES OF MEAT A Week
Food Allowed to oerwsns and Inhab.
Itants Of Territory Occupied by
Germans Is Lacking In Energy
Producing Elements.

Observation-Disclosures concern
ing the weekly ration now being al
lowed the German people and the civil
ian population Of the occupied por-
lions 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 health and
vigor.
The German ration is as follows, the
amount being those allowed per per-
son per week:
Flour, 3.45 pounds; potatoes, 7.05
pounds cereals Goats, beans and
peas), ounces; meat, S.S ounces !;
sugar, ounces; butter and margarine,
% ounces; and other fats, 2.8 ounces.
Stated In terms Of American house
keeping, these items amount to suffi-
cient -four to bake Az pounds of
bread; one-half peek of potatoes; a
cupful Of beans, peas and oatmeal
one-half pound Of meat; II dominoes
of sugar; 9 individual patties of but
ter; and an equal amount Of other
fats.
In Northern France.
For the population Of that portion
of northern France occupied by the
Germans, the allowance Is as follows:
Sufficient flour for five pounds Of
bread: one-fifth peck Of potatoes; one
cupful cereal. II 1-3 ounces Of bacon
and lard and 10 dominoes Of sugar.
Here meat, butter and margarine
are all 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-
duced even below the meager German
allowance.
The ration for the civilian popula-
ton Of the occupied portion of Bel
GUM Is similar TO that Of northern
France, except bacon and lard are re-
placed by meat and butter.
The German ration, compared with
the ration used as standard for pur-
poses Of comparison by the food ad-
ministration shows that In body build
| ing protein the Germans have Al of
| q pound, and the standard ration los
| pounds. In fats, the German ration
contains .43 of a pound, as compared
with standard Z pounds. In carbOhy-
drates, the German ration contains AT
pounds, as compared TO go pounds for
the standard ration. In total calor-
les, the German ration aggregates TO-
SAP as compared to 24,O00 in the stand
ard ration.
The standard ration is regarded as
sufficient only for a person in a sed-
entary occupation, or one involving
relatively slight physical labor; and
yet it provides two and one-half times
as much bodybuilding protein. and
nearly twice as much fat, and nearly
two and one-half 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-
TEN equal only three-fourths of the
German ration, and only one-third Of
the standard ration.
In the whole, It may be said that for
person in an occupation requiring
only moderate degree of activity,
these rations provide considerably less
than the amounts requisite to main
tain bodily health and vigor.
The greatest efficiency is in energy
producing foodstuffs, although the lack
Of bodybuilding proteins is physiolog-
ically more important, and liable to
have more serious and more perma-
nent results.