The Nevada County picayune., 1918-06-20
Germany's Nor Allies Food Short
 age Is Considered.
ZONES OF WAR PREPARATION
First Step Is Actual Military Mobllza. tton, Second, Establishing War industries; Third, Increase
 in Human Energy.
By JAMES II. COLLINS.

\ tr0Ntier recently out Ot tIptmapY told of an experience in Il German city of i7000 population. This city had left, for treatment of civilians, one physician and one surgeon. all other medical men having been drawn into the nrmy.
 How do you manage to attend all the siek?" asked the traveller of the physician.
 Il simplify by paying no attention to people over tifty-tive years of age, was the doctors answer.
 Which is to say. that Germans past this nge, being of no military use to the state. and of probably the least economic use, are automatically set aside. and In sickness take their own chances of recovery or death.
 This story wns told to Dr. Alonzo Taylor of the United States food ad- minstratiOn and department of ngri- culture. Doctor Taylor was attached to the United States embassy at Ber- lin during most of 1916. and under Ambassador Gerard had neutral in. SpeCtions of German prison camps in charge. Herbert Hoover has said that Doctor Taylor's scientific Knowledge of dieteticS. and his practical grasp of war food problems, Is wider than that of any other person he knows, and be- hind this technical knowledge is thorough acquaintance with the Ger man state and the German people, as we'll as the food problem of the central powers and the allied nations. Last autumn Doctor Taylor vas member of the American commission sent abroad to further our cooperation in the war. and deal particularly with the problem of food.
 The point of the story above Is the different interpretations that may be put upon 1t. Regarded simply as an- other interesting insight into the de- privation which k now believed to prevail in Germany, it would be taken by the average American newspaper reader as one more indication that Germany is desperately pressed for every necessity of life and that this internal situation must soon cause her tO 'Cf0fK.
 But Doctor Taylor looks at 1t In an entirely different way.
 Flfty-Five the Dead Line.
 ''That story simply indicates how far the Germans are wileng to go to win" he says. ''If it k necessary to abandon all that part of the German population above tifty-five years of age, they intend to do it. They are willing to take other measures as coldly practical as that to pull through. 1 So far as hunger, suffering. death. and l toll are concerned. these cannot safe ly be regarded as factors in Germnny's defeat. She has pulled through be- l fore. and will pull through again. The 1 only way to defeat Germany. in my l opinion, Is by straight military de ] Cssiou on the western front"
 Since the second year of the war, accounts of German food shortage have ] been staple reading in the American ] and English newspapers. These have l been based upon German rationing i regulations, articles in the German press dealing with food shortage, in formation brought out of Germany Hy travellers und other data. The sub je8 is nar shat h. been carefully s=ue,ad by trustworthy iu7a7t'saus in sraat de'ai.. Much of tla iuforaa- in obluau has undoubtedly hreu saa..aI Aei Doctor IaAier regaFdS He=t taai#h#.l acgo1uts of German huHyr ls al-eliplAas, # uot ae de'5aeeat+ j .uemH Irapa@aVaa. l.ar-.N threu-A his jrlesIlaGous ile United States 5aoa aehHu H#t5aa ba- adopted ,ho policy ef di#ravnjenaueius reports oi ] G,rm4u hunger.
 "Ihe Germans are uuquestiouahly on very short ratiens.' ha ad.l~, but know the German HiGl. tbe German ] stute, the German press. The obedi- ence of the German mind to the Ger man atgte and tEe latter's control ef i the German press are so complete that even admitting German food shortage to he as grave as reports indicate, all ! published information an thlS subject coming eut ef Germany k still arttully { celared for military ends. That must
 
 uaqHa~tioHahly have hard pinch in fend this simmer, but she is going 10 i pull through again so fir q, feud Is cauecFaed, aad all plans based unon that us f@c|or in tAe mjliHry Sjtua- tjea te<t on un uusouui bass. H. Germans arc suffering. No matte'-in i the winning of tlis war We cannot atlosi 10 ete any thought Whatever ; te tbe.r= sa.Ierue from hunger har submarines give none to tbe sb'."y- . iuls uf our allies.
 Must Win by Fighting.
 When We ourselves catered Che r j a year ago. German food shortage H,,s accepted as oHe of the apparent lac tors which would help us win. Twelve months experience has brousHt an aWahening to the American people.