Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-01
GERMAN STATISTICS SHOW DIS
EASE AND DEATH ARE ON
INCREASE.
WANTED ABILITY TO
HANDLE CRISIS FALLS SHORT
Decrease in Animal Goods and Ex-
psriments in Fish and Game -
Shortage Of Food Causes Great In
crease in Mortality ! Among Both
Adults and Infants

Blu .saria and Turkey is contained il
report of the bureau of labor Stats
tics at Washinsto3 Unfortunately fol
this country's more accurate under
standing of tie plight of the enemy
the document has not yet been pub
IShcd because o: congestion of work
in the government printing office.
The report, which was compiled by
Alfred May'ander. under the direction
of Roya. Meeker. commissioner Of la
bor statistics. is a minute survey OF
the central empires. not as their enc
mics paint them, out as they describe
themselves, as they admit themselves
to be, in innumerable statements in
| their own presc, in the utterances of
their civic bodies and their public Off
C!als.
! The bulk OF the newspaper extracts
are from German, Austrian, Hungar-
ian and Bulgarian journals Of last fall.
Actual Starvation in Turkey.
| In general, the report shows that
Turkey is actually starving because OF
/ the corruption OF her own officials and
The greed OF Germany: that Germany
and Austria are not starving. but are
/ having a hard struggle 10 feed them :
selves. that hungary is n better shape
! than either Germany or Austria, and
/ that Bulgaria, SO far as food IS con-
cerned. is suffering the least OF al!
! the countries covered in the report.
/ The report also shows that Germany
/ has failed by wide margin to live up
! to her reputation for efficiency in her
attempts at food administration, having
! been obliged tc reverse her policies III
an effort to remedy in Part the fatal
results of laundering. II shows con-
/ clusively that the civil population of
| Germany AMI Austria are suffering
permanent physical deterioration from
lack of proper food, that the death rate
from tuberculosis is rapidly increasing
| and that growing Do;s and girls are
not getting more than half the nour-
/ ishment they should have. and that
manual laborers are being underfed
to about the same extent.
! Politically, the most interesting thing
revealed By the report is the fact that
! the traditional hatred between the two
| parts OF The dual monarchy, Austria
! Hungary. is now marifest!ng itself in
an economic way in the refusal OF
| Hungary TO share her comparative
! abundance with Austria and in the
| official and public resentment OF that
| fact in Vienna
! Protittering, greed, breakdown OF
! transportation and faulty organizations
are Zig factors in the situation OF
! Germany and her allies. as they are IN
! the sitIu:icn of America Some OF the
| wartime prices in these European
! countries will, no doubt, seem surpris-
/ iHzla' low to Americans. for they are
! less ll-an the prices to when the
,'n!.ed States has become hardened
war OF no war.
Decrease Of Animal Foods.
In the early pages of the report there
| is statement from Doctor Schl!tten-
! bauer director Of the Agricultural Gen.
trail Cooperative Society OF Ratisbon
on the German food policy for 1918
| and the economic mistakes and failures
made by the Berlin government in its
earlier attempts to feed the nation. lie
says in part;
IVY hen the war broke out. Germany
had q, 900 ,0JD horned cattle and 20
100. 900 pigs. Moreover. the weight OF
this livestock was constantly on the
increase in consequence of scientNe
improvements II breeding. Because OF
this high standard ana the fact thai
in the first stage of the war German!
| preferred to feed her armies on th'
live stock of the conquered territories
In the first Ave months Of the war the
nation had no: only the lowest prices
for many yaurs for slaughter cattle anc
meat. but also an abundance Of IA
and meat
Then came The scarcity OF fodder
| most of whiC:l came from outside III
empire. Continuing. he says:
Tn. raids on the larger live stoci
in a few wees became !ntoleraole
Hundreds Of thousands Of thin animals
which might In the summer have pu
on flesh finely for the winter OF 1911
IS in the green pastures, fell sacrl
mcc 20 the butchers ak. Even tn
mich COWS, the pillow oxen. and aooV'
ali the stock OK calves and heller
which were u have prevented the mill
famine, unfortunately have beef
slaughtered. The doubling Of the mea
ration was bound to haze bad ehec
on the stock Of horned cattle as sooI
as the supply OF pigs ready for slaugh
Ter gave out, Iooh pAS~S ~~~N
May 20. The doubled meat ration ne
cessitated from this time onward no
o double amount OF slaughterins iron
the stock of oxen. but a treble amount
owing to the fact that the civil popu
larion formerly supplied its meat need
: principally from pork, and that In sum
mer the average killing weight or pig
had seriously diminished.'
If the cattle are scarce at present
pigs, among which heavy slaushterlhl
has taken place, are still scarcer. VIII
a view, no doubt, to prevent irresu
larties due TO this shortage, new reg
,!lations have been introduced securln'
a stricter cont oil over the trade IN pigs
The Lokal Anzeiger Of Berlin (Octooe
81 states that, according 10 6 ne" 9.
der, no more private sales OF pigs ma.
take place in the town districts OF Der
lin or in the province of Brandenours
On the following day this order wa
mace TO cover the entire empire. e.,
Experiments With Fish Foods.
Ever the game and the fish takel
nv s,,ortslneTi are under strict regula
ton. Civil and military hospitals mus
be supplied ard even war prisoner
have game If there is not suficien
beef. A small number of deer and viii
boars and the smaller animals AM
birds killed by huntsmen go to IN
owners OF the preserves, The rest .
the bag is divided into halves, one 70
the local supply. the other for the CIT
les. l.. Ba, aria two out OF three VIII
/ aoars most be delivered TO the com