The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-10-09
THE STAEVELING BELT.

THE SIAIttEL1NG BELL.
German View of Food Shortage
Translation of Article From Berlin
Tageblatt.
Shortly before the goal the sports
man collects the whole of his
strength together to make one wild
plunge to obtain victory. The whole
German civil population, as long as
the war lasts-every year from about
the middle of May up to the end OF
July-is in similar position. When
the old harvest is about finished and
the new harvest not yet brought IN,
in this pause in supplies, after tur-
nip and potato winter Of dissatisfac-
| ton, the housewife does not know
which way to turn. Then the stom-
ach and nerves are put to q very
hard test The authorities know this
the authorities whose wisdom ana
care for US fan us daily like soft
wind-or they should know it. Herr
von Batocki, German food admins
tori at least, with whom speech was
like liquid honey, thought of this GER
lainly, and in the past year about this
! time, when potatoes and flour be-
came rare, we received handsome
extra portion of meat for a low sum.
Barley and barley-groats were to De
| had as we'll as sugar, fruit and vege-
tables, so that one helped himself
over the few hard weeks as best one
cold.
How now? If Herr Won Batocki
will take pity, he who after building
Up our victualling arrangements IS
now far out of range as over-presl-
lent in konigspurg, completing the
restoration Of East Prussia. This
time we are living on shortages all
.round, our ration of bread has been
cut down: meat, potatoes and fruit
have been taken away from US alto
yether. and vegetables can only be OBJ
| tained by those who keep the proverb
in rnind Learn to line up ("ansta-
hen") without complaining.
ALI that are left to us are barley
md barley -groats, and little sugar
in addition has been granted, so that
the present sad condition of food
stutfs may be sweetened a little for
us.
';Recklessness is swimming belt
Of li:e,'' wrote Ludwig Boerne once,
Witty and carelessly. Without re-
garding the heavy losses, which the
strength, health and rearing of the
German people have to bear in con-
sequence of our continually miser-
able victualling conditions we dance
away over this period. Our children
will be the first to be able to judge
n their own bodies and spirit the
consequence Of war famine which has
lasted for years. One need only COM
pare coolly the simple daily menu o1
middle-class citizen during the years
before the war with the present
small midday as it is called in Lo"
German, in order to recognize what
We expect today from our stomachs,
md thereby from our whole bodies
"Once upon a time the, compare
lively speaking, well-situated Ge:-
man consumed ON an average daily i'll
May, June and July:
l pint good coffee with grain OF
] ;ubstitute.
IL pint milk and a little cream,
IA pound butter,
1-2 pounds bread,
Ia pound sausage or other colo
',eat,
1-2 pound meat,
/ pound Of potatoes,
1-2 pound of vegetables,
2-3 pint Of soup,
] pound of fruit,
].3 pound of pastry or cake,
! IA pound of sugar,
2 eggs,
2-3 pint Of tea.
Certainly everyone may not nave
kept to this daily menu. Some com
/ blamed of loss Of appetite, which Is
only known Of today from hearsay
Some ate, however, double tn
AMOUNT. with all the tricks Of CASTRO
,omical art.
And today? Daily we have to Dor,
new holes in our belts, in order that
| they may fit our ever contracting
waists. We would not consume daily
in Berlin, if things went in accora'
lnce with the rationing:
l pint of bad substitute without "
grain of coffee,
Milk equality unknown),
$50 pound of butter and marga-
zine,
1-2 pound Of bread,
IT pound of sausage (apart from
i'll .neighing" cold meats),
1-25 pound of meat (together with
20 grammes of bones),
1-o pound potatoes,
IA pound Of vegetables (when on
| is lucky),
pint Of soup,
l-e pound of barley and barley
groats,
Ia pound fruit ("Polish at FL
marks per pound"),
IA pound Of pastry (slime anc
froth),
10 pound of sugar,
IA Of an egg,
2-3 pint German {Camoraile) tea,
Naturally one cannot simply ado
the number of ounces together ane