Charlevoix county herald., 1918-11-22
GERMAN WOMEN
BEAT BUTCHER
INCIDENT ONE OF MANY ARISING
OUT OF FOOD SCARCITY AND
DEALERS "FooD UsURY.'
COCOA MADE Of HUSKS AND SAND
Farmer Shaves His Pig to Prevent
Odor of Burning Bristles, But
10 Caught

Berlin.-The appointment of food
dictator for Germany came at a time
when the practices of food usurers
and the inability of many persons, es-
pecially the poor, to get the food they
wanted, were causing serious out
breaks, necessitating in many cases
the calling Of the police. Here are
some of the instances of food troubles
which have appeared in leading Ger
man newspapers:
The Berlin Tagiiche Rundschau
says that Charlottenburg citizens had
observed that a butcher, after dark,
removed meat from his shop to an
adjacent building. One evening he
packed bacon and sausage in wash
basket and was sending it across the
street by children when neighbors
opened the basket and discovered the
stockings. The police, says the paper,
were summoned, and the meat was
sold in the shop by them at reduced
prices to an eager crowd. The mob
OF women" then, according to the &C
count dragged the butcher from a cafe
into the back yard and there beat him
II absolute inconsistencies. The &C
count continues
1.-The enraged avengers then repair
ed to the butchers house." where the
butchers wife was violently assaulted
and subsequently ducked in big els
tern, then rolled by the crowd in q
heap of still smouldering cinders."
The Munich Post tells of man
who sold to a number of dealers to-
tal of 10000 pounds of what was term
ed finest imported Dutch powdered
cocoa. When, at the request Of Col
ogne firm, what remained of the stock
about 20 small kegs, was analysed, II
was found to consist solely of cocoa
husks, sand and other articles con-
tanning no part Of cocoa. Not less dis
graceful than the conduct of so des-
picable a wretch as this man was the
inexplicable leniency of the Dussel-
dorf court, which merely inflicted on
him a fine of $3.50 and ordered the
seizure of the few pounds of cocoa
which remained, says the paper. The
man we understand is well connected.
A lady customer at leading meat
store purchased a ham, or which the
butcher demanded 1925. The lady.
having only 81 in her purse, paid
that sum as deposit, and promised to
send her servant with the remaining
q hn hon
lLg to the Frankfurter Zeitung.
The conversation was overheard by
o man who was in the shop. He left
hurriedly and handing the first ser
want girl he encountered in the street
the 1925, with a tip, he dispatched
her to the shop to demand the ham
already partly paid for by the origi
raj purchaser who was not personal
~ known to the butcher. BY this au-
dacious stroke the man secured
1925 ham for 1925.
The Frankfurter Zeitung tells how
Nemesis waited on farmer who de-
cided to defy the law as to the pri-
yate slaughter of food animals:
The farmer killed his best fat pig,
and in order to prevent his act becom-
ing known through the pungent odor
caused by the burning of the bristles,
the man carefully lathered the animal
all over and then gave it clean
shave.
All went well until the mysteries OF
bacon curing began, when the betray-
;,r al
some passerby, who promptly inform
ed the authorities.
A gendarme was dispatched to the
farm, but the farmer flung on his head
the contents of kettle of boiling wa
ter The gendarme's bowls of pain
soon brought to the spot number OF
neighbors, who made furious assault
on the house with pickaxes and 9th
er implements, and the premises in
a very short time were reduced to
ruins.
The cured and uncured parts of the
meat were then seized and conveyed
in a cart, escorted by an excited,
shouting mob, to the town hall. The
farmer received serious injuries in the
fray; the genarme's face and hands
were scalded.
The government recently denied re-
ports that egg rations were contem-
riated. The rumors had led to whole
.sale boarding of eggs all over the
country and to unprecedently high
prices. Dealers in some town estab-
lished a semi-rational system by de-
Ginning to sell more than four or five
eggs to any one customer. Official as
surances were made that there was no
danger of an egg famine, as hens
were doing their full duty