The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-01-18
THE STATES-GRAPHIC
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

trustworthy account Of Germany at
the beginning Of 1918. He pictures
the food conditions in that country as
desperate. The World heads the story
Food Shortage in Germany Trag-
edy," and it is even worse if all the
statements this correspondent makes
are true
Only the very rich, who are able to
pay fabulous prices, stave off the
pangs of hunger. Christmas geese in
Berlin brought $50 each. The goose
at Christmas is to the German what
the turkey is to the American at
Thanksgiving.
Soldiers who have furloughs are glad
to get back to their commands
where there is something to eat.
Among the common people disease
is produced by lack of nourishment and
children have starved to death.
Another statement among the many
this correspondent makes is this: "ln
Berlin the kaiser and the royal fam
lily are looked on coldly. The crown
prince is everywhere disliked by all
classes. People dislike him because he
lives in comfort, even in luxury, at the
front, thus forming a glaring contrast
to the life led by the troops"
The correspondent says also "The
elamor for peace arises from all class
es, but particularly from workers"
but he adds: "The constant disillusions
strangely enough, do not seem to at
feet the optimism which prevails. Peo-
pie believe firmly that the negotiations
with Russia will end the war on the
eastern front, remove the food short
age and open the door to general
peace"
That peace with Russia would help
the German food shortage in time is
true, but the relief would not be i'm
mediate. Russia is itself suffering
food shortage mainly because of the
breakdown in it's transportation facili-
ties and the general Generalization
Germany had entire control Of Russia
now that condition could not be rene
died while the winter lasts and per-
haps no relief could come until Russia
can produce another crop.
The Worlds correspondent is en-
tirely pessimistic from German point
of view, as to all the conditions exist
ing in the empire. There is "a spirit
IF unrest" he says, "even incipient re-
volt" and the prisons at Spandou, to
which all political prisoners are as
signed, are crowded to overflow, in
GLIDING many women, but he says:
at would be folly, however, to at
tach any exaggerated Importance to
this new spirit, which is stronger in
Berlin and Prussia than in other parts
of the empire.
AN anti-dynastic movement on the
Russian lines is out of the question
in Germany during the war. German
discipline, German servility and Ger
man respect for authority do more
than the iron hand of authority to
render such revolution impossible"
Productivity, the correspondent says
is very much curtailed by food short
age, the workers in munition factories
and elsewhere not being able to put
forth their best efforts with empty
stomachs.
The old sausage joke, it seems, has
become fact in Germany, if what the
correspondent relates is true. Dogs,
he says, are freely eaten.
1t is a distressing story, from a
humane point of view, this correspond
ent tells, and he gives it as coming
from a reliable Hollander who was an
eye witness of all that is related.
This article is displayed on the first
page of the World of Thursday and
must be read in full to be appreciated
1t is the plain logic of conditions
that food must be distressingly scarce
in Germany. In plentiful America the
preparation for war in eight months
time has made food prices saor, and