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New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
Gern1any's Rations
BY William G. Dreher
Berlin Correspondent of The Tribune

n ERLIN, May 6.-Americans who read
n in their newspaper that American
-four bacon and lard and few other
good things are now arriving in Germany
will imagine that the food problem here
is now solved; at least, that people are no
longer dying of starvation. But that is
too big conclusion to draw from the facts
in the case. AS a matter of fact, only
people in the larger towns-where the dis
tress is keenest and where first aid to the
needy was given-are getting this foreign
food. And their allotment, if they can
pay for it, consists of half pound of -four
a week and four ounces of bacon.
In no restaurant Of Berlin have l found
any of this bacon or bread made from our
-four On the other hand, as I sat at
dinner on April 30 in the restaurant where
l have taken some Of my meals the waiter
remarked as I was settling my bill: "This
will be your last meal here for some time;
we are shutting up to-day for three
months" "And why so?" asked. Land
lord found it too hard to get supplies"
was the answer.
On Meatless Day
His explanation finds confirmation in the
city's statistics In last December the ar
rivals of beef cattle in greater Berlin
averaged some 5000 to 5000 head weekly.
When I came here in February, they were
still 5000 week. but in April only $500
week were received. Last week the city
government announced that it would not
be able to supply the usual allowance of
meat, and for each days meat card not
"cashed" an allotment Of less than one
ounce of legumes would be made and an
equal amount of "nutriment stuff"-some-
thing, apparently, made of oatmeal or
barley.
That is the situation from the official
standpoint. 1t is also the situation from
the standpoint of an enormous number of
people who are too poor to go to the bet
ter restaurants But ate an excellent
beefsteak to-day, for which I paid 10
marks (although this is nominally meat
less day, and / did not even have meat
card).
Some further statistics are eloquent. On
March l an animal census was taken, and
some of the results for Prussia are al
ready available. The total number of
cattle was found to be 9,O98, 900, which de-
notes a reduction of 1,131,000 within one
year The number of swine gained
1885, ,000 indeed, but the number is still
only little more than one-fourth of what
it was in 1914. A census taken in Deccm-
Der showed reduction in poultry by two
ifths. The mere figures, however, do not
express the full reduction of the meat
supply, since animals coming upon the mar
kets now are smaller or leaner than pre-
viously.
Cost Mounting
The increase in the cost of living is also
very marked, and 1t is still mounting.
Along with several other American news
paper men here in this hotel,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

operating breakfast mess In February
and March our breakfast averaged marks
a person; in the first half of April it was
marks; for the second half, 10 marks
The addition to menu of eggs, ranging
from so to marks apiece, was one cause
of the increase. This morning we were
able to have butter again after little
interregnum, but we paid 32 marks pound
for a pale-faced, almost tasteess. con-
glomeration Coffee--the real article
costs us AZ marks a pound; that makes
l mark a cup.
Minister Is Cheerful
On the other hand, it is pleasing to
observe that the Food Minister takes a
more cheerful view of the outlook. He
reported few days ago to a committee of
the Prussian Chamber that the general
situation and prospects for the nearby
future were not wholly bad. There was
little meat in prospect; indeed legumes only
were coming in from abroad, and more fish
would also be imported. That half pound
of flour would continue to be allotted he
hoped, and of bacon there would even
be slightly bigger slice a week. Some
American lard has arrived, but it is so
little that it was stored away to await
further arrivals, so as to make a distribu-
tion possible; but now the latest news from
Hoover is that more is to be expected
In better times than these the hotels
and restaurants OF Berlin were seldom
without game of some kind on their menus
--venison, pork of wild boar, hare, wild
duck pheasant, quail and Others Now
game is very rare. And here is the cause,
expressed in figures: For the year that
ended January 81 only 190 head of deer
were brought to the Berlin market where
for the year 1914 the number was near
ly 10000 Similarly, the deliveries of wild
swine have dropped from 1850 to 90, hares
from $4,000 TO 21,000, pheasants from
13S,600 to 1920 And of all kinds Of game
the total has sunk from 1922, 900 to $4,000.
That is one reason why so many persons
on the streets of Berlin look pale and
emaciated
Endless Poachers
There are two causes, 1t appears, for the
reduced arrivals of game The first is that
the maximum prices fixed by the authori-
ties are considerably lower than can be
obtained in "sneak trade" as the Germans
call illicit dealing. Trade of that kind in
game must generally be carried on off in
the country where the animals were killed,
and there are plenty Of buyers there will
ing to pay more than the regulation price.
Another cause is the prevalent lawlessness,
which makes it actually unsafe for hunters
to go into the forests. Poachers have mul-
tplled to degree never known before.
Dlsbanded soldiers are now recruiting their
ranks, and are helping to slaughter off. the
game stock of the country, besides drawing
their pay as unemployed. In some places,
1t is reported, they go in organized bands
into the forest, and some drive the game.
are employed with deadly effect
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
the DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEpYs

May 28-At my Office all the day, and at
six with G. Lippencott to the courts, and
he beat me three sets in four, and it is
pleasant to be playing until past o'clock,
but I did have feeling Of guilt all the
evening, forasmuch as Mary Caroline kept
a fine dinner for me, which, I felt. dis
arranged domestick matters.
29-Io the city in my petrol Wagon,
and with R. Kirby to luncheon, and l re-
marked the fine suit he wore, and he
Showed me the label, which said London,
1917, and there was talk of whether he or
M. Ketten dresses the better, and F. Cobb
and I voted for M. Ketten, forasmuch as
R. Kirby still hath the air of Hastings,
Nebraska, about him.
30-Early to the city, and all day at my
stint, but it being holiday had no vlsi-
tors, SO l worked without hindrances other
than those Of my mentality, which, Heaven
knoweth, are enough.
Tho dyestuf shortage appears not to
have affected the hue Of strawberry Ice
cream.
Perhaps the War Department has de-
cided to pay that $50 bonus in canned meat.
Suggestion to the public: Boycott Ave
profitesring landlords a day.
F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
The Coming Tower
How Many Leaves of Grass

How Many Leaves of Grass
Reared to the carols Of the waking birds
find myself an alien now
To this fair countryside
And all my senses traitor to their early
school
Wherein they learned to love
The various voices of the field and wood:
The brilliant patchwork of unnamed notes
Which weaves itself between the dawn and
dusk.
Long years Of city living
Have so trained my ears for the unceas-
ing din,
They are bewildered now
BY such sharp silences
AS fall between the call and answer
OF the mating hermit thrush;
And years of city living
Have pulsed my blood
That this slow wayside tempo
Seems somehow sacrilege
To the great god we worship
In the town of steel and stone.
And yet Time once seemed friendly
And told me there was virtue
In the hours l fingered by the honey
suckle vine
Watching honey bees
Or waiting for the hummingbird to nest,
Or in the hours l spent upon affairs
Of those strange peoples who have their
world
Beneath the leaves of prairie grass
Now and then there come sharp intervals
While lie half ubmerged in grass,
when I forget that this old sun
Has seeped itself four years in blood,
And then some murmur from the leaves
Recalls the fresh and fragrant years
Too soon the mood is gone
And for the fragrance there Is the stencil
Of summer city streets;
And for the insects murmur
The unending roar of grinding chariots
Carrying great Manhatta's proletariat;
And these seem part of me-
The others, false and foreign gods
Tell me, 0 Seer,
Who walked befriended in friendless town
And was still more than friend in every
countryside,
Can l renounce and go back to the early
affairs now?
How many leaves Of grass, Walt
Whitman?
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
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New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
Still SO Skepticala

tFro'n The Philadelphia Inqusrcr)
1.-THE airplane's dash across the Atlantic
is the wonder Of to-day" observes a con-
temporary.
1t Is even moro than that. 1t is the
wonder Of each day.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
And That He Is in Paris
{ From The Arhonsn. cor-

(Fron The Arkansas Gosetts)
President Wilson's recommendation as to
light wines and beers was mistake. 1t
serves as a reminder that the President is
human.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

Ssu can purchase merchandise advertised IN IRE
TRIBUNE with absolute safet-for II dissatisfaction TO-
suits In any THE TRIBUNE guarantees 10 pay your
back upon request. No red tape. NO aupo''ns'
We mako good promptly II the advertiser does net
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
MURDOCH PEMBERTON.

Mr.. Francis Hackett is considering, in
the current New Republic, Mencken's "The
American Language" and says "He leaves
out the American ride as an equivalent
to the English drive (motor-rde)." And
both Mr. Hackett and Mencken omit the
transitve ride, meaning to confuse or un-
nerve an opponent by harassing verbal fire.
Example: The Cubs rode Henie Zim all
afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

gard. The line Of the discrimination Is
plain and our St. Louis contemporary
should see it.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
"And What Become of Your Sister? p
(Which One?" ''The One That Drives
the Ice Wagon"

Sir: And have you forgotten the vaude-
Vile acts in which just before the closing
the comedian says to the straight man, af-
ter several swats on the head with news
paper, "Why do you hit the head
with the World ?"-the straight man re-
Whereupon another swat is negotiated.
Then the straight man says to the COM
edian: What kind of a paper is this any
way?" the comedian replies: "Wrappng,"
earning for himself another rap.
Then the comedian says: "She said she
would meet me here at 8 o'clock; it is
half-past seven. She must be half
hour late. While waiting for her I guess
| will do a few steps. All, what is this
hear? It's the orchestra playing down.
stairs in the hotel ballroom"
All of this before a dumb street drop
in one with lot of advertisements and
neither ends of beer wagons with propa-
ganda of various brews on the back
IlDN.
Speaking of teams that once delighted
one with fine sense of high burlesque
should not be forgotten-Ross and Fenton.
And Dixon, Bowers and Dixon, with their
pantomime baseball game; and Jones,
Grant, and Jones, who sang 81 Don't Care
If You Never Come Back"
Although We never were seriously in
love-like Mr.. Collier in Nothing But the
Truth"-with Maude Adams, there was
hardly anybody, in our entire fifteenth
year, loved more deeply than the dia-
mond- gartered Lady Sholto Douglas as she
sang:
She is the daughter of Officer Porter
Is charming Kitty.
Laughing and merry with lips like cherry
So gay and witty.
She's known, of course, as the pride of
the force
And the boys delight.
She is the daughter of Officer Porter,
And she's all right.
AS we recall it. our heart was steadfast
to the titled soubrette until the incom-
parably beautiful Miss Norma Whalley,
singing "Louisiana LOU" came along
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
Nor Uebers

fFrom The Toledo Blcde)
Great German scientific discovery: S,b.
are no good for making superA
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

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Vernon Rogsrs cePresiden Helen Rogers Reid Secre
tary; A. suter Treasurer. Address Tribune bu'lans
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New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

AS we recall it. our heart was steadfast
to the titled soubrette until the ncom-
parably beautiful Miss Norma Whalley.
singing "Louisiana Lou" came along.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
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Cost Mounting

Cost Mounting
The increase in the cost of living is also
very marked, and 1t is still mounting
Along with several other American news
paper men here in this hotel,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

Perhaps the War Department has de-
cided to pay that $50 bonus in canned meat.
Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25
Your Attention, Please

If your bowels need a wholesome
physic that thoroughly cleanses,
sweetens the stomach and benefits
the liver, take Foley Cathartic Tab
lete tonight and you will feel better
in the morning. 1t is a quick and
safe remedy for sick headache, bill
iousness, bloating,, sour stomach, gas,
bad breath, Indigestion, constipation
or other condition caused by clogged
or irregular bowels. Foley Cathartic
Tablets cause no gripping or nauseal
Freeman Dempsey, dealer.-adv.
Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25
District of Canaan, IS. Court of Pro

District of Canaan, SIS. Court of Pro-
bate, September II, 1919.
Estate of Julia j. Wickwire, late
of Canaan, in said District, deceased.
The Court of Probate for the. Dis
trict of Canaan hath limited and al
lowed six months from the date
hereof for the creditors of said es-
tate to exhibit their claims for settle
ment.
All persons indebted to said &c.
tate are requested to make immedi-
ate payment to
Gertrude w. Eornbeck,
Executrix,
Falls Village, Conn
Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25

REPORT CONDITION NATIONAL BANK, at
Village, septem
3 RESOURCES
discounts including rediscount, Except those
Deposited circulation (U S. bonds
unpledged.
Securities other than y, S. bonds not including ocks
Stocks 100000
Stock Reserve Bank $50 of subscrpon)
Value of banking house. owned and unnumbered 100000
LAWFUL an with Federal Reserve Bank
Items with Federal Bank in process of collection not
vault and amounts
Total of Items ID, IA, Is, 16, and 17....38,3O86 go
Checks on Of of
90
Redemption fundw with U. from u s.
Interest earned but not neutrality-suspicious.
Notes and Bills Receivable not past due 80. ct
- LIABILITIES
Surplus 100000
expenses, IT s717os
credited, in advance of
maturity and earned pproximate) l2ss .S5
Circulating notes outstanding .4904O .oo
$3.50 IL
Ne o banks bankers, and trust companies
oher 20 3o) 85
of Items 80, .124s3. go
Individual deposits subject to check 81
Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than
borrowed) 1854 81
@ o a anpnq deposits oh than bank deots) sub
Reserve Items "a, 35, &c. ST. 49, and 49, 80
State of Connecticut County of Litchfeld ss
Cashier of the abovenamed bank do emns
belief DWIGHT E. DEAN, Cashier.
above the amount which
exceed so made The number of such loans
of September 1919
J. LEE ENSIGN Notary Public
HENRY C. GAYLORD
VIM. HUBBELL
M. B RICHARDSON Jr
Directors
Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25
Enr LI-rriv.~-" Floor

# ua untitled or undressed hardwood
Iuur becomes gray apply solution of
Two ounces uf UXalic acid dissolved In
Just enough water TO wet IL we'll all
over. Let stand Is or 20 minutes; then
rinse i'm cold water and proceed to
wa.h without suds as usual.
Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25
Method ~ Fal<,nu vioIIns.

y claim which has been mnde for|
X-rays is that by exposing to theirl
light Il good modern violin 1t will acI
qu.rp the characteristic tone of gem
uine Ttrad. the action Of the rays IND
n few hours agelng the wood by some
60 years.
Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25


Conn., in the State of the close of business on
Loans and discounts including redounts Except
overdaa secured cure $40 Is: unsecured none TO- Is
Deposited to circulation (U s. bonds par ~@
Pledged to secure u deposits (par vuej 90
Pledged as collateral for State or other deposits or bills
Owned and unpedged
Securities other than bonds (no including stoci
Collateral Trust and other notes of CORPORATIONS issued for
not less than One Year more than Three Years
To os bonds securities, etc., other than u S. 100 8os 90
Stock Federal Reserve Bank $50 cent of subscpon
Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve
with Federal Reserve bank in of collection
Cash in vault
banks, bankers, and trust companies
(oher 14) 1928 80
ch r 5ss sR: located s Ss s on city or town Of
Red nption fundwi u. from U. S.
Interest earned but not coleced-apprOximate-on
assets LIS .ss
L1ABm1T1Es
Capital stock paid 100000
1nR dup Profits 25i57 81
and credited, n
maturity and not earned-(a approximately 1856 81
Net amounts due to banks, bankers companies
(oher than included Items 20 800 2872572
bankOu outstanding 1916
OF (other
borroWed)
Total of demand deposits (other than bank deposs)
subject Reserve, Items "a, 81, and
$24162O 10
u S. Government Securities borrowed without furnishing
collateral security for 900 90
*Of
law (Sec 597, Rev. Stat exclusive which
exceed SO cents made The number of such loans
State of Connecticut County Of Lichfeld,
William
WILLIAM S. SMART,
Subscribed
Correct Publ
j. H. RORABACK
I.
D.
Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25
Close Quarters.
You viii Like IL

Disappointed House Hunter--rve
brought back the keys of Sour mai
sonette-why, there isn't room in it
for the chilrden to have the humps -
London Opinion.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-11-27
Found Guilty of Murder

Mt. Clemens, Mich, Nov. 21--
Henry Johnson, colored, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Ida Art
list, also colored, was found guilty
of murder in the second degree in
the Macomb county circuit court
Wednesday afternoon. MR. Artists
body was found in the ward of
her home at Romeo with her throat
slashed from ear to ear.
A cap worn by Johnson directed
suspicion toward him. He was ar
rested several days later on an in
terurban car, after escaping from
a farm to which he had been trac-
ed. Judge Tucker has not yet inn
posed sentence.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-11-27
GO NO FARTHER
The Evidence Is At your Door

Yale proof is what you want
and the statement of this highly
respected resident will Danish all
doubt -
w. A. Woodruff, stationery en-
gineer, Jones ST., Yale, says "A
short time ago my back was CIV
ing me quite a bit of trouble,
caused by cold settling in it and
irritating the muscles. A dull,
continual ache was present in the
small of my back and at night
this gave me quite a bit of
trouble. | felt tired when | got
up in the morning and through
the day was languid and lacked
pep. The kidney secretions were
too frequent in passage and were
accompanied with smarting SEN
sation. The benefit | got from
Doan's Kidney Pills was great.
Three or four boxes rid my back of
that persistent ache and put my
kidneys back in good shape again.
Doan's Kidney Pills are fine med
icine for backache and kidney
trouble"
Price Coo at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same
that Mr.. Woodroff had. Foster
Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, NY.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-11-27

After vain attempts to dissuade
the management of Caro- Temple
Theatre from putting on movie
shows Sunday, the Caro- Minister
ial Association secured an injunc-
ton from the circuit court forbid
ding the opening of the house. The
injunction was served Saturday
evening by Village Marshall West
fall, and announcement of the fact
was made in the theatre, together
with a notice that the house would
remain closed.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-11-27
State Of Ohio, City of Toledo. s..

Lucas County.
Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner of the firm of f. ]. Cheney
& Co., doing business i'm the City OF To-
ledo. County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of ONE
cry case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn TO before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 9Th day OF December,
A. ID. 1886
(SeaD A. w. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure rs taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Send for
testimonials, free
F. j. CHENEY e. CO, Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
rake Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-11-27
Elston's Real Estate Bargains

80-acre farm, under cultivation, tive
miles from Yale; good hnildiogs and
fences in good condition. Good or
chard.
80-acre farm, acres good timber
all new buildings, 4 miles from Rose.
burg.
160-acre farm. mile from Peck.
good buildings, lao acres tillable, bal.
ance pasture land.
8-room house, small arD, large lot
In city Of Yale. Bath ard toilet
The above property is all for sale
and on easy terms.
GEO w. ELSTON
Real Estate and Insurance
The Washington times., 1919-03-21

The question whether Psrshlng was
popular with the troops was much
discussed Many oDined he was moi.
Others said he was.
In any event, according to the talx
here now. in the reviews OF his vet
eran divisions latterly. and In his
visits 70 the men In camps and hos
pitfalls, General Pershing has had an
opportunity for getting into closer
touch with his men, and Il has
strengthened his hold on them. The
cabled reports that the Rainbow d.
vision, composed OF guaPdsmen from
many States, SCARED veterans ~
many fields, marched BY him az Cob
lens the other day and eheered -
they marched, have not escaped no
tiee..
VIII SOund Sentiment q Men.
Whether Hitchcock is abroad In the
interest OF any particular candidate
or merely looking things over for
some OF the Republican leaders on the
national committee, Is not disclosed
hare. But politicians predict that
When he comes back he will haVs
pretty definite information about how
the army abroad feels toward Persh-
ing, General Wood. and other possi-
bilities.
The Washington times., 1919-03-21
Pershing Again Looms
Up As Presidential
Probability For 1920

Politicians 7pricked up their ears
today when they perused a brief ca
bic dispatch from abroad saying
Frank Hitchcock. former Postmaster
General and manager Of the Taft
campaign in 1905. was present with
General Pershing to review American
troops at Coblenz.
Hitchcock Is said TO be abroad as a
sightseer. but politicians here credit,
him with a mission more closely
touching Presidential policies than
that Hitchcock has had such an ac-
tive hand in Republican Presidential
conventions in recent years and In the
maneuvering prior to conventions
that Il is generally assumed he may
be expected to play an active part In
the 1920 proceedings.
LOons Up Again.
1t is an interesting fact that at
about the same time Hitchcock hap
pens to be abroad there are growing
reports in Washington to the effect
General Pershing is once more LOOM
Ing up as strong possibility for the
Republican niminatiOA.
Some months agU. there was much
talk OF Pershing for the Republican
but later IL died down.