The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-01-10

One egg every two weeks.
One pound and half of sugar each
month:
One-third pound OF oatmeal each
month
Pint and a half milk daily for
babies under one year.
Half pint of milk daily for sick
persons.
No milk for others.
Official Card Needed.
Government food cards are neces-
sary to secure all these things, only
geese being excepted, save in the rich
agricultural regions. where the farm
ers find II impossible to ship food to
the big cities because of the break
down OF transportation facilities.
The masses of the German people
are subsisting on cabbage, carrots,
potatoes. white beets and bread.
The rich are able to secure meats
and butter and eggs by paying enor-
nous prices.
Butter is now 81 to 50 a pound.
Chickens are $40 each.
A fat goose is s25.
Steak is 81 a pound.
Horse meat Is 60 cents a pound.
Sugar is Il cents a pound.
Genuine coffee. S12. q
Tea, SIS TO S25.
Eggs. 80 cents each.
y Soup meat, $3.50 pound.
"Germany's 1918 crops were only
a third of the normal yield before the
war" said Wurm. This was due to
the bad weather and the wide spread
~. influenza among the farmers, the
shortage of farm labor and horses
and cattle and the failure of fertilizer.
The refusal of million and half
of Russian prisoners to work after
the signing of peace between Ger
many and Russia added TO the food
shortage"
Old Rulers Deceived Us.
The old government deceived the
people about the crops. Germany now
faces actual famine. with its imports
stopped from Poland, Russia. Ruma-
mia and West German provinces.
German workmen are now subsist-
ing on 100 food calories a day. as
compared with 5000 before the war
American workmen have $500 calori-
es a day.
This means that the German work
man to-day gets less than one-quarter
of the heat producing food than does
the American
Thousands Of our women and chill
dren are dying for lack of nourish-
Tsnent,
visited many food stores in Frank
fort and other cities, and found them
practically empty. Many of the meat
markets and bakeries are closed be-
cause they have nothing to sell.
) Industrial workers are becoming
more discontinued daily over the food
conditions in Berlin. Nine hundred
thousand former munition workers
are now back on civilian allowances.
During the war they were allowed APP
proximately a pound of bread daily.
Each is now reduced to half a pound.
Before the war the German work
man earned an average of $500 and
spent half of II for the family's food
Now he earns $3.50 and spends four
fifths of it--for bad food.
Since the revolution and the over
throw of the militarists, German la
Dor is more insistent in demanding
higher wages, and most p.oprietors
are granting their demands, fearing
Bolshevism and confiscatlon OF all in
dustries.
Labor leaders are advocating a
claims and the lowering of taxes.
unique plan for payment OF war
They propose that every manufactur-
err who has a government contract
shall return to the new government
eighty per cent of his war profits.
The proposition is likely to be'adopt- |
ed.
No Great Stores Found.
q THE superstition that German fac
hries have stored enormous quanti- |
lies Of manufactured goods during the
war. preparatory TO entering world /
competition after tho war, appears Go
be untrue.
X. Wilh millions Of factory workers IN