Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-31
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
Cdor OF Burning 6ristIes, But
Is 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
" hich have appeared in leading Ger
man newspapers:
The Berlin Tag,iche Rundschau
says that Charlottenbuyg citizens had
observed that a butcher. after dark,
removed meat from His shop to an
adjacent building. One evening he
packed bacon and sausage i'll wash
basket and was sending it across the
street by children when neighbors
opened the basket and discovered the
Neat beneath lot of shirts and
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
count dragged the butcher from a cafe
into the back yard and there beat him
tf absolute Inconsistencies The ac-
count continues:
The enraged avengers then repair
ed to the butchers house, where the
butchers wife was violently assaulted
and subsequently ducked in a 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
tel of 40, 600 pounds of what was term
ed finest imported Dutch powdered
cocoa. When, at the request of a 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.
lady customer at a 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
s225 to fetch home the ham, accord
Zig to the Frankfurter Ieitung
The conversation was overheard By
man who was in the shop. lie left
hnrriedly and handing the first ser
want girl he encountered in the street
the $225, with a tip, he dispatched
her to the shop to demand the ham
already partly paid for by the origf
raj purchaser who was not personal
~ known to the butcher. By tAis au
dacious stroke the man secured
1925 ham for s2.25.
The Frankfurter Zeitung tells how
Nemesis waited on a farmer who de-
c,ded 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
4 shave.
All went well until the mysteries OF
bacon curing began, when the betray-
ing odors penetrated the nostrils OF
some passerby. who promptly inform
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