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# * lie absolutely fully hieh'Hirit <4m consumers v+oufdaiu. that llui farmers my making Immense profits ft-om producing/tliorii, From Frnnkfuft liuiM's tl/c report that at present milk deliveries In that city ainomit -t^ about ode-sixth those Vf peace times. Receipts scarcely ~*uf- ficexto-take care of the-privileged .ru--- " \ • * 1 t«>imot's, invalids, nursing and j-xjieeL; aWt twuhers, nml forth. A large £h«re Of win it is actually obtained is produced by Ho- municit*af authorities from their mnniciiia-l dairies, and farms, it has boeh. a very expensive method, Vet the situationIs so bad that the town has decided to extend it still .further. \ , / German speaking Austria has long beet) jealous of tie 1 comparatively f:i- . ****** IWfciasv E SKI BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA PAG* THRU inadequate^ Supply of Heat Ex pected to Cause Much Suffering. HOW ] THE ENEMY- STANDS People Have Less to Eat This Winter :A.:=45ian Last, Is Belief—‘Two Fodder -Discoveries—D i saTfeCtioh 7"-" "in Austria. London,—Europe is going to lead the simple,life thts winter and for a long time thereafter. There isjioj a country that does not now Realize the real danger of. extreme foutL-sdiortnge. Rut food shortage is not the only or In most eases the uni-st of the men aces.- The nations face and realize; as never before tin* exhaustion of all nec essary supplies. Although food will be scarce in all countries, whether bellig- .erenu or neutral, it is doubtful whether that will Impose us much hardship on people asHhe shortage of fuel, writes' Judson 0. Williver in the New York Sun. t > \ v In- Europe's climate food Is fuel to ’be jlist possihie to rnis* necessary meat, ration. The relation <Vf-the gefieniDgconomlc brenkdlnyn to Agriculture Is InHJbnted in both England and Germany I»y mat ters affecting the supply of agricultural machinery'. In Germany there Is n most serious shortage of all kinds of agricultural tools and machines, be cause, the old opes .have worn out and there ts neither, metal nor nnmufaetiir- in'g copacjty .tit provide new ones. 1/ In England the ' com jdafnt.paTtieulnr- Iv eoti'cerns 1,-he supply of motnrplows. The goVei'iVniiuU,ih)ng ago promised I that "thousands of tfiese would he fur-i i tiished in time to put a greatly in- dflre not or cannot ‘mpose nn.'vemn» regulations .upon them. In SaxunxjJ?- rungements have been made to. ftUff- burse farmers who would Import from .i'.othe^ states cow 3 and heifers Ini caff. Fttirniers makiug such purchases vyill ; r : receiv# a premium of, 29 per cent ot | /the/price paid, not to exceed ~H0O marks, > This arrangenien/-has nursed violent .complaint because the prices of hotter and tnitk are a trendy fear- 7 plowing season is on It develops that want of shipping or other,reasons have prevented Hie delivery any thing .like an adequate number of these ma chines. . v . ; * A Dresden physician who Is quoted as an authority;- has recently dis cussed the German food’situation as regards the requirements, and-supplies of various classes of consumers. He finds that ..-children up to eight years of age are receiving a reason ably satisfactory ration, hut the amount aliowed to those from-eight to the body quite as much us it is nour-j eighteen Is utterly Insufficient and that ishment. Sharply restricted • supplies of food, and that of a doubtful qual ity and poor variety, might he endured If there were plenty- of fuel. It is when the supply of fuel, both outside and inside, falls hejow the necessities of physical effort that people begin to kuffer. Europe has neither carbon for its food nor carbon for its fireplaces, and in some respects the northern neutrals are even worse off than tin* belliger- cuts. Rations of important food nec essaries have been reduced by some of them even below; the amounts allowed in Germany. Ejigland Is by tar the best supplied country in the matter of' food, and the authorities are making desperate efforts to make the popula tion, realize that rationing will soon be compulsory unless food consump tion is considerably reduced. The food authorities have announced n policy of accumulating sufficient reserve to feed the country for three months, even If no imports sjuill he received during this time. Question of Shipping. In the ease'of England, it is entirely a question of shipping Rig stocks of food have been gathered in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere, hut there are no ships to tiring them here. England is probably better situ ated In the matte! of coni supplies than any other country, hut must "di vide with Us allies, Friyice and Italy, and so far ns possible sonic of tin* neu trals hope to be taken - care of from the English mines. -- The German food situation Is puz zling. Apparently the authorities are not nearly so confident about it as they Would like the public to believe. The year’s harvest turned oirt more sat isfactory than seemed probable dur ing the period of droughts and hail storms In midsummer, hut on the oth er hand reserves were heavily drawn upon before the harvest of 11117 was gathered. Reserves, indeed. may-TnlF- l> to- said to have disappeared. The'Carefully cultivated official uu- 'dersta'nding in Germany is that there will kt* a better food supply this wln- rejMhau last. The specific statements stifying this expectation are highly unsatisfactory. The Munich Medical union has declared that there will he less" food, except potatoes, this win- ter than las*. Throughout Germany there .is apparently a pretty general belief that this Is true, and wide- iT'erTTt • demand is voided for an in- creh^e in the allowance of potatoes. Jn Gvrmany. as in England, the im- infilLite fyvuilt ,of the harvest Was a great increase in the marketing of po- t-atoes-with the consequence that in imitfv places there'., were not storage facilities to take care of them. The fear is. expressed that a not inconsider able portion of the potato yield will he wasted, partly because of overconsump- .Uon in the agricultural areas nnd’Tiirrf’-* ttie shortage seriously threatens the pliysTcal vitality .of the next genera tion. •’ jSmne of the German Jurisdictions have recently announced that newly married couples will hi* granted a prin^sTjeannI vorahlc food situation in Hungary, and recently the disaffection has. beeomV; .'cuter It 1s charged that Hungary is7}, feeding herself bountifully arid leaving the rest of the empire to shift as it can. Dor whatever Hungary I s will ing to send Into the German speaking- - regions'outrageous prices are charged, and the subject has been discussed f with painful frankness In the legisla- i t.I.ve bodies of both states. It /was.,kiitd that recently ■ lard from Hungary had been sold In Austria at nearly eight times the price It would have cost In Hungary. The/same gen erali.situatIon prevails as to many oth er Hungarian food supplies. —- The Hungarians complain with equal > ^ ramiv that they are,charged excessive ^ j pahs-s for all manufactured articles ; 4 , -ftroduced hi Austria. The two gov- : , ernments have been trying to agree upon a general policy of levelingjlown 7 the prices of both. Rut at Ibis'point 4 7 . they are confronted by the same diffi culty which has been so many times ■ ; ... ] H'xperieHccd in Oermariy: no system of price control will stretch Inadequate I supplies to' the point of adequacy. In Holland the state’s control is be ing extended to almost all food sup- pMes. There are Indications that the rationing system Is'going to he estab lished before* winter shall have fur ad vanced. The Use of fat and margarine, by bakers and confectioners and by hotels, restaurants feud clubs In pre paring food lias heen"Y>r«diibited. The government has guaranteed prices for wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc. As to crops not .available for food the areas that miry he planted have been strictly limited; in some cases to not more than 40 or f»0 per cent of I the plantings of normal years. A pre- HI - • | ■ - j V,*;. 1— German airplane in Palestine, captured by cavalry and being towed to the Rrltish camp. 2—Italian war dogs used in the Alps, to convey Wounded soldiers! St— Australian, trobps marching up a battle-scarred road to take their i>bo esTrr the trenches in France. —:—^— —_i——_—^ , SHIPPING MUNITION METALS JO THE ALLIES l.ITtle Prim-css Jeanne, youngest member of the Italian royal, fumilyk photographed while on a visit to wounded soldiers recently, returned from the Italian hat.tlof.rout. The •princess Is one of the "most popular members of the, king’s family, .espe cially with the imihtn public. She is idolized by tlu 1 soldiery. double food +i4lo\vanee for the, first six weeks i»f tlu-ir married life! I-]!se- vfyiere provision bus been ’ made to double ; the.food allowances of nursing and expectant mothers. The effort to find fodder, for animals has started the professors on many t-rvestigations and inquiries, hoetor Degen, director of the seed testing sta tion in I’.udapestr claims to have dis-, covered two valuable articles of fod der. lie. writes:. mLum has been’offered for increased 1 areiis of land; under the plow. The | government Is going to requisition the entire cri'p of sugar beets, the factories ! will convert them Into sugar; and this ! wlH he turned over to the government lat a fixed price for distribution. The-j I idee demanded of the public will not I he Increased. * - ~ v , Although Denmark is, In proportion to area and population,- one of the greatest agricultural producing and exporting countries In the world, It is now-confronted with shortage of al- i most everything. The country’s nut ter production has decreased alarming ly, and'there Is a demand for ration ing. The government is undertaking, to subsidize the production of butter so ns to reduce prices; that is, to ap ply .to butter practically the same rule that was applied to bread in England" The English government Is subsidizing bread to the extent of about $40,000,- OOO a year, thus making it possible to sell the English loaf of war bread for four imd one-half cents. In Norway the government and the local food authorities are working to perfect a rationing system tn time to save the country from disaster this winter. At Christiania, a big scheme for storing reserves (J food has r been worked out mml some 2f» warehouses in various parts of Jhe’ city'are being stocked. Under a Jaw passed last May the government has estalrished a .jho nopoly of tin- import of wheat, barley, oats, rye. hep ns, t peas and lentils anX other’grains and meal used for human .food except rice and potatoes. A steamer being loaded at an Atlantic port with Iron and steel * [airs consigned tq government mtlri+rTon plants In France and England. The t.’nRed SRitt-s is of Invuluahle servlet'to its European allies In supplying the tre mendous demand for metals used in the manufacture"of War materials. EXHIBIT OF GUNS TAKEN BY THE FRENCH - j “The sea rush* (Holhosohaenus niarl- ly from, inadequacy of storage T:ji• i 1 i-^tiniuk) was knowil, ns regards the part above gpiunrl, as a fodder equal In ties. So from many "German authori ties comes the warning that despite a -v big yield of.tubers the coming winter Is likely to see conditions quite as had regarding them, and worse as-to many .other things than last winter. , " Ominous Suggestion. The ominous, suggestion Is made by some of the,German food authorities thaTTt will not do to he too free with potatoes, because later It will he neces sary to mix more potato flour with ce-. real flour to .stretch the supply. Also as. there was a short crop of fodder throughout the country potatoes are likely to be required to feed domestic animals. - The fear of such an event has caused widespread demand that more hogs be slaughtered thnt they may not require tQ be fed with potatoes That the peo ple will need. The number of hogs. In the country has been Increasing this year, and the fact gives eopeern be cause the pig Is'an active competitor of a munition worker or anybody else In the nqitter q^iaod requirements. Oermun^nuthorittes have determined thnt. beyond providing a moderate meat value to straw. . .Rt-cent experiments haver'however, shown that thd tubers growing on the roots underground are far more valuable. They, come very near to the horse chestnut In the amount of raw protel nr raw fn't and starch contents,without the bitterness. If they are used foe' the manufacture of spirits the wash, either wet or dried, can also he used- for fodder. “The pond bullrush (Mcliaenoplec- tus lncustrls) also contains a valu able*,underground organ. The horizon tal Roots, containing a great quantity of starch, form a good concentrated fodder. If used In' distilleries the wnsh is not so valuable as that from the Spanish. But in a time of need it f» a raw material that~C*n her used ! for various purposes." «T- Mljk famine confronts all Europe. The situsfflon has long been had; and grows steadily; worse .everywhere. There is constant and Increasing con- fliotvbetwee.n the various stute and mu ni AipaV v auth«u'Uies dealing with the food questing throughout Germany. Jn Chance to.Marry Free. Lorain. 0.—Mayor L. M. Moore of Lorain has been mnyoring two jv-ars, and lias not yet performed a marriage ceremony. Now he Wants to- marry some couple before ,he becomw an "ex” and before liis powers as a matri monial splicer expire. — -- “I have read up on the require ments and believe I can do a good Job," said the mayor. . k "All that I need Is'n couple. To the first applying I will marry them free, and give the bride a present." >' this regard .the German situation Is ration the transmutation of. vegetable much .more complicated and difficult Into nnlnial foml is a dangerously to handle tljan the English, wasteful process. So there Is an effort to Induce farthers nml village dwell ers to restrict the number .of hogs and cattle tJy^tli# point where it' will e tha The sta^ 1 and ihunlcimil govern ments In Germany are very Jealous of their authority In their respective Ju risdictions, and the federal authorities JAPANESE BUILD 250 SHIPS A YEAR Toklo.—Japan Is able to build 250 ships a year, their tonnage totaling 1.000.000, according to a government statement. The shipbuilding business of ‘Japan has had an , unprecedented growth since the beginning of the war, and on September 1 there were 113 shipbuilding slips owned by 42 firms, besides .24 slips which are building and will he ready before the end of the year.- These facilities are more than three times as great ns at the beginning of the war. Ettrh sttp Is rriphtdeTif turning out a ship of more than LOOM tannage In less than a year. VISITOR FROM ENGLAND ~TTtrfidfed.s > Ger^iun 'guns cnplured t>v tlM‘-TT<‘ii< h In the battle of the Chemin des Dames are on exhibition for the French populace In front of a. famous old churc|| In Solssons. v \ - “ '* | WILLING TO PAY ANY F ICE pocket and hauled out a nickel, which - j he valnlyxnttempted th Insert In the slot. This coin did not fit and he tried i Anxious to Use Weighing nga | n w f^h a qiiarter. Still no success,! Sir Frederick h. Smith, who was Gt-eat Britain’s cetisor ilurtng the first year of the war, U now on a visit In the United States. He believes the censorship should not prevent the pub lication of the heroic deeds of that troops. . _ Chinaman Machme, Wia Trying to Insert Folded Bill in Slot. As he walked out upon the platform of an- interurhan station he attracted attention Immediately. He was rather different from the ordinary Chinaman. There were the colled pigtail: flapping [ as he was Inserting a folded bill, the station agent rushed out "and Todd his arm. \ . \- . trousers and long, loose jacket; hut hlJLc “Aly |>oor man. how did you happen face was anything but fMestlai. While tVeome here?" ask^d the sympathetic the*usual Ghinaiurfn expresses-only ha- prison visitor. ,'■>*•' • bitual stoicism, this man beamed good kiiverronfidenee caused my ruin, humor aiulJ.nteiHgent Inquisitiveness/ ma’am."- replied the international Unaware That he was the centep_uf -cr»*ok. ; \ . • " attraction, he walked unweighing machine and gingerly Inspected- It. That he understood Its puriaise ‘‘Was evident, for, he reachin! 4 <w_u into a Fish That Do Not Sleep. Evidently this machine of the "foreign “In my room I have a bowl of water devils", required a trigger sacrifice. A-containing'goldfish. I noticed that half-dollar was forlhcoihlng. and Just these fish nbvet slei-p. Sometimes ......... stay up at rea( jjhg un ui one o’clock, but even at that hour theto fish ate as frisky ns In the daytime, writes a correspondent In the Cardiff Western Mail. I pointed this curious fact out to a friend who Is a naturalist and he told me that there are several species of fish,. reptHes\ and insects which never sleep during the whole of their existence. Among fish, he ex plained, it Is |M>sltlvely kriowfi that goldfish, salmon and pike never sleep Pride Before Fall. Ddort^t understand. 1 * - - **I-WETl»e»*o doing-- sir wHk I got an ht all; also that there are several oth- Idea That all t!i**"smart ilcos-tives were' era lu^lhe fish family thnt never sleep tn tHH>ks."-r-Bmmughanf Age-Ilerald. more than a few minutes a twi-nth,’*