Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, January 31, 1918, Image 3
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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---
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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-
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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-
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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,’*