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DIRE FOOD AND |
I FUEL SHORTAGE!
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Inadequate Supply of Heat Expected
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People Have Less to Eat This Winter
F Than Last, Is Belief?Two Fodder
Discoveries?Disaffection
in Austria.
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London.?Europe is going to lead
the simple life this winter and for a
long time thereafter. There is not a
country that does not now realize the
real danger of extreme food shortage. >
But food shortage is not the only or t
in most cases the worst of the men- I
aces. The nations face and realize as *
never before the exhaustion of all nec- i
essary supplies. Although food will be i
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scarce 111 un cuuu tries, wuemer ufing- i
I ercnt or neutral, it is doubtful whether 1
k that will impose as much hardship on f
P people as the shortage of fuel, writes
Judson C. Williver in the New York a
Sun. s
In Europe's climate food is fuel to t
the body quite as much as it is nour- I
ishment. Sharply restricted supplies i
of food, and that of a doubtful qual- 3
ity and^oor variety, might be endured c
if there were plenty of fuel. It is (
wben the supply of fuel, both outside i
and inside, falls below the necessities
of physical effort that people begin t
to suffer. / r
Europe has neither carbon for its i
L food nor carbon for its fireplaces, and ^
A ia some respects the northern neutrals t
j are even worse off than the belliger- c
% eats. Rations of important food nec- t
|fe essaries have been reduced by some of t
P* them even below the amounts allowed i
la Germany. England is by far the
best supplied country in the matter of I
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desperate-efforts to make the-popula- t
tien, realize that rationing will soon r
be compulsory unless food consump- r
tkra is considerably reduced. The food r
authorities have announced a policy c
of accumulating sufficient Reserve to t
feed thfe country for three months, i
even if no imports shall be received
A during this time. 1
Question of Shipping.
In the case of England it is entirely t
a Question of shipping. Big stocks of r
L food have been gathered in Australia, c
W New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere, *
but there are no ships to bring them r
here. England is probably better situ- *
ated in the matter of coal supplies r
ban nnv other country, but must di- <
vide with its ajlies, France and Italy, <
and so far as possible some of the neutrals
hope to be taken care of from the r
English mines. c
The 6erman food situation is puz- r
zling. Apparently the authorities are '
ncrt nearly so confident about it as they f
^ would like the public to believe. The )
year's harvest turned out more sat- fl
P isfactory than seemed probable dur- f
f ing the period of droughts and hail- f
storms in midsummer, but on the oth- -t
m er hand reserves were heavily drawn r
W upon before the harvest of 1917 was t
gathered. Reserves, indeed, may fairly
be said to have disappeared. 1
The carefullv cultivated official un- i
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member of the Italian royal family,
photographed while on a visit to
wounded soldiers recently, returned
from the Italian battfefront. The
princess is ono^ of the most popular
mender of the king's family, espedally
with the Italian public/ She is
idolized by the soldpry.
derstanding in Germany is thfit there
will be a better fcod supply this winter
than last. The specific statements
justifying this expectation are highly
unsatisfactory. The Munich Medical
anion has declared that there will be
less food, except potatoes, this winter
than last. Throughout Germany
there is apparently a pretty general
belief that this is true, and widespread
demand is vr?ced for an in:reas6
in the allowance of potatoes.
In Germany, as in England, the immediate
result of the harvest was
-Teat increase in the marketing of pn;atoes
with the consequence that in
nar>y places there were not storage
?acilities to take care of them. The
'ear is expressed that a not inconsiderable
portion, of the potato yield will he
.vasted, partly because of overconsump:ion
in the agricultural areas and party
from inadequacy of storage facili:ies.
So from many German authorises
comes the warning that despite a
>ig yield of tubers the coming winter
s likely to see conditions quite as bad
regarding them, and worse as to many
)ther things than Iastrwinter.
Ominous Suggestion.
The ominous suggestion is made by
;ome of the German food authorities
hftt it will not do to be* too free with
potatoes, because later it will be necessary
to mix more potato flour with ce eal
flour to stretch the supply. Also
is there was a short crop of fodder
hroughout the country potatoes are
ikely to be required to feed domestic
mimals.
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The fear of such an event has caused
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;laughtered that they may not require
o be fed with potatoes that the peo)le
will need. The number of hogs
n the country has been increasing this
rear, and the fact gives concern be ause
the pig Is an active competitor
>f a munition worker or anybody else
n the matter of food requirements.
German authorities have determined
hat beyond providing a moderate meat
ation the transmutation of vegetable
nto animal food is a dangerously
vasteful process. So there is an effort
o induce farmers and village dwellirs
to restrict the number of hogs
md cattle to the point where it will
>e just possible to raise the absolutely
lecessary meat ration.
The relation of the general economic
>reakdown to agriculture is indicated
n both England ana Germany by mat- '
ers affecting the supply of agricultural
nachinery. In Germany there is a
nost serious shortage of all kinds of
igrigultural tools and machines, bemuse
the old ones have worn out and
here is neither metal nor manufacturng
capacity to provide new ones.
In England the complaint particulary
concerns the supply of motor plows.
The government long ago promised
hat thousands of these would be furlished
in time to put a greatly in reased
acreage in cereals under cultivation
in 1918.- Now when the fall
lowing season is on it develops that
vant of shipping or other reasons have
>revented the delivery of anything like
m adequate number of these machines.
A Dresden physician who is quoted
is an authority, lifts recently die
:ussea the German food situation as
egards the requirements and supplies
>f various elates of consumers. He
inds that children up to eight
ears of age are receiving a reasontbly
satisfactory ration, but the
imount allowed to those f^om eight to
'ighteen is utterly insufficient and that
he shortage seriously threatens the
)hysical vitality of the next generaion.
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Some of the German jurisdictions
rnve recently announced thnt nevviy
narried couples will be granted a
?nnhlA fnnrl nllmvnnrn for the first Six
veeks of their married life! Elsevhere
provision has been made to
louble the food allowances of nursing
md expectant mothers.
Two Fodder Discoveries.
The effort to find fodder for animals .
las started the professors on many
nvestigations and inquiries. Doctor
3egen, director of the seed testing staion
in Budapest, claims to have discovered
two valuable articles of fodler.
He writes: i
"The searush (Bolboschaenus mari:imus)
was known, as regards the part
ibove ground, as a fodder equal in
ralue to straw. Recent experiments
lave, however, shown that the tubers
growing on the roots underground are
ar more valuable. They come very
near to the horse chestnut in the
iraount of raw protein, raw fat and
nnntonis without Iht1 bittlTnCSS.
[f they are used for Hie manufacture
of spirits the wash, either wet or
Jried, can also be used for fodder.
"The pond bullrush (Schaenoplectus
lacustris) also contains a valuible
underground orsan. The horizontal
roots, containing a jrreat quantity
:>f starch, form a jrood concentrated
fodder. If used in distilleries the
ivash is not so valuable as that f^oni
ihe searush. But in a time of need
t is a raw material that can be used
for various purposes."
Milk famine confronts all Europe.
The situation has lon^ been bad, and
^rows steadily worse everywhere.
There is constant and increasing conflict
between the various state and municipal
authorities dealing with the
food question thro^hout Germany. In
rhis regard the German situation is
:nuch more complicated and difficult
to handle than the English.
The state and municipal governments
in Germany are very jealous of
rheir authority in their respective jurisdictions,
and the federal authorities
!are not or canno? impose universal
-egulations upon them. In Saxony ar
ar.gements have been made to reimburse
farmers who would import from
>ther cows ar.d heifers in calf,
banners niacin? such purchases will
receive a premium of 20 oer cent ot
JAPANESE DUILD jj:
250 SHIPS A YEAH j;
Tokio.?Japan is able to build j
ships a year, their tonnage j
totaling 1.000.01)0, according to | I
a government statement. The !
shipbuilding business of .Tap:m j
lias had Jin unprecedented i
growth since the beginning of
lilt? Will, illiU UII Ol'l'IVMilil'l 1
there were li.*? shipbuilding ;
slins owned bv -12 linns, besides
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'24 slips which <*>re building nnd
wif! be ready before liie end of
the yenr. These facilities are :
more than thro? times as great !
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:?s :it the beginning of the war. !
Ei?ch slip is capable of turning |
out a ship of more than 1.000 j
tonnage in less than a year.
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the price pi!id, not to exceed SCO
marks. This arrangement has caused
violent complaint because the prices!
.of butter and milk are already fear-1
fully hicrh and the consumers complain !
that th N farmers are making immense j
profits from producing them.
From Frankfurt comes the report
that at present milk deliveries in that j
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of ponce times. Receipts sc;. reply suf-j
fice to take care of the privileged customers^
invalids, nursing and expectant
motliers, and so forth. A large'
shiire of what is actually obtained is j
produced by the municipal authorities !
from their municipal dairies and j
farms. It has been a very expensive;
method, yet the sifuntion is so bad!
that the town has decided to extend ;
it still further.
Dissatisfaction in Austria.
German speaking Austria has long,
been jealous of the comparatively favorable
food situation in Hungary, and
recently the disaffection has become
acute. It is charged that Hungary is j
feeding herself bountifully and leaving;
the rest of the empire to shift as it!
can_ For whatever Hungary is will-1
ing to send into the German speaking;
regions outrageous prices are charged, j
and the subject has been discussedi
with painful frankness in the Jegisla-1
tive bodies of both states.
It was said that recently lard from j
Hungary had been sold in Austria at j
nearly eight times the price it would i
have cost in Hungary. The same gen- j
eral situation prevails as to many oth-!
er Hungarian food supplies.
The Hungarians complain with equal j
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r; cur mm iik\v air umi^cu cav-cooi?^ i
pr, js for all manufactured articles!
produced in Austria. The two gov- !
ernments have been trying to agree j
upon a general policy of leveling down
the prices of both. But at this point
they are confronted by the same diffi-;
culty which has been so many times
experienced in Germany; no system of j
price control will stretch inadequate j
supplies to the point of adequacy.
In Holland the state's control is be- i
ing extended to almost all food sup- j
plies. There are indications that the!
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lished before winter shall have far ad- i
vanced. The u.^e of fat and margarine i
by bakers and confectioners and by
hotels, restaurants and clubs in preparing
food has been prohibited. The;
government has guaranteed prices for i
wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc.
As to crops not available for food j
the areas that may be planted have
been strictly limited; in some cases
to not more than 40 or 50 per cent or \
the plantings of normal years. A premium
has been offered for increased i
areas of land nnder the plow. The
government is going to requisition the
entire crop of sugar beets, the factories
will convert them into sugar, and this
will be turned over to the government
at a fixed price for distribution. The
price demanded of the public will not
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be increased. .?
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 almost
everything. The country's butter
production has decreased alarmingly,
and there is a demand for rationing.
The government is undertaking
to subsidize the production of butter
so as to reduce prices; that is, to apply
to butter practically the same rule
that was applied to bread in England.
The English Avrninont :s subsidizing
bread to 11;<> "Xteru of about $40,000,
000 a year, thus making it possible to
sell the English loaf of war bread for
four and one-half cents.
In Norway the government and the
local food authorities arc working to
perfect a rationing system in time td
save the country from disaster this
winter. At Ohristiania a big scheme
foi scoring reserves of food has been
worked out and some - "> warehouses in
various parts of the city are being
stocked. Umler a law passed J.ast May
the government has estabished a monopoly
of the import of wneat, barley,
oats, rye, beans, peas and lentils and
other grains and neal used for human
food except rice and potatoes.
Clawed by a Hawk.
St. Marys, O.?Clawed some time
ago in a fight with a chicken hawk,
Ben H. Strasburg, forty years of age,
married and residing in the Ferguson
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poisoning affecting one of his hands.
The hawk was killed. It measured
four feet between wing tips.
Damages for Being Called Traitor.
St. Louis.?John H. Boyer has been
awarded $1 actual and $200 punitive
damages from Gus V. It. Mechin. who
tried to force Boyer to stand while
"The fc'ffv-Spangled Banner" was be
in? played. Rover testified that he
was called a traitor and assaulted.
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Foe Lurking in
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Even Dreadnaughts Made to Appear
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By J. M. DAIGER,
Correspondent Chicago New-.
Norfolk, Va.?"And what is that old
tub lyin? over there, captain?"
"That happens to be a brcnd nert
tornedo boat destroyer that has just
arrived to bo manned and put Into immtiliista
eorvino "
The thing that made me call the new
destroyer an old tub is the thing that
makes the commander of a German
U-boat look through his periscope and
remark: "A line morning, but not a
sh;p in sight." If the next instant
finds the submarine bnnked straight rdown
into Davy Jones' locker, it is be- \
cause the commander failed to launch
a torpedo at the "fine morning" and
because the "fine morning" got in its
shot first.
It is the naval camouflage?the
painting of ships to look at a short distance
like what they are not and at
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a long distance hkc uoimug m an.
Eve:i a Superdreadnaught.
Impossible as it might seem to make
superdreadnaughts appear anything
but the monsters they are, there are
nevertheless processes of camouflage
for them. It is obvious that details
as to what designs are being used on
various types of ships are not for pul^ lication,
especially in view of the fact
that experimental scnemes ior naving
ships -sail in false colors?not under
them?are constantly being tried out.
I saw one of the largest of the naval
colliers, which has several times
crossed the Atlantic since America's
entry into the war, that had a very
simple scheme cf camouflage in which
only grays were used. Simple in conception
and execution, apparently, but
it had an amazing effect on the appearance
of the ship a short distance
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that short distance I have no dotibt the
collier was lost to the eye when it got
inuoli farther away.
The older naval officers incline to
the opinion that the regulation navy
gray by itself is better than any camouflage
that the artists have invented,
nnd they are frankly skeptical about
these riots of coin?, and freak designs
that the scientific application of one J
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ships.
The camouflage used by a great
many merchantmen is familiar to everyone
who has observed the shipping
in the harbors along the Atlantic coast ?
These vessels close up look like
scrambled rainbows or like the palette of
an artist in his cups. The weather
has much to <'o with the power of J
these gay colors to create optical illu- js
sions. |
It is almost impossible for people |
living comfortably in large cities to ?
.'imagine the hardships which the men '
who watch our coasts are suffering at
this time of year. Twenty degrees below
zero in the Rocky mountains if
not so cold as the weather around th?
capes. The government has supplied
the hundreds of mt*n on the patrol
boats, the submarine chasers and the
mine sweepers with their allotment of
winter clothing, but they need knitted
articles.
Sometimes Must Let It Sink.
Should disaster overtake a ship the ,
rules in the district office at Norfolk <
say the first consideration must be the |
war needs of the country. One vessel j
must not risk danger to save another. 5
The conservation of ships and of men, |
not the chivalry and the courage and
the heroism of the sea, must guide the ^
decision of those who would save a ^
shipwrecked crew. If the number of j
lives involved is very great?great I
enougn to jusury ine risn 01 u smauci 4
number of lives?then the rescue may j
be attempted. But if there is doubt <j
that a reseu; n? party will itself return
from a perilous journey to save a small j
number of lives, then the war time rule j
Is firm. a
Early every morning the ships go j
out in pairs, sister ships, with their ;
huge "broom" stretched across from j
one vessel to the other, to make clear j
the path for the merchantmen and j
warships that must pass through the j
capes and out to sea and for those that '
come in during the day. Do they find j
any German mines? I dorft know.
But if there are German mines to be j
found near our coasts, the work of i
the mine sweepers is a risky business j
Indeed. Even if there are no German
mines, I suppose it is quite possible
for an American mine?there are thou- j
sands of them planted in the district? I
to break loose from the great mine
field in Hampton Roads, or elsewhere,
and drift in the way of unsuspecting
ship. And there is always the possibility
of the enemy within doing what .
unceasing vigilance in the naval district
is trying to prevent him from
doing.
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