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How The Germans
Are Living Today
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(Condensed from "Through Turbulent
Years.")
In Germany today If a citizen Is
jiot parsimonious by nature, he Is
forced to be so by law. Nothing Is
wasted. Retailers have been Instructed
to use as little paper as possible
for wrapping parcels; and no string.
Toothpaste tubes carry the words:
"This tube must not be thrown away."
Women must do without rubber in
their garters. Toy balloons for the
Kiddies are banned.
Government regulations provide
that every housewife collect no less
than seven categories of waste material
: Rags, articles made by copper,
nickel, tin, aluminum, lead, etc.,
iron and steel scraps, waste paper,
rabbit skins, bottles, bones. Specially
licensed dealers come around and colI
lect these.
1 It takes a lot of skillful doing for
a German housewife to provide a
good dinner. "This is my first whipped
cream In three weeks," explained
my hostesB one evening. "I have It
now only because several days ago I
explained at my shop that I expected
a foreign guest, and asked as a special
favor that a bit of cream be saved
for me."
"You have cards for dairy and meat
products?" I asked.
My hostess answered: "I^o. But
each shopkeeper has a customer's
card and a record of your last year's
purchases. Then he allows you 80
per cent of 'normal' requirements. A
food card would be too reminiscent
of 1918 days."
Butter and other fats can be procured
only from a regular supplier.
One family moved to the other side
of Berlin, and for weeks until red tape
could be untangled had to travel
across the entire city to get these
products. Each German is entitled to
half a pound of butter?usually mixed
with a substance?and a half a pound
of margarine a week. There Is even
ersatz (substitute) margarine on the
market, made of fats extracted from
wood. At first this was used as a
grease for machinery, but after trying
It on prison inmates, the Ministry of[
Healfh pronounced it edible.
Meats* must also be bought from
the same shop, month after month,
and latecomers have restricted choice
or none at all. The previous day my
hostess had asked for beef. There
was ouly mutton, and veal at $0 cents
a pound. Fifteen thin carrots cost
twenty cents.
I complimented my hostess on her
cake. "Better than I have had any;
where else In Germany," I remarked.
"I'm not surprised,' was her reply.
"German flour Is no longer real wheat
flour. By law it must be mixed with
potato flour, corn?and, I suspect, occasionally
with wood fiber. Please
don't ask me how I obtained this. I
break the law only on very spocial
occasions."
"So. You don't know about our
synthetic products," inquired mine
host, a leading architect. "Well, look
at these trousers."
I had thought them rather a swagger
pair of gray flannel.
"They're made of wood?not a
thread of wool in them. They've
stood up all right so far, but I haven't
been caught "in a rain yet. A
friend tells me to be prepared for a
20 per cent shrinkage."
, Woolen goods are virtually unprocurable.
A few specialty shops are
permitted to sell some Imported materials,
but they are much too ex1
pensive for the average German. Even
(women's dresses are made of wood.
I Yet to the query of a woman guest
at the dinner I could honestly reply
that I liked her new dress, and remarked
that I was glad to see the
style of shorter skirts returning.
"Style my eye," exclaimed her husband.
"Length and fullness are controlled
by law, in order to save materials."
Men's shirttails have also been
shortened two inches fore and aft, to
' effect a national saving.
J German housewives, urged to serve
more horse meat, have been told that
| "ancient Teutons regarded horse
'meat as a-special delicacy; it was an
old cultural custom." During the
past year 126,000 horses in Germany
have been slaughtered for meat. It
may Beem absurd, but to conserve
food, even stage magicians are for!
bidden to use eggs, milk, or other
eatables in their performances,
j In this frenzied drive for economy,
an official decree states that "it is
the duty of every citizen to see that
! the dead shall not he buried in ex[
pensive materials."
German barbers are collecting
about 300 tons of men's hair annual,
ly, for hair as short as one t^ird of
an inch can be utilized in hiaWng
' carpets and roofing felt. And Ger
man scientists expect to convert horse
chestnuts Into oil and fat.
Ooerlng has warned mine operators
that their plants may be taken over
if they do not bend every efTort to
extract nickel, copper and coal from
low-grade ore, even though it is
"temporarily" un-economic.
Powerful Nazi propaganda constantly
insists that in respect to food and
othe,r vital supplies Germany is in the
position of a "blockaded country," a
"beleaguered fortress."" Grumblers
experience the weight of organized
community pressure, and in extreme
cases are "visited" by the Gestapo.
Hence, the Germans have adapted
themselves with notable patience to
the various interferences with their
private and business lives.
Germany's aims toward self-sufficiency
in essential raw materials, however,
show varying results. Success
in rubber and woolen substitutes has
been phenomenal; but in the case of
artificial rubber (buna), quality is offset
by sheer expense; five to six
times the cost of natural rubber.
The blocked marks (marks spendable
only in Germany) with which
most imports are paid for, have caused
many odd transactions. Standard
Oil of New Jersey, in one deal, finally
accepted 40,000,000 mouth organs
in payment for ite products. The
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company
solved a part of its difficulty by buying
in Germany a live hippopotamus,
later sold to an American circus. The
Budd Company, of Philadelphia, delivered
machinery quoted at $43,000,
accepting, instead of cash, some 200,000
canary birds.
Despite such ingenuities, imports
have been sharply restricted. The situation
a few months ago was so desperate
that Bremen importers were
delivering half a bale of cotton to individual
customers, where formerly
they had filled orders by the hundreds
of bales. A competent official states
that Germany Is more than $200,000,000
behind in its normal supply of
raw materials necessary to keep its
factories operating.
Germany's herculean effort to
achieve self-sufficiency has caused a
general lowering of the standard of
living. It has Increased subsistence
costs by at least 20 per cent since the
Nazis came to power; and it has resulted
In a serious depletion of Germah
resources in raw materials, food,
and financial reserves.
Nevertheless, If s product, raw or
manufactured, is unprocurable in
Germany, and is needed by the German
military forces, real cash is
found, tome way or other, to paj for
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CULLING THE LAVING FLOCK
tl'rapared by Eleanor Carson, Kxtension
1'oultry Specialist)
During these suuuuer mouths hens
should bo giving at least 60 per cent
production in order to be* profitable.
Good care, proper food, culling out
the non-producers and proventing infestations
of parasites will aid in
maintaining egg production.
liens that stop laying during the
summer months are usuully the poorest
layers in the ttock and should be
culled out as they go out of condition.
When the Mock has been properly
cared for all hens that stop laying
before September may bo safely cluss
od as culls. These that continue to
lay through the early fall months may
be kept in the Mock. Hy removing
the culls, feed costs will be lowered
and the rate of production kept on a
profitable basis.
.In selecting the good producers and
in culling unproMtuble birds, it Is
nocessury to be able to distinguish
hens that are laying from those that
are not. The condition of comb, wat
ties,*, vent and other parts indicates
whether a hen la laying at a particular
time. The bleaching of the pigment
of the vent, beak, and shanks,
the time of year that molting takes
place, and the duration of the molting
period are useful factors In ddtermlning
how long birds have been laying.
The earning capacity of the
Mock can be kept at a high level by
the frequent elimination of non-layers
A few years of Intelligent selection,
based on the factors mentioned, or
the purchase of new stock from sources
where such selection la practiced
will lead to the development of highlaying
strains. The birds will be
noteworthy for earllness of sexual maturity,
good rate of laying, comparative
absence of breedlines, and persistence
of production. These four
characteristics largely determine the
number of eggs produced.
If you are Interested In learning
how to cull your Mock, get In touch
with your county farm or homo demonstration
agent. Write the United
States Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C., for Farmers' Bulletin
No. 1,727, "Selecting Hens for
Egg Production." To make a proHt
from your hens it Is necessary that
you learn to cull your Mock and give
It a systematic culling in July, August
or September each year.
An attempt was made Monday at
Beirut, Syria, to assassinate Premier
Mardan, by throwing a bomb Into his
automobile. The bomb failed to explode.
Nobody's Business
NVrltteu for The Chronicle by Gee
MeQee, Copyright, 1928.
FLAT HOCK NEWS FLA8HE8
..rev. will wuittj. uur local preeoher
at rohobor church, was vefry much
mipprlsed, gratler-Aod* hiuI happy
when he opened hia mall at the puat
offla last satturduy and found 3$ in
same which waa sent to him by the
schollars of cedar lane hi; he preached
there baoky-laurule serwont down
there about 4 weeks ago. the other
letter was from hla mother-in-law;
she will be up next week for the summer,
so he aald.
,.mr. dump moore, the married son
of hon. and mrs. holsum moore, has
recently benn promoted from a w.
p. a. wheel barrow to a timekeeper,
he feels mighty proud of hlB advancement.
by attending the night scholl.
he learnt how to rite a little and Agger
fairly well, hence hlB advancement.
hla wife aaya education la certainly
a wonderful thing,
W s
,.mr. torn .head has withdrawed hla
name us u candy-date for the legislature.
aomeboddy commenced to
whisper around about him and hla
conduct befoar he married, and he
was afeared that when he got on the
stump, the publlck mougbt provo It
on him. ho was newer actually arrested;
he had strong friends In the
law, but pollitlcka Is stronger than
the law ansoforth.
..the c. i. o worker has loft town
at last, ho was here trying to oggernize
the Ailing station employees and
the ford washers, he got 5 of them
to jtne at 2$ per head, but the other
4 stayed out. they are verry well sattisAed
with the new 40-hour law and
the minimum wedge of 10$ per week,
they aoem to realize that they are not
worth anny more at pressent.
..miss Jennie veeve smith, our afficient
scholl principle, is off to the
mountings on her Bummer vacation
as a ltfe-gard. she can't swim herself,
but she will look after the swimmers
who swim In the upper part of the
lake which is not much over kneedeep.
little fellers can get drowned
In shallow watter as easy as they can
in deep watter If It gets Inside of
their lungs, she took red cross 2
weeks.
..there is nothing of a social nature
in Aat rock, no parties are being hell,
noboddy is getting married, no wives]
and husbands have fell out and sued
for alllmony, only a few dogs are
barking at night, blzness Is dull at
the Btoars, drummers are about all
off of the road waiting on the new
ependlng and wasting program, and
the goose ain't hanging so hlgb.
yores trulie,
mike Lark, rfd,
corry Bpondent.
LA8T WILL AND TE8TAMENT
deer rar. eddltor: ?
1 have benn asked by miss Jennie
veeve smith, our afficient scholl principle,
to send you a coppy of the last
will and testerment of sudle lou Lark,
a graduate of the Aat rock high at
our last commencement, and which]
was read by her at the exercises ansoforth.
It is as followers:
"1 returned back from a stay In
germanny and a trip around the world
which lasted 10 years and landed in
old Hat rock, the place where 1 was
borned and schooled, there were very
few changed in the looks of the town.
the old libberty stable and the allnight
garrago have both benn converted
Into licker stoarB ansoforth.
hansom moore was running a lunch
counter and his wife, dinah head
moore was doing the cooking. her
brother, puddln head, was reported to
be getting along verry well in- the
fedderal prissou in atlanta with only
3 more years to go for unlocking a
mail box In the night time with mallis-aforethought.
miss Jennie veeve smith was still
teeching the Aat rock hi, but a few
gray hairs had crept Into her head,
her twin sister, miss sallie veeve, had
married the widdower Jones and him
and her owned 9 pretty childrens, including
them that he merged into the
familey from his Arst matrimonial adventure.
slim chance, Jr., had benn In pollitics
twisto with unfavorable results,
and had moved out into the country
where he lived with his wife's peeple
he had married art square's third
darter the Arst time who ancered tc
the name of fair ann square, but she
ran away w,th a frult tree agent lE
1906 and had not returned back, he
took unto hisself for his secont wife
tootsey skinner.
dr hubbert green was still running
his drag stoar and his son, slmkln?
green, had benn in a meddical col
lege for 10 years but had newer fetch
ed home a sheepskin to practise medl
son with." ennle taeenle and mint*
moore had all got married and wer<
either In the sowing room or totinf
vlttles to their husbands on the w
p. B. ?
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Find Fortune In Safe of Hermit.
Masontown, Pa., June 11.?Neighbors
of Fred Schroyer still were discussing
tonight tho extent of his fortune,
several hundred thousand dol|
lars of which was found In an old Iron
safe In his.* lamp-lighted home lust
outside Masontown.
The 72-year-old recluse died In a
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Uniontown hospital May 31, protesting
against ministrations by physicians
treating him for diabetesAt
2 o'clock thd next morning the
four heirs, Mrs. David Oans of Philadelphia,
and her three daughters, arranged
for a guajrd of state motor
police about his house, a well built
structure but without running water,
electricity or telephone.
Next day the safe was opened before
the astonished heirs, police and
Attorney Dean D. SturgiBs. After
counting 102 $1,000 blllsi $100,000 In
liberty bonds and more than $60,000
In school bonds, the remaining stack
of bonds and stocks were shunted
aside for a later check.
Details of the discovery remained
secret until today.
Schroyer lived quietly with a
housekeeper and a "handy man," Jimj
Franks Before he left for the hospital1
he gave Franks a rifle and told him to
guard the safe.
sudlo lou Lark, class of 38."
mr. edditor, plese run the above In
yoro flne little paper and yore favor
will be evermore appreciated,
yores trulie,
mike Lark, rfd,
corry spondent.
PLANNING EARLY FOR MUSIC
FESTIVAL IN COLUMBIA
Those South Carolina musicians
planning to enter the 1939 festival auditions
will do well to docldo on their
programs now and spend the summer
in intensive preparation as the final
duto of entry, November 1, will be
earlier than heretofore and the rules
governing the contest much more exacting.
The purpose of the festival auditions
is to discover mature musical
talent in South Carolina, ranking with
the best of the country, artists who
will be a credit to the big festival program
in the spring and can perform
expertly with a symphony orchestra
and chorus.
The contestants presenting themselves
for the auditions must he able
to perform a complete recital program?lasting
one hour and a quarter
of playing time?from memory and
must accompany their applications
with letters of high recommendation
from at least two musicnl authorities.
The Judge for the final contest on
January 21 will be no less an authority
than Joseph Szlgeti, the world renowned
violinist. The preliminary
contest will take place the day before
on January 20. Anyone wishing
more specific Information about the
festival auditions may write to Music
Festival Association, 208 Central Union
Building, -Columbia.
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The house rules committee pigeonholed
a labor sponsored bill to penalize
government contractors, who fall
to observe decisions of the National
Labor Relations board or disregard
stipulated wage-hour standards. John
L. Lewis, CIO loader, personally appeared
at the Capitol to lead the fight
for passage of the bill; but administration
leaders wanted no more controversial
legislation at this time to
delay adjournment of congress.
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