The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 22, 1917, Page 6, Image 6
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GKKMAX FOOD SITUATION.
Pinch of Hunger Becomes Daily Accompaniment
of War.
Food conditions in Germany have!
changed greatly for the worse in the
last five months. The correspondent I
of the Associated Press, who had been
away from Germany since the first
week in August, has just returned
from a stay of three weeks in Berlin.
He found that many staples of food
had altogether disappeared from the
markets, others had grown so dear
that they are beyond the reach of
any except the well to do, the daily
allowance of potatoes had been reduced
to ten ounces and that either
a shortage of flour or a disordered
distribution of it among the bakers
had resulted in long queues of buyers
standing for hours in ironi 01 me
bakeries.
Maximum prices of the foodstuffs
controlled by the government are
still very low for potatoes and bread
and comparatively low for meats.
Potatoes cost only 72 cents the standard
bushel of 60 pounds and bread
a little less than 3 1-2 cents a pound.
But the potato allowance is' insufficient
for persons who have little except
bread and potatoes to eat, and
has to be eked out with turnips. It
had been hoped to allow one egg a
person each two weeks in Greater
Berlin", but the last one-egg allowance
was made some five weeks ago
and another is not promised until
February. When the correspondent
left Berlin in August it was still possible
to buy cheese. Since the end
of August there has been no cheese
on the market. It is said that considerable
quantities are being im-l
ported from Holland but it goes ap- i
parently to .the front except for'
small quantities allowed the restau-J
rants and hotels.
Canned Stuff Short.
Another serious reduction of available
foodstuffs has been the expropriation
of control by the govern-!
ment of all canned vegetables. Four
or five weeks ago the dealers were
permitted to sell a fractional part of
their stock but only two cans on
each bread card. Permission to sell
more is expected to be granted again
soon but the dealers are to be compelled
to open each can before' selling
it so as to force the buyers to
consume :t at once and not hoard it.
The weekly allowance of meat of
all kinds in the greater Berlin municipalities
runs from 5 1-4 to 8 3-4
ounces. The cheapest varieties cbst
about 60 cents a pound; the highest
72 cents.
One of the most serious deprivations
continues to be lack of fats and
oils. The weekly allowance of butter
and margarine together is a little
less than three ounces a person. Oil
is so expensive that it is out of reach
of the great majority. The Associated
Press correspondent paid $3.12
for about two-thirds of a pint of
hazelnut oil to be used for frying.
Goose fat costs $4.80 a can of 17 3-5
Ounces and is the only fat except
vegetable oils that can be bought
without a card.
This insufficiency of fats in the
daily ration shows itself in an almost
continuous feeling of hunger. The
correspondent, experiencing this himself
in the first days of his visit, remarked
on it.
iHungry All the Time.
"I feel hungry all the time," said
the person addressed.
Extending his investigation, the
correspondent heard similar expressions
from all sides. The most bitter
complaints came from soldiers at
home. When the writer last visited
the front in July the men's rations
were ample in every respect and
there is no reason to believe the same
is not true today. The soldier at
home thus notices the difference
more keenly than do those who have
gradually to accustom themselves to
one deprivation after another.
There is deadly monotony about
meals in the average household.
Breakfast generally consists of rolls,
marmalade, {often made of pumpkins)
and a decoction of roasted
acorns, rye, chicory and what not
that goes by the name of coffee.
There is no real coffee left. Some
tea at high prices is still to be had
but the poorer people drink a brew
of linden blossoms, raspberry leaves
or leaves of other shrubs or trees.
For the "second breakfast" there is
dry bread.
Dinner generally consists of boiled
potatoes with salt, some kind of
boiled vegetable and, on perhaps two
days of the week, a tiny piece of
meat. Fish takes the place of meat
on other days unless one can buy a
goose at $1.56 a pound (they cost
$2 a pound just before Christmas)
a duck at $1.44 a pound, a turkey at
$1.32 a pound, or a hen at $1.08 to
$1.20 a pound.
Comparatively little game comes
on the markets, apparently going to
the hotels and restaurants.
The Supper Problem.
Supper is the problem in the average
household. Generally there are
no potatoes left over from noon and
AXTI-LIQI/OK "AD" ACT.
Text of .Measure That Awaits Governor's
Signature.
Columbia, Feb. 1 ">.?The following
bill preventing whiskey advertising
by newspapers and bill boards has
passed the general assembly and is
ready for Governor Manning to sign:
Section 1. That it is hereby made
unlawful (1) to advertise upon any
street car, railroad ca^* or other vehicle
of transportation, or at any
public place or resort, or upon any
sign or bill board, or by circulars,
posters, price lists, newspapers, periodicals
or otherwise within this
State, alcoholic liquors and beverages,
or any of them, or to advertise
i the manufacture, sale, keeping for
I sale or furnishing of any of them, or
the person from whom or the firm or
corporation from which, or the place
; where, or the price at which, or the
! method by which the same or any of
i them may be obtained; (2) to circuj
late or publish any newspaper, per|
iodical or other written or printed
i matter in which any advertisement
J in this section specified shall appear,
I or to permit any sign, or bill board
j containing such advertisement to re|
main upon one's premises; or to cir:
culate any price lists, order blanks
or other matter for the purpose of inducing
or securing orders for such
alcoholic liquors, or any of them, no
matter where located. Any sheriff
I constable, or police officer is author
ized to remove any such advertisement
from any sign, bill board or
other public place when it comes to
his notice, and shall do so upon demand
of any citizen.
Sec. 2. That any advertisement or
notice containing the picture of a
j brewery, distillery, bottle, keg, barj
rel, or box, or other receptacle represented
as containing any of said liquors
or beverages, or designed to
I serve as an advertisement thereof,
| shall be within the inhibition of section
1.
Sec. 3. That where and when any
I violation of any if the provisions of
| section 1 of this act shall have occurred,
the continuation or repetition
of the unlawful act or any of like
kind by the offending person, firm or
corporation, may be prevented by a
writ of injunction issued upon a bill
filed in; the name of the State by the
State attorney general, or by any solicitor,
or by any citizen or citizens
of the county in which the offense
has been committed. All persons,
whether agents, servants or officers
of corporations, or agents or servants
of individuals aiding or abbetting in
the commission of the offense, may
be made parties defendant to such
bills.
Sec. 4. That any violation of any
provision of section 1 of this act shall
be punishable by a fine of not less
than fifty nor more than five hundred
dollars; to which may be added, in
the discretion of the court or judge
trying the case, imprisonment in the
county jail or at hard labor for the
county for i;c more than six months.
A centrifugal pump directly connected
with an electric motor that
runs equally well either in or out of
water has been invented by an Englishman.
if there are there is no fat in which
to fry them. The usual German supper
before the war consisted of cold
meats, sausage, cheese, bread and
butter and beer. There is no meat,
I nr? nheocp nnii no hnttp.r on four or
five days of the week, no more bottled
beer and many saloon keepers
refuse to sell beer to be consumed
off the premises. The beer, moreover,
is all but undrinkable.
There remain then only bread and
fish, fresh, smoked, dried or canned.
And here the problem of cost is added
to that of monotony. The Associated
Press correspondent paid in
Berlin $1.20 a pound for ordinarylake
trout and 48 cents a pound for
small fresh water bass. Dried salted
fish costs 36 cents a pound and
smoked eel $1.92 to $2.40. Smoked
goose breast costs $3 to $3.50 a
pound and boiled shrimp 72 cents.
Once in every four or five weeks the
city authorities place on the market
small tins of sardines, one of which
may be bought on'presentation of the
municipal "lebensmittelkarte," or
provision card. Each family, no matter
of how many members, has onlyone
of these cards. The sardines*
thus sold may be had for about 48
cents for the small tin. In the open
market they cost from 67 cents for
sardines in tomato sauce to 72 cents
for sardines in oil. One smoked herring
from six to eight inches long
costs 20 to 22 cents. A can of alleged
shredded veal bought by the
correspondent was more than half
gelatine and cost 72 cents. Its gross
weight was a pound.
Pepper costs $G a pound and small
raisins $1.08. Saccharine dissolved
in water has taken the place of sugar
for sweetening coffee and tea in private
homes as well as restaurants.
Milk is ordinarily available in limited
quantities only for invalids and
the very aged and small children.?
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