BEER IS FED TO GERMAN
ARMY BY GOVERNMENT
(The author of the following state
ment, Mr. Max Stein, holds the very
important oltiee of director of the as
sociation for the distribution of beer
in Germany. This organization copes
with the tremendous task of supplying
the entire Germany army with beer.
For the German authorities are con
vinced that his nourishing liquid food
be given to the soldiers, whether they
are in Africa, in France, in Russia
or in the daring U-boats. Director
Stein, who is a Swiss citizen, recent
ly visited the United States for u
short stay and his shrewd observa
tions will interest those who care for
constructive criticism and enlight
ened advice.)
"Every day the association for the
oisuilmtion of beer in Germany, of
wnieh I am the director, sends one
and a hall' million liters of beer to our
soldiers at the front.
"Every day railroads, motor trucks,
pack animals, steamships are carry -
ui„ great shipments of beer to our
soldiers in Russia, in Germany, and
m the Balkans.
"’i lie average American cannot un
derstand why the German govern
ment spends millions of dollars and
uses valuable transportation space in
carrying what you consider a luxury
to the front, liut that is just the
point. We do not consider beer a
luxury, we consider it a necessity,
and we believe that the health of our
troops would suffer greatly if for any
reason the beer supply was cut off.
"Before I came lo America 1 could
not understand this attitude of the
American people. To me it seemed
unbelievable that America should
send an army into a waste country
like Mexico and subject them to the
dangers of poisoned water holes and
typhoid, when you might so easily
transport beer. But since coming It
America 1 begin lo understand. I have
visited your drinking places, which
are only frequented by men—where
men stand up at a bar and one man
treats the other in succession, and
where drinking is more of a business
than a pleasure, and where one never
sees a woman, or if there is a wo
man, not of the better class. In Ger
many it is different. One goes into a
German restaurant where the whole
German family sits at a table, orders
food and drinks beer. The first thing
in (he morning the Munich woman
drinks her stein of beer, and yet i
know that German women do not be
come slaves to the habit the way the
American women become slaves to the
cigarette and the cocktail.
"You notice that the men who have
been foremost in the fighting around
Verdun are the Brandenburgers, the
lladeners and the Rhinelanders. These
men come from provinces where more
beer and- wine are consumed than
probably any other territory in the
world. You can draw your own
conclusions from this, as to whether
the moderate drinking of beer and
wine destroys the wholesome strength
of the people or breaks down manly
El i ' -"'A . =
virility, as your fanatical prohibition
ist says they do.
"Another tiling not generally known
abroad is that the Austrian army was
under strict prohibition during the
early part of the war. After the bat
tles in the Carpathians, the Austrian
army was reorganized, and one of
tin- lirst reforms was the introduction
of beer into the army . Now the
Austrians have organized a bureau,
such as our German bureau, and the
Austrian army gels about the same
amount of beer as our own army,
.since the reorganization, you know
that the morals of the Austrians is 60
per cent better than it was. 1 do not
mean to imply by this that the im
provement is due to bear, but beer
evidently played a part, and today
tile Austrian military chiefs would no
more think of sending out an army
corps without beer than it would Willi
out bread.
“Un tile side of the allies l want
to call your attention to the fact tliut
it is not tiie prohibition Russian army,
nor tiie rum-drinking English who
have made the best showing. The
backbone of the allies is the French
army, who drink their wine as we
Germans drink our beer. .
"I a; i not attempting here to dis
parage the temperance movement.
only you in American and we on the i
i
continent have an entirely different:
| view of what constitutes temperance.j
I do not consider that the German
who takes his beer with his meals, 1
nor the Frenchman who takes light
wine in tiie same way, is intemperate.
I consider tiie Russian peasant, who
used to get drunk every day on vodka,
but who, now that Russia has pro- !
hibition, has substituted varnish for
vodka, intemperate. But I suppose
that your American prohibitionists1
would class all three nations as in
temperate and the only true temper-1
ate nation, Turkey, which drinks1
neither wine nor beer, nor hard li
quors.
I
"My own view of what constitutes
temperance agrees pretty much with
U e French, if you will read the tract
sent by the French Medical Society to
the soldiers at the front you will see
that while the men in the trenches
nr warned (hat a nap of brandy is
delusive and strong liquor of every
kind habitually taken leads without
fail to diseases of the stomach, liver
md mind, a distinction is made in re
gnrn to fermented liquors, such as
wine, beer and cider. Fermented li
iuois the French soldier is fold, may
safely used in moderation. This
is ) hat we, on the continent, consid
r i' l temperance reform.”—Fair
hnvl.s News Miner.
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