GERMANS NOT
STARVING BUT i
THEY SUFFER
Correspondent Declares
Bread Riot Yarns
Exaggerated
(By Karl H. Yon Wiegand)
NEW YORK—(By mail.)—Reportsi
that Germany is in a state of actual
starvation may be taken as an ex
aggeration. The sources from which
some of these reports come are not
entirely free from suspicion that the
“wish is father to the thought.” Foot!
is short in Germany and there is suf
fering and will be until this war is
over, but the people are loyal.
Up to the time 1 left Germany in
the middle of December there had
not been a single bread riot of any
serious proportions or in which, as
has been reported, the military has
been called out. Women in several
cases smashed the windows of stores
where exhorbitant prices were being
charged. In one of the textile cen
ters. the tire department on one oc
casion was called out and turned the
hose on such a ‘riot.” It had the de
sired effect.
Americans seem to tind it difficult j
to grasp the spirit of the Gentian
people. The impression, I tind, pre-j
vails in mapy places in this country
that the Germans are “agin” the gov
ernment. Nothing it is believed is,
further from the truth. There is no
disposition on the part of the people,
in Germany to make trouble for their
government.
There are. or were the last time
1 talked to Consul General Julius Lay,
about 3.000 Americans still in Ger-,
many, according: to register. Prob-(
ably two-thirds of the Americans
now in Germany come under the cate-:
jjory of “German-Americana.” They
are none the less American citizens.
Were conditions as bad as some of,
the reports assert these Americans j
would be starving with the rest and,
either would leave Germanv or be
sent away bv the government, es
pecially as the American government
does nothing: to g:et food to them as
do the other neutral countries to tneir
citizens in Germany.
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FOR BENEFIT OF
TWO SUFFERERS
Deputy U. S. Marshal S. O. Casler
arrived Trom Anchorage on Saturday
with an insane man and woman en
route from Anchorage to Portland. ^
Uefore sailing Casler thanked Alex
McDonald, agent for the Alaska
Steamship company for holding whe }
S. S. Alaska an hour to enable them [
to get aboard. Doth eases were se-'
vere an<l to have held them here would
have been a hardship on the local
officials as well as the patients.
The woman, Mrs. Amelia Harris of
Anchorage presented peculiar char
acteristics in the way of an unbalanc
ed mind. So long as she was on the
trail or walking she seemed normal and
caused no trouble but on enttering a
room or after remaining quiet a few |
moments she became violent and had (
to be restrained. I he other patient, j
a man named James, who was not j
acquainted with the woman became J
violent as he heard the woman’s out-1
cries so that the officers had their
their hands full at the roadhouses.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Evans met
the party at Mile 2‘’«l2 and assisted
them until they were safe aboard.
Suwanee River Closed
The music critic of the Isinours.
Tight Wad says that the Suwanee J
river is closed to navigation. Miss.
Birdie McGinnis sang for the fair at j
the church the other night, and it was,
assumed from the sound that the top
of the stream was frost bitten. As
the high notes passed, the critic
claimed to be able to hear the ice
crack.
Frank X. McGinnis was at the Tight
Wad office this morning asking for ^
the music critic. He had just left for.
Canada to join the forces on their way
to the Anglo-French front.
He who would serve everybody gets (
thanks from nobody.—Danish Maxi-,
mum.
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Water fill & Frazier whiskey at
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currency. Reward. Return to Harry
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WHALE MEAT ;
NOW EATEN IN ]
CALIFORNIA j
Six Tons of Tenderloin Se
cured From Each
Whale Caught
LOS ANGELES. — (Special.)— |
Every time Capt John D. Loop, of |
the good ship Camiguin, kills a whale
down goes the high cost of living.
Six tons of whale tenderloin, a deli
cacy which has leaped into popularity
here in the past few weeks, was
carved from the carcass of one giant
leviathan and placed on the markets
of Long Beach and Los Angeles at a
nominal price. j
So cheap and so popular has be-1
come whale steak here that the high
cost of meat has been dealt a severe
blow by the advent of the sea cow
food.
Although the public was somewhat
backward about eating whale at first,
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the local markets sell close to a ton j
a day of the meat at present, while
Los Angeles dealers are calling lor
more with each killing.
In addition to the six tons of ten
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derloin each whale yields about ten j
tons of blubber that will be reduced:
to a lubricating oil of high grade.
Capt. Loop sighted one big one
early the other morning off Hart’s
point and pursued the leviathan for
nearly half a day before he could
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maneuver to within striking distance.'
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It was three hours after the first,
bomb exploded in the side of *he
lev'atban before the sea monste'- gave
up. The fight and chase took place
:n the channel fifteen miles southeast;
of Long Beach.
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Important Point
The doctor’s wife had advertised for
a girl to do housework and was show- j
ing an applicant over the house. She
had been very liberal in h jr promises
of privileges and it looked as though
the two were going to come to an
agreement, when the girl suddenly
asked:
“Do you do your own stretchin ?
“Do we do our own what?” asked
the puzzled mistress.
“Stretchin’,” repeated the girl.
“Do you put all the food on the table
and stretch for it, or do I have tn
shuffle it around?”
They All Paid Their Debts
A tight-fisted old man, being mor
tally ill, called to him his three best
friends, who were an Englishman, an
Irishman and a Scotchman. He re
minded them that they each owed
him £100 and expressed the dying
wish that before he was buried they
would discharge their obligations by
depositing the money they owed him
beside him in his coffin.
They all agreed, and when their
friend died the Englishman solemnly
placed £100 in Bank of England notes
in his late friend’s coffin.
The Irishman laid £100 in gold be
side the notes, and the Scotchman
took out the £200, leaving in its place
a check for £T,00.—Chicago Blade.
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