J riE KAISER /IS I KNEW VIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS By ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. D. S. | (Oaf pVflit, 1018, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate) (Continued.) This society was formed by a com pany of clever Jewish businessmen - to buy food from foreign countries end sell it to the people, a small por centage of the profits going to the government. It not only developed into a most successful enterprise from a standpoint of profit, its pros perity being augmented by graft, but it provided a- haven for the slacker sons of the proprietors and stockholders. Just before I left Berlin, this company, to hide their war profits, bought a building for three million marks, which they claimed was needed for the bus iness. One of the subterfuges resorted to by some of the war profiteers to conceal the extent of their gains and escape taxation was to invest their surplus earnings in works of art and other expensive luxuries. 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Although the government decreed a high fine and imprisonment as punishment for buying or selling anything which had been comman deered, speculators sprang up on every side and people bragged openly of what they had stored away. An officer on a train was over heard to say: "One-half of the wom en in this town should be in the in sane asylum and the other half in Jail." When asked the reason for this cryptic remark, he explained: "Well, half of the women ought to be in jail for 'hamstering'—hoard ing—and the rest of them, who are not hoarding, must certainly be crazy:" I think the officer must have been wrong in his calculations, for I, at any rate, never ran across a single German at this time who might be included in the insane half. Every patient who came into my office bragged about some forbidden article of food whicl\ he or she had purchased, and complained of the awful price exacted for it. One speculator used to telephone my wife regularly, identifying him self by the password: "This is your good friend. Are you going to be at home this evening?" Needless to say, my wife usually managed to be in, as it meant food. This spec ulator looked like a cutthroat, but we used to treat him with the great est consideration, offering him the best chair in the house and a good cigar. After he made sure that no one was listening at the door, he would reveal what he had for sale. Sometimes he had fifty pounds of butter at $5 per pound. Another time it might be 200 pounds of dried peas at 75 cents a pound. Whatever it was we usually took all he had to sell, as it was a simple matter to share it with our friends. From one man we bought 200 pounds of flour and the same quan tity of sugar at $1 per pound. The huge sacks were brought to us through the streets by men dis guised as soldiers, their military garb protecting them against moles tation by the* police, who believed that it was being carried from one barracks to another. The men who brought the sacks to us declared that the stuff had been stolen from a soldiers' hospital. I know of a German doctor at the head of a big field hospital at the front who sent an Americatn friend in Berlin fifty pounds of beans. There is no question but that the officers were sending food to their families from the supplies intended for their men at the front. One soldier who was in a hos pital at Berlin but well enough to visit his family occasionally was al ways asked by the officer command ing the hospital to deliver to the officer's wife a large bundle of what was apparently soiled laundry. One drfy. his suspicions aroused by the weight of the package, he opened it and found that instead of laun dry it contained a supply of all the delicacies which the recuperating soldiers needed and were not get ting. Things had changed—the sol diers at the front were sending food home instead of receiving the gifts which were showered upon them in the opening months of the war. Many of my patients lived in the country and there, of course, it was much easier to evade the food con trol regulations than in the cities. There they had practically every thing they needed and they used to bring me presents of butter or deli cacies—which I carefully locked away before beginning the consulta tion. V Some of the so-called delicacieh appear to me in a very different light now. One patient from Dres den brought me, for instance, some sausage made from an elephant which had died in the Zoo! An other offered to sell me a very cheap ham—s2o. When it arrived it turned out to be half of a pig's head, smoked, with the teeth, an eye and an ear very much in evidence. As a rare treat I was able to buy some Polish sausage which I re member X ate with great relish. Later on I heard that in the town where my sausage was made the people were falling dead of starva tion in the streets, which set me to wondering whether I had been ex actly prqdent in eating it. X bought a leg of lamb which turned out to be a goat and a quan tity of butter tfcat I bought from a speculator melted into an ill-smell ing brown liquid. One was afraid not to take advantage of the offers made by the speculators, but nine times out of ten the stuff purchased l was inedible or, at any rate, differed from what it had been held out to be. As time went on there seemed to be almost no real food to be had, and I feel that I possibly owe the life of my child to Mrs. Gerard, who so kindly left us a large supply of her good American stores when she left Berlin, and to the manager of the Quaker Oats Company at Ham burg, who sent me a large box of Quaker Oats. Even the things which the Ger mans had been able to buy from Denmark, Holland and Switzerland had a way of disappearing in tran sit. Batocki, when he was food controller, told a friend of mine that six carloads of oranges which the government had bought were stolen, the cars arriving empty, and two cars of cheese from Holland evi dently met a similar fate for the cars arrived loaded with stone! The people felt that there was plenty of food in Germany, but the controllers were limiting its distri bution. How could they believe otherwise when they read daily of the wonderful crops and the large stores of food taken in Rumania and of the inefficiency of the Eng lish blockade? The only way the diminishing food supplies could be reconciled with the constant reports of victories which were published in the inspired press was on the | basis of restrictions Imposed by the authorities. Everyone I knew, rich and poor, had some litle scheme of getting something "under the hand," but it was constantly growing more dif ficult and the quality of everything was so poor that there was'very lit tle nourishment even in what was available. People were always hun gry and the result was that they ate too much of bad food —when they had the money or the Influence to procure It. <To Be Conttnncu.) "The Live - • .yright 1918 Hart Schafacx £* yV" 1 Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes I You've been asked to save food, labor, fuel of all kinds and you want to do it. When you buy clothes this Fall, you can save labor and wool, if you buy right. The good quality in Hart Schaffner and Marx clothes saves for you. We feel that we're fortunate to be able to give you such a service. I ■ Young Men's Fall Clothes Get the Quality in the Fabric I Not all the young men have gone to Fine wool fabrics are scarce; but Hart war; some can't go, and ought not to go; many who Schaffner and Marx use no other. Their policy seems n stay wish they could go. But they have to have clothes, and to be—"lf we can't make good clothes, we won't make any." many of the older men who are here want young styles. There You'll find grays and blues, browns'and tans. You'll find ■ are no better models made than these; we can promise you plain colors, plaids, checks and many combinations of colors something that's right. and patterns. I "Stetson Hats" and "Mallory Velours" No man is better dressed than his Hat. The correct Hat proclaims the careful dresser always—The wrong one will "upset" the most carefully selected wardrobe. It's mighty important that you make no mistakes, and, ifyou elect to buy your Fall Hat HERE, you simply can't I go wrong, because we're prepared to see that you get the correct one in every way—in shape, style and shade, and price. / I "Manhattan Shirts" "Visor Sweaters" "Monito Hose" The Harrisburg Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx, Society Brand & Kuppenheimer Clothes Hcrmoa-rax onnesimrvH FRIDAY EVENING, 11
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