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TIIE 3TORXIXG OREGONIAX. THUItSDAY, APEILi 4, 1918. GREAT FOOD VORRY LACK OF EDIBLE FAI Chemical Science Performs Miracles, but Is Unable to v Create Grease to Eat. 1917 FODDER CROP FAILURE Tntomd Wholesale Slanghterinc of Cattle to Save Thrra From Star- Tatloa Grrat? Reduce Sup- pty of Milk and Butter. FT CTRtt, BROWN. Cut' Melt, iim. by the Pros Publishing Ca. I'u6;nbd hy erraac.meai wltb t&e York or id. S-TOCKHOLSt. Starch S The fat problem rontlnuee Crnniny'i greatest food worry i:rmnjt'i weakest spot German chemical witnra and technol ogy have performed seeming miracles durlna- the r. but they have been erumped In trying- to make synthetic edible, fata. Imports of butler and margarine have steadily decreased, liermany's underfed cows have yielded less and ire milk. Moat aerloua of alf. the failure of the fodder crop In 117 made It necessary to reduce. Germany's stock :i.o.oo head or cattle, and the enforced wholesale slaughtering haa made heavy Inroads on the rowi. Thanks to an Im-islve patriotic propa rand and daszllngly high prices for native oilseeds and edible oils, the acre ace of oil-yieldlna- crops In Uermany h been very considerably Increased as against peace times, which will enable the doubling of the manufacture of oleomargarine durlna; lls. Uut there la no other bright feature to the 11 situation. r Geamttaa Is Iler-t. f-orrv. too. Is Berlin s milk supply, an ev.r-dlminlshlnjt variable, the bulk of the skimmed milk being seised at th source and diverted to tne oleomargar tne factories. The milk ration la one quart for children acr-d 1 and 1. thr quarters of a quart for the S and 4 year-olds and half a quart for the i and l-JT'ir claseea. with nothing for healthy adults and older child. en. it is feared tuat thla milk famine can only be en d'ired at the expense of (he health of the future generation. ne public nd gained the not un festered Impression that 1517 w bumper vegetable crop, smashing all records, bitter disillusionment setting in when the promised vegetables were not forthcoming. It is now admitted that tha vegetable crop was a failure. while the Austro-German armies were Invading Italy a German expert commission was rent to Vienna to con fer with Austrian and Hungarian com missions regarding a special economic department for exploiting I'pper Italy a agricultural and horticultural resources. Fralt IMea spears la Her) Vat. Vnlika the vegetable harvest, the fruit crop of 117 was bountiful, the record fruit crop of the war. Yet lit tle fresh fruit reached tha consumers of North Germany through the open market, and that little only at ex orbltant prices. This was partly due to tha petty particularism of South Germany, which placed an embargo on fruit shipments to North Germany, despite the fact that Wurttemberg's crop was so immense, with Bavaria's a close second, that the South Ger mans didn't know what to do with It all. But the principal reason why the Prussians got no fresh fruit lay in the Imperial food strategy. ar marina lade is one of the moat Important food Items for both the army and the civilian population. Bread and marma lade form the dally substitute for bread and butter at the front it Is nick named "hero fat" and It constitutea Germany's next to tha last line of food reserves. According to the Imperial Food De partment plans, the bulk of Germany's 1917 bumper fruit crop was confiscated at the source and shipped to the mar malade factories, being dumped with auch arbitrariness that large quantities of fruit spoiled owing to the Inability f factories to handle it. Xarssalade Bis; Saaetltate. Nevertheless, Germany haa been able to enter IMS with its biggest mar malada reserves of the war. The army i fully covered with "hero fat." 33.- tons has been and atill la being fed out to the German people ai substitute for missing butter, twice as much as durlna the entire past food yean, and there is still an Iron ration of marmalade carefully hoarded and salted away for unforeseen and un foreseeable emergencies. The 1917 product ia pure fruit mar malade. In 191. owing to the fruit crop failure. the marmalade was stretched with ( per cent turnips and iro.tlr rendered unfit for- consumption With potatoes. marmalade is the strongest single factor in Germany food position during the current food I'r. fresh fruits In very small quart!-1 t!es are still obtainable In the open snarket. but the prices, except for the poorest qualities, place them beyond! trie reach of the ordinary people. iaxlmum pnree for apples are . 8. 11 and 1 cents apiece. Pears, pur-1 cnasable In smallest quantities, cost I .1 and IS cents, according to sue and quality. Lemons, the principal Imported fruit. 1 ave vanished, as Importation from I Italy bv way of Swltserland haa been forbidden, as a measure to try to raise I up again the decrepit, fallen German I mark exchange. Kan--y American fruits, which could I still be bought at certain luxury food! specialty stores In Berlin before Amer ica, entered the war. have likewise die- I ar peered. I'nobratcaMe are nuts of all kinds. I esreclally missed being almonds. Kai!n are no longer to be bought. all for the same reason because Impor tation has been forbidden. Beet ayrwp and fake tleaey. Two rivals of marmalade aa butter -:ttt!tes for bread spreading deserve rotlce because of their growing vegue and importance beet syrun and artifi cial honey, the latter, as now manufar- l-ired. being of excellent quality and I good to the ta.te. In 19IS Berlin Is eat ing each month on Its butterless bread I ' tons of marmalade. :ooe tons of ar- tll-lal money and nearly ) tons of beet errup. equivalent to an average daily per capita "breadepread- ration of an ounce and a third. And this ration I can be kept up throughout the current I year can een be raised tf desirable. The sugar shortage has generated an Insatiable popular craving for sac charine, and the factories, being un-1 able to keep pare with the demand, I here is now a saccharine shortage. The hard-preesed factories are rush ing the crude crystals on the market aa fast as producible. At that the best that can be done for the sweet tooth of Berlin Is to apportion a tiny envelope of saccharine cryeta.e to each family per month. Surprisingly, a vinegar shortage has developed, although Germany'a 1917 production was onlv 19 per cent below normal. The demand for vinegar for xaaersw purposes has been auch that little surplus is available for private households. There Is also a salt shortage, which has made Itself more and more un pleasantly felt. For this the car short age is In the first line to blame; in second line. Germany's large salt ex ports to Holland and other neutral countriea Coffee Only a Me as err. . Coffee Is only a memory. A cup of genuine coffee in ISIS is as rare as the Dodo. Not only are coffee substitutes hard to obtain, but they are poor In quality, while the price has risen so much that maximum, prices had to be fixed. Two classes of substitutes are dis tinguished In the war food laws- grain coffees, including malt coffees, for which the maximum price is 11 cents a pound, and all other substi tutes, which may be sold for up to 21 cents a pound. Fig: coffee and chem ical "coffee" essences are occasionally to be had in smsll quantities, but only at fancy prices. The German chemical Industry has succeeded in manufacturing synthetic caffeln In commercial quantities, and experiments of adding the basic cof fee drug caffeln to grain coffee sub stitutes are said to have yielded en-, couraging results. Tea has become a curiosity. Smail quantities of so-called German teas dried berries., herbs snd leaves have been sold to the public at exorbitant prices as "medical teas." to circumvent the maximum prices of "German leas," The familiar storm sirnals of short age are already discernible In wines and liquors. French champagnes are nearing their end In Germany, and the peace prices have doubled and trebled. ranging from 10 to tit a bottle. Stocks of French red w ines. Bordeaux and Burgundies, are beginning to run low, with the accompanying phenomenon ot doubled prices, owing to the Incessant demands fur red wines In the military hospitals. "Fort, sherry. Madeira. Ma laga are virtually unobtainable, the nominal cost averaging t a bottle. Ger man wines have kept' pace with the vanishing Imported in soaring prices. Brandy, whisky and liqueurs have doubled and trebled In price, and the limited stocks are held back in antici pation of even steeper prices. Beer Scarcity a Tragedy. But beer Is the real Strlndberglan soul tragedy of every thirsting Ger man, louring 191S the breweries may brew only 10 per cent of the malt quantities constituting the average quantities brewed In the years 1912 and 1911. As a special concession. Bavarian brewerlea may brew 14 per cent. Four fifths of Germany's entire beer pro duction today is reserved for the army. The German war beer, increasingly thinned and stretched beyond recogni tion, has reached the limit of tenuity. The standardized war beer of 1918 for all Germany, except Bavaria, has only one-sixth the strength ot peace-time beer. In peace times one pound of malt yielded on the average two and a half quarta of beer: today Bavarian brewer ies get from Is to 17 quarts out of one pound and the North German breweries , quarts. - Germany's war beer has been alter nately stretched and Increased In price. and the oscillating process continues. While their favorite beverage has be come legendary, the leading breweries of Germany have been able to declare dividends ranging from 19 to 24 per cent. (Continued Tomorrow.) HIRAM MITCHELL HERE SOX OF LATE SRXATOR RETIRXS TO CITV OF HIS BIRTH. Posltlea With Leeal Shipbuilding Comt- paay sir Emergency Fleet Cerpera tloa Kxpeeted After sn absence of nearly 20 years Captain Hiram E. Mitchell, son of the late I'nited States Senator John H. Mitchell, has returned to Portland with the expectation of either becoming as sociated with a local shipbuilding com pany or entering the service of the Kmergenry Fleet Corporation. "Needless for me to say that T note wonderful growth in this, the city of my birth." said Captain Mitchell at the Imperial Hotel yesterday. "Naturally I am glad aguln to be back among old friends after such an extended absence. As soon as my plans develop 1 shall bring Mrs. Mitchell and the children. who are now in Los Angeles, to Port land, and we will again make our home here." At the outbreak of the Spanish America avar In Captain Mitchell. who had for 10 years practiced law In thla city, waa commissioned Captain In the quartermaster's department. Later he enlisted with the regular Army, and for four years was stationed at Van couver Barracks. Nearly 10 years sgo he wss retired on account of disability resulting from Injuries suffered during the Porto Kican campaign in bis volun teer service. 1 Aftr retiring from Ms military serr- Not a War Picture To the Public: White you are watching the amazing scenes that pass before your astonished eys In this great pbotodrama keep your eye on people around you. Should anyone make any remarks that you can con- . time aa being seditious or unfriendly to the United States CALL THE POLICE and have him arrested. Serve your country. Watch the enemy aliens. Help crush traitors and spies. This amazing drama will show you clearly what "kultur" is doing to kill you and me and our people. Do NOT miss this fearless expose. Not a War Picture If-, X . Salter7 rTuimmmnaim maaorm mjJ n (Si ' v irufs wriKLY w xv W rs -w v" y ar w T&c hensb of Berlin h The Photoplauihat made x NevfYorh Cheer like mad C(D)RflON(5 H Beginning Saturday, April 6th -a. Terser ii sills m i ice Captain Mitchell went to Paris, where he remained until three years rko, when he returned to New York and remained until last September, when he was sent to Los Ana-eles as superintendent and Inspector of mate rials for the Pacific Klectrlc Company. The construction of a $2,500.O0 plant was contemplated by this company, and the materials had been assembled when the Government directed that the con struction be held up on account ot the war. Reindeer to lie on Market. NOME. Alaska. March 2!. About 50(1 dressed reindeer will be shipped to the food markets of "the states" on the first boat leaving here after the break up of the Ice on Bering Sea this Spring. All Winter long a marketing firm has been slaughtering and preparing a cer tain number for shipment "outside." Several hundred are In cold 'Storage here now waiting- for the boat. SOLDIER INJURED BY FALL Drafted Man, Attempting to Board Auto, Struck by Driver. Guy Simpson, a California soldier In the National Arms-, attempted to bosrd the running-board of an automobile near the TTnlon Depot in the hope that the driver of the machine might take him "up town." As a reward for his efforts Simpson was struck in the chest and knocked to the pavement. He bus tained such a badly sprained ankle and bruised hip that it yas necessary to remove him to the Emergency Hospital for treatment, a? The driver of the machine, afte knocking- the soldier from his running- board, put on full speed and made his way up the street, successfully evad ins every attempt to g-et his number. The injured soldier's home is in Sac ramento. Send for. Swift & Company's 1918 Year Book It shows that Swift & Company sells the meat from a steer for less money then the live steer cost ! Proceeds from the sale of the hide, fat, and other by-products covered all expense of dressing, refrigeration, freight, selling expense and the profit of $1.29 per steer as shown by Swift & Company's 1917 figures as follows: Average price paid for live cattle pr eer $84.45 Average price received for meat . . Average price received for by-products Total received t . 68.97 93.06 8.61 1.29 s-aajOskL. J .This leaves for expenses and profit Of which the profit per steer was .. There are many other interesting and instructive facts and figures in the Year Book. We want to tend our 1918 Year Book, to anyone, anywhere frea for tho asking. Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago. 1 -.. Swift & Company, U. S. A. Bent II Bones That Were g S Bent by g S Pointed g Shoes jp fjplf l Straight! Bones ? That Grew j I Straight in J I Educator J i Shoes f Army Officers Agree With Us About the RICE St HUTCHINS UCAT Id HOE 'l6.U.f.fr.0f1t. 'T T ARROW Toe Shoes Must V kj Go.'Say Army Officers, "is X N the title of a recent editorial ; in the New York Evening Jour nal. The editorial repeats what we have been telling Americans for years: That pointed shoes are the cause of corns, bunions, flat feet, ingrown nails, bent bones. Keep your feet fit and ready for service by wearing roomy, comfortable Educators, the shoes built to "let the. feet grow as they should." Get the whole family into - Educators in our store today. Every Educator shoe is stamped EDUCATOR on the sole. THERE can be no protec tion stronger than this trademark, for it means that behind every part of the shoe stands a responsible manufac turer. -, - Made for Men, Women, Children by Rice & Hutchins, Inc. 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