Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1919 — Germany's Big Mistake. [ARTICLE]

Germany's Big Mistake.

The distinguished Danish vegetarian, Dr. M. Hlndhede, has made the interesting discovery that Germany owes her downfall to the pig. In 1914 she had over 25,000,000 pigs to feed. For the first five months of the war slaughtering was discouraged, at the cost of enonpous reserves of foodstuffs. Early In 1915 this policy was reversed, and by April the number of pigs had been reduced by 35 per cent. Then a reactioriln favor of pigs set in, and their numbers were kept at about 70 per cent of the pre-war figure. Not till late in 1917 and early in 1918 was the fatality of this mistake realized, and then it was too late. Doctor Hlndhede argues that Denmark avoffied starvation by killing her pigs early.