Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1917 — FOOD AND FRIGHTFULNESS [ARTICLE]

FOOD AND FRIGHTFULNESS

There have been many contradictory reports about food conditions in Germany, and in palliation of the ruthless acts of the central powers their sympathizers have claimed thaj woman and children are being starved to death? The results of Dr. Taylor’s six months' scientific inquiry into the control of food supplies' in Germany, now being published in The Saturday Evening Post,, seem to establish conclusively that up to the last of the year, at least, Germany, while it had to tighten its belt, was not starving or threatened with starvation;.' ' - 1 That the German nation as a whole is living’ on short rations, and perhaps rather uninviting rations, appears tdi be the fact; but that any condition approaching actual starvation exists in .any class is not true. Germany cannot plead that extenuation for lawlessness and ruthlessness.