Loyal Nazis Tighten Their Belts T o Save Germany

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 29, 18 February 1937, Page 13

Loyal Nazis Tighten Their Belts T o Save Germany

Decrees Tell the People What they may Eat

UW austere is the prospect I H I that faces the people of I 0 I Germany as they look fotI m I ward to new year is | IH I feveaied clearly enough by ^MJUl the stream of decrees, ordinances, enactments, injuiibtions, by-laws, regulations, notices, Warkngi, Ahd instrilctions that issue day by dAy tellihg people ih minute detail What thfey wih be allttWed to eat,. Where they mlist cufb their Appetites, and* what things they must go withoUt altogethet. First ih order of this ptocession of neW rules of life Was the Startiihg announcement ohe ihorning that everybbdy woiild have tO eat leSs fat ih the neW year. Fat ih the sehSe Of the l&W includes biitter, ihafiarihe, lardi drippiftfe Ahd dil. To make Siire that ohe Wiil get ahy of these. things at ail, One has to register at a shop where they are sold. Fach Week the Shopkeeper will be supplied With a quaiitity of fats, greater or less according to the way Gefman export fluctuates. Depends on Export. TF export is brisk, there will be more fats, if slack, fewer. For fat is one of those dommodities that Germany cannot produce idr herself in stiffieleht qilahtity. Beforfe people had recoveted from the Shock of this neWs ihOre painfui surprises wefe atinounced. Restaiitanis Were told td reduce the iehgth of their bllls Of fare. Ih Betlih they had aiways been too lohg. So nobOdy is likeiy to suffer ftiuch. Gities llke Berlin have to cater for a miiltitude of tastes, for hundreds Of thousands Of foreighers pass throiigh yeafiy. Ail tastes have to be taken into aecount. And after all, ohe would iftiagine that, in feeding a great community; it would Make little dififerehce whetfter the bill of fare offered 30 dishes of 300, as far as the quantity of food cohsumed were eohcerned. But the ofhciai expianatioh was that the smaiier the Variety of dishes thefe are the smaiier the stock Of food a restaurant must carry,. ahd the more easy it is to utilise eisewhere the food scraps left uheaten by the customers! * * * » T ATER housewives received another shock, The "big story" oarried oh the froht pages of the daliy newspapers was headed "The Right Bill of Fare." This explained how housewives couid help in the fight to make Germany independent of imported food, and gave three lists, showing (1) What foods had to be eaten more than heretofore; (2) What articies of diet could be consumed as freOly as before; , . (3) Where consumption had to be curtailed. The presumption is that all housewives will take the hint and plan their meals accordingly. If they do not, then more and

more items— like fat^-will come under compulsory control. Among the items on list 1 arO potatoes, sugar, jam, skimmed milk, barley, oatmOal, artificial hOney, flSh, mutton (Which few Getmans eat if they can help it), and rabblts— that are Very hard to get. On list2 are bread, flOUr, pork (the staple artlcle of diet in Germany), poultry, gamej eggs, j fruit, honey, cocoa. While oh list 3 are butter, lard, bacon, margarine, oils, iniported Vegetables, cheese, beef ahd Veal. Parallel With these depressing ahnouncements, which reveal With staftlihg cleatness the desperate -state into Which the cduntry is moVing, are constant appeals td all manufacturers ahd business men to redouble their efforts to export, eveh though it may not be in their matefiai ihterests to do sh. These appealS are apt to fall on deaf eafs. As Gerrhahy is rearihlhg the Oovernment is spehding Vast Sums With industry, immense amouhts in erecting national monuments and public buildings and in covering Germany with high-speed motor roads. Orders in connection with these schemes are so easy to get that nobody has any need to worry about export, where endless difficulties are falsed By the curfOhcy control reguiatldhi ahd the quota restrlctions ih othef eountries. For several years all GefMah eXport | has been dohe at a loss, but sihOe the B^ench ffanc, Ttallan lira, SWiss frahc, Dutch guiider, ahd Czechoslovakiah corh ail went off gold, it Is hard td see hOW Germany cah much longer stand the s'train Of exportlng at a heavy ioss. Great Effort. J^EVERTHELESS, an effort has to be made. No export, no buttet! Ahd hoW great ihe effort ls to be is seeh by the preparatlons made for the Leipzlg Fair oh "February 23. Incidentally, mahy of the advertlsed specialities themselves Indlcate how great is the piight into Which Germany has passed, . MjKst striking of all will be the textlle sectlon. This is td be larger than ever before, more than 400 firms having rented display space. The centre of attraction will be the show of synthetic textiies made by the Germah Dye Trust As its chief object is tO convince the people of Germany that these new fibres are a peffect substitute for Wool and cOtton, the dye trust will ShoW not only the raw fibres ahd the finished fabrlcs made from them, but also by models all the processes connected with making, dyeing, spinnihg, weaving, tailoring of woolstra, vistra, cuprama, aceta, zellophan and cordophan. And so that visitors from other parts of the world who may not speak German will be able to get full and exact information about these fabrics, telephones have been installed everywhere to give information automatically. Alongside the receiver ls a board with buttons. One picks up the ear-

piece, presses the button opposite the Wbrd "Ehglish," '''FTench," "Italian," "Spahlsh," "fjutch" "BWe'dish," or ''dapahese"-^aiid llstens to a lecture ih one's Own lahguage. i Equally intere'stihg Wiil be the fabriOs for womeii's underWear made from ihiXtures of Ahgota rabblt fur ahd cell-WooL The AhgOra rabbits are raised by toWn familles, Who keep them ks a hdbby, shear the WoOl, ahd eat the rabblt, These fabrlcs arO said to be as sofi as silk, as warm as wool, as durable ass llheh, and as hght As air. bne prihclple of the heW FOur Years' Plan is that people must leAfn td make feverythhig last fair longer thAh heretofore; There is, for ihsla.hce, a hatlohal campaign called " War bh waste'!" "ohe is likeiy to appeal tO the thrtfty hdu'seWife, ahd ls called "The ihvis'ible Thblecioth." % % '* % ThHE reai tabfecloth ls hot Ihvislble, but ohly the vlscose skfh that prOtects it la use. First the tablecloth is laid, then the vlscose shield is plaOed bv%r it. The shield is thoroughly transparent, ahd is impermeable to all beverages. All stains can be wiped off with a damp rag after the meal. So the linen remains spotless for weeks, the cldth lasts almost Ihdefi'hlteiy, 'ahd lauhdry biiis lose theh tefror. AhotheT cUrlous inhovatidh fquhd ih the leather godds sectlon is % beautifui rahge Of hew leathers Made of shark skih! At bffenbach, the berman leather toWh, the problem has beeh solved. Shark's leather is soft and piiabie, and ean be sewh ahd guihmed. It can be made ih thickhesseS to suit aii purposes. The leather is beautiftiiiy grained. Best Of bB, the right kihd Of shark is that found alohg Gerihah beaches. Shark skih leather eeems to have a great future. New G1ASS. a nottHr great ^imhph is a new kina of giass that is realiy hoh^hatterabie ahd hoh-breakabie. Ohly it is hot glaSs. That is to it is not a eompound of sfiicatei Instead it ls made of artifieiai resin. BUt you couid not distihfulsh It from reai giass. it is «o clear and tirans^' parent that it IS how being used to Make camera lenses. Celloh~as it is calied tech-ftieaiiy-4ias mahy prOpertles that giass dofes hot possess. It cah be beht, drilied, stamped, pressed, and tutned on a lathe. In hot Water it becoMes piastie, ahd May then be moulded into any shape. When it cools it retains that Shape perManently. Moreover, it ls very light. its great use will be for the windows of motor-cars and aeroplanes, but it is already being used largely in furniture making. Wherever one turnS one sees the Whble nation at work, making itseif independent of imported materlals. Its efforts are succeeding. The uneasy thought is that eventually it may do without many hatuf al raw materlals.