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...calamity of the most appalling magnitude threatens to oust even the French occupation in the Ruhr from the minds of the citizens. The sausage supply is gravely menaced by the strike of the livestock skinners in Berlin. Thirty-seven sausage and meat-canning factories are idle, and fear is expressed that the strike may lead to the closing of no less than 1,000 plants. A wage dispute is at the seat of the trouble...
...Extremely unfortunate," says the Soviet government; "we have not enough farm implements or livestock to till the grain field." Then the American attaché at Berlin reports: The German government has bought 1,400,000 bushels of wheat from Russia. It is about to be shipped from Black Sea ports. Further reports indicate that thousands of tons of grain are being exported over the Finnish border and from Odessa and Novorossysk on the Black Sea. There can be but one conclusion-that the Soviet government prefers exporting grain to feeding its starving peasants...
...later in San Francisco. The public, little realizing the precedent established, laughed and forgot the incident. And now what is the result? Postmaster Behymer of Cincinnati rises in his seat at the National Association of Postmasters to protest against the promiscuous shipment of alligators. Mr. Behymer points out that livestock, under the law, is entitled to the privileges of being mailed. He faces calmly the prospect of "being obliged to attend, water and feed various fowls and irritated livestock",--if they can be termed "harmless" and wear badges to that effect. Mr. Behymer draws the line at alligators...
...that he uttered these words, representatives of Western livestock and packing interests told the Food Administration that, as there is no shortage of food except in pork and its products, abstinence from wheat and beef involves an unnecessary sacrifice. If this be true, and if, as they say, stocks of beef and mutton are pilling up in cold storage, what better proof do we need of the President's statement? --New York World...