Thin Pigs; Cask-Pusher

In the Reichstag last week Deputy Karl Freybe, pork-packer, member of the little Economic Party, gave Spartan advice to East Prussian pig raisers who have been bitterly complaining of low prices, overproduction and cut-throat Polish pig competition in the German market.

"To the swine raisers of East Prussia," boomed Deputy Freybe, "I say, 'Don't raise so many hogs.' If you must raise hogs, raise thin ones, raise them for meat, not for fat. We must remember the younger generation in Germany. It is keen on sport and hygiene. It thinks of its waistline. It absolutely cannot be made to eat hog fat and lard."

German winegrowers, too, complained last week of low prices, overproduction. Into Berlin's famed Potsdamer Platz marched one Josef Putz, Moselle Valley vintner, pushing a large cask of Moselle in front of him. On each of the cask's heads were inscribed pleas to drink more Moselle, eschew beer and foreign wines. As a mark of his sincerity Cask-Pusher Putz had already pushed his cask from Coblenz to Cologne to Hamburg to Berlin (approximately 550 mi.).

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