Egg Weaning

So noisy were Berlin public markets last week that several times the capital was aroused by false-alarm rumors of "Food riots!"

Hot-footing down to the markets, correspondents each time found Berlin housewives screaming imprecations at the new prices of butter, eggs, vegetables and especially fruits which were in some cases as much as six times more costly than last year. Apples, mostly runty and scaly, drew the loudest protests.

In Government circles Germany was said to face no shortage of "necessities," such as coarse rye bread, sausages, potatoes and cabbage, but officials shrugged at the prospect for "luxuries" like those about which Berlin housewives were last week shouting.

According to an economist close to the Minister of Economics and Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, "It may be necessary to wean the German public from certain luxuries by permitting their price to rise. Our egg reserve is seriously depleted by premature withdrawal of eggs from cold storage and a grave egg shortage may result this winter, but after all eggs are luxuries."

Meanwhile Adolf Hitler was announced to have reduced Germany's unemployed from 6,013,000 when he became Chancellor to 1,754,000 last week. In this process, according to Government statistics, wages and jobs have been spread thinner & thinner, per capita hours of work and per capita wages falling. Rents and food prices have risen, with a consequent decline in the German standard of living.

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