English Translation

54 A 32 is punished draconianly and in this way the trust is revived again and again. As an example the supply of the restaurants is mentioned. Restaurateurs had made the attempt to override the supply scheme. Now the section of the catering and accommodation industry has seized on the matter and watches with painstaking care that the guest receives, for example, the meat portions he has to claim with correct weight. Of course, the innkeepers somehow tried to find out something about it. This resulted in interventions and fines. Small, but for this reason no less respected information from the population appeared in the press, that the restaurant owners there and there were considered with fines of 100, 500 and also 1,000 RMk. However, since the success was apparently not yet appropriate, the decisive blow came, which unmistakably triggered a lasting effect. The hotel owner Elschner (Hotelbetrieb Excelsior am Anhalter Bahnhof, one of the largest in Berlin) was put in a fine of 300,000 RMk by the Reichskommissar for price formation, because with his operation he was "substantially against price and war management regulations". Against two other persons involved with it was recognized on fine of 15,000 RMK each. The greatest restrictions are imposed on the consumer by the distribution of fats, supplemented by the management of bread spreads, after which only multifruit and mixed jams, apple repressing jelly, apple herb and beet herb may be produced. The use of extenders and substitutes such as sweeteners, etc., is expressly prohibited. As packaging, a suitable wooden vessel is allowed instead of the conventionally used metal buckets. 3. Report: It must not be forgotten that people are exposed to the conditions at a crooked angle of the face and therefore also come to the strangest results. For the comparison with the present life of restrictions, one does not draw on a normal economy with all its freedoms, but — for that one is finally at war — one takes as a basis the years 1917 and 1918 with all their misery and their lack of hope. But if people assume it, then it is no wonder that they now find "all things not so bad" and welcome every small improvement with a large aut breath. For example, changes in the fat supply have had a psy-chologically favourable effect. The total amount of fat has remained unchanged. But it will be noted with satisfaction that now butter rations at the expense of margarine