A Good Dinner

Herr Ebert, President of the German Republic, sat down to a good dinner at the Hotel Adlon, ate as calmly as a German can in the presence of appetizing food. Outside the hotel, pickets representing 25 striking cooks paraded with placards telling the public all about the strike. Although Ebert, as one of the most prominent leaders of the Socialist Party, might have been expected to sympathize with the strike, he showed no distaste at eating a dinner prepared by strikebreaking cooks who had hastily manned the skillets. Count Kanitz, German Minister of Food Supply, also found the food supply at the Adlon to his taste that same evening. Rumors of violence against the two officials came to nothing.