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Show r HAIRMAN HUELET of the V; shipping board, who predicts an enormous oxpansion for tho United States merchant marine. f -J "V ,f FEED GERMANS TO SS?E ft'ORLD Only Way to Check Famine-bred Anarchy, Hoover Says. ' By HENRY WALES. (Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) PARIS,' March. 22. Herbert Hoover has given the following exclusive statementi "Why are we feeding Germany?", reads his statement ' "From the point of view of my western upbringing, I would say at once because' we don't kick a man In the stomach after we have . licked him." : " . ' "From the point of view of a government officer, I would say It is because famine breeds anarchy and anarchy is infectious. Infection irom..BUch a cesspool would jeopardize France and Great Britain and thus involve the' United States. "From the point of view of a peace negotiator, I would say it is because we must maintain order and a stable go.V7 eminent in Germany, if we would have someone with whom to slgnlpeace." Damages Are Needed. , "From the point of view of an econ-omlst, econ-omlst, I would say that it Is because the Gernmn" people must have food in. order to maintain a stable government and get back to production. Otherwise, there is no hope of their paying the damages they owe to the world. . . ; ' "From the point of view of a business man, I would say it Is because we need these damages more than any other form of punishment- "From the point of view of a humanlr tarian,' I would say it is because we have not been fighting women and children and 'we are not beginning now. . "From the point of view of our 'secretary 'secre-tary of war, I would say It is because we wish to return the American soldiers home, and It Is a good bargain to give food for passenger., steamers on which our boys may arrive home many months earlier than would otherwise be the case. Still Another Reason. . "From the point of view of the American Ameri-can treasury, I would say It is because it saves the United Sta.tes normous expenditures ex-penditures In Europe in support1 of Idle men and allows these soldiers to return to productivity in the United States. "From the point of view of a negotiator of the armistice, I would say it is because we are in honor bound to fulfill the implied im-plied terms of the armistice that Germany-shall have food. "Let us not befog our minds with the idea that all we have done for Germany Is to lift the blocJiade sufficiently to allow her to import a limited amount of food, from any markets she wishes. "Taking it by and large, our face Is turned forward, not backward, on history his-tory -We and our children must live In the world with these 70,000,000 Germans. No matter how bitterly we may feel, our vision must stretch over the next 100 years and we must write now into history his-tory such acts as will stand creditably in the minds of our grandchildren that we may not ourselves have fostered growths of cancer in the vitals of civilization." |