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Show SAYS WORLD IS" WHB1GLE Food or Chaos, Help or Anarchy, An-archy, Alternatives Presented Pre-sented in Europe. Noted Writer Declares That Aid Must Come Quickly, and From America. Ey CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL. (Noted Publicist and Sociologist, Who Has Recently Returned From Europe.) Bv Universal Service. XHW YORK. April 5. Food or chaos; that. In plain terms. Is the situation in practically all over Europe east of the Rhine. Help or have anarchy. Come with organized relief on a scale never known before; come with bread and clothes for millions, and then millions, or face the certainty of terrible distress over vast regions of populous territory ter-ritory and the possibility of a storm that will shake the whole structure of modern society And maybe shake it down. Anyone who talks about things as they really are in Europe today will seem to the uninitiated an alarmist or an exaggerates. exag-gerates. That is because the world has never faced such a situation and has nothing1 in its experience to base comparison com-parison on. . I can only assure you that no one jn te iast few weeks who has been tn Paris and heard there the reports from eastern Europe will think this lorecast ol coming trouble extravagant. 300,000,000 at Starvation. Of the -I'UV'OfVV'O people in Europe, it iff like.v that three hundred millions are now' approaching the line of acute destitution." desti-tution." or are already upon It or over !t. In some parts of Austria-Hungary. M-lesia M-lesia and Bohemia starvation has either berm or is c'.ose at hand. If there is neither peace nor security in Germany today, what will be the conditions con-ditions in Germany starving? In much of Turkev the state ot the people is described as ar-paliinc; in Con-siantinoo.e Con-siantinoo.e there is acute famine among all the poor. Reports from the camps of l"jO.O'"0 Russian prisoners still in Germany Ger-many and Bohemia are of a nature not to be printed in a newspaper. I can only hint at them by savin no such stones have been told of civilize i men, except of parties of despairing castaways In the Arctic Starvir.g men lose all reason and restraint. re-straint. We that are comfortable .and well fed alwavs overlook thi i-iet ; yet, fact it remains. Europe is now likely to have to deal with it in stern fashion. Example in Munich. For just at the time when whole ccm-trvsides ccm-trvsides are threatened with death tl a sri rations of the Bo'.shev'ki and devihsn energies of the anarchists are at te.:r worst. Give to desperate, starving, frantic fran-tic men the promise of plenty and of domination that the Po'.sheviki always hold out. and what shall we expect them to do with it? What recently happened at Munich o u e h t to show us plainly enough if we have any doubt on the subject. Pinch-Jnr Pinch-Jnr bellies had a great dal more to do with that outbreak of maar.ess than the machinations of the rr: ionar.es. suppose that a hundred mill ton peopl in Europe e-t in'o the desperate state of mind of the people of Munich, and what wo'ild come next? I Of all Germans th.? Bavarians are by . tradition the least ?;ven to v.o.ence, and the most to order and m'hod. And li.-re, imdr the pressure of thU tearful tn'i they, too. eera to eat of the in. -a re ro--t, i and e-o forth d-troing h:id p.i.::-;.;.g j murdering ard burmi g. Unrest and Disquiet. ! Even ,t t the t - v , v e r. ' n roi i n t r i s ; wher th'-re is ro i !a rv;iiion, men nn 1 see r 'Sir.ly f-nc'.-'h ih vena of unrM. j and profound d..-.-a sf-t.on. He r..i.-t ' have rad h: torv with hii -. ar.d rot 1 with his ir-.K-lliirnce, th.it do s not know ': tfc'i t tbce t hirgd :.r. i'.f"-i ioms. In tris crent rr.s:n fh'-rc 13 but or.e 1 ration m the world that 'm in any posi tion to furn.sh th- r; ' that nn; vive the situfition. Th-v ia th Jni'd Srat.--?. It a.or has fo-th u-xn ti.e ! Fhirs. tr,1 rcn-y to t-avft the world from an tliimiu.hle d:-atf-r. AmeniL hui 1;;. y-Mr a Vv.irr.rr wn-sl crop. T '-r -v-r i m-'-.-; tl it u;. , yfH r v A rr.ri' rr r, - in li r rt-('f 1 , s t j y'r'8 I'ord. W -m a bumper rnrn rror. I'Torr, ';! y w phi II hnv a r o r. '"nile the wnr ij on we vo' '; n t p. r-' v n-l!on"i n-l!on"i v:rr.v t' at we m,g'-.f d o ir allies. The present meri.'.-ri' y la at kst as gT-.at u.h ih;t cf rh war. ; If we nnert-iVe f r r t)i. f.iV r-f r.u- inanity 23 rnui-h ?'-.f-'l.--i il v. -a- a- we , p-aticd th':n v. e rp.n r,ve r.i-r-rn Eu- ri",j. -no :ch h- p 'o h" o tn mot of I through to th'- T.-:. t h:rv at. No Help Elsewhere. Tt f-'- wi'h u' Arr, -ri-ri wbMh'-r wi th '- '1 qr.-ir t r.e f !ni1on ir i r o It. There is r;o l"lp ru r r-'hT t,;irtc. 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