Show POLAND SOON WilL MEET REAL TEST WRITER SAYS Dissat Dissatisfaction Over Food Conditions and Profiteering Profiteering Profiteer Profiteer- ing Declared Growing By Harold E. E Bechtol European Manager Mang of 1 N N. N E E. E A WARSAW Poland Nov 13 The The Thereal real test tt of 0 poland Poland Is I. still to come and It will probably come this winter The Th ministry is none non too to firmly seated rated and dissatisfaction over food tood conditions condition profiteering and high prices is I. growing steadily teady There is I. still great une nt fuel tuel Is I. expensive transport and end housing hous- hous housing hous houa- ing conditions are bad The head of 0 the th labor mini ministry try Alexander told me that on August Augut 1 I there were workers idle Idle half halt pf pt them heads head of families The Th Socialists are taking advantage of the h growing dissatisfaction to t. de demand demand dewar de- de mand that the government stop op the war on the Bolshevists There Ther Is no n. actual fuel food fOd scarcity In Poland nor or will there ther be b. for sometime some om sometime time she be has seven seven eighths eighths of the tb grain she ob requires until the tho next crop The Th striking tact fat Is that while Poland has with within In the country more and nd better food tood than most mot of 0 the central cen cen- European P countries e most t. t of the people are no better ef off than the people in nations with scanty nty supplies In all the he big towns food tood queues are com com- mon Bad distribution mabil Inability ty of ot the th government to stop top hoarding bOarding and profiteering pro profi- and of 0 course cour transport are arB the h answer The government has fixed prices on nn onto grain and other food tod and nd le I. able abl to 10 control mot most of 0 the big tat produce produce prod prod- uce but It openly Conte its Ity to get gt the Ibe peasant Timers farmers to sell ell at t government s pric-s what the can het 0 two time as mH h In I ills L. L and nd tn appear 0 it 1 Costly urging revolution show hw the that t Bolshevist forces are arB still active But the government officials offICial are or no nol t worrIed about armed revolution o 01 r Russia over nver again as aa they are aboul abou ministerial crises crise which seem eem certain and nd perhaps strikes and rioting When the minister of ot food tood resigned I recently after atter a pr press campaign demanding de d de manding better food conditions som e of 0 the newspapers newspaper Bald ald that he h. ought ough t to go to jail for tor failure n In such an all al I Imp Important matter as food tood In i Wa Wai Warsaw at the th expensive rants rant i those tho who have the th money mony can ca get gt the best of t practically every thin g sold old In good New York hotels hotI fro m choicest steaks and chops chop to t. ice Ie ean ci-ean cream m to to say nothing of some om native dishes I an American never heard ot of such ouch as a a load Iced i soup made mad of 0 sour our milk shrimps cucumbers cucumber rs lobster must mustard etc But a dinner like Joke that tha cot costa about abou t marks mark ka 3 at the he pres present exchange but at par and to the average POle representing 20 to t. 25 The e Polish PolIn workman must mut teed feed his hi family on a tenth ot of that Unemployment doles lolee run from 3 to 5 6 marks a day t. t for fora r a faintly The poorer people know there is i. food tood In the country and they bey are getting sick k ot of scraping for tor a scanty ration because the government cant can't keep food tood out of 0 the underground channels channel The peasants peasant are or politically power power- flit ul and nd they have bave shown bown no inclination to let It their produce go g. at government prices when they can g. g get much more Aa A. Minister of of Health told me m. For Fr years It I has been the tb duty dut or of every evry good Pole Pol to evade and disobey dis- dis obey the oppressive law Imposed by bythe bythe the autocrat It I. I hard for or them to get Into the habit of obeying law |