| Show 1100 HOOVER 1 V VER FACES TASK OF FEEDING STARVING NATIONS NATION OF EUROPE backed by voted by congress hois heis directing americas part in the work trusted aids make personal inspections of food situation in poland serbia and austria difficult problems to solve dy by LLOYD LLOY DALLEN western newspaper union staff correspondent co right western union inels hacked by voted by congress heibert hoover lalic rc dIrt directing cling big part lit in feeding tile tho threatened of Lu aurolie rolie lint hut it Is not the policy or of mr ers eis commission to give food awny to ilia peoples people now HOW no ho sorely rarely PIT ISRed with will recon problems they must pay nit once whenever possible when they bey cannot pay they lire 1110 to ile 10 given gh n credit with security that lint will insure america Anier against total loss im any otley r policy would ikenn tile tho loll 1011 of Ilu rope and hoover hooker lins has tin no intention of conducting a commission that lint would want quickly rut pill tile hit millions of poland and serbia t to say nothing of tile the cai 11 ciny mit nations lony into it mighty bread title line with tills this policy ns as tile burls of conducting it gigantic relief commission mr hoover lint first of nil all needed money mul and nut bority to start blurt lie lic machinery ile he lind como come to europe with etli op portioned from president ident WIl wilsons sons contingent funds to midi cuch immediate relief work as was found upon investigation to be absolutely necessary for tile lie salvation of now new democracies tile tho tile the poles ioles tind gerbs sorbs and also the Con congress gresl votes when hoover lind had a n chance to look mound lio lie discovered that was just nebout enough to lIn tince food shipments for one of these nations lie did not single out one tin nn thorit but ordered tig ng rushed from tile united states nt at once ile he trusted tile ho american people to Ir ovIde the nee needed fled and when it ito got tile tho first news nes of the ans sage of the appropriation lit in congress congi tin in ot oc relief cattle into its race face that had not been there for weeks with it small artiff mr hoover lina has in the hotel do cryllon crillon Crl Cr llon Illon fn an parla which lins has been turned into it combination onka building and hotel for of tile american commission to negA negotiate tinto pence some soine of mr ir Ifo hoovers overs I 1 most trusted tildes ore milking making person per sonni nl inspections or of tile food situation in it miana serbia ind and austria dr alonzo taylors Tny lors report from vienna Is very interesting ile he found tho the output of coal end agricultural products in ili austria reduced during 1017 1917 ns as tile result of the iho r and still further lowered lotter cd dur ing 1018 austria H it badly crippled As a result of the war find the allied food blockade the stocks of ties acs of nil kinds especially textiles liau have been dangerously depleted and on ir count of ile he short i production of coal tit liu rall railways ways of file A austin list 1011 1 0 11 iliin fill garbin states tire audly crippled alov iia lug ing ofil elent railway transportation Is tin nil factor lit in moving foods vano they are most urgently gently ui needed anything an thing for alio lie czechs must puss through what Is left of austria proper austria ins hns been divided into ova separate political areas toy tny lor or believes lelle voa that lint this action has for the lie time iline being greatly reduced tile the re rc soll rees of nil fill tills this territory ench anch Mn fets up till against the oth r rs lie ile found the ho food distribution and supply formerly wits was a inet tir fer of exchange among the lie separate states n almost tit nt n st standstill ft nd still one keen lection will bave clial another sonic some su sit 1 gar bar another some sanie gralia but each unable to carry ci iry on oil het lie ouse nuie of luck lack of abat tile all jers in such 11 sit nation ono one stole le I 1 I 1 t n and it 11 wit it Us its system paralyzed will havo ain plenty of coil coal but no food while another liming having sonic food cannot ills tribute it because itt id rall railways ways line have no coal i all of which c endres such general unemployment us its to approach tile tho flan dnn kir ger point it in the ho essen folly austrian lands liebic Is 11 condition of apathy no one seems to have hope ille people wait and in vienna make binke tin nn attempt tit nt gaiety of inglus industry try there as a none in jikko tind in czecho ift there Is 19 tin nn entirely different psychology these liberated people have falth in lie ic future anol tire reaching out and struggling to build up prosperous while tile the german austrian peoples drift along in nn all state sante and the lio live in a n rinze doze of proud resignation galicia and eastern that lint have been taken over by anin have become vole voiceless pless doctor taylor found tile food short most serious in german austrin austria chero the people are on a very low ration with extremely short supplies plies in stock or in sight right lit in czecho there was wag sum clent food to carry the notion nation through the worst of the winter but a short olga OKO alie new harvest was ns incel table austria with fatalistic nt unable to start reconstruction st not knowing and scarcely curing cm ing what became of them ipolit political bitterness and paralysis completed the picture out of tills this chaos ns as director gener nl III of tile supreme council of supply Y tind relief hooker must find a ill method ethod for distributing american foodstuffs feed decd him before he faints for tile new nations tile lie czecho wilts and the poles unil and juga slavs that have no money the w scheme for selling polling american foods on credit Is s sl m pi A should tiny in these countries demanding tile prompt distribution trib ution or of rood food it will be distributed on the prInc principle litle of feed illin him before ho he tile the or nations must pay where they have no money bild the new democracies lime have little or no Il money lolley worth anything outside their own borders the food coin commission nil assion will hii I 1 inho over sonic commodity produced in tho the nation sonio sonic tillie must elapse before tile the Amer american leans can call trade with austria even on oil ilia basis of getting money or its Ivil lent for every pound of arneal can bought food that Is distributed because austria was wan eve or of the it which america Anicil cn declared nied war until until tile tho blockade Is lifted american interests cannot trade with ilia aus irions unless perch banco anea tile the situation to a point chero red tape must ile be crit to sno tile lives that otherwise would be lost on oil account of the inroads ot of famine while t lie pence con conference conferee feren was up tip a machine to settle problems arising from a war torn europe pol poland one of tile the new q was suffering ering from lack inck of foods could only be supplied from saved from starvation starvation sent dr vornon vernon kellogg to tile situ situation fit loll kellogg reported poland must have immediate assistance from tile aliu outside world which nicana america it the poorer InhabIt inhabitants tints of lie large cities tint and tile unemployed workman and children in the industrial centers wore were saved from starvation under normal conditions poland li Is self supporting ns regards food flat four and a halt linof years of war lind brought the nation to desperate str straits alts german looters footers stripped till nil machlica ilin chines of copper and belting scores of md ind cli chines fines were wantonly destroyed tons of stun stuff carried away by the germans I 1 in ili nil all poland with its people the danger of 0 starvation was it a dully dally menace from december when tile pence conference started until food front from america arrived take security it Is with such nations ns as roland poland flint has to teal deal there win only no way to obtain some kind of nt compensation for american foods distributed tri buted this one way entailed considerable sid erable risk when one thought in terin of millions of dollars dut but millions in the he old war game ivere cre mero pawns in ili tile the gigantic enterprise ot of gilr nr and in tile the first reconstruction lays they hod had to be viewed front from the same standpoint the one just method ne according cording to tile the hoover policy was BS to sonic kind of the nations benefited by american supplies each nation had a different security carity tin had oil off fields which formed a n basis of credit it if the world At america sent bent food in ili time the world bild needed oil and need ed food in warsaw there was aa another kind of security the he woolen mills which in pence peace times were among ilia lio fenest in tile world factories could not reopen lin however wever until the lie birtill employees 0 y cles were fell fed the population wits was weakened from hunger feed tile the people they lit in turn tinn will feed the securities was aa the lie hoover policy tile the first need luia has been met illet by ft gift ship from america but it Is only a drop in tile bucket |
