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Show EMERY l.QIJXTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH BERLIN. SPARTACANS WITH A FLAG OF TRUCE SSJj?' N w HOOVER FACES TASK OF FEEDING STARVING NATIONS OF EUROPE i run Backed by $100,000,000 Voted by Congress He Is Directing America's Part in the Work Trusted Aids Make Personal Inspections of Food Situation in Poland, Serbia and Austria Difficult Problems to Sclve. mi iV44Vr,. 7; f II i-f- rr 'It a-- - ana gpartiM a while lace c , Jin t - famine-threatene- it A If . ' V goyerum.-n- t - 1 ? troops la Berlin talking of the possibility of a c essatiou of hostilitl t as a flag of truce. 1 H The Spartacans SCENE DURING THE CAR STRIKE IN NEWARK t I 141 i niiiiiiii imam trr -- lit iin ifciJ mmn imntim ii nftir iTrtniYinmiT Crowds of strikers and sympathizers In Newark, N. J., holding up a car that the company Is trying to run. Over villages In New Jersey were affected by this strike, and the police had great difficulty in maintaining order. IN THE THAMES AT LONDON; 155 HUN i i By LLOYD ALLEN. Western Newspaper Union Staff Correspondent. (Copyright, Western Newspaper Tnlon.) Paris. Backed by $10t).(XX).000 voted by congress, Herbert Hoover Is here directing America's big part In feednations of ing the Europe. But it Is not the policy of Mr. Hoover's commission to give food awny to the peoples now so sorely pressed with reconstruction problems. They must pay at once, whenever possible. When they cannot pay, they are to be given credit, with security that will Insure America against total loss. Any other policy would mean the pauperization of Europe, and Hoover has no Intention whatever of conducting a commission that would quickly put the millions of Roumnnla. Poland, and Serbia, to 6ay nothing of the enemy nations. Into a mighty bread line. With this fundamental policy as the basis of conducting a gigantic relief commission, Mr. Hoover first of all needed money and authority to start the machinery. He had come to Europe with $5,000,000 apportioned from President Wilson's contingent funds to finance such Immediate relief work as was found, upon Investigation, to be absolutely necessary for the salvation of Europe's new democracies, the Czecho-Slovnktlu Poles and Serbs, and also the Roumanians. Congress Votes $100,000,000. When Hoover had had a chance to look around, he discovered that was Just about enough to finance food shipments for one of these nations. He did not single out one nation, howevur, but ordered cargoes aggregating $15,000,000 rushed from the United States at once. He trusted the 'American people to provide. the capital needed. And when he got the first news of the final passage of the $100,000,000 appropriation In congress, an- expression of relief came Into his ace that had not been there for weeks. With a small staff, Mr. Hoover has headquarters in the Hotel de Crlllon, In Paris, which has been turned Into a combination oflice building and notel for members of the American commission to negotiate peace. Some' of Mr. Hoover's most trusted (Ides are making personal Inspections 6f the food situation in Poland, Serbia, and Austria. Dr. Alonzo Taylor's report from ViHe found enna Is very Interesting. the output of coal and agricultural seriously products in Austria-Hungarreduced during 1917 as the result of the war, and still further lowered dur, ing 1918. t Austria-Hungar- y Badly Crippled. As a result of the war and the allied food blockade, the stocks of commodl- - major denig decorated n d y n y ijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuu 1 War Dead 17,500,000, Says British Paper London. C E mary of A complete the world war sum- - 5 casual- - E S ties compiled by the Manchester E E Guardian gives the total number E E of deaths at 17,500,000. E This number Includes a mor- E tality of 4,000,000 from pneumo- E E nia and Influenza. Allied losses are placed at 5,- - ' E E 500,000, excluding a large num- - E E E ber of French civilian dead. Deaths suffered by the central E E E powers are estimated at some- - E E E thing over 2,900,000. E were losses from 300,000 Italy's E disease in the war zone, or B three-fifth- s as many as were E E killed In action. Four million E E Armenians, Syrians, Greeks and E E Jews were massacred by the E E Turka. Serbian .civilians to the num E E E bcr of 1,000,000 died 'through E MaJ. Gen. L. W. T. Waller, U. S. E massacre, hunger or disease. S marine corps, pinning the TMstin-guishe- d E Germans are held responsible E Service Cross on Maj. Robert E for deaths of 7,500 neutrals. L. Denig, U. S. M. C, at the League Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiir? Island navy yard, Philadelphia. Major Blanc at decoration won the Denig Mont ridge in the Champagne sector. SHELTERS Though severely wounded, he refused to leave the field untU his command had accomplished Its mission, the cleaning out of a wood fllledwitn machine gun nests and snipers. s Ued sui rendered, Here is the German submarine 155, one of the big up in the Thames at London. DOUGHBOYS SHOPPING IN ARCHANGEL 3 s ire- - Wrtxts 7S I 1 It f s 4 - ' i 11 Wawwnn' " f ., '"flSi ' American soldiers of the Russian J bolihevlU near Archangel, shopping at one of the wi are located all over the city ot Archangel, liiiillll(IIIIIIH' "I it i 'j ! Capt. W. W. Shnuffler (standing) and Lieutenant Tillman, son of the late Senator Tillman, In the observer's Reat of a plane of the Ninetieth aero division, at squadron, Seventy-nint- h Bethelnlnvllle, France. Poland, one of the new democracies, was suffering from lack of foods that could only be supplied from America. Savsd Frorn Starvation. Hoover sent Dr. Vernon Kellogg to Investigate the situation. Kellogg reported "Poland must have Immediate assistance from the outside world (which meant America) If the poorer Inhabitants of the large cities and the unemployed workmen nnd children In the Industrial centers were saved from ; starvation." Under normal conditions, Poland !s as regards food, but four nnd a half years of war had brought the nation to desperate straits. German looters stripped all mnchines of copper and belting. Scores of machines were wantonly destroyed. Tons of stuff were carried away by the Ger mans. In all Poland, with its 4,000,000 people, the danger of starvation was a dally menace from December, when the peace conference started, until food from America arrived. Take Security. It is with such nations as Poland that Hoover hns to deal. There wm only one way to obtain some kind of compensation for American foods distributed. This "one way entailed con- -, slderable risk when one thought la terms of millions of dollars. But millions In the old war game were mere pawns In the gigantic enterprise of war. And In the first reconstruction days they had to be viewed from the, same standpoint The one Just method, according to the Hoover policy, was to take some kind of security from the nations benefited by American supplies. Each nation had a different security, Roumanla had oil fields which formed a basis of credit, If the world The (America) sent food In time. world needed oil, and Roumnnla needed food. in Warsaw there was "another kind of security ; the woolen mills, which In peace times were among the finest In the world. Factories could not reopen, however, until the employees were fed. The population was weakened from hunger. "Feed the people; they in turn will feed the securities," was the Hoover policy. The first need has been met by a gift ship from America, but It is only a drop In the bucket , Three Weeks. MurFrancisco. Private-Tiweeks had three leave. for nightly ray He obtained a cow bell and each night mooed contentedly as h'e tramped slowly away from camp In the darkness. Good for Kan Probates Vyrong Will. Milwaukee, Wis. Gustav Kleemana assured the court that he was very; much alive after his will was probated. Ills wife's will should have been filed ' Instead. AT THE DOCKS OF BRUGES n -- T.'' 4 I ties of all kinds, especially textiles, have been dangerously depleted and on account of the short production of coal the railways of the Austrollun-gariastates are badly crippled. Having efficient railway transportation Is an Important factor In moving foods where they are most urgently needed. Anything for the Czechs must pass through what Is left of Austria proper. Austria-Hungarhas been divided Into five separate political areas. Tay lor believes that this action has for the time being greatly reduced the resources of all this territory. Each state sots up barriers against the others. He found the food distribution and supply which formerly was a matter of exchange among the separate states almost at a standstill. One section will have coal, another some su gar, another some grain, but each unable to "carry on" because of lack of what the others have. In such a situation, one state, Inefficient, and with its financial system paralyze.it, will have plenty of coal, but no food, while another having some food cannot distribute it because lte railways have no coal. 'A1I of which causes such general unemployment as to approach the danger point. In the essentially Austrian lands, there Is a condition of apathy. No one seems to have hope. The people. wait and In Vienna make an attempt at gaiety. Of Industry there Is none. In Jugo-Slavi- a and In Czechoslovakia there Is an entirely different psychology. These liberated people nave faith In the future and are reaching out and struggling to build up prosperous nations, whllo the German-Austriapeoples drift along In an apathetic state', and the Hungarians live ln a Galicla daze of proud resignation. nnd eastern Hungary, that have been taken over by Roumnnla, have become voiceless. Doctor Taylor found the food shortage most serious In German Austria, where the people are on a very low dally ration with extremely short supplies In stock, or In sight. In Czecho-Slovakl- a there was sufficient food to carry the nation through the worst of the winter, but a shortage before the new harvest was inevitable. Austria-Hungar- y with fatalistic attitude seemed unable to start reconstruction ; not knowing and scarcely caring what became of them. Political bitterness and financial paralysis completed the picture. Out of this chaos, as director gener al of the supreme council of supply and relief, Hoover must find some method for distributing American foodstuffs. Feed Him Before He Faints, For the new nations, the Czechoslovaks and the Poles and Jugo-Slavthat have no money, the scheme for selling American foods on credit is simpler. Should any emergency arise In these countries demanding the prompt distribution of food, It will be distributed on the principle of "feed him before he faints." The communities or nations must pay. Where they have no money and the new democracies have little or no money worth anything outside their own borders the food commission will take over some commodity produced In the nation. Some time must elapse before the Americans can trade with Austria even on the basis of getting money or Its equivalent for every pound of American-bfood that Is distributed, beought cause Austria was one of the nations against which America declared war. Until the blockade Is lifted American interests cannot trade with the Austria ns unless perchance the situation develops to a point where red tape must be cut to save the lives that otherwise would be lost on account of the Inroads of famine. While the peace conference was building up a machine to settle problems arising from a war-tor- n Europe, FAMOUS YANK FLYERS White Gold. White gold, according to jewelers, soems destined to retain thevplace in the jewelry trade which the war gave it. This alloy of nickel and gold came into vogue when the government placed a ban on the use of platinum in the manufacture of Jewelry because of a world shortage of platinum and the vital need for U In the manufac, ture of high explosives. White gold became a substitute for platinum In jewelry, especially as a It has much setting for diamonds. the same effect as platinum In bringing out the brilliancy of these gems. It does not tarnish or change color It and looks much like platinum. as much. The casts about one-fiftend of the war has not reduced the price of platinum. U remains at $105 an ounce. 7 Mr 1. f " w. ,"V-- V ft .V! T-f- h German airmen, at tb shelters built of concrete and steeL with roofs of enormous tMcJmess for jrotecUon against aili;dj , docks of Bruges. |