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Show Ill SPLITS LARGER STATES Operation of Reform Act Quiets Temper of the Peasants 1 (By Tiie Associated In-s.i ! J SiY. Rumania, Oct. SO. liuma-hla's liuma-hla's Agrarian Kefcrm oct. Rivinjr ' 10,000 sores of state, institutional and private lands to the peasants, has been in operation :i year and has brought ii bout n degree of content-! ment and satisfaction among the popu-latfon popu-latfon heretofore unknown. For the first time in Rumania's history, the, per-.snnts ha' e been given outright ownership of land Klnir IVioinand v, the first to give up a part of his large land holdings to the people. w I S i.u IET DQWX. Th. expropriation of large private (.t.Af.: b' the Government diil not please Ihe proprietor classes, but it has had jl steadying Influence upon the temper and spirit of the people, who now iinc little sympathy for Bolshevist Bolshev-ist docirir.es. Nearly So per cent of the people of Kuraaniii are eupported by agriculture and under their ownership own-ership the land during the last year has yielded larger and better crops man ever ueiore. ITlve-sbxthS Of the population 01 R 1-inania 1-inania consists of the peeeantry who condone thrift with Industry, In fact, the peasant class constitutes the real Rumania. The whole hope of the country is bound up In it. A iarpe per-centage per-centage of llliiorac; prevails, but the pcoplii poises-, many good iiualitles. One sees the same hand-worked cos-t cos-t 1.1,1 s that obtained In the middle ages the, same goodnec.- of heart mid s'.m- fpllolt) of manner which always ehar-acteiiies ehar-acteiiies highly stratified societies where people know their stations in jllfe and ar t accordingly. PRIMTTI1 HOMES, rhe bulk of the rtumaniun nation isilll lives in dirt-floor od huts made of woven branches and plastered with mud. Theii, noi is usually are win-dowless win-dowless mid stovelcsa. The people sleep upon the tloor or upon benches with their day clothes on. often six to i'-n of them in one miserable low-1 low-1 led room ten feot square In many cases the poultry, pigs and cattle occupy oc-cupy the same room. While Rumanian cities have made 1 decided progress during the last 2u lyears. the country the real heart of j Rumania bus been practically tt;i- Itionary- The ox-drawn wooden plough, the hand scythe, and the wheat flail used In biblical limes are still to be seen. Although producing enough wheal to supply .ill Europe with bread. th Rumanian, peasant does not touch white br. id. His olet consist! ,-ilmost entirely of a sort of corn-meal mush j (ma malign) boiled so stiff that when i it cools it resembles corn bread of the southern suites. This meagre food. Insufficiently In-sufficiently supplemented with fats, Is . countable for the large amount ot pellagra In Rumania perhaps equaled equal-ed nowhere elsp In the wot hi |