Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-05-28
GREECE DEPENDENT
ALMOST entirely
ION u. S. FOR FEED
Since Outbreak Of War
Grecians Look to Ameri-
ca for Their Needs.

Piras us, Greece, May 19.-(Corres-
pondcnce of The Associated Press)-
An hour or 50 at a table in front of q
cafe on the water front Of Piraeus, the
port Of Athens, is an object lesson in
what the United States has become to
Greece since the outbreak Of the Euro
pean war. Once the wheat Of Greece
came from Russia and Roumania by
way Of the Dardanelles. Now two
huge cargo boats moOred to the sea
wall are discharging American grain
into the holds Of flock Of waiting
barges In half dozen yellow
streams. But the boats themselves
are Greek. not American. and on thei"
sides is painted the Greek flag, the
name of the boat In Roman letters
and the single word Greece.
On the quarry, spread out In the
hot spring sun are hundreds OF
noisome looking black sacks bearing
the imprint OF q New York finn and
the label "granulated sugar" Once
the sugar OF Greece came from
Trieste; now II journeys all the way
from New Orleans. Four Greek mer-
chants a,e tasting the contents OF
one Of the opened sacks. The owner
stands by, bill of lading in hand. The
four retire to distance to discuss
terms, They all talk at once. waving
thsir hands In impassioned gestures,
no one paying the least attention to
what the others are saying. when
one dissents he does not shake his
head. but lafts It sharply upwards,
CLICKING his tongue. impatiently. The
discussion Takes vefy long time.
but finally the bargin is struck and
the four purchasers and the con-
slgnee OF the sugar. their days work
Gone. retire to a neighboring cafe to
talk politics over Turkish coffee.
Close in the shadow of the wheat
ship, q dozen OF so men are unpack-
ing n crate., A score Of idle-s look
on, deeply absorbed as little by little
an autcmtb!le Ia revealed. The, ma"
chine comes from Detroit, not from
France, as would have heen thescase
before the war
Across the harbor huge white
passenger vessel Is moored--the lar
gest passenger vessel in active SER
vice for the transatlantic trip. these
var times. 1t Is the King Constan-
tine. OF the Natloal Cheek line. ply
lug between Piraeus and New York.
making the trip In fortnight.e She
too. flies the Greek. not the Ameri-
can flag.
Reminders Of U. :. Every where.
Along the sidewalk opposite the
quays are more reminders OF the
closening touch between Greece and
the United States. Every few steps
In front Of the wretched shops. are
stationed the glass show cases OF the
money changers. filled with their
motsly collection OF strange monies:
Bulgarian. Rumanian, Turkish. Egyp-
tian, Russian and Serbian--the gold
and silver In bowels, the paper hung
on strings like washing on a line,
against the glass sides OF the show
cases. In one corner Is always a roll
of American greenback--to Amerl-
cans here home-like and familiar In
company with so much Oriental coin
age. =,
Spiro will be buying such roll
soon. Spiro Is a petty officer VINO
belongs to the KilkiS, which used to
be the American bat.leship Idaho.
spiro does not live in Greece. He Is
Il om Saratoga. n. ". and when MIS-
service Is over in month or two ne
Is going back to his candy shop IN
Saratoga as fast as the King Con-
stantine can take him.
The waiter at the one even halt-
way passable restaurant OF Pirasus Is
from the United States. too. He also
is doing his military service. though
on leave for the present--like most
of the Greek amy. so. with ioath-
ing In his heart. he works IN a
restaurant with sawdust covered
floor and . row Of barrels along the
wall filled with sweet. aromatic
Greek liquors. until his time Is up
and he can return to Harrisburg
Pa.
The few forbidding hotels OF
Piraeus lily American flags as we'll
as Greek oms--just why. is mystery
American tourists in Greece are rare
these days of submarines in the
Mediterranean, But perhaps the
manager may have made his apprsn-
ticeship in a hotel on broadway
reason enough TO set cut the Amsri.
can flag, in the mind OF a Greek who
has lived in the United States. The
world around theirs are no more
patriotic Americans than those whe
were born in Greece-and no more
patriotic Greeks apparently thar
| those who live in the United States