The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-06-26

Much has been aid and written
about German cruelty and Il some
thmr seems re though nothlng new
could be added 10 what has already
been made pubic However. now and
then something new makes its APP
pearance-somsfhlnE Of which the
genera, public had not beer epprisea
before. The RED Cross has issued a
pamphlet describing some of the
things encountered IN H. work in
Europe since the war started. Mr..
Frederick walcott. who represented
the Rockefeller Foundation In Eur
ope for some months. speaking to
delegates from Red Cross chapters IN
Washington. May IS. 1917. said
4 want 70 impress upon you two
things-whaf the Prussian system
stands FOR. and what that, system Is
costing the world in VIC
Tins.
"You are familiar more or less with
ms story Of Belgium. You ear never
appreciate chat that tragedy means
until you have seen H.
you must remember hat In BEL
GUM nearly i've millions ~ people
for many months now have been com
pletely destitute and are getting their
one mesere meal a day. consisting OF
approximately three hundred grams
Of bread--a piece % bread about ~
big as my fist-and a half liter Of
seup-spproxlmately a pint Of soup In
t~wcnty-four hours; a nation. in ether
words. who sole living IL obtained
by going uS and standing IN line
from one 10 three or four or five
hours a day. to walt, without shelter
from the weather. for n meagre
meal a dag given 10 them by charity.
That undertaking. has cost approSi-
mately fIfteen millions Of dollars In
cash Per month for more than two
years.
II went into Bels. en- 10 investigate
conditions. and while there ! had OPP
portunlties 70 talk with the leading
German officials. Among others 4
had a talk one day with Governor
General Won Kissing. who died three
or four weeks ago. a man seventy two
or seventy-three a old. a man
stepped in the system" born and
bred to the hardening OF the heart
which that philosophy develops. There
ought 10 be some new word coined for
the process that a mans heart UNDER
goes when i. becomes stepped In that
system
Il said to him, Governor, wha, are
you COINS TO do II England and
France stop gssing these people
nom 10 purchase food
He replied. We nave got hat all
worked out and ave had Il worked.
out for weeks. because We have ex-
pecied this system TO break down at
any time
"fIe went ON; starvation will grip.
these people in thirty or sixty DAYS
Starvation is a compelling force. n
we shall use that force 60 compel the
Belgian workingmen, many OF them
very skillfui. 10 go into Germany 20
replace the Germans 50 that they can
80 to the from and figh, against The
English and the French. As fast as
our railroad transportation win carry
them. We viii transport thousands OF
others IN for agricultural work,
across Europe down Into southeastern
Europe. into Mesopotsmia. where we
have splendid, huge irrigation works
All that land needs IL water, n Il
Will blossom like q rose. The weak
remaining, the OIL and the young We
viii concentrate opposite the firing
line, and We would put firing squads
back Of them. ana We would force
them through that, line 80 that the
English and French could take care ~
their own people
Not satisfied with ~oyerrunuiny the
country. laying n IN uin and max
ing the inhab itants wards of charity.
the kaiser even goes ~ Far AZ sink re-
lief ships engaged Ia carrying sup
plies Intended to be- used in furnish
ing the Belgians with M meagre
meal a day.
Every country IN the WORLD would
suffer BeiPium's fale IN the march II
Prussisnisn miiitarism was allowed 10
So on unchecked
ANOTHER ROYAL SCRAP.