The Holt County sentinel., 1918-12-27
TO FEED GERMANY
BY RAISING SOME
ECONOMIC BARS
PROBLEM is ONE OF LIFTING
BLOCKADE, NOT COMO TO
RELIEF OF HUNS.
We MUST PREVENT ANARCHY
Gre ,test Task 10 10 Provide Food for
Liberated Peoples Of Europe.
Hoover Says,

VIII the people OF this country be
calico upon 10 make sacrifices. to deny
thcmrelyes food. that Germany may
be fed? This question has been asked
frequently Of the Missouri Division OF
the Food Administration.
Just before he sailed for Europe
Mr. Hoover said that. according TO the
plans already made. Germany will be
fed by economic measures which only
contemplate the raising Of n few en-.
barge and shipping barriers. Our
great task IL to feed the liberated peo
pies of Europe. he said.
There is n great problem In the
situation OF the enemy people. about
twenty Million" he said This prob.
lem Il not one Of going to their re-
lief. II II u problem of relaxing the
satertight blockade. which continues
through the armistice. sufficiently 80
hat they may secure for Themselves
The bare necessities that will give
stable government, Unless anarchy
can be- put down ana stability Of gov
.rnmcnt can be- obtained In these en-
emy states. there will be- nobody to
make peace with and nobody 10 pay
the bill Ia France and Belgium for the
fearful destruction that has been done,
II would certainly approach ibis
problem with mixed feelings, having
been long witness To the robbery oi
food from women and children, and
the destruction Oi millions ol tons OF
food at sca and to the misery under
which millions amongst the hig and
little Allies have suffered under the
German yoke.
II am going To Europe TO discuss
the further food measures that must
bc organized aS u result of the ccssa
lion Of hoslilitics. The food problem
In Europe today II one Of cxtr"m"
complcNity. OF their 42O million, prac
tically only three arcas-Soulh Russia,
Hungary and Dcnmark-comprising
about forty million. have sufficient
food supplies 10 last until next har.
vest without imports. Some must
have immediate relief.
with transportation and financial
Generalization, the tendency Is for
peasants TO cease marketing even
their surplus and thus instant diff.
culties are projected into the cities
even when resources are available In
the country, The peasant and villagcr
OF Europe always provides for himself
for the whole year In any event,
arrangements have long sincs been
completed by which the big Allies.
France. England and Italy. will be
provisioned. This covers 1875 million
people,
"Our Qrst and deepest concern now
must be for the little Allies who were
under the German yoke. the Belgians.
the Serbians. RoumanIans. Greeks,
Czechs, Jugo.Slavs and others. There
are some seyenty.hye million people
In these groups. and they must be sys.
tematically helped and at once. We
have already doubled the stream OF
food flowing toward Belgium.
"Our next concern must be to relax
blockade measures as far as possible
In order that the neutral states In
Europe. which are now all on short ra-
tions. should he able to take care of
their people and prevent the growth
of anarchy. This IL another group Of
about forty million.
Another problem Ties In the fifty
million, people in North Russia. a large
part Of whom are inaccessible owing
to the breakdown OF transportation
and through sheer anarchy Mhllons