The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-24
EURopE's FOOD SITUATION.
Turkey Actually Starving, Germany and
Austria Hard Pressed.

A detailed survey of the food situa
ton IN Germany, Austria Hungary, Bul
garia, and Turkey during l9l7 has jus
| been published as bulletin 242 by tn,
! bureau of labor statistics of the U. 5
| department of labor. This survey il
based exclusively on laws, DEGREES, or
ders, utterances of public official and civ
| ic bodies of the countries. covered and
on comments of the daily press and
leading economic and trade journals Of
these countries.
In general, the survey shows that Tur.
key is actually starving because of the
corruption of her own officials and the
greed Of Germany; that Germany and
Austria are not starving, but are having
very hard struggle TO feed them
selves; that Hungary is in better shape
than either Germany or Austria, and
that Bulgaria so far as food Is concerned,
is suffering the least of all the coun-
tries covered The survey also shows
that Germany has failed by wide mar
gin to live up to her reputation for eff
cheney in her attempts at food admins
tration, having been obliged to reverse
her policies in an effort to remedy in
part the fatal results of official blunders
1t shows conchsively that the civil
populations of Germany and Austria are
suffering permanent physical deteriora
ton from lack of proper food, that the
death rate from tuberculosis Is rapidly
increasing, that growing boys and girls
are not getting half the nourishment
they should have, and that manual la
borers are being underfed 10 about the
same extent
Politically, the most interesting thing
revealed by the survey is that fact that
the traditional hatred between the two
parts of the dual monarchy Austria
has been manifesting itself in
the refusal of Hungary to share her
abundance with Austria and
in the official and public resentment of
that fact in the latter country.
Profteering, greed, breakdown of
and faulty organization
are big factors in the food situation of
Germany and her allies.
Many original articles on the food
in leading German and Aus
trian newspapers were at the disposal |
IF the bureau of labor statistics Com |
nents ON food orders, their enforce
nent, and the practical result of their |
bppHcdtl0H were hNallhDIe from organs !
If all political parties. thus represent |
ng every point of view Material re-
ating to the food situation in Hungary, i
Bulgaria and Turkey was much scarcer.
Those parts of the bulletin which cover
he food situation in these three coun-
ries are therefore less comprehensive
han the parts covering Germany and /
Austria. As far as II was possible the
for each country covered was
rranged in the following order: First,
n official or unofficial summary of the
God situation in 1917, or both; this is
olowed by an outline of the food pol
" for the 1918 harvest reports, food or
ers relating to individual foodstuffs,
on and criticism of these or
ers and their practical application, data
n the supply and prices of individual
oodstuffs and their rationing, illegal Il
recurring of food, food-card systems,
for eheapening the food for the
oorer classes, and the effect OF the food
hortage on the health Of the civilian
opulation.