Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1918-08-23

~ ~. WulCutts member or the
United States food administration, and
during the time America was feeding
the civilian populations OF Belgium.
Serbia and northern France an assist
ant OF Mr.. Hoover In these Invaded
countries, has pictured In q graphic
way the conditions he found among
the people II was his duty to help.
After describing the terrible condi.
tions In Poland In 1915. the millions
that were dying OF starvation, the
hundreds OF thousands OF defenseless
people that had been ruthiessly cut
down by the sword OF the German con-
Queror, he says:
In that situation. the German com.
mander Issued n proclaim alton. Every
able-bodied Pole was hidden to Ger.
many to work. II any refused. let no
other Pole give him to eat. not 30
much as a mouthful. under penalty Of
German military law.
This rs the choice the German gov
ernment gives to the CO nQuered Pole.
to the husband and faith er OF starv-
ing family: Leave your family or die
or survive as the case may be. Leave
your country which Ii destroyed, to
work in Germany for Its further de-
struction. II you are obstinate. we
shall see thnt you surely starve.
Staying with his folk. he Is doomed
and they are not saved; The father and
husband can do nothing for them. he
only adds to their risk and suffering
Leaving them. he will be cut OF from
his family, they may nGver hear from
him again nor he from them. Ger
many will set him to work that q Ger
man workman may be released to fight
against his own land and people. he
shall be lodged In barracks, behind
barbed wire entanglements, under
armed guard. He shall sleep on the
bare ground with a single thin blan'
ket. He shall be set lntily fed and his
earnings shall be ta ken from him tc
pay for his food.
That is the choice which the Ger
man government offers to a proud
sensitive, high-strurg people. Deatf
or slavery.
When Pole gave me that proclama
ton, was boiling. But had to re
strain myself. vNs practically the
only foreign civiliah In the country
and wanted to get food to the people
That was what wa 3 there for and
must not for any cause jeopardize the
undertaking. I asked Governor Gen
eral Won Beseler. "C,,n this be trueT
"Really. l cannot say" he replied
II have signed so many proclamations
ask General Won Kries."
So I asked General ' on Keies. "Gen
eral, this is civilized people. Cai
this be truef'
"Yes," he said. '1t Is true"--with ai
air OF adding, Why not7
l dared not trust myself to speak
I turned to go. "Waitr he said. ANT
he explained to me how Germany
official Germany. regards the state o
subject peoples. )
II Is hard for US to IN lagine such
condition In America as Mr.. Walcot
has described as existing; in Hun-rid
den Poland, and yet that is Just wha
would exist should our be 'ys, and th'
boys Of our allies, now fighting II
France fail to defeat the soldiers o
this murder empire. This fair coun
try of ours would be made .Ilato Ger
man province; our people would b.
the slaves Of the Junkers OF Germany
subject to the beastly whin b Of tn
officers of the German arm. In n
war In which America has ever en-
gagged have the stakes been vp grea
as in this present conflict. Sh Vuid w
by any chance, lose; should t he HUI
by any chance, win; our libert YES, ou
happiness, everything AmericaL y hol