White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-01

F. C. Walcott. a member of 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 4 graphic
way the conditions he found among
the people it was his duty to help.
After describing the terrible condi-
tons in Poland in 1916. the millions
that were dying of starvation, the
hundreds of thousands of d~efenseleSs
people that had been ruthlessly cut
down By the sword of the German con-
queror, he says:
In that situation. the German com
mander issued a Proclamation Every
able-bodied Pole was hidden TO Ger
many 70 work. II any refused. let 10
other Pole give him TO eat. not SO
much as a mouthful. under penalty OF
German military law.
This Is the choice the German gov
eminent gives 10 the conquered Pole.
to the husband and father of a starv-
ing family: Leave your family or die
or survive as the case may be. Leave
your couairy which is destroyed, to
work in Germany for its further de-
struction. II you are obstinate, w
shall see that 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 viii be cut OF from
his family. they may hear from
him again nor he from them. Ger
many will set him TO work that a Ger
man workman may be released 60 fight
against his own land and people, He
shall be lodged in barracks, behind
barbed wire enfanglements, under
armed guard He shall sleep on the
bare ground with a single thin blan-
ket- He shall be ~scantily fed and his
earnings shall be taken from him to
pay for his food.
That is the choice which the Ger
man government offers TO a proud.
sensitive, high-strung people. Death
or slavery.
/ When a Pole gave me that proclama-
ton, 1 was boiling. But | had 70 re-
strain myself l was practically the
only foreign civilian in the country
and I wanted TO get food To the people.
That was what l was there for and |
must not for any cause jeopardize the
undertaking. l asked Governor Gen.
eral Won Beseler. -Can this be true?'
Really, / cannot say" he replied.
~ have signed 50 many proclamations;
ask General Won Kries-"
So / asked General Won Kries. Gen.
eral. this is a civilized people. Can
this be truer'
yes" he said, .it is true"-wfth an
air OF adding. Why not?
| dared not trust myself to speak:
/ turned to go. "wait," he said. And
! he explained to me how Germany.
! official Germany. regards the state OF
subject peoples.
1t is hard for us to imagine such a
| condition in America as Mr.. Walcott
has described as existing In Hun-rid-
den Poland, and yet that is just what
would exist should our boys. and the
boys Of our allies. now fighting In
France fail to defeat the soldiers OF
this murder empire. This fair coun-
try Of ours would be made into q Ger
man province; our people would be
the slaves of the Junkers Of Germany.
subject to the beastly whims of the
officers of the German army. In no
war in which America has ever en-
gagged have the stakes been 70 great
as in this present conflict Should we.
b. any chance, lose; should the Hun,
By any chance. win: our liberties. ouz
happiness, everything Americans hold