Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-01-09
To FEED GERMANY
BY RAISING SOME
ECONOMIC BARS
PROBLEM is ONE OF LiF TING
BLOCKADE, NOT GOING TO
RELIEF OF HUNS.
We MUST PREVENT ANARCHY
Greatest Task Is to Provide Food for
Liberated Peoples Of Europe,
Hoover Says.

viii the people OF this country De
called upon to make sacrifices to deny
themselves food, that Germany may
he fed? This question has been asked
frequently OF the Missouri Division oil
the Food Administration.
Just Lcforc lie sailed for Europe
Mr.. Hoover said that. according to the
plans air, ady made, Germany Will be
fed by economic measures when only
contemplate the raising of a few EN-
barge and shipping barriers. OuT
great task is to feed the liberated peo-
pies of Europe. he said.
There is Il great problem in the
situation of the enemy people, about
twenty Million" he said. This prob
lem il not one of 6 ilg TO their re-.
lief. II is a problem of relaxing the
water.tight blockade, which continues
through the armistice. sufficiently SO
that they may secure for themselves
the bare necessities that will give
stable government. Unless anarchy
can be put down and stability Of gov
eminent can be obtained In these en-.
envy states, there will be nobody to
make peace with and nobody to pay
the bill to France and Belgium for the
fearful destruction that has been dom
II would certainly approach this
problem with mixed feelings, having
been long a witness to the robbery OF
eo~l Y.n,, ~,1,,n, arI philIrpn anH
the destruction of millions of tons Of
food at sea and to the misery under
which millions amongst the big and
little Allies have suffered under the
German yoke.
IL am going to Europe to discuss
the further fool measures that must
be organized a. a result Of the cessa.
ton of hostilities. The food problem
in Europe today Is n of extreme
complexity. OF their 400 million, prac.
tically only three areas-South Russia.
Hungary and Dsnmark-comprising
about forty million, have sufficient
food supplies to 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
cultles are projected into the cities
even when II are available In
the country. The peasant and villager
Of Europe always provides for himself
for the whole year in any event.
Arrangements have long since been
completed by which the big Allies,
France, England and Italy, will be
provisioned. This overs 125 million
people.
'Our first and deepest c 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 seventy-nve 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'
titions, should be able to take care OF
their people and prevent the growth
of anarchy. This ia another group OF
about forty million.
Another problem lies In the fifty
million people In North Russia. a large
part Of whom are inaccessible OWNS
to the breakdown of transportation
and through sheer anarchy. Millions
Of these are beyond help this winter
These groups are the ones that must
enlist the sympathy Of the American
people and for whom We are prepared
to make necessary sacrifice"