The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-09
ny CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL,
the Noted pubItcist and S0eiai0ge.

| chat in plain terms is the situation In
practically all of Europe east OF the
! Rhine. Help, or have anarchy
! Come with organized relief on q
scale never known before, come with
| bread and meat. and clothes for mil
| lions and then millions, or face the
/ certainty OF terrible distress over vast
regions of populous territory and the
| possibility of a storm that will shake
the whole structure of modern society
And maybe shake IL down.
Anyone that talks about things as
they really arc in Europe today will
seem to the uninitiated an alarmtst or
an exaggerator. That is because the
world has never faced such situation
ana has nothing in its experience to
base comparison on.
! can only assure you that no one
that in the last few weeks has been in
Paris and heard there the reports from
Easter Europe will thing this forecast
OF coming trouble extravagant.
or the 400, 600, 900 people in Europe it
is likely that 900. 100000 are now APP
preaching the line of acute restitution.
or are already upon tor over it
In some parts of Austria Hungary.
Siiesia and Bohemia starvation has
either begun or is close at hand. II
there is neither nor security in Ger
many fed what will be the conditions in
Germany starving
Appalling in Turkey.
In much OF Turkey the state Of the
people is describe as appaiiing--in
Constantinople there is acute famine
among all the poor Reports from
the camps of 1 100000 Russian prison
ers still in Germany and Bohemia are
OF nature not to be printed in a
newspaper can only hint at them
| by saying that no such stories have
been told Of civilized men except of
parties of deSpairing castaways In the
Arctic
Starving men lose all reason and re-
straint. We that are comfortable and
we'll fed always overlook this fact; yet
fact II remains. Europe is now likely
to have 10 deal with it in stern fashion,
| For just at the time when whole
country sides are threatened with
death the agitations OF the Bolshe Wiki
and deVilish energies Of the anarchists
are al their worst
| Give TO desperate, starving frantic
men promise of plenty and of
domination that the Bolsheviki always
| hold out. and what shall We expect
| them to do with it,
| What recently happened at Munich
ought to show us plainly enough IL we
have any doubt on the subject. Pinch.
| ing bellies had a great deal more to dc
! 'N~H N+fANN "NNSfChN ot fuduneSS IndT
the Vaccinations OF the reactlonaries
| Suppose that a hundred million PEG.
pie in Europe get into the desperate
state of mind of the people of Munich
what would come nexto
Hunger Is Victor.
OF all Germans the Bavarians are
oy tradition the lease given to vic.
ience and the most to order and meth
%. And here. under the pressure O,
TINS fearful thing, they too, seem ts
eat of the insane root and go forth
destroying and pillaging. numbering
and burning.
Even at the best, even In countr,e.
where there is no starvation. men ca,
see plainly enough the signs of unres
ana profound dissatisfaction. n,
must nave read history with his eve.
iand not with his intelligence that doe.
not know that these things are infec
Etious.
In this great crisis there is but on,
nation in the world that is in anv DO.
slt1oh to furnish the relief that ma,
s s4a's me situation That is tn.
United States, Alone it has the food
the textiles, the ships, the money I,
save the world from an inevitabt,
| disaster. America had last wear ,
bumper wheat crop There is ever,
prospect that this year we America n,
snail exceed last years record. W.
mad bumper corn crop. Probabl,
we snail have another While III.
war was on we voluntarily rationet
ourselves that we might feed GU
allies The present emergency Is a
least as great as that Of the war.
i. III We undertake for the sake O
humanity as much self denial now a.
we practiced then. we can give east
ern Europe enough help to helm tn,
most OF 1t through to the next harvest
1t rests with us Americans whethe
we shall grasp the situation and ris,
to IL.
There is no help in any other quar-
ter We may as well understan
J. mat. y is America or nothing. w,
have in the United States a pIeasan
and hopeful feeling that the war. 4
an over and done with, democrac c,
IS safe, and the world is sliding bacl
TO the good old grooves in which i
Travelled so unctuously in the year
before this thing came upon us
Need Food, Not Soldiers.
/ AS matter Of fact, the work O
America for the world was no NOR,
than begun when it went into the war
and sent its troops to France De