The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-23
tCuPyrtght, 1919, By the Internaeiona
 Nows Bureau, Inc.)
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' ptre after I had completed ny mis- sion. And why It is not difficult to sec, for today Germany and Austria Hungary are the victims of their own insensato folly. They are being pun ished severely by tho tlrrongs of the whip which they are introduced, and with which they endeavored in their methods of warfare to crush the world. They are being scourged by weapons of their own forglrs
 Being well aware it is part of the propaganda of these people to exploit the suffering of the actually maimed order to excite sympathy and so miti- srte the severity of the terms ina- posed by the Allies, I decided. when starting out on my mission. to play a ''lone hand" and to go where my self vgilled. I would not travel by ruuses mapped out for me would sec Germany as 1t really was, and as I Thought 1t was. didn't want to view rhose maimed fin the war; What I wanted to see was the effect the WIT has had those not actually engaged In fighting. The women and childreui What of them?
 My decision to do this caused some anrroyenco to my hosts, but I ult- rnately prevailed. Most of the towns had decided to visit were towns I had known in happier days. towns where I could count on seeing life as it vSas representative of Germany of the present day. and where I could find my long way about without be- ing under an obligation to people who were not to be trusted.
 Crying Out for Bread.
 My first town was Cologne, and here I saw sights will never forget. I,sayw.T4ftish I, soldiers passing through the streets pursued by women and
 A.a v.rT.g for bread-accepting even army bis cults with grateful looks and eager ly devouring them in the streets. In the children's hospitals ] saw little mites of different ages in different stages of malnutrition. There were no ruistalGing these cases. They were clearly tho results of starvation or scrni-starVation.
 To see these poor, emaciated, little ones. just so many collections of skin and bone, was hear. rending. Had they boon healthy skin and bones might not have been so bad. but they were not. The bones were riclSety and the skin scrofulous both speaking elo- uuentiy of the suffering the common people had borne during the terrible war.
 In the town of Cologne, once the heaIthfsst town, in Germany, the death
  an extent during the war that not a, third of those born could count on surviving. MIX and sugar and fats were the prflricpai foods lacking, but ever yfhinG one regards as a necessity for the upbrtnging of healthy chil- drCn seems to have disappeared from the Fatherland. The common people say the scanty stores in hand were corrruandeered for the rich. who are hoardiug them. and it is the oft-re- peated story of this hoarding that is responsible for the pronounced revo- luttonary sentiments of the working class
 Skeletons of Children.
 Essen wac another town I visited, and the sights here were heart-rend- ing. In the streets one saw children trying to play. but the poor little ones had not the strength. They look cd like skeletons and they behaved like starving animals. The mere sight of food was enough to send them scaTuperfng with open hands and mouths. and one felt the pity of not being abio to ratisfy their wants.
 There is no likelihood of the gen. erashons for German children born during the war being equal to the present generation of health. They have not had the chance. The sub stitute of horrible fake foods Tor nosu1shdng necessities and so forth has undermined the constitution of the parents to such an extent that the chfldren were born in the first iustancs, with weakened frames, and once born they could not get susten- ance. Isncs the sights one sees on all hands in this and other towns.
 The tragedy of wrecked manhood and wornanhood and childhooc m Germany rnay be told in ono woro, ''Ersatz"' for everything that is neces- sary for building up healthy bodies. and it is no wonder Germany now finds she has nothing but "Ersatz'' for healthy human beings.
 Tho streets arc crowded with beg gars who beseech aims from pas sars-by fin tho name of God, and in a day spent in wandering through the. s.streets did not rsos a single heal. thy chfld- Tho death rate is increas- fnRssveryvhsre,s and statistics show for tho whole empire that the wastage of fspoDulation is far from being made good Tho poor people seem to Ike delight in tho impaired physique of their offsprins. When ventured to cou1r1fserats with women on the sick ly looks of tfsefr ctliidren I Invariably met with the evrsply that it was all the better. There would be no chance of these children being used as Cannon fodder@ in future wars. To avoid an- other experience similar to this seems to tie with the longing for decent food in the minds of the German civilians today.
 Austria F,arnine- Stricken.
 If Germany is starving. Austria IS agonizinR. Food is not only at famine prices, but it cannot be obtained in anything like the required quantities The food consumed throughout the dual-Nonarchy now is only one-third of what 1t was in peace time, and one has only to look in the streets or in the children's hospitals 10 sec that 1t is the future generations who are suffering the most All the dis eases of children due to intoxicating of mother and child are to be found in this famine-stricken land.
 In Vienna most of the schools have been closed, because the children are too hungry to attend. and the condf- tions are even worse in other cen tRrA praa1fa I think Ia worst all.