Evening journal., 1919-11-12
:REAL TEST OF
POLAND COMES
: Winter Will Bring Crisis to
TO New Republican
Government
FOOD PLENTY IN
NATION NOW
Ry HiROLD L. BECHTOL,
Eu7oDoan Manager o. n 2. \

european MAuo-NN OF ~ t. a
WARSAW. Poland. Nov. i2-The heal
esl q, Poland Is stiI TO come and il
vin probably come this winter
The ministry IS none Too firmly scat
.. and dissatisfaction over food CON
e.iious. prontccring and hlgh prices is
sroWng steadily
There IS slill great unemployment;
( ruel is expensive; lransporrand hous-
ng conditions are bad.
The head 6l the labor ministry Alex
ander pristor. iold-me that on August
there were 2si050 workers idle, half
on them heads Of families.
The Socialists are taking advantage
on the growing dissatisfaction TO de-
mand that the government stop the
war on The Boishevists' ~
There is no actual food scarcity IN
Poland nor viii there DE for some
lime: She has scven-cighths Of The grain
She requires until the next crop.
The striking fact &, That while Po-
land has within the country more ana
better food than most of the central
European countries. most Of the people
ne no better OF than the people m
. lsiions with scanly supplies. In all
DE big towns food queues are com
non
Rad distribution. inability of the
government 90 stop boarding and
1roilicering and. OF course transport
lre the answer
Tho government has fixed prices on
grain and olhrr foods, and is able 10
control most of Toe big cslatcS-~ pro-
lucc. but n openly congesses its in 4
ability 20 get tho peasant farmers to
sell at government prices when they
can get two times as much hy Illegal |
sales
Leaflets and posters Chat appear oc-
casionally urging revolution. show that |
Boishcpst forces are stil active.
But The government officials are not |
Worried about armed revolution Of /
"Russia over again. as they are about
ministerial crises. which seem certain,
and perhaps strikcs=and rioting
When HE minister Of food resigned
recently after press campaign de-
manding better food conditions some
0f he new spapers said That he ought
io 60 TO jail for failure Ia such an all
Important matter as food
InANarsaw, at The expensive restau-
rants Those who have the money can
get ihe best OF practically everything
sold in good New York hotels. from
choicest steaks and chops TO Zee cream
10 say nothing OF some native dishes
an Amcrican never heard of. siel as
iced soup made OF sour milk, shrimps,
cucumbers, lobster. mustard, etc.
But a dinner like that costs about
700 marks; So az the present exchange.
but 40 par and 90 the average Pole
representing 20 20 S25 The average
Polish workman must feed his family
on q tenth ~ that luIoymeni
iolcs run from 3 % . marks day for
Z family.
The poorer people know there Is /
food in the country. and they are get d
ting sick OF scraping for a scaniy :
ration because the government can't "a
Keen food ou5 Of The underground q
.hanncls la
Ihc peasants are politically power d
'u and they have shown no inclination d
'1 De- their produce go 20 COY ernment n
prices when they can get much more 4 p
As Minister OF Health Janiszewshi O
told me 81
For 100 years 20 mas been the duty n
If every good Pole 20 evade and disobey %
Ihc oppressive laws imposed by The N
luiocrais. Naturally. 20 is hard for d
hem TO get into te habit Of obeying 81
law" IN