Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-13
GE ERMAN DESPAIR
VOICED BY DIET
MEMBER BEFORE
TERMS GIVEN OUT
Professor of Halle University
Says That Soul CruShingI
Policy of Entente viii Prove
Mistake,
SAYS WORLD CAN NOT
DO WITHOUT GERMANY
Nothing Could Be More Well
come to Allies Than Orderly,
Co-ordinated Germany to
Help Them Rebuild.
10y ,-s,ss JaussA. SPECIAL Ls.sso w,r


Berlin. May ! Correspondence of
The Associated Press 1.-THE entente
powers unquestionably committed an
irreparable mistake when they set out
to subject the German people to sys-
tematic process Of soui-Crushing,
said Professor Emil Abderhalden, the
noted psychologist of Halle university
and democratic member of the
Prussian diet. in a statement to the
Associated Press,
Professor Abherhelden Is one of the
newer forces of post revolutionary
politics. He said that IL peace, in
Guiding the raising of the blockade,
had Immediately followed the armis-
tice it would have stimulated Ger
manys energies.
For long time after the depress-
ing days of the military collapse" he
declared that iron will os determin-
alton prevailed to mobolize all the
economic potehtialities for the purpons
of getting the nation back on its feet.
Nothing, one would imagine, could
have been more welcome to the en-
tente powers than an orderly CO.
ordinated Germany Now it is con-
vulsed to its very foundations. The
inclination to work is lacking in the
widest circles.
breads the Future,
NO one dares think of the morrow.
A new revolution is creeping through
the country Ample food shipments
Will be necessary to stave OFF the
worst. What is arriving now Is just
about sufficient to maintain the pres
ent conditions of hunger and to post
pone starvation and catastrophe. Only
an amply nourished people is capable
or returning to a regular working
schedule.
For five months one staggering
psychic insult from abroad mas follow
ed another. Night after night this
great people goes to sleep without
hope for the future and wakes up be-
reft of all hope. 1t sees only de-
struction ahead. Why work. Why
plan.
To-day your poor German is told
that the left bank of the Rhine is to
go to France; tomorrow he is In
formed that Danzig Is to become Po-
lish and Posen and upper Silesia are
lost forever. Now he is made to be-
lieve that the war indemnity is to be
five hundred billion marks; the next
i'iOi'Siit ~ 10 Ai.NIu g. u tiiouShilu Wiz
ion marks. Today he reads that Ger
many is to be occupied by the entente
forces for fifty years and the next
day it is proclaimed that the German
war prisoners are to remain as entente
slaves"
Social Excesses.
Professor Abderhalden believes the
existing chaos with its accompanying
phenomena of social excesses such as
dancing and gambling, which, he says,
recall the hunger catastrophes which
followed the epdemics of the Middle
Ages, Is the worst conceivable soil for
the propagation of a pure democracy
which primarily demands conscien-
tious duty and an exalted spirit of
sacrifice on the part of the individ-
ual for the common good.
THE hunger blockade inflicted
mortal wounds" he continued. up
to the present, approximately 1,000,-
900 persons. chiefly children, are
dead as a result. The survivors on
the average have lost 20 per cent Of
their weight, which Is equivalent to a.
loss of so per cent of their working
capacity. because of the continuance
of the blockade after the armistice and
the national system of rationing.
1.-THE mortality due to tuberculosis
shows horrifying Increase. The i'm
portation of fodder should be consid-
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