The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-25
Feed Tue !! ENEMY ): n !! !: !: !.
ORDER To HEAD OFF
PERIL Of ANARCHY
War-Scarred Lands Are
Unable to Produce
Crops for Years.
CHECK THE FLAME,
Cause of Unemployment
Mental and Physical
Flabbiness Of
the Man.
CHECK THE FLAME,
Ry Robert wetIes Richie.

BY Robert wetIes Ritchie.
London, March 24.-Has Frank
yanderlip, harti-headed American
banker voiced from Paris warn
ing which statesmen and publ
cists on this side OF the Atlantic
dared not utter. though they
know in their hearts that his
picture foreshadowing tho Inn
n,inent wreckaEc Of European
civilization by Bolshcvism is not
overdrasn."
The statement OF the president
OF the National City Bank Of
New York that america does
not comprehend the appalling
situation confronting Europe and
involving the possibility Of the
whole fabric of civilization fac
ing wreck l. bound TO create
comment In London. especially
In view OF the narrow escape
not yet. conc3usiyc--from chaos
through a strike OF the triple
alliance" Coupled with that men
acc is a new serious outbreak in
Egypt: there are niurmurs OF un-
rest In India and growing signs
of a recurrence OF the Irish storm
and the increasing financial dis
q organization Is" r,1a infested by the
past weeks tumbling OF the
pound of sterling's value.
believe every correspondent IN
Britain. and France has felt for some
time the truth which Mr.. Vanderlip
80 feariessiy exposes, but all of us
have refrained from voicing 1t through
fear OF being considered sensational
II may be said that Britain was slow
to follow Herbert c. Hoover's vision
- lzh <fe %xr;f h
food until very recently when certain
secret news from, the Paris conference
suddenly put Britain squarely behind
the supreme economic council in it,
effort to feed the former central EN-
rrires - -
Bolshrvfsm Versus Food.
Exactly what this moving inspfra
ton was Is unknown, but hear what
C. A. McCurdy. parliamentary secre'
tsry for the food ministry. says or
the subject OF Bolshevism versus food
"A group of British army OFFICERS
reported to the economic council that
one cause of the wide unemployment
In Germany was mental and physical
flabbiness due to lack of food. In
their opinion not only human consid-
eretions' but the element of self-pres'
srvation dictates that we should feed
the enemies IL we wish to avert ar
unthinkabie peril that lies in the great
heed a great part of European popu-
fation which Is sinking into anarchy
becoming not only misery 10 ltses
but deadly peril to It's reighbors-
Remember. that all Serbia. parts
OF italy. northern France and Belgium
are so Scared by the war that they
are unable TO produce any crops rol
wears to come As q result the popu-
iations are depending upon Britain
and America not oniy for food but
also for ways OF transportation 70,
that food.
let me impress upou British and
Americans both that we are Ions
ways from peace conditions: that W.
are facing a peril deadlier-becaus'
more iusiduous-~than the CerrnaI
drive In 1915"
The Great Task.
The Marquis OF Lansdowne. WHIT
was accused of pacificism a year agS
because he said that protracted wal
would throw the world into anarch,
is now outspoken in his pesslmfsn,.
People ask with sinking hearts, h
said. tonight. what kind OF tasl
we have undertaken when we proposs
10 restore peace within the famine
lareas over which Boishevism Is spread
ing"
Professor Paul MfIiukoff, presiden
OF the first Russian duma, who wa
driven from Paris last December D.
biroted police, received me In hi
modest home at IL Coiliugham Road
| In answer to my question on the SUP
| iect Of the allies abandonment o
Odessa, he said:
| TT is a catastrophe Win Bolshe
v!sm aadvaacing along the Black SCI
the rev centers Of International sta
bility are directly menaced. It Is al
mifted that Bolshevism is now on to-
| Of the wave of military enicfencs
VIII the British and Americans dis
regard the advancing Red tide am
still persist in the belief that thei
Y Own security 'fs mot 'erfdaffgersd!-] TIL
richest section of Russia is now betn
abandoned to the Bolshevikf. VIVA
will be the next line Of retreat an
what section OF stable civilization wi
he given up next to this CHASTITY worl
disease feeding on destruction!