New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
DIR. Alonzo E. Taylor, Chief
of Surveys of U. S. Relief
Organization, Shows How
Britain Took to Cereals
Our Food Saved Europe
Half of American Exports
Went to Germany, Aid
ing Downfall of Reds

Until the national appetite takes !
trend toward vegetariansm there il
scant likelihood of marked reduction
IN living costs before the wards.
turbed international food balance 10
readjusted, according to DR.. Alonzo E.
Taylor, chief of surveys of the Amer.
lean Relief Administration DR.. Taylor
returned from Europe Saturday.
Beef-eating Britain has discovered
this, said DR.. Taylor yesterday, and in
consequence the English meat ration
has been reduced from half to one.
third of the total of food consumed
and the consumption of cereals hat
States the figures are just reversed
Our diet is two-thirds meat and one.
third cereals.
America, "said DR.. Taylor" has not
yet reacted toward the high cost of
living as the nation will react Take
bread. There are no indications that
we have begun to eat more bread than
before the war and the advent of high
prices"
$600o00,00o in Food to Europe.
Between six and seven hundred
million dollars worth of foodstuffs have
been sent to Europe since November,
declared DR.. Taylor, in fulflmcnt of
the tenets of the armistice. Half of
this went to Germany.
This was not mere graciousncss on
our part" he pointed out. "It was our
obligation and our duty. During the
coming year Europe needs 2O,o0Oo00
tonsof cereals, and the world must sup
plyit. America must send what she can
whatever that amount will be. The
need is immediate, for with the ex-
ception of Denmark and Sweden
Europe's crops will not carry them over
eve have tided Europe over pc
riod of eight months of hopelessness.
Anarchy and murder would have been
rife throughout all of Europe had it
not been. for the timelness Of Ameri-
can aid. 1t would have meant univer-
sal social disorder"
Germany has paid gold for the food.
This food reached German consumers
at high prices, except where the gov.
bacon, said DR.. Taylor, was selling for
Sl.60 "a pound when he left Germany.
Flour brought from Is to 1S cents a
pound, or about $40 a barrel Sugar
was kept at Is cents pound by the
subsidy. This is 2 cents less than the
prevailing rate in France.
Germany's Road Uphill
Germany's way to self redemptior
is an uphill road, said DR.. Taylor. The
industrial devastation. the shortage Of
man power and of livestock, the un.
favorable rate of exchange and other
such factors, said he, are overshadowed
by the difficulties which besct the van
qulshed nation in the reestablishment
of its foreign trade. The world has
developed substitutes for the COM
modities, such as dyes, that it once
relied on Germany for. The German
coal export is negligible, and coal in
Germany is 50 a ton
Work must be Germany's SALVATION
said Dr.. Taylor, and with the fall OF
Bolshevism in Hungary the greatest
menace to rehabilitated Germany isl
removed.
"The collapse of Bella Kun," said DR..
Taylor, will have more influence in
the stabilization of conditions in Ger
many. than anything else. The sweep
only avenue to Germany lay through
Hungary. Poland and Czecho- -Slovakia,
in the first flush of their new national
consciousness, furnish no field for Boil.
shevism, though their people may be
starving. The way lay through Hun.
gary, and during the height of Boil
shevist power in that state the fates
Oh vienna and Munich trembled in the
scale. The situation, however, has been
saved.
Socialism Strong in Germany
Socialism is strong in Germany, bu.
the slogan of the German Socialists is
work--and that alone can save Ger
many"
Dr.. Taylor said the most interesting
sldelight from his observation of Euro.
pean affairs, aside from the food uues.
tion, was the revival of President Will
sons popularity, especially in France.
At no time. said he, has the American
Executive been so popular since his
first arrival in January.
Paris street opinion, he said is
greatly concerned as to how the United
States will act with regard to tho
proffered mandatory for Armenia.
"The situation there is frightful in
every respect" said DR.. Taylor. "The
country seems absolutely outside the
domain of reconstructive policy. 1t is
veritable cess-pool and the Armenian
mandate represents the greatest bag
holding job in the world to-day. All |
Paris is wondering if we are going
to be easy enough to take it,"
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