The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-03-28


have been dangerously depleted and
on account Of the short productio:s of 4
coal the railways of the Austro. Hun |
garian states ere badly crippled. Hav'
Ing efficient railway transportation Is !
an important factor In moving foods |
where they are most urgently needed.
Anything for the Czechs must pass
through what is left of Austria proper.
Austria-Hungary has been divided
into five separate political areas. Tay-
Tor believes that this action has for
the time being greatly reduced the re.
sources Of all this territory. Each
state sets up barriers against the 9th.
ers. He found the food distribution
and supply which formerly was n mat.
ter of exchange among the separate
states almost at q standstill. One sec
ton will have coal. another some su-
gar. another some grain, but each un-
able to carry on" because Of lack Of
what the others have. In such sit
uation one state, inefficient, and with
Its financial system paralyzed. will
have plenty of COAL but no food. while
another having some food cannot dis
tribute 1t because itl railways have
no coal.
All Of which causes such general un-
employment as to approach the dan.
ger point.
In the essentially Austrian lands.
there is condition Of apathy. No one
seems to have hope. The people walt
and In Vienna make an attempt Mt
gaiety. OF industry there is none. In
Jugo- Slavia and in Czecho- Slovakia
there Is an entirely different psychol-
ogy. These liberated people have falth
In the future and are reaching out
and struggling to build up prosperous
nations. while the German-Austrian
peoples drift along in an apathetic
state. and the Hungarlans live In a
daze of proud resignation. Galicia
and eastern Hungary. that have been
taken over by Roumania, have become
vOiceless.
| Doctor Taylor found the food short.
age most serious In German Austria
where the people are on very low
daily ration with extremely short sup
plies In stock, or In sight.
In Czecho-Slovakia there was sufi
cient food to carry the nation through
the worst of the winter. but short
age before the new harvest was inevi
table.
Austria Hungary-with fatalistic mt
titude-seemed unable to start recon
struction; not knowing and scarcel.
caring what became of them. POlit
ical bitterness and financial paralysi
completed the picture.
Out of this chaos, us director gener
al Of the supreme council Of suppl
and relief. Hoover must find som
method for distributing American foot
stuffs.
Feed Him Before He FaInts.
For the new nations, the CzechC
Slovnks and the Poles and Jugo- Slav.
that have no money, the scheme fo
selling American foods on credit
: simpler.
Should any emergency arise in thes
countries demanding the prompt di
tribution of food, 1t will be distribute
on the principle Of feed him befol
: he faints."
: The communities or nations mu
: pay. Where they have no money--an
: the new democracies have little or
: money worth anything outside the
: own borders-the food commission wi
: take over some commodity produced
: the nation.
: Some time must elapse before Il
. Americans can trade with Austria eve
: on the basis Of getting money or |
equivalent for every pound Of Amer
|. cnn-bought food that Is distributed, h
: cause Austria was one of the natio
: against which America declared WE
Until the blockade Is lifted Americ,
: interests cannot trade with the Al
trians-unless perchance the situate
develops to a point where red ia
4 must be cut to save the lives that OF
= erwlse would be lost on account of t
inroads of famine.
3 While the peace conference "
building up machine to settle prt
g lens arising from War-tOrn EurOI