Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-10
MILLIONS WITHOUT
FOOD LOOK TOU. S.
Head of Surveys for Ameri-
can Relief Home After
Eight Months Abroad.
PROBLEM is IMMEDIATE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August s.-Dr. .Alonzo
Taylor. professor of chemistry IN the
Bniversity OF PeansylvaniA
man Of surveys Tor the American ~
lief administration. returned tod&y
aboard the steamship PatriA sitter
eight months work in Germany.
Austria, Hungary. Rumania and Ser
bia-
Europe who have no food" he said.
land who look to the United States
to supply it. Growing Of crops
abroad is curtailed pending terri
toria1 adjustments. Governments
will not spend millions Of dollars for
farm Implements. even If they can OBJ
tain them, to be used on land that
may shortly be given to neighboring
nation.
Left in Political Chaos.
There are nearly 1oe,0oo,ooo Of peo-
pie in central Europe. The armistice
left these in political chaos, divided
into new states struggling with mex
perienced governments, their trans
portation disorganized. with scarcity
of coal, great depreciation Of curren-
cy, acute struggles between labor and
capital and all over the pail Of war
fatigue.
1.-THE problem of food was the i'm
mediate problem. If they could be
carried into the new harvest this
would afford time in part for their
governments to become stabilized.
their communications to be restored,
their railroads recognized, their
supplies and fuel established. This
would give six months for the study
of their problems of currency and for
the establishment of industry in
order that interstate commerce might
be resumed.
1.-THE great defect in central Europe
today, indeed, in Europe as a whole
is the failure Of production. The
causes of the reduced productivity
may be summarized as: Scarcity OF
coal. raw material and food; depre.
citation Of currency; disinclination on
! the part Of labor to work and loss OF
initiative and enterprise on the par,
Of capital"
Views as to Central Europe.
Considering the central European
countries individually. DR.. Taylo,
said:
ssDo1ooa g. q, /. 20 irlv hona<,1 s;&,o
ton, despite the great scarcity OF
work animals. Finland and the cas-,
Baltic states are in a condition OF
chaos. Czechoslovakia Is in very gooG
condition. American foodstuffs alone
enabling the people to carry on until
the present harvest. Rumania has
also been carried on by American and
British foodstuffs. The kingdom OF
tho Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Is har.
vesting q good crop. which will give
them an exportable surplus.
Austria is in very bad shape and
has one OF three prospects. Sh.
might become another Switzerland
she may be Joined to Germany ant
share the fortunes or misfortunes o,
| that state. or she win become &
charge upon the charity of the world
as year by year her population dwin
dies down to the point where the sol
will sustain it.
| TN Hungary the peasants sent foot
to Budapest only under compulsion
The city is being fed by the American
relief administration, but with tn,
Ire-establishment of normal conditions
the burden of subsistence of Budapes
will fall upon the country districts
whose crop will suffice to carry Buda
pest well into tho spring and. pos
sibly. throughout the coming year.
Bulgaria has remained outside O.
the field Of relief. politically. economi
cally and In every other way"