The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-24
SAYS FOOD CONTROL
HALTED DISORDERS
Hoover Aid Points Out Europe
Soon Must Finance Own
Supplies.
HELP ONLY FOR CHILDREN
This Years Harvest VIII Sup
port New Countries Till
Next April.

from this country by July to supply
the liberated countries OF central Eu-
rope until their fall harvest is available.
After that Europe must finance its own
food programme, an the sioO,ooo,ooV
fund that the United States Government
placed at the disposal OF the American
Relief Administration covers the period
UP to July only.
Theodore r. Whitmarsh, director OF
the relief administration, who has Just
returned from several months passed
studying the conditions abroad, said yes
terday that Herbert Hoover, Director
General of the American Relief, has or
ganixed national food administrations In
nine countries to carry on the work.
These countries are Rumania. Csecho-
Slovakia, Greater Serbia, Poland, FIN
land. Esthonia, Idthuania, Latvia and
German Austria
Harvest Good TIL April.
This years harvest will support these
countries until April. 1920. Mr.. Whit
marsh said, and then 1t will be ques-
ton Of finance, ships and distribution.
A return to peace conditions, when Eu-
rope normally imports q large quantity
of grain and meat from America. Is
looked for in the spring and summer
Of 1920.
The American Relief Administration
however, will continue until August Is
to carry on its child relief work. Chill
dren require special foods, such as milk.
cocoa and sugar. Since April Of this
year 2,0l3,0o0 children In the suffering
countries have been supplied with one
meal O day.
Mr.. Whitmarsh told Of the great work
that the relief administration, with the
assistance OF the American army and
navy. has been doing to reorsanize the
railroads. telegraph. telephone and wire
less communications In the devastated
regions.
New nations created after the col
lapse OF the German Empire were
brought face to face with the immediate
necessity Of organising an independent
economic system. Railroad and tele-
graph lines were cut OF at the from
tiers, and one Of the most important
functions OF the Hoover administration,
Mr.. Whitmarsh said, was the reestab-
lishment Of communications and the run.
ming of through trains.
The Danube has been opened UP and
the railroad from Trieste to Vienna and
Vienna to Warsaw is now operated by
the American Relief Administration.
which ia required to furnish guarantees
to each country through which its trains
pass that the cars and locomotives
owned by that country will be returned
to II.
viennese Are Dependent.
Food regulation has put a stop to
local disorder, Mr.. Whitmarsh said. In
Vienna the people know the food supply
will be cut of in case of a revolution.
This city Is now entirely dependent upon
Outqida n ia Of
Europe by the Peace Conference has
reduced the population of German Aus
tria from $4,000. 900 to 100000
|. Another work that the relief ADJ
ministration has taken UP 10 the ex-
change of food between the countries
under Its control Trade in grain, pota-
toes and other products has been de-
veloped to an enormous extent under
Mr.. Hoover's direction. Representative
OF the American Relief report from all
parts OF Europe how much food is avail
able for redistribution and arrange
transportation to wherever II is most
needed.
Mr.. Whitmarsh passed most OF his
time In France. Except in the devas-
tated areas there is little lack of EN-
ployment. he said. The crops are good
and everywhere France appears to be
recovering from the effects OF the war
The trenches are being filed in and
the fields that were No Mans Land
while the war was In progress are rapid
ly resuming their former appearance
German prisoners. under the direction
of the French soldiers, are doing his
work, Mr.. Whitmarsh said
He brought back with him two large
maps, now on the walls OF his office in
~ broadway, which show twenty-five
food stations of the American Relief and
the various steamship and rairoa d
routes over which the food is distributed.
Since the signing OF the armistice,
he said, the United States has provided
$500, 900 worth OF foodstuffs for the
people of Europe. England has sup
piled between $4,000, 900 and $40, 0Oo,-
600. No food is allowed to reach coun-
tries under Bolshevik control