Arizona republican., 1919-05-13
SOUL CRUSHING IS
 EFFECT OF TREATY
 SAYS PSYCHOLOGIST
Says Armistice Should Have Lifted Blockade-People Narrowed By Uncertainty National Health Imper- filed By Scarcity

BERLIN, May 1.-(Correspondence l. of the Associated Pressl-"The entente powers unquestionably committed an irreparable mistake when they set out to subject the German people to a sys- tematic process of soof crushing" said Prof. Emil Ahderhalden, the noted psy- chologist of Hall University, and a democratic member of the PrusSian diet, in statement to the Associated Press. Prof Abderhalden is one of the newer forces of post-revolutionary pol tiles He said that if peace, including the raising of the blockade, had fol- lowed the armiStice, it would have stimulated Germany's energies.
 For a long time after the depressing days. after the military collapse, that iron will of determination prevailed, to mobilize all the potentiaIities for the purpose of getting the nation back on ! its feet. Nothing, one would imagine, could have been more welcome to the l entente powers than an orderly, co-or- dtnated Germany. Now, It is conyulsed l to its very foundations. The inclina- | ton to work is lacking m the widest circles.
 +No one dares think of the morrow. A new revolution is creeping through the country. Ample food shipments will be necessary to stave off the worst. What is arriving now is just about sufficient to maintain the pres ent conditions of hunger and to post pone starvation and catastrophe. Onfy an amply nourished people is capable of returning to a regular working schedule.
 For five months, one staggering psychic insult from abroad has fol- lowed another. Night after night this great people goes to sleep without any hope for the future and wakes up be- reft of all hope. It sees only destruc- tion ahead. Why work long, why plan
 People Are Unsettled
 Today, your poor German is tolC that the left bank of the Rhine is to gC to France; tomorrow he is informed that Danzig is to become Polish, anC Posen and upper Silesia are lost for. ever. Now he's made to believe tn. war indemnity is to be five hundret billion marks; the next moment if ii fixed at a thousand billion marks. To day he reads that Germany is to be oc cuDied by the entente forces for fit. years, and the next day it is proclaimet the German war prisoners are to re main as entente slaves"
 Prof. Abderhalden believes the exist
 ing chaos, with it's accompanying phe
 nomena of social excesses, such a
 dancing and gambling. which he say
 recall the hunger catastrophe whicl
 followed the epidemics of the middl ages, is the worst conceivable soil fo
 the propagation of a pure democracy |. which primarily demands conscious , ness of duty and an exalted spirit c sacrifice on the part of the individua for the common gooo.
 l ''The hunger blockade inflicted nor alt wounds" he continued.
 up to the present, approximately 1, , 100000 persons, chiefly children, ar } dead as a result. The survivors on tn r average have lost twenty per cent C their weight which is equivalent to l loss of 50 per cent of their vorkin capacity, because of the continuance c the blockade, after the armistice an the national system of rationing. ~The mortality due 70 tuberculosi
 shows horrifying increase. The i'm portation of fodder should be consid
 cred at once, as the stock of cattle an
 hogs has shrunk to the minimum an
 their siaughtering weight is half ths
 of peace times. The cattle raising 1T
 dustry is imperfIled seriously and u . whole food problem for the future . gravely complicated, as the result"