The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-04-18
HOOVER FACES TASK OF FEEDING
STARVING NATIONS OF EUROPE
Backed by s10QOO00O0 Voted by Congress He Is Directing
Americas Part in the Work-Trusted Aids Make Personal
Inspections Of Food Situation in Poland Serbia
and Austria-Dificut Problems to Solve.

ties OF all KINGS, eSpecidiy Ie'
have been dangerously depleted ana
on account of the short production OF
coal the railways of the Austro'Hun-
garian states are badly crippled. HaV'
ing efficient railway transportation Is
an important factor in moving ROOFS
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 ray
lor 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 mat
ter of exchange among the separate
states almost at standstill. One Sec
ton will have coal, another some su-
gar, another some grain, but each I'M
able to carry on" because of lack OF
what the others have. In such sit
uation, one state, inefficient, and with
it's financial system paralyzed, will
have plenty Of coal, but no food, while
another having some food cannot dis
tribute 1t because its railways have
no coal.
All of which causes such general I'M
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 wait
and in Vienna make an attempt at
gaiety. OF industry there Is none. In
! Jugo-Slavia and in Czecho-Slovakia
there is an entirely different psychol-
ogy. These liberated people have faith
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 Hungarians 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 a very low
daily ration with extremely short sup
plies in stock, or in sight.
In Czecho-Slovakia there was suffi
cient food to carry the nation through
the worst Of the winter, but a short
age before the new harvest was inevi
table.
| Austria Hungary-with fatalistic at
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, as director gener
al of the supreme council of suppl.
and relief, Hoover must find SOM
method for distributing American food
stuffs.
Feed Him Before He Faints.
For the new nations, the Czecho
Slovaks and the Poles and Jugo- Slavs
that have no money, the scheme 70
selling American foods on credit |
simpler.
Should any emergency arise in thes
countries demanding the prompt dis
tribution Of food, it will be distribute
on the principle of feed him befor
he faints."
The communities or nations mus
pay. Where they have no money-an
the new demOcracies have little or n
money worth anything outside thel
own bOrders-the food commission wi
take over some commodity produced /
:: the nation.
Some time must elapse before tn
Americans can trade with, Austria eve
: on the basis of getting money or II
equivalent for every pound Of Amer
: can-bought food that is distributed, b.
: cause Austria was one of the nation
against which America declared wa
Until the blockade is lifted America
interests cannot trade with the Au
trians-unless perchance the situatio
develops to point where red tar
must be cut to save the lives that ot]
!. erwise would be lost on account of II
inroads of famine.
s: While the peace conference w,
Fl building up machine to settle pro
lens arising from war-torn Europ