Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-08
FORMER GREENEyILLE MEN
 SAYS AUSTRIA IS STARVING

Austria's plight on account of the war is terrible and pitiable, according to James B. Moody, Jr., a forme- Greene vile young man, who is now agency l England life insurance company and has just returned from trip to France, Ger many, Austria and SwitzerlanI l Over one third of the population Of Aus tria, he is quoted as saying n an inter view in Hartford, is crowded into Vien- na which is a starving city. More than million of it's people are hungry today. One-half a million in Vienna are in em- ployment. Ninety-six per cent. of the children are underfed.
 Austria travels in a vicious circle. She has no coal and no raw materials to use in manufacturing, and no manu- factures to sell to get the money to buy coal I visited the homes of the poor 1 and saw sights which I shall never for get People were living in human ken nels not fit for habitation. The air was | so stihing that I could not stand 1t only i long enough to make a hasty inspection. | There is only one-third of the food need l ed to be had
 i Children of to years have old
 wrinkled faces. They have never smiled and have never walked. In the hospital may be seen in one ward long rows of cots of children, every one suffering with
 tuberculosis. In another ward every child has rickets Their. limbs are ir plaster casts. Some can be bent, hut
 others will have to be broken an1 sci 1 straight. Would that the men who
 started war could look down those long
 rows and see the hell which the war has
 made in Central Europe
 ''The American relief commission l: furnishing one meal a day to 300.oot children in Austria this year. Whil, watching a long bread line I saw two young women and one young man droI from exhaustion. Hundreds of former soldiers were begging on the streets
 specially near the hotels Their cid army field uniforms were frayed and thread bare Some wore rubber coats buttoneS to inc chin They had no shirt or under
 wear Many of them had tuberculos and malaria,
 If it were possible to get them. Aus ttria could Tse million dollars worth O seed potatoes. But she has rot tn
 money to pay for them, even if the.
 were to be had
 Americans are very welcome in Wien
 na I received requests from several Vi
 ennese to help them to come 10 tn United States.
 ! Every day I saw demonstrations | 1aNOr O1 SOIlS k1IlU OI pl6DlSSile OA LII question of joining Germany. ThA onl possible way Austria can continue to ex ist is by union with Germany but the al lies do not want this. Under the ieagll # 'nationa Austria cannot jot1 Get
 many except by unanimous consent of tn , council. and France would not vo-e fo the union.
 '9The people of Austria are all huma 7 being and they are helpless. Many C 7 them are students vsho fought for th allies. America. possession third ( the worlds wealth must play the part ( the good Samaritan. She cannot pas t on tne other side
 Mir. Moody visited the battle areas ( t France and was impressed by the pro ' gress which had been made in recoI . struction France still fears German, g he said. and is now maintaining an arm T of 100000.
 l Tt is my opinion that Germany wi
 regain her former position in the w-orl ] industrially and commercially and ec' = nomically," he said. "The Germans r n fuse to admit defeat. They want to kno g what the amount of the indemnity is
 be. I believe that they will pay 1t sooi e CT than the allies expect. Many of tl f mills in Germany are running from si, :. teen to eighteen hours day"