Evening star., 1920-02-08
ANARCHY
IF j. S. FAILS TO AID
British Director of European
Relief Urges Americas Far
Seeing Co. Operation.
CableKram to TIKI Star and Chicaes
Daily News. Copyright, 1920.

Cablekram to Thki Star and Chicago
| Daily News. Copyright. 1870.
LONDON. February 7.-sir Will
Of relief for Europe. reporting ON
cially to the foreign office. declares
| that when the relief work began
| more than half of Europe, including
Germany. hovered on the brink of bol-
| shevism.''
From beginning to end Sir Will
liam's report is weighted with the
| economic chaos and human suffering
covering vast expanses Of European
food and raw materials for Poland.
Jugoslavia, Czechoelovakia. Austria,
Hungary. the Baltic provinces, Ana
tolia and Armenia and asserts that
the finances Of the allied govern
ments are quite incapable Of tackling
the job
Sir William looks upon "far-seeing
cooperation on the part of tho United
States" as the 'only possible way of
providing credits without which a
! reach a state Of utter Generalization
and even anarchy"
What do the amicted states require?
Hundreds OF thousands of tons Of
cereals. cotton. wool, iron, iron ore.
tanning materials. fertilizers. jute.
speed stcels, drugs, potatoes, leather.
copper, TIN. nickel. oil seeds, oils.
nitrates. locomotives, railroad cars,
maize, pigs. coal. rye, barley and oats.
Colossal Human Suffering.
In one part Of his report Sir Will
liam indicates tho economic disaster
IN terms of such colossal human suf-
fering that even those engaged in the
work OF relief may be recalled to
the individuality of It only by q tug
at the overcoat In tho snow-covered
Of no
child begging for food or by glimpse
into typhus-stricken villages behind
the lines. whore the Poles are still
fighting tho bolsheviki.
Vienna is q heartbrealing picture Of
the cumulative effects Of moro than four
years OF war. There. in . city Of $780,
900 1nhabitants. the sharp contract be-
tween pre-war prosperity and present.
day insolvency. the nervous rich and
the starving poor and between the relics
OF the Inflated monarchy and tho revolu,
tionary but rather desperate govern
appeal to the Imagination.
For some years" says Sir William.
1T has been my almost daily task to
assist IN devising measures to remove
the peril Of starvation. not from indi-
viduals or communities, but whole ma
tions. Contact in the abstract with
such conditions must tend to accus-
tom any one to human suffering, but /
confess that conditions in Auetria.
particularly in Vienna, stung famili-
arity into realization.
Nation In Despair.
For the arst time in my life
found q whole nation, or what was
left OF It, in utter and hopeless de-
spair. Cold and hunger were bad
enough. but they are nothing COM
pared with the apathy, helpiessness
and loss of hope that pervade every
class, from tho highest to the lowest.
Appalling as these conditions are
they are less narrowing than are
those in the villages of Apatolia and
Budapest also may become as bad
as Vienna. Poland is threatened with
dire shortage Of coal. food and trans
port Serbia was evtcted a. q nation.
When tho Serbtans returned to their
country they lived on plants. leaves
and tho stalks OF maize. They dressed
in sacks. Fifty per cent Of tho man
hood OF these people died in tho war.
leaving 500. 1000 fatherless children. Of
whom 1906 arc still most urgently
IS Per Cent Have Tsbereulssis. ;.
'Thirty-hve per cent Of tho popu-
lation OF Jugoslavfa are suffering
from clearly recognizable tuberculo-
amounts to between Is and 30 per
cent. Unemployment also haunts
these half-starved. disease-smitten
peoples. President Masaryk. whom
saw in Prague. pointed out that 1t
was impossible to put his people to
work without wool or cotton for the
factories. The problem Of this now
state he said. resolves itself into a
question Of exporting either merchan-
disc or population.
"If raw material Is not forthcoming
the industrial population must leave
tho country. and. unlike tho unem-
ployed in Great Britain and France.
they have no colonies Of their own
to go to. As regards agriculture, the
country has lost one-third Of its pro-
ductivity. owing to the loss of cattle
and the consequent loss Of fertiliz-
ing material. We are short of milk
and thousands of children are suffer-
ing from malnutrition.'
president Masaryk's description of
his own country applies with little
or no variation to every country
where q relief mission is stationed"