The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-10-28
hall Chaos OF Reconstruction
IN Europe Fono,1 the Great
World War;
poland NOW STANDING ALONE
Heroic Natisn, s4orssk h Dire Need,
lie the Only Darrter 10 Rcishesiamt
Fighting the Battle for
Civilization.
Article xxxIl
ax FRANK coMEREoRp.

are up to the nations OF the world
Russia's problem affects the world. Il
must DE solved by the powers Ia con
Cert. Its solution will make the first
step toward rest. The complete SOiu
tion of the problem Of unrest must bf
decided ny each nation In its own way
Iasked two important Slav leaders
for their opinions as to the proper
policy the world should adopt toward
he bolsheEiks, and the Russian prob
lem. In Prague / spoke to President
Mazyrtk q Czecho- Slovakia; in War
cav interviewed General Pilsudski
president of Poland. Both answered
the question In practically the same
words: Leave RussiR alone; let the
Russian people solve the Russian
question"
What Il the Russian situatiOn7 A
minority has seized the government
and is holding 1t by force. The form
Of government adopted cannot last.
Communism VIII destroy itself If given
sufficient .rope. Already It has de-
stroyed production and brought on
chaos. The great danger bolsheyism
offers the outside world Is its effort
to organize the unrest OF the world
and lead II to revolution.
Po.and's Hard Position.
Poland is the barrier holding the
RED" wave of bolshevisn back. Po-
Land is a new state. 1t Is almost as
big as France In population and about
the size of Germany In area. Three
thrones fell to make a presidential
seat for the Polish republic Austria,
Russia and Germany. The Polish peo-
pie are intense In their patriotism.
They are individualists. They are
against the RED" terror. But Poland
is poor, terribly poor. The war
brought her to the point Of hunger.
She is now facing starvation. She Is
doing world guard duty. Her army is
holding closed the door Of bolshevik
Russia. 1t is an army made up Of men
Of zeal and determination. have
never seen men sustain their spirit
under more trying conditions. Think
Of men without shoes facing the RED"
army; hunger and cold attacking
them. but standing In their places
holding the front. When was In
Europe In October, 1919, l saw this
magnificent army. Forty per cent OF
them were without shoes. There were
less than 10000 outfits for $4,000
men. They were hungry, they were
cold. Back home their loved ones
were not hungry, they were starving;
they were not cold, they were freezing.
Still these men stood at their posts. 1
talked the matter over with the chief
of state, General Pilsudski, and shall
never forget the manner, the tone and
the words Of this Roosevelt of the
Slavs.
-"Our army will hold the pass; the
Red terror will not bring the torch
to Europe unless winter and want
force us to retreat. Chattering teeth
and pain pinched stomachs will kill
the morale of any army in time. The
spirit Of our men has
hardshipS that might have
destroyed an army made up Of men
less infiamed with the passion to make
secure their newly achieved freedom.
We are without transportation facili-
ties even for the front. Our soldiers
are ragged and hungry. They do not
nor do complain for them,
but facts are facts and these facts
belong to the world. Our army Is
lighting a world cause and against
world evil. Civilization is in the bal
lnce and every citizen of civilization
mas right to know the conditions un-
Ter which Poland IL doing world guard
luty.
Fight Under Friahtful Conditions.
I'VE have no ambulances at the
'ront and our soldiers going into bat
lie know that II they are wounded and
ire not fortunate enough to fall near
/ field hospital, they are doomed to
lie Of neglect and exposure or come
o death by torture from Chinese mer-
enaries who make up the torture bat
alton Of the Red army. We have no
.ntiseptics and our wounded men are
exposed to a gangrenous death. We
re without anesthetics and wounded
nen are required to submit to opera
ions while keenly alive to every SEN
alton Of the knife.
Help must come, and 1t must come
DON. Our troops are willing to fight
n this is their glorious spirit, but
hey are only flesh and there Is point
t which the finest spirit surrenders to |,
old and hunger and pain"
Appeals were made to the peace
able for help. They fell on deaf ears.
treat stocks of clothing were locked
% in England and France while the
'olish army shfvered at the bolshevik
ront. / saw locomotives and empty
rei9ht cars on the aide tracks in Eu-
ope at the time Poland was fighting
he worlds fight and crying for trans
ortation.
The bolsheviks must be shut in.
hey must be confined to Russia. III I