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Gordon quietly in voice that not even
Peggy could mistake for a brotherly
tone.
She clasped her gloved hands tightly
in her lap and looked away where
swiftly moving clouds seemed to be
rocking the little silver cradle of a
moon in the sky.
"We've known each other ever since
we could walk, haven't we, Peg"
asked Gordon in voice that was still
subdued.
She answered in monosyllable, not
daring to trust her own voice.
"We've been great old pals, haven't
we?" he continued.
Peggy did not answer, and presently
the machine slid noiselessly to stop
before the shabby old brick that had
a. VS. been home to her. BOxwood
shielded the driveway from the street.
Gordon groped for and found one OF
her cold little hands. 1t trembled In
his as he lifted it gently and held it
above his heart.
Feel anything wrong there?' and
then, at her eloquent silence, he
pressed her hand still closer. "The
darned thing is nearly beating out Of
me-" he laughed 'shakily.
Still Peggy could not find her voice.
There seemed to be something thick,
binding, in her threat. It contracted
painfully when she tried to swallow.
"If you can't feel it, perhaps you can
hear it," he argued, anu gently, ever so
gently for big, brotherly Gordon, he
put his arm around her, silver fox furS
and all, and drew her head in its close.
fitting little turban TO place where
his heart hammered under her cheek.
"Oh, littlest one," he whispered softly
when she did not resist, "it's been you
all the time, and have been such a
fool didn't realize how dear you were.
how blank this old world suddenly
seemed when l thought of it without
you to love. love you, girl. Could
you ever think of me as-as a hus-
band?" His big rich voice was trem-
bling with eagerness. The little turban
tilted drunkenly over one ear as he
strained her to him. Isis 1t Jim
Winter2 He has looks, money, every
thing-but, girl, nobody could love you
as do"
"Do you think for one second, Cor
don Wilson, that would let any man
but you kiss me-like this?" asked
Peggy, suddenly finding her recreant
voice.
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Pluckinq Oranges Is an Art.

Orange gathering and packing is not
such simple business as is generally
supposed. The trees are high, and the
fruit is so tender that careless hand
ling at any stage will cause decay to
set in, and through one defective or
ange thousands may be infected and
spoiled. Every orange is taken from
the tree by hand. The pickers stand
on high step-ladders, which enable
them to reach the tOpmOst branches.
Catching the orange IN one thickly-
gloved hand, they deftly sever its stalk
with a sharp knife in the other, and
drop it into a deep bag slung across
the shoulder To plarit the orange
away would break the skin and allow
decay to set in. Various devices have
been tried for picking, such as long
handled knife connected with a can
vas chute through which the orange
slides gently to the ground; but hand
picking still holds its own as the one
satisfactory method.
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E,ow.rs Feared bv Witches.

Witches, Of course, must be exclud-
ed from the house. The Chinese bring
this about-or think they do, which
amounts to the same thng-by sus-
pending punches of herbs and magic
plants over the door. In England haw-
thorn used to be hung over the en-
trance to a house in May to ward Off
witches. On May day the witches, as
we'll as the fairies, are in the gorZe,
so choose some other time for burn
ing 1t. II you don't believe there are
any witches there are Dutch folk who
will tell you to carry fOur-leaf clover
on Christmas eve and let your own
eyes convince you.
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jobs in cooking. Cooking is a manh
job and woman's place Is the parlor.
AS matter of fact. there probably
are highly paid chefs today who feel
just that way about 1t.
The situation was getting to the
point where there was no place for
the women in the working world to-
go but out. There are even some ex-
tremists who believe that the care Of
children should be taken out of the
home and away from the mothers
hands.
"It Is here the clInging vine gets
into the picture" said Miss Laughlin.
"She developed as a hothOuse plant.
because there was nothing much for
her to do. Industry had been moved
from the home. Woman's place was
still in the home. but there was moth
ing for her to do. Often the mothers
Of these idle girls were responsible for
their parasitism, because they had had
to work so very hard themselves that
their ideal for their daughters was
condition which would make IT pos
sible for them to do nothing harder
than sit on a cushion and sew a fine
seam.
"But the swing backward toward
primitive standards, when woman was
worker, to the cave man period, If
you choose. made a long sweep during
the war. Women had been seeping
into the professions and businesses
before that time. but their progress
had been almost imperceptible.
"Thus old-time efficiency. inherited
from their Industrious grandmothers,
no doubt, asserted itself with their new
wartime jobs. Employers were salts
fed and clients made happy. So the
women are staying with their new
ysork."
According to Miss Laughlin, there
isn't anything disastrous In the situa-
ton. She believes that there Is plenty
women in industrial and professional
lines.
efficiency and work are not mat
ters Of SEX" is her dictum.
Miss Laughlin is far from the "cave
woman" in looks, but she is endowed
with vigor of mind and spirit which
would do her cave grandmOtherS
credit. Miss Laughlin practices law
in San Francisco. She was born In
New England. Her college education
was secured at Wellesley and she was
graduated in law from Cornell uni
versity, one Of two women in her class
Later Miss Laughlin went to Colo
RADIO, where she was active in politics.
women having been granted the right
to vote in that state while she was
in college. A number of years ago
Miss Laughlin went to San Francisco
and there she has built up large law
practice At first her clients were
nearly all women. But the war added
men to the list. And these men, who
went to her first because their former
counsel had gone to war. have found
the woman lawyer so competent that
they retained her even when the men
returned to their offices.
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the four walls of he home

the four walls of he home
it became mans work.
Now homework is diminishing to
such an extent that many women, II
| they are to work at all, must go to
the office or the factory" said Miss
Laughlin.
"1n the beginnings of the profess
siOns women did not make much of
showing. They practiced medicine
in the actual care of the sick. But
medicine, as a profession. was linked
in primitive times with tribal leader
ship and with priestcraft to such an
extent that 1t belonged almost entirely
to men.
at has been only in the last few
years that women were admitted to
our medical schools of any standing.
And the few women physicians before
the war had little or no real practice.
Take it in our own time, out in some
neighbOrhOod where there is no doctor.
If some one is Ill or a baby comes, do
we send for a man? Certainly not ;
it's a woman who is called in to help.
|
never has been a mother, who didn't,
at times. have to act as judge anil
| jury in the disputes of her children.
Father may be the court Of appeals,
but she is on the bench all day
Every day a mother has to decide and
act according to her decisions. And
woe unto her if she is an unjust Judge
"1n the New England town where
l was brought up," continued Miss
Laughlin. "the progress of modern in
vention did not touch us for a long
time. The industrial revolution, which
took from the home so much Of its
drudgery, had not reached there when
| was little girl.
"We made our own soap, our own
candles, cured our own meats, and
wove the cloth for our clothes. That
is, the women did this work.
every man who is working in an
electric light plant Is doing the work
that was once done by women--mak-
ing the lights. Every man who is
working in a weaving min is doing
the work formerly done by women.
!
Every man working In a soap fac
tory is doing work formerly done by
| women.
"The great canning factories, plants
for preserving food, even some of the
work of the meat packing industries,
are built upon work that was formerly
all done by women.
"In the Philippine islands, where the
basis of the family system was the
matriarch, the mother was head of
the family. She handled all the funds
and budgeted her household. In Eu-
rope, among the small shopkeepers espe-
cially. women are the cashiers Of the
family and of the business"
Cooking homemaking and dress
making are still done in the homes
all over the country to such an extent
that they are still considered women's
work, Miss Laughlin pointed out. But
with community housekeeping and
community kitchens and ready-made
clothes, the day may come when the
men in charge Of the machines that
make the home go round will say:
Imagine those women applying for
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nave seen IN our great war the way in
"hich men and women naturally lined
up on the primitive basis. The men
vi tile nations, in this country. Eng
Iand, france and the others. went into
ihliitary service. The women took up
the industries.
NOW the surprise attendant upon
the news that women were working
IN munitiOn factories, were running
streetcars and doing mems work in
offices wouldn't have been so great,
perhaps, If we had all remembered a
little more Of our pre-histOry."
Miss Laughlin reminds us that in
his account of primitive races the late
Otis T. Mason, curator of ethnology
in the United States National Museum,
points out some Of the industries which
began as wOman's work. He says:
''The slain deer lying before her cave
or brush shelter or wigwam She
strikes off sharp fake of flint for
a knife. By that act she becomes the
first cutler.
"With this knife she carefully re-
moves the skin, little dreaming that
thereby she is making herself the
patron saint of all subsequent
butchers.
''She rolls up the hide, then dresses
it with brains, smokes it, curries it,
breaks it with implements Of stone
and bone until she makes her reputa-
! ton as the first currier and tanner.
"With needle of bone and thread of
sinew and scissors Of flint, she cuts
and makes the clothing for her lord
and family; no sign is over the door,
but within dwels the first tailor and
dressmaker.
''FrOm leather especially prepared
she cuts and makes moccasns for her
husband thereby beginning the shoe
industry.
"She was toymaker for her chill
dren. modiste, milliner upholsterer,
wall decorator for her family.
"She was at first and is now the
universal cook. From the grasses
around her cabin she constructs the
floor mat, the mattress, the screen, the
wallet, the sail.
'She is the mother of all spinners,
weavers, upholsterers, sailmakers."
Again he says:
ITO the field she goes with the
basket or wallet strapped across her
forehead. BY the sweat of her face
she earns her bread and becomes the
first pack animal"
"Home again with her grain or
acorns, she thrashed and ground them
into -four or bran, thereby nOthering
the thrashing industry and the mill
ing. Where it was impossible to find
caves or natural shelter for her family
she designed and built the first wig
vans and forerunners # houses, thus
being the first architect.
"All the peaceful arts of today
continues the account, "were once
woman's peculiar province. Along
lines Of industrialism she was pio-
neer, inventor, author and originator y
AS conditions became more settled
for primitive tribes, men gave up their
warfare and entered women's indus
tries. Gradually they :oOk nearly all
of them. AS work was taken from
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ton And if the modern man is GO
ing to have visions of the good old
days of the cave man he must be con-
sistent and include in his delectable
dream the real cave woman"
Later in her apartment in hotel,
Miss Laughlin went into the subject
with a New York Tribune reporter in
manner which showed that she has
given much study to the domestic ar
rangrments of the man and the woman
whose wOoing consisted of footrace
and blow on the lady's head with
some hard. blunt instrument.
''If the men insist on delving into
the secrets Of those mOnolithic prede-
cessOrs of the New York apartment
house." said Miss Laughlin, "then they
must take the consequences and an
swer by what right they can call any
work the work of men, unless perhaps
1t Is hunting and fishing. Back in that
ideal period for which the modern man
pines practically all of the work be-
longed to the women. So when our
men talk about mans work I'd like to
know just what they mean."
Kipling is one of the few men who
really understand what the relation
ship of the cave man and the cave
woman was, according to Miss Laugh
lin. AS proof of her contention she
cites his "Just So" stories, which he
told to his 'best beloved" You will
remember the place where it says:
"The man was wild, too. He was
dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin
ito be tame until he met the woman.
and she told him that she did not like
living in his wild ways"
You will remember how it was. She
picked out nice, dry cave (proving,
by the way, that there was cave
woman before there was cave MANI,
and she cleaned house properly and
hung q dried wild horse skin across
the opening of the cave and said:
"Wipe your feet, dear, when you
come in. and now We'll keep house" "
And the man came in and lay down
beside the fire that the woman had
built and went to sleep.
but just UcLOiC Hc NoHCu OlL' otAiU
Miss Laughlin, she probably threw
out his chest and remarked that he
was a cave man himself and believed
that woman's place was in the
home"
And Miss Laughlin agrees with Mr..
KipIing in the theory that the motive
for keeping house was the protection
Of the baby. Long periods without
food, which were bound to be part Of
the life Of a nomadic people, were
hard on the young, and that Is the
reason the woman decided to keep
house.
'Tn the beginning. women did all the
work" says Miss Laughlin. "If we're
going to say that such and such is
the work OF one of the sexes we might
as well admit that every man in in
dustry is doing work which was orig
inaily wOman's work.
'sThe real cave men were con-
cerned with war and hunting. And
the cave women had the industrial
faeld to themselves. Only when war
became less important did the men go
In for industries, and even then they
did SO on about a 1918 basis. We
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en- ciuos was holding a banquet few nights
az" and certain gentleman whose name is known
from one end Of the land to the other made
speech IN which he told the women present he
didn't in the least sympathize with their being
business and professional women In fact, he de-
ciared 1t his belief they all ought to be at home
looking after the children instead OF being gath
cred about a banquet table listening to speeches
by him or anybody else.
The speaker didn't use the exact language Of
the perfumed youth, but he implied most of it.
l1id ne get away with it? He did not. ParaphraS-
ing popular song of pre-war days, "Where there
are cave men there must be women" And
there was at least of them at the banquet.
She was Miss Gail Laughn of San Francisco
national president of the organization that was
holding the banquet.
Miss Laughlin looks meek enough, but she isn't.
She followed the speaker just mentioned. and
she said she pretty we'll fed up all this
talk about cave men and clinging vines and wOm-
EN- having no place in industry; and fguratively,
oh, very fguratvely of course she proceeded
to decorate the face of the eminent speaker with
few scratches.
Often" said Miss Laughlin "to stop an argu-
ment in public for WOman's entering this or that
line Of mans work the will smile in a SUI
perior manner and admit they afraid they
have something of the cave in them. That
means they can't see any reason why women
should he anything except clinging vines.
''But their history is slightly mixed when they
put the cave and the clingng vine in the
same picture. The clinging vine is plant of
later growth. 1t is far cry from the cave wom-
an to this decately nurtured product Of civiliza
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Il Feminine AnszUer
the Contention That q
\ Homan's Place Is
IN tie Home

H. SAYS the perfumed youth,
shivering slightly and edging
closer to the radiator, "Pm cave
man myself. | believe that the
old practice of wooing woman
with a club and dragging her home
and making her stay there when
you get her, really better than our
modern practice. We red-bloOded
men are still really cave men at
heart, and would prefer that our
women be clinging vines, as in the
ancient times, instead of getting
out and working at mems work"
New York State Federation of
RuSjDoSc and Professional WOm-
Hlasatel. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1891-198?, 1920-02-06
FrancIe nedba ma soud N9mci.

Parfz, 4. unora,-Posudky francouz-
skeho tisku a vseobecne stanovisko
verejnosti prozrazujf naprostou lho-
stejnost Francie vIci pozadavku spo-
jeneckych vlad "a vydanf Nemcf, OBJ
vinenych valetnych zlocini, jakkoli
v nekterych prfpadech jedna Sc mu-
re, jejichz ciny behem valky vyvola-
ly krajne intensivnf rozhorcenf We
skereho obyvatelstva Francie. Jakko-
II Sc media rfci ze Francie Zapomela
ma udalosti, ktere tvorf poklad techto
obzalob, ustavicne prutahy jednanf
mfrovem a zdlouhavost rekonstrukcni
prace vytvorily pocit lhostejnosti VII
ci vsemu mfrovemu jednanf, pokud
neni spojeno hospodarskym ozivnu-
tim zeme. Vseobecne miN5ni, jak je
tlumoceno tiskem, ida Sc byti, re
Francie nenf tax dychtiva docfliti
ztrestanf provinilcI, jako spfse ziska-
Il uhlf, ably mohla vyrabeti zbozf pro
vSvoz. Jinymi slovy, Francie by obdr-
zela radeji 27,OOO,O00 tun uhlf, slfbe-
nSch rocne Nemeckem, neil neja-
ksch 500 distojniku, obvinenych z
rozlicnych zlocinu, jak jeden casopis
50 vyjadril.
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NebIahe dSdictvi valky.

Seattle, Washington, 4. unora. -
Majitele lodi ma tichomorskem pobre-
II stezuji 81 ma tezkou konkurenci,
jakou mali S lodemi, ktere Japanci
die valecnych kontraktu stavf pro
Spoj. Staty dodavajf sem prumerne
iednu "a mesfc. Lode ty mali byti ia
panel dodany az do americkych pti.
stavu a ably nemusely jeti pra-
zdnem, prijfma Sc ma ne zbozi "a bab-
ku. "a ctyrtinu a petinu skutecne do
pravni ceny, CO kdo nabfdne. To by
byla pro americky lid We skutecnosti
vec dobra, ale dodavka techto lodi ma
line nepfijemne stranky. Lode sc sta
vi podle kontraktu starycn, ktere me-
ly icele valecne, predelavanf 1ich
k ucelum mfrovym stojf velike penize.
Teprve po dodavce americkych To-
denicich odstranujf Sc kotle, zrfzene
ma topeni uhlfm, a nahrazujf Sc kot-
ly ma petrolej. Uhlf jest ma ticho-
morskem brehu drahe, olej jest laci-
nejsf vyhodnejsf. S prodejem lodi
tech soukrom!m firmam budou velike
obtfze. RIzne lodni korporace by je
koupily, ale jen velikymi slevami.
vlada pozaduje cd 1925 do $3.50 "a tu-
nu. kolik skutecne "a ne Japonc1m
zaplatila, ale tom nechtejf lod'afi
ami slyset. Pravf, re lode nevyhovu-
il dcelIm miroveho obchodu je-li
pri tom ntjaka ztrata. must il nesti
vladnf pokladna. Poukazuji ma to, re
vlada briticka zbavuje Sc lodi, ktere
if DO vace zbyly, "a 500 az s125 "a
tunu. Vlada tn ma ma jezere Union a.
81 osmdesat lodi drevenych, rovnez
pozustatkn to valky, ktere Sc osved-
cily velice nepraktickymi. Ty budou
rozprodany skoro zadarmO.
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cesky chIapec nlhodou postTelen.

Cleveland, Ohio, 4. lnora. = Bed
na nehoda udala Sc sobotu odpole-
dne ma ceske vychodnf strane, kde 13-
lety Edward Chalupecky, 1855 vych.
SO. ul. Ia nest'astnych okolnostf X tez-
kemu prisel Irazu prftomne v ne
mocnici sv. Lukase je osetfovan. Cha
lupecky byl nahodile postrelen sym
spoluzakem 14letym Ladislavem Slap
nickou, 1905 vych. SO. ul., jenz vypdj-
cil 81 otcuv revolver domnenf, ze
bambitka ia neni nabita. zahraval
81 Sc zbranf a beZdecne vehnal strelu
druhu svemu do slabiny. Slapnicka
pred zahravanim 81 Sc sestiranOvkou,
vyfal nj domnele vsechny naboje.
Vynal jich celkem pet, lee sesteho ma
boje 81 nepovsfml, re Sc nalezal hla-
vni revolveru a TAX tato strela vybu-
CHA a Chalupeckeho poranenf nasle-
dovalo. Ackoliv zranenf ono jest tez-
keno razu, nemocnicnf lekari chovajf
nadeji, re zivot nest'astneho jinocha
bude zachranen. Policie zbavila bez.
decneho strelce zodpovednosti row
nez doznava, re slo nahodu nest'a-
ct nOII
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Roztrzka mezi repubIikany senatu.

Washington, 4. unora. - Mezi re-
publikanskymi senatory, kterf VERT, re
je nutno, ably Sc pfijala nirova smlou-
va, mezi skupinou nesmfritelnych,
kterf chtejf Wilsonovu smlouvu pora-
ziti "a kazdou cenu, doslo k roztrzce.
Zajimavo jest, re temto umfrnenym
stoji cele sam Lodge, ktery Jlz Wy
strfzlivel a prisel X poznanf, re jeho
vyhrady ku smlouve spGsobily mnoho
skody nejen narodu, ale strane re-
publikanske, jejiz blaho mu lezf hla-
vne ma srdci. V okolf Lodgeove uJi-
ma Sc presvedcenf, re smlouva miro
va ma dnes lepsf vyhlidky ma prijetl
nezli kdykoli drive. Debata nj Sc
natu zapocne V pondelf verf Sc, re
tentokrate k nejake dohode ma kaz-
dy pad dojde. Prijeti smlouvy budou
Sc re vsech sill vzpfrati nesmfritelnf,
Borah, Johnson, Knox, Brandege,
Sherman a nekolik jinych. kterf pro-
ii nf bojovali hned cd zacatku, ale
pocet jejich jest nepatrny u porovna-
nj temi, kdoz uskutecneni miru po-
zadujf. Media Sc ami daleka odhad-
nouti, jak dlouho budou trvati recni-
cke zapasy kdy konecne mlze doji-
ii k odhlasovani, ale re konecne bu-
de treba obmeziti debaty, jest jisto.
To So stale prvne, nebot' jinak by
odpurci hlasovanf vIbec nepripustili.
Ocekava Sc, re zapas bude jeste zivej-
ST nezli byl lonsky podzimni. Odpur-
ci budou delati vsecko NONE, ably Wy
mohli odklad, vsak vzhledem tomu,
re jest jich malo. budou snadno po-
razeni, az bude prijata zmena jedna-
cfho radu, ktera by znamenala zkra-
cent debaty. Republican, Lodgeovi
svoluji, ably byl boj prenesen ma pudu
senatnf, ale pravf, re Sc proto nevada
II sveho stanoviska ohledne clanku
10. a Monroeovy doktriny. Otazky ty-
to budou muset bgt teprve vybojova-
ny, pri cemz bude bran hlavnf ere
tel ma verejne mfneni pranf lidu.
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Evropsti finanSnici v kOnci
s rOZumem.
vaIem kIesajfei hodnota pensz q
chaos v hospcdafske situaci Wy.
voIava popIaeh mezi vladaml.

Londyn, 4. ilnora. - Hospodafske
nesnaze Evropy stavajf Sc stale hro-
zivejsfmi, vzdor zoufalemu usili vlad-
noucfch kruhti, primeti lid zpet k pra-
ci. Zatim CO statnfci a financnfci Sc
namahajf urychliti produkci, obnoviti
stabilitu meny a odstraniti valecna
omezenf, ceny vsech zivotnfch potreb
stoupajf vsude. Velka Britannia Zau-
jfma v1ci evropskym financfm stej-
nou posici, jake Amerika vdci Anglii.
Hlavnf cast evropskych nakupu jest
provadena prostrednictvfm Londyna.
a britictf financnici vidi, re kdyby Sc
Jim podarilo, zvednouti ma normal
hodnotu libry vIci dollaru, hrabali by
nesmfrne profity obchodovanfm hla-
dovou stredni Evropou. Vyslovena an
tipathie Anglie vIci Americe vznika
presvedcenf, re Amerika jest pene-
ri presycenym kolosem. Kazdy TAX
Tka Anglican zda Sc bSti presvedcen,
re Amerika jest zodpovedna "a vyso-
Ike ceny, jez musi platiti "a zivotnf
potreby, ba "a omezeni jeho hospod-
skych hodin. Briticka vlada sc roz-
hodla, zoufalem poliusu o zastavenf
klesanf valuty libry, witt obehu "a
$100,0O0,OOO papfrovych penez.
Hroziva situace stredni Evropy jest
lfcena We zprave sira Williama Goo
da. Ma inspekcnf ceste zjistil, re Pol
sko must importovati 100000 tun O.
bill, dix svym imperialistickym chout-
kan a utokim ma vsecky sousedy, COZ
znemoznuje demobilisaci navrat
muzi ma pole, potrebuje rovnez
mnoho jinych veci. Ceskoslovensko
potrebuje $4,000 tun obili a 0,00O
tun brambor do prfsti sklizne. Potre-
buje dale leku, bavlny, vlny stroJu.
Jihoslavie bude mfti - snad - 1000.
900 tun korny, pSenice a prasat k w
vozu, ale potrebuje bavlnu, vlnu lat
ky. Rakousko potrebuje $4,000 tun
potravin do Zari pri nejmensim
$4,000 tun uhlf pro prfsti rok. Uhry
potrebujf 100000 tun potravin a l.
$4,000 tun pfce, dix lupicskSm Ru-
muiim. Estonsko vola po satstvu. Blu
deli obchod Ruskem obnoven, Pc
trohrad bude potrebovati $4,000 tun
potravin mesfcne. Rusky prlmysl by
spotreboval 100000 BALI bavlny. Ar
menie zavisi zcela Ia vnejsf pomoci.
Bulharsko potfebuje surovin.