Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-14
NEED IN EUROPE
IS STRESSED BY
RELIEF DIRECTOR
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL
| Especial Cable to the Chicago Daily News
Foreign Service, by Leased Wire to
The Atlanta Journal
DOWNRIGHT 1q2O)

LONDON, England, Dec. 11.-W. L.
Brown, director for Europe for the
activities Of the American relief ad-
ministra TONS European children's
fund, with headquarters in London,
said today:
Information from our missions in
Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czecho-
Slovakia and Germany indicate that
the approaching winter will be des-
perate one. None of these countries
will be able to get along without
outside assistance. The situation in
Austria and Poland Is especially bad
and that in Hungary is not much bet
ter. To provide for the minimum
food requirements these countries
must buy in the outside markets in
spite of their deprecated currency
which will impose an enormous bur-
den on them.
Polish marks are now approx
mately 500 to the 81, Austrian and
Hungarian crowns about 500 and
CZecho-Slovakian crowns almost 100.
the German mark is around seventy
to the 81. Austria is in a worse
plight than ,, eyer bet before: The gov
ers only January and even this the
authorities cannot carry out. AL
ready they must leave wheat flour
out Of the bread ration. A pair of
shoes cost one-third of an average
months salary and it takes the sal
of clothes. The American fund for
European children is keeping $780,
900 children in Austria going with
one full meal ration a day, but the
number Of deaths Of the aged is
appalling.
"IJuDGary onca rioI, in oaraa1s for
export, now has not enough for her
self and lack of coal is shutting
down factories, schools and public
institutions. Hungary faces the
hardest winter in her history. In
the Polish territory, which was re-
on an average of 60 per cent of their
crops and live stock and are facing
a catastrophe.
Germany must buy couple of
million tons of food in foreign mar
kets. The rationed bread is bad and
classes is great. Czecho- Slovakia is
short of certain food essentials
which she must buy in the world
markets. The American Quakers who
are feeding 100000 children in Ger
many, find that the need Is so great
that they are trying to increase their
program SO per cent and feel that
it should be doubled.
THE European children's fund Of
the American relief administration is
furnishing one meal a day to about
| 100000 children in these countries
and is distributing large quantities
of clothing. 1t also has warehouses
in all the countries named by which
persons in the United States can
supply friends with staple foods
through food drafts. The early set
ting in of cold weather, coupled with
the continued scarcity Of food and
| faulty means of distribution, indi-
cate that the approaching winter
will see the need Of the fullest en-
| ployment of every relief agency If
the people are to be tided over.
st was struck by the headlines in
London newspaper of a New York
dispatch, which said the United
States was being invaded by paupers
and that plans were being made for
| the exclusion of immigrants. The
dispatch stated that $4,000 aliens had
landed in New York alone recently
and that the public as well as the
| immigration authorities were alarm
ed. This fact alone justifies the
American efforts to help sustain the
people of central Europe until they