The Washington herald., 1920-12-19
League Cannot Be Ignored
This One or None, Ii, Verdict


shows those people are helping
themselves. and this Is emphasized
by the fact that s,5o0.000 children
were fed last year and only $780,
900 this year.
Poland has already voted a credit
of 200, 100000 marks to the council
of the Foundation of Polish-Ameri-
can Children's Relief. of which Mr..
Hoover has been elected president.
This foundation has determined the
cereal production in 1920, the stocks
of grain and flour now available,
the needs for 1921 and the amount
which must be imported. 1t is not
working in the dark. The Ameri-
can-Jewish committee at Warsaw
has adopted the French orphan plan
and will undertake to find a father
or mother in America for each Pol
ish orphan to undertake its main
tenance and education.
Poland has finally decided to sign
the Danzig treaty under agreement
that she shall have access to the
sea for exports and imports as pro-
vided in the Versailles tleaty and
military control. The Poles have
not been blind to the bitter animos-
ity of East Prussia. the chief seat Of
Prussian Junkerdom.
why Junkers Hate Poland.
The junkers hate Poland with an
abiding vigor. Their sympathy and
aid to the Bolsheviks has it's cause
in this and not In any sympathy
with their social or political doc
trines. to which they are inherently
antagonistic. 1t is now reported
that troops are being recruited in
East Prussia to join the Lithua-
mans against Gen. ZeIlgonski. in his
occupation OF Wilma. On the other
hand, a French military mission is
In Poland to help organize and in
struct her army and to encourage
the manufacture of munitions. Po-
lish deputies have furnished the
French evidence that the Germans
are prepared to take military pos
session Of Upper Silesia in advance
of the plebiscite.
But I. Is also reported that ar
rangements nave been made with
for commission
to preserve order in Silesia. The
French charge d'affaires and Gen.
Hampton, a British officer, are at
wilma to investigate conditions there
and the Polish commission on for
eign affairs has passed a resolu-
tion that the population should vote
on Polish annexation.
The maximum coal production for
this winter VIII provide but Is per
cent of the needs Of private con-
sumption. OF much Importance on
the political side as well as the
economic is a conference of the Fin
nish railway administration at Hell
singfors for a union of the Baltic
states.
The Austrians are using every ef-
fort to utilize their resources to re-
cover economic independence. The
outpt of the anthracite coal mines
for December this year will double
that of 1918. The output of soft
coal is now 100000 tons a month as
compared to 153. 1000 tons in 1918.
This production 1t is planned to still
further largely increase. Among
new enterprises are prospecting for
other mineral fuels; naphtha in
Upper Austria and Salzburg and oil
shale in sthe Tyrol, as we'll as peat
fields; the study of fuel conserva-
tion; prospecting for antimony and
manganese, and the expansion of
mines now operating. These all
look to providing raw materials.
Austria Importing Foods.
Austria is also providing large
imports of foods of which she now
produces comparatively little, her
grain lands having been taken from
her. During the week August 1922
she received in tons: flour, 200;
grain, 3,171; maize, 1856; potatoes.
1857; sugar, 1,16s. On October 1
there were 100 tons of wheat, 15,-
$50 of maize at Goenyoe, with 2,1O0
tons of wheat and 5000 of maize
enroute; 5000 tons of maize and
$500 of wheat at Mannheim, with
shipments of potatoes from Hun
gary and Holland. Also $3.50 tons
of Java sugar was at Trieste Octo-
ber 19, partly on Dutch credit, for
Austria. The Czechs have replaced
1900 tons of exchange flour, leav-
ing but a balance of 5000 tons due.
Austria, it will be seen, Is not idle,
Is not waiting for charity. is not
Indifferent nor a mendicant. She is
doing her utmost for herself. One
of her troubles is a shortage of
rolling stock, due largely to in
creased traffic.
Politically, too, Austria is stab
ilizing. In the recent national as
sembly elections the Socialists got
Sc members as against ~ in the
former body while the non-Sociai-
lists elected 100 as against their for
mer 96. In this election the Cath
Dlic conservatives gained 130,39S
,otes and the Socialists lost 147,-
17S. The pan-Germans gained in
Vienna but lost a total of 10000 in
Austria as a whole. THE Commun-
lists did not secure a single seat,
but are carrying on thei- distinctive
propaganda. The Socialists resigned
from the coalition government An
effort is being made for more
friendly relations with Hungary. A
leader of the Austrian Catholic ma
Iority party has gone to Budapest
for this purpose, Hungary and
CZecho-Slovakia having already re-
opened exchange traffic on several
lines of railroad.
Coal Is Hungnry's Need.
Hungary's greatest present need
is coal. Her mines at maximum
output do not produce enough for
the demand and the government has
not been able to secure a foreign
supply. Also through a mistaken
estimate the government has over
sold for export more than the sur
plus of wool production, leaving a
domestic shortage.
A further reduction in the value
of the mark has increased prices in
Germany to the consumer. On the
other hand it has increased foreign
buying of machines, toys, china,
etc. But manufacturers are. handi-
capped for lack of coal and are
forced to use such other finals nc