El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-14

nous coal mines. Many Of the miners
cottages are IN Poland, while the
ines where they ought 70 work are in
Bohemia Each side is Jealous and
suspicious. Rifles often 20 o.--
suit: No wdtk and no coal. And both
Poland and Bohemia cry aloud 10 the
world that they are freezing, and ask
coal from Germany, from England,
even from the United States
Peace Conference 10 Blame.
In part the blame for this tragic
comic position rests upon the peace
conference. which delimited the alb
surd frontier. But. Of course, in the
present desperate position OF affairs,
Poles and Bohemians should sink
their differences. mine the coal, and
If necessary 90 $3.50 on the pro-
again, the Czechs and HunEarians
both keep their armies modified
against each other, at enormous cost.
Demo utilization is an urgent necessity.
and should be insisted upon before
any American CREDITS are advanced
But II Il IMPOSSIBLE 10 erfrfcize
the HunEariuns too strongly for
keeping their powder dry for
they cannot forget that the peace
conference did nothing to protect
them, excepting send notes to
Bucharest. when the Rur-- niarss
swept through Hungary like To-
Gusts and carried off. in retreat-
Ing. most OF the cattle and rolling
stock
Dishonesty in high places. Jew
batting. reactionary measures against
workmen that lead 10 executions on
little or no evidence for sedition. are
other evils rife IN Hungary. though
not to such an extent here. They
furnish some excuse for the demand
Of American and British business men
that home affairs should be cleaned
Up before loans are advanced.
The United States, II IL decides to
take a leading part in the economic
reconstruction Of eastern Europe. can
end these evils The orders Of a rep
resentative Of our treasury would be
obeyed as though he were an old
time Hapsburgh emperor, II he held
the purse-strings in his hands.
know vel enough that II one Ameri-
can in every hundred could see
Vienna as IL is today, an overwhelm-
ing public opinion would demand that
congress and the administration do
something without delay.
Self-interesf, ] think. urges Ms
to help I have no hesitation IN
predicting that Poland ALL the
Baltic states Hungary and Aus
triu. and lastly Bohemia uno
JuEo-Slavia, viii 20 BOIShevist II
present conditions continue for
another year.
Austria would be BoIshevik now
excepting that her people are so weak.
so unoerted, that the letharEy OF
starvation, coupled with a belief that
at the last they VIII be helped. pre-
vents them from oTerthroWing So
ciety.
It is easy sitting at home at a we'll
spread dinner table 20 reason. why
should people become Bolshevists be-
cause they are hungry when they
know thar Bolshevism cannot give
them food2"
Apart from a lying but able Boil
shevist propaganda. which is every
where in these countries. such a ques-
ton shows an inability to understand
the workings Of the mind in a starv-
ing, desperate man He does no
doubt know that in a short time he
VIII be as miserable under Bolshev-
ism as before. but the Bolshevists
promise him q few wild and glorious
days OF plumber and rapine. he can
break into the food boards Of the rich.
smash and piliage and destroy. For
few DAYS he viii live IN plenty
After that2 But a starving man need
not look more than a few days ahead.
-(CopyriEht. 1920. by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)