The Cordova daily times., 1921-09-07
EUROPE STABLE RELIEF MAN
 CLAIMS

ANLN OtNths S'pN U. S H. W '''''''' Dubuque. Ia, American relief admin istration representative who has re- turned after five months survey of the Hoover organizations feeding opera tion in central-and eastern Europe, ex- pressed optimism concerning the eco homie and political future of the na- tions who owe their existence largely to the generosity of the American peo- pie who contributed $29 .000,000 dur ing the European relief council drive
 "In general he aspect today of central Europe and the Baltic is one of recovery" he said. The recovery is, perhaps, not as rapid as it might have been if men and nations had been ideally wise, but it Is substantial and promising. Although in some places there are distressing conditions, it Is entirely a mistake to suppose that Flu rope is sinking. The contrary is true. Europe is rising.
 There are still some international wrangles. such as Upper Silesia and the Polish. Lithuanian dispute about Wilma. Austria, not yet adjusted to her new place n the world-order, is still suffering business stagnationl But economic conditions are improving, the economic barriers between states are being broken down by commercial treaties, the railway systems are get ting back to normality. Order has been restored everywhere. The re- sponsible authorities in all these coun- tries are represented.
 MINGLED WITH ALL GLASSES OF
 PEOPLE
 My investigation in central Europe and the Baltic took me into Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Germany, Poland. Lithuania, Latvia and Es- thonia. In all of these countries I had the privilege of talking with the principal government officials, includ- ing Chancellor Wirth, of Germany, Premier Witos of Poland; President Masaryk of Czecho-Slovakia; Presi- dent Hainisch of Austria; Finance Minister Hegedus, of Hungary, and the leading men of the Baltic republics also made it a point to get the views of the most prominent bankers and business men of the various countries. 1,h presidents of universities. workmen, peasants, refugees.
 "I made it a point to enter the homes of the poorest people in the cities and the huts of the most needy peasants in order to get the worst of the picture as well as the surface view. IL is true that there is still a great deal of hardship and cruel poverty saw life in it's most distressing forms in Vienna, in Budapest. in Warsaw, in Cracow in Vilua.
 T have seen people living in old dugouts along the old Russo-Ger- man line. In the eastern section of Poland in the belt which the Poles secured by the treaty of Riga, have seen peasants who had been driving into Russia in the great Russian re- treat returned to find their primitive log huts gone or in q state of ruin. They arc making desperate effort to live. perhaps two or three families crammed into a shack that looked like a ruined barn, without work animals milk COWS. proper agr,cultlral implc- monts.
 GRASS SOUP sUSTAINS LIFE
 "The principal element of food which they were able to get them selves when | was there was q grass from which they made a deadly look ing soup. | was tod their condition was improved then because the grass was longer But even these people. and more especially their children, were reached by the American Re lief administration.
 Perhaps most Americans do not entirely realize the manifold and rami- lying effects-the vitally important effects-or the vast feeding operations of the American relief administration. The first thought is. naturally, that millions of children have been saved from death, disease or permanent weakness by the great operation which has covered thirteen countries. fed at different times probably 10000 900 children, supplied, roughly, billion and half meals and expended over a hundred million dollars. But, in sav- ing these children. there have been other effects Of far reaching import ance. economically and politically. Among these collateral effects may be