Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-19
Assistant Coach; Defiance Defeats 9TH Ward

/ employee alone ~ tbe late enemy ter-
ritory. Another letter, this ono from
postal emplOye In Vienna. sgiyos
figures wbich show with what the poor
people of the old empires capital
have 10 contend This man. merely n
clerk in tho Vienna Office, with sick
mother and an aBed father dependent
upon his meaRre salary. said ~ was
hardly possible for him 10 purchase
provisions for the family ~ three. and
that buying clothes vas altogether out
Of tho question. Old shoes patched
up with wooden soles fashioned rough
ly with knife have 10 take the place
of proper footgear. OuiWOrn and
threadbare clothes must be made 10
suffice.
Here arc some Of the current prices
for necessities ln Vienna, according 70
this letter. A kiiOgram Of lat, equal
20 2b pounds, costs 900 crowns. nor
nally worth about $50. a single eRg ia
valued az 20 croYnsS the price Of a
kiiOgram of rneat ranges from 200 20
ESQ crowns. Clothing prices arc 20 far
out Of reach that only onb Is quoted.
A shirt. the letter said, Jfnay not BE-
purchased for less than from G20 %
| $50 crowns
America Comparatively Wen or.
| America came out Of the Word War
with few bruises IN comparison with
many Of tn, other beiiigArent nations
The death toll ~ American bgys is
loss which nothing can repigEe. and,
/ nothing can ever square the fccOunts
for the hundreds Of rnaimed ia blind
Cd youths Who gave the belt ~ life
to halt the Hun.
But today. though American bud
ness Is not booming, sa Il |gas AZ the
hightlde Of war activity. tfough there
is necessarily a tax burdef % pay the
cost of the war, The Un1ad states j.
far better On economically than any
one ~ the principal tflligerents In
the struggle Japan's pIrt In the war
did not entail sufficient Mort 70 class
Il with America. England, France.
Italy. or the enemy group of nations.
England, having a tremendous for
eiFn debt IN addition 10 its internal
obligations on war bonds held BY it5
! subjects, is in such financial condi-
Itlcn that appeals have come from Inn
don 10 Washington asking that the
British debt 10 the United states be
forgiven British statesmen, with tho
Irish crisis On their hands and deep
In the whirlpool of after-the-war
European politics. only few weeks
ago announced plans for great in-
creases in the English navy. a further
addition 70 Britain's debt
France Is in worse shape than Eng
land. still maintaining a great stand
ing army 20 throw into any adjacent
territory in order that the peace terms
shall b. enforced italy 81 suffering
tremendous financial depression cans
ed by its great expenditures % wealth
during the colossal struggle.
But the plight Of these nations is
lanything but dreary compared 70 the
plight in which the Central Powers
now are Germany. the leader u the
enemy nations il the World War is
not "a bsdiy OF A. the diEintegrate5
parts Of the old Austro-H Hungarian
Empire Austria itself is threatened
with bankruptcy. but the worst thing
II the terrible aftermath facing every
! man. woman and chiid--the lack ~
: sufficient food "a sustain even s1b-
normal life
Weakened by hunger, thousands oi
the people fan ee~y prey 20 disease
the starved bodies Of the elderly and
. of children Icing particular tarrets
for epidemics. Despite the most
heroic relief efforts of the America n
relief organizations and other helpinz
hands extended from nesriy every
where. the situation IS sim an appal-
ling one