The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-18
Huge Problems of Reconstruction
Yet to Be Solved, but
Progress Is Made.
WOUNDS OF WAR ARE HEALING
To Casual Observers Distress May
Seem incurable, but Not So to One
of Long Experience--Signs
of Returning Order.

Vienna.-What is the position Of
| Central Europe? Are conditions so
appalling that there is no hope? Are
the gloomy tales of dark despair
poured increasingly into the eager ears
of travellers, who have an only too
human inclination to hear the worst,
an accurate reflection of the present
state and "a dependable forecast of the
future?
These are questions which even the
traveller must ask himself, and they
must occur yet more pointedly to the
mind of the public, confused as 1t can
not help being by the conflicting ac-
counts of superficial and haphazard
observers who have some special pref
udice to support, who are willing to
sacrifice homely truth to the making
Of smart phrase, or who may be SIM
ply too strongly influenced by first inn
| pressions without the background of
| extended experience necessary to give
them their comparative value.
Thousands IN Want.
First impressions are always vivid
and they may also be accurate. In
so far as hasty glimpses into the life
| Of Central and Eastern Europe tell a
story of insufficient food and clothing
of lack of work, of the misery of
homelessness and of the crudities OF
lnexperence and ignorant govern
ments, no false ideas are created.
| Tharn hn n An,tht IF tho 81
need of hundreds of thousands Of
| people, hungry and cold through no
| fault of their own, willing to work il
they have the chance, victims, In short,
of the great CONFUSION which tore
Europe into discordant parts as spring
bursts the smooth. solid ice of rivers
INTO ragged, crumching cakes.
Humanitarian considerations and the
| general good of the world demand that
these people should be succored. 1t is
abhorpnt to civilization that people
IN enc part of the world should wal
TINT those in another part starve. II
Is dangerous to let sore tester when
1t may be cured by prompt and intel
ligent treatment. SO the enlightened
world, in spite of stupid and cynical
criticism, will help these people and
will aid with special willingness the
children and youth in whom lies the
possibility of higher purpose and noblei
MINIS than have actuated their elders
who are still linked to the cankereo
past.
ysut to the listening world there
only an unvarylng wall and 1t wishes
10 know If this IS to be without change
to the end of time. There. Is such /
thing as becoming weary In well-do
ing.
Long, Close Observation.
have had some opportunity I,
make comparisons and note changes
and feel that am In position I,
answer, partly at least, some Of III,
: questions propounded at the beginnin;
of this article. says a correspondent
Of the New York World I first wen
into the Central European region tw'
, years ago, only few months afte
che armlstice. and have either re
: sided In or made trips to the varicu
countries at intervals ever since.
I have talked with travellers who wer
0 seeing conditions for the first time
i. and l have noted the reactions an
Judgments they have formed. Thei
. value has depended on the intelligenc
h and character of the observer himself
= The conclusions have run through m
: scale from fIippant exaggeration b.
: sensation mongers Of non-typical In
stances to the mature reflections o