Arizona republican., 1921-08-18
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merely a clerk in the Vienna office, with a sick mother and an aged father dependent upon his meagrel salary, said it was hardly possible for him to purchase provisions for the family of three, and that buying clothing was altogether out of the question. Old shoes patched up with with a knife have to take the place of proper footgear. Outworn and threadbare clothes must be made to suffice.
 Here are some of the current prices for necessities in Vienna according to this letter: A kilogram of fat. equal to 2 1-5 pounds, costs 300 crowns. normally worth about $60: a single egg Is valued at 20 crowns: the price of a kilogrsm of meat ranges from 200 to 2S0 crowns. Clothing prices are so far out of reach that only one is quoted. A shirt. the letter said. may not be purchased for less than from 620 to 7s0 crowns
 America comparativsiy We'll Off
 America came out of the world war with few bruises in comparison with many of the other belligerent nations. The death toll of Ameri- can boys Is loss which nothing can replace. and nothing can ever square the accounts for the hundreds of maimed and blinded youths who gave the best of life to halt the Hun.
 1 But today. though American busi- ness is not becoming as it was at the hightide of war activity. though l there is necessarily a tax burden to pay the cost of the war. the United States is far better off economically 1 than any one of the principal bell 1 ligerents in the struggle. Japan's | part in the war did not entail suffi- ! cient effort to class it with America England. France. Italy. or the enemy | group of nations.
 | England, having tremendous for | eign debt in addition to its internal obligations on war bonds held by it's i subjects, is in such financial condi- | tion that appeals have come from
 London to Washington asking that l the British debt to the United States l be forgiven. British statesmen | with the Irish crisis on their hands | and deep in the whirlpool of after I the-war European politics, only 8 I few weeks ago announced plans foi Il great increases in the English navy I France is in worse shape thar England, still maintaining a great standing army to throw into any ad- I jacent territory in order that tht q peace terms shall be enforced. Italy ! is suffering tremendous financial de- | pressions caused by it's great expen-
 ditures of wealth during the colossa struggle.
 | But the plight of these nations i. anything but dreary compared to- th'
 plight in which the Central power,
 now are. Germany. the leader O.
 the enemy nations in the world war is not as badly off as the disinte' grated parts of the old Austro- Hun
 garian empire. Austria itself i
 threatened with bankruptcy, but thu
 worst thing is the terrible aftermati
 facing every man. woman and chilt
 the lack of sufficient food to sus
 tain even subnormal life.
 : Weakened by hunger, thousands o the people fall easy prey to disease
 the starved bodies of the elderly
 and of children being particular tar
 gets for epidemics- Despite tn
 most heroic efforts of the Americal relief organizations and other help
 ing hands extended from nearl.
 everywhere. the situation is still al , appalling one.