The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-03-18
Huge Problems Of Reconstruction
Yet to De Solved, but
Progress Is Made.
WOUNDS OF WAR ARE HEALING
To Casual Observers Distress May
Seem IncurabIe, but Not So to One
Of Long Experience--slons
of Returning Order.

yienna.-What is the position Oh
Central Europe? Are conditions so
appalling that there is no HOPPER Are
the gloomy tales of dark despair
poured increasingly into the eager ears
Of travellers, who have an only 100
human inclination to hear the worst
an accurate reflection of the present
state and dependable forecast Oh the
future?
These are questions which even the
traveller must ask himself, and they
must occur yet more pointediy 10 tlie
mind of the public, confused as II can
not help being by the confllcting nc,
counts of superficial and haphazaru
observers who have some special pref
udice to support, who are willing 10
sacrifice homely truth to the making
Of n smart phrase, or who may be SIM
ply too strongly influenced by first Inn.
nresslons without the background Oh
extended experience necessary 10 gave
them their comparative value.
Thousands in Want.
First impressions are always viVlo
and they may also be accurate. ln
so far as hasty glimpses into the life
Of Central and Eastern Europe tell q
story of insufficient food and clothing
of lack of work, Of the misery OF
homelessness and of the crudities OF
inexperience and ignorant govern
ments. no false ideas are created
There can be no doubt of the Immense
need of hundreds of thousands o.
people. hungry and cold through nc
FAINT of their own, willing to work L
they have the chance, victims, In snort
of the great convulsion which tori
Europe into dlscordant parts as sprinl
bursts the smooth, solid Ice OF rivers
into ragged, crunching cakes.
Humanitarian Considerations and IN
general good of the world demand tina
these people should be succored. IL
abhorrent to civilization that peopi
IN enc part of the world should wal
low In plenty at the same momen
that those In another part starve.
! IA dangerous to let a sore tester whe
N NAV be cured by prompt and int
!. lirent treatment. So the en!ightene
! world. In spite of stupid and cynict
I criticism, win help these people an
will aid with special willingness IN
children and youth In whom lies IN
: possibility of higher purpose and noble
aims than have actuated their elder
who are still linked to the cankere
past.
. But to the listening world thei
Il seems TO come from these countris
II only an unvarying wall and 1t wish'
II 10 know II this Is to be without chani
II "a tie qua OF time. There Is such
II ching as becoming weary In weld
II ing.
II Long, Close Observation.
II have had some opportunity
II make comparisons and note change
II and feel that I am In position
II answer, partly at least. some OF q
questions propounded ut the beginnil
II OF this article. says a corresponds
Of the New York World. | nrst we
II into the Central European region t'
i years ago. only a few months an
the armIstice. and / have either
= sided In or made trips to the vario
> countries at intervals ever since.
have talked with travellers who We
ID seeing conditions for the first TIN
and I have noted the reactions a
judgments they have formed. TIT
value has depended on the lntelligen
n and character Of the observer himse
IS The conclusions have run through
10 scale from fiippant exaggeration
T. sensation mongers OF non-typicai
Is stances to the mature reflections