The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-07
n. D. MAN FINDS
HUNGARY IN
ENTIRE CHAOS
Jacob ROthschiller Finds
Housing Condition in
Budapest Serious
UNEMPLOYMENT EXISTS
Shows Films of Agricultural
Conditions in North
Dakota
UNEMPLOYMENT EXISTS

In a letter to the Bismarck Tribune
Jacob Rothschiler writing from Bud
apest Hungary, where he was sent
by North Dakota relief work organ
zation to aid in improving conditions
nj Europe reports that he finds polit
ral, social, and economic chaos in
Hungary.
His letter follows:
Budapest. Hungary,
Jan. 20, 1923.
To the Bismarck Tribune,
Bismarck. n. ID.
On his way to Odessa, Russia, hav-
ing spent three weeks in Hungary,
Mr. aJcob Rothschiller of Bismarck
reports Il successful continuance Oh
his Journey. In Hungary he finds
an internal situation approximatins
political, economic and social chaos.
The country is not only suffering
from the exhaustion retributive to
participation in gruelling war, but
also from the loss Of two-thirds of
its territorial possessions. In ad
diton the harsh measures and dis
eliminating treatment inflicted on
the people within the lost provinces
by the annexing governments, have
caused great numbers to seek safety
in their diminished homeland. Hun
gary, is therefore. overburdened with
n penniless population to which,
through lack of industrial develop
mant she is totally unable to give
adequate support.
Situation Critical.
In Budapest the housing situation
is critical. Families are quartered
in makeshifts of all sorts, even to
box-cars on railway sidings. There
has been consequent crowding to-
gether in tenement houses. On one
of his excursions around the city for
the purpose Of investigating condi-
tions of the poor, Mr.. Rothschiller
visited only tenement districts. His
conclusions warrant that one-half
the residents of Budapest live in alb
ject misery and distress. Families
of six to eight persons occupy, at the
best. two and three small rooms for
home, with only the meagerest of
furnishings and equipment. Santa
ton and ventilation do not exist
filth and squalor, form substitutes
To the class living under these cir
Gums .ances, America is their only
hope. They look and wait for the
United Stats to force peaceful set
Element Of European affairs; to pro
vide charity and relief; and to make
the gold loans necessary to re-estab
lish business stability.
Mr.. Rothschiller, throughout his
stay in Budapest, was associated with
church and charity organizations Of
every denomination. He personally
visited many institutions, and made
requests of $4,000 to 100000 kronor,
at each place, amounting in total tt
a sum of 100000 kronors, or $500
in our money. In this manner he hac
the opportunity to thoroughly &C
quaint himself with the scope O.
charity work in Hungary, and to as
sure himself of fair distribution
of his offerings. Hungary on tn
whole is backward country, ant
poorly organized, for this reasoI
very little aid for the poor has beer
received from foreign nations, ant
practically no propaganda for thi
purpose disseminated.
Coincident to the universal dis
tress and shortage Of employment i
the corresponding disinclination o
the people to apply themselves AM
the lack of confidence for a better flu
ture. A poor man is glad to worl
to keep alive, but the one who has
little surplus is content to live spar
ingly and lose it all in idle exis.
ence. He argues that wages are mig
gardly. and that taxes, higher prices
and depreciating currency make
impractical to save and plan ahead
Showing Films.
With him, Mr.. Rothschiller, ha
six reels of film which he has Dor
rowed from the State Department q
immigration for the purpose of show
ing the European benefciaries G
North Dakota generosity, the manne
in which our citizens live and worl