Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 28, 1919, Page 2

PAGE TWO W HOOVER FACES TASK OF FEEDING STARVING NATIONS OF v EUROPE THE BEMIDJI: DAILY PIONEER TR KKK KKK K KKK KKK * PLEASANT VALLEY, il ii**i*ifi‘k*#iffii Mrs. Levi Foster went to Bemidji last week on a visit” to /her new grandson, naby Hedgland., Ira_Cook was a business caller in Bemidji Saturday. Joe Pete hauled in ties to the rail- Backed by $100,000,000 Voted by Congress He Is Directing |rozd last week. America’s Part in the Work—Trusted Aids Make Personal Inspections of Food Situation in Peland, Serbia and Austria—Difficult Problems to Solve. By LLOYD ALLEN, Western Newspaper Union Staff Cor- respondent. ¥ (Copyright, 'Western Newspaper Union.) Paris.—Backed by $100,000,000 voted by congress, Herbert Hoover is here directing America’s big part in feed- ing the famine-threatened nations of Burope. But it is not the policy of Mr. Hoov- er's commission to give food away to the peoples now so sorely pressed with reconstruction problems. They must pay—at once, whenever possible. When they cannot pay, they are to be given credit, with security that will insure America against total loss. Any .other policy would mean the pauperization of Europe, and Hoover fins no Intention whatever of conduct- ing a commission that would quickly put the millions of Roumania, Poland, and Serbia, to say nothing of the en- emy nations, Into a mighty bread line. With this fundamental policy as the basis of conducting a gigantic reltef commission, Mr. Iloover first of all needed money and authority to start the machinery. He had come to Eu- rope with $5,000,000 apportioned from President Wilson’s contingent funds to finance ‘such immedinte relief work as was found, upon investigation, to be absolutely necessary for the salvation of Europe’s new democracies, the Czecho-Slovaks, the Poles and Serbs, and also the Roumanians. Congress Votes $100,000,000. When Hoover had had a chance to look around, he discovered that $5,- 000,000 was just about enough 'to finance food shipments for one of, these nations, He did not single out one na- tion, however, but ordered cargoes ag- eregating $15,000,000 rushed from the United States at once. He trusted the American people to provide the capital needed. And when he got the first news of the final pas- sage of the $100,000,000 appropriation in congress, an expression of relief came Into his face that had not been there for weeks. With a small staff, Mr. Hoover has hendquarters in the Hotel de Crillon, in Paris, which has been turned into 1 combination office building and hotel for members of the American commis- sion to negotlate peace. Some of Mr. Hoover's most trusted afdes are making personal inspections of the food situation in Poland, Serbia, and Austria. Dr. Alonze Taylor’s report from Vi- enna I§ very Interesting. He found the output of coal and agricultural produets in Austrin-Hungary seriously reduced during 1917 as the result of ‘he war, and still further lowered dur- | gz 1018, i Austria-Hungary Badly Crippled. As a result of the war and the allied “ood blockade, the stocks of commodi- of all kinds, been dapgerously depleted and om ucconnt of the shori productlon of conl the railways of the Austro-Hun- adly erippled. Hav. warinn tes are ne “efficient ratlway transportation is wn important factor in moving foods wtere they are most urgently needed. hmg for the Czechs must pass v what is left of Austria proper. Hungary has )mm! divided 1eto five separate politieal areas. Tay- ction for reduced the re- vees of all (hi tory. Each sots up barriers inst the oth- ite found the food distribution s which {ormerly was @ mat- ool exchange amon, ¢ t ot a standstill ve coal, another s some graln, but each un- " beeause of lnck of ive. In such a sit- one state, netlicieny, and with ystem paralyzed, will plenty of coul. bt no food, while o having food cannot dis- it hecause its raliways bave o time Leing One sec Wi o “earry on Tt the athers Al of svhich enuses sich general un- 1t us to epproach the dan- irians Without Hope. f wentially Austrian Jands, tition of apathy. No one Lepms (o h 2 hope, The people wait tud in Vienna muke an attempt at palety. Of industry there is pone. In | Jugo-Slavin and in Czecho-Slovakia there 1s an entirely different psychol- in the future and are reaching out and struggling to build up prosperous wntlons, while the German-Austrian yeoples drift along in an apathetic viate, and the Hungarians live in a duze of proud resignation. Galicia wnd eastern Hungary, that have been taken over by Roumunia, have become vuiceless, Doctor Taylor found the food short. twe most serious in German Austria, here the people are on a very low v'aily ration with extremely short sup {lies in stock, or In sight. Tn Czecho-Slovakia there was suffi- +ient food to carry the nation through *he worst of the winter, but a short- sre before the new harvest was inevi- tuble. N Austria-Hungary—with fatalistic at- ritnde—seemed upable to start recon struction; not knowing and scarcely | cuy. These liberated penpl‘n have faith l | specially textiles, ! the separate ' me sn- caring what .became of them. Polit- xpr Quite a few saw logs are being put in at the mill. In the not distant future we hope to have some new, modern houses in this community. The Literary ciub met at the F. V. Gardner home last Friday evening and spent a most pleasant time with ogram'and lunch, Misses Nina Cook and Gladys Pete tcal bitterness and financidl paralysis igpent the day at C. W. Clark’s Sat- completed the picture. Qut of this chaos, as director gener- a! of the supreme council of supply and relief, Hoover must find some method for distributing American food- stuffs. {urday. Horace Higgins of Nehish was | visiting Norman Gardner at Boston Lake. Clyde Fuller Is in the hospital at Bemidji having successfully ‘under- gone an operation for appendicitis. Feed Him Before He Faints. 1 He will doubtless be home soon. For the new nations, the Czecho- Slovaks and the Poles and Jugo-Slavs, that have no money, the scheme for selling American foods on credit is simpler, Should any emergency arise in these countries demanding the prompt dis- tribution of food, it will be distributed on the principle of “feed him before he faints.” s The communities or nations must pay. Where they have no money—and the new democracies have little or no money worth anything -outside their own borders—thé food commission will take over some commodity produced in the nation. Some time must elapse before the Americans can trade with Austria even on the basis of getting maoney or its equivalent for every pound of Ameri- can-bought food that is distributed, be- cause Austria.was one of the nations against which America declared war. Until the blockade is lifted American interests cannot trade with the Aus- trians—unless perchance the situation develops to a point where red tape must be cut to savethe lives that oth- erwise would be lost on account of the inroads of famine. i ‘While the peace conference was building up a machine to settle prob- lems arising from a war-torn Europe, Poland, one of the new democracles, was suffering from lack of foods that could only be supplied from America. | Saved From Starvation. | Hoover sent. Dr. Vernon Kellogg to investigate the situation. Kellogg re- ported “Poland must have immediate assistance from the outside world (which meant America) if the poorer inhabitants of the large cities and the unemployed workmen and children in the industrial centers were saved from starvation.” Under normal conditions, Poland is self-supporting, as regards food, but four and a half years of war had brought the nation to desperate straits. . German looters stripped all machines of copper and belting. Scores of ma- chines were wantonly destroyed. Tons of stuff were carried away by the Ger- | mans, In all Poland, with its 4,000,000 peo- ple, the danger of starvation was a daily menace from December, whén the peace conference started, until food fram America arrived. Take Security. It is with such nations as Poland that Hoover has to deal. ‘There was only one way to obtain some kind of compensation for American foods dis- tributed. This “one way” entailed con- siderable risk when one thought in terms of millions of dollars. But mil- lions—in the old war game were mere pawns in the gigantic enterprise of war. And in the first reconstruction days they had to be viewed from the sime standpoint. The one just meth- od, according to the Hoover policy, was to take some kind of security from the nations henefited by American sup- plies. Each nation had a different se- curity, Roumania had oil fields which formed a basis of credit, if the world (America) sent food in time. The world needed oil, and Roumpania need- ed food. In Warsaw there was another kind of security ; the woolen mills, which in peace times were among the finest in,| the world. Factories could not Te- open, however, until the employees were fed. The population was weak- ened from hunger. “Feed the peo*; they in turn will feed the securities” was the Hoover policy. The first need been met by a gift ship from Amgl\- ica, but it is only a drop in the bucket. U HTTHR TR UL Y War Dead 17,500,000, Says British Paper London.—A complete sum- mary of the world war casual- ties compiled by the Manchester Guardian gives the total number of deaths at 17,500,000, This number inciudes a mor- tality of 4,000,000 from pneumo- nia and influenza. Allied losses are placed at 5, 500,000, excluding ' a large num- ber of French civillan dead. Deaths suffered by the ¢entral powers are estimated at” some- thing over 2,900,000. Ttaly's losses were 300,000 from disease In the war zone, or three-fifths as many as were killed in action. Four miliion Armenians, Syrians, Greeks and Jews wére massacred by the Turks. + Serbian civilians to the num- ber of 1,000,000 died through massacre, hunger or disease. Germans are held responsible for deaths of 7,500 neutrals. LHUUHTTHT BT BT L T T T U U DT T E O B O T BT U OB ] 3 Earle Cook has gone to Emerado, N. D, to spend the summer, o F. V. Garduer and Geo. Edwards made a business trip to Bemidji. E. R. Lee and Mr. McClellen were callers in Bemidji last week. Mr. and Mrs. A. A, Randall and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wardon made o business trip to Bemidji recefitly. R. R. Dickens made a business call in Bemidji last week. Bemidji is surely our home town from the way our people are doing business there. Clarence McClellen is home from Minneapolis Wuere he has spent thé winter mostly in the hospital, where he had his ankle straightened. He ulate him. young folks, and come of the older ones, too, repart a very pleasant g evening. *, Rev. Palmer conducted services at the Watson school house Sunday the 16th. Sunday school is re-opened and attendance urged each Sunday at 10:30 a. m. XK K KKK KKK KK KKF x LAKE FATTIE. * KR KKK KKK AR KK KKK KKK Erick Landgren, W. G. Cook and Sam Boyd were recent visitors in Bemidji. [ Mrs. Signa Spragg is working for Mrs. D. C. Searl. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Allen enter- tained the J. W. Heggie family at dinner Sunday. 1. V. Harpel and H. Tiara are cut- ting their summer’s supply of ice on Lost Lake this week. Miss Grace Stillwell resumed her studies at'the high school in Bemidji, Monday, after a very pleasant visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo, Stillwell. * Miss Genevieve Boyd who spents the winter with Mrs. Gust Hogling and attended the consolidated school, bas returned to her home in Lake Alice .township. S. J. Horner, accompanied by his sons, Velmar and Gerald, returned | Saturday from Shelcahl, Iowa, where they have visited several months, to prepare for the seasons work on his large farm. FRIDAY'EVENING, MARCH 28, 1919 T — W. G. Cook has discontinued his feels very proud to be able to. walk |logging operations on Schooleraft without his usual limp. We congrat-| River, on account of the thaw. He and his wife have again taken' up Mr. and Mrs. Joc Pete gave a taffy-| their residence on their farm at pull at their home recently. The|¥ernhill.y D. C. Searl and family, who have een living on W. G. Cook’s place uring the latter’s absence, Wednesday to their.own home near the Lake Hattie town hall. Bessie Pearson were united in the holy bonds of matrimony at Bemidji, Wednesday, March 20th, 1919. Both of the contracting parties were among the earliest settlers of this vicinity and their many friends wish them unbounded happiness and pros- perity. They will reside, for the present, on the bride’s farm near Be- midji. M. E. IBERTSO Funeral Director and Licensed Embalmer PICTURE FRAMING A SPECIALTY Phone 317-W and 317-R 405 Beltrami Avenue BEMIDJI, MINN. STAHL-JACOBS Renovators All work guaranteed. Work called for and de- General Repair Phone 488 ‘311 6th St. Mr. John Mickalson and Mrs. pa e — E. W. HANNAH Licenlyd Auctioneer I Sell Anything Anywhere, and Get Top Prices. 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