THE OREGON
SUNDAY JOURNAL, ' PQRTL AND,
SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, . 1820.
11
SUFFERINGS LESS
' IN EUROPEM 0 ST
'AFFECTED BY WAR
American Committee Reports
Little Suffering Is Found in
r. Regions Devastated by War.
.. . By Paul Scsott Mower
Special CibU to Th Journal ind The Chlcwo
II)r New.
CHyrlrtt 120. by Chieaco Daily N.W. Co.)
Paris, France, March 20. A vlvlct
"inalght Into present conditions in
the devasted regions is a;lven by the
report of the American committee
for devastated France, a jwreHminary
draft-of which rias just come into
my hand. "In those parts of Ger
many where th'e difficulties are the
greatest," writes exPresldent Ray-
jnond Poincaire in the last number
of the Revue des Deux Mondes, "the
sufferings are less than In those parts
of our northern and eastern depart
ments which were the least affected."
All the evidence seems to bear out
the truth of this assertion.
KKl.IKF PI.AJJ7TF.D
Great efforts have been made hy the
' Trench government and by French pri
vate relief organisation. Fun4i htvt
been advanced and material furnished,
but to reconvert a virtual desert Into a
well tilled, smllins; . countryside as of
yore takes time, The idea of helping
Germany to recover from the war before
any real International aid has bean ac
corded to the devastated regions seems
absolutely unjust to most 1 Frenchmen
In whose mtnds the fact uppermont la
that aa yet Oermany has not paid France
a single sou.
Aside from the Red Cross which is
merely liquidating the stocks of the
Smith college unit, which are small, and
' the Rockefeller foundation which Is ln
" terested chiefly In anti-tuberculosln work
the American Committee for Devastated
France, the president of which Is Mrs.
A. M. Pike of New Tork, Is the sole
active relief organization remaining in
France. To its care the French govern
ment. Just after the armistice, entrusted
the task of the reconstruction of four
cantons comprising 112 communes, name
ly the cantons of Vic-sur-Alsne, Solaons,
Coucy-Ie-Chateau and Anizy-le-Chateau.
The total area Is 40 square kilometers
(25 square miles). The destruction
ranges from 50 to 100 per cent. Before
the war the population was 50,000 ; now
it is' 25.000.
ESORMOCS TASK
In these four canton which form only
. small per cent of the total devastated
area probably the most effective relief
work has been accomplished which could
e found anywhere on the whole 800
: kilometers (496 miles) long battle desert
t ltretchlng from Switzerland to the North
ea. Yet even here after a year and a
-..half of steady labor the 'task which
remains is enormous. In the first nine
months of 1919 the total expenditure of
the committee was 5.472,000 francs (nor
mally 1. 094. 400). Of this more than
2,000,000 francs (1100,000) .nave been re
funded by the inhabitants from their
earnlng-s. The committee further pos
sesses motors, tractors, farm machinery,
other machinery and merchandise to
the value of nearly 2,000,000 francs The
entire enterprise has been conducted with
an overhead charge of about 300.000
francs (S60.000).
But without dwelling on financial de
tails It is interesting to survey briefly
the kind of relief which Hs been af
forded to enable the former inhabitants
to return and resume their ubusI life.
The first thing which had to be supplied
was food. This was exceedingly dif
ficult as no means of transportation
existed. Peasants often walked miles for
their daily bread. Then for keeping
house in the dugouts or half ruined
bouses to which the families returned
beds, chairs, tables, bedding and dishen
had been brought In December, 1919,
the French government- passed a law
providing furntture at a low cost for the
devastated regions and so since that
date the American' committee in this
respect has been merely the keeper of
the government warehouse.
Clothing, however, has not been pro
vided by the government. The net ex-
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Economic Reconstruction Is the
Tremendous Problem That Must
Be Solved Hjalmar Brantung.
By Hjalmar Bran ting
Biradiih Socialist Leader.
(Written for the United Frew.)
Chrlstiania, March 20. The fail
ure of the treaty of Versailles to in
clude a real plan for the economic
rebuilding of Europe after the
world war has agrsTrava,ted the gen
eral situation greatly.
It is already fully evident that
France and Belgium, probably Italy
and certainly; the Slav states In the
Balkans and"- the east are depend
ing on the 'possibility of renewed
industry for their reestablishment.
Economic reconstruction Is the tre
mendous problem confronting Europe.
In comparison with it the disposition of
the "deserter of Amerongen" (the for
mer kaiser) really is of very little Im
portance. This reconstruction should be regard
ed, in part at least, from the viewpoint
Bankers Become Too Rich
Giddy Money Battle Waged
By Edgar lasel Xevtrer
Special Cable to The Journal Md Th Chicago
Dally Neva.'
(Copyright 1920. b7 CUcsgo Dal! !rw. Ox)
Rome, Italy, March 20. A giddy battle
between capitalists rivaling: tbose In the
best days of 'Trenxted finance" in Amer
ica is related by the Rome Epoca in ex
planation of theorise of the stock of the
Banco Commercial e. The shares which
have a face value of 600 lire (normally
$100) each have risen in four days from
1,250 lire (250) to almost. 2.000 lire ($400)
"per share. According to the newspaper
a controllingtnterest in the 6; 0.000 shares
In the Banco Commercials has been held
by a number of financiers known as
the Marsaglla group, perhaps the strong
est In Italy.
FIGHT FOB CONTROL
But the war created other fortunes.
The Perrone brothers, virtual owners of
the immense Ansaldo steel interests, two
years ago obtained a share in the Banca
Itallana Disconto and some 10,000 shares
of the Banca Commerciale. Gradually
the Perrone brothers who with their
wives have "an estimated combined for
tune of 700,000,000 lire (normally 140,
000.000) bought more Commerciale stock
and finally forced the Marsaglla group
into, terms of -alliance. . -J
Recently whea a -neV president and
vice presidents were to be elected, the
Perrone became discontented, broke the
aliiarxse ' and entered the ; field In open
wa-fare to obtain complete control of the
sharea The Perrones ha.l the start In
the race and bad bouahtt a larare num
ber of shares before the Marsaglla group
know what was going ou. Then Mar
saglia In self defense began buying des
perately with the result Hhat the price
of the stock has risen to a fantlstlo
heixht. '
A81 0TEB5ME5T AID
The Epoca and other newspapers in
voke aTOverntneot interference for if-the
Perrones gain control of the Banca Com
merciale they will control financial re
sources of not less than 4.600,000 lire
(normally 1900.000.000). which for Italy
is a tremendous sum. It rtiay be recalled
that before the war th3 Banca Com
merciale was the chief means of pro
moting German commercial penetration
in Italy and hence despite Its reported
nationalization during the war It Is still
an object of considerable' suspicion.
of assisting the German masses who
persist, despite all proofs to the con
trary. In the behief that their former
"peace loving emperor" was, against
his own will, driven into war by the In
trigues of the entente.
The German people must be made to
understand the true realities a to the
origin of the world war. They must be
made to change their ylews radically
upon this fundamental question.
This will be difficult ;ecause of the
long and systematic campaign of falsity
to which the German people were sub
jected. Defeat and revolution have not
caused the change to taf,e place, but it
mast ooma. for upon ' reconclllaiion of
former foes - depends ths peace of the
wcu-ld and the aafetv'of mankind. Trad
activity in Europe is largely a problem
or the restoration or central Europe,
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Ukrainian Soviet Is ; ;
Seeking Peace With
Polish Government
By Michael Farbmsa - '
Spaoial Cata to Tin Jottrnal and The Obioaa '.:
Daily Nawa.
Moscow. Russia. March i0. ( Via Rlga,
Livonia, March 17.) On February the
Ukrainian soviet' government offered
peace to the follsh government. A, note '
was qent by wireless stating that , the
workers' and peasants' government' of
the Ukrainian communist republic had
tried to overturn the government which :
pretended to rule Ukrainla, such aa that .
of Hetman Skoropadsky, the German "
forces of occupation and recently' the dl v
rectory. The prenent abnormal reia- .a
tions between Ukrainla and Poland, the ,
note continued, prevented commercial re
lations and added to the nationalistic :
dissensions which had been created ar- -tiflclally
by the enemies of both states
and. which could only be overcome by
peace. Any further advance' of the Po
lish troops will be met with an armed
Innurrection. as it will be looked upon as"
a move from "Imperialistic Central Eu
rope or the entente powers," ; ;
The workers' and peasants' govern
ment believes that the difference In the .
form of government between Poland and i
Ukrainla Is no obstacle to rce. ,The
proposed frontiers will be those Upon -which
the Russo-Ukrainian Red army
was halted In the pursuit of the White
bands and Pntluralsts and which Was ,
outlined in the peace proposals made by
the allied soviet republic of Russia, - '
Vitrimont hi the first town in .FVance to be entirely reconstructed by Americans. The new buildings are
plain looking, simple In design and built to last. The streets are in process of releveling and trees
have already been planted alon p the walks. Tins combination illustrates the Vitrimont of war times
and the Vitrimont of today. The upper photo shows the principal street as It stands reconstructed
by American architects and finance. The insert shows the same thoroughfare daring bombardment.
The lower picture gives a general view of the town, with clean looking dwellings and church, present
ing pleasing appearance.
penditure pt the committee on this item,
after subtracting refunds, reaches 126,
000 francs ($25,200). For agricultural
purposes, seeds, tractors and implements
to the value of about 500.000 francs
($100,000) were purchased and trans
ported by the committee and a series of
farm syndicates organized.
"The results achieved by our syn
dicates," says the committee's report,
"have more than fulfilled expectations.
Less than a year ago German prisoners
were still cleaning shells, grenades and
barbed wire from the fields and some
tracts of land have not yet been cleared.
nevertheless we already have 2500 acres
under cultivstlon and another 2000 acres
ploughed and ready for spring sowing.
We have been able to secure and trans
port 21 carloads of wheat, oats and bar
ley seed and fertilizer."
LIVESTOCK SUPPLIED
Livestock and poultry also have been
supplied. For the construction work
a series of workshops has been equipped.
The government has established building
cooperatives throughout, the liberated- re
gions and contractors have been asked
for bids. b6t nothing has been accom p-1
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lished by this means as yet because of
the lack of men and material and espec
ially transport. The American commit
tee therefore employed 85 masons and
carpenters of the region and sen. cam
ions for wood which had been felled for
army purposes. Sftventy-five houses and
three churches have been repaired, 450
school benches made and eight barracks
reconstructed. Ths stone quarries on
the Alsne are just beginning to be
worked for building material. "On the
Hindenburg line," says the report, "the
Germans by nearly five years of con
stant shelling succeeded in literally pul
verizing the villjigeS and naturally it is
impossible for France to :rebuild in a
day what It took five years of constant
cannonading to destroy."
Much child welfare work has been con
ducted by ths committee with the co
operation of the government. Sixty-five
public schools and four domestic science
schools hava been equipped in these four
cantons.
FIANS CRITICISED
Many criticisms have been made by
American visitors against French
methods of reconstruction, but it should
be remembered that although the de
vastated regions alone would be a suf
ficient problem for any one nation at
the close of an exhausting war Prance
has many other problems equally im
portant for the nation's future which
must also be solved. Such Americans as
have actually worked in the destroyed
departments speak of the fine fortitude
and energy displayed by the Inhabitants
under the most discouraging circumstan
ces. The sentiment throughout France
is that if international help is to be given
anyone it should be given here where
the brunt of the war was borne and
where the soldiers of France, Britain and
America sacrificed their lives together.
Bolsheviki to War
On Poland Unless
Attacks Are Halted
By Hal O'Flaserty
Special Cable to The Journal and The Chicago
Daily News.
(Coprrla-ht. 1920, by Cbieaco Dally Nwa Co.)
Stockholm, Sweden, March 20. A mes
sage from M. Tchltcherln, Russian com
missioner of foreign affairs, addressed
to the British, French and American le
gations in Stockholos. contains a threat
immediately to begin an offensive
against Poland unless the authorities in
that country consent to enter Into peace
negotiations. The commissar reviews
the soviet government's long continued
efforts to bring peace between Russia
and the neighboring republics, bat points
out that recently the Poles have been
fighting desperately, capturing many
towns, and that they are continuing to
attack the Bolshevist troops.
Commissar Tchltcherln declares that
unless this Is immediately ended, the So
viets of Russia auid Ukrainla cannot be
held responsible for the consequences.
He points out the Impossibility of pro-;
ceeding with arranging economic rela
tions with Poland while " the Poles are
Attacking,, but offers to begin peace ne
gotiations on the same terms as be has
offered heretofore. .
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