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THE GARDEN ISLAND. TUESDAY, DEC. 17. 1918
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JEWELERS
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Silver and Gold Line,
Rich Cut Glass and
Art Goods.
Merchandise of the
Best Quality Only.
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Notes of the Life
of a Prominent Man
Just before Mr. Hoover boarded his
Bhip for Europe on his present trip
he made the following statement:
"There Is a great problem In the
situation of the enemy people about
1)0,000,000. This problem is not one
of going to their relief. ; It is a prob
lem of relaxing the watertight block
ade, which continues through the arm
stice, sufficiently so that they may
secure for themselves the bare neces
sities that will give stable govern
ment. Unless anarchy can be put
down and stability of government
can be obtained Jn these enemy
States there will be nobody to make
peace with, and nobody to pay the
bill to France and Belgium for the
fearful destruction that has been
done.
"1 would certainly approach this
problem with mixed feelings, having
been long a witness to the robbery
of food from women and children,
and the destruction of millions of
tons of food at sea and to the misery
under which the millions amongst the
big and little Allies have suffered
under the German yoke. Justice re
quires that Government be establish
ed able to make amends for wrongs
done, and it cannot be accomplished
through spread of anarchy. Famine
is the mother of anarchy.
"I am going to Europe to discuss
the further food measures that must
be organized as a result of the ces
sation of hostilities. Of their 420,
000,000, practically only three areas
South Russia, Hungary, and Denmark
comprising say 40,000,000 have suf
ficient food supplies to last until next
harvest without imports. Some must
have immediate relief.
"We have a surplus of some 18,000,
000 to 20,000,000 tons of food if we
are economical, so that the situation
can be handled if this and the other
smaller surpluses in the world can
be transported.
"All continental Europe has reduced
herds and is consequently short of
meats and especially fats. These
countries have their last harvest and
under ordinary governments this
would furnish breadstuffs and vege
tables for various periods from two
months upward, depending upon the
ratio of Industrial populations. Some
thing over 200,000,000 of peoples are
now in social disorder.
"In these cases, with transportation
and financial demoralization the tend
ency is for peasants to cease market
ing even their surplus and thus in
stant difficulties are projected Into
the cities even when resources are
available in the country. The peasant
and villager of Europe always pro
vides for himself for the whole year
in any event. The problem thus nar
rows itself to the support of th
cities and large towns pending restor
ation of order and the establishment
of confidence in future supplies and
the cities are the centers of anarchis
tic infection.
"Arrangements have long since
been made so that the large
Allies that is, France, England, and
Italy will be provisioned. This cov
ers 125,000,000 people.
"Our first and deepest conoern now
must be for the little Allies who were
under the German yoke they are the
Belgians, Serbians, Rumanians,
Greeks, Czechs, Jugo-Slavs, and
others. There are some 75,000,000
people in these groups, and they must
be systematically helped, and at once.
We have already doubled the stream
of food flowing toward Belgium.
"Our next concern must be to relax
blockade measures as far as possible
in order that the neutral States In
Europe, which are now all on short
rations, should be able to take care
of their people and prevent the growth
of anarchy. This is another group of
about 40,000,000.
"Another problem lies in the 50,000
000 people in North Russia, a large
part of whom are inaccessible owing
to the breakdown of transportation
and through sheer anarchy. Millions
of these are beyond help this winter.
These groups are the ones that must
enlist the sympathy of the American
people and for whom we are prepared
to make any necessary sacrifice."
War Diet And
Human Weight
A statistical report published in the
German press and dealing with the
effect of war food on the human
constitution shows briefly that farm
ers and their families lost no weight
during the war, but that persons
living in large cities were effected to
a serious degree.
According to Bavarian doctors, the
average person In cities lost about
one-sixth his pre-war weight, but in
small towns the loss has been only
about one-twentieth.
"Self-providers," as the farmers are
called, lost no weight during the war
and this observation applies to both
men and women. Among city con
sumers, however, men lost about one
tenth their pre war weight and women
about one-fourteenth.
Information of this kind reflects, in
a measure at least, the close food
margins on which city dwellers in
Central Europe have been living. Ac
cording to the U. S. Food Administration,-
the situation probably has been
more critical among the surrounding
nations which Germany has drained
of food and it is these newly liberated
countries that must have food from
America promptly and in plenty.
Maui Acts
The Maui people have waked up to
the fact that a great many small in
vestors in Liberty Bonds are exchang
ing them for inferior and more or less
worthless securities, and have organi
zed a compaign of education against
this sort of thing, headed by the
Chamber of Commerce, and they re
quest the Kauai Chamber to cooper
ate with them by taking some similar
action.
We beg to inform our Maul friends
that we have been after that very
thing for a couple of months now.
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Lace Boots
$5, $5X0
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Wo arc iihle lo sell
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with clotli tops'at
the prices quoted
lor a snort nine on
ly. We cannot huy more to sell at these figures, our ndyiees from
the manufacturers being co-iehisive that shoes will cost more.
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