Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1919 — MAY SEE CHAOTIC EUROPE [ARTICLE]

MAY SEE CHAOTIC EUROPE

Herbert Hoover Warns-of Menace of Reds. - - : Only Greatly Increased Production ' Can Prevent Great Loss of Life, He Says. s London. Unless European productivity can be rapidly increased, there can be nothing but .political, moral and economic chaos'"finally interpreting itself in loss of life on a scale hitherto undreamed of, says Herbert Hoover, In an article in the British National Food- Journal. “The entire surplus productivity of the . western hemisphere is totally incapable of meeting the present deficiency in European production if it Is long continued,” he asserts. “Nor could credits be piobilized‘for this purpose for more than a short oeriod because all credits must neces- , ■ ' ■

sarily be simply an advance against, the return »of commodities in exchange an„d credits will‘break down the stant that the retifrn of commodities becomes improbable. Further, if such credits be obtained for more than temporary purposes It would result in economic slavery of Europe to the western hemisphere and the ultimate ’ end would be war again.” Mr. Hoover points out this solution of Hie . European. economic problem: “A vigorous realization of the actual ' Situation in each country of Europe and a resolute statesmanship- based on ?ueh a realization—the populations of Europe uyist be brought to a‘ realization that productivity must be instantly increased.” In the ... present-day European ferment. Mr. Hoover says, “every eco- ■ noftiic patent medicine” has , flocked i under the banner of socialism'or com- ' munism, which has claimed -to speak , for all the down-trodden—to alone be-

speak human sympathy.” Experimentation in varying forms of these political leanings—socialism and gomniunismt —has so far, in every case, resulted in reduced production, the food controller says. Europe’s threatened food famine, he says, Is due “in the largest degree to the human factor of the limitation of effort.”