The literary digest . hen the hands of those who are conducting the propagandaof anarchism. Lenine and Trotzky have tightened their gripon Russia through control of Russian food-supplies. Manysupport the rale of terror in order to eat. There is no end tothat except the end of the food. People can not practise Bol-shevism and feed themselves. They eat at the expense ofothers. In every case where food is supplied by the Allied govern-ments the people who receive it must exhibit a willingness tocease to be non-productive—to turn to work. They must bewilling to contribute to the restoration of civ
The literary digest . hen the hands of those who are conducting the propagandaof anarchism. Lenine and Trotzky have tightened their gripon Russia through control of Russian food-supplies. Manysupport the rale of terror in order to eat. There is no end tothat except the end of the food. People can not practise Bol-shevism and feed themselves. They eat at the expense ofothers. In every case where food is supplied by the Allied govern-ments the people who receive it must exhibit a willingness tocease to be non-productive—to turn to work. They must bewilling to contribute to the restoration of civil order. Whatthe distrest populations of Eastern Europe, now tormentedby Bolshevik propaganda, need most after food is some en-couragement to become self-supporting once more. And theyhave been deprived of that encouragement by the utter lack of aclear Allied policy of pacification and reconstruction. The food question is only one phase of the general EasternEuropean question, which the Allied governments have per-. > 7/ Copyrighted by tlie New York Herald Coinpftny. dye THINK thats GOING TO STOP EM, UNCLE SAM 7 —Rogers in the Ne* York Herald. sistently pushed into the background. Food can be only apalliative. Whether Eastern Europe is rationed or not, Bol-shevism will continue a running sore. If it is not healed beforea new European, order is established at the Peace (Conference,it will return to plague Europe before the ink is dry on theVersailles settlement. 14 The Literary Digest for January 25, 1919 HIGH PRICES TOTTERING THE BALLOONING MOVEMENT of prices in theUnited States, as the St. Paul Dispatch reminds us,began long before the war, but an increase of nearly70 per cent, between July, 1914, and November, 1918, seems toindicate that the war was a great accelerator of this move- ing the percentages of increase up to November, 1918, as in-dicated by the Boards study, to these respective items, theaverage increase in the cost of living as a whole is per
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