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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1921

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PROJECT TO HELP

GRECIAN REFUGEES

League of Nations Undertakes Big

gest Problem ol History

Saloniki, Dec. 28. The arrival In

Palonikl of Henry Morjrenthau, for

mer United States ambassador to Tur

key, as chairman of the Refugee Set

tlement Commission of the League of

Nations, has officially opened the

greatest project of reestablishing a

homeless refugee population that

probably ever lias been undertaken.

With John Campbell of Great Britain

the second member of the commis

sion, Mr. Morgenthau made a brief

survey of refugee conditions in Salon

iki and adjacent territories, after

which the two commissioners pro

ceeded to Athens to confer with the

government and start drafltng plans

for the agricultural settlements

which the league has authorized in

its loan of 125,000,000 to Greece.

At the present time hundreds of

thousands of refugees are crowded

into Saloniki, Macedonia and western

Thrace, dependent upon government

dole and what feeding can be given

liy British and American relief organ

izations. The immediate purpose of

the commission is to establish the ag

riculturalists among them upon the

unfilled lands of Macedonia and west

ern Thrace. This involves a seientic

estimate of the nature of soils, the

division of the refugees into groups

such as wheat, tobacco and vine cul

tivators for assignment to various dis

tricts and the providing of houses,

bams, live stock. Implements and

needs which will enable- thorn to get

Into production.

The commission will follow the

Russian system of building villages

adjoining agricultural lands. Kach

settlement will consist of about 1,000

acres. Houses will be constructed,

and tools and seeds supplied. Land,

buildings ami equipment will ultl

matfly be offered for wale to the ten

ants on the instalment plan of pay

ment. Mr. Morgenthau believes such

plans will be repaid in from 12 to 15

years.

It is hoped that agricultural banks

may. in the future, relieve the com

mission by handling a portion of the

land contracts. Later efforts will he

made to Interest foreign capital In the

drainage of the Stromua mid Vardar

nllcys, which would result In the re.

clamation of large areas of exercme

ly fertile land. No distinction has

been made between Greek and other

Anattolian refugees, in dialling th.

plans of these refugees nettlcments.

ALWAYS ENOUGH FOOD

FOR ALL HUMAN NEEDS

President C, C. Plclin of University of

California Says There Never Will

Re World Starvation.

Jierkeley, Cal., Dec. 28. Will the

population of the world ever increase

to such numbers that the food supply

will run out? "flo," predicts Profes

sor C. C. Plehn of the department of

economics in the University of Cali

fornia. Hut the professor qualifies his nega

tive by saying that if the population

of the world ever increases as fully as

it has the power to, there certainly

will be a shortage of food. He ex

plains that, a matter of statistics, this

probably never can happen, since

events and conditions always Inter

vene to prevent over-population.

Yet, he concedes, in certain coun

tries this economic over-population

has occurred. He cites the annual

famines in China and India, which

he contend, are due to the fact that

the birth rate never has been kept

down in those countries and conse.

quently the food supply proves inad

equate.

"Oread diseases always follow

famine in the train of excessive pop

ulation and shortage of food," the

professor points out, and he states

further that as population increases

the land is proportionately over

worked. "In America, especially, population

has always been held in check. Peo

pie are made to realize the import

ance of keeping a balance between

the population and the food supply.

Farmers manage to produce enough

food to satisfy everybody, even

though agricultural methods im

prove more slowly than the popula

tion increases. The amount of effort

expended in labor and machinery for

getting food Is increasing steadily, to

that, although population tends to in

crease more rapidly than food, there

never will ba danger of food giving

out."

BETTER CONDITION

IN SAARVALLEY

Economic and Social Situations

Still Cause Anxiety

satisfactory Itargaiii

An impecunious tenant had not

paid his room rent for several months.

"Look here," d"clared his land

lord. "I'll meet you halfway. I am

ready to forgot half of what you

owe!"

"flight I'll meet you. I'll forget

the otlur half," lluen Humor (Madrid).

I nile May Ilavo I amis Wait

The United States has a $:;,000,00fl

judgment against Germany, and prob

ably will collect it about Judgment

Day. Little Hock Akunsas Gawtte.

Geneva, Hoc. 2S. Satisfactory from

some points of views, the economic

and social situation of the 8aar Val

ley territory causes anxiety from oth

ers, according to a report received by

the League of Nations from the gov

erning commission of the district. The

Saar Valley, which extends along the

Franco-German frontier, was handed

over to the league for control during

a period of years after which the in

habitants by a plebiscite will decide

their future political status.

The commission reports that the

territory is gradually recovering :rom

the effects of the miners' strike and

that there is a large increase in the

gross yield from the mines. However,

the territory as a whole has not re

gained its prosperity, the situation be

ing aggravated by continual difficul

ties in transport to the east, by the

scarcity of certain raw materials and

by the rise in the cost of living which

began in August. Since June the

French franc has been the only legal

currency in the district, replacing the

German mark. The effort of the gov

erning commission to prevent exploi

tation of the currency reform at first

succeeded, but in August and Sep

tember a somewhat alarming increase

in the cost of living set in, the main

causes being the rarity of credits, dif

ficulties in obtaining supplies, the

enormous rise of prices in Germany,

and the ever-widening use of the gold

unit for the establishment of prices.

However, prices are now lower than

In Germany- The commission lias

adopted measures to deal with the

agitation tendency in labor circles.

Compilation of results of a census

taken last year shows that th- 1otaI

Saar population is 713.105. The sur

face of the territory is 1SS.0C9 square

kilometers.

The commissioners express belief,

that, they will be able to cope with the

problem of tin; cost of living and

eventually succeed in balancing the

budget.

NUT WITH UNBREAKABLE

SHELL FINALLY SOFTENED

Xut Known as Australian, Queensland

And Polar Xut Loses The Hard

Qualities of its Covering

Sydney, N. S. W., iJee. 2S. For

many years the delicious bush nut of

Australia, known variously as the

Australian, Queensland and Polar nut

has baffled horticulturists. It had a !

rare and delicate flavor, was a dish

for an epicure, btiti ts shell was about

'he hardest known to mankind. Th

size of a small pigeon's egg, brown

and shiny, one might jump on it and

hammer it with one's heel without

leaving the faintest impression, save

on the heel. One might put it in the !

crevice of a door binge, and it would ;

'in the fulcrum to break down th-

door. Something in the nature of a

blacksmith's hammer and anvil was

required to smash the shell.

After years of disappointed exprri

ments in variousp arts of the worl-

j official word comes now that J. S.

i Waldron, who lives on the north

i coast of New South Wales, has pro

duced a thin-shelled bush nut. Sev

eral plant generations have demon

strated the success of the new nut,

j according to the Queensland govern

ment botanist and the director of

I fruit culture, who inspected the Wal

dron farm.

The made-over bush nut is said to

retain the flavor, and the indestrue-

! tible shell has been replaced by one

i t lint may be opened with reasonable

facility.

CRADLE ItAIDED I'OU A COLONEL

Uclgrade. Dec. 28. The heir to the

crown of Jugoslavia holds the dis

tinction of being the youngest colonel

In any army of the nations of the

world. Having recently reached the

age of seven weeks, his elevution to

the military rank of regimental com

mander coincided with his christen-ing.

oung Karageoigeviti h took the

record away trom .laime of Bourbon,

of Madrid, the eldest son of King Al

fonso, who was made a colonel upon

celebrating his firft birthday.

Closer Home

"Where is the island of Cuba sit

uated?" asked the tcachor of a forlorn-looking

boy.

"I dun no, mam."

"Don't you know where your nugsr

come from?"

"Yes. mam, we borrow it from next

door." Exchange.

Hit Immunity

After the epidemic had been check

ed, an old negress protested vigorously

when the health officers started to

take down the sign they had put on

her house.

"Why don't you want us to take

it down?" one of the officers asked.

"Ere ain't be'n ft bill collectah neah

dis house sence dat sign was nailed

up. You all please let It alone?"

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