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THE SOIL OF THE EARTH 267
Even before pathetic after-war letters brought news of past bereavement and present distress, the newspapers had reported the quandary of rural Hungary. Zukor ventured on his first European trip in nearly five years. He proceeded to Budapest. Rail traffic was paralyzed, and, in the disturbed political condition, the dictator had forbidden the country roads to automobile traffic. Zukor employed a lawyer and a man of business, both wounded veterans of the war, chartered a motor handcar, and ran down to his birthplace. After a conference with the town council, Zukor set up his own relief organization. The lawyer and the man of business sat at a desk; Zukor established himself behind a screen, listening unseen to Ricse as it filed past, telling its troubles. This woman needed a major operation, but she had no money even to get her to Budapest, where there were hospitals and good surgeons. This woman’s husband had died in the war, and there were six children to support. This farmer had come home disabled with wounds, and Hungary could grant no funds for relief of its human wreckage. This brood of five children had lost their father in battle, their mother in the distress that followed dismemberment of the Empire. At night, Zukor took the lists of cases and set down opposite each name a sum of money; noted, according to circumstances, whether it should be a loan or a gift. Superficial distress relieved, he went deeper into the economic structure of the district. He financed the important flour mill — of