The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-05-18
DAWSON PICTURES
TERRIBLE MISERY
IN CENTRAL EUROPE

nt:S MONIES, "a. May. l:.-,tIenry
+. DAWSON Of J. 4. Morgan & Co. chair
nan of tho hoard III governors Of the
."aCuN Of Rcd Cross societies. told the
general conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal church here today that "one
VI the most tarri bl" tragedies III tho
HISTORY "f 'hc human race is being en-
acted within tn" broad belt of territory
lying between the Baltic and the Black
and Adriattc seas" In this area are
Slnvakia. Ukraine. Austria, Hungary.
Enmania, Montenegro. Albania and Ser
ha.
Mr.. Dawson asked that congress inn
mHdIatcly appropriate not exceeding
S5N0. cor. 400 for the use Of tho coun-
jri"s Of central and eastern Europe. He
r"pucSted that congress call upon the
president 70 appoint non-political
SuiShcd Tor their character and execu-
;ivc ability. which should proceed at
once TO survey tho conditions in these
countries and to allocate materials to
'h"r'r without interference and by cNer-
else Ot its own prcrogative. HC Sug-
SCSted for members of the commission
mon of the type OF General Pcrshing.
herbert Hoover and former Secretary
Franklin X, Lane. He said ne had no
doubt that the obligation would be re-
paid. and suggested 1t should run for
nttNCn years.
The reports which como to us make
It clear that in these war-rarished
lands civilization has broken down. men.
women and children are dying by thou
sands. and over vast once civilized areas
there arc found neither medical appli-
tuCcS nor medical skill sufficient to
cope with tho devastating plaques he
said
Continuing. Mr.. Davidson said:
According to reports OF the American
Red Cross and the Commissioner Of the
League Of Red. Cross Societies. made in
lslN q 10 NhA t~nra
"rnment. Wholesale starvation is threat
ned in Poland this summer unless she
AN procure food supplies in large
Quantities. \ telegram TO the League OF
Rcd Cross Societies. Mach 20, stated
hat there are now approximately 2o0.-
nDn cases of typhus In Poland and in the
urea occupied BY Polish troops.
This is already one of the worst ty-
phuS cpidemicS in the world5S history,
In GaltCia. whole towns are crippled
VI business suspended. In some dis
trIctS there is but one doctor TO each
10000 people. During the year 1919
about 100000 refugees and prisoners
uttered Poland.
md influenza has affected most Of the
population. In villages of two to three
thousand half the people were i'll at the
same time and there was almost no
medical care. In many cases a terri
Tory forty miles in diameter had but
one physician. Some doctors who had
twenty 10 thirty thousand patients
"ould get on medical supplies whatever
aud had nothing better to give the sick
than oral instructions. Pauperism is
Intensified every day.
\ report from Vienna dated February
-. said: There are rations for three
weeks. People are apathetic. fatalistic.
ttred. Ono hundred thousand school
rhildren in vienna are reported as un-
derfed and diseased because of food
shortage and lack Of fuel. At least
,%enty-fiSc thousand hospital beds have
become useless owing to lack OF medi-
al supplies Death stalks through tho
streets OF Vienna and takes unhindered
toll. The general death rate has risen
forty-siS percent since 1913 and the
mortality. for tuberculosis two hundred
md nifty percent
Budapest. according to our informa-
ton. Is one vast city Of misery and
suffering. The nun Der OF deaths Is
double that Of birth Or 10000 chill
cut on public charity. There are $780,
200 workers idle.
The Roumania tuberculosis tS Sprea1.
ing In an alarming and unprecedented
manner. All energies are devoted 10
Keeping the typus epidemic at bay
Dniestcr River precents the entrance
of 10000 Russian refugees on the
other side whose infection Is feared.
Typus and smallpox have invaded
the four countries composing Cz"ch,,-
Slovakia and there IL lack Of medt-
cncs. soap and physicians. The
shelves Of their pharmacies and thclr
hospitals are bare.
In Serbia typus has broken GU;
again and there ar" but two hundred
physicians 20 minister I" tho needs "t
that entire country. In Montenegro
whore food is running short. there are
but five physicians for an estimated
population OK 100000.
In y letter to the Red Cross Conren-
ton appealing for aid Arthur Balfoue
Chairman Of tho Council OF th3
I.caguo If Nations. speaks OF the
.atastrophO as one or uneHampi"c
magnitude. The clamaity following
hard on war seems almost worse than
lhc war itself