Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-18
MUST PUT EUROPE
 ON HER FEET OR
 SHARE HER MISERY
Davidson Says U. $. Can No More Escape This Than
 the War
EXTEND AID WITHOUT
 ANY OBLIGATIONS
Red Cross Chief Makes Strong Ap- peal for America to Live Up to Wilson's Prinei-
 pies

New York, April Tiff the peo- pie of the United States realized the situation in Europe they would ask the government to provide at once all that the war-stricken nations need to "save them and start them on their way to recovery" according to Henry F. Davison, chairman of the board of governors of the league of Red Cross societies.
 Mr. Davison made this assertion at dinner held here today as a public demonstration to his services during the war as chairman of the war coun- ell of the American Red Cross. It was arranged by members of the Red Cross council and heads of op- erating commissions sent by the American Red Cross to different parts of the world.
 Dr. Livingston Farrand, present chairman of the American Red Cross, presided. and General Per- shing and Dr. John H. Finley, state commissioner of education, were among the other speakers.
 MT. Davison who has just return ed from Europe, outlined the pro- gram of the Red Cross league. He declared the only conditions upon which the United States government l should be asked to aid Europe are 1 those which best would insure suc- cess to the relief undertaking quite i irrespective of any obligation" and ,r 1lx1 at home"
 { "We are going to find out that we can no more escape the influence of the European situation of today than we were able to escape the war it. self" he said.
 l "You cannot have one half the world starving and the other half eating. We must help put Europe on it's feet or we must participate in European misery.'
 Referring to the present attitude of Europeans toward America, Mr.. Davison said:
 Have Broken Promises. 1 "They say that we entered the war more than two and one-half years after it began; we entered not upon their demand, request or invi-S tation. They recognized and with deep gratitude, the fact that it was the great resources of the Aneri- can people, both of man power and materials, which resulted in the turning of the tide and finally the ! triumphant armistice in November. 1918. Then what happened? Did we say to them that we were grati-s. fled that we were going to take our men and go home, that we did not wish to become involved in Eur0-1 pean politics and would, therefore, sue for separate peace with Ger-s many? No, on the contrary we said that we had fought this war to make the world safe for democracy and now that the war was won, we pros. posed to see that the peace would be of character which would in- sure it's permanence, that people should for the first time enjoy self- determination as to where and under what conditions they would live, that we regarded ourselves committed to stand for those purposes in the treaty of peace.
 "We did not arrange to carry on I these negotiations with an ordinary peace commission, we were there in no less a person that the president of the United States who had brok-l en all precedents that he might carS ry through the principles which he had announced to the world. have been told many times in Europe and believe it is true, that never in his- tory did a man have the world 90 at his feet as had our president in I the late winter of 1918 and the spring of 1919.