The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-06-04
HOW EUROPE CAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
We Must Aid by Extending
Credits, Says Dawson.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. 4
European Ruin Would Involve
kmerica-Starvation and
Disease RaR,eant.

General conference or the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Henry p. Dawson.
chairman of the Board Of Governors
Of the League OF Red Cross Societies,
said:
As chairman OF the. Convention Of
Red Cross Societies. composed of rep
resentatives Of twenty-seven nations
that met recently In Geneva, ! am Gus
todian Of authoritative reports record
Ing appalling conditions among mil.
lions OF people living In eastern Eu-
rope.
One OF the most terrible tragedies In
the history Of the human race Is being
enacted within the broad belt of terri
tory lying between the Baltic and the
Black and Adriatic Seas.
This area includes the new Baltic
States-POland, Czecho- Slovakia, the
Ukraine. Austria. Hungary, ROumania,
Montenegro, Albania and Serbia.
The reports which come to us make
II clear that In these war-ravaged
lands civilization has broken down.
Disease, bereavement and suffering
are present Ia practically every house
hold while food and clothing are In
sufficient 10 make life tolsrsble.
Men, women and children are dying
By thousands. and over vast once-civl-
Hzed areas there are to be found mel
ther medicinal appliances nor medical
skill sufficient to cope with the devas-
tating plaques.
Wholesale starvation Is threatened
In Poland this summer unless she can
procure food supplies in large quaint.
ties. There are now approximately
$50. coo cases Of typhus In Poland and
In the area occupied by Polish troops.
Worst Typhvs Epidemic In History.
This Is already one OF the worst ty-
plus epidenics In the worlds history.
In Galicia whole towns are crippled
and business suspended. In some dis
tricts there Is but one doctor TO each
150. 900 people.
In the Ukraine, we were told, typhus
and influenza have affected most Of the
population.
A report from Vienna, dated Febru.
airy ~, said: There are rations for
three weeks. Death stalks through the
streets of Vienna and takes unhinder-
ed toll.
Budapest. according to our informa.
ton, Is 0ne vast city OF misery and
suffering. The number OF dsashs Ia
double that OF births. or the 10000
children In the schools, 100000 are de.
pendent OH public charity. There are
$50, 1000 workers idle
Typhus and smallpox have invaded
the four countries composing Czecho'
Slovakia, and there Is lack Of medi'
cines, soap and physicians.
In Serbia typhus has broken out
again and there are but 200 physicians
to minister to the needs Of that entire
country.
In Montenegro, where food ls run
mig short, there are but Ave physi
clans for q population Of 100000.
America overHs~Ins With Riches.
Returning TO the United States q
Few weeks ago with oil these horrors
ringing I'm my ears, / found myself
once pJ.e In a land whose granaries
were overlooking. where health and
plenty abpunded and where life ant
activity and eager enterprise were IN
| the full food
| asked myself: "What II this plague
and famine were here In the great ter
rltory between the Atlantic seuhoarC
and the Mississippi valley, which
roughly parallels the extent OF thes,
| ravaged countries and that 65,oO0OOt
Of our own people condemned Ia idle
ness by lack Of raw material nn'
whose fields had been devastated by
Invasion and rapine were racked b!
starvation and pestilence and IL ",
hud lifted UP Our voices and invoked
the attention OF our brothers IA hap
pier Europe 10 our own deep mser'c'
md our cries had fallen OF deaf ears
would We not in our despair exclaln
against their henrtlessncSS !"
Only Three Ways 20 Help Europe.
Tltere are only three Ways BY whlcl
these stricken lands can secure sup
plies from the outside world One II
bS payment, one by credit, aud tn,
| third Is by exchange OF commodities
|: these peoples tried TO buy materials
nhd supplies la America at tie preSen
market value Of their currencies Aus
/ trIa would have To pay forty times th'
original cost. Germany thirteen times
Greece Just double. Czecho- Slovakli
fourteen times aud Poland fifty times
These figures are official aud are
true index OF the economic plight o
these countries.
IL is clear. therefore, that they can
not give Us gold for the things the!
must have. Tor have they either prod
ucts or securities 10 offer In return 70
f, credit. IL only they could obtain raw
material which these idle millions o
theirs could convert into MANUFACTURER
products they would have sorAething Il
tender the world In return for It's raw
material, food and medicine. But 1
they lmye neither money nor credi
how are they 10 take this FIRST grea
step towards redemption
One-half the world may not ca
while the other half ssarves. How
long do you believe the plague OF ~
plus that Is taking a hldeous dealt
toll I'm Esthonia and Poland and tn
Ukraine aud eating along the fringe
Of Germany and Czscho- Slovakia will