American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1920-06-05
HOW EUROPE GAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
We Must Aid by Extending
Credit, Says Dawson.
GRAVE MENACE TO u. S. A.
European Ruin Would Involve
America.-Starvation and
Disease Rampant.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.

Des Moines. Iowa. Speaking before
the General Conference OF the Metho.
dist Episcopal church. Henry T.. Dav.
ison. chairman Of the board Of govern.
ers Of the League Of Red Cross So.
cieties, said:
A. chairman Of the convention of
Red Cross Societies, composed of rep
resentatives Of twenty.seven nations
that met recently In Geneva, I am Gus
: todian Of authoritative reports record.
Ing appalling conditions among mil.
lions Of people living in Eastern
Europe.
One Of the most terrible tragedies In
the history Of the human race Is be-
ing enacted In 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-Siovakia, 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. bereavmcnt and suffering are
present In practically every house,
hold, while food and clothing are In.
sufficient to make lie tolerable.
Men, women and children are dying
by thousands. and over vast @s,cc civil
lized areas there are to be found
neither medical 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 guam
titles. There are now approximately
100000 cases of typhus In Poland and
In the area occupied by Polish troops.
Worst Typhus Epidemic in History.
This Is one OF the worst typhus cpl
denies In the worlds history. In
GalIcla whole towns are crippled and
business suspended. In some districts
there Is hut one doctor 10 each 10000
people.
In the Ukrajnes. we are told, typhus
and Influenza have affected most of
the population,
A report from Vienna, dated Feb
ruary H. said: There are ratlons for
three weeks; death stalks through the
streets OF Vienna and takes unhinder-
ed toll"
Budapest, according 10 our lnforina-
tion. is one vast city of misery and
suffering. The number of deaths Is
double that of births. or the l6O,.
600 children In the schools, 1OO,OOO
ARE dependent on public charity. There
are 10000 workers idle
Typhus and smallpox have Invaded
the four countries composing Czecho-
Slovakia. and there Is lack Of medl-
cines. soap and physicians.
In Serbia typhus has broken out
again and there are but 200 physicians
TO minister to the needs Of that en-
tire country.
In Montenegro. whore food Is run
ming short, there are but five ply
sicians for a population OF $4,000.
Returning 10 the United States u
few weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing In my ears, found myself
once more In n land whose graparies
were Overlooking. where health and
plenty abounded and where life ac'
tivity and eager enterprise were in the
full flood
I ask myself: "what IL the plague
and famine were here In the great ter
rltory between the Atlantic scaboard
and the Mississippi valley, which