The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1920-05-27
HOW EUROPE CAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
We Must Aid by Extending
Credits, Says D lYisOn.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.
European Ruin Would involve
AmeriCa-Starvati0n aGd
Disease Rampant.

the general conferences OF the Meth
odist Episcopal church, Henry z.
Dawson, chairman Of the Board OF
Governors OF the League Red Cross
societies, said: "As chairman of the
convention of Red Cross societies,
composed of representatives of TWEEN
ty-seyen nations that met recently in
Geneva. | am custodian OF authorita'
tive reports recording appalling con-
ditions among millions of people liy.
ing in Eastern Europe.
"One of the most terrible tragedies
in the history Of the human race is
being enacted within the broad belt
OF territory 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
It clear that in these war rayaged
lands civilization has broken down.
Disease bereavement and suffering
are present in practically every house
hold. while food and clothing are In.
sufficient to make life toerable. Men,
women and children are dying by
thousands, and over vast once.clv'
ilized areas there are to be found
neither medical appliances nor med
ical skill sufficient to cope with the
devastating plaques. Wholesale star.
walton is threatened in Poland this
summer unless she can procure food
supplies in large quantities, There are
now approximately 25O,O0O cases of ty.
phus In Poland and in the area occu'
pied by Polish troops.
Worst Typhus Epidemic In History.
This 10 already one Of the worst ty.
phus epidemics In the worlds history
In Galicia whole towns are crippled
and business suspended. In some dis
tricts there Is but one doctor to each
10000 people.
I'm the Ukraine, we we're told, ty'
phus and influenza have affected most
Of the population. A report from Wen
ma, dated February 18th, said: There
are rations for three weeks, death
stalks through the streets of Vienna
and takes unhindered toll
Budapest, according to our informa'
ton, Is one vast city of misery and
suffering. The number of deaths is
double that Of births, OF the 10000
children In the schools, 100000 are de-
pendent on public charity. There are
5000 workers idle,
"Typhus and small pox have invaded
the four countries composing CEecho'
slovakia and there Is lack OF medi'
cines, soap and physicians
IN Serbia typuhs has broken out
again and there are but two hundred
physicians to minister to the needs
OF that entire country.
'In Montenegro, where food Is run
ming short, there are but five physi'
clans for population Of 100000 Re,
turning to the United States a few
weeks ago with all these horrors ring
ing in my ears, found myself once
more in land whose granaries were
overflowing, where health and plenty
abounded and where life and activity
and eager enterprise were in full flood
81 aslted myself What II this
plague and famine were here IN the
great territory between the Atlantic
seaboard and the Mississippi Valley
which roughly parallels the extent ol
these ravaged countries and that 65,
100000 Of our own people condemned
TO idleness by lack Of raw materia
and whose fields had been devastated
by invasion and rapine were racked by
starvation and pestilence and II We
had lifted up our voices and invoked
the attention of our brothers In hap
pier Europe to our own deep miser
les aud our cries had fallen on dea
ears, would we not In OUR despair
exclaim against their heartlessness,
Only Three Ways to Help Europe.
There are only three ways by whicl
these stricken lands can secure SUP
plies from the outside world One i
by payment, one by credit, and tn
third is by exchange of commodities
II these peoples tried to buy material
and supplies in Americas at the presen
market value Of their currencies. Al
stria would have to pay forty time
the original cost, Germany thirtee
times, Greece just double, Czecho-Slc
vakia fourteen times and Poland fit
times. These CURES are official an
are true index Of the economic plish
of these countries.
at is clear, therefore, that they car
not give us gold Tor the things the
must have, nor have they either proc
ucts or securities to offer in rstur
for credit. II only they could obtai
raw material which these idle million
of theirs could convert into manufai
tursd products they would hay
somsthirg to tender tho wcrla IN q