The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-22
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now 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 Y!
Disease Rampant
GRAVE MENACE TO U. s. A
Des Aiolnes. 4

L sA"
fne General Conference Of the Metho.
dist Episce1al church, Henry r. Dav.
lfson. chairman Of the board OF govern.
fors ~ the League of Red Cross So.
'cl9t.es, said:
. As chairman Of the convention OF
Red Cross Societies. composed Of rep.
ffescntatlves Of twenty-sevcn nations
THAT met recently In Geneva, am Gus,
.todinn OF authoritative reports record.
ing appalling conditions among mil
Hons OF people living In Eastern
Europe.
, One OF tho most terrible tragedies in
the history Of the human race is be-
Ing enacted in the broad belt OF terri
tory ly.ng between the Baltic and the
Rl0<x and Adriatic seas.
rhls area includes the new Baltic
Czecho- Slovasia, the
Ukraine, Austria, Hungary, Roumania.
Montenegro, Albania and Serbia.
! The reports which come to us make
1T clear that In these war-mvaged
lands civilization has broken down.
Disease, bcreavment md suffering are
present In practically every house.
hold, while food and clothing are in.
SUFFICIENT to make life tOlerable.
J: Men, women and children are dying
by thousands, and over vast once civil
.lixed areas there nre to be found
peither medical appliances nor medical
skin sufficient to cope with the devas.
3ns p'usues'
MAocsule s'arSa''oh Is tnse"'eiieu
- Io'a'u 'u.s summer ''"iess si'e Gu"
p.ocufe noou supp'ies ~ larse gum
lies. Ues erc afe now approximately
sooovv cases VI 'ypi'us ~ noi"nu anu
= .uc urssa occupicu Ny roiis.i troops
% 'yp"us .p'usa"'S . n's'ory,
Ais 10 one oi TUG worst .!phus cpi
uceS IA tnc "oiiu nis'oi9. ~
a "no'e owns aio e.'Pi,.u UNIV
BUSINESS suspeiueu' Ia son'e uis.lie.s
e"ele 70 ous oio uoe'oi " c''0'i Aoo'ooo
ipeop'e'
~ .he oAru'ies' We are 'oiu' 'ypius
anu lni'uenza h''Ve aiec'eo ilos' VI
slne popu'uuoh'
report from viehna' uateu Hep-
luary II s'id mere are ra'ions iol
three weeks ueath staihs through the
streets OF vienna ana taxes unhinder
90 toii.
Budapest, according TO our lnforma-
'ti0n, Is one vast city OF misery ana
suffering. The Number OF deaths Is
double that OF births. Or the l6O,'
'OOO children IN the schools, lOouUu
are dependent on pubic 9harity. Ihera
are 10000 workers Idle.
Typhus ana smallpox nave invaded
the four countries composing Czecho'
SlOvakia, and there IS lack Oh medl'
cines, soap ana physicians.
In Serbia typhus mas broken oul
again and there are but 2oo physicians
to minister to the needs of that en-
tire country.
In Montenegro, where FOOD IS run
ming short, there are but rive phy'
slcians for population OF 4ooooo.
Returning to the United States a
Few weeks ago with all THESE horrors
ringing In my ears, ! round myself
once more IN iand whose sraparies
were overilowing' where healti, anu
plenty abounded anu where me ac'
'uvity ana eager enterprise were III 'he
1uli Hood.
! ask myself: "what II the plague
and famine were mere IN me great Ter.
ritory between the Atlantic seaDohro
and the MISSISSIPPI vaiicy' whicn
roughly parallels the extent CT nese
.ravaged countries, anu that os'ooo'ooe
iof our own people condemned 10 ioie'
ness by lack OF raw hi'tersni auc
whose neids hau beeh aeVas'a'eu os
invasion ana rapine were racNsa ps
starvation ana pestiiehce ana II we
had lifted up our voices ana invoked
the attention OF our brothers IN nap
pier Europe to our own deep iniseries
and our cries had iaiien on aeai ears
would we not IN ous despair eXciaiin
against their heas'iessness.r
Only Three Ways to Help Europe.