The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1920-05-27
HOW EUROPE CAj
ESCAPE CoLLkF S Z
We Nust Aid By E tending
Credits. Says ayisOn.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.
European Fun Would involve
Amer.Ca...Siarvation AMI
Disease Rampant.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.


icties. said "As chairman OF the
onvcution Of Red Cross societies com.
jsed OF representatives C twenty.
oven 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
"Onc Of the most terrible tragedies
Of the history OF She human race Is be.
lng enacted Within the bread holt OF
territory lying between the Baltic and
the Black and Auriatic sens
This area iucludos the new Baltic
states-poland. Clccho.Sloyakia, The
Ukraine. Austria. hungary, koumania.
Montenegro, Albania aud SU.bia
"Thc reports witch come To- us
make II clear that iu thosn waupyagod
| lands civilization has broken down.
Disease, bereavement aud suffering
are present h practically every house.
hold. while food aud clothing are iu.
sufficient TO make llfc to'crable.
Men, women ana children are dy.
/ Ing by thousands, aud over vast once.
civilized areas there are t1 be- found
neither medicinal appliances nor medI.
cal skin sufficient TO cope with the
doyastating plaques.
Wholesale starvation ~ threatened
In Poland this summer uuloss she can
procur, food supplies iu large quaint.
ties There are now approximately
100000 cases OF typhus I'M po8nd ana
IN the area occup "a by Polish troops.
Worst Typhus Epidemic In History.
"Thls is already ear OF the worst
typhus epidomics in the worlds his.
tory In Galicn whole towns are
crippled and business suspended, In
some districts there is hut lue doctor
TO each 10000 people,
In The tkuue. We were told, ~.
phus and Influenza have affected most
OF the pouu'Usou
"a report from Ninnna. dated Fobru.
~ H.. said. 'Thrr, are rnuous for
rec weeks Death stalks through
streets OF Vienna aud takes un.
ndorod toll
Budapest according 10 our iulorma
N, rs one vast ciB oi mi igry aud
differing. The number ol deaths is
uble that OF births
'Typhus and smallpox have invaded
four countries oHmpusiug Czrcho
1yaEia. and thc~. DIS ick OF medl-
as, solu anI pntr.c.aaa
IN Serb.H iyIHH l1s broken out
M ana the.. a.a huI goo /" ans
mlrIster q thg needs Of tha, entire
g.. nt,y.
Retun.uF to the United states a
,.N weeks as V..h al these harrurs
ringing M my ,arf I found mysalf
once moro On lrul whose r-unaricf
were cyerilovur Nh health and
plenty abouudcd ana whore iiie ana
activity and eager enterprise were IN
the full flood
Il asked myself What ii this plague
and famine were here iu the great
territory between the Auauuc sea
board and the ~ Mssisspp. valley which
roughly parallels the extent oi these
ravaged countries aud that 6500O0OO
OF our own people condemned 90 .dle-
ness by lack of raw material and
whose fields had been devastated by
invasion and rapiue We're racked by
starvation and pestilence and 20 we
had lifted up our voices and invoked
the attention OF our brothers I'm happier
Europe 10 our own deep miseries and
our cries had fallen on deaf ears
would we not Ia our despair eXcluim
agafucf fhafr haarfIaa-naae
Only Three Ways TO Help Europe
There are ouly three ways by which F.
these stricken lands can secure sup
plies from the outside world one is /.
by payment. one by credit and The /
third Is by exchange OF commodities /
II these peoples tried 20 buy materials |
and supplies iu America ar the present |
market value OF leir curT.ucies |
Austria would have 20 pas foru times /
the Original cost, Germany thirteen |
times, Greece just double Czecho /
Sloyakia fourteen and POLAND uiy |
times. These figures "a a official and /
are a true index of the economic phsht |
of these countries.
1T is clear, therefore that they can
not give US gold for the things they |
must have, nor have they either pro /
ducts p securities O. offer Ia return |
for credit II only they could obtain /
raw material vhich these idle millions
r theirs could convert into manuiact
ured products they would have some
hing 10 tender me world in return for
IT'S raw material food and medicine.
But II they have neither money nor /
credit how are they 10 take this first |
great step towards redemption one
half the world may not eat While The
other half starves. How long DO YOU
believe the plague Of typhus that is
taking a hideous death toll in Esthonia
and Poland and the Ukraine aud eat
ing along the fringes OF Germany and
Czeeho-Sloyakia will confine itself 70
,hese remote lands?
only last Saturday our health com
missioner Of New Yo.k. Dr. Copelsnd,