The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-06-03

of Germany and Czecho- Slovakia will
Only last Saturday our health COM
missioner of New York, DR.. Copeland,
sailed for the other side just to meas
ure the danger and take precaution
! against such an Invasion.
This is one menace at our thresh-
old. The other, more threatening,
more terrible. is the menace Of the
! worlds ill will. We can afford to die.
but to be despiSed forever as a greedy
and pharisaical nation Is a fate that
we must not Incur.
The French government has many
. French peasantry Is working and the
French artisan. while still sadly in
/, need Of raw materials. has not lost
his habit Of industry and thrift. The
most encouraging fact about France
today is that her people are alive to
and they are going forward bravely to
solve that problem.
Italy. despite her great shortage Of
raw material Is looking forward and
not backward. Italy can be relied
upon to do her part
England is meeting the problems of
reconstruction just as those who knew
her past should have expected her to
meet them.
Plan to Aid Central Europe.
1t is not for me perhaps to give in
detail a formula for solution of the
worlds ills. but as l have been asked
many times. what would you do?" l
am glad to give my own answer.
Accordingly. I would ask:
1.-That congress Immediately pass
bill appr"NriatinC sum not to eX-
coed 5000 HN.O0N for the use of cen
trail and eastern Europe.
2.-That congress call upon the
president to appoint non-political
commission Of three Americans. dis
tinguished for their character and
executive ability and commanding the
respect Of the American people. Such
commission should include men Of
the type of General perShing, Mr..
Hoover or ex-Secrctary Lane.
"oulu invest llldt COlllllllSSlou With
complete power.
81 would have the commission
instructed 10 proceed at once, accom-.
panied by proper personnel, to survey
conditions in central and eastern
Europe. and then to act for the
restoration Of those countries, under
such conditions and upon such terms
as the commission itself may decide
to be practicable and effective. Among
the conditions should be provided that
there should be no local interference
with the free and untrammeled e1er-
else by the commission Of its own
prerOgative Of allocating materials.
Governmental politics should be elm
mated; unreasonable and prejudicial
barriers between the various countries
should be removed. and such Substan-
tial guarantees as may be available
should be eXacted in order that the
conditions imposed should be fulfilled.
AIS to financial terms, l should
; make them liberal l would charge
no interest for the first three years !;
, for the next three years, six per cent,
with provision that such interest
might be funded if the economic con-
! preaching normal, or II its exchange
conditions were so adverse as to make
payment unduly burdensome. should
make the maturity Of the obligation
fifteen years from its date, and
should have no doubt as to it's final
payment.
5.-Immediately the plan was
adopted, would have our government
invite other governments in a position
to assist, to participate in the under
taking.
6-To set forth completely my
opinion, I should add that in the final
instructions the American people
through their government, should say
to the commission:
"We want to 90 and do this job in
such manner as. after study. you
think it should he done: This is no
ordinary undertaking. The American
people trust you to see that it is done
, right
l would also say to the commits
sion:
Use so much Of this money as is
/ needcd.' Personally, l am confident
that with the assistance and CO.
operation which would come from
; other parts of the world the sum OF
, S5OO,OOO,OOO from the United States
would be more than enough to star
these countries on their way to self
support and the restoration of norma
conditions.
The whole plan, Of course, involve!
many practical considerations, tn
most serious of which is that " Oh
tanning the money, whether by issuing
additional Liberty bonds, an increas
in the floating debt, or by taxation
But l think we could properly say t.
the treasury department:
eve know how serious your finan
cial problems are; we know the diff
cultles which are Immediately con
fronting you; we know the importanc
Of dehatlon, and we know that tn
government must economic and tina
individuals must economiZe, but W
also know that the American govern
ment advanced $4,000, 100000 to IT
allies to attain victory and peace
Certainly it is worth making the az
ditonal advance in order to reallz