The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-05-28

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Esthonia and Poland al> the CEmlns
aEd eating along the fringe Il Ger
many and CzechO-Sloyakia will con-
nle itself 10 these reme.e lands
only last Saturday our health com
missioner Of New York. Or. Copeland,
sailed for the other side just TO mea-
sure the danger and take precauuOn
against such an invasion.
This is one menace al our threshold.
the other, more threatening, more ter
rible, is the menace of the worlds III
Will. We can afford 10 die. but 10 be
despised forever as a greedy and
pharisaical nation is a fate that We
must not incur.
The French government has many
serious problems 10 solve but The
French peaSautry 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 the ser
iouSness of Frances problems, and
they are going forward brayely TO
solve that problem.
Italy, despite her great shortage Of
raw materials. is looking forward and
not backward. Italy can be relied up
on 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 10 Aid Central Europe.
II is not for me perhaps, to give in
detail formula for solution OF the
worlds i'll, but as | have been asked
many times, what would you dor' l
am glad TO give my own answer.
Accordingly l would ask:
THAT congress Immediately pass
bill appropriating sum not to ex-
coed S500,0OO,0O0 for the use OF CEN
trail and eastern Europe.
THAT congress call upon the
1 president to appoint Il non-poitical
+ commission of three Americans, dis
/ tnguished for their character and eX-
/ ecutive ability and commanding the
/ respect of the American people. Such
a commission should include men of
/ the type of General Pershing, Mr..
| Hoover or eX-Secretary Lane.
would invest that commission with
| complete power.
81 would have the commission in
structed to proceed at once, accom-
panied by proper personnel, to survey
conditions i'll central and eastern Eu-
rope and then act for the restoration
of those countries under such condi-
tons and upon such terms as the com
mission itself may decide TO be prac-
ticable and effective. Among the con
ditions should be provided that there
should be no local interference with
the free and untrammelled exercise by
the commission of its own prerogatlve
Of alloting materials. Governmental
politics should be eliminated; unreas-
enable prejudicial barriers between
/ the various countries should be re-
moved, and such substantial guaran-
; tees as may be available should be ex-
acted in order that the conditions i'm
posed should be fulfilled.
4-As to financial terms, should
make them liberal | would charge nc
interest for the first three years; fol
the next three years per cent, with
5 provision that much of such interest
might be refunded if the economic con
} ditions of the country We're not APP
, preaching normal, or IL its exchange
conditions were so adverse as to make
, payment unduly burdensome. l SHOULD
make the maturity of the obligation
:" five years from its date and | ShoulC
: have no doubt as to its final payment
5.-Immediately the plan was adopt
t ed | would have our government in
: vite other governments in position
=. to assist, to participate in the under
taking.
6,-To set forth completely m
/ opinion, should add that in the fina
: instructions the American peop
through their government, should s;,.
a to the commission:
3 "We want you to go and do this jo
# in such manner, as after stud
:, you think 1t should be done. This i
!, no ordinary undertaking. The Amer
can people trust you to see that 1t
done right
e l would also say to the commission
use SO much of this money as
lie needed" Personally, | am confiden
r. that with the assistance and cooper,
Il ton which would come from othe
n parts of the world the sum of $500
100000 from the United States woul
y be more than enough to start thes
~ countries on their way to self supper
e and the restoration of normal cond
III tons.
" The whole plan, of course, involve
" many practical considerations, tn
Va most serious of which is that of oil
"a tanning the money, whether by issuin
= additional Liberty bonds an increas
Y. in the floating debt or by taxation
g But l think we could properly say I
5, the treasury department.:
III I'VE know how serious your final
cial problems are; we know the dl
ficulties which are Immediately co
IN fronting you; we know the important
;, of deflation, and we know that II
=, government must economic and tn;
- individuals must economize but "
De also know that the American COVER
rs, ment advanced $1,000, 900, 900 to /
al allies to attain victory and peace. Ce
nj tainly 1t is worth making the ado
&c. tional advance in order to realize Il
MOO 400 FOR which vrn havo olraoJv 80,