The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-17
SAYS POLAND IS
, FIGHTING BATTLE.
FOR CIVILIZATION
Baltimore Man Declares Allies
Should Rush to Aid of Ma
ton and Save World From
Red Terror.

BALTIMORE, Md. Aug. II. (Spl.)-
Poland Is fighting the battle of civ
tltzation against Bolshevism, and the
fall Of Warsaw to the Bolshevists
would be many times worse for. the
worlds civilization than would have
been the capture of Paris by the Ger
mans and the looting of that CITY," is
statement made in a special article
for the Manufacturers Record by Ed
ward H. Bouton, leading business
man Of Baltimore, who has just return
ed from eleven months stay in War
saw, where he was engaged in assisting
the Polish government in solving its
housing problem and the hetterment of
gthe sanitary conditions of its leading
cities
4 Mr.. Bouton says that Polands fight
Us not merely for its own salvation, but
1t is in reality a fight for the allies
and for America against the powereOf
Bolshevism, which. If successful in cap
Turing and overruning Poland, would
endanger the civilization of the world.
Having been for nearly a year imme-
diately on the firing line and in close
touch with the government and business
interests of Poland, Mr. Bouton comes
home with report of the horrors of
Bolshevism fully sustaining all the re-
ports that have been made bya others.
Russia" said he, sis in the hands Of
small lgroup of men who yield a pow
er over that country more imperialistlc
than ever before known. These men
absolutely dominate the situation and
control all the propaganda literature
sent out over the world Most of the
men who have visited Russia in the last
- months and made favorable reports
y as to conditions there were not able"
he says, TO speak the Russian Ian
guage. They were permitted to see only
the things which the TrotslSy- Lenine
group desired that they should see, and
their reports were based on this misin-
formation. In Poland. on the other
hand" he says, you hear the heart
rendering stories not merely of few
dozens, or a few hundreds, but of
thousands of victims of Russian cruelty
who have escaped out of that country.
These people are Russian and they knew
the conditions in Russia. The crimes
of the red army in its march of loot
ing and murder are" he says, ''un-
speakably fiendish. So hideous and re-
voting have these forms of cruelty be-
come that in many instances even Rus
sian soldiers have refused to carry them
out, and the Bolshevist leaders have in
their employ band of Chinese ex-
bressly employed to commit the vilest
of their foul deeds against captiveS.
Because it knows the truth of Boil
shevism. Poland is heroically fighting
for its very existence, and If Poland is
not saved there is great danger that
Bolshevism will overrun the world. The
Poles are intensely patriotic. Being on
, the battle line, they know how hideous
is Bolshevism in all it's forms, and there
is" said Mr.. Bouton, "less Bolshe-
vistic sentiment in Poland than is to
be found in other parts of Europe, and
what is still more startling, less than
is to be found even in the United
States. II Poland Is to successfully
combat Bolshevism it must" says Mr..
Bouton, receive allied support and
credit, and we must recognize the
danger that would confront the entire
world if the Bolshevists should capture
Warsaw or break down Poland, which
is the only country in his opinion,
which stands between Bolshevism and
world chaos"
Mr. Bouton has for more than 30
years been one of the leading business
men of Baltimore. largely identified
with big building and financial opera
tions here; and during the war was
vice-president of a subsidiary of the
Bethlehem Steel company, which had
charge of the industrial housing work
of the United States shipping board at
Baltimore. The Manufacturers Record
states that, having known him intimate
ly for a quarter of century and
knowing his judgment, it unhesitatingly
indorses any statement made by him
as to the conditions which he found in
Poland and Russia