The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1920-11-19
HOW EUROPE CAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
We Must Aid By Extending
Credits. Says Dawson.
GRAVE MENACE TO 0. s. A.
European Ruin Would Involve
GRAVE MENACE TO q. S. A.
European Ruin Would Involve
America-StarvatiOn and
Disease Rampant.

Dea Motnss. Iowa.-Speaking before
tie general Conference of the Metho.
o1st Episcopal Church. Henry p. Da.
Vlson, chairman OF the Board of Gov.
eEnors Of the League Of Red Cross So
cietieS. said:
"As chairman Of the convention az
Red Cross societies. composed Of rep
resenHtives of tha q nations that
met recently in Geneva, / am custod-
ian Of authoritative reports recording
appalling conditions among millions Of
people living in eastern Europe.
One OF the most terrible tragedies
In the history OF the human race il
being enacted within tho broad belt OF
territory lying between the Baltic and
the Black and Adrlaic Seas.
This area includes the new Baltic
States, Poland. Czecho-S lovakia, the
Ukratns. Austria. Hungary, Rou.
mania, Montenegro. Albania and
Serbia.
Ths reports which come to as make
" clear that in these war.ravaged
lands civilization has broken down.
Disease. bereavement and suMerin
are present in practically every house
hold. while food and clothing are In
sufficient 10 make life tolerabls.
Men. women and children are dying
by thousands, and over vast once-civ.
liked areas there are to be found
neither mediclAat appliances nor med
icinsl sl1in sufficient 20 cope with the
devastating plaguea
Wholesale starvation n tnre2cened
in Poland this SKINNER unless she can
procure food supplies In large quaint
ties. There are now approximately
$4,000 cases os typhus In Poland and
in the area occupied By Polish troops"
This is alreadg one OF the worst ty-
p1us epidemics In, the world'a history.
I'm Gallcia whole towns are crippled
and business suspended tn some dis
@aA there IL bot Oae Doctor % each
10000 people.
IN the Ukraine. We were told. ty-
pAAs and lAHuensa have affected most
q The population.
. a report from Vienna. dated Zebra
aEy Il, said, There are rations for
three weeks. Death stalks through the
streets Of Vienna ana takes Rnhinder.
cd toll"
Budapest. aeeosdinS % cur inferno
ton, is one vast city Of misery and
suffering. The number Of deaths ID.
doEble that Of birtha. OF the 1eQ, 900
In the schools 100, 900 are -
pendent on public charity. There ara
$50. eco workers idle.
In Montenegro. where food Il run.
ming short, there ara but Eve phYsar |
clans Cor q population OF 10000.
Returning 10 the United States Q |
lew weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing In my ears. found myself |
O0ee more In = Land whose granarles
we're oVernowing, where health and
plenty aBoun6ed and where life and
activity and. eager enterprise we're In
he fun Hnad
I asked myself. what n this plague
md famine were here in the great ter
ritory between the Atlantic seatoard
md the Rfsssissippi Valley, which
,oughly parallels the extent Of these
'avaged countries and thai $1,000. Gee
u our own people condemned to Idle
less hy lack Of raw material and
whose fields had besn devastated b. |
INVASION ana raPins were rao9ed ~
itaryation and pestilence and If we
lad lifted up our voices and invoked
he attention OF cur brothers In hap
Ter Eurcpe to cur own deep niserfes
md our cries had fallen on deaf ears,
you'd we. not In cur despair oxclais
'rasnst their heaTtIesSnRsss