The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-29

While the other half starves. How long
DO you believe the plague CT tyFhns
that is taking a hid Gus death to! IN
Esthor!a and Poland and the Ukraine.
and eating along the frinGes OF Ger
MANY ani Czecho-Sloyakia, win coa-
fine itself to these remote lands?
Only last Saturday our health ccrn-
missioner Of New York, Dr.. Copeland,
sailed for the other side, just to meas--
ure the danger and take precaation
against such an Invasion.
This is one menace at our threshold.
The other mere threatening, more
terrible. is tbs menace OF the worlds
i'll viii. I'VE can afford to die but
to be despised TO ever as greedy
and Fharisaical nation Ia fate that
we must not incur.
The French government has many
serious problems to solve, but the
French peasant is working ard the
French artisan, while still sadly in
need Of raw materials, mas not lost
his habit CT Industry ald thrift. The
today Is that her people are alive TO
the seriousness of Frances problem,
AID they are going forward bravely
to solve that problem.
Italy, derpi.e her great shortage CT
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 these who knew
her past should have expected her to
meet them.
Plan 10 Aid Central Europe.
1t is not for me, perhaps, to give
In detail formula for solution OF the
worlds ills. but as l have been asked
many times, What would you DOT"
| am glad to give my own answer.
Accordingly, l would ask:
l. That congress Immediately pass
a bill apprCpriating a SUM net to e3-
coed $50O,0OO,000 for the use OF Cen-
trail and Eastern Europe.
9. That congress call upon the pres
ident to appoint non-po-itical con-
mission Of three Americans, distia-
guished for their character and execu'
tive ability and commanding the re-
spect Of the American people. Such
q commission should include men OF
the type Of General Pershing, Mr..
Hoover or ex-Secretary Lane. would
invest that commission with complete
power.
s. I would have the commission In
structed to proceed at Olce, accom-.
panied by proper personnel, to survey
conditions in Central and Eastern
Europe, and then act for the restora-
ton Of the countries under such con-
diticns and upon such terms as the
commission itself may decide TO be
practicable and effective. Among t13
conditions should be provided THAI
there should be no local interference
with the free and untrammeled exer.
else by the commission of its own
prerogative Of aliocating materials.
Governmental politics should be elm
mated; unreasCnable and prejudlcial
barriers between the various coun res
should be removed, and such substan-
tial guarantees as may be available
should be exactcd ir order that the
core itions !; in. .osed should pc fdl-
filled
i. As to financial terms, I should
make them liberal. | would charge
no interest for the first three years;
for the next three years. 6 per cent,
with provision that such interest
might be funded if the economic con-
ditions of the country were not ap-
preaching normal, or if lis exchange
conditions were so adverse as to maze
payment unduiy burdensome. shoa q
make the maturity Of the Obligation
Is years from it's date, and should
have no doubt as to it's final payment.
5. Immediately the plan WaS<adort'
ed would have our government inYl
other governments, in position 20 as
sist to participate in the undertaking.
6. To set forth completely my
opinion, l should add that in the .tilai
instructions the American people.
through their government, should say
to the commission:
1--WE want you to go and do this Joo
In sucl manner AZ. after study, sou
think it should bs done. TINS is 10
ordinary Undertaking. The American
people trust you TO see that it ie
I lone right
l would also say to the commission:
"Tso So r.1aA Of this money as 10
needed"
Personally, l am confident that with
the assistance and cooperation which
would come from other parts OF the
world, tie sum Of S500,000,C00 from
the United States would be more than
enough to start these countries on
I their way TO selfeuppcrt and the res
! toration Of normal conditions.
/ The whole plan, OF course, Involves
! many practical considerations, the
most serious Of which is that or CD
tanning the money, whether by issuing
additional Liberty bonds, an increase
in the floating debt, or by ta1at.an'
Is,,x T could 7or0n Srty saw To