Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-05-21
HOW EUROPE CAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
We Must Aid by Extending
Credit, Says Dawson.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.
European Ruin Would Involve
America.-StafvatiOn and
Disease Rampant.

the General Conference OF the Meth0.
dist Eplscopal church, Henry p. Dav,
tson. chairman Of the board OF govern.
oEs Of the League OF Red Cross So.
caeties said:
As chairman Of the convention OF
Red Cross Societies, composed Of rep.
resentatives Of twenty-seven nations
that met recently In Geneva. am Gus
todian OF authoritative reports record.
ing appalling conditions among mill
lions OK people living In Casters
Europe.
One Of the most terrible tragedies In
the history Of the human race Is De.
Ing enacted in the broad belt OF terri.
tory lying between the Baltic and the
Black and Adriatic seas.
Tails area includes tbs new Baltic
statss-Poland. CzechO-Slovakia, the
Ukraine, Austria, Hungary. Roumania,
Montenegro, Albania and Serbia.
The reports which come to us make
Il clear that In these war-ravaged
lands civilization has broken down.
Disease. bereavment and suffering are
present In practically every house.
hold, while food and elething ara In.
sufficient 10 make life tolernble.
Men, women and children are dyina
By thousands, and over vast once clvt
n@@d areas. there ara to be found
neither medical appliances nor medical
skill sufficient to cope with the aevas-
tating plaques.
Wholesale starvation Il threatened
In Poland this summer unless she can
procure food supplies In large guam.
titles. There are now approximately
$4,000 cases OF typhus In Poland and
In ths area occupied by Polish troops
Worst TyPhus Epidemic In History.
This Ia one of the worst typhus cpl
denies In the worlds history. In
Galicia whole towns are crippled and
business suspended. In some districts
there Is but one doctor to each 10000
people.
In the Ukraines, we are told, typhus
and influenza have affected most Of
the population.
A report from Vienna, dated Feb
ruary II, said: .srhere are rations for
three weeks; death stalks through tina
streets Of Vienna and takes unhinder-
"a toll"
Budapest, according to our informa-
ton. is one vast city OF misery and
suffering. The number Of deaths il
double that Of births. OF the 160,.
600 children In the schools. 100000
are dependent on public charity. There
are 10000 workers idle.
Typhus and smallpox have invaded
the four countries composing Czecho.
BlovakIa, and there Is lack Of medi.
cines. soap and physicians.
In Serbia typhus has broken out
again and there are but 200 physicians
to minister to the needs of that en-.
tire country.
In Montenegro. where food Ii run.
ming short, there are but five ply.
sicians for . population Of 100000
Returning to the United States >
few weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing in my ears. found myself
once more in q land whose granaries
were OVERLOOKING, where health and
plenty abcunded and whore life &C.
tivity and eager enterprise we're In the
full flood.
/ ask myself: "what II the plague
and famine were here Ia the great ter
ritory between the Atlantic seaboard
and the Mississippi valley, which
roughly parallels the extent Of these
ravaged countries, and that $500, 600
Of our own people condemned to idle
ness By lack II raw material and
whose fields had been devastated by
invasion and rapine were racked by
starvation and psstilenee and II we
had lifted up our voices and invoked
the attention Of our brothers IN hap
pier Europe to our own deep miseriea
and our cries had fallen On deaf ears.
would We not In orr despair exclalm
against their hearflessness-p
Only TISsss Ways 70 Help Europe.
There ara only three ways b. which
these stricken lands can secure sup
plias from the outside world. One 10
b. payment. one By credit. and the
third IL By exchange CT commodities.
II thasa people tried to buy material
and supplies In America az present
market value Of their eurrencies. Aus
trie would have to pay forty times tha
original cost. Germany thirteen times,
Greece just double. Czecho- Sl0vakia
fourteen times. Poland fifty times
These figures are official and are 3
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81 these countries.
u 10 clear. therefore, that they can
not give us geld for the things they
must have. nor have they either pro
ducts OF securities 70 ofIeK in return
for credit II only they could obtain
raw material which these IDLE millions
Of theirs could convert into manufac.
tured products they would have sOne-
thing to tender the world in return
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