Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1920-05-26
HOW EUROPE CAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
We Must Aid by Extending
Credits, Says Dawson.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.
European Ruin Would Involve
MISUNDERSTANDING and
Disease Rampant.

lies MONIES, ld.-NptuhlllS hNAbAf N"N
General Conference of the Meth"Ngt,
Episcopal Church, Henry =. DAY 'n,
chairman Of the Board of Cove rors
of the League of Red Cross Societies,
said:
As chairman of the Convention of
Red Cross Societies. composed of rep,
rescntatives of twenty-seven nations
that met recently in Geneva, | am Gus
todian of authoritative reports record
ing appalling conditions among mil-
lions of people living in eastern Eu-
rope.
One of the most terrible tragedies In
the history of the human race is being
enacted within the broad belt of terri
tory lying between the Baltic and the
Black and Adriatc Seas.
This area includes the new Baltic
StateS-Poland. CZechoS lovakia, the
Ukraine, Austria, Hungary, Roumania,
Montenegro. Albania and Serbia.
The reports which come 10 MS make
t. clear that in these wsr-rasaged
lands civilization has broken down.
Disease, bereavement and suffering
are p.esent In practically every house
hold, white food and clothing are In
SUFFICIENT to make life t0lsrable.
Men, women ana children are dying
by thousands, and over vast snce-eivi-
Eized areas there are 10 he found nei-
tLsr medicinal appliances nor medical
slslli SUFFICIENT to cope with the devss-
Eating plaEAes.
Wholesale starvation Is threatened
IN Poland This summer unless she can
procure food supplies in large ananti-
ties. There are now approximately
25O, 900 cases of typhus in Poland and
IT. the area occupied by Polish troops.
Worst Typhus Epidemic In History.
This is already one of the worst ty-
plus epidemics in the worlds history.
| In Galicia whole towns are crippled
| and business suspended. In some dis
-tricts there is but one doctor TO each
10000 people.
In the Ukraine, we were told, typhus
! and influenza Have affected most Of the
population.
A report from Vienna, dated ','"'I-
l3,ry u, said: There are ralt'.~ for
three ~~eks. Death STALKS tiro" T. lie
streets of Vienna and takes Gu,..nder-
ed toll.
Budapest, according to our Informal
zion. is one vast city of misery and
suffering. The number of deaths is
double that of births. OF the 100000
children in the schools 100,GW are de-
pendent on public charity. There are
10000 workers idle.
Typhus and smallpox have invaded
the four countries composing Czecho-
! Slovaka, and there is lack of medi-
cineS, soap and physicians.
In Serbia typhus has broken out
again and there are but 200 physicians
t" minister to the needs of dat entire
country.
In Montenegro, where food is run
ming short there are but five physi-
clans for population Of 100000, !
America Overlooking With Riches.
Returning to the United States a
few weeks ago with all these horrors
IihSliS III NY VoiS, IOuiNl NY 7''A
once more in land whose grunaries
were oyertiowing. whore health and
plenty abo,nded and where life and
activity and eager enterprise were in
the fulI flooh
asked myself: "What If This plague
and famine were here in tho great ter
ritory between ihe Atlantic srahoard
Wad The Mississippi Valley. which
roughly parallels the extent Of these
ravagtd countries and that G5,MH',NW
nt or own people condemned I" idle
ness by lack of raw material and
whose fields had been devastated by
Invasion and rapihe were rarktd by
starvation and peStiIehce and II We
had lifted up our voices and invoked
the attention of our brothers IN hap
pier Europe to our own deep miStries
AMI our cries had fallen ON deaf ears.
would We not in cur despair tAeIhlm|
against their heartesSnesS -
Only Three Ways to Help Europe.
There are only three ways by which
these stricken lands can secure sup
! p'leS from the OUTSIDE "hfIH' 'bt
by payment, one by credit and ths
third is by exchange of commodities.
II these peoples tried to buy materials
and supplies in America 1t the present
market value of their rurren"ieS Aus
tria would have 10 pay forty times the
original cost. Germany thirteen times,
Greece just double. CZech"-Sl"rAkia
fourteen times and Poland fifty times.
These figures are orici"l and IRE n
true index Of the economic plight Of
| these con- riPs