The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-05-20
HOW EUROPE CAN
ESCAPE Col LAPSE
We Must Aid by Extending
Credits, Says Dawson.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.
E!rc9ean Ruin Would Involve
Amcrica--St2rvatiOn and
Disease llai. Jant.

Gric.ul Conference Of tie Methodist
Episcopal Church. lcnry Z. Dawson,
Chairman of the Hoard Of Governors
of the League of Fed Cross Societies,
said
AS chairman Of the Convention OF
Red Cross Societies 90 ,OSed OF r"Q-
resentatiyes of twcniy-Scyen nations
that met recently IN Geneva, ! um cls-
todian Of authoritative reports record.
Ing appalling conditions among nil
lions of people liking i'm eastern Eu-
rope.
One of the most terrible tragedies In
the history of the hurAn race IL BEN"
enacted within the broad belt OF terri
tory lying between rha baltic ami III"
Black and AdriatiC Sea-.
This area Includes tie uew rnlfic
Stutes--Poland. Coecho-Sloyak!a. tie
Ukraine, Austria. Hungary. Rouniau'n.
Montenegro, Albania and Serbia.
The reports which come 10 us make
II clear tina In i-2Se war-ra'aged
lands civilization has hrui:yn down.
Disease, bereavement and suffering
are present In practically every house
hold while food and clothing are In
sufficient to make lifo tolerabe.
Men, women and children are dying
by thousands, and over vast Oncc-civl.
lized areas there are to be found mel.
ther medicinal appliances nor medical
skill sufficient TO cope with the devas-
Eating plaques.
NIr4,,laanla an &c fhrnn fnnnH
In Poland this summer unless she can
procure food supplies In large quanti-
ties. There are now Approximately
100000 cases Of typhus In Poland and
in the area occupied by Polish troops.
Worst Typhus Epidemic In History.
This is already one Of the worst ty-
phus epidemics In the worlds history.
In Galicla 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 Fehru-
airy -. said: "There are rat.ons for
three weeks. Death stalks through the
streets OF Vienna and takes unhinder-
ed toll.
Budapest, according 20 our informa-
ton, is one vast city of misery end
suffering. The number Of deaths is
double that Of births. OF the 100000
children In the schools, 100000 are de-
pendent OH public charity. There are
10000 workers idle
Typhus and smallpox have invaded
the four countries composing Czecho-
SlovakIa, and there is lack Of medi-
cines. soap and physicians.
In Serbia typhus has broken out
again and there are but 200 physicians
10 minister to the needs of that entire
country.
In Montenegro, where food Is run
ming short, there are but five physi
clans for population OF 10000.
America Overlooking with Riches.
Returning to the United States 1t
few weeks ago with all these HORROR
ringing in my ears, found mycC,f
once more In land whose granGrirs
were overlooking. where health and
plenty aboundcd and where life and
activity and eager enterprise were In
the full food.
asked myself: "Whnt If this plague
and famine were here IN the great ter
ritOry between the Atlantic seaboard
and the Mississippi valley, which
roughly parallels the extent Of these
ravaged countries and that 100000 600
Of our own people condemned TO idle
ness by lack OF raw material and
whose fields had been devastated by
invasion and rapine were racked by
starvation and pestilenee md If we
had lifted up our voices and invoked
The attention Of our brothers In hap
pier Europe to- our own deep mscrles
and our cries had fallen on deaf ears,
would we not In our despair exclalm
against their heartlessness y
Only Three Ways to Help Europe.
There are only three ways by which
these stricken lands can secure SUP
plies from the outside world. One is
by payment one by credit. and the
third Is by exchange of commodities.
IL tNtht HtOIltS liltN w hhH ihAAtiINAN
and supplies In America at the present
market value Of their currencies Aus
tria would have 60 pay forty times the
original cost. Germany thirteen times,
Greece Just double, CzechO-Slovakia
fourteen times and Poland Atty times.
| These figures are official and are o
true index of the economic plight OF
these countries.
1t is clear, therefore, that they can
not give us gold for the things they
must have, nor have they either prod
ucts or securities 20 offer In return for
credit II only they could obtain raw
material which these idle millions Of
theirs could convert into manufactured
products they would have something TO
tender. the world in return for Its raw
material food and medicine. But If
they have neither money nor credit
how are they to take this first great
step towards redemption
One-half the world may not eat
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