The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-17
WAR F4VAGED
LANDS HAVE
BROKEN DOWN
Unless Plague is ThrOttIed H.
P. Dawson Says it Will
Come Here.

DES MONIES, IA, May IA con-
gressional appropriation Of S50O.0oo,-
600 for the relief Of starving nations
in Eastern Europe. was urged today
by Henry F.. Dawson. chairman of
the board OF directors Of the league
Of Red Cross Societies, in an address
TO the general conference Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church He declared
the American government must take
definite action to prevent the pestll-
ence now raging in devastated Eurore
from spreading TO this country.
TERRIBLE CONDITIONS EXIs~T
The reports which come to Us
make it clear that in these war raw
aged lands civilization has broken
down.. Davidson says Disease. be-
reavement and suffering are present
in practically every household. while
food and clothing are insufficient t.
make life tolerable.
Men women and children are dy-
ing by thousands and over vast once
civilized areas there are 10 be found
neither medical appliances nor medi-
cal skill sufficient 10 cope with th,.
devastating plaques.
POLAND FACES STARVATION
Poland is threatened with whoIo
sale starvation this summer while -
phus epidemics are waging in POLAND.
Galacia, Ukrainia, Austria, Czecho-
Slovakia- Servia and Montenegro
You can no more renounce the tri-
bulations or these stricken people
than you could escape the colnsequen-
ees Of the war" he continued "One
half of the world may not eat while
the other half starves. How long do
you believe the plague OF typhus rnat
is taking hideous death toll in Es-
thonia and Poland and the Ukraine
and eating along the fringes Of Ger
many and Czech -Slovakia Will conhne
itself to these remote lands.
MAY COME TO AMERICA
1t is a parasitic disease and ir not
throttled may spill into the western
countries Of Europe and creep to our
own shores.
''rhi sis one menace at our thresn-
old The other. more threatening.
more terrible, is the menace OF the
worlds III wIl We can AFFORD to
die. but to be despised forever as a
greedy and pharasaciaI nation IS a
fate that we mast not incur"
Mr.. Davidson said there were only
only three ways by which the strick-
en- lands might obtain supplies from
the outside world
ASKS FOR HALF BILLION
one is by payment. one by credit.
and the third by exchange Of com
modities. 1t is clear that they can
not give Us gold for the things they
need. nor have they either products or
securities to offer in return for cred
T." he added.
Accordingly, I would ask that CON
gress Immediately pass a bill appro-
priating sum not TO exceed $500. .oeo.-
Gao for the use Of Central and Eastern
Europe
This SUN" he said. should be
handled by commission Of three men
whom congress would ask the presi-
dent 70 appoint.
SUGGESTS PERSHING ON
COMMISSION
The commission would comprise men
distinguished for their character and
executive ability. and MIR. Davidson
mentioned Cen. Pershing. Herbert
Hoover and Franklin X. Lane. form
er secretary Of the interior. The com
mission would allocate the relief funds
on whatever conditions they found
satisfactory
AS 70 financial terms would make
them liberal I would charge no in
terest for the first three years and
for the next three years six per cent
with provision that such interest
might be funded if the economic con
ditions of the country were not an
preaching normal l should make tho
maturity of the obligation hfteen wears
from its date and l have no doubt as
TO its final payment"