The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-05-28
HOW EUROPE CAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
We Must Aid by Extending
Credit, Says Dawson.
GRAVE MENACE TO u. S. A.
European Ruin Would Involve
America.-Starvation and
Disease Rampant.

u'ot LpiSeopai CLutcn, Henry L. DdN- /.
isOn, chairman of the board of govern
Ors OF the League of Red Cross So
cieties. said:
As chairman of the convention of .
fed 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 mil
lions of people living in Eastern
Europe.
One Of the most terrible tragedies in
the history of the human race is be-
ing enacted in the broad belt of terri
tory lying between the Baltic and the
Black and Adriatic seas.
This area includes the new Baltic
states-Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, the
Ukraine, Austria, Hungary, Roumania,
Montenegro. Albania and Serbia.
The reports which come TO us make
it clear that in these war-ravaged
lands civilization has broken down.
Disease, bereayment aud suffering are
present in practically every house
hold, while food and clothing are ill.,
sufficient to make life tolerabe.
Men, women and children are dying
by thousands, and over vast once civil
lied areas there are 10 be found
neither medical appliances nor medical
skill sufficient to cope with the devas-
tatng plaques.
Wholesale starvation Is threatened
in Poland this summer unless she can
procure food supplies in large guam
titles. There are now approximately
! 100000 eases of typhus in Poland and
| in the area occupied by Polish troops.
Worst Typhus Epidemic in History.
This is one of the worst typhus cpl
denies in the worlds history. In
! Galica 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.
\ report from Vienna, dated Feb
ruary II, said: There are rations for
three weeks: death stalks through the
streets of Vienna and takes unhinder-
ed toll"
Budapest, according to our inforina-
ton, is one vast city of misery and
suffering The number of deaths is
900 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
Slovakia, 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 is run
ming short, there are but five ply
: scians for population of 100000.
Returning to the United States ;
few weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing in my ears. found mySel
once more in land whose graDarie
were overflowing, where health ant
plenty abounded and where life &C
tivity and eager enterprise were in tn
full flood.
| ask myself: what if the plagu
and famine were here in the great tel
ritory between the Atlantic seaboar
and the Mississippi valley, whic
roughly parallels the extent of thes
, ravaged countries, and that 6o,oOO,O0
of our own people condemned to idle
5 ness by lack of raw material an
n whose fields had been devastated b
I invasion and rapine were racked b
e starvation and peStilence and IL W
s had lifted up our voices and invoke
: the attention Of our brothers in hal
pier Europe to our own deep miserie
and our cries had fallen on deaf ear
would we not in our despair excail
!, against their heartleSsness."
, Only Three Ways to Help Europe.
= There are only three ways by whic
). these stricken lands can secure SUI
a plies from the outside world. One
X by payment. one by credit, and II
r. third is by exchange of commoditie
Is II these people tried to buy materi
H. and supplies in America at presel
lie market value Of their currencies, Au
e tria would have to pay forty times Il
rs original cost, Germany thirteen time
n Greece just double, Czecho-S loyak
fourteen times, Poland fifty time
These figures are official and are
true index of the economical plig
60 Of these countries.
., II Is clear, therefore, that they ca
=. not give us gold for the things tn
=. must have. nor have they either pi
= ducts or securities to offer in retu
no for credit. If only they could obta
he raw material which these idle millio
nd Of theirs could convert into manufs
e tured products they would have son
thing to tender the world in retu
for its raw material food and me
, . cine. But il they have neither mon
- nor credit how are they to take. Il
~ first great step towards redemption
al, One half NE world may not
--hur tho athar half ctarvQS How Ia