Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-07-29
HOW EUROPE Il: Can
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
I'VE Must Aid by Extending
Credit" Says Dawson.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.
European Ruin Would involve
America--Starvation and
Disease Rampant.

dist Episcopal church, Henry p. Davi-
son, chairman of the board of gov
errors of the League of Red Cross
societies, said:
AS chairman of the convention Of
Red Cross societies, composed of
representatives of q nations, that met
recently in Geneva, am custodian Of
authoritative reports recording appall-
ing conditions among millions Of peo-
pie living in eastern Europe,
One of the most terrible tragedies
in the history of the human race is
being enacted within the broad belt of
territory lying between the Baltic and
the Black and Adriatic seas.
This area includes the new Baltic
states-poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Uk-
raine, 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, bereavement and suffering
are present in practically every house.
hold, while food and clothing are in.
sufficient to make life tolerable.
Men, women and children are dying
by thousands and over vast once-civil.
'zed areas there are to be found
neither medical appliances nor medi-
cal skill sufficient to cope with the
devastating plaques. /,
Wholesale starvation is threatened
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 troo-s.
Worst Typhus Epidemic in History.
This is already one of the worst
typhus epidemics in the worlds his
tory. In Galicia, whole towns are
crippled and business suspended. In
some districts there is but one doctor
to each 10000 people,
In the Ukraine, we were told.
typhus and influenza have affected
most of the people.
A report from Vienna dated Febru-
airy II said: "There are rations for
three weeks. Death stalks through
the streets of Vienna and takes un-
hindered toll.''
Budapest, according to our informa.
ton, is one vast city Of misery and
suffering. The number of deaths is
double that of births. OF 100000
children in the schools, 100000 are
dependent on public charity. There
are 10000 workers idle.
Typhus and smallpox have invaded
tho four ri
Slovakia, and there is lack of medi-
cines. soap and physicians.
In Serbia typhus has broken out
again and there are but two hundred
physicians to minister to the needs of
that entire country.
In Montenegro, where food is run
ming short, there are but five physi-
clans for a population Of 100000. ~
Returning to the United States a
few weeks agosv-ith all these horrors
ringing in my ears. found myself
once moresin land whose granaries
were overlooking where wealth and
plenty abounded, and, where life and
activity and eager enterprise were in
the full food.
J.
and famine were here in the great
territory between the Atlantic sea-
board and the Mississippi valley,
which roughly parallels the extent of
these ravaged countries, and that 65,-
100000 of our own people condemned
to idleness by lack of raw material
and whose fields had been devastated
by invasion and rapine. were racked
by starvation and pestilence, and If
we had lifted up our voices land in
voked the attention Of our brothers in
happier Europe to our own deep
miseries and our cries had fallen on
deaf ears. would we not in our
despair exclaim against. their heart.
lessness !" xsagsi
ronly Three Ways 20 Help Europe.
There are only three ways by
which these stricken lands can secure
supplies from the outside world. One
is by payment, one by credit, and the
third is by exchange of commodities.
If these peoples tried to- buy ma
terials and supplies in America at the
present market tnlue of their curren-
cies Austria would have to pay forty
times the original cost, Germany thir-
teen times, Greece just double.
Czecho-S lovakia fourteen times, and
Poland fifty times. These figures are
official and are 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
nets or securities to offer in return
for credit. If only they could obtain
raw material which these idle millions
of theirs could convert into manlifac.
tured products they would have some.
thing to tender the world in return
for its raw material. food and meti.
cine. But II they have neither money
nor credit how are they to take this
first great step towards redemption?
One half the world may dot eat
while the, other half starves. How
long do you believe the plague Of
typhus that is tnkihg hideous death
toll In Esthonia and Poland and tho