White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-05-23
HOW EUROPE GAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
We Must Aid by Extending
Credit, Says Davi son.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.
European Ruin Would Involve
America.-Starvation and
Disease Rampant.

- "a ttt gV9Ah W ADf g -
ors Of the League OF Red Cross So
~cieties. said
As chairman Of the convention Of
Red Cross Societies. composed Of rep
r~esentstiyes Of twenty-seyen 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.
tng enacted In the broad belt Of terri
tory lying between the Baltic and the
Blsek and Adriatic seas.
This area Includes tho new Baltic
stetss-Polsnd. Czecho- S~loyakis. the
Ukrains. Austria, Hungary. Roumania,
Montenegro. Albania and Serbia.
The reports which come TO US make
It clear that In these w~ar.ravsged
lands civilization has broken down.
Disease, bereayInent and suffering are
presen. 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 one civil
neither medical appliances nor medical
skill sufficient to cope with the deyas-
,sting pissuss.
Wholesale starvation Is threatened
10 Pollard this srammsr unless she can
procure food supplies In large guam
titles. There are 10 approximately
5000 cases Of typhus in Poland and
Ia the area occupied by Polish troops.
Wsrst ryphus epstsnic In History.
This 10 M Of the worst typhus cpl
denies In the worlds history. In
0ailcis whole towns are crippled and
business suspended. In some districts
there IL but one doctor 10 each 10000
people.
In the Ukrslnes, We are told, typhus
and infinsnxs have affected most Of
the population.
A report from Vienna. dated Feb
rusry IL, said There are rstions for
three weeks; death stalks through the
streets OF Vienna and takes anhiRder-
ID toll"
Budapest. according 10 our in~fortua-
ton, Is ons vast city OF misery and
suffering. The number OF deaths 10
double that Of births. or the $780,
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. aud there Ii lack Of medi-
cInss, soap and physicians
In Serbia typhus has broken out
again and there are but 2W physicians
to minister 10 the needs of that en-
tire country.
In Montenegro. where food is run
ming short, there are but five ply
sielsns for a population OF 100000.
Returning TO the United States q
few weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing In my ears, | found inyself
once mors in . land whose gransries
were ovsrslowing, where health and
plenty ahounded and whore life ac-
uvtty and eager entsrpris. we're 10 the
full flood.
ask myself: what II the plague
aud famine were here 10 the great ter
rltory bstwsen the Atlantic sesboard
and the Mississippi valley, which
roughly parallels the extent Of these
rsvagsd countries, and that eD,00OlooO
Of our own people condemned to Idle
ness by lack OF raw material u
whose fields had bean devastated by
invasion and rapine were reeksd ny
starvation and pestilsocs and IL we
had lifted NJ our voices and nvoked
the attention Of u brothers in hap
pIer Europe TO our own deep miseries
and our cries had fallen on deaf ears.
would We moi In our despair exclaim
against their hesrtlessness.'
Only Three Ways to Help Europe.
There are only three why's by which
these stricken lands can secure sup
pllos from the outside world. One Is
nv one by credit, and the
fllrn N by fAfildusc VI ''f'hh'''''
If these people tried 10 buy material
and supplies in Anerica nj present
market value Of their curreneles. Aus
,ria would have 10 pay forty times the
original cost, usrluany thirteen times.
Greece lust double, tzecho-SloVakia
fourteen times. Poland fifty times
These figures are official aud are a
true index Of the economical pilght
Of these countries.
II 10 clear. therefore. thai they an
not give US gold for the things they
must have, nor have they either pro
ducts or securities to ofer IN return
for credit. II only they could obtain
raw material which these idle millions
of theirs could convert into manufac-
tured products they would have some
thing TO tender the world IN return
for It's raw material, food and medi-
cine. But If they have neither money
nor credit how are they TO take TINS
st... o.aat ctan foNar1S