The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-29

awe Must Aid BY Extending
Credits" Says Dawson.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.
European Ruin Would Involve
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
4. Disease Rampant.

L odist Episcopal church, Henry ?. Dav-
ison, chairman of the Board OF GOV"
ernors of the League OF Red Gross
! Societies, said:
\ AS chairman of the Convention OF
Red Cross Societies, composed OF rep
Ljresentatives 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
being enacted within the broad belt
of territory lying between the Baltic
and the Black and Adriatic Seas.
/, This area includes the New Baltic
i states-Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, the
1 Ukraine, Austria. Hungary, Roumania,
Montenegro, Albania and Serbia. The
reports which come to US make 1t
II clear that in these war-ravaged lands
Il civilization has broken down. Dises2e,
|. bereavement and suffering are present
4 in practically every household, while
food and clothing are insufficient 70
make life tolerable.
Men women and children are dying
BY thousands, and over vast once
civilized areas there are to be found
neither medicinal appliances nor med
ical skill sufficient to cope with the
devastating plaques.
Wholesale starvation Is threatened
in Poland this summer unless she can
procure food supplies in large Guantl-
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
typhus epidemies in the worlds his
tory. In Galicia whole towns are GRIP
pied and business suspended. In some
districts there is but one doctor to
each 100000 people.
.. In the Ukraine, we are told, typaus
and influenza have affected most OF
the population.
"A report from Vienna, dated Feb
ruary u, 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 the 10000
children in the schools, 100000 are
dependent on public charity. There
are 100000 workers idle.
q Typhus and smallpox have invaded
the four countries Composing Czecho-
Slovakia, and there is lack OF Hledi
'cines, soap and physicians.
In Serbia typhus has broken out
again, and there are but 200 physl-
clans to minister to the needs OF the
entire country.
t, In Montenegro, where food Is run
ming short, there are but five physi-
clans for population of 100000.
Returning to the United States a
few weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing in my ears, found myself
once more in lapd where gralaries
were Overlooking, where health anc
plenty abounded, and where life and
activity and eager enterprise were In
the full flood.
I asked myself: what if this plague
and famine were here In the great
territory between the Atlantic sea
board and the Mississippi valley,
which roughly parallels the extent o.
these ravaged countries, and that e5.-
100000 of our own people, condemned
So tdleness by lack Of raw material,
Eng a;ilase fields had been devastated
81 sissf .i:iflt peniIa, were racked
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oa's 4atss s4ess y ttsi7 Europe.
III SAAgs ST. j. In tsIae ways by which
d RS 5.lAIIE ~ = H.. a,si4 secure SIP
,.r,i w., psa assz lie world. One is
isnin laa hy credit. and the
6as .a@HSA5c " .Cc+-1l4iodAt4So.
sfIt Fs ,sisa to buy materials
AuslfsG s.n,erica at the pres
etety br,gitfs. yV3 ef their csrreneies,
ssss ,1te Pay 40 times the
5fEga 'n1FI%Ry thirteen times.
tsh'xsss F.s.sCgecno SlogaKia
a IL lnaesef Nd fifty times.
les Of fhsses Countries, eal and ere
]. It is clear, theref plight OF
~ ues &c. give u. gold fofS
css &C must nave, nor have ~ can.
,>t,o,n acts or securities to ofsney
sor credit. il only they g.
Master raw material which these
., per ,icns of theirs eou.d convert IN
;fectured products. they won
o'".e something to tender the '
return for its raw material !
medicine. But IL they h@Fe
= y money nor credit, how are
,el, les take this first great step TO"
semption.
!. ! 2ns-halt the world may
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