The Jasper news., 1920-05-27

LuTu IOT It's law lllhNNi iuA AOth ohh
medicine But If they have neither
money nor credit how are they TO take
this first great step towards redemp-
tlon?
zone half the world may not eat
while the other half starves. How
long do you believe the plague Of
typhus that is taking a hideous death
toll in Esthonia and Poland and the
Ukraine and eating along the fringes
OF Germany and Czecho-Slovakia will
confine itself to these remote lands?
"Only last Saturday our health COM
missioner OF New York. Or. Copeland,
sailed for the other side Met TO meas
ure the danger and take precaution
against such an invasion.
This is one menace at our threshold.
The other, moro threatening, more ter
rible, is the menace OF the worlds i'll
will. We can afford to die, but to
he despised forever as a greedy and
pharisaical nation is a fate that We
must not incur.
"The French government has many
serious problems to solve, but the
French peasant is working and the
French artisan, while still sadly in
need OF raw materials, has not lost his
habit Of industry and thrift. The most
encouraging fact about France today
is that her people are alive to the
seriousness OF Frances problem, and
they are going forward bravely to
owe that problem.
italy. despite her great shortage OF
.o| b. tciiai. is looking fOrW ard and
ct BACKWARD. Italy can be relied up
IA to CO Lcr part.
"EnL!, is meeting the problems
uf reconstruction just as those who
rev her past should have expected
"c.' to meet them.
plan to kic Central Europe.
1T is hot FOR me, perhaps, to give
n detail II formula, for solution OF The
EUrlG ills. hut as have been asked
many times, What would you do? |
am Eiad 10 give my own answer, &C.
, cordinSly wuUld ask:
II. That congress Immediately pass
bin ap. rupiiatinB Il sum not to ex-
ed S"UUuUU Gao for the use OF central
AID eastern Europe.
-. That CunSI ess call upon the
President TO appoint a non.political
commission of three Americans, dis
tinguished for their character and eX-
ecutive ability and commanding the
respect of the American people. Such
IL commission should include men of
the type of Gcncrnl Pershing, Mr..
Hoover or Ex-Secretary Lane. would
invest that commission with complete
power.
80. l would have the commission
instructed TO proceed at once, ac-
conpani2d by proper personnel, to sur
yey conditions in Central and Eastern
Europe and then act for the restora-
ton of those countries under such con-
ditions and upon such terms as the
commission itself may decide to be
practicable and effective. Among the
conditions should be provided that
there should be no local interference
with TIE free and untrammeled exer-
else ~ the commission of it's own pre-
rOgatiye Of allocating materials. Gov
c!nmcntul politics should he o!imin'
ated; unreasonable and rrejudicial
barriers between he various coun
tries should be removed, and such sub
stantial guarantees as may be avail
able should be exactcd in order mat
the conditions imposed should be full
filled.
"A. AS to financial terms, ! should
make them liberal l would charge NJ
, interest for the first three years; fol
the EcSt thrcc years, six per cont viz
T provision that such interest m:,At bl
, funded If the economic conditions o
the country were not approaching nor
$ NAL or if it's exchange condition.
3 were so adverse as to make p2ymeu
, undUly burdCnsOme. | should make th'
, maturity of the obligation is years
+ from its date, and l should hay,
: no doubt as to its final payment.
! 80. lmmc lately the plan was aGop
! ted would have our government in
! vite other governments in a position
y TO assist, TO participate in the under
e taking.
4 80 To set forth completely M
= opinion, should add that in the fin1
: instructions the American people
( through their government, should sa
r to the commission: we want yo
to go and do this job in such man
ner, us after study, you think it SHOULD
D be done This is no ordinary unde!
= taking. The American people trui
5 | VIM In enn that IL is dnnn ripht1