Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-11-06
HOW EUROPE CAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
We Must Aid by Extending
Credit, Says Dawson.
GRAVE MENACE TO u. S. A
European Ruin Would Involve
America.-StaryatiOn and
Disease Rampant.

Des Moines, Iowa.-Speaking before
the General Conference of the Metho.
dist Episcopal church, Henry p. Day.
ison, chairman Of the board of govern
ors of the League of Red Cross So.
cieties, said:
As chairman of the convention oil
Red Cross Societies. composed of rep.
resentatives of twenty-seyen nations
that met recently in Geneva, / am Gus.
todian of authoritative reports record
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-Polnnd, Czecho- Slsvakia, the
Ukraine. Austria, hungary, Reumania
Montenegro, Albania and Serbia.
The reports which come to us make
1t clear that in thes& war-ravageo
lands civilization has broken down.
Disease, bereavmeHt 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
lized areas there are to be found
neither medical appliances nor medical
skill sufficient to cope with the devas-
tating plaques.
Wholesale starvation is threatened
In Poland this summer unless she can
procure food supplies in large guam
rites. There are now approximately
250,0O0 cases 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
Galicia whole towns are crippled and
business suspended. In some districts
there is but one doctor to each 150,0O0
people.
In the Ukralnes. we are told, typhus
and influenza have affected most OF
the population.
\ report from Vienna, dated Feb
ruary L. said There are rati0ns for
three weeks: death stalks through the
streets of Vienna and takes unhinder.
ed 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 $780,
GOO 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
slcians 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 II land whose granories
were overlooking, where health and
plenty ahounded and where life ac-
tivity and eager enterprise were In the
full flood.
| ask myself: what If The plague
and famine were here in the great ter
ritory between the Atlantic seaboard
and the Mississippi valley, which
roughly parallels the extent of these
ravaged countries, and that 65WN,oo0
of our own people condemned To idle
ness 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 and invoked
the attention of our brothers in hap
pier Europe to our own deep iniseries
and our cries had fallen on deaf ears,
would we not in cur despair eNclaim
against their heartlessness."
Only Three Ways to Help Europe.
There are only three ways by which
these stricken lands can secure sun
oil IS from the outside world. One is
ny payment. one by credit and the
third is by exchange of commodities.
II these people tried TO buy material
and supplies in America at present
market value of their currencies, Aus
tria would have TO pay forty times the
original cost. Germany thirteen times,
Greece Just double, Czecho- Sloyakia
fourteen times, Poland fifty times.
These figures are official and are a
true index of the economical plight
of fhaSa countries