, 1920-05-27
HOW EUROPE GAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
Men, Women and Children Dying
By Thousands Over Once
Civilized Areas.
GRAVE MENACE To U. S. A.
European Ruin Would Involve
America-Starvation and Dis
ease Rampant.

lle general conference O1 the AlelnO-
dist Episcopal church. Henry p. Davi-
son, chairman of the board of govern
ors of the League of Red Cross Socie-
lies, said:
AS chairman of the convention OF
Red Cross Societies, composed of rep
resentatives of twenty-seven nations
that met recently in Geneva, l am rus
tOdian of authoritative reports record
ing appalling conditions among mil
lions of people living in eastern Eu-
rope.
One of the most terrible tragedies
in the history of the human race is be-
ing 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, the
Ukraine, 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 t%olerable:
Men, women and children are dying
by thousands and over vast once civ
i!ized areas there are to be found nei-
ther medicinal appliances nor medical
skill sufficient 10 cope with the dew
astating plaques. N,
Wholesale starvation is threatened
in Poland this summer unless she can
So. ,r. God ,--ltx H.. I,.,+ ..,.,,
ties. There are now approximately
100000 cases of typhus; in Poland and
in the area occupied by Polish troops.
Worst Typhus Epidemic in History.
There is already one of the worst
typhus epidemics 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 We're told, typhus and i~nfluenz:,
have affected most of the population.
A report from Vienna, dated Zebra:
AIRY 18th, said: There are rations
for three weeks. Death stalks through
the streets of Vienna and takes pnhin.
dered toll"
Budapest, according to our informa-
ton, is N vast city of misery and
suffering. The number of deaths is
double that of births. OF the $780, 0O
children in the schools, 100000 are lie,
pendent on public charity. There are
100000 workers idle. a..
Typlius and smallpox have invaded
the -FOUR countries composing Czecho-
Slovakiu and there is lack of medi.
zines, soap and physicians.
In Serbia typhus has broken out and
there are but POO physicians in min
lister to the needs OF that. entire coun.
try, ~" y =: ,.frs
III Montenegro, where food is run
ming short, there are but five physi.
cians for Il population of 100000.
Returning to the United States. a
few weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing in my ears, l found myself
once more in a lane whose %granaries
were Overlooking, where health and
plenty abounded. and where life and
activity and eager enterprise were In
the full flood.
/ asked myself: -N"Nlfat" If this
plague and famine. We're here in the
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these rnvaaed countries. and. fiat q.
OOO q Of orr NV neonIe condemned
to idIepes Inv lack of raw material
and whose fields had been devastated
Inv invasion and ronine. were rocked
nv staryation and nestiIence. and II
we had lifted I'm orr voices and in.
voked the attention of our brofhers
In bonnie,. Eurone IN orr own deem
miseries and our cries had fallen on