The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-06-10

OF Germany and Czecho-Slovakia will
conf1ne itself to these remote lands?
Only last Saturday our health COM
missioner of New York, DR.. Copeland,
sailed for the other side just to meas
ure the danger and take ~precautlon
against such an invasion.
ms is one menace at our thresh-
old The other, more threatening.
more terrible, is the m Of the
worlds i'll will. We can afford to die,
but to be despised forever as a greedy
and pharissical nation is a fate that
We must not incur.
The French government has man,
serious problems to solve. but the
French peasantry 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
solve that problem.
Italy, despite her great shortage Of
raw material, is looking forward and
not backward. Italy can be relied
upon to do her parti
England is meeting the problems of
reconstruction just as those who knew
her past should have expected her to
meet them.
Plan to Aid Central Europe
1t Is not for me perhaps TO give in
detail a formula for solution of the
worlds ills. but as l have been asked
many times, what would you do?' L
am glad to give my own answer.
Accordingly, l would ask:
THAT congress Immediately pass
a bill approprlating a sum not to ex-
coed $500, 100000 for the use of CEN
trail and eastern Europe.
2.-That congress call upon the
president to appoint a non-political
commission of three Americans, dis
tinguished for their character and
executive ability and commanding the
respect of the American people. Such
a commission should include men of
the type of General Pershing, Mr.
Hoover or eX-Secretary Lane. l
would invest that commission with
complete power.
81 would have the commission
instructed to proceed at once, accom-
panied by proper personnel, to survey
conditions in central and eastern
Europe, and then to act for the
restoration of those countries, under
such conditions 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 the free and untrammeled eXer-
else by the commission of its own
prerogative of allocating materials.
Governmental politics should be elm
mated unreasonable and prejudicial
barriers between the various countries
should be removed, and such substan-
tial guarantees as may be available
Should be eXacted in order hat the
conditions imposed should be fulfilled.
As to financial terms, / should
make them liberal. l would charge
interest for the first three years;
the ext three years, six per cent,
with provision that such interest
might be funded if the economic con-
ditions of the country were not APP
preaching normal, or if its exchange
conditions were so adverse as to make
payment unduly burdensOme. should
m.rke the maturity of the obligation
fifteen veis,rs from its date, and
should have no doubt az 10 us hhai
payment.
5.-Immediately the plan was
adopted, / would have our government
invite other governments in a position
to assist, to participate in the under
6.--To set forth completely my
opinion. l should add that in tine final
Instructions the American people,
through their government, should say
to the commission:
I'VE want to go and do this job in
such a manner as, after study, you
think it should be done. This is no
ordinary undertaking. The American
people trust you to see that it is done
1 would also say to the commits
Use so much of this money as is
leeded.r Personally, / am confident
hat With the assistance and CO
Dperation which would come from
other parts of the world. the sim of
$500, 900, 900 from the United States
would be more than enough to start
-hese countries on their way to self
and the restoration of normal
conditions.
The whole plan, Of course, involves
many practical considerations, the
most serious of which is that of OBJ
the money, whether by issuing
additional Liberty bonds, an increase
n the floating debt, or by taxation.
But | think we could properly say to
he treasury department:
1--WE know how serious your finan-
.ial problems are we know the diff
which are Immediately con
'ronting you We know the Importance
If defiation, and we know that the
government must economic and that
Individuals must economic, but we
llsO know that the American govern
nent advanced $4,000. 100000 to its
lilies to attain victory and peace.
Certainly it is worth making the adj
advance in order to realize
he peace for which we have already
.truggled, for nothing is more certain
han that until normal conditions are
pctored i'm Euronp there can be no