Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-17

and lack of iuel. At least twenty-five
thousand hospital beds have become Use.
less owing to lack OF medical supplies
Death stalks through the streets of
Vienna and takes unhinderod toll. The
general death rate has risen forty-siN
per cent since 1913 and the mortality
, for tuberculosis two hundred and fifty
per cent.
Budapest, according TO our information
is one vast city of misery and suffering
The number Of deaths is double that OF
births. OF 100000 children IN the schools
O,oO0 are dependent ON public charity
There are 10000 workers idle.
''In Roumnnia tuberculosis is spread
ing in an alarming and unprecedented
manner. All energies are devoted to
keeping the typhus epidemic at bay,
and military Gordon along the Dniester
River prevents the entrance OF 20,uUu
Russian refugees on the other side
whose infection Is feared.
"Typhus and smallpox have invaded
the TOUR countries composing Czecho-
Slovakia. and there is lack of medicines,
soap and physicians. The shelves of their
pharmacies and their hospitals are bare.
'In Serbia typhus has broken out
again and there are but two hundred
physicians TO minister to the needs OF
that entire country. In Montenegro,
where food is running short, there are
but FIVE physicians for an estimated
population of 100000.
In letter to the Red Cross Conven-
tion appealing for aid. Arthur Baliour,
Chairman of the Council of the League
Of Nations, speaks Of the catastrophe
as one of unexampled magnitude The
calamity following hard on war seems
almost worse than the war itself.
These are but few of the top notes OF
the tragedy There is nothing here about
Russia, whose population ls ratloned, or
Of Germany. whose problems are acute,
or Of Armenia where the distress and de-
truction are beyond description hunger
and disease and despair are the lot OF
these fellow humans of ours. Powerless
To help themselves, they are slowly per-
iShing before our eyes.
Returning to the United States
few weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing in my ears. | found myself once
more in land whose granarles were over
flowing, where health and plenty abound
cd, and where life and activity and eager
enterprise were III the full flood. Ana
though | well know of hundred dis
cries. No American children were dying
in their mothers arms for lack Of milk or
bread
4 asked myself What il this plague
and famine were here IN the great territory
between the Atlantic Scaboard and the
Valley which roughly parallels
the extent of these ravaged countries
and that sixty-Gvc million Of our own
people condemned to idleness by lack Of
raw material and whose fields had been
devastated by invasion and rapine, were |
,acked by starvation and pestilence. and /
f we had lifted up our voices and in /.
voked the attention Of our brothers IN /
happier Europe 10 our own deep miseries /
ma our cries had fallen on deaf ears. ,
would We not in our despair exclaim against /
heir heartlessnessf'
What Mr.. Dawson suggests in way Of +
clief IS summarized by him as follows I
l. That Congress Immediately pass a 1
ill appropratinG D sum not 70 exceed I
500, 100000 for ;hc use OF Central ond I
EASTERN Europe
- That Congress call upon the Prosi- /
lent 10 appoint 4 uou-polltical commits
ion Of three Americans distinguished
or their character and eXecutivc ability