The Holly chieftain., 1920-05-20

skill sufficient 70 cope WIN rne urv-
astating plaques.
Wholesale starvation is threatened
In Poland this summer unless she can
procure food supplies in large quanti-
ties. There are now approximately
250,OO0 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 10000 people. In the Ukraine,
we were told, typhus and influenza
have affected most of the population
A report from Vienna dated Febru.
ary 18th, said: "There are rat'ons
for three weeks. Death stalks through
the streets of Vienna and takes unhin,
dered 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 100000
children in the schools, 100000 are de.
pendent 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.
To-, to i
there are but 200 physicians in min
lister to the needs of that entire coun.
try.
In Montenegro, where food is run.
ming short, there are but five physi
clans for population of 100000.
Returning to the United States
few weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing in my ears, / found myself
once more in land whose granaries
were overflowing, where health and
plenty abounded. and where life and
activity and eager enterprise were ir
the full flood.
I asked myself: "What if this
plague and famine were here in the
great territory between the Atlantic
seaboard and the Mississippi valley
which roughly parallels the extent OF
these ravaged countries, and that Co..
100000 of our own people condemned
to idleness by lack of raw material
and whose fields had been devastated
by invasion and rapine, We're racked
by starvation and pestilence, and il
we had lifted up our voices and in
voked the attention of our brothers
in happier Europe to our own deer
miseries and our cries had fallen or
deaf ears, would we not In our despair
exclaim against their heartlessness 2
Only Three Ways to Help Europe.
There are only three ways by which
these stricken lands can secure sup.
plies from the outside world. One is
by payment, one by credit, and the
third is by exchange of commodities
If these peoples tried to buy materials
and supplies in America at the pres.
ent market value of their currencies,
Austria would have to pay forty times
the original cost, Germany thirteen
times, Greece just double, Czecho Slo
vakia fourteen times and Poland fifty
times These figures are official and
are true index of the economic plight
of these countries.
1t is clear, therefore, that they can.
not give us gold for the things they
must have, nor have they either prod
ucts or securities to offer in return
for credit. If only they could obtain
raw material, which these idle millions
of theirs could convert into manufac.
tured products, they would have some
thing to tender the world in return
for its raw material. Food and medi
cine. But II they have neither money
nor credit, how are they to take this
first great step towards redemptionI
One-half Of the world may not eat
while the other half starves. How
long do you believe the plague of ty-
phus that is taking hideous death
toll in Esthonia and Poland and the
Ukraine and eating along the fringes
Of Germany and Czecho-Slokavia will
confine itself to these remote Iands7
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 precaution
against such an invasion.
This Is one menace at our threshold.
The other more threatening, more ter
rible, is the menace Of the worlds ILL