The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-08
HOW EUROPE CAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE.
We Must Aid by Extending
Credit, Says Dawson.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A,
European Ruin Would Involve
America.-Starvation and
Disease Rampant.

Dcs Moines,. Iowa. Speaking before
the General Conference Of the Metho.
dist Episcopal church, Henry T. Day.
fs0n, chairman IL the board OF govern.
tors Of the League OF Red Cross So
icieties, said:
AS chairman of the convention Of
Red Cross Societies, composed OF rep
,resontatiyes Of twen.y-scven nations
THAT met recently in Genera, am GUS
todian Of authoritative reports record
ing appalling conditions among mil
lions Of people living in Eastern
Europe.
One of the most terrible tragedies In
the history of the human race Is be-
ltng enacted In the broad belt of terri
tory lying between the Baltic and Tie
Black and Adratic seas.
/; This area includes the new Baltic
lstates--Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, the
!, Ukraine, Austria, Hungary. Rounania.
Montenegro, Albania and Serbia.
! The reports which come to us make
lit clear that in these war-rayaged
Hands civilization has broken down.
Disease, bereavment and suffering are
present in practically every house
hold, while food ana clothing are in.
sufficient to make life tolcrable.
! Men, women and children arc dying
by thousands, and over vast once civil.
ilized areas there are to be found
neither medical appliances nor medical
skill sufficient to cope with the Gevas
'tating plaques.
Wholesale starvation Is threatened
lin Poland this summer unless she can
procure food supplies in large quan.
titles. There. are now approximately
;250,o0o 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
Gaficia whole towns are crippled and
business suspended. lii some districts
there is but one doctor TO each 10000
people.
In the Ukraines, we are told, typhus
and influenza have affected most Of
iNhS Ropuiutlol.
A report from Vienna, dated Feb
ruary l., said. There are rations for
three weeks death stalks through the
streets of Vienna ana takes unhindor.
ed toll"
Budapest, according to our Informs
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 150, 1000 workers idle.
u Typhus and smallpox have invaded
the four countries composing Czecho
! Gloynh&, and there is lack of medi.
! E6ap and physicians.
Serbia typhus has HRken out
again and there are but z9l nssicians
to minister TO the needs dfEtliat Ell.
tire country.
In Mentenegro, where food is run.
ming short, there are but five ply.
sicians for Il population of 100000.
Returning 70 The United States Il
few weeks ago with allf these horrors
ringing in mr. ears. found myself
once more In Hand whose grauaries
were oyerfiowihg, where health and
plenty abcundel ana where life ac
tivity and eager enterprise were in the
full flood.
ask myself: "what ii the plague
and famine were here in tie great ter
rifory between the Atlantic seabonrd
and the Mississippi valley. which
roughly parallels The cxtont Of these
rayaged countries, and tbat Gj,900,0oC
of our own people condemned to idle
ness by lack of raw material ant
whose fields had been devastated by
invasion and rapinc were racked by
! starvation and pestilence and if we
had lifted up our voices and invoked
THE attention Of Cur brothers IN hap,
pier Europe 10 nnr own deep miscrles
and our cries had fallen on deaf ears
would NE not in GIN despair exclaim
against their heuT'lessncss."
Only Three Ways . HsIp Europe.
/. Tlcse are emily three ways by which
these stricken lands can Secure sup
piles from tie outside void. One Is
by payment, one By credit, ard the
third is By exchange Of commodities
| II these people tied to buy natcrla
; aud supplies in America at pressm
market Value Of theig .cuireneies, Aus
/. tria would have TO pay forty times til.
original cost, Gepiaagy thirteen times
Greece just double, Czechc-S,oyakis
fourteen tines, roland fifty times
These figures are Official and are 6
true iltiez CT The. economical plight
:of these cos;Isries.
II Is clear. therefore. that they can
mol. g.ye Us gosd for the things they
must have, nor have they either pro
ducts or securities 70 Offer IN Ietuir
for credit. II only they could obtaiI
raw material which these idle millions
of theirs could convert into nanufac
tured products they would have some
thing to tender the world In return
for its raw material. food and medi,
cine. But IL they have neither honey