The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-05-27
INV EUROPE CAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
/. Must Aid BY Extending
Credits, Says Dawson.
Es.vE MENACE TO U. $. A.
Eu,oOean Ruin Would involve
| America Starvation and
Disease Rampant.

nos MONIES, Ia
reneral conference OF the Metho-
ne sTnoscopal Church, Henry p. Davi-
s' chairman OF the Board OF Gov
~, NJ the League Of Red Cross So
sia S said "As chairman OF the
cls'ss' Of Red ross.societies COM
VA II representatives OF twenty
nations that met recently In
r..sva I am custodian OF authorita-
W. reports recording appalling con-
s,,ons among millions of people liv-
,nr in eastern Europe.
sone Of the most terrible tragedies
!, me history Of the human race is be-
10 enacted within the broad belt OF
tsrritory lying between the Baltic and
~ plack and Adriatic seas.
aThis area includes the new Baltic
s.tss--Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, The
Ukraine, Austria, Hungary. .Roumania.
wonteuegro, Albania and Serbia.
aTbe reports which come to VI
make It clear that in these war-ravaged
,.raa civilization has broken down.
n,sease bereavement and suffering
arc present in practically every house
hod while food and clothing are in
mfficient to make life tolerable.
aMep. women and children are dy-
ing BY thousands, and over vast once
civilized areas there are to be found
uetber medicinal appliances nor medi-
cal skill sufficient to cope with the
devastating plaques.
aWholesale starvation is threatened
IN Poland this summer unless she can
procure food supplies in large quanti-
tes There are now approximately
100000 cases of typhus in Poland and
IN the area occupied by Polish troops.
Worst Typhus Epidemic In History.
aThis is already one of the worst
typhus epidemics in the worlds his
N tory. In Galicia whole towns are
u crippled and business suspended. In
B some districts there is but one doctor
N 10 each 10000 people.
4 In the Ukraine, we were told, IT,
4 plus and influenza have affected most
A Of the population.
"A report from Vienna, dated Febru-
ary IL, said: There are rations for
three weeks. Death stalks through
\ the streets OF Vienna and takes un-
4 hindered toll
Budapest, according to our informa-
ton, IL one vast city of misery and
suffering. The number of deaths is
double that of births.
"Typhus and smallpox have invaded
the four countries composing Czecho-
SlOvakia, and there is lack Of medi-
cines soap and physicians.
In Serbia typhus has broken out
again and there are but 200 physicians
TO minister to the needs Of that entire
country.
Returning to the United States q
nw weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing In my ears, / found myself
once more in q land whose granaries
4 we're overflowing. where health and
panty abounded and where life. and
Ntyity and eager enterprise were in
he full flood.
1ssked myself: What IL this plague
md famine were here in the great
erritory between the Atlantic sea
board and the Mississippi valley. which
roughly parallels the extent of these
nvaged countries and that 65,000,0O(
81 our own people condemned to idle
ness 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
1ad lifted up our voices and invoked
me attention of our brothers in happier
EUROPE to our own deep miseries ant
our cries had fallen ON deaf ears
would we not In our despair exclain
against their heartlessness.'
Only Three Ways to Help Europe.
There are only three ways by which
uese stricken lands can secure sup
phes from the outside world. One ii
~ payment, one by credit and thu
.niro is by exchange of commodities
Inese peoples tried to buy material
ana supplies in America at the presen
market value of their currencie
austria would have to pay forty time
.ne original cost, Germany thirteel
umes, Greece just double, Czechc
slovakia fourteen ana Poland fit
umes. These figures are official an
are q true index OF the economic pligh
q these countries.
II is clear, therefore that they car
not give us gold for the things the
must have. nor have they either pro
aucts or securities to offer in return
'Or credit. II only they could obtai
raw material which these idle million
'neirs could convert into manufac
ured products they would have some
uing to tender the world in return fo
ns raw material, food and medicine
nut II they have neither money nc
credit how are they to take this frs
sreat step towards redemption. On
naii the world may not eat while tn
o'ner half starves. How long do 20
oeiieve the plague OF typhus that
taxing hidaoua death toll In Eathoni