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WW EUROPE CAN FfSCAPE COLLAPSE pe Must Aid by Extending W\ Credits, Says Davison. f 'GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A. European Ruin Would Involve America?Starvation and Disease Rampant. Des Moines, la.?Speaking before the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Board of Governors of the League of Red Cress Societies, * ' **<!: Aa chairman of the Convention of Bad Croat Societies, composed of rep resentatWes of twenty-seven nation; that mat recently In Geneva, I am custodian of authoritative reports record t&g appalling conditions among millions of people living In eastern Europe. One of the most terrible tragedies In the history of the human race Is being enacted within the broad belt of territory lying between the Baltic and the Black and Adriatic Seas. Tbia area includes the new Baltic States?Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, the i Ukraine, Austria, Hungary, .Roumania, Montenegro, Albania and Serbia. , The reports which come to us make it clear that In these war-ravaged lands civilization has broken down. Disease, bereavement and suffering are present In practically every household, while food and clothing are insufficient to make life tolerable. Men, women and children are dying by thousands, and over vast once-civl5 lized areas there are to be found neither medicinal appliances nor medical skill sufficient to cope with the devastating plagues. Wholesale starvation is threatened in Poland this summer unless she can procure food supplies in large quantities. There are now approximately jj, 250,000 cases of typhus in Poland and [' Is the area occupied by Polish troops. Worst Typhus Epidemic In History. This is already one of the worst typhus epidemics In the world's history. - In Gallcia whole towns are crippled ^ ,and business suspended. In some dls1? , j?cts there is but one doctor to eacli ' WO,000 people. w la the Ukraine, we were told, typhus jand Influenza have affected most of the % '"-population. ' A report from Vienna, dated February 12, said: "There are rations for three weeks. Death stalks through the ^ streets of Vienna and takes unblnderI jed ton. Budapest, according to onr Information, la one vast dty of misery and suffering. The number of deaths Is double that of births. Of the 160,000 .'children In the schools, 100,000 are deft ' oerident on public eharlty. There are !tl5O,O0O workers Idle! Typhus and smallpox have Invaded I the fear countries composing CtechoI Slovakia, and there Is lack of medicines, soap and physicians. & ' In Serbia typhus has broken out ? again and there are but 200 physicians ito minister to the needs of that entire country. In Montenegro, where food Is running short, there are but five physicians for a population of 450,000. America Overflowing With Riches. Returning to the United States a jfew weeks ago with all these horrors irlnging In my ears, I found myself [once more in a land whose granaries were overflowing, where health and iplenty abounded and where life and [activity and eager enterprise were In . the full flood. I asked myself: "What If this plague ! I*' and famine were here in the great ter I ritery between the Atlantic seaboard jand the Mississippi valley, which roughly parallels the extent of these . 'ravaged countries and that 65,000,000 of our own pedple condemned to idleness by lack of raw material and |whose fields had been devastated by Invasion and rapine were racked by ^starvation and pestilence and if we had lifted up our voices and Invoked ,the attention of our brothers In hap-1 pier Europe to our own deep miseries jand our cries had fallen on deaf ears, would we not in our despair exclaim ,against their heartlessness 1" Only Three Ways to Help Europe. j% There are only three ways by which jthese stricken lands can secure sup.plies from the outside world. One is jby 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 present !.' market value of their currencies Ausjtria would have to pay forty times the ^original cost, Germany thirteen times, .Greece Just double, Czecho-Slovakia nn/i T)rt1nn/i fi #tt? timfiO n lVUTieru UIUVO auu & Vtauu Uiij b?4?ivw. ,These figures are official and arc a true Index of the economic plight of these countries. It Is clear, therefore, that they canp dot give us gold for the things they , must have, nor have they either prodi 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 manufactured r products they would have something to tender the world in return for its raw r. material, food and medicine. But if 'f they have neither money nor credit how are they to take this first great ^ step towards redemption One-half the world may not eat f while the other half starves. How i long do you believe the plague of ty? phus that Is taking a hideous death toll in Esthonia and Poland and the ! Ukraine and eating along the fringes of Germaay and Czecho-Slovafela will confine Itself to these remote lands? Only last Saturday our health comEk. fit mission er of New York, Dr. Copelam tailed for the other side just to meai ore the danger and take precauMo agtHnst such an invasion. This is oae menace at oor thresholt The other, more threatening, more te: rible, is the menace of the world's i will. We can afford to die, but te b despised forever as a greedy and phai lsaical nation is a fate that we mm not incur. The French government has man serious prdWems to solve, but th French peasant is working and th French artisan, while still sadly 1 need of raw materials, has net lost hi habit of industry and thrift The mof encouraging fact about Prance toda Is that her people are alive to the s< rlousness of France's problem, an they are going forward bravely t solve that problem. Italy, despite her groat shortage c raw material, is looking forward an not backward. Italy can be relle upon to do her part 1 England la meeting the problems c reconstruction just as those who knr her past shonld have expected her t meet them. Plan to Aid Central Europe. It is not for me perhaps to give i detail a formula for solution of th world's ills, bnt as I have been aske many times, "What would you do?" am glad to give my Wn answer. Accordingly, I would ask: 1. That Congress immediately pat a bill appropriating a sum not to e: ceed $500,000,000 for the use of Oei tral and Eastern Europe. v 2. That Congress call upon the Pre ident to appoint a nonpolltlcal con mission of three Americans, distil gulshed for their character and exe< utlve ability and commanding the ri spect of the American people. Sue a commission should include men < the type of General Pershing, M Hoover or ex-Secretary Lane. I woul Invest that commission with complei power. 3. I would have the commission ii structed to proceed at once, accompi nied by proper personnel, to surve conditions ?b Central and Eastern Ei rope and then act for the restoratlc of those countries under such cond tlons and upon such terms as the con mission Itself may decide to be pract cable and effective. Among the coi ditions should be provided that thei should be no local Interference wit the free and untrammeled exercise t the commission of Its own prerogath of allocating materials. Government! politics should be eliminated r unrei sonable and ' prejudicial barriers b< tween the various countries should t removed, and such substantia] guarai tees as may be available should be e: acted Id order that the conditions li posed should be fulfilled. 4. As to financial terms, I shoui make them liberal. I would charge r Interest for the first three years; f< the next three years, 8 per cent, wit provision that such Interest might t funded If the economic conditions < the country were not approaching no mal, or If Its exchange conditions wei so adverse as to make payment m duly burdensome, I should make tt maturltyv of the obligation 15 yeai from Its dale, and I should have r doubt as to Its final payment. 5. Immediately the plan was adop ed I would have our government li vlte other governments In a positle to assist, to participate ,ln the undo taking. 6. To set forth completely my opli Ion, I should add that In the final li structlons the American peopl through their government, should sa to the commission: "We want you to go and do this jc in such a manner as, after study, ye think it should be done. This is 1 ordinary undertaking. The America people trust you te see that it is dor right" I would also say to the commisslor "Use so much of this money as needed." Personally, I am confldei that with the assistance and co-open tion which would come from oth? parts of the world the sum of $50C 000,000 from the United States won! be more than enough to start thet countries on their way to self suppo; and the restoration of normal cond tlons. The whole plan, of course, Involv< many practical considerations, tt most serious of which is that of ol tnining the money, whether by issulr ! additional Liberty bonds, an increas | in the floating debt or by taxatioi But I think we could properly say l the treasury department: "We know how serious your flnai clal problems are; we know the dlfl culties which are Immediately coi fronting you; we know the Important of deflation, and we know that the go ernment must economize and that li dlviduals must economize, but we als know that the American governmei advanced $10,000,000,000 to its alli< to attain victory and peace. Certaii ly it is worth making the addition! advance in order to realize the pea< for which we have already struggle for nothing Is more certain than thi until normal conditions are restored 1 Europe there can be no peace." Above all things, I would say. thi whatever action Is taken should t taken Immediately. The crisis Is i acute that the situation does not n< rait of delay, except with the possibll ty of consequences one hardly dan contemplate. The situation that I have spread oi here Is far beyond the scope of ind vldunl charity. Only by the action < governments, our own and the othei whose resources enable them to co-o ernte, can aid be given In sufficlei volume. I am also confident that oi action would be followed by the go ernments of Great Britain, of Hollan of the Scandinavian countries, < Spain and Japan, and that France ar Belgium and Italy, notwithstanding a of their losses, would help .to the be of their ability. 1 ? ? A MAN MAY BE KNOWN 1 HON. MITCF i. r. Attorney General of the Unit jj Democratic Nora Has Made Enera ' PRO-GERMANS |t RED REVOLUTIONISTS PROFITEERS I HOARDERS I ' 1 ' nT7H i YTr?T7. i_ ill. g DLV/AUOti, AB AI1CQ I I U[)CI IJ B PERTY and Used it |t BECAUSE, He is Driving the _ VISTS, COMMUNIS1 I SIA. 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