The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, May 27, 1920, Image 6
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,
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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.
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? A MAN MAY BE KNOWN 1
HON. MITCF
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r. Attorney General of the Unit
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