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AMERICA MUST SAVE EUROPE FROM COLLAPSE Des Jiolnes, la.?Speaking before the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopul Church, Henry P. Davison, chalrninn of the Roard of Governors of the league of Red Cross Societies, said: * _.. As chairman of the Convention of Red Cross Societies, composed of representatives of twenty-seven nations j that met recently In Geneva, I am custodian of authoritative reports recording appalling conditions among millions of people living in eastern Europe. One of the most terrible tragedies In j the history of the human race Is being enacted within the broad belt of territory lying between the Baltic and the | Black and Adrintlc Seas. This area Includes the new Baltic I States?Poland, Csecho-Slovakla, the | Ukraine, Austria, Hungary, Roumnnla, j Montenegro, Albania and Serbia. The reports which come to us make j It clear that In these war-ravaged j lands civilization has broken down. ' Disease, bereavement and suffering I are present In practically every house- | hold, while food and clothing are In- | sufficient to muke life tolerable. Men, women and children are dying by thousands, and over vast once-elvllized areas there are to he found neither medicinal appliances nor medical j skill sutlident to cope with flic devas- | ' tntlng plagues. Wholesale starvation ts threatened ' III l'olaiiil tills summer unless alio nun procure food supplies in large quantl- ; ties. There nre now approximately j 2T>0.000 cases of typhus In 1'oland and | ir. ttie area occupied by I'ollsh troops. | Worst Typhus Epidemic In History. This Is already one of the worst typhus epidemics In the world's history. In Gullclu whole towns are crippled and business suspended. In some districts there is but one doctor to each 150,000 people. In the Ukraine, we were told, typhus and Influenza have affected most of the population. A report from Vienna, dated February 12. snld: "There are rations for three weeks. Death stalks through the streets of Vienna and takes unhindered toll. Budapest, according to our information, Is one vast city of misery and suffering. The number of deaths Is double that of births. Of the 100,000 children In the schools, 100,(MM) are dependent on public charity. There are 150,000 workers idle. Typhus und smallpox have Invaded the four countries composing Ozecho Slovakia, and there Is lack of medicines, soap and physicians. In Serbia typhus has broken out again niul there are tint 200 physicians to minister to the needs of tliut entire country. In Montenegro, where food Is running short, there are but Ave physicians for a population of 450,000. America Overflowing With Riches. Returning to the United States a few weeks ago with all these horrors ringing In my ears, I found myself once more in a land whose granaries were overflowing, where health and plenty abounded and where life and activity and eager enterprise were In the full Hood I asked myself: "What If this plaguc und famine were here In the greut territory between the Atlantic seaboard j and the Mississippi valley, which > roughly pnrnllels the extent of these ravaged countries and thut fif>,000,000 of our own people condemned to idleness by lack of raw material ami whose fields hud been devastated by invasion and rapine were racked by starvation and pestilence and if we hnd lifted up our voices and Invoked the til tent ion of our brothers in hap pier Europe to our own deep miseries and our cries hnd fullen on deaf ears, would we not in our despair exclaim against their henrtlessness!" 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 tblrd is by exchange of coinmodltles If these peoples tried to buy materials and supplies in Americ a at the present market value ??f their currencies Aus trla would have to pay forty times the original cost, Germany thirteen times Greece Just double, O/.echn-Slovnkln fourteen times and Poland fifty times These figures are otllcial and ?r* a true Index of the economic plight of these countries. It Is clear, therefore, that they can mot give us gold for the things they must have, nor have they either prod acts or securities to offer in relurn /or credit. If only they could obtain raw material which these Idle millions of theirs could convert Into manufactured products they would have something to tender the world In return for Its raw material, food ami medicine. Rut if they have neither money nor credit how are they to take this first great step towards redemption One-half the world may not eat while the other half starves. How j long do you believe Hie plague of typhus thnt Is taking a hideous death toll |n Ksthonln and Poland and the i Pkraine and eating along the fr'nges ( of f!?n?c.ny and Pr.echo Slovakia wll' confine Itself to tl^se remote lands? I Only last Saturday our health commissioner of New Vork, I?r. Copland, sailed for the other side Just to uieusure the danger and take precaution against such an Invasion. This is one menace at our threshold. The other, more threatening, pmre terrible, la the fnenace of the world's III will. We can nfford to die, but to be despised forever ua a greedy and Pharisaical nation Is a fate that we must not incur. The French government haa many serious problems to ao^vo, but tba French peasant la working and tba > / / Frenr.j TrTIian, while Trtlil sadly Id need of raw materials, has not Inst his habit off Industry and thrift. The moat encouraging fact about France toduy Is that her people ure alive to the seriousness of France** problem, and 'they are going forward bravely to solve that problem. Italy, despite her grout shortage of raw material, is looking forward and not backward. Italy can be relied upon to do her part! England Is meeting the problems of reconstruction Just as those who knew her past should have expected her to meet them. Plan to Aid Central Europe. It Is not for me perhaps to give In detail a formula for solution of the world's Ills, but ns I have been asked many times, "What would you do?" I am glad to. give my own answer. Accordingly, I would nsk: 1. That Congress immediately pass a hill appropriating a sum not to exceed $500,000,1 MM) for the use of Central and Eastern Europe. 2. That Congress cnll upon the I*res- I ident to appoint a nonpolltlcal com- | mission of three Americans, distln- ; Kiiiniini mr meir cnaracter and executive ulillity and commanding the respect of the American people. Such a commission should include men of the type of General Pershing, Mr. ' Hoover or ex-Secretury Lane. I would invest that commission with complete power. 3. I would have the commission Instructed to proceed at once, accompu- | nied hy proper personnel, to survey conditions In Central and Eastern Ku- j rope and then act for the restoration of those countries under such conditions and upon such terms as the commission itself may decide to he practicable and effective. Among the con- , dltIons should be provided thut there should be no local interference with the free and uiitrnmmcled exercise by the commission of its own prerogative of allocating materials. Governmental (toll tics should he eliminated; unreasonable and prejudicial barriers be- i tween the various countries should be removed, nnd such substantial guaran??? !l??iV o?oll..lvl.. -.1 1 ? *- - ... iiiiumini' minimi in* fx- I n"ted In order tliut the conditions Imposed sinmlil ln? fulfilled. 4. As to financial terms, I should tiiaike tliem llhernl. I would ehnrue no Interest for the llrst three yeurs; for the next three yours, 0 per cent, with provision that such interest might he funded if the economic conditions of the country were not approaching normal, or if Its exchange conditions were so adverse as to make puymeut unduly burdensome, 1 should make the maturity of the obligation 15 years from its date, and I should have no doubt as to Its tinal payment. 5. Immediately the plun was adopted I would have our government Invite other governments In a position to assist, to participate in the undertaking. It. To set forth completely my opinion. I should add that In the Anal Instructions tjie American people, through their government, should say to the commission : "We want you to go and do this Job In such a manner as, after study, you think it should ho done. This is no ordinary undertaking. The American people trust you to see that it Is done right." I would also say to the commission: "I'se so much o* this money as la nrr.u-11. I CI KUIIllliy, 1 lllll 4*< > 11 tl < 14 * II t Mint will) the assistance ami cooperation which would come front other parts of the world the sunt of (HHi oou front tlie roiled States would he more than enough to start these countries on their way to self support and the restoration of normal conditions. The whole plan, of course. Involves iiiany practical considerations, the most serious of which Is that of obtaining the money, whether by Issuing additional I.lherty bonds, an increase In the floatIiik debt or by taxation. Rut I think we could properly say to the treasury department: "We know how serious your financial problems are; we know the dilfleultles which are immediately confronting you; we know the importance of deflation, ami we know that the government must economize and that Individuals must economize, htlt we also know that the American government advanced to its allies to attain vlctnrv ' ??..?. |irm r. i 1TIMII1ly It Is worth making the additional advance in order to realize the pence for which we have already RtrUKftlMl, for nothliiK Is more certain than that until normal conditions are restored In Knrope there can he no peace." Above all things, I would say that whatever action Is taken should tie taken Immediately. The crisis Is so acute that the situation does not admit of delay, except with the possibility of consequences one hardly d.ires contemplate. The situation that I have spread out here is far beyond he scope of Individual charity. Only by the action of governments, our own and the others whose resources enable them to oo-opernte, can aid he given In sufficient volume. 1 am also confident tlmt our action would he followed hy the governments of (treat Hrltain. of Holland, of the Sen mil an vlnn countries, of Spain end Japan, and that France and Itelglum and Italy, tiolwlthstund'njt n'l of their losses, would help to the heat of their ability. \\ ludiingion. May iM Secretary 'htniels today stated to the senate mini :>ITa!r- "nve t git in;* unnniittee that 'ie lutd ordered the drafting of the plans or war with ISertnany in 1015. Klalsirate pl^n* for the protection of Xcw York were included, lie said. 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