| Show HOW EUROPE CAN CA ESCAPE a in we must aid by extending credit ays davison dahlson Dav lson GRAVE MENACE TO U S A V european ruin ru in would involve america starvation and t disease rampant 1 des Bl iowa speaking before the general conference Cone rence of the alst episcopal church henry P dav lo 10 ifton hirman chairman of the board of govern ors of the league of red lied cross so clelles clet ciet les said As chairman chil liman pt it the convention conven llon ol of red cross societies Bocie tle composed of representatives of twenty seven nations nation that met recently la in geneva I 1 gm am cus hodian of authoritative reports record ing appalling conditions among mil lions of people living in eastern europe one of the most terrible tragedies tragedies tra gedles io in the history of the human race is being enacted in the broad belt of tory lying between the baltic and tins the black and adriatic seas this area includes the new baltic kail it states rotund czecho slovakia tin the ukraine austria hungary roumania montenegro 6 albania and serbia the reports which come to us make it dear amr that in these war ravaged lands land civilization has broken down disease bereavement and suffering are present in practically every howe hold while food and clothing are insufficient lt to make life tolerable men blen women and children are dying by thousands and over vast once oace cai llred areng areas there are to be found neither medical appliances nor medical skill kill sufficient to cope with the devastating plagues wholesale starvation ion Is threatened thre atenci in poland this summer unless she can procure food supplies in large quantities there are now approximately iedy cases of typhus in poland and in the area occupied by polish worst typhus epidemic in history this Is one of the worst typhus epidemics in the worlds history in galicia Gall ciji whole towns are crippled and am business suspended in some districts there Is but one doctor to each people in the U k ra inc cs s we are told typhus and influenza alave ilave affected most of 0 the population A report from vienna dated february 12 said there are rations for three weeks death stalks through tile hie streets of vienna and takes take un unhindered lilI toll budapest according to our infozina information is one ehst city of misery and anc suffering buffering the number of deaths is double that of births of t the he IGO childred hil dreu in ill the schools are dependent on public th arity there are workers vor kers idle typhus and smallpox have invaded me lie four countries composing cseho slovakia akra ta and there Is lack of medicines soap and physic physicians Lans in serbia typhus has broken out again and thare are but physicians to minister to 0 o the needs of that entire country in montenegro where food Is running short there are but five physicians for a population of returning to the united states a few weeks ago afo with all these horrors ringing in my ears I 1 found myself once more in a land whose granaries were overflowing where health and plenty abounded and where life activity and eager enterprise were nere in tile the full flood I 1 ask myself what if the plague and famine wore were here bere in the great territory between the atlantic seaboard aboard and the mississippi valley which tily fily para parallels liels the extent of these these ravaged countries and that G i of our own people condemned to idleness by lack of raw material anti and whose fields bad been devastated by invasion and rapine were racked by starvation and pestilence and if we had lifted up our voices and invoked the attention lou of our brothers in ili ii happier p europe to our own deep in miseries and our cries had fallen on deaf lea f ears would we not in our despair cKel airn against their heartlessness only three ways to help europe there are only three ways by which these stricken lands can secure supplies from the outside world one Is by payment one by credit and the tard is by exchange of commodities it if these people tried to buy mit material erial an and d supplies in america at present market value of their currencies austria would have ta pay forty times the original cost germany thirteen times greece just double czecho slovakian fourteen times poland fifty times these figures are official and are a true index of the economical of these countries it in dear clear therefore that they can not give us gold for tite thin things s they must hae npr cpr have they either products or securities to offer in return for credit it only they could obtain raw material which these idle millions roll llona of f theirs could coula couvert con viert into manufactured products they would have something to tender the worlie in ili return for its raw material food and medicine but it if they have neither money nor credit how are they to take this f first great step stem towards redemption one halt half the llie world may not eat while ih ia other r half starves now how loni 11 joneve the plague of |
