THK t. AKViK-TlMf S, UtrrXKIl, OKI ., rill KM.Y. MAY SO, 1020.
HOW EUROPE CAN
ESGAFE COLLAFSE
We V.rst Aid By Extending
Credits. Says Cavison.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.
European Ruin Would Involve
An. erica Starvation and
Disease Rampant.
Dps M.mii-s, la -Sposkiiu bofure
tho ra I c fitYiviu'i of the Mt'tho-K-n-.
-,.al rhunii. Hi'iiry I'. I'a vi
le, (l.a.rman of the Hoard of Gov
t r..i : n i!u' l.si:iit of Rvi I'ross So
in in, siiii. "As chairman of the
cn:;t lition of Hod i"ross siKielies com
lurtinl of r ; Toscntatives if twenty
simu v.Mioi.s that met root n. in
Uotieia. 1 am custodian of authorita
tive report recordms awull'.ng c.ii
dit.i.ns among millions of people liv
' ii in eastern Europe.
dnt of the most terrible tracedies
of .V history of Hie human ra.e is be
ins erueted within the bral belt ot
territory lying between the Baltic and
the Black and Adriatic seas.
' This area includes the new Baltic
stales Poland, t'zeclio Slovakia. The
I'kraine. Austria. Hur.sary. Rcuinania.
.Montenesro. Albania and Se:bia.
"The reports which come to us
make it clear that in these war-rax ased
lands civilization has broken down.
Disease, bereavement anu suffering
are present in practically evey house
hold, while food and clothing are in
sufficient to make life tolerable.
"Meu. women and children are dy
ing by thousands, and over vast once
civilized areas there are to be found
neither medicinal appliances nor medi
cal skill sufficient to cope with the
devastating plagues.
"Wholesale starvation is threatened
in Poland this summer unless she can
procure food supplies in large quanti
ties. There are new approximately
50,000 cases of typhus in Poland and
in the area occupied by Polish troops.
Worat Typhua Epidemic in Hiatory.
"This is already one of the worst
typhus epidemics in the world's his
tory. In Galicia whole towns are
crippled and business suspended. In
some districts there is but cne doctor
to each 150.000 people.
"In the Ukraine, we were told, ty
phus and influenza have affected most
of the population.
"A report from Vienna, da'.ed Febru
ary 12, said: 'There are rations for
three weeks. Death sialks through
the streets of Vienna and takes un
hindered toll.'
"Budapest, according to our informa
tion, is one vast city of misery and
suffering. The number of deaths is
double that of binhs.
"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 a
few weeks ago wiih 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 flood.
"I asked myself: 'What if this plague
and famine were here in the great
territory between the Atlantic sea
board and the Mississippi valley, which
roughly parallels the extent of these
ravaged countries and that 65,000,000
of our own people condemned to idle
ness 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 vricos and invoked
the attention of our brothers in happier
Furope t:i our own deep miseries and
.or ,r:s r.a.i uwei: on deal ears,
would we no: m our despair exclaim
auu.st their heart'.essness.'
Only Three Wy to Help Europ.
There are only thrve ways by which
those sin, ken lands can secure sup
plies from the outside world. One is
I v pavment one by credit and the
third is by exchange of commodities.
It these peoples tried to buy materials
and surplus in America at the present
market value of iheir currencies
ustr.a would have to pay forty times
the original cost. Germany thirteen
times. Hreece Just double, Czecho
slovakia fourteen and Poland fiity
times. These figures are official and
are a true index of the economic plight
of these countries.
' It is clear, therefore that they can
not give us gold for the things they
must have, nor have they either pro
ducts or securities to offer in return
tor credit. If only they could obtain
raw materia! which these idle millions
cf theirs could convert iuto manufact
ured products they would have some
thing to tender the world in return for
its raw material, food and medicine.
Put 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 long do you
believe the plague ot typhus that is
taking a hideous death toll in Esthonia
and Poland and the Ukraine and eat
ing along the fringes of Germany and
Czeeho-Slovakia will confine itself to
(hese remote lands?
"Only last S.Uurday our health com
missioner of New York, Dr. Copeland.
stiied for the other side just to meas
ure the danger and take precaution
against such an invasion.
"This is one menace at our threshold.
The other, more threatening, more ter
rible, is the menace of the world's ill
will. We can afford to die, but to bo
despised forever as a greedy and Phari
saical nation is a fate that we must
not incur.
"The Trench government has many
serious problems to solve, but the
French peasantry is working and the
French artisan, while still sadly in
need of raw materials, has not lost his
habit of industry and thrift
"Italy, despite her great shortage
of raw material, is looking forward
and not backward. Italy can be relied
upon to do her part.
"Knpland 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 net for me perhaps to give
in detail a formula for solution of the
world s ills, but as I have been asked
I m.i n times. Wli.u im:M u ,i do? 1
jam nd to t'o iu own ai.swer
J "Aivordinsly. 1 would ak'
! "First. That congress inim t! a' '.
pass a bill appropnat.ng a ..:r. not
ito exceed $5'H.etH'.in -i for the ue of
central and eastern Kutvpe.
"Second That congress call m-ou
the pesident to appoint a nonpohpcal
commission of three Amorv.uis. dis
tinguished for their character and ex
ecutive ability and coinmandin; ilie
respect of the American people. Smh
a commission should inclu le men of
the type of 'General Pershing. Mr.
11. over, or ex Secretary Lane. 1
would invest that commission with
ci mplete power.
"Third. I would have the commis
sion instructed to proceed at once, ac
companied by proper personnel, to
survey conditions in central and east
ern Europe and then act for the restor
ation of those countries un ler such
conditions and upon such terms as
the commission itself may decide to
be practicable and effective. Among
the conditions should be provided that
there should be no local interference
with the free and uutrammeled exercise
by the commission of its own preroga
tive of allocating materials. Govern
mental politics should be eliminated ;
unreasonable and prejudicial barriera
between the various countries should
be removed, and such substantial guar
antees as may be available should be
exacted in order that the c.nditious
imposed should be fulfilled.
"Fourth. As to financial terms. I
should make them liberal. 1 would
charge no interest for the first three
years; for the next three years six
per cent, with provision that such in
terest might be funded if the economic
conditions of the country were not ap
proaching normal, or if its exchange
conditions were so adverse as to nuke
payment unduly burdensome. I should
make the maturity of the obligation
15 years from its date, and 1 should
have no doubt as to its fiuat payment,
"Fifth. Immediately the plan was
adopted I would have our government
invite other governments in a posi
tion to assist, to participate in the
undertaking.
"Sixth. To set forth conr.detely my
opinion, I should add that in the final
instructions the American people
through their government, should 6ay
to the commission:
"'We want you to go and do this
job In such a manner as, after study,
you think it should be done. This
is no ordinary undertaking. The
American people trust you to see that
it Is done right.'
"I would also say to the commis
sion :
" Tse as ui i.i h o' - ino:u' as Is
needed.' IVsorVN I o'l i undent
that with the a-.- . i .i" l eo . pe ra
tion which wools i i i o in oilier
parts of the world lie mou el JXi.
oort.eeii f;ol the I i ,,d S; it.- would
be more than one. '. n tait those
e, uutries on their w ,v to v li support
ami the restoratiiii ot normal condi
tions. "The whole plan, of course, involves
many practical ioi..-;der:iti"us. the
most serious of which is that of obtain
ing the money, whether by issuing ad
ditional Liberty Bonds, an increase in
the floating debt or by taxation. But
I think we could properly say to the
treasury department:
" 'We know hew serious your finan
cial problems are: we know the dif
ficulties which a"e immediately con
"ronting you; we know the in.poriancB
of deflation, and we kiuvv that the
government must icononiize and that
iiidividiia's must i eonoiniie, but we
als.) know that the American govern
ment advanced $!. '".OuO.OtiO to its
allies to attain victon and peace. Cer
tainly it is worth making the addition
al advance in order to realize the peace
for which wo have already struggled,
for nothing is more e-rtain than that
until norm it con.l-iiotis are restored
in Knroe there can be no peace. '
"Above all tilings. I wou'd say that
whatever n, lull is taken should be
taken immediately. The ri-is is so
acute that the situation does not admit
of delay, except w i;h the possibility of
! consequences cue hardly dares cim
teniplut -.
: "The situation that I have spread
out here is far beyond the scope of
.individual charity. Only by the action
of government, our own and the others
j whose resources enable them to co
operate, can aid be given In sufficient
j volume. 1 am also confident that our
- action would be followed by the go?
'ernment of Great Britain, of Holland,
'of the Scandinavian countries, of
Spain and Japan, and that France and
Belgium and Italy, notwithstanding all
of their losses, wotkd help to the best
of their ability."
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Saturday, May 22
From "No Man's Land" to New York City. Some jump! But this dare
devil of a French spy makes it with his fists, his gun and a Hun Submarine!
And he puts a big band of Hun spies all on the blink before he's through.
Come and see how he does it!
HENRY WALTHALL IN
"The False Faces"
Friday, May 21st
WALLACE REID IN
"Alias Mike Moran"
SUNDAY, MAY 23
Every girl who is "waiting" should see this picture. See what the memory
of a girl he'd only met twice made of a man!
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"PRETTY SMOOTH"
Six Reels of one of the best pictures ever screened. TUESDAY, MAY 25th-
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Stronheim's Wonder Play "BLIND HUSBANDS."
"PAID IN ADVANCE" (Dorothy Phillips)
"THE SPORTING DUTCHESS" (Alice Joyce)
Pictures that have only recently had first run in Portland.
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