Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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kWE MUST AID BY EXTEND-
ING LIBERAL FINANCIAL
CREDIT, SAYS DAVISON
H GRAVE MENACE TO THE U. S,
♦phUR tliat Is taking a hideous death
toll In Esthonla and Poland and the
Ukraine and eating along the fringes
of Germany and 8iecbo-81oval;ia will
oonflne Itself to these remote lands?
Only last Saturday our health commls-
alonsr of New York, Dr. Copeland,
sailed for the other side JuBt to meas-
ure the danger and take precaution
against jut invasion. """"
This Is one menace at our threshold.
The other, more threatening, more ter-
rible, la the menace of the world's ill
will. We can afTord ' die but to be
despised forever as a greedy and
Pharisaical nation is a fate that we
mi|6t not lQCUi. r~
European "feuin Would iK'votve"Amer.' The French government has many
—T"t' - ■ serious problems to go|ve. bijj tie
French peasant i6* working ajjd 'is
French Artisan, while still saaly in
need of raw materials has not lost hijj
Tiaiit of industry and thrift ?fhe
most aueouTaSing fao^ stotiT FVance
today (£ that her Xifebple are alive to
tSe Seriousness of Prance's problem at
n W
ica—Starvation and
Disease Ram-
pant
Des Moines, Yowa.—Speaking Wore
the general conference of the M*tho-
filst Kiilscopal Churoh, Henry P. Davi-
Hh, chaii man of the Board of (Xiver-
bora of the League of Red Cross So-
cieties, said: As chairman of the con-
vention of Red Cross sooieties. com-
posed of representatives of twenty-
Seven nations that met recently in
Geneva I am custodian of authorlta-t
Uve reports recording appalling condi-
tions among millions of people living;
ta Eastern Europe.
One of the most terrible tragedies
ta the history of the human race is
being enacted within the broad belt of
territory lying between the Baltic and
the Blaek and Adriatic seas; this arer,
Includes the new Baltic states—P01
land, CxechoSlovakia, the Ukraine,
&n«trla, Hungary, Roumania, Monte-
Mfro, 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;
M* presemt In practically every house-
told. while food and clothing are lni
mffi orient to make life toleraD'.e.
Man. women and children *re dying;
by the thousands at and over vast
snoe-rlvlliied areae There are to ba
found neither medicinal appliance*
*0r medical skill sufficient to cope
irlth the devastating plagues. Whole
tale starvation Is threatened In Poland
Ibis summer unless she can produce
tood supplies in large quantities,
fhere are now approximately 280,00(1
sacs of typhus in Poland and In the
irea occupied by Polish troops."
Worst Typhus Epidemic In History.
This is already one of the worst
lypbuji epidemics in the world's hisJ
lory. In Calida whole towns are
erlppled and business suspended. In
lome districts there is but one doctor
to each 150,000 people.
In the Ukraine, we were told, ty-
phus and influenza have affected most
tt the population.
A report from Vienna, dated Febnl-
iry 12. said: "There are rations for
three weeks, death stalks through the
Itreeta of Vienna and takes unhind-
tred toll."
Budapest, according to our informa-
tion, is one vast city of misery and
(offering. The number of deaths is
touble that of births, of the 160.0001
hlldren in the schools, 100,000 are de-
pendent on public charity. There are*
150,000 yorkfers idle
Typhus and smallpox have invaded
the four countries composing Szecho
glovakla, and there is lack of medi-'
tinea, soap and physicians
In Serbia typhus has broken out
wain and there are but 200 physicians
|o minister to the needs of the entire
noun try.
In Montenegro, where food is run-
ning short, there are but live physi-
cians for a population of 450,000.
Returning to the United States a
few weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing in my ears, 1 found myself
once more In a land whose granaries
were overflowing, where health and
plenty abounded and where life and
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
All Politcal Advertising Is Pay-' rr:
able In Advance.
Democratic candidates subject to ~
the action of the Democratic primaries
Tuesday, August 3rd. ==
For County Assessoh.
J. P. CORNELL,
of Sapulpa. 1
Fit, Qu ality, Satisfaction
in our clothes
THE AMERICAN TAILORS
207 EAST BROADWAY
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and they are eoin£ forward bravely to
solve that problem. ;•. « str"
Italy, despite he? great shortage of
raw material, is looking forward and
not backward, Italy can be relied up-
on 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 as I have been asked
many tiroes what would you do i T am
glad to give my own answer.
Accordingly, 1 would ask: —That
congress Immediately pass a bill ap-
propriating a sum not to exceed $500,-
000,000 for the use of central and east
era Europe.
2—That congress call upon the pres-
ident to appoint a non political com-
mission of three Americans, distin-
guished for their character and execu-
tive ability and commanding the re-
spect of the American people. Such a
commission 1 should include m>t of
the type of General Pershing, Mr.
Hoover or Ex-Secretary Lane. 1
would invest that commission with
oomplete power.
3—I would have the commission in-
structed to proceed at once, accom-
panied by proper personnel, to survey
conditions in central and eastern Er-
rope and then act for the restoration
of those countries under such condi-
tions and upon such terms as the com-
mission itself may decide to be prac-
ticable and effective. Among the con-
ditions should be provided that there
should be no local interference with
the free and untrainmeled exercise by
the commission of its own prerogative
of allocating materials. Government-
al politics should be eliminated; un-
reasonable and prejudicial barriers be-
tween the various countries should be
removed and such substantial guar-j •
antees as may be available should be •
exacted in order that the conditions
Imposed should be fulfilled.
4—As to financial terms, I should
make them liberal I would charge no
interest for the first three years: for
the next three years at six per cent,
with provision that such interest
might be funded if the economic con-
ditions of the country weje not ap-
proaching normal, or If its exchange
conditions were so adverse as to make
payment unduly burdensome, I should
make the maturity of the obligation
15 years from its date, and I should
leave no doubt as to its final payment.
5—Immediately the plan was adopt?
ed I would have our government in-
vite other governments in a position
to assist to participate in the under-
taking.
8- To set forth completely my opin-
ion 1 should add that in the final in-
structions the American people,
through their government, should say
'ti) the commission:
"We want you to go and do this job
In such a manner as, after study you
MICKIE SAYS
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THE AMERICAN JAILORS
Make Yoii A Suit
207 EAST bSOADWAY
SPRING TIME
Is Wail-Paper Time
Right now is the time for you to
plan on papering those rooms that
got sooty and dirty during the win-
ter. With the coming of Spring
those old walls should be made
bright and cheerfull with the season
We have a complete stock
of the latest designs in wall
paper from which to make
YOUR SELECTION
Briggs Lumber Co.
• ia rriri««a wprp tn Ruon a manner h*. juiwr biu
V u *1, P A ink it should be done, this is
fU v r°\nv-Aif- "What if this binary undertaking. Ttie American
~ —
,t territory between the Atlantio 1 HbM
Seaboard and the Mississippi Valley,
what roughly parallels the extent of
these ravaged countries and that
85,000,000 of our own people con-
demned to idleness by lack of raw ma-
I^Uted" by'lnvMlon'and"rapta"e"were ,ation. But I think we could properly
vas sav to the treasury depaitment we
right.
The whole plan of course, involves
many practicable considerations, the
most serious of which is that of ob-
taining the money, whether by issu-
ing additional liberty bonds, an in-
crease in the floating debts or by tax-
racked by starvation and pestilence
and if we had lifted up our voices and j
Invoked the attention of our brothers
In happier Europe to our own deep j
miseries and our cries had fallen on
deaf ears, would we not in our des j
pair exclaim against their heartless-
ness?"
Only Three Ways To Help Europe.
One is by payment, one by credit,
and the third is by exchanne of com
modllles.
If these peoples tried to buy ma-
terials snd supplies In America at the
present market value of their cur-
rencies, Austria woyld have to pay
forty times the original cost. Germany (
thirteen times, Greece just double,
Csecho-Slovakla fourteen times and |
Poland fifty times. These figures are
official and are a true Index of the
economic plight of these countries. It
Is clear, therefore, that they cannot
say to the treasury depaitment
know how serious your financial prob-
lems are; we know the difficulties
which are Immediately confronting
you; we know the importance of de-
flating; and we know that the gov-
ernment must economise and that in-
dividuals must economize, but we also
know that the American government
advanced $10,000,000,000 to Its allies
to attain victory and peace Certainly
jit is worth making the additional ad-
' vance in order to realiie the peace
for-which we have already struggled,
for nothing is more certain than that
'until normal conditions are restored
in Europe there can be no peace.
Above all things, I would say that
whatever action is taken should be
taken Immediately. This crisis is so
! acute that the situation does not ad-
; mil of delay, except with the possi,
iblllty of consequences one hardly
WHITE SEWING MACHINES
J. F. DRIESBACK, Mgr.
Located at the
MARION ROOMS
Machines sold on easy monthly
payments. Machines rented by
the week. All kinds of acces-
ories, needles and oils.
hczena;
.vl for that purpo«e and
nonej will do promptly
■A wit boat question
pounUdd for that
four moi
refunded
If Unot'a halvn
Itch. Ecxema,Tetter. King Worm
or any otlier ftfcln ai*eaa«. 76o
me box.
for tale locally by
% ITCH!
SEVEN
HAIR GROWER
6REATEST MIR Tr'UC ON EARTH
give us 'gold for the things they must !<*«res contemplate.
give u no" T(lp B|tunt1on that I have spread out
have nor have they either product* .
or securities to offer In return for hp-™D" thp flc0"e °'
credit. If only they could obtain raw i
material which these idle millions oi
their enuM convort into manufactured'
their oeum something , I <Q-°P«"rate, can aid be given In suffl
icienl volume. I am also confident
In
dividual charity. Only by the action
of governments, our own and the
others whose resources enable Ihetn
products they would have
to tender the world In return for its
that our rctlnn would te followed by
raw material, food and medicine. Hut, _ n , .
" • , ' ; the governments of Great Britain, of
Jf they hnve neither money nor credit | . ..
bow are they to take this first great, J
step towards redemption
One half tho world may not eal ,
while the Other half starves. How |
Ions do you bollfvf the pln*u«- of ty-,
Holland, of the Scandinavian coun-
tries. of Spain snd Jspan. and thai
France and Belgium and Italy not'
withstanding sll their losses, would
help to the beat of U)*lr ability.
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