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How far is Europe
from financial and
social bankruptcy?
A summary of facts
gathered first hand by
Henry P. Davison.
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aanaaniDU' far Ih Kurope from financial
I tk(Jf I "'"' MH''"' bankruptcy?" Ih a
I I I I fiic.Htlr)n of vital Importance to all
I 1 the world. Herewith Is a concrete
stimtiuiry of facts of groat valuo
on this question, gathered at llrst
hand ly 1 1 uii ry I'. Davison. Con
cerning these factH and tho tiiiin
who gathered them Rowland
ThonuiH In the New York .Stmday
World niakeK this statement:
At this time Mr. II. I'. Davison,
partner In the firm of J. I'. Mor
gan, seems more thoroughly quail
lied than any other person In Amer
ica to express nn authoritative
oplmnn in conditions in Kurope.
He has an extremely keen, clear mind. lie Is n
nan of the largest affairs, accustomed by many
.jenrs of business experience to grasp tho essen
tial details of complex situations. And on toj of
his unusual personal rjimltllcntlons as a trustwor
thy observer and reporter, he has Just, through
ilils position as head of an International organiza
tion, had put In his possession the lntest and com
jiletest mass of Information obtainable anywhere.
Jle Is chalrmnn of the board of governors and
therefore ex-olllclo head of tho Leaguo of Red
Cross societies which comprises all tho Hod Cross
societies In the world except those of the central
powers, and has Just returned from the llrst con
ference of this organization, held In Geneva.
At this conference the Kiirnpenn situation was
the main object of consideration, and to glvo n
basis for discussion and action, experts were
brought In from tho Held all over Kurope and
their first-hand reports were received and exam
ined. The result was tho composite picture of
post-wnr Kurope In the winter and spring of 1IW0
which .Mr. Davison holds In his mind.
By tlxed rule, Mr. Davison does not glvo Inter
views to Individual representatives of tho press,
nor write signed statements for Individual papers.
He has not broken his rule In this Instance. This
ls not an Interview. Hut when his unique posi
tion as a source of Information was pressed on
Ms attention, he granted tho Sunday World ac
cess to his data, and what follows may bo taken as
it substantially accurate and complete statement
of the facts as he sees them. Its significance can
theroforo-hnrdly bo overemphasized.
WlThe catastrophe," wrote Mr. Hal four, chalr
mnn of the Council of the Koague of Nations, to
the, Kim! Cros conference at Oeneva, "Is of un
exampled magnitude," and In the same communi
cation referred to "tho horrors with which we are
faced," and stnted they had reached "appalling
proportions." i
These are very strong expressions, coming
frourn personage of such standing. They Indicate
n recognition of disaster.
Is tho.ro any hopo of setting matters right? Can
Kurope "cdmo back?" Or Is she bankrupt? The
present siinimnry of known fncts will be nn at
tempt to Indicate an answer to that question.
I At the outset It Is necessary to clarify the sit
uation by mnklng certain distinctions. Kurope
Mretehes over 11,800,000 sijunro miles. Its people
number 100,000,000, more than n quarter of tho
globe's estimated population. Furthermore, nt
present Kurope as n unit Is non-existent, If It ever
existed. It lias been split by tho war Into vnrlous
groupings, In which conditions widely differ.
The neutrals, unravageil Spain, Switzerland,
Denmark, Norway and Sweden, with over -10,000,-(MIO
population, constitute one group. Defeated
Oeruiany and Austria form another. Kussla Is a
third. The "Hlg Four" of the Kuropcan allies
Kngland, Franco Italy and Helglum are nnother.
'And the less stabilized countries of tho central
unil eastern regions are a llfth. Hetwoen theso
groups conditions vary greatly, nnd this must be
kept In mind In considering whether Kurope Is
solvent or bankrupt.
About our principal allies In the west there Is
no question. They are strongly going concerns
Htlll, nnd, despite their own distress, are doing
their best to pull their neighbors out of the Slough
of Despond. The French peasant Is working, and
Hie French artisan, despite a sad need of raw
material", has not lost bis habit of Industry and
thrift. The encouraging fnct about Franco today
!s that her people are fully alive to the serious
ness of her problem and are going forwnrd brave
ly to solve It.
Italy, too, despite her great shortage of raw
material, Is looking forward, not backward, led
by one of the great men produced by the war, Mr.
Nlttl. He Is a truly wise statesmnn, and under
Ms leadership Italy can be rvlled on to do her
part by herself and her neighbors. Helglum, as
might have been expected, Is strongly on the mend,
nnd Kngland Is meeting her problems of recon
tit met Inn with quiet courage and sturdy common
nense. She Is doing each day's work, and at tho
Mime time rendering nil assistance her resources
will permit to the countries on the continent.
Helglum and France and Italy and Kngland
are asking no charity of the United Stntes. Their
peoples are as proud as we are eager as we aro
to work out their own national destinies and car.
ry on their own businesses. They seek only the op
portunity to regnln their economic strength. And
these countries have a population of 125,000,000.
Combining them with tho -lO.OOO.OOO neutrals, It
appears that about a third of the people of Ku
roK could not be referred to as bankrupt. Some
of them aro In serious dllllcultles, but they have
plenty of hope left, as well ns energy, for the
tasks of reconstruction.
This distinction drawn, and It being under
Ktood fhnt flennaiiy, because her problems are so
peculiar to herself, Is left out of the discussion,
St Is not too much to say thnt In nil the rest of
Europe excepting, possibly, Hussln nbout which
j-eporfs nre conflicting clvlllrntln- has broken
Wn. For something like 200.0 -).000 people,
'disease, bereavement nnd uufferli nre present
In practically every household, lillo food and
JSsnitry fflffivSj&OTz-' &8
clothing are Insutllclent to make life tolerable.
Particularly In tho broad belt ljlng between the
Hnltlc and tho Black seas there Is appalling mis
ery. This great area Includes the new Hnltlc
states, Poland, Czecho-Slovakla, Ukraine, Austria,
Hungary, Koumanln, Montenegro, Albania and
Serbia, to say nothing of Kussla eastward and
Armenia to the south. In nil that region there Is
almost complete paralysis of national life and In
dustry. All thnt part of Europe has today a tremen
dous number of Idle people. Many of them wnnt
to work. Hut there Is n great shortage of raw
mnterlnls with which to work, and the Import
export situation seems all but hopeless. Such
has been the output of paper money and so much
greater Is tho need of Imports than the possibil
ity of exports under existing conditions that these
countries hnve nothing, either money or goods,
with which to purebnse from outside what they
need to sustain life Itself, to say nothing of sup
plies for tho revival of Industry. They totter on
tho brink of utter ruin, from which nothing but n
helping hand cnu snvo them.
The depreciation In the currencies of some of
theso countries, ns valued In dollars, Is unbellov
nble. According to market quotations of April 10,
It ran ns follows:
Austrln 07.53
Hungary 07.4S7o
Gormnny 02.32
Greece 43.20
Knumnnln 01.31
Polnnd 07.0S7o
Czecho-Slovakla 02.78
In other words, If the peoples of these coun
tries tried to buy materials nnd supplies In Amer
ica at the present market values of their curren
cies, Austria would hnve to pay approximately 40
times the normal cost, Germany 13 times, Greece
Just double, Czecho-Slovakla 14 times and Po
land no.
Theso figures are olllclal and are the only In
dex which can briefly glvo any comprehension of
the economic conditions Inside these countries.
Their currencies are depreciated because they
huvo neither gold nor sulllclent production with
which to maintain their normal position with the
United States or with their Immedlnte neighbors.
Until each such country Is nble to produce sulll
clent to maintain Itself, either from within or by
Importing In exchange for gold or goods, It can
not hope for normal conditions, If Indeed It can
hope to survive. There Is nothing dllllcult of
comprehension about tho situation. Somewhere,
somehow, some time, those countries must be
come possessed of food, clothing, raw materials
and tho means of transporting them, or they
must perish. Economically and politically, they
aro crippled to a point threatening complete
paralysis, while at the same time the people aro
ravaged by destitution and disease. The lnronds
of the latter on the war-worn and undernourished
population has rencbed tho proportions which
Mr. Halfour called "appalling."
Men, women nnd children nre dying by thou
sands, nnd over vast once civilized areas there nro
nolther medical appliances nor medical skill sulll
clent to cope with the snnltary crisis.
In the Ukraine, winter of 101S-10, typhus and
Influenza nfToeted most of tho population. In vil
lages of 2,000 and 3,000 half the people would be
111 of typhus at tho same time. Many physicians
attended a territory 40 miles In diameter. Some
who had 20,000 to 30,000 typhus pntlents could
got no medical supplies whatsoever, nnd could
give only oral encouragement to their sick. And
this year the condition la oven worse. Pauperism
Is becoming mora and moro Intense. Prices hnvo
advanced steadily.
In Austria, according to n report dated Feb
ruary 12, thero were In Vienna rations for three
weeks. People were npnthetlc, fatalistic and
tired, nnd there was nn epidemic of dnnclng. One
dance was attended by 4,000 people, half of whom
hud had no dinners. Refusing to go home, they
danced until exhausted. One hundred thousand
school children were underfed and dlsensed as n
result of food shortage, lock of fuel nnd Inade
quate hospital facilities. Prime was Increasing
among tho child popular n, hunger sometimes
driving little boys to atte. ipta at murder. The
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population of Vienna was literally famished. The
general death rate had Increased 40 per cent
since 1013, and the denth rate from tuberculosis
2."0 per cent. Many children of one year had not
surpassed their weight at birth. The middle class,
living on salaries, were selling their belongings
to buy even tho government ration. One meal for
one portion cost (1 kronen nt tho municipal kitch
ens, while the salary of a professor wns 77 kro
nen a month. An overcoat cost three months' snl
ary of a court Justice, and a second-hand Henault
automobile sold for an amount equal to 17 years'
salary of tho chnncollor.
The following Is taken from a communication
from Sir William Goode, Hrltlsh director of re
lief: "All olllclal nnd other reports which rench mo
glvo no hope of Improvement In tho situation In
Central nnd Knstern Kurope. Tho misery of the
outlook ,ln many parts, particularly In Austrln,
Poland nnd Armenln. Is worse tlinn ever.
The marshalled charity of tho world, government
nnd unoflkinl, will not alone heal the disease
from which Kuropo Is suffering. Increased pro
duction and tho restoration of economic order out
of political and economic chnos nro tho only solu
tions of tho problem that now defies the Ingenuity
of those who face It."
Such Is the picture of conditions In tho spring
of this year of our Lord 1020 according to the
Information gathered by Mr. Davison during n
two months' stny overseas, where he Joined In
conference with representatives of 27 nntlons.
How Is thnt aid to( bo rendered? A week ngo
last night, nt a dinner given to him at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel, Mr. Davison spoke nt length
of conditions ns he had found them, and Indicated
what seemed to him tho only posslblo courses of
remedial nctlon. To quote from portions of his
speech :
"Any voluntary aid, to become effective, enn
only follow the provision of such essentials ns
food, clothes, and transportation, which must be
given If tho peoples nre to live nnd le restored to
n condition of self-support, nnd the need of which
Is so vast thnt It cannot bo given by voluntary
organizations, but must be supplied by govern
ments. Upon nssuranco from the league of na
tions that food, clothing and transportation will
be supplied by governments, the League of Ited
Cross societies shnll at once formulate plans for
the Immedlnte extension of voluntary relief with
in tho alTected districts, appealing to tho peoples
of the world, through the Hod Cross organiza
tions, for doctors, nurses and other nocessnry
personnel, medical supplies, diet foodstuffs, and
such money as ijmy bo required.
"Wo aro going to find out that wo can no more
escape the Influence of the Kuropcan situation of
today than wo were nble to escape the war Itself.
You cannot have ono-hnlf of the world stnrvlng
nnd the other half eating. Wo must help put Ku
ropo on Its feet or we must participate In Eu
rope's misery. vu imd ourselves the
only country possessed of many of tho- supplies
which Europe needs and which cannot bo pur
chased or given In sulllclent volume on credit.
As a nation we should at once arrange to plnce
within the reach of those peoples that which they
need to save them and start them on their way
to recovery. The situation has devel
oped so far and so seriously that thero Is no pos
sibility of Its being met In nny other way.
"I have always been nn optimistic Amerlcnn,
because of my supreme contldenco In tho ultimate
judgment of tho Amerlcnn public upon any ques
tion submitted to them. I believe that ns soon
ns we renllze the truth nnd effect of such state
ments ns I have mnde, we will take stops worthy
of tho traditions of tho Amerlcnn people. There
fore the responsibility upon everyone of us Is to
do whatever may be In our power to tho end
that tho American people may have a clear un
derstanding of what It all means, thot they may
tho sooner declare themselves. js'ot un
til tho prior and fundamental step Is taken of fur
nishing by government nctlon tho nocessnry ele
mental!!, food, clothing nnd transport, will we, the
American people, properly have established our
selves among tho peoples of tho world nnd bo In n
position to leavo a credltuMo heritage- to thos
who are to come after."
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Triumphal Arch of Titus, at Rome,
and the Colosseum, Are Splendid
In Their Ruin.
Tho Trlumphnl Arch of Titus In
Rome, wns built In 70 A. D. to com
memorate the defeat of the Jews, and
wns dedicated to the Emperor Tltus
after his death. It Is adorned with line
sculptures In relief. On the frlezo out
side Is a sacrificial procession nnd on
the Inner side Tltus Is seen crowned
by Victory In n quadriga driven by.
Romn. On nnother part of the arch Is
n triumphal procession of Jews, tho
Tablo of Show Broad, nnd tho seven
branched cnndlestlck. In the center
of tho vaulting the consecrated emper
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In 1SS2 the arch was n sot of ruins,
and some of the medieval additions
were removed and It wns pnrtly recon
structed. The colosseum, with sents
for 50,000 spectators, orlglnnlly called
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Wife Quite Ready to Abandon Style
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