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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT V ALLEY, GA, MAY 28, 1920. HOW m '1 CAN ESCAPE COLLAPSE We Mi/st Aid by Extending Credits. Says Davison. GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A. European Ruin Would Involve America—Starvation and Disease Rampant. Dos Moines, la.- -Speaking before the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Board of Governors of the League of Bed Cross Societies, said: As chairman of the Convention ot lied Cross Societies •( pi 1 >».’ of rop resentatives of twenty-seven nations that met recently in Geneva, I nnt cus toilian of authoritative reports record lug appalling conditions among mil¬ lions of people living in eastern Ett rope One of ilie most terrible trngfdies in the history of the human rime is being enacted within the broad belt of terri¬ tory lying between the Baltic and tlie Black and Adriatic Seas. Tills area includes the new Haiti* States- Poland. Czecho-Slovakia. tlie Ukraine, Austria. Hungary, Umnnanin Montenegro, Albania and Serbia. The reports which come to us make It clear that In these war-ravaged lands civilization lias broken down Disease, bereavement and suffering are present in pmct malty every house hold, while food and clothing are in sufficient to make life tolerable. Men. women and dtildret ire dying by thousands, and ovei VllSt otic, fivi Used areas there are to he found m-i tlier medicinal appliances nor medical skill sufficient to cope with the devas¬ tating plagues. Wholesale starvation is Ihreatenei in Poland this summer unless she can procure food supplies in large quatifi ' There np'iroxnnutel; tics are now 250.000 crises of typhus in Poland and in the area occupied by Polish troops Worst Typhus Epidemic in History. This is alre.ff.dy one of tho worst ty¬ phus epidemics in the world's history In Galicia whole-towns are crippled and business suspended. In some dis¬ tricts there is but one doctor to each 150.000 people. In the Ukraine, we were told, typhus and influenza have affected most of tin population A report from Vienna, dated Febrn ary Iji said “There are rations fot three week* Death stalks through .tlie streets of Vienna and takes* unhinder¬ ed toll. Budapest, according to our ittfonmi tlnn s one vast city of misery and suffering, The number of deaths i: double that of births. Of the 160,001 child ■a in the S« hools. too. 000 are de pendent on public charity There arc 150.000 workers idle. Typhus and smallpox have Invaded the four countries composing Czecbo Slovakia, and then* is lack of medi cities, soap and physicians. In Serbia typhus lias broken out again and there are but 200 pliys clan to minister to the needs ot tliai eniin country In Montenegro, where food is run nine short, there are but five ph.vsi clans for a population of 450,000. , America Overflowing With Riches. Returning to the United States a few weeks ago with all the-o horrors ringing in my ears 1 found mvself opce more in a land whose granaries iverc overflowing, where health and plenty abounded and when life and activity and eager enterprise were in the full flood Lusktd myself: “What if f his plagvu and famine were here in the great ter rttory between the Atlantic seaboard and tlie Mississippi valley, which roughly parallels tlie extent of these ravaged countries and that 6;>,000.0<ni of our own people condemned to idle ness h.v lack of raw material and whose ftolds Jind 1/een devastated b.v Invasion and ranine were racked b.v starvation and pestilence and if we had lifted up our voices and invoked the attention of our brothers in hap pier Europe to our own deep miseries and our cries had fallen on deaf ears would we not in our despair exclaim against their henrtlessness !’’ 0r> y Three Ways to Help Europe. There lire only three ways b.v which these stricken lands can secure sup piles from tlie outside world One is by payment, one In- credit, and I lie rhird Is by exchange of commodities If these peoples tried to buy materials and supplies in America at tin* present market value of their currencies Aus¬ tria would have to pay forty times the original cost. Germany thirteen times, Greece just double < 'y.rc\\t >-Hlnv m k i fourteen times and Poland fifty limes Thes* figures are ifticiai and are a true tide: of the econonfic plight of these countries. It dear. therefore, that they can not us gold for the things they mus! have, nor have they either prod nets m SOI grit ies j o offer it* return foi credit, If otiiv t * I t*y could obtain raw materia I ■vine! i i **s<' idle millions of theii could convert into manufactured !><■* ! Cts be-, woiibl have -unit/-*iting to ten* 1 tin' world in return tor its raw material, food and medicine Rut rhev have neithe money nor credb how are they to !.**!-■■ *Ms firs! grea s'ej inwards reder.it- ; on One-half tlie wort* may not ea' u liilc the oilier half starves Hnu long do you !>' ''<• re lie plague of ty phiis lbat is takbfg ,*t hideous deatl toll in E ’b.oni i and Boland and flu Ukraine and eming atom: Hie fringe; of Gentian; arid * ■ •Itii-Slovttkin wil confine itself to ti Hi retmffe lands? Only last Saturday our health com INDISTINCT PRINT mlssinner of New York, Dr, Oopeltunf salted for the other side just to mens ure the danger and take preeuution against such an invasion. This Is one menaee at our threshold. The other, more threatening, more ter¬ rible, is the menace of the worlds ill will- We can afford to die. hut to be despised forever as a greedy and phni isaical nation is n fate that we must not Incur. The French government lias many serious problems to solve, but the French peasant is working and the French artisan, while still smll.v In need of raw material!), has nut lost IPs habit of industry and thrift. The most encouraging fact about France today i- that her people are alive to the St* riousness of France's problem, and l^they are going forward bravely to solve that problem I Italy, despite tier great shortage of raw material. Is looking forward and | not backward. Italy can he relied upon to do her part! England is meeting the problems of reconstruction just as those who knew her jiast should have expected her to ni«'t*t them. Plan to Aid Central Europe. It is to for me perhaps to give In detail u formula for solylion of iho world s Ills, hut as 1 have been asked many times, "What would you do?” 1 am glad to give my own answer. Accordingly. I would ask : 1 That Congress immediately pass a hill appropriating a sum not to ex¬ ceed $5(>n Odd.Odd for the use of Cen fra! and Eastern Europe, 2, That Congress call upon the Pres¬ ident to appoint a nonpolitieal cont mi on of three Americans, distill guished for their character and exec utivo ability and commanding the re speet of tlie American people. Such a commission should include men of the type of General Pershing, Mr. Hoover or ex-Secretary Lane. I would invest that commission with complete powtT. I would have the commission in strut-led to proceed at once, accompa¬ nied by proper personnel, to survey conditions in Central and Eastern Ku and !Iu*n not for the restoration of those countries tinder such condi lions and niton stn-li terms as the com mission itself may decide to he pnini cable and effective Among the con (litions should be provided that there should he no local Interference with tlie free ffind itntraminded exercise by the commission of Its own prerogative of allocating materials. Governmental politics should he eliminated; unrea sonable and prejudicial barriers tween tlie various countries should lie removed, and such substantial guaran¬ tees ns may be available should tie ex¬ acted in order that die conditions im¬ posed should be fulfilled. 4. As to financial terms, I should make them liberal. 1 would charge no Interest for the first three years; for the next three years, 6 tier cent, with provision tliui such Interest might lie funded if the economic conditions of the country were not approaching nor | nitil. or if its exchange conditions were | adverse as to make payment un¬ duly burdensome. 1 should make the maturity of Hie obligation 15 years from its date, and I should have 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 tlie under¬ taking. 0. To set forth completely my opin¬ ion. 1 should add that in tlie final fn structions the American people, through their government, should say to tlie comttjission : “We want you to go and do this job in such a manner as, after study, you think it should lie done. This is no ordinary undertaking. The American people trust you to see that it is dope right." T would also say to tlie commission: “Use so much of' this money as Is needed.” Persona 1 #'-, T am confident that with tlie assistance and co-opera¬ tion which would come from other parts of the world the sum of $500. OOP.000 from the United State* would he more than enough to Starr these countries- on their way to self support and the restoration of normal eondi tions. The whole plan, of course, involves many practical considerations, the most serious of which is that of ob¬ taining the money, whether b.v issuing tulditlonal Liberty bonds, an Increase j In the floating debt or h.v taxation, But I think we could properly say to the treasury department; “We know how serious your finan¬ cial problems are: we know the diffi¬ culties which are immediately con¬ fronting you : we know tlie importance of deflation, and we know that the gov¬ ern nitwit must economize and that in¬ dividuals must economize. Imt we also know that the American government i advanced S1 1 *.*r mi.mi ni.upii to its allies j to attain victory and peace. Certain¬ ly if is worth making the additional advance in order to realize the peace for which we have already struggled, for nothing Is more certain than flint until normal conditions tire restored in j Europe there can be no*peace." j Above ail tilings, I would say that I ! whatever action is taken should fie taken immediately. The crisis is so acute that the situation does not ad¬ mit of delay, except with the possibili¬ ty of consequences one hardly dares contemplate. The situation that I have spread out here is far beyond the scope of indi¬ I vidual charity. Only b.v tlie action of i governments, our own and the others i whose resources enable them to co-op erate, can aid lie given in sufficient volume I ant also confident that our action would he followed b.v I lie gov¬ ernments of Great Britain, of Holland. of tlie Scandinavian countries, of Spain and Japan, and that France and Belgium and Italy, mitwlthstfinding »li of tlicir losses, would help to the best of their ability. DADDY3 EVENING M-E® P3 FAIRY 4R MARY GRAHAM BONNER BIRD’S-EYE VIEW. 11 I heard a good joke today, said the Blue .lay. "What was that?” asked the Indigo Bird. “Oh. I must tell it to you. I must toil it to you,” shouted the Blue Jay iu his shrill voice. "Well, go ahead and tell it to me • don’t keep repeating that you're go¬ ing to. Tell me." “1 don't have to go ahead and tell It to you," said the Blue Jay. 1 can toll it sitting branch. *• to you on a "1 didn’t mean to go ahead with your wings or for me to go ahead with my w riigs,” said the Indigo Bird, 1 meant to go ahead with the funny Joke.” "I will do so, for T certainly must tell it to you,” sniff the Blue Jay. “Waste no more time but tell me,” said tlie Indigo Bird. "1 heard the other day, - said the Blue Jay, “of such a funny tiling." “I thought it was today that you heard the joke,” Interrupted the Indigo Bird. So it was. said the Blue Jay, "but I think that is u good way of talking." "What way?" asked the Indigo Bird. “The way 1 was doing it, of course,” shrieked the Blue Jay. You see when I first spoke to you I said that l had heard a good joke today. That was to make you interested in what 1 had to say. In other words, it was to show you that my joke was up to date.’’ nr nil'll why didn't you continue to say that it wits a Joke you had heard today?" asked the Indigo Bird. “Because,” said ' the Blue Jay. • * I wanted to appear very natural in tell ins my joke—you know, Just wave a wing and say: “‘Friends, the other day I cam* across this.’ That is tlie way folks speak. I believe, who speak naturally and who make others like them. No airs and graces; that’s what I mean.” "Well,” said the Indigo Bird, “when did you really hear the joke, really ami truly. “Yesterday,” said the Blue Jay. IIP Then teli your story and I’ll com meneo it for you. ‘Y esterday—’ ” “Yesterday,” repeated tlie Blue Jay “I was in a tree and some people wen underneath it looking at pictures They were very much latere--.ted in tin pictures. So I looked down, too. • Phey were pictures of cities ntu fields and lots of other things bu mostly of cities. “Well, they were big pictures witt lots lo lie seen in them and plenty o houses arid crooked streets and chttrcl steeples to he found in them, "But the great joke was that one o the people said to the others: ■' ‘These are all bird’s-eye views o' the cities.’ “Wasn’t that absurd. Of conrs they didn’t say which bird had takei those pictures. But they imagine* and actually believed that birds bar become photographers. Never have I heard of anything so absurd.” “Oh, no," said the Indigo Bird. "1 know the answer to that joke." “You do!” exclaimed the Blue Jay “Then tell me the answer.” "When people speak of a bird’s-ey* view of anything they mean the sort of a view a bird would have, Th»,'. don't mean when they show those pic tures that the bird has tak-,% the pic tures himself. "Oh. no, they don’t mean that at all.' "Do they only think a bird has on* eye?” asked the Blue Jay. “No. that is just a saying,” explatrm* the Indigo Bird. “People who hav< been on fop of higii buildings, or in a*r planes or on great heights have taker these pictures which seem to look down over a great, great distance. >1 So they call them bird’s-eye views because birds see so inucii front tip high, and they get such a large mini her of things in their pictures—or in what they see.” “Oh. ho,” said tlm Blue Jay. Well I’m glad I met you so you could tell the answer to tlie riddle.” Profane Expression. Do not think you tire profane when con say that you "don’t care a dam." ili* truth Is that a dam was the small ;sl Hindn coin at a time when the English were invading India and the expression that one "didn’t give a dam” ontirraily sprang up to mean that a miner was of next to no Im**" tunc*. -o ouil PRINTING Oil BOND I j Will Sell fettr Goods 0 -o The Salvation Army Lassies in many cities saved hundreds from death during the influenza* epidemic __went into the homes and cared for the children, cleaned house, brought food and fuel wherever needed. + * + ** + ***** + 4*4*4*4*4*4* + *4*4*4< + * 4* 4* 4* *S* •f 4* SOCIAL + + 4* And ♦ * 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* Personal. 4* 4* Reported by cYMrs. C. N. ROUNTREE, Rhone 275-J 4* 4* 4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4* + ♦ + 4* Mrs. Mittie Wynne has returned from a visit of several days in At- 1 lanta. 1 ... Mrs. Caughey Culpepper and lit tie son left Thursday for a visit to - relatives in Atlanta. i , . # , Miss Stella Glass returned Monday! night from a visit of several weeks to - relatives in Philadelphia. 4* 4 v Mr. and Mrs. Jake Haslam and Mrs. W. P. Beall of Marshaljville were recent visitors here. 4- 4* + Judge A. C. Riley left Thursday ;ii a professional trip to Huntsville, Ala. He expects to return Monday. + 4* Little Emma Ava Stokes, accom ptinied by her father, is on a visit to relatives in Atlanta and Lithonia. * * 4* Rev. J ,W. Stokes attended the commencement of his alma mater, Davidson College, of which he is also v trustee. * Mr. Russell Houser of Georgia Tech is at home until next week, ■vhen he returns to De present at commencement. * + * Miss Louise Williford returned to ter home in Americus Thursday af er a ten days’ visit to her sister, Mrs. Ralph Newton. Mrs. F. S. Williams and little laughter. Sara Frances, returned Wednesday from a three weeks’ visit o Mrs. Williams’ parents in Ala. 4» *J» •!* Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Peddicord nd two sons, of Macon, are spend ng a few days with Mr. Peddicord’s iother, Mrs. Mattie J. Peddicord. T » f Mrs. Lee Floyd left Monday for Columbia, Mo., having received a tessage that her mother had broken er leg and was in hospital. No oth ■r particulars were heard. 4 * 4 * 4 * At the commencement exercises riday evening Miss Cleo Dent will ive the salutatory address and Miss teulah Davidson will be valedicto ian. Their friends rejoice that they vere so honored but feel that' both •omplinients were richly deserved tnd justly conferred. Beat Drum—Spent Night in Prison V, I %\ r -7AY, ■ i X mi / • -r~ 3 nv hitting a big bass drum just *•* one resounding whack for which sin* spent a night in Jail, *t resolute black eyed girt changed the police classification of Salva Udo Army drimitiM/tg from "petty tteVance” to “music. That was twenty-two years igo, and tlie black eyes have --town more gentle In years of •erviee for tin* poor since those buttling dais. Inti they s*i|| twin¬ kle when tlie story is told. ft was Mrs. Adam Gifford, wife of he colonel now camiimudtug the New England forces of the Salvation Army, who wielded llie drumstick and struck defiance at * Hie Pennsylvania blue coaled policeman of the town where she and tier husband were then stationed irate citizens hud complained bitter ly of the Salvation Army and itsstreei corner meetings and musical services but particularly of the bass drums the band. Night after ntgtii the drums tmd been confiscated by '.lie police, hut to no effect. Filially a police order went out to “arrest anyone attempting to beat a drum." Following tills Colonel Gifford in an effort to rest the constitutionality of the order advertised that upon a eet tain evening a monster meeting would he held and that upon that occasion Mrs. Gifford would heat the drum As anticipated, a record breaking crowd was turned out. The police re serves were ‘•ailed upon to quell rhe riots which might ensue, At a given signal Mrs. Gifford gave the drum a re sounding thump and th« meeting Mr. Tom Fetter has arrived and will have charge of the Fruit Grow qrs’ Express during peach season. Mr. Fetter has been here during the fruit season for many years, <* * Mr. Holt Skellie and family have moved back to Fort Valley from Per ry and Mr. Skellie is now manager of the Fort Valley bureau of the Georgia Fruit Exchange, with of¬ fices in the Evans Building. •« *♦« I'l Mr. John Clark, who has been with the Fort Valley Lumber Company for some time, has accepted a posi¬ tion as cashier with the Cuddahy Packing Company in Macon, and will begin his duties there on June first. Little Miss Nell Wilson celebrated her fifth birthday Wednesday after¬ noon at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Wilson, on Church street. A large number of her little friends enjoyed games and cake and cream. * 4* 4* Friends of Capt. Jim White re¬ gret that he is ill at home. He was carried to Williams’ Sanatorium Monday when it was thought that an operation might be beneficial, but it ts now thought that it will not be necessary and he is at home, but un¬ able to be out. m e r BOND A* We use it when PRINTING GOODJOBS Give Us O v Yours A, ■n Standard Weights and Measures. The idea of adopting scientific tneas lrcmenls as a basis of a system of veights and measures was suggested is early as the seventeenth century, laHicubtrly by the French nsfrono ner. Jean I’p-ard who lived from 1620 o 1682. The system was worked out uni taken up by the national assembly tf France in 1760. it was adopted tnd Its use made compulsory in 1801. r- ** ' V*} :: rW - -‘'(---S*®* W'-r/v m K, . & ■/i "t ' Y-u iai Hip | M ' ‘ j . y f§i in m * rig;! v MRS. COLONEL ADAM GIFFORD, Salvationist. under way Immediately tie Salvation Army lassie was placed under arrest and escorted by a crowd of amused but sympathetic onlookers to the patrol wagon ami thence to th< local jail, where she spent the night. The ease was taken before the su pretne court of the state, where even tually the contention of the "Army' was sustained. Following the decision the entire I corps, led by Colonel Gifford, marched to lite city hall to demand the drums that tiad been confiscated by the po : lice. Twenty-eight of tlie offending prisoners” were released in the cus tody of the corps. From (hat date die present none of tlie meetings of i the Salvation Army has been disturbed by fhe police. Furthermore, tlie prece* dent established lias been maintained nearly every state in the Union. BEAUTY IS REFLECTED HEALTH Good-Looking” Means the Oppo¬ site of Sick-Looking IT’S A MATTER OF RED $LOOD CELLS Pepto-Mangan Makaa Rich, Red Blood—Builda Up Paopla Who Lack Vitality If your body is sound and your blood is rich and red, your acts and thoughts will be quick and strong. Let your blood get weak, and your food won’t nourish you nor your sleep refresh you. ( Too much hard work, an illness, or a mental strain can thin down your blood, and Pepto-Mangan is needed to bring it back to healthy, normal condition. Knowing this, doctors for years have recommended Gude’s Pepto Mangan because of its blood-build¬ ing and tonic properties. Pepto-Mangan is such a simple .and harmless tonic, yet such a prompt builder of red blood, that its reputa¬ tion has spread all over the country To-day every druggist sells it #nd thousands of men and women usft it as a restorative whenever they or their children seem to feel below par. Pepto-Mangan agrees with the most delicate stomach, and is ob¬ tainable in either liquid or tablet form. Be sure the name “Glide’s” is on the package when you buy Pepto Mangan. Ask the druggist for .. Gude’s. M If “Gude’s’’ is not on the package, it is not Pepto-Mangan. Advertisement. CENTRAL OF GA. RWY. CO. THE RIGHT WAY Arriva. and Departure of Trains at FORT VALLEY Subject to change without notice. ARRIVAL Train Central No. From Time 4 Chicago, Birmingham 12:01 and Columbus ........ a. in. 12 Montgomery and Albany ... 12:10 a. m. 3 Savannah and Macon....3:35 a. m. * 11 Atl: r.ta and Macon........3?43 a. re. 56 Perry (Daily except Sunday) 8:15 a.m. 8 Albany ........................8:20 a. m. 5 Atlanta and Macon....12:40 p. in. 1 Savannah and Macon....1:27 p. ,m. 2 Birmingham and Columbus 3:45 p. m. 6 Montgomery and Albany 3:55 p.m. 7 Macon 6:05 p. rn. 58 Perry (Daily except Sunday) 8:05 p. m. 54 Perry . (Sunday only) -.3:30 p.ia. DEPARTURE Train Central " No. For Tim 4 Macon and Savannah .12:01 a.sn. 12 Macon and Atlanta .... 12:10 a. m. 3 Columbus, Birmingham Chicagc........3:35 and a, m. 11 Albany and Montgomery 3:43 a. in. 55 Perry (Daily except Sunday) 6:40 a. m. 8 Macon 8:20 a. in. 5 Albany and Montgomery 12:40 p. m. 1 Columbus r.nd Birmingham 1:27 pi m. 2 Macon ................. 3:45 p. tn. 6 Mkcon and Atlanta ..3;55 p* tti, 7 Albany ................. 6:05 p. m. 57 Perry (Daily except Sunday) 6:05 p. m. 58 Perry (Sunday Only) 2:00 p. m. For further information ca 11 ait ticket office or ^hone 27 Sammons, Agent. THE SOU. RWY. SYSTEM “The Southern Serves The South. fl Arrival and departur'.- of trains at FORT VALLEY Subject to change without notice. ARRIVAL Train Central No. From Time 43 Atlanta 9:20 p. iu. DEPARTURE Train Central No. For Time 42 Atlanta 6:46 u. m. For further information call at tick: ! office or phone 27. Agent. C. H. Sammons, -O Car Tracks Wear Tires. The severest wear on solid tires Is caused b.v driving on the car tratdiS, according to an official of a rubber company, quoted by the Scientific American He says that when on. the tracks most of the load Is concentrated' on a limited portion of the trend se • that It Is overloaded and quickly worn away, besides, a sharp pointed frog may actually cut a piece off the tire lust as a knife would O Punctuality Valuable Aseet. Many of young men have failed «t promotion or lost good positions he* cause of the luck of punctuality* There is no more desirable busings* qualification ilmn this and no other so indispensable to a man of affairs,* or. to any one who would save itis own time and that of others, If s man has no regard for the time of men," said Horace Greeley, "why should he have for their money? IVUat Is fhe difference between taking.* man's hour and taking his $5? Iher* j fife the business many men day to whom worth each hour time* of is many 15."— Chicago Daily News.