Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1910 — Feeds Hungry Children. [ARTICLE]

Feeds Hungry Children.

Four years ago the generous people of London were providing 6,000 hungry school children with their dinners or breakfasts a week, an exchange says. At that time they were subscribing £7,700 a year through various associations, while numbers of people spent, on the average, £1,500 during the year for providing food for the starving school children of London. Five years ago there were fewer than 5,000 children needing food which their parents could not supply. To-day there are 47,000 children in this position, each receiving about five meals a week. For years the pubic of London had subscribed nearly £IO.OOO a year to provide food- for the children. That money is no longer forthcoming. The growth in the army of the starving children of London during the past /four years has been so great thatiriore than six times £IO,OOO is now wanted to keep nearly 50.000 London children from being starved to death.