Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1920 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Indian. He.dqu.rter. EUROPEAN RELIEF COUNCIL *>! s**** Tr *“ M * r 147 Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Ind. L • An Appeal to the American People rIREE and one-half million children in pastern and Central Europe have no alternative to disaster between now and next harvest except American aid. For months, because the needy wereso numerous and, the available funds so limited.these most helpless sufferers in the track of war have been admitted to American feeding-stations only if tragically undernourished, and have received American medical aid only if desperately threatened by death from disease. Winter is closing down. The money of many nations is valueless outside their own boundaries. Economic and crop conditions, aggravated over considerable areas by actual warefare last summer, make famine, with its terrible team of diseases, a certain visitor until next harvest. Inevitably the helpless children will suffer most. No child can grow to health and sanity on the pitiful makeshifts for food with which millions of European adults must content themselves this winter. It is obvious that the remedy can come only from outside • America saved 6,000,000 European children winter-before last Normal recuperation cut the. need nearly in half last year, but unusual conditions have resulted in scant shrinkage of child destitution during the twelvemonth just past. The response of America must now decide whether 3,500,000 of these charges, to acute distress, shall begin to be turned away to January from more than 17,«X> asylums, hospitals, clinics and feeding-stations dependent on American support. There would be no tragedy in history so destructive of those who can deserve no evil. ■ » The undersigned organizations, working among every race and creed, many engaged also to other forms of relief, agree" unanimously that the plight of the children should have complete priority in overseas charity until the situation is. met. This is an issue without politics and without religious lines. There can be no danger of pauperization, for the $23,000,00 for child food, and the $10,000,000 for miical service that we seek, will relieve only the critical cases. The medical supplies, of course, must be an unqualified gift, but for eveiy American dollar used to child-feeding, the governments and communities aided furnish two dollars to the form of transportation, rent, labor, clerical help, cash contributions and such food supplies as are locally obtainable. , . America has not failed in the past in greatheartedness. She has never had a more poignant call than this. Contributions should be turned oyer to the local committees which are now being formed for this national collection, or sent to Sol S. Kiaer, Treasurer, Meyer-Kiser Bank, 136 East Washington, Street, Indianapolis, Ind. T (SIGNED) - • \ , A-merican Behef Administration J ’ Federal Connell of Church** of Christ fa by Herbert Hoover America, by Arthur J. Brown American Red Cross Knight* of Columbus by Livingston Farrand By James Flabeity ' American Friend* Service Committee IQuak- Y. M. C. A. * «> by water K- Thoma* by C. V. Hibbard, International ComHee Jewish Joint Pfatribution Committee Y. W. C. A by Felix Warburg by Mia* Mabie GtttiUy, National Board . ■- - ■ - - - ■ - - —■